LITERARY REPORT. Mr. Harrison, author of "Tales of a Physician," "The Humorist," &c. is preparing for publication a new annual, entitled "Christmas Tales, Historical and Domestic," illustrated with engravings. The volume will consist of a series of original tales in prose, some of which, founded on historical fact, are designed to illustrate the characters of persons who have played prominent parts in the great theatre of the world, while others attempt to depict feelings and events which spring out of domestic life. Speedily will be published, "The Puritan's Grave," 3 vols. by the author of "The Usurer's Daughter." "The Siege of Maynooth, or Romance in Ireland," in 2 vols. is in a state of forwardness for publication. Mr. Taylor has a "Life of Cowper" nearly ready for publication, which will contain a complete view of the Poet's religious character; together with a variety of interesting information respecting some parts of his personal history, not before generally known or correctly appreciated. "Friendship's Offering" (the oldest but one of the English Annuals) has this season added the talent and interest of the "Winter's Wreath" to its other attractions,-the latter work being now combined with it. It will appear on the 1st of November in its usual style of elegant binding, and with a grand array of highly-finished Engravings by the first Artists, while its carefully-selected literature will comprise Contributions from the most popular and eminent writers. The "Comic Offering," edited by Miss Sheridan, will be published at the same time, embellished with upwards of Sixty most humorous Designs by various Comic Artists, and enriched with facetious Contributions. Captain Head's "Overland Journey from India" is now nearly ready for publication, in large folio, with elegant Plates illustrative of India, Arabian and Egyptian Scenery, accompanied by accurate Plans and Maps. "The Scripture Manual; or, a Guide to the proper Study and Elucidation of the Holy Scriptures, by a new and corrected arrangement of all those corresponding passages, dispersed throughout the Bible, which relate to the most important subjects, classed under appropriate heads, and in alphabetical order," is in the press. In the press, with Twenty-six splendid Illustrations, from Drawings by D. Roberts, Esq. engraved by the most accomplished Artists, "The Pilgrims of the Rhine," by the Author of "Pelham," &c. &c. Lord and Lady Nugent announce a work under the title of "Legends of the Library at Lilies." With Engravings, the "History of the Scottish Church, Rotterdam; with Notices of the other British Churches in the Netherlands, and a brief View of the Dutch Ecclesiastical Establishment." By, the Rev. William Stevens, M.A. Junior Minister of the Scottish Church at Rotterdam. This work, we understand, is drawn up from original and hitherto unpublished documents. The late Rev. Dr. Adam Clarke had gone a considerable way in preparing his Autobiography for publication; and we are informed that his second son, the clergyman, to whom he has bequeathed his MSS., is finishing it for the press. Proposals are issued for publishing, by subscription, "Notitiæ Lude, or Notices of Louth, Lincolnshire," with Engravings. "The Emigrant's Tale, with other Poems," by James Bird, Author of "Framlingham," &c. "Fisher's Drawing-room Scrap-book for 1833, with Poetical Illustrations by L. E. L. ;" and containing thirty-six plates. "Heath's Picturesque Annual for 1833," with twenty-six plates, from drawings by Stanfield; with Travelling Sketches on the Rhine, in Belgium, and in Holland, by Leitch Ritchie. "The Keepsake, for 1833." "The Literary Souvenir for 1833," edited by A. A. Watts. "The New-Year's Gift and Juvenile Souvenir, for 1833," edited by Mrs. Watts. Lord Nugent has in the press a Letter to Mr. Murray, touching the review of his "Memorials of Hampden," in the last number of the " "Quarterly Review." Another weekly Journal is announced, in German and English, to be entitled " Germania;" and to contain a record of the progress of Society, and of Science, Literature, and the Fine Arts. The prospectus breathes highly liberal principles. "The Amulet, for 1833," the eighth of the series, is announced for publication early in November. Among the embellishments are prints from Lawrence's pictures of the Duchess of Richmond, and John Kemble, as Cato; the other engravings are from paintings by Wilkie, Newton, Mulready, &c. &c. The literary portion of the work will, as heretofore, consist chiefly of articles of permanent interest and value. The Juvenile Forget-Me-Not," edited by Mrs. S. C. Hall, will be this year published under the joint auspices of Mr. Ackermann, and Messrs. Westley and Davis. It will contain several fine engravings on steel, and the literary contents will be as usual from the pens of the most eminent writers for the young. "The Buccaneer," a Tale, by Mrs. S. C. Hall, is announced for publication on the 1st of November. The oldest of our Annuals, "Forget Me Not," will, we are assured, possess this year very strong claims to public favour. The names of the artists, including Martin, Leslie, Prout, Barrett, Richter, Buss, W. and E. Finden, Rolls, Carter, &c. &c. sufficiently vouch for the high character of the embellishments; and the literary department embraces, as usual, those of many of the most popular writers of the day. BIOGRAPHICAL PARTICULARS OF CELEBRATED PERSONS, LATELY DECEASED. SIR EVERARD HOME. Sir Everard Home died at his apartments in Chelsea College. He was one of the most eminent medical men of his day. He was of ancient Scottish lineage, and at an early age embraced the profession of physic, which he practised with the greatest success in the metropolis for more than forty years. The publications of the baronet were voluminous, and of high repute. Among his valuable works were Lectures on Comparative Anatomy," in which are explained the preparations in the Hunterian Collection, illustrated by 171 engravings; " Hunterian Oration" in honor of surgery, and in memory of those practitioners by whose labours it has been advanced, delivered in the theatre of the College, February, 14, 1814; " Practical Observations on the Treatment of Stricture in the Urethra and in the Esophagus," 3 vols. 8vo. Besides these, Sir Everard contributed largely to the Philosophical Transactions, and a variety of ably-written articles to the medical periodicals of the day. His late Majesty, when Prince Regent, raised him to the dignity of a baronet, by the title of Sir Everard Home, of Well Manor Farm, in the county of Southampton, and also conferred on him the appointment of Serjeant-surgeon, in which office he was continued by the present King. His successor to this office is Benj. Charles Brodie, Esq. Sir Everard was also Surgeon to Chelsea Hospital, Honorary Professor of Anatomy and Surgery to the Royal College of Surgeons; for many years he was elected to the Presidentship of the College. Sir Everard was in his 77th year, having been born in 1756. He is succeeded in the baronetcy by his eldest son, James Everrad (now Sir Jas. Everard Home,) a Commander in the Royal Navy. PRISCILLA WAKEFIELD. On the 12th September, in her 82d year, Priscilla Wakefield, author of many justly popular works for children, and young persons, as well as one of the earliest promoters, if not the original promoter, of those Provident Institutions for the labouring classes, now so generally known under the name of Savings Banks. She had been for several years, almost a helpless and hopeless sufferer from bodily infirmity; yet for a considerable period after she became such, her mental faculties remained unimpaired, her spirits unbroken, and the ardour of her benevolent sympathies unchilled : and although the exercise and influence of these had been gradually overclouded, and of late totally extinguished-so that a great proportion of the present generation was, perhaps, hardly aware of her painfully protracted existence-society is far too much her debtor to allow of her death being recorded in our Obituary, without this brief tribute to her memory, as one of the benefactors of the human race. She was the eldest daughter of Daniel Bell, late of Stamford-hill, and Catherine Barclay, grand-daughter of the celebrated Robert Barclay, who wrote the famous "Apology for the Quakers." She was born on the 31st of Jan. 1751, in the village of Tottenham, and married Mr. Edward Wakefield, merchant of London, on the 3d of Jan. 1771, by whom she had three children, one daughter and two sons. Among her numerous relatives she had the felicity of ranking Mrs. Fry, to whom she was aunt. She was born a remained in it from principle. In her member of the Society of Friends, and private character, whether as a daughter, mother, or grandmother, she was exemplary; in her disposition remarkably calm and cheerful, bearing with great patience an accumulation of extreme bodily suffering: indeed her whole conduct discovered an energy, philosophy, meekness, and resignation rarely to be met with. SIR ALBERT PELL.. Sir Albert Pell died at his house in Harley-street, on the 6th September. His death has occasioned a vacancy in the office of one of the Judges of the Bankruptcy Court, to which he was appointed by the Lord Chancellor, in December last, when he received the honour of Knighthood. Sir Albert Pell at an early period of his life betook himself to the profession of the law, and for many years he appeared as Counsel in most of the eminent cases brought into the Court of Common Pleas. He was also leading Counsel on the Western Circuit, where he acquired both fame and fortune, and retired with a handsome competency from the active practice of his profession about seven years back. He was an active and intelligent Magistrate for the County of Middlesex, and his po litical predilections were those of the present Administration. He possessed considerable powers of eloquence, and at County Meetings, and at the Meetings of 1832. David Blaikie, Esq.-Rev. Dr. Adam Clarke. the Magistrates at Clerkenwell, he was always a prominent and able speaker. Sir Albert Pell was connected with the noble family of St. John, having united himself in 1813, to the Hon. Margaret Letitia Matilda St. John, third daughter of Henry Beauchamp, fourteenth Lord St. John of Bletso, by which lady, who survives him, he has left a numerous family. Until the appointment of Sir Albert to the Bankruptcy Court, he chiefly resided at his pleasant villa on Pinner-hill. DAVID BLAIKIE, ESQ. 461 beauty in the sufferer, or the survivors-no poor human weakness which may not find some strength either in itself or others to lean upon, and to comfort the common hopes of mankind. We understand, from authority which we cannot doubt, that Mr. Jerdan, in this distressing narrative, has omitted what it became his modesty perhaps so to treat, but which it is assuredly the business of all lovers of generosity and right good fellowship to supply. He found his friend Mr. Blaikie ill of this appalling, and, perhaps, infectious disease, and he stuck by him nevertheless to the last. Mr. Blaikie, we understand, died in his arms. He then takes the widow home to his house, thinking nothing of the uneasiness and inconveniences which less cordial natures might have taken into account; sees her safe through her new trouble; and is setting out on the melancholy office of attending his friend to his last home, when another friend is seized On the 3rd of September, died of cholera, David Blaikie, Esq. He had been residing with his family at Kensington for several months past, intending to follow out the profession of a solicitor, in by the destroyer, and in five hours' time is added which he had already obtained extensive and increasing practice. He had been for many years a Writer to the Signet, in which profession he held a most respectable station. About six years ago, he started the "Edinburgh Evening Post," of which he continued proprietor till November, 1829; and in that capacity, it is but justice to state, that he gave an impetus to the periodical press of Scotland, productive of the greatest benefit to the public. He afterwards purchased the copyright of the" Edinburgh Weekly Chronicle," and on both papers, but more particularly on the " Post," he projected such improvements, in both the mechanical and literary departments, as to render them equal, if not superior, to the most ambitious of their contemporaries. Having obtained facilities, possessed, perhaps, by no other newspaper propri etor, he originated the "Edinburgh Literary Gazette," and, in the face of insuperable difficulties, continued it for nearly two years, when ample experience proved that for such a work, however ably conducted, there was no field in Scotland. In these attempts, Mr. Blaikie expended a respectable fortune. Mr. Blaikie's widow having, on the death of her husband, been removed to Mr. Jerdan's house, the Grove, Brompton, was shortly afterwards confined, and in twelve hours from the period of Mr. Blaikie's interment she was delivered of a daughter! We quote from an evening paper, the "True Sun," the following statement with respect to Mr. Jerdan; honourable not only to Mr. Jerdan in an eminent degree, as far as the facts are concerned, but honourable to the "True Sun" as regards its feeling towards Mr. Jerdan : "Fortunately in this universe there is no shadow without light; there is no calamity, not the greatest, but which gives occasion to some moral to the list of his regrets. "The writer of this article has had occasion, in the course of his life, to differ much with Mr. Jerdan, and to be differed with by him. All idea of ill-will has long been done away, we trust, on either side, from a knowledge that on neither side was there any real ill-blood. But an instance of genuine feeling like this, with or without the numerous testimonies we have heard to this gentleman's natural kind-heartedness, places him at once, we beg leave to say, in a high rank in our respect. Such men are good Samaritans, above all subjection to conclusions from party creeds, or infirmities common to every body. The only value of whatsoever improves society is to make such men, and to make them happy; and if Mr. Jerdan, in all probability, is not exempt from the troubles common to most of us, he has assuredly this consolation within him,that he must believe in the existence of what is good and kind, because he has it in his own heart." REV. DR. ADAM CLARKE. He Dr. Clarke was born in the county of Londonderry, Ireland, in the year 1763. He was early distinguished for the seriousness of his disposition. His boyhood was spent in acquiring the rudiments of a classical education, and in attending to the concerns of his father's farm. was afterwards placed with Mr. Bennett, a large linen-manufacturer; but feeling more inclined to a life of literary pursuits and ministerial labours, he soon left that gentleman. He was introduced by letter to the Rev. John Wesley, and became a student of the school at Kingswood. Here his talents were soon recog nised, and Mr. Wesley sent him out as an itinerant preacher at the age of 18. His youthful appearance gave an air of interest to his ministrations, which were attended by great numbers, who flocked to hear" the boy-preacher." We cannot follow him through the long course of his public labours: a few more general particulars may be added. His know ledge of languages (especially the Oriental) was extensive and profound. This is evinced (were other testimony wanting) in his Commentary on the Scriptures-a work, in some respects, surpassing all others of its kind. His library was rich in biblical MSS., exceeding, it is said, in extent and value, those in the Duke of Sussex's collection. The Duke, we have heard, used frequently to visit Dr. Clarke in a friendly way, and even to take a pipe in his house-a privilege permitted by the Doctor (who was a resolute enemy to the use of tobacco) to no other man. Dr. C. was remarkable as a student and a father, for the perfect ease with which he could make a translation from one character to the other. The learned linguist, poring over some ancient scroll, and thence deducing matter for framing theories or confirming arguments, would be found, five minutes after, sporting in the midst of his children, with all the wild exuberance of boyish glee. The great charm, in fact, of his society, was his simplicity and playfulness of disposition, producing in him a character which united two seemingly opposite qualities-that of comprehend ing the great without neglecting the little. He was made M.A. in 1805, and D.D. in 1806. SIR ISRAEL PELLEW, K.C.B. Died, on the 19th June, at his residence in Plymouth, in the 73d year of his age, after a lingering and painful illness, Sir Israel Pellew, Knight Commander of the Most Honourable and Military Order of the Bath, and Admiral of the Blue Squadron of his Majesty's Fleet. Left fatherless at a very early age, Sir Israel, following the example of his elder brother, now Lord Viscount Exmouth, immediately embraced the naval profession, and first went to sea about the year 1772. He served as a midshipman both before and during the American war, in which he distinguished himself by his spirited conduct. On the memorable occasion when the American army passed over from Long Island to New York, escorted by the French fleet under Count D'Estaign, he was entrusted with the command of a fort manned by seamen, which he defended with great resolution, though surrounded by the enemy, until he was re-called, when, notwithstanding the superiority of numbers by which he was opposed, he succeeded in making good his retreat to his ship. In reward of his services on this and other occasions during the war, he was promoted, on his return to England, to the rank of Lieutenant, and was afterwards appointed to the command of the Resolution cutter. Whilst in this vessel, he received orders to cruise off Yarmouth for the purpose of intercepting an enemy's privateer, which had greatly impeded the trade in that quarter. Having at length fallen in with her, though of much inferior force, he immediately brought her to action, and after a severe engagement, in which her captain, and many of her crew were killed, succeeded in capturing her. On his carrying his prize into Hull, the merchants of that port presented a memorial to the Lords of the Admiralty through the Trinity Board, strongly recommending him for promotion. Lord Keppel, however, who presided at the Board of Admiralty at that time, did not accede to the application, in consequence of the war having terminated on the very day on which the action was fought; but he marked his approbation of Mr. Pellew's conduct by continuing him for three years in command of the cutter on the peace establishment. He was shortly after called to encounter another enemy, for, in 1793, we find him on board his brother's ship La Nymphe, and commanding as a volunteer the main-deck guns at the capture of the French frigate Cleopatra-for his services on that occasion he was promoted to the rank of Post-Captain, whilst his brother received the honour of knighthood. From that period until the short peace of 1802, Captain Pellew was actively employed in the West Indies and on other stations; commanding successively the Squirrel, of 24 guns; the Amphion, 32; the Cleopatra, 32; and the Greyhound, 32, from which ship he was sent on shore by the misguided seamen in the general and disgraceful mutiny of 1797, having, with many more of the best officers in the service, made himself obnoxious to his crew by a firm and uncompromising resistance to their lawless and violent demands: at the termination of the mutiny he refused to rejoin that frigate, and was appointed to a finer ship, the Cleopatra. He was on board the Amphion when, in 1796, that vessel, with 250 individuals, blew up, of whom nearly the whole perished; Captain Pellew escaped with little injury, though all that were sitting with him at his own table were lost. On the renewal of hostilities in 1803, Captain Pellew was appointed to the command of the Conqueror, 74 guns, in which ship he was most actively employed for several years. He formed one of the staunch and intrepid little pack which shared with our immortal Nelson the glorious excitement of that animated chase, in which, with but twelve sail of twodeckers, he drove before him the combined fleets of France and Spain, consisting of twenty sail of the line, including one four and several three-decked ships, from the Pillars of Hercules across the Atlantic to the West Indies, and thence in the utmost confusion back to their own harbours. Captain Pellew was shortly afterwards recompensed for this harassing and unexampled pursuit by contributing to the victory off the Cape of Trafalgar. On that occasion, the Conqueror was the fourth ship in the weather line led by the heroic Nelson, and, during the confusion of the conflict, a Lieutenant sent in a boat from that ship was the first person who boarded the Bucentaur, with which ship the Conqueror was much and closely engaged, and received the sword of Admiral Villeneuve, which he conveyed to Captain Pellew, who immediately sent it to the Commander-in-Chief. For his services in that action, Captain Pellew received a sword from the Patriotic Fund, value 100 guineas, and the Naval Medal of Merit, and was subsequently rewarded with the Red Ribbon of the Most Honourable and Military Order of the Bath. In 1810, when Sir Edward Pellew took the command of the Fleet in the Mediterranean, the subject of this Memoir, then recently promoted to the rank of Rear-Admiral, accompanied his brother in the capacity of Captain of the Fleet, an office rendered necessary by the extent of the command, and the number of the fleet, which consisted at that time of about 40 sail of the line, and 70 pendants. In this situation the RearAdmiral was present at several skirmishes with the French fleet at the mouth of the harbour of Toulon; took a part in the capture of Genoa by the joint operations of the Naval and Military forces, and was otherwise usefully and actively employed, until the peace of 1814 restored him for a short time to the blessings of domestic life. The return of Napoleon from Elba, however, rendering the presence of an imposing Naval force in the Mediterranean again necessary, the same Commander-in-Chief was appointed, and Sir Israel also resumed his former office. During the short campaign of 1815, the fleet in which Sir Israel served co-operated with the Austrian army in the сарture of Naples, and afterwards sailing to Marseilles retained military possession of that city, and of the defiles in its neighbourhood, and thus kept in check an army at Toulon, under the command of Marshal Massena, until the final overthrow of Napoleon. Sir Israel was subsequently employed in the squadron which visited the Barbary States to demand redress for the injuries suffered by Europeans from the ravages of the piratical Africans. Since this period until his death, Sir Israel resided in the bosom of his family, gratefully enjoying the fruits of his labours; kind, charitable, and affectionate to all around him-loyal to his King and faithful to his God. REV. DR. ROBERTSON. The Rev. Dr. Robertson, one of the Ministers of South Leith, died of cholera, after an illness of twenty-four hours, in the 75th year of his age, and 50th of his ministry. Dr. Robertson commenced his public career in the year 1781, as assistant to Dr. Cross, who was then minister of the Tron Church, Glasgow. Young and inexperienced as he then was, the congrega tion amongst whom he laboured beheld in him the indications of future excellence. They judged of the likely character of the harvest from the appearance of the first fruits, and had their expressed wishes been attended to, he would have been appointed successor to the charge. But the Magistrates of Glasgow had not then broken in upon the custom of only appointing ordained clergymen to the city churches, and their suit was denied. In 1783, he was ordained assistant to the Rev. Mr. Thomson of St. Ninian's, where, for four years, he discharged, with much acceptance, the duties of the pastoral office. In 1787, he was appointed to the church of Gargunnock. In that parish he laboured for 17 years. In December, 1804, he was, with the general approbation of the people, translated to the second charge of South Leith. The manner in which he discharged the duties of the pastoral office in that extensive parish, till within a short period of his death, amply justified the favourable opinion which had been formed of his character and talents. He was an able and affectionate preacher, simple in his style and manner, and clear in his illustration of doctrine and duty. But excellent as he was in his pulpit ministrations, it was only in the intercourse of domestic life, that his worth, as a man, could be duly appreciated. He was especially attentive to the sick and the afflicted. Wherever sickness was, there was he to be found, directing the sufferer to the physician of souls, and preparing him, by the consolations of religion, for whatever might be the issue of trouble. It was ordered by Providence that he should finish his la bours, and his long and useful life in that district of country where he had spent the prime of his days, and where his |