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T. W. TATTON, ESQ.

March 2. At the house of his sister, the widow of Sir Masterman Mark Sykes, Bart. in St. James's-Place, aged 43, Thomas William Tatton, esq. of Withenshaw, co. Chester.

He was the second son of William Egerton, of Tatton and Withenshaw, esq. M. P. for Cheshire from 1802 till his death in 1806, by his second wife Mary, second daughter of Richard Wilbraham Bootle, of Latham in Lancashire, esq. The deceased was consequently younger brother to Wilbraham Egerton, of Tatton Park, esq., the present Knight of the Shire for the County of Chester, and nephew to Edward Bootle Wilbraham, esq. the present Baron for the Cinque Port of Dover.

The family of Tatton, from which the late Mr. Egerton was paternally descended, being one of ancient repute among the gentry of Cheshire, be selected his second surviving son, the subject of the present notice, to represent it at the family scat of Withenshaw. The latter, accordingly, by royal signmanual, dated Jan. 9, 1806, re-assumed the name of Tatton, which had been resigned by his grandmother in 1780, on her acceding (after her husband's decease) to the estates of her own family of Egerton.

Mr. Tatton married, Oct. 20, 1807, Emma, third daughter of the Hon. John Grey (third son of Harry, fourth Earl of Stamford), and first cousin to the present Earl of Stamford and Warrington. By this lady he had issue, five daughters: Emma, Mary - Elizabeth, Henrietta, Frances, and Louisa; and a son, Thomas-William, born in 1816.

Mr. Tatton served the office of High Sheriff of Cheshire in 1209.

WILLIAM MITFORD, ESQ.

Feb. 10. At Exbury, near Southampton, aged 83, William Mitford, esq. F.S.A. Professor of Ancient History to the Royal Academy, and Author of the History of Greece.

This sound scholar, useful citizen, and good man, was brother to Lord Redesdale, being the eldest son of John Mitford, esq. of Lincoln's Inn, by Philadelphia, daughter of Wm. Revely, of Newby in Yorkshire, esq., which lady was first cousin to Hugh, first Duke of Northumberland. He was born in London, Feb. 10, 1743-4; and was educated at Cheam School in Surrey, under the venerable and excellent William Gilpin, on whom he bestowed the living where he resided and died. From Cheam Mr. M. went to Queen's Coll. Oxford. He left the University without taking a degree, and, enter

ing the Middle Temple, commenced the study of the law; but his brother was the member of the family that was destined to acquire eminence in that profession, and Mr. Mitford early quitted it, on obtaining a commission in the SouthHampshire Militia, in which he was afterward Lt.-Colonel*. His father died in 1761, when be succeeded to the family estate at Exbury, and May 18, 1766, he married Frances, daughter of James Molloy, esq of Dublin, and, through ber maternal grandmother, second cousin to Henry, present Earl Bathurst.

Mr. Mitford's first publication appeared anonymously in 1774. It was "An Essay on the Harmony of Language, intended principally to illustrate that of the English Language." It was much admired; and Horne Tooke is stated to have frequently expressed a wish, that he had been its author. A second edition was published in 1804.

The first volume of his History of Greece appeared in 1784, in quarto. The favourable manner in which it was received by the ablest and soundest critics, encouraged him to proceed. The second volume was published in 1790, the third in 1797, but the work was not completed till 1810. It has been erroneously asserted, that Mr. Mitford spent a long time at Athens; but the fact is, that he never travelled beyond Naples.

Whilst in the Militia, Mr. Mitford published a "Treatise on the Military Force, and particularly the Militia of this kingdom;" and, in 1791, when, as recently, the public mind was agitated on the grand national question, relative to the means of supplying the country with bread, he published another pamphlet, entitled, “Considerations on the Opinion stated by the Lords of the Committee of Corn, in a representation to the King upon the Corn Laws, that Great Britain is unable to produce Corn sufficient for its own consumption," &c. It was Mr. Mitford's opinion, that it was not only possible, but easy, for our Island to supply a quantity of wheat sufficient for the use of its inhabitants.

In 1796, Mr. Mitford, through the interest of the Duke of Northumberland, was returned to the House of Commons as Member for Beeralston, of which borough, his brother John (now Lord Redesdale) had been one of the representatives during the two preceding Parliaments. He did not deliver bis

* It has been remarked as a singular coincidence, that the author of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire was also a Militia officer, being Captain in the Hampshire Grenadiers.

sentiments in the House on many subjects; but he gained great credit by his exertions in upholding the Militia system. On the proposition brought forward in 1798, by Mr. Secretary Dundas (the late Viscount Melville) for increasing the number of field-officers in the Militia, Mr. Mitford opposed the measure in its various stages, contending that the Militia should be governed by the Militia Laws, and not by those of the regular army; and entered into a brief history of the Militia in this Country, commenting on the salutary jealousy of a military despotism with which it was established. On subsequent occasions, Mr. Mitford always arrayed himself against any innovation of those principles on which the Militia was originally founded. He sat in three Parliaments for Beeralston, from 1796 to 1806; and afterwards represented New Romney from 1812 till 1818.

In 1802 Mr. Mitford acquired a large addition to his property in the Revely estates in Yorkshire, belonging to his mother's family. He continued, however, to his death, to make Exbury in Hampshire his country residence, having only a year or two previously to the date last-mentioned, rebuilt his paternal mansion there. It is situated on the shore between Lymington and Southampton, nearly opposite Yarmouth in the Isle of Wight. The beauties of the place have been illustrated by the pen and pencil of the picturesque Gilpin. Mr. Mitford was appointed Verdurer of the New Forest in 1778.

A few years since, Mr. Mitford published "Observations on the History of Christianity;" and last year he advertised a work on the Religions of the Antient World.

Mr. Mitford had six sons and a daughter: William, a Lieutenant in the Royal Fusileers, who died in 1790 unmarried; Bertram, who died young; Henry, a Captain R. N., lost at sea in 1801, leaving a son, who died shortly after, and two daughters; John, now a Commissioner of Bankrupts; Bertram, an Irish Commissioner of Enquiry; Charles, who died young; and Frances.

REV, JOHN EVANS, LL.D. Jan. 25. At Islington, in his 60th year, the Rev. John Evans, LL.D. author of the "Sketch of the Denominations of the Christian World," and numerous other works.

This voluminous and highly useful writer was born at Usk, in Monmouthshire, Oct. 2, 1767, and traced his descent, through an almost unbroken line GENT. MAG. April, 1827.

of Baptist ministers, from a Thomas Evans, one of the ministers ejected by the Act of Uniformity. He acquired at Bristol the elementary parts of his education, and in November, 1783, became a student in the Bristol Baptist Academy, over which his relative Dr. C. Evans then presided as Theological Tutor. Having remained there some time, he went to Scotland in 1787, and passed three winters as a student at the College at Aberdeen, then adorned by the talents of Drs. Campbell and Gerard. A fourth winter was spent at the University of Edinburgh; and having attained the degree of A.M., he returned from Scotland in June, 1791. Entertaining serious doubts respecting the truth of several of the Calvinistic doctrines, he in 1791 accepted an invitation from the morning congregation of General Baptists at Worship Street in London, where, after officiating a few months, he was chosen pastor, and ordained May 31, 1792. This his first proved his only pastoral engagement, and, after thirty-five years of uninterrupted harmony, terminated but with his existence.

Dr. Evans's first publications were, "An Address, designed to promote a revival among the General Baptists;" and "Juvenile Pieces designed for Youth of both Sexes;" both printed in 12mo, 1793.

The Sketch of the Denominations of the Christian World, by which the name of Dr. Evans, to adopt the words of the preacher of his funeral discourse, "bas become identified with the history of religious opinion," first appeared in the beginning of 1795, in the form of a shilling pamphlet. The circumstances that gave rise to this production are curious, and are narrated in the later editions of the work. The rapid sale of the first impression called for a second edition in July of the same year, and during a period of about thirty years, fourteen successive editions, comprising in al! 100,000 copies, have been circulated: and a fifteenth edition, now in the course of publication, had been completed by the author immediately before his last illness. The book has been translated into Welsh, and various continental languages, and several editions have appeared in the United States of America. In his dedication of the fourteenth edition to his friend the late Lord Erskine, the author, after noticing the extensive circulation of his work, thus adverts to the impartiality by which it is so singularly distinguished, and to the inconsiderable sum for which he parted with the copyright: "Its impartiality has been the basis of its popularity.

That it is altogether free from religious bias the author does not aver-but he has strove to divest himself of prepossession. The zealot has complained that in the perusal of the Sketch the opinions of the writer cannot be developed. This is a flattering though involuntary testimony to the accuracy of the work. Were vanity, my Lord, the object of the writer, it has been satiated; but a philosophy inferior to that of his Divine Master would have taught him to suppress so ignoble a passion, when desirous of informing and improving mankind. Were filthy lucre the end in view, then indeed he has been disappointed. Unfortunately, the author sold the copyright of the Sketch for ten pounds; but his friends have administered to him a negative consolation, by reminding him that a similar sum was paid for the copyright of Watts's Hymns, as well as of that gigantic product of human genius, Paradise Lost."

In August, 1795, Dr. Evans married Mary, one of the daughters of the late Rev. John Wiche, for nearly half a century General Baptist Minister at Maidstone, and the friend and associate of Foster and Lardner. Of this union, productive to both parties of the most solid and lasting domestic happiness, three sons now live to cherish the remembrance and emulate the virtues of their father. Shortly after his marriage he opened a seminary, which, after conducting it first at Hoxton Square, and subsequently at Islington, with continued respectability and success for about thirty years, he ultimately relinquished in 1825, to enjoy that honourable leisure to which his previous exertions had so justly entitled him. We shall now enumerate, as perfectly as we are able, Dr. Evans's publications:

A Sermon on the death of Drs. Stennett, Kippis, and Harris; with afew particulars of their lives and writings. 8vo. 1795.

Sermon on the decease of the Rev. Charles Bulkeley, with a Sketch of his life, character, and writings. 8vo. 1797. (See vol. LXXVII, p. 589.)

An Apology for Human Nature, by the late Charles Bulkeley, with a prefatory address, 12mo, 1797.

An attempt to account for the infidelity of the late Mr. Gibbon, founded on his own Memoirs, 8vo, 1797.

Moral Reflections, suggested by a view of London from the Monument, 12mo. 1798.

An Essay on the Education of Youth, 12mo. 1798, 6th ed. 18...

An Epitome of Geography, 12mo. 1801. 2d ed. 1802.

An Address to young people on the

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The unhappy effects of enthusiasm and superstition, a sermon, 8vo. 1804. (See vol. LXXIV. 852.)

The destruction of the combined fleets of France and Spain, a sermon on the victory of Trafalgar, 8vo. 1805.

Picture of Worthing, 12mo. 1805. (See vol. LXXv. 352; LxxxvII. i. 613.)

The Poetic Garland, 12mo. 1806. The Parnassian Garland, or Beauties of Modern Poetry, 24mo. 1807. Flowers of Poetry, 24mo.

The Prosaic Garland, 24mo. A Sermon at the opening of a new place of worship, Cranbrook, 8vo. 1808. Sermon on behalf of the Lancasterian system of educating the poor, 8vo. 1808. An Address on the baptism of Isaac Littleton, a converted Jew, 8vo. 1808.

A Letter to Robert Hawker, D.D. suggested by his defence of the London Female Penitentiary, 8vo. 1809.

A New Geographical Grammar, 2 vols. 8vo. 1809.

The Jubilee rendered a source of religious improvement, a sermon, 8vo. 1809. An Address on the interment of Stephen Lowdell, Esq. 8vo. 1809.

A Sermon on the death of the Princess Amelia, 8vo. 1810.

Religious liberty the offspring of Christianity, a Sermon on the rejection of Lord Sidmouth's Bill, 8vo. 1811.

The Christian Minister's Retrospect, a Sermon preached at Worship Street, on the 20th anniversary of his Ministry, Nov. 3, 1811, 8vo.

The Superior Glory of the second Temple, a Sermon preached at the opening of Salem Chapel, King's Lynn, Jan. 5, 1812. 8vo.

Protestantism and Popery, illustrated in two letters from a Catholic Priest, with remarks, 8vo. 1812. 2d ed.

A Sermon on the decease of J. Brent, Esq. 8vo. 1812. (See vol. LXXIII.i. 44.) A Sermon on the decease of the Rev. Hugh Worthington, 8vo. 1813. (Ibid. ii. 455.)

Complete religious liberty vindicated, in a letter respecting the petition for the abolition of all penal statutes in matters of religion, 8vo. 1813.

A Sermon on the death of Thomas Mullett, Esq. merchant. 8vo. 1815.

An Excursion to Windsor; to which is added, a Journal of a Trip to Paris, by his son John Evans, Jun. M.A. (Reviewed in vol. LXXXVII. ii. 332-335). The Vanity of Human Expectations; Sermon on the Death of the Princess Charlotte (Vide ibid. p. 610).

Memoirs of the Rev. William Richard, LL.D. including a Sketch of his character and writings; with an Appendix, containing some account of the Rev. Roger Williams, founder of the State of Rhode Island. 8vo. 1819.

The Christianity of the New Testament, impregnable and imperishable, an Address occasioned by the trial of Carlile. 8vo. 1819. (See vol. LXXXIX. ii. 54.) Death the inevitable lot of man; Reflections on the decease of George the Third and the Duke of Kent. (See vol. xc. i. 344.)

Recreation for the young and old; an Excursion to Brighton, a visit to Tunbridge Wells, and a Trip to Southend, with an alphabetical list of all the Watering Places in the kingdom. 1821.

Richmond and its Vicinity; with a glance at Twickenham, Strawberry Hill, and Hampton Court. 12mo. 1824. (Reviewed in vol. XCIV. ii. 443.)

Discourses on the Christian Temper,

1824.

Tracts, Sermons, and Funeral Orations; published between 1795 & 1825, and Six New Discourses. 8vo. 1826. (Reviewed in vol. xcvi. i. 337-339.) This was accompanied by an excellent portrait of Dr. Evans, by Woodman.

Some Papers on Death, by Mason, the author of Self-Knowledge." 12mo. 1826. (Reviewed in vol. xcvi. ii. 439.) Dr. Evans's character exhibited a rare assemblage of the nobler qualities that adorn humanity. His piety was without a tinge of bigotry, his charity without the shadow of ostentation. He was manly, generous, and frank; and his amiable virtues can be fully and adequately appreciated by those alone who were united to him by the ties of conjugal and filial affection.

DR. JOHN JONES.

Jan. 10. In Great Coram-st. John Jones, LL.D. M. R. S. &c., author of the English Lexicon and other works.

This accomplished scholar was born at Landingate, in Carmarthenshire. His father was a respectable farmer; and the son had been destined for agricultural pursuits, till it was discovered that he had neither taste nor inclination for such occupations. From his earliest childhood he had evinced an unusual predilection for books. It was his frequent practice, immediately after breakfast, to disappear

from the family circle, and retire to the banks of a secluded rivulet, about a mile from the house, and there pursue his studies till hunger compelled him to return. His memory was at this time remarkable for its strength and tenacity.

His father finding that it would be vain to attempt to consign him to the drudgery of the farm, resolved to educate him for the Christian ministry. About the age of fourteen or fifteen, he was sent to the Grammar School at Brecon, then under the care of the Rev. William Griffiths, where he remained three years, until the death of his father in 1783.

About this period, his neighbour and relation Mr. David Jones, afterward the colleague of Dr. Priestley, and known in the controversy with Dr. Horsley as the "Welsh Freeholder," was a student at the New College, Hackney. Through his recommendation, the managers of that institution admitted Mr. Jones a student on

the foundation. Here he soon acquired the friendship and patronage of the late celebrated Dr. Abraham Rees, who then held the office of resident tutor. He remained at Hackney six years, and was a favourite pupil of the late Gilbert Wakefield.

In 1792, the death of the learned and excellent Mr. Thomas Lloyd having created a vacancy in the office of classical and maSwansea, Mr. Jones was appointed by the thematical tutor in the Welsh academy at Presbyterian Board to be his successor.After he had held this office about three years, some unhappy difference arose between him and his colleague, in which the students rashly embarked as partizans.The Board, finding no prospect of an amicable adjustment, and not wishing to side with either party in a matter which was entirely personal, adopted the resolution of dismissing both tutors, and removing the institution to Carmarthen. On quitting Swansea, Mr. Jones settled at Plymouth Dock, as the pastor of the Unitarian congregation in that place. He remained there two years, and then accepted an invitation to become the minister of the Unitarian congregation at Halifax, in Yorkshire Here he resided for three years, joining to his ministerial labours the instruction of youth, an employment for which he was singularly well qualified by his high classi cal attainments, and the peculiar bent of his mind. From Halifax he removed his residence to London, where he continued till the end of his life.

Not long after his settlement in London, he married the only daughter of his friend and former tutor Dr. Rees. This lady died, without issue, in the year 1815. In 1817 he married Anna, the only daughter of the late George Dyer, esq. of Sawbridgeworth, who, with two children, survives him.

After his remova. to the metropolis,

Mr. Jones occasionally preached for his brethren, but never had the charge of a congregation. Under some momentary feeling of disgust, he destroyed all his manuscript sermons, and, from that time, never could be persuaded to appear in the pulpit. He still, however, adhered to his profession; was a member of the Presbyterian body of London Dissenting Ministers, and, for some years, one of the clerical trustees of the estates and endowments of Dr. Daniel Williams.

A few years ago, the University of Aberdeen conferred upon him the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws, and within a year or two of his death, he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Dr. Jones maintained a high reputation as a teacher of the classical languages. He superintended for a considerable time the education of the sons of the late distinguished lawyer and philanthropist, Sir Samuel Romilly, and to the last he had under his care some young persons of opulent families. But it must be observed, to the honour of Dr. Jones, that, while thus courted by the rich and noble, he was ever ready to afford encourage. ment and gratuitous instruction to young men in humble circumstances.

As an author, Dr. Jones acquired no small degree of celebrity. In the year 1800, while resident at Halifax, he published his first work, in two volumes 8vo. under the title of "A Developement of Remarkable Events, calculated to restore the Christian Religion to its original Purity, and to repel the Objectious of Unbelievers." His original design was to embody in these volumes all the facts which he meant to adduce to elucidate the meaning, and establish the credibility of the historical and epistolary writings of the New Testament. But his materials having unexpectedly accumulated as he advanced, he was able to carry on his plan no further than the end of the Acts of the Apostles. These volumes contain a vindication of the authenticity of the disputed passage in Josephus; and the work is remarkable, as conveying the first intimation of the hypothesis, for which he was afterwards so greatiy distinguished, of Josephus and Philo being converts to the Christian faith. In 1801 followed 'a second part of this work, entitled "The Epistle of Paul to the Romans analysed, from a Developement of those Circumstances in the Roman Church by which it was occasioned." In the former volumes the author had intimated his doubts as to the success of his undertaking; and he now became convinced that he had failed to excite interest in his speculations. He therefore discontinued the prosecution of his original plan, meaning, however, to resume the subject at a more advanced

period of life," When," he writes, "the fashionable levity and scepticism of the times should, in some degree, subside, and the spirit of party give way to a rational inquiry and a zeal for the truth.” In 1808, Dr. Jones published " Illustrations of the four Gospels, founded on Circumstances peculiar to our Lord and his Evangelists;" and in 1812, "Ecclesiastical Researches, or Philo and Josephus proved to be Historians and Apologists of Christ, of his Followers, and of his Gospel." The author here maintains at length, the hypothesis at which he had only glanced in preceding publications. A sequel to this work was published in 1813, in which the author proposed to trace the origin of the introductory chapters in Matthew and Luke's Gospels from Josephus, and to deduce the peculiar articles of the orthodox faith from the Gnostics, who opposed the Gospel in the days of Christ and his Apostles.

Under the name of Essenus, Dr. Jones published, in 1819, a New Version of the first three Chapters of Genesis. The work was occasioned by Mr. Bellamy's translation that had then just appeared.

In the following year, the appearance of numerous Deistical works induced Dr. Jones to print, in one volume, Svo, “A Series of important Facts, demonstrating the Truth of the Christian Religion, drawn from the Writings of its Friends and Enemies in the first and second Centuries." Dr. Jones's next publication was " A Reply to two Deistical works, entitled, A New Trial of the Witnesses, &c., and Gamaliel Smith's Not Paul but Jesus." In the title of this work he assumed the name of Ben David. His last publication of a theological character, which appeared in 1825, was entitled, "Three Letters addressed to the Editor of the Quarterly Review, in which is demonstrated the Genuineness of the three Heavenly Witnesses, 1 John, v. 7, by Ben David."

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Dr. Jones ranked deservedly high as a scholar and philologist, and his writings on the classical languages are numerous. 1813 he published a short Latin Grammar for the use of schools, which was reprinted in 1816. In 1804 he published a Greek Grammar, on an improved plan. This work was repeatedly reprinted; but in the last year he re-modelled and nearly re-wrote the work, and published it under the title of "Etymologia Græca, or a Grammar of the Greek Language," &c. The intention of the alterations in this edition, was to render the Grammar more generally useful to young learners.

In 1812 Dr. Jones published " A Latin and English Vocabulary, on a simple, yet philosophical principle, for the Use of Schools." This work he afterwards greatly improved, and re-published, in 1825, uuder

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