1837.] Monuments of Mr. Surtees, T. Sheridan, and Mrs. Lefanu. of Thomas and Sarah Clutterbuck; he died the 25th of May, 1831, in the 59th year of his age." Lastly, the resting-place of Robert SURTEES, Esq. the late able and amiable Historian of Durham, is a grave in the churchyard of Bishop Middleham (the parish in which his house of Mainsforth is situated,) marked by an iron "hearse," on the model of that over the effigy of Richard Earl of Warwick, in the Beauchamp Chapel at Warwick, having his initials R. S. inserted at one end, and his age "54" at the other. It may be remarked, that his grave also resembles that of the Earl of Warwick, in being hewn out of the natural rock. EPITAPHS ON THOMAS SHERIDAN, ESQ. AND HIS DAUGHTER MRS. LEFANU. IN St. Peter's church in the isle of Thanet, on a white marble tablet on the north side of the nave, is this inscription: "Interred near this spot, on the 27th of August, 1788, the mortal remains of THOMAS SHERIDAN, Esq. A.M. Author of Lectures on Education delivered at the University of Oxford, and of divers other useful works tending to enlighten and ameliorate mankind. In illustrating human nature upon the stage, the mirror he held was as true as his private life was exemplary; indebted nothing to favour, his professional celebrity was the meed of only his own merit: he played his part with distinction as an actor, as a man he closed a long career without a moral stain. He was honoured in his descent, and renowned in his issue. His father had to boast the friendship of no less a name than JONATHAN SWIFT, of whom the subject of this tribute published a pious, grateful, faithful biography. His son, the immortalizer of their race, the Right Honourable RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN, (besides having carried English Eloquence in Parliament nearer to the standard of Athenian perfection, than any even of the mighty orators which a rare coincidence had me his contemporaries,) advanced Literature with such proofs of radiant Genius as are sure to live with the life, and to die only with the death, of the British Drama. This tablet is put up by a passenger through the Isle of Thanet, in admiration to the intellect, though a stranger to the blood, of the Sheridan family." In the churchyard at Leamington Spa, Warwickshire: GENT. MAG. VOL. VIII. 585 "Sacred to the memory of ANNE ELIZABETH, wife of HENRY LEFANU, late Captain in the 56th infantry, and daughter of Thomas Sheridan, A.M., and Frances his wife; who departed this life, Jan. 4, 1837, aged 80. Through a long and blameless existence she enforced the purest principles of religion and morality, both by writing and example. Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." BIRTH-PLACE OF DR. CAREY, AT (Extracted from Baker's History of WILLIAM CAREY, D.D. the patriarch of Indian missions, and the first Oriental professor of languages in India, a striking instance of innate talent and energy of character emerging from obscurity to eminence, was a native of this village. He was not improbably descended from James Carey, who was curate from 1624 to 1630; if so, the family underwent a gradual process of deterioration. His grandfather Peter Carey may be presumed to have been respectably connected, and well educated, from the peculiarly free and elegant style of his signatures in the register as parish clerk. His father, Edmund Carey, was originally a journeyman tammy weaver, and lived in the very humble cottage in Pury End represented in the accompanying vignette. Here, WILLIAM, his eldest child by Elizabeth his (first) wife, was born on the 17th of August 1761, and baptised on the 23d of the same month. When he was about seven years old his father removed to the school house in Church End on being appointed parish clerk and schoolmaster, which united offices he filled in a manner which gained him the respect of his fellow parishioners for nearly half a century. The elementary instruction imparted by his father constituted the entire education of the future learned linguist. He early evinced a thirst for knowledge and a taste for nature; and his hours of relaxation, instead of being devoted to customary amusements, were spent in the school-room or the garden. His sister Mary, adverting to his childhood, remarks, "I was often carried in his arms on many of his walks; and I recollect even now with what delight he used to shew me the 4 F beauties in the growth of plants. When a boy, he was of a studious turn, and fully bent on learning, and always resolutely determined never to give up any point or particle of any thing on which his mind was set, till he had arrived at a clear knowledge and sense of his subject. He was not to be allured or diverted from it; he was firm to his purpose and steady in his endeavour to improve." His term of pupilage was as limited as his means of improvement; for at the age of fourteen years he was bound apprentice to a shoemaker at Hackleton. In the year 1783, when his religious principles had been decidedly formed, he joined the dissenters of the Baptist denomination, and was publicly baptised at Northampton in the river Nen near Scarlet well by the late Dr. Ryland. He was soon after induced, at the suggestion of some of his religious friends, to commence village preaching, but without renouncing his manual occupation; and persons are still living who remember seeing him on his Saturday walk to his employer at Northampton, bearing on his back the produce of his weekly labour. In 1786 he settled at Moulton as pastor of a small Baptist congregation, and opened a village school as a means of increasing his narrow income, which was much below 20l. per annum. He is said to have constructed a globe of leather; and whilst pointing out the different nations to his pupils as he naturally mentioned the religion of each"These are Christians, and these are Mahometans, and these are Pagans, and these are Pagans,”—it forcibly struck him I am now telling these children as a mere fact, that which is a truth of the most melancholy character." Thus was he led to the train of thought which produced his "Inquiry into the obligations of Christians to use means for the Conversion of the HEATHEN ; in which the religious state of the different nations of the World, the success of former undertakings, and the practicability of further attempts, are considered." Diffidence, combined with poverty, however, delayed the publication till 1792; and meantime in Sept. 1790 he had undertaken the pastoral charge of the Baptist congregation at Leicester. Not content with advoca ting through the press the necessity of missionary exertions, he rested not till he had inspired his religious connections with similar views, and on the 2d of October 1792, the ministers of the Northamptonshire and Leicestershire Association assembled at Kettering, formed themselves into a Baptist Missionary Society. The consequent mission to India originated, says Dr. Ryland, “absolutely with Carey ;" and in June 1793 he sealed the sincerity of his zeal by embarking for India; and so devoted was he to his great work that some years after he had engaged in it he wrote to a friend, "I would not change my station for all the society in England, much as I prize it; nor indeed for all the wealth in the world. May I but be useful in laying the foundation of the church of Christ in India, I desire no greater reward, and can receive no higher honor." The subsequent career of this exemplary apostle of the Christian faith is well known. A long memoir from the pen of the late Thomas Fisher, Esq. F.S.A. of the East India House, will be found in the Gentleman's Magazine for May 1835. Those who are best acquainted with the history of modern missions, will be most ready to assent to the justice of the eloquent eulogy pronounced on him by the late Robert Hall, who in his funeral sermon for Dr. Ryland, characterises Carey as "that extraordinary man who from the lowest obscurity and poverty, without assistance, rose by dint of unrelenting industry to the highest honours of literature, became one of the first of orientalists, the first of missionaries, and the instrument of diffusing more religious knowledge among his contemporaries than has fallen to the lot of any individual since the reformation; a man who unites with the most profound and varied attainments, the fervour of an evangelist, the piety of a saint, and the simplicity of a child." There is a portrait of the Doctor, attended by his Pundit, the large engraving of which has been contributed by Joseph Gutteridge, Esq. of Denmarkhill, near London, to the embellishment of Mr. Baker's History of Carey's native county. It has been published on a smaller scale by Messrs. Fisher of Newgate Street. POETRY. STANZAS ON THE QUEEN. From a MS. Poem. 1. THERE* in the sunshine of a mother's smile, A maid, the hope of England! bloom'd awhile, Whom with enduring virtue Heaven endow She reigneth! none her title disallow: Before her, youth and age, the meek and mighty bow. 2. From East to West a Queen the nations own Her nod imperial North and South obey- Erect the Negro hails the dawning ray; The red man where he will, may prowl for prey: To hear the bitter cry, to ease the galling chain !— 3. Rooted in faith, no revolution fearing, Of true religion thou the guardian be, Of virtue the promoter, Him revering By whom kings reign, and princes right decree. Give ear to pity pleading for offence, 4. Fountain of honour! keep the channel pure! Norris Castle, in the Isle of Wight. 5. Benighted regions while the bold explore, Let commerce freely float from shore to shore! 6. Come then what may! let hatred howl alarms, "Come the three corners of the world in arms, Heaven guard thee, lady!—honour, love, renown, And when the kingly charge thou layest down, The palm, Victoria, take, and amaranthine crown! RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW. DUDLEY THIRD LORD NORTH. "A Forest of Varieties, in Three Parts. London, printed by Richard Cotes, 1645, fol." (The first edition.) "A Forest promiscuous of several Seasons' Productions. The entrance, or first part.-Non aliena meo pressi pede." London, printed by Daniel Pakeman, 1659. (See Walpole's Noble Authors; Sir Egerton Brydges's Peers of King James I. p. 343; Collins's Peerage by Brydges; Brit. Bibliographer, vol. ii. p. 299; Amsinck's History of Tunbridge Wells, 4to. p. 4; Topographical Miscellanies, under Catledge, 1792, 4to.) DUDLEY third Lord North succeeded to the title Dec. 3, 1600, aged nineteen, and died Jan. 16, 1666, aged eighty-five; his eldest son, Dudley, was also an author; his daughter, Dorothy, married Chaloner Chute of the Vine, Hants. Walpole says,- "He was one of the finest gentlemen of the Court of King James; but, in supporting that character, dissipated and gamed away the greatest part of his fortune. In 1645, he appears to have acted with the Parliament, and was nominated to the administration of the Admiralty.” He passed the latter part of his life in retirement. Walpole has made a mistake in saying, that it was the son of this lord (Dudley Lord North), who discovered the medicinal springs at Tunbridge, whereas it was the father, who mentions the circumstance in his work. (The account given by Walpole is formed on a passage in Roger North's Life of Lord Guilford, Pref. p. iii.) "The use of Tunbridge and Epsom waters for health and cure, I first made known |