Head of an Old Woman, after RUBENS.

The figures to an oval plate, after HEARNE, of Mr. Peter Pounce rescuing Fanny, from the novel of Joseph Andrews.

A large plate, in a forward, though unfinished, state, of the Dead Christ and Three Maries, after the celebrated picture by ANNIBAL CARACCI, in the collection of the Earl of Carlisle.

Boadicea and her Daughters, after OPIE, engraved for Hume's History of England, published by Bowyer.

Mary, Queen of Scots, escaping with Bothwell, after SMIRKE, for ditto.

Judith Attiring, after OPIE, engraved for Macklin's Bible. Destruction of the Assyrian Host, after DE LOUTHERBOURG, engraved for ditto.

The Three Maries at the Holy Sepulchre, after SMIRKE, for ditto.

SMALL BOOK-PLATES, &c.

The Rosicrusian Cavern, after FUSELI, engraved for an edition of the Spectator.

Theodosius and Constantia, after WESTALL, for ditto.

Scene from the Provoked Husband, after SMIRKE, and some others, for Bell's British Theatre.

An elderly Female Meditating, after WILLIAM LOCKE, Esq., engraved for Seward's Anecdotes, and inscribed "Dies Prateritos."

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No. XVI.

MAJOR-GENERAL MACQUARIE.

Few men have died more regretted by a large circle of friends and acquaintances, and none more beloved and respected than General Macquarie.

He was born in the island of Mull, on the 31st of December, 1762; was lineally descended from the ancient family of Macquarie, of Macquarie, and nearly allied to the chief of that warlike and loyal clan. His mother was the sister of the late Murdoch Maclaine, of Lochbuy, than whose a more ancient or distinguished family does not exist in the Highlands of Scotland. At the early age of fifteen (9th April, 1777) he was appointed an ensign in the late 84th, or Royal Highland Emigrant regiment, raised in America by his relation, Sir Allen Maclean, and, young as he was, he joined the corps immediately on his appointment, and served with it in Nova Scotia, under the command of Generals Lord Clarina, Francis Maclean, and John Campbell, till 1781, when he got his lieutenancy in the late 71st regiment. This regiment he joined in South Carolina, where he served under the orders of the late General, the Hon. Alexander Leslie, till 1782, when the 71st, with other regiments, being sent to Jamaica, he remained there till the conclusion of the American war. At the peace of 1783, the 71st regiment was ordered home from the West Indies, and finally disbanded at Perth in 1784.

Lieutenant Macquarie remained on half-pay till December, 1787, when he was appointed to the present 77th regiment,

he became the senior lieutenant. He accompanied his regiment to India in the spring of 1788, and arrived at Bombay in the month of August of that year, where he was appointed captain-lieutenant in December; and for seventeen years he continued to serve in the presidency of Bombay, and in different parts of Hindostan, under the respective commands of Marquis Cornwallis, Sir William Meadows, Sir Alured Clarke, Lord Harris, Sir Robert Abercromby, Lord Lake, James Balfour, James Stuart, and Oliver Nicolls. Having purchased his company in the 77th, he received the brevet rank of major in May, 1796, and the effective majority of the 86th regiment in March, 1801, with the brevet rank of lieutenant-colonel on the 9th of November, of that year. In the year 1805 he got the lieutenant-colonelcy of the 73d, then a Highland regiment. In 1810 he obtained the rank of colonel in the army, and in 1813 was made a major-general. He was present at the first siege of Seringapatam in 1792, and at its capture in 1799. He was also distinguished at the captures of Carranou in 1790, Cochin in 1795, and Columbo in the Island of Ceylon in 1796. In 1801 he accompanied Sir David Baird and the Indian army to Egypt, with the distinguished rank of deputy adjutant-general, was present at the capture of Alexandria, and final expulsion of the French army from Egypt. In 1803 he obtained leave of absence, and came to England, whe he was immediately appointed to the home staff, and served as assistant adjutant-general to Lord Harrington, who commanded the London district. In 1805 he returned once more to India, where he continued for two years, and then came home overland. He arrived in October, 1807, and joined the 73d regiment, then quartered at Perth, in 1808.

In 1809, when his regiment was ordered to New South Wales, Colonel Macquarie stood so high in the estimation of his king and of the ministers, that he received the appointment of governor-in-chief in and over that colony. He held this high office for a period of twelve years; and posterity will duly appreciate the soundness of those measures to which the co

lony owes its present prosperity, and upon which will depend its future greatness, Indefatigable in business, and well qualified, from his intimate knowledge of mankind, to judge of the character of those with whom he came in contact, he conducted the affairs of his government with a prudence and steadiness which few, however gifted, will ever equal, and none, we venture to affirm, can ever surpass. One of the maxims which he appears to have had constantly in his view was, to raise to something like respectability in the scale of society, those who had expiated their crimes and follies by a life of good conduct and regularity, in that country to which they had been transported; and thus, by the countenance and support which the well-behaved were sure to meet with, he stimulated others to follow their good example; a conduct much more likely to prove beneficial, than if the repentant criminal had been left to his hapless fate, in a society where it required all the support of a governor-in-chief to give him a status in that society, and maintain him in it.

Having been superseded by Major-General Sir Thomas Brisbane, General Macquarie returned to England in 1822, and retired for a short time to his estate in the Island of Mull. While in India, he married Miss Jarvis, sister of LieutenantColor Jarvis, now of Dover in Kent. But this lady did not live accompany him to England, and left no issue; and in the beginning of 1809 he was married a second time to Miss Campbell, daughter of Donald Campbell, Esq., of Aird, and sister to the present Sir John Campbell, of Ardnamurchan, Baronet. By this lady, who survives him, he has left one son, Lauchlan, who was born in Australia, and is now about nine years of age. During the winter of 1822-3, he travelled on the continent for the benefit of Mrs. Macquarie's health; but in the autumn of last year he retired once more to his estate in Mull, where he intended to rusticate for a few years, until his son was prepared to enter Eton College.

But, alas! how vain are the determinations of man.

view of getting his colonial accounts finally settled, and to ascertain the determination of ministers in regard to the remuneration to which he had become entitled by his long and faithful services as governor of New South Wales. His accounts, being regularly and correctly kept, were soon brought to a close; and his merit so fully allowed, that a pension for life, of a thousand year, was granted him; and, as he states in a note to a friend, in the end of June, his cares were now at an end. In four short days from the date of that note they were, indeed, at an end for ever. Dining at a friend's house, on a wet day, about the beginning of June, he was unable to procure a hackney coach, and as the rain had nearly ceased, he ventured to walk home to his lodgings. He was immediately seized with a suppression of urine, which, in the end, baffled the skill of the most eminent of the profession to remove or alleviate, and on the 1st July, 1824, he breathed his last. Mrs. Macquarie, impressed with some impending misfortune, and having information from a faithful black servant that had been many years the attendant of the general, fortunately left Mull to join her husband in London, and arrived a few days before his death, so that she had the consolation, though a melancholy one, of witnessing the last moments of him whose loss is irreparable, but who died as he had lived, a hero and a Christian. General Macquarie was ever Thore desirous of a good name than of riches; he returned to England in 1822, a much poorer man than he had left it in 1809. He did not live to enjoy his pension a single day, so that the regulated price of a lieutenant-colonelcy of infantry, which, a few days before his death, he was advised, under the new regulation to sell, was all that he received for a faithful service of nearly half a century. We have little doubt, however, that when his merits become fully known to his majesty, and are fairly appreciated by his country, as one day they must be, some permanent mark of royal favour will be granted to his orphan son. General Macquarie has left one brother, a distinguished officer, Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Macquarie,