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a mile from Wrington all the gentlemen of the neighbourhood met the procession; and for the last half mile the road on each side was lined with villagers, chiefly in black, scarcely one without a riband. At the entrance of the village, charity children, amounting to more than two hundred, with a great number of the clergy in their gowns, headed the procession. Her remains lie near the grave of Locke.

On the Sunday following a sermon, commemorating the virtues of the deceased, was preached at Wrington, by the Rev. Henry Thompson, M.A., of St. John's College, Cambridge, and Curate of that parish. This sermon has been since printed, with the title of "The Christian an Example.”

It is said that Mrs. Hannah More realised more than 30,000l. by her writings; and, according to the following extract from her will, legacies to the amount of 10,000l. have been left by her to the following institutions:

To the Bristol Infirmary, 1000l.

To the Anti-Slavery Society, 500l.

To the London Poor Pious Clergy, 500l.

To the London Clerical Education Society, 100%.

To the Moravian Missionary Society, 2007., to be partly applied towards the schools or stations at Greenckloof, Gnądenthal, and other Moravian settlements at the Cape of Good Hope.

To the Welsh College, 400l.

To the Bristol Clerical Education Society, 100%.

To the Hibernian Society, 2001.

To the Reformation Society, 2001.

To the Irish Religious Tract and Book Society, and the Irish Scripture Readers Society, 150l. each.

To the Burman Mission, and to the Society for the Conversion of the Jews, 2001. each.

To the following Societies or Institutions, viz.:- For Printing the Scriptures at Serampore, the Baptist Missionary Society, the London Seaman's Bible Society, the Bristol Seaman's Bible Society, the Liverpool Seaman's Bible Society,

the London Missionary Society, and the Society for Printing the Hebrew Scriptures, 1007. each.

To the British and Foreign Bible Society, 10007.
All the foregoing legacies are 3 per cent. Consols.
The following are in sterling money : —

To the Church Missionary Society, 1000l., 3001. of which to be applied towards the Mission among the Syrian Christians at Travancore, near Madras, in Southern India.

To the Society for Educating Clergymen's Daughters, by the Rev. Carus Wilson, 2001.

For the Diocese of Ohio, 2007.

To the Trustees of the New Church at Mangotsfield, 150%. To and for the purposes, Societies, and Institutions after mentioned, viz. For the Bristol Strangers' Friend Society, the Bristol Society for the Relief of Small Debtors, the Bristol Penitentiary, the Bristol Orphan Asylum, the Bristol Philosophical Institution, the London Strangers' Friend Society, the Commissioners of Foreign Missions in America, towards the School at Ceylon, called Barley Wood, the Newfoundland Schools, the distressed Vaudoise, the Clifton Dispensary, the Bristol District for Visiting the Poor, the Irish Society, and the Sailors' Home Society, 1007. each.

To the purposes, Societies, and Institutions following, viz. -The Christian Knowledge Society, the Bristol Misericordia Society, the Bristol Samaritan Society, the Bristol Temple Infant School, the Prayer Book and Homily Society, the London Lock Hospital, the London Refuge for the Destitute, the Gaelic School, the Society for Female Schools in India, the Kenysham School, the Cheddar School, for Books for Ohio, the Bristol and Clifton Female Anti-Slavery Society, the Clifton Lying-in Charity, the Clifton Infant School, the Clifton National School, the Clifton Female Hibernian Society, the Temple Poor, and for Pews in Temple Church, 50%. each.

To the Bristol Harmonia and Edinburgh Sabbath Schools, 19 guineas each.

To the Shipham Female Club, 50l.

To the Cheddar Female Club, 19 guineas.
To the Poor Printers' Fund, 19 guineas.
For the Shipham Poor, 50l.

To the Ministers of Wrington and Cheddar, for their respective poor, 19 guineas each.

To the Minister of Nailsea, for the poor, 51.

To my old pensioners at Wrington, 17. each.

To the Kildare-Place School Society, Dublin, 100%. sterling, and 2007. three per cent.

In addition to the foregoing munificent legacies, this pious lady has bequeathed the whole of her residuary estate, which, it is expected, will amount to a considerable sum, to the New Church, in the out parish of St. Philip, in Bristol.

In addition to the above, the following munificent bequests were, by the will of Mrs. Martha More, directed to be paid on the death of Mrs. Hannah More:

To the Bristol Infirmary, 1000l.

To the Bible Society, 1000l.
To the Bath Hospital, 100%.

To the Taunton Infirmary, 100l.

To the Baptist Missionary Society, and to the Society for the Conversion of the Jews, 50l. each.

To Zachary Macaulay, Esq., to be disposed of at his discretion, for the service of Africa, 500l.

To the Bristol Clerical Society, the amount of stock reserved for the payment of a lapsed annuity of 30%.

To the Bristol Orphan Society, the Blind Asylum, the Penitentiary, and the Poor Man's Friend Society, the amount of stock reserved for an annuity of 30l., to be payable on the death of the annuitant.

To be disposed of in charities, omitted to be named by the testatrix, but which is intended to be appropriated by the executors, the amount of stock reserved for the payment of a lapsed annuity of 401.

To be also disposed of, under similar circumstances, the

amount of stock reserved for the payment of an annuity of 201., on the death of the annuitant.

To the Bishop of St. David's (now Bishop of Salisbury), for his charities, 2007.

To each of the Female Clubs of Cheddar and Shipham, 251. To the Moravian Missionary Society, 100%.

To the Rev. Mr. Berkin, for the Church in the Forest of Dean, 100%.

To the London Poor Clergy Society, 100%.

BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX

OF DEATHS,

FOR 1833.

A.

AFFLECK, Sir James, the third
Baronet of Dalham, Suffolk (1782),
a General in the army, and for thirty-
eight years Lieut.-Col. of the 15th
Dragoons; August 10. 1833, at Dal-
ham Hall, aged 74.

The first Baronet of the family was
Sir James's uncle, Rear-Admiral Sir
Edmund Affleck, so created in con-
sequence of his having been Com-
mander of the centre division in the
memorable engagement between Sir
George Rodney and the Comte de
Grasse. The title having been con-
ferred with remainder to the Admiral's
brothers, it was first inherited by his
nephew Sir Gilbert, who dying in
1808 without issue, it devolved on his
cousin-german Sir James; and he also
having now deceased unmarried, it
descends a third time to a collateral
heir.

Sir James was the only son of the
Rev. James Affleck, by Miss Mary
Proctor, and was born the 29th of
April, 1759. He commenced his
military career as Ensign in the 43d
foot, February 29. 1776; in the fol-
lowing April he went out to America,
where he remained until the end of
1778; when, in consequence of a
severe wound received at Rhode Island,
he returned to England, with the rank
of Captain. In the following spring
he again went to America, but re-
turned in the same year with the regi-
ment. In Sept. 1779, he received a
company in the 26th, which he ex-
changed for the Captain-Lieutenancy
of the 23d Light Dragoons, in Jan.
1782, and sailed for India in March
following. In 1786 he returned to

England in consequence of ill-health;
and in July of that year obtained the
Majority of the 19th Light Dragoons.
In the spring of 1789 he went a second
time to India, and in 1791 again re-
turned from ill-health.

He received the brevet of Lieut.-
Colonel in 1794, and in 1795 the
Lieut.-Colonelcy of the 16th Light
Dragoons, which he retained to his
death. He was promoted to the brevet
of Colonel, Jan. 1. 1798; was ap-
pointed Brigadier-General in Ireland
in May, 1803; a Major-General 1805;
Lieut.-General 1811, and General

1825.

Sir James Affleck succeeded to the
Baronetcy July 16. 1808. He has
died unmarried, and is succeeded in
the title by the Rev. Sir Robert Affleck,
Rector of Silkstone in Yorkshire, and
a Prebendary of York. - Gentleman's
Magazine.

AIREY, Lieut.-General Sir George,
K.C. H., Colonel of the 39th regiment
of foot; Feb. 18. 1833; at Paris.

This officer entered the army in
1779, as an Ensign in the 91st Foot,
and in January following sailed with
that corps to the West Indies, where
he served a year at St. Lucie, and then
returned home in ill-health. Having
obtained a Lieutenancy in the 91st in
1781, he exchanged into the 48th in
Jan. 1782. In Jan. 1788 he again
sailed with the latter to the West In-
dies, where he purchased a company in
November following; in 1790 he came
home on leave, and joined the regiment
again in 1792. On the expedition un-
der Sir C. Grey coming out, the 48th
was drafted, and Capt. Airey volun-
teered his services; he was employed
in the succeeding campaign, and com-

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