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he did by the best directed studies in any four years of any part of his life. In the summer of 1791 he accompanied his extraordinary countryman Ritson to Paris; from which city he proceeded to Italy with several agreeable foreigners, who, like himself, were anxious to prove their taste by being auditors and spectators of operatical performances in Turin, Milan, Bologna, Piacenza, Parma, Lodi, Modena, Florence, Sienna, and Rome. There he remained stationary until he became familiar with the object of his journey; after which he returned with the courier to Turin, and thence returned in 1792, to resume his situations in London.

Soon after this period he published his well-known "Introduction to Harmony." At the death of Sir William Parsons, in 1817, His Majesty appointed him Master of his Musicians in Ordinary.

His dramatic compositions were very numerous, and eminently successful, among which were- -Rosina, The Poor Soldier, The Farmer, The Flitch of Bacon, Hartford Bridge, The Woodman, The Travellers in Switzerland, Robin Hood, Abroad and at Home, Fontainbleau, Lock and Key, Netley Abbey, Two Faces under a Hood, &c. He also composed excellent songs, particularly The Thorn, O bring me Wine, The Wolf, By the deep Nine, The Post Captain, Old Towler, Tom Moody, The Prince and Old England, and a most erudite Treatise on Harmony.

To the merits of Shield as a composer, the following testimony appeared some years ago in "The Quarterly Musical Review.”

Late as he appeared, he struck out for himself a style of writing, pure, chaste, and original. His great prominent characteristic, however, is simplicity.. No composer has ever woven so few notes into such sweet and impressive melodies, while the construction of the bass and harmony is alike natural, easy, aud unaffected. We cannot open one of his Operas without being instantly captivated with this quality of his music. In such delightful little entertainments Marian and Rosina, his airs breathe all the freshness, and purity, and beauty of rural life, though the more ornamented and difficult parts are carried far beyond the common style of bravura. Shield appears to have heen singularly fortunate in the great.compass and agility of the female singers for whom he wrote his airs of execution.

as

In

Marian there is an hautboy song of amazing extent and much complication. In most of his works where he introduces bravuras, we

find passages combining the difficulties of execution, in a manner which, if not absolutely new, lay considerable claims to novelty, and full of the same ingenious cast of expression that is discernible throughout all the parts of his style. Perhaps no writer is. so remarkable for songs containing so much GENT. MAG. April, 1829.

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that is strictly national. After Purcell, we consider Shield to be the finest and most perfect example of really English writers. Ballads, in all the different modes of sentiment and description, abound in his Operas. Sea and hunting songs, the rural ditty, the convivial song and glee, the sweet sentimental ballad, are so frequent, that indeed, with the occasional interposition of songs of execution, they may be said to make up the customary and continual alterations from air to air. It will strike the observer as singular, that the later composers for the stage should have made so little use of the minor key. Shield has applied it in a most beautiful manner. In the course of our study and analysis of his compositions, we have been led from time to time to regret the incessant appetite for novelty in the public, which calls for such continual change of food, and that can lure us from this fair mountain,' but too often to batten on a moor.' Yet, nevertheless, the taste of our own age bears us out in the belief, that as much of Mr. Shield's music will descend to posterity, carrying with it the intrinsic marks of English genius, as of any other writer since the days of Arne *.”

CLERGY DECEASED.

Aged 80, the Rev. James Hudson, Rector of Stapleford Abbott, Essex. He was of Trin. coll. Camb. B. A. 1787, and was presented to his living in 1799 by the King.

At the house of Mr. Blount, in Lower Berkeley-st. aged 78, the Rev. Charles Lefebvre.

At Jamaica, the Rev. Isaac Mann, Rector of Kingston, and for many years one of his Majesty's Ecclesiastical Commissaries of that Island. He was of Caius coll. Camb. B.A. 1800.

Aged 77, the Rev. Claudius Martyn, Rector of Ludgershall, Bucks. He was of Sidney coll. Camb. B. A. 1772, M. A. 1775, and was presented to Ludgershall by Mrs. Martyn, in 1785, on the resignation of the

*Mr. Shield has left a widow whose character entitles her to an extract from one of his letters, in which he speaks of her in the following terms: "I ought to be the happiest of mortals at home, as Mrs. Shield is one of the best women in the world, and it is by her good management that I have been able to assist my mother, who laboured hard after the death of my father to give her four children a decent education. This power of contributing to her support I consider as one of the greatest blessings that Heaven has bestowed upon me."

The late Mr. Crosdill, the celebrated performer on the violoncello, left an annuity of 1001. for the joint lives of Mr. Shield and his wife.

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late Professor of Botany at Cambridge, to whom we believe him to have been brother.

At Llangoedmore-place, Cardiganshire, the Rev. Benjamin Millingchamp, D. D. Archdeacon of Carmarthen, Prebendary of Brecon, and Rector of Rushall, Wilts. He was presented to the Perpetual Curacy of Llandoye in Cardiganshire, by Dr. Burgess, Bishop of St. David's, in 1813; to that of Llandugwrd in the same county in 1815, by the Prebendary; was also Prebendary of the first Cursal in the Church of St. David's; was presented to the rectory of Rushall in 1819, its patrons being the Warden of New College, the Warden of Merton, and the Principal of Brazenose; and was appointed Archdeacon of Carmarthen in 1827. Dr. Millingchamp published in 1811, 8vo, A Sermon preached at Carmarthen for the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. The Rev. B. G. Norris, late Curate of Taunton St. James.

Aged 79, the Rev. Owen Owens, Vicar of Llanilar, Cardiganshire, to which church he was presented in 1797 by Dr. Stuart, then Bp. of St. David's.

At Creke, Northamptonshire, aged 72, the Rev. George Lethieullier Schoen, D.C.L. Rector of that parish. He was educated at Merchant-taylors' school, whence he was elected in 1775 a Fellow of St. John's college, Oxford. He proceeded B.C.L. 1784, D.C.L. 1788; and was presented by the Society to his living in 1801. To the rectory of Creke a scholar of Merchant-taylors must be presented. One of Dr. Schoen's predecessors was Archbishop Laud,

At Sidmouth, aged 34, the Rev. William Scott, Rector of Aldridge, Staffordshire, only brother to Sir Edward-Dolman Scott, of Great Barr, Staffordshire, Bart. He was the second and youngest son of the late Sir Joseph Scott, the first Baronet, and M.P. for Worcester, by Margaret, dau, and heiress of Edw. Whitby, of Sheet End in Staffordshire, esq. He was presented to Aldridge by his father; and was for some time Chaplain to Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg. He married July 18, 1818, Maria, third daughter of the Rev. Dr. Gabell, of Winchester college; but we are not informed whether he has left any family.

Aged 74, the Rev. John Rowland Sproule, LL.D. Vicar of Great Bardfield, Essex, to which he was presented in 1797 by Sir C. M. Burrell, Bart.

At Harpley, Norfolk, aged 71, the Rev. Christopher Spurgeon, Rector of that parish, and of Great Bircham. He was of Pemb. coll. Camb. B.A. 1780, M.A. 1787; was presented to both his churches in 1786 by John Spurgeon, esq.

At Morton, Derbyshire, aged 24, the Rev. Richard Tarlutt, B. A. of Brazenose coll. Oxford.

At Heligan, Cornwall, aged 87, the Rev. Henry Hawkins Tremayne. He was of Bal

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liol coll. Oxford, a grand compounder. for the degree of M.A. Dec. 3, 1765. Through a long life he was deservedly beloved by his connexions and friends, and esteemed by all who were in any degree acquainted with him. He is succeeded in his extensive property by his only son, John-Hearle Tremayne, esq. who represented Cornwall in several successive Parliaments.

At South-park, Linc. after a long illness, aged 39, the Rev. Samuel Welfitt, Vicar of West Theddelthorpe. He was of Queen's coll. Camb. B.A. 1819.

Dec. 9. At Bedford, aged 86, the Rev. William Hooper, sixty years Rector of Carl

ton

cum Chillington, Beds. He was of Christ-church, Oxf. M A. 1766, and was presented to his church in 1769, by the then Lord Viscount Hampden. Three Rectors have now held the living of Carlton for the almost incredible number of 196 years.

At Ripple, co. Warw. aged 97, the Rev. Henry Salman, Rector of Culworth, co. Northampton, Chaplain to the Archbishop of York, and a Magistrate for Warwickshire. He was presented to Culworth, by the Rev. Thomas Salman, of Odiham in Hampshire, and others, in 1815.

Jan.. 31. At Mickfield, Suffolk, aged 56, the Rev. Maltyward Simpson, Rector of that parish. He was of Caius coll. Camb. B. A. 1795, being the seventh Wrangler of that year, and was consequently elected Fellow; M.A. 1798; and was presented to Mickfield by his father, Daniel Simpson, of Mendlesham, Gent. in 1804.

Feb. 11. At Northampton, aged 27, the Rev. John I'm Wake, youngest son of Sir William Wake, Bart. of Courteenhall.

Feb. 12. At Lytham, Lanc. the Rev. James Quartley, Vicar of Ribchester, and for many years a Magistrate for that county; brother to A. Quartley, Esq. M D. of Christchurch. He was presented to Stidd chapelry, in the parish of Ribchester, in 1800.

Feb. 14. At Marlborough, aged 62, the Rev. Bartholemew Buckerfield, Rector of St. Peter's in that town, and Vicar of Preshute. He was of Queen's coll. Oxf. M.A. 1788; was presented to his church in Marlborough in 1796, by Dr. Barrington, then Bishop of Salisbury, and to Preshute in 1808, by the choir of Sarum.

Feb. 15. At Llantrissant, Glamorganshire, the Rev. Wm. Mitchell, M.A. of Somerset.

Feb. 19. At Woolwich, the Rev. Charles Walker, Rector of Black Notley, Essex, and one of the senior Fellows of St. John's College, Cambridge. He proceeded B. A. 1790, being 13th Wrangler of that year; M. A. 1793; B. D. 1800; and was presented to Black Notley in 1806, by the Rev. C. Wyvill.

Feb. 23. The Rev. James Murray, Curate of Ravensthorp, Northamptonshire.

March 5. At Bury, in his 52d year, the Rev. William Stocking, Reader of St.

James's parish, and Chaplain of Bury gaol, Rector of Normanton, Lincolnshire, and Vicar of Tuddenham, Suffolk. He was presented to both those livings by the present Marquess of Bristol; to the former in 1815, and the latter in 1820. He has left a widow and large family. In "Curtis's authentic and faithful account of the mysterious murder of Maria Marten, of Polsted," is a portrait of this gentleman.

March 21. At Antwerp, the Rev. Rowland Reginald Heber, late of Bossall Hall, Yorkshire.

March 21. Aged 23, Samuel Ferrar, esq. New Kent Road, and formerly merchant at Bombay.

March 27. At Pimlico Lodge, aged 65, John Elliott, esq. F.R.S, head of the porter-brewery of Elliott and Co. Pimlico, and Treasurer of Westminster Hospital. This highly-respected gentleman was for many years Colonel of the Westminster Volunteer Cavalry, and was at one time candidate to represent that city in Parliament. Colonel Elliott married, in 1804, a daughter of the late Dr. Lettsom, by whom he had a numerous family.

March 29. In Foley-place, aged 65, Edw. Ash, M. D. F. R. S. Physician Extraordinary to his late Majesty. He was nephew to John Ash, M.D. F.R.S. and F.S.A. (of whom in vol. LXVIII. pp. 544, 720,) and himself published, in 1790, the Speculator, in weekly numbers, 8vo.

In Hill-st. Berkeley-sq. aged 67, John Currie, esq.

March 30. At the Clarendon hotel, aged 43, Geo. Robert Petre, esq. of Dunken-hall, Lancashire, first cousin to Lord Petre. He was the eldest son of the Hon. George Petre, who died in 1797, by Maria, 2d dau. of Philip Howard, esq. now Mrs. Espinasse.

At the Grove, Blackheath, aged 72, Mrs. Wheatley.

March 31. At Holloway, Capt. Edw. Harriman, E. I. C.

In Great Portland-st. aged 76, the relict of the Rev. Wm. Bishop, of Henstridge, Somerset.

April 1. At Walworth, aged 90, Eliz. relict of the Rev. Joseph Gwenpap.

At her aunt's, Lady Leighton, in Welbeck-street, Rosalind, dau. of Capt. Carpenter, of Sunbury, and of Emma, youngest sister to the present Sir John Thomas Stanley, Bart.

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In Pimlico, Jane, relict of the Rev. Dr. Semlock, late of Langley-house, Bucks. Robt. James Clayton, esq. late of the Navy-office, Somerset House.

At Turnham-green, aged 35, William Hamilton, esq. of the Inner Temple.

April 2. In Wimpole-street, aged 19, Coutts Marjoribanks, eldest son of Edward Marjoribanks, esq. and nephew to Sir John Marjoribanks, bart. and Stewart Marjori banks, esq. M. P.

April 4. Aged 62, George Tibbets, esq. of Northampton.

In Doughty-st. aged 86, James Stanger, esq.

April 5. In Bedford-square, the widow of Tho. Hankey, esq.

April 6. At Dockhead-place, Bermondsey, in his 78th year, Robert Rich, esq. a deputy-lieut. and magistrate for Surrey and Middlesex.

Aged nearly four, the Hon. Wm. Richard Blake, only surviving son of Lord Wallscourt. His elder brother died in March,

1828.

April 10. In Upper Seymour-st. Eustonsq. Eliza, wife of J. K. King, esq.

Aged 72, Mrs. Maria Eliz. relict of Jona than Coleman, esq. of Newington, Surrey. April 12. Mrs Joanna Hollingworth, of Queen-square, Westminster, and Stonedonplace, Essex.

April 13. Brown, esq. April 14. Margaret, wife of William Wright, esq. of Clapham. April 15. In Bernard-street, Russell-sq. in his 67th year, Adam Martin, esq.

In Russell-sq. aged 71, G.

April 16. Aged 47, Martha, wife of Stephen Slade, esq. of Argyll-st.

In Bolton-st. May-fair, aged 75, Richard Clement, esq. of Clement Castle, Barbadoes. April 18. In Stamford-st. in her 77th year, Sophia Anne, relict of Rich. Burfoot, esq. of Lambeth.

After a few days' illness, Eliz. Sophia, eldest dau. of F. Hewett, esq.

April 19. In Clarence-terrace, Regent'spark, Mary Eliz. wife of Dr. Burton.

Caroline, youngest dau. of the Rev. Archdeacon Churton.

In his 17th year, Richard, eldest son of Rich. Gatcombe, esq late of Seaton, Devon. April 20. In Lower Berkeley-st. Simon Halliday, esq. of Whinnyriggs, Dumfriessh, and of St. James's-st. banker. April 21.

street.

John Kitson, esq. of Jermyn

At Argyll-house, in her 20th year, Lady Alice Gordon, eldest dau. of the Earl of Aberdeen, K.T. and only surviving child by his first countess, Lady Catherine Elizabeth Hamilton, dau. of John James, 1st Marq. of Abercorn, K.G. April 24. At her father's, Sam. Smith, esq. Charlotte-st. Portland-pl. Fanny, wife of Lieut. H. N. Noble, N.I. Madras.

BEDS.-March 17. At Woburn, aged 78, the relict of James Pearson, esq. of London, and dau. of Rich. Filkes, esq. Woburn. BERKS.-Lately. At Newbury, John Grigg, esq. Mayor of that borough. April 14. At Maidenhead, aged 84, Tho. Wilson, esq.

BUCKS-April 10. Carrier Tompson, esq. of Round Coppice.

CAMBRIDGE.-At Trinity College, Cambridge, T. W. Ward, esq. son of the Bishop of Sodor and Man.

CHESHIRE.-March 20. At Ince, in her 59th year, Eleanora, relict of the Rev. Tho. Drake, D. D. Vicar of Rochdale, Lancash. She was the daughter of Robert Dobyns Yate, esq. of Evesbatch Court, co, Hereford, and of Bromsberrow, co. Gloucester, by Eliz. only dau. of Rich. Gorges, esq. of Eye, co. Hereford.

April 6. At Chester, Jane Eliz. wife of the Rev. Bulkeley Williams, and dau. of John Panton, esq. of Plas Gwyn, Anglesea. Their infant dau. Jane died two days previously.

April 8. At Liskeard, W. Rowe, esq. Major of Marines, and Mayor of that borough.

DEVON.-March 29. At Plymouth, aged nearly 100, Levi Benjamin, for upwards of 60 years Reader to the Jewish Synagogue of that town. He was supposed to have the most powerful voice in the kingdom; and was one of the teachers of the celebrated Leoni, the master of Braham.

March 31. At Heightley-cottage, Chudleigh, Geo. Cocks, esq. a Capt. R. N. He commanded the Thunder bomb during the siege of Copenhagen in 1807, and was thereupon advanced to post rank.

Lately. At Exeter, in his 19th year, having only survived his elder brother, aged 21, a few months, Colpoys, son of Henry Leslie Grove, esq. one of the Collectors of the Customs of that city, and nephew of the late Admiral George Wilson, of Redgravehall, Suffolk.

DORSET.-April 7. At Dorchester, aged 60, Edith, wife of Ed. Boswell, esq. solicitor. March 27. At Weymouth, aged 82, Wm. Bower, esq. Colonel of the Corps of Dorchester Volunteers, to which post he was chosen on their first formation; a man highly esteemed both in public and private life.

Essex. Feb. 21. At Woodford Bridge, aged 76, Jane Sarah, relict of Rev. Samuel Newell, Rector of Ickford, Bucks, and Adwell, Oxon.

At Hutton Hall, aged 77,

March 23. James Forbes, esq.

April 2. At Woodford, aged 73, J. Popplewell, esq.

Lately. Emma-Elizabeth, eldest dau. of C. Comyns Parker, esq. of Woodham Mortimer.

GLOUCESTER.-March 22. At Stoke

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Bishop, aged 63, Partridge Smith, esq. of Pilton, Somerset.

April 2. At Henbury Hill, Henry Brooke, esq. alderman of Bristol, and a magistrate of the county.

April 9. At Bristol, Wm. Macready, esq. formerly manager of the theatre at Leicester and other provincial towns, and father of the celebrated tragedian of that

name.

April 10. At Clifton, Eliz. dau. of the late James Rooke, esq. and grand-dau. of the late Gen. Rooke, of Bigswear, Glouc.

HANTS.-March 12. Major Geo. Compton, of Chilworth.

March 24. Aged 76, Mr. Joseph Warden, solicitor, of Ringwood.

March 30. At Winchester, Jane Dymocke, relict of Dr. H. Blackstone, late Vicar of Adderbury, Oxfordshire, and brother of the late Sir W. Blackstone (see vol. XCVII. i. 674).

Lately. At Dummer House, near Basingstoke, aged 89, Tho. Terry, csq. HERTS.-March 23. At Northaw-place, aged 77, Thomas Gould, esq.

HUNTS.-March 9. At St. Neot's, Mr. William Inkersole, formerly of the firm of Rix, Gorham, and Inkersole, bankers.

March 27. At Ramsey, aged 94, Mrs. Banes, mother of Edward Banes, esq. of that place, and daughter of the Rev. Jeffry Holdich,Rector of Stibbington. Her brother, Edw. Holdich, esq. of Spalding, died ten days before her, aged 82.

KENT.-March 21. At Birling, aged 8, Henry, eldest son of the Hon. and Rev. William Nevill; and grandson of the Earl of Abergavenny, K.T.

At Woolwich, Georgiana, wife of Captain P. W. Walker, R. A. and dau. of the Rev. Thos. Fuller.

April 4. At Pembury, Kent, in her 56th year, Eliz. widow of Rev. John-Hargrave Standen, Rector of Murston.

April 6. Aged 34, Chas. Wilson Arnold, esq. of Well-Hall, Eltham.

April 12. At St. Paul's Cray, aged 101, Mrs. Eliz. Peack.

LANCASHIRE.-April 3. Mr. Jas. Roscoe, 3d son of Wm. Roscoe, esq. of Liverpool. LEICESTERSHIRE.-April 1. Aged 61, Webster Chamberlain, gent. of Syston.

LINC.-March 5. At Sleaford, aged 75, the widow of John Brittain, esq.

March 12. At Little Gonerby, the relict of Henry King, gent. Attorney-at-law.

March 17. At Spalding, aged 82, Robert Holdich, esq. a Deputy Lieut. of the county.

April 2. At Spilsby, after nine years confinement, aged 43, Mary-Anne, eldest dau. of the late Joseph Brackenbury, esq.

MIDDLESEX.-April 16. At Kilbourne, the relict of J. E. Liebenrood, esq. of Prospect-hill, near Reading.

NORFOLK.-April 6. At Gaywood Rectory, aged 87, Mrs. Jane Preston, youngest