Royal Society. Whilst there present, he had just furnished some observations on a subject in which he took a lively interest, when he was observed to lean back in his chair, and to breathe hard. Mr. Bowman, the Assistant Surgeon of King's college, promptly rendered his assistance, and opened the jugular vein, but he died in less than five minutes from the first seizure. It was a simple case of apo. plexy. He had generally enjoyed good health, and was a remarkably temperate man, having for the last two or three years touched neither wine nor spirits.

In person he was tall and portly, his features well formed, his complexion florid, and his countenance wearing an expression of frankness and good humour. As a man of science, he was modest and unpretending; always preferring others to himself, and studiously avoiding all occasions of controversy. To the institutions to which he was connected, he attached himself with all his heart, and laboured incessantly for their advantage. His private character was adorned with every virtue to command respect, and with every gentler quality to secure attachment.

He has left a numerous family of children.

His funeral took place at the Norwood cemetery, on the Monday following his decease. The Principal of King's College was present, with the Professors, and officers of the Medical department, and a large number of the students.

A subscription has been set on foot to place his bust, or other fitting memorial, within the walls of the college.

WILLIAM HEBERDEN, M.D. F.R.S. Dr. Heberden was the second but only surviving son of the very celebrated physician, William Heberden, M.D. F.R.S. and S.A. (who died in 1804, aged 90), by Mary, daughter of Francis Wollaston, esq. F.R.S. He was born March 23, 1767, when his father was fifty-six. He was a Fellow of St. John's college, Cambridge, as was his father, his younger brother, Charles (who died when B.A. in 1796), and his elder half-brother, the Rev. Thomas Heberden, Canon of Exeter and Prebendary of Chichester and Wells (who died in 1843). He graduated B.A. 1788, as first Senior Optime, and in that year was the second Chancellor's medallist. In 1789 he obtained one of the Members' prizes for Middle Bachelors; and in 1790 one of those for Senior Bachelors. He proceeded M.A. in 1791; and in the same year he was incorporated M. A. of Christ Church, Oxford; where he took the degree of Bachelor of Medicine in

1792, and that of Doctor in 1795. After settling in London, he acquired considerable practice, and was appointed Physician Extraordinary to the King and Queen.

He was the author of the following works:

Observations on the Increase and Decrease of different Diseases, particularly of the Plague. 1801. 4to. Dr. Falconer, of Bath, published in 1802 "An Examination" of this work.

A translation of his father's "Commentarii de Morborum Historiâ et Curatione." 1802. 8vo.

Morborum Puerilium Epitome. 1804. 8vo. The same in English, 1807. 12mo.

Oratio Harveiana in honorem Medicinæ habita in Coll. Reg. Medic. Lond. Theatro, Oct. 18, 1809. 4to.

On Education. A Dialogue, after the manner of Cicero's Philosophical Dis. quisitions. 1818. 12mo.

Also, several papers in the "Medical Transactions" of 1813 and 1815, and probably other years.

Dr. Heberden married, Oct. 1, 1796, Elizabeth, daughter of Charles Miller, esq. and niece to Sir Thomas Miller, Bart. by whom he had issue four sons and four daughters: 1. The Rev. William Heberden, of St. John's college, Cambridge, A.B. 1819, M.A. 1822; presented by his father to the vicarage of Great Bookham, Surrey, in 1832; 2. Elizabeth-Caroline; 3. Charles; also of St. John's college, Camb. B.A. 1820, M.A. 1823; called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn 17th June 1832; 4. George, also of St. John's college, Camb. B.A. 1822; 5. Henry; 6. Mary; 7. Anne; and 8. Emily-Henrietta.

MISS LINWOOD.

March 2. At her residence, Belgrave Gate, Leicester, in the 90th year of her age, Miss Linwood.

The name of this distinguished lady is too intimately associated with the fine arts to need any elaborate comment. Her works, which for upwards of forty years have formed one of the most interesting exhibitions of the metropolis, consist, as is well known, of copies from the paint. ings of the best masters, wrought in worsted after so unique and exquisite a manner, that it is absolutely impossible for the eye to detect the fact that it is gazing upon the production of the needle, and not of the pencil. They differ from the famous Gobeline tapestry, in as much as the latter is produced by the mechanical operation of the shuttle, the artist working from behind, whilst the pictures of Miss Linwood were worked entirely with the needle; the embroideress standing before the canvass and contempluting the

work with the eye of a painter, as each part was gradually brought out and developed in the manner most calculated to produce the required effect. Some idea of the delicacy of the performance may be obtained from the circumstance that in the working of the human eye many thousand stitches were introduced. The entire collection consists of nearly one hundred pictures: the largest of these, "The Judgment upon Cain," was completed in Miss Linwood's 75th year. The gem of the whole is probably the "Salvator Mundi," worked by her when staying at Burghley, from the original, by Carlo Dolce, in the possession of the Marquess of Exeter. For this exquisite picture she refused the offer of 3000 guineas. By her will, she has left it to Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria, to whom it will, we understand, have been presented in due form before these remarks will have been committed to the press.

Miss Linwood's exhibition was first opened at the Hanover Square Rooms in the year 1798. In 1804 her works were exhibited in Edinburgh, and during the five subsequent years at Glasgow, Belfast, Dublin, Limerick, and Cork. In March, 1809, they were transferred to her present rooms in Leicester Square, where they have since continued. A vexatious Chancery suit respecting these rooms was commenced in the year 1818 against Broom et al. to which Miss Linwood was made a party. Concerning this suit, which still continues, it may be sufficient to quote the words of Judge Best, who heard it in 1824, for the then Master of the Rolls, and emphatically said, that "Miss Linwood had been very improperly mixed up in it." In another hearing last autumn, which was given in Miss Linwood's favour, the judge expressed his surprise that any barrister could be found to bring the matter before him.

It was always the earnest wish of Miss Linwood that her collection should be preserved entire. With a view to this, she offered them, first, to the British Museum, on condition of a proper room being appropriated to their reception; and, afterwards, to decorate one of the apartments belonging to the House of Lords. Both offers were with much courtesy declined by the authorities; by the former on the ground of the pictures, from the nature of the work, being liable to decay; by the latter as not being of a sufficiently historical and national character to be suited for such a purpose. Miss Linwood, however, never laid aside the wish that this might be accomplished; and has for many years kept the exhibition open at a considerable an.

nual loss, in the hope that it might be effected after her death.

Miss Linwood was not destined to be one of those whose labours are not appreciated until the grave has closed over their remains. Indeed few persons can have received more marked honours than attended her during the whole of her protracted life. When in Paris she had a long interview with Napoleon in the presence of Talleyrand and others; the honour of a public presentation was declined by her, out of delicacy to her own sovereign. A specimen of her art, which she then presented for inspection, was so exceedingly admired, that a negociation was immediately opened for her works to be exhibited in the French capital. When, however, they were about to be sent, it was pointed out to her, that in the letters of Talleyrand no mention was made of their return; and it being thought that this was never intended by the artful diplomatist, and war again breaking out between the two countries, the scheme was abandoned. In the year 1783 she had the honour, through General Landskoy, to present one of her performances to the Empress of Russia: this is, we believe, now in the imperial apartment at St. Petersburgh. From our own Royal Family Miss Linwood also received the most flattering attention; and on one occasion spent several days in the palace by express invitation of Her Majesty Queen Charlotte, who visited her exhibition both in Hanover and Leicester Squares.

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But whilst the works of Miss Linwood must for ever hold a prominent place among the triumphs of unaided genius, she has left behind her a still nobler monument to her fame, the memory of her virtues, and of her numerous acts of disinterested beneficence. She was one of whom it might be truly said, "when the ear heard her then it blessed her when the eye saw her, it gave witness to ber." In her the poor have lost a benefactress, her friends a faithful and affectionate counsellor, and unassuming merit a kind and encouraging patroness. To her own personal ease and comfort she was utterly indifferent; but what she denied herself, furnished the means of her bounty and charity to others. Her religious character was of that order which prefers to exhibit itself in acts rather than evaporate in words. She was sincerely attached to the faith of her fathers in the communion of the English church; and, as her life was exemplary, so were her opinions orthodox.

Although a woman of powerful intellect, Miss Linwood was not what may be strictly termed a literary character; her

genius led her chiefly into a more original channel. But in whatever else she did, ber superiority was abundantly conspicuous. With a perseverance the most untiring, she combined a most clear and penetrating judgment on whatever subject she chose to call it into exercise. Her energy of character amounted at times even to impetuosity; in vindicating a right, or in redressing a wrong, she needed no other support than her sense of the justice of her cause and her own inflexible resolution. During the tedious law-suit, in which, as we have stated, she became involved for the last 25 years of her life, she frequently excited the astonishment of those who were witnesses of her conduct, under the most harassing and perplexing circumstances. In person, she was singularly prepossessing, and of a graceful and dignified carriage; of this she retained evident traces even to the latest period of her life.

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The family of Miss Linwood is of ancient standing. One of her ancestors, William Lyndewode or Linwood (as it is variously spelt in the old editions), author of the celebrated work called vinciale," was Bishop of St. David's in the early part of the 15th century. Miss Linwood was herself born in Birmingham in the year 1755. Of this place her maternal grandfather, John Turner, a friend and correspondent of the famous Jonas Hanway, was "Constable" in the time of the Rebellion, and was a great benefactor to the town. His family is now extinct. On the paternal side, her ancestors had resided since the beginning of the 17th century at Cogenhoe, in Northamptonshire, where many of the family lie interred in the chancel of the parish church. Miss Linwood was removed to Leicester at the early age of six years, and here she continued as a permanent resident until the period of her decease.

She was seized in the course of last summer with a slight attack of paralysis on her return from her annual visit to Leicester Square, whilst staying with her brother, William Linwood, esq. of Enfield. From this she recovered sufficiently to be removed in an invalid carriage to her own residence on the 27th of September following. Here she gradually declined, and tranquilly breathed her last at the advanced age above-mentioned.

The ex

hibition of her work remains open for a limited period, until a suitable plan for their disposal shall be determined on by her executors.

MR. JAMES SAVAGE. March 19. At Taunton, in his 78th year, Mr. James Savage, who, throughout

a long life, was extensively known by his literary pursuits.

Mr. Savage was born at Howden, in Yorkshire, August 30, 1767. His father, who was a clockmaker and a celebrated hanger of church bells, was necessarily called much from home; and the subject of this memoir derived his early love of literature, and especially of compilation, from having been employed by his mother, during her husband's absences, in alter. nately reading to her and copying favourite passages from such books as might be at hand. At the age of 15 or 16 he became a contributor to the provincial journals of the neighbourhood. In 1790 he commenced business in conjunction with his brother William (lately a reader in the Queen's printing-office, and whose death* took place in July, 1843,) as printers and booksellers in their native town; but William left him, and removed to London in 1797. In 1803 James also migrated to the metropolis, where he vigorously devoted his energies to those antiquarian, topographical, and bibliographical pursuits to which his attention had been early directed, and his attachment to which continued throughout his life. His first literary engagement was with Mr. (afterwards Sir Richard) Phillips, his connexion with whom subsisted for a long time; industry, zeal, and integrity on the one side, being met with esteem and confidence on the other. Mr. Savage subsequently formed engagements with the firms of Mawman, and Sherwood and Co.; and at one time he was assistant-librarian of the London Institution, Finsbury Circus. At that period the celebrated Professor Porson (who was the head librarian) was domi. ciled in Mr. Savage's family, and Mr. Savage afterwards published "An Ac

count of Porson's Last Illness."

Eventually Mr. Savage was prevailed upon to quit London for Taunton, in order to undertake the management of a newspaper started in that town for the promotion of party purposes. To this undertaking his energies and industry were devoted, but, from circumstances which he could not control, the paper did not succeed, and Mr. Savage, after carrying on business for a short time as a bookseller, was appointed librarian of the Taunton Institution. Shortly after the termination of his connexion with that establishment, he entered into an engagement at Dor

*A memoir of Mr. William Savage, who was author of the History of Printing and other works, will be found in our Magazine for Jan. 1844, p. 98, to which it was communicated by the subject of the present memoir.

chester with the "Dorset County Chronicle and Somersetshire Gazette," which continued nearly fourteen years.

Of his publications the main portion of his early and extensive contributions to periodical literature appeared in the Monthly Magazine" and "The Universal Magazine."

In 1805 he edited "A Concise History of the Present State of the Commerce of Great Britain," from the German of Dr. Rheinhard; with notes and additions, 8vo.

In 1808-9 he published, in parts (sixteen in all, forming three volumes, and part of a fourth), "The Librarian: containing an Account of scarce, valuable, and useful Books, Manuscripts, Libraries, Public Records," &c.

In 1811, "An Account of the London Daily Newspapers: to which is added, a Plan for the Management of a Weekly Provincial Paper."

He also published a volume of " Memorabilia" (8vo. pp. 328) being historical, biographical, and antiquarian recollections, compiled from various sources, and from his extensive course of reading.

In 1812, "Observations on the Varieties of Architecture, and in the Structure of Parish Churches: to which is added, a Description of the Characteristics of the Saxons, Normans, and Pointedarch Styles; list of Churches now remaining, built by the Saxons; an Account of Bishops and others who were Architects; and the Contemporary Architecture of the various Periods." (8vo. pp. 77.)

In topography his first work was "The History of Howden Church," printed whilst in business at that place, in 1799. In 1805 he published "The History of the Castle and Parish of Wressle, in the East Riding of the county of York" (8vo. pp. 94); but his chief works were “The History of Taunton," (8vo. 1822, pp. 608,) purporting to be a new edition of Toulmin's, but so remodelled and containing so much new matter as to merit all the credit of a new work: and the "History of the Hundred of Carhampton" (8vo. 1830, pp. 662). This was issued as an instalment towards a history of the County of Somerset, proposed in a prospectus put forth by Mr. Savage (see Gent. Mag. Vol. XCVI. ii. 158), but which, however, did not extend further. His last publication of any extent was " The History of Dorchester" (12mo. pp. 220), which appeared in 1832.

The pieces of a more fugitive character put forth by Mr. Savage during a long literary life have been very numerous; and happily he was one who, at the last moment of life, could look back upon all he had written, and wish none blotted out on account of any immoral or irreligious

tendency. He was universally esteemed, not only for his attainments, but also for his amiable qualities of head and heart, the social virtues, high sense of integrity, and kindness of disposition; the full amount of which can only be appreciated by those who had daily and hourly opportunities of familiar and friendly intercourse with him. During his residence in London he had formed an extensive acquaintance amongst literary men ; and in his old age the fund of anecdotes relating to them, with which his retentive memory was well stored, rendered him an amusing and instructive companion.

In politics he was of staunch Tory principles, but tolerant of those who dif fered from him in opinion. In religion he was a sincere and devout Protestant Churchman. Destitute of all pharisaical assumption, he was pious without ostentation. It was his wish, often expressed to the writer of this memoir, that it might be recorded of him that he died in firm reliance upon "Christ and Him crucified;" and those were the last words that escaped his lips in the awful hour of dissolution.

DEATHS.

LONDON AND ITS VICINITY.

Sept. 24. Aged 82, Joseph Taylor, esq. late of the Royal Exchange Insurance Office, and author and laborious compiler of many literary works.-Apparitions; or the Mystery of Ghosts, Hobgoblins, and haunted houses developed. 2nd. edit. 1815. 8vo. Anecdotes of Remarkable Insects, 1817. 12mo. Antiquitates Curiosa: the etymology of many remarkable old say ings, proverbs, and singular customs explained. 1818. 12mo. Remarkable Pro

vidences. 1821. 12mo.

March 11. At Kennington, aged 57, Charles Butler, esq.

March 13. Reader Wainewright, esq. of Lincoln's-inn, barrister-at-law, and F.S.A. He was called to the bar May 11, 1793, and practised as an Equity draftsman.

March 14. In Seething-lane, aged 27, Alfred Marshall, esq. of Great Ormondst. and Liverpool.

At the residence of his brother, Stoke Newington, William Battye, esq. late of Bristol, Yorkshire.

At Hammersmith, Jane-Catharine, el dest dau. of the late James Carter, esq. of Barnes, Surrey.

At Old Palace Yard, Westminster, William Taddy, esq. Her Majesty's ancient Serjeant-at-law, and Attorney-Gen. to her Majesty the Queen Dowager. He was called to the bar at the Inner Temple, Feb. 3, 1797; to the degree of Serjeantat-law in Trinity term 1818: and ap.

pointed King's Serjeant in Trinity term 1827.

March 15. At Cambridge-terr. Hyde Park, Eliza-Esther, wife of Thomas Lea, esq. only child of the late James Harding, esq. of Leyden House, Manchester.

At his brother Lord Saltoun's residence, in Great Cumberland-st. aged 53, the Hon. William Fraser, second son of Alexander, 15th Lord Saltoun. He married, the 9th April 1818, Elizabeth-Graham, second dau. of Mr. David M'Dowall Grant, by whom he leaves issue a family of 11 children. Of whom Alexander, the eldest, now in his 25th year, becomes by his father's death heir presumptive to the ancient Scotch barony.

At Wandsworth, aged 76, Wentworth Malim, esq. formerly of Lincoln's-innfields.

March 17. In Sloane-st. Lady Leslie, relict of Sir Charles Leslie, Bart.

At Berkeley-house, Hyde-park, aged 70, Edward Bliss, esq. of Brandon-park, Suffolk, late High Sheriff of that county.

At Baker-st. Maria, relict of the Rev. W. R. Cobbold, late Vicar of Selborne.

March 18. Aged 56, Robert Barlow, esq. of Holybourn, near Alton, Hants. late of the E.I.C. Civil Service, Bengal, which he entered in 1817.

At Maida Hill, aged 63, Eliza, wife of John Anthony Hermon, esq.

James Prendeville, esq. He was well known to the literary world, and has left a wife and three children totally unprovided for.

March 19. Aged 45, Ann, wife of Clarke Duchesne, esq. surgeon, of White Lion-st. Spital-sq.

In Eaton-sq. aged 67, Miss Mary Lloyd.

In Chester-sq. aged 21, Francis Wilhelmina, only dau. of Charles O'Malley, esq. of the Lodge, Castlebar, and of Dublin.

Aged 55, George Augustus Kollman, esq. organist of Her Majestys's Royal German Chapel, St. James's Palace, and the inventor of the new system of railway locomotive engines and carriages, also of a new patented pianoforte.

March 20. At Notting Hill, aged 25, Pryce, fifta son of the late Devereux Jones Nicholls, Esq. of Altrincham, Cheshire.

At Cadogan-place, aged 80, Maria, relict of Laurence Wright, esq. of Mottram Hall, Cheshire, and Hilltop, Lanc.

At the Charter-house, Charlotte, relict of the Rev. Robert Black, formerly of St. Andrew's Holborn.

At Arundel-terr. Pentonville, William Sturt, esq.

Nolan, esq. late of Her Majesty's Civil Service, Ceylon.

In Cecil-st. Strand, aged 74, G. Norman, esq. for many years of the Receiver Gen. Department of Stamps and Taxes.

In Queen-sq. Westminster. aged 7, Agnes, youngest dau. of D. S. Davies, esq. M.P. for Carmarthenshire; and April 1, aged 9, Henry-David-Saunders, his third son.

March 22. In Craven st. aged 25, Christopher Fripp George, B.A. of St. Mary's-hall, Oxford, and student of Lincoln's-inn, only son of Christopher George, esq. of Abbot's Leigh.

In Nottingham-pl. Major-Richard Willoughby Byron, of the 34th Regt. second son of Thomas Byron, esq. of Coulsdon, Surrey. He was appointed Captain in the 34th in 1835.

At Parson's Green, Fulham, aged 20, Mrs. S. M. Boileau.

At Compton-terr. Islington, aged 76, Mrs. Duthoit, relict of Peter Duthoit, esq.

March 23. In York-gate, Regent'spark, Mrs. Logan, widow of Hart Logan, esq. of Kentwell Hall, M.P. for West Suffolk, youngest dau. of the late Robert Service, esq. of London.

Joseph Robinson, esq. of Exchange Buildings, and Moss-st. Liverpool.

Aged 75, James Gray Mayhew, esq. of Cambridge-terr. Hyde-park, and Argylest. St. James's Westminster.

Aged 68, Mary, wife of Thomas Howell, esq. of Clapham.

March 25. In Welbeck-st. aged 76, George Nathaniel Best, esq. senior bencher of the Middle Temple. He was called to the bar by that Society, Jan. 25, 1793.

At Lion-house, Stamford -hill, aged 50, Mary-Ann, wife of Edward Baker, esq.

At Cambridge-heath, Hackney-road, aged 38, Harriett, wife of Alexander Lewis, esq. R.N.

March 26. In Park-crescent, Portland-pl. aged 41, Evelyn Spencer Boscawen, esq. late Major of the 40th Foot.

At his chambers, Paper-buildings, Temple, Charles Edwards, esq. of the Inner Temple, barrister-at-law.

At Regent-sq. aged 79, Sarah, relict of Richard Keys, esq.

Aged 74, William Brownfield, esq. of Greenwich.

March 27. Aged 83, Frances, wife of Henry Bennett, esq. Chatham-place East, Hackney.

At Hampstead, aged 83, Mrs. Sarah Bradney, eldest daughter of the late Joseph Bradney, esq. of Ham.