DEATHS.-June. Mickleham having become vacant on his preferment, he was again presented to it, and instituted Sept. 7, 1802. In 1804 he published a plain, energetic "Sermon, preached at St. Nicholas, Deptford, June 6, 1803, before the Trinity Brethren." The substance of seven lectures on the Liturgy, which he delivered at St. James's in February and March 1809, occupies thirty-four pages of "The Pulpit, by Onesimus," vol. i. 8vo. 1809. In that year, through the influence of Mr. Perceval, then prime minister, he was elected dean of Canterbury; and he thereupon finally left Mickleham. In 1812, on the translation of bishop Sparke, he was offered by lord Liverpool, the bishoprick of Chester, but declined it on the plea of his advancing years. In the pulpit he was argumentative but not impassioned, conclusive but not eloquent, a good rather than a great preacher. He was often striking, but seldom moving. All that human information suggests or human ingenuity can devise, in aid of truth, elucidatory, or confirmatory, presented itself readily to his mind, and was impressed by him on the minds of his hearers. He was therefore fond of illustrating the evidences of religion; and of enforcing, from motives of propriety or expediency, the practice of the moral duties. Sometimes he rose into considerable animation; and he uniformly secured attention. -In Gloucester-place, aged 86, sir William Weller Pepys, bart. He was descended from sir Richard Pepys, made lord chief justice of the King's-bench, in Ireland, in 1664. Samuel Pepys, secretary to the admiralty, whose lively memoirs are now entertaining the public, was also of this family. The deceased was son of William Pepys, esq. (sixth in descent from William Pepys of Cottenham, Cambridgeshire), by Hannah, relict of A. Weller, esq.; and brother to sir Lucas Pepys, the king's physician, who married in 1772 the late count ess of Rothes, and who was created a baronet in 1783. Sir William was a grand compounder for the degree of M. A. at Christ Church College, Oxford, December 17, 1766; he was formerly a master in Chancery, was created a baronet of London June 23, 1801, and was a vicepresident of the incorporated Literary-fund Society. He married Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the late right hon. Wm. Dowdeswell, chancellor of the exchequer, and had issue by her, three sons, William Weller, A. M. of Trinity College, Cambridge, who has succeeded to the title; Christopher Charles, of the same college, married June 30, 1821, Elizabeth, daughter of Wm. Wingfield, esq. of Lincoln's-inn; Henry, formerly fellow of St. John'scollege, Cambridge, and now rector of Aspeden, Herts, married Jan. 27, 1824, Maria, daughter of the right hon. John Sullivan; and three daughters, Maria Elizabeth; Sophia Isabella, wife of rev. Thomas Whateley, vicar of Cookham, Berks; and Louisa Anne. 3. At the residence of his son, at Walthamstow, Daniel Britten, esq. of Homerton, aged 76. At Pertenhall rectory, Bedfordshire aged 89 years and eight months, the rev. Thomas Martyn, B. D. F. R. S. rector of that place, perpetual curate of Edgware, Midlesex, and for sixty-four years professor of Botany in the univer sity of Cambridge. He was the eldest of the three sons of John Martyn, M. D., also professor of Botany at Cambridge, and a physician resident at Chelsea, by Eutalia, youngest daughter of John King, D.D. rector of that place, and prebendary of York. He was educated under the rev. Mr. Rothery, at Chelsea, and thence admitted a pensioner, or in the second rank of under-graduates, of Emanuel College, Cambridge; but after taking the degree of B. A. in 1756, he removed to Sidney Sussex College, under the following circumstances. The buildings of that DEATHS.-JUNE. ex institution having become con- seur," 2 vols. 12mo., and in 1768 a siderably dilapidated, some tensive repairs were required; but the finances necessary for their completion being dilapidated also, Dr. Parris, the master, was compelled to have recourse to the sequestration of several fellowships. When the evil was removed, a new society was to be formed, and, as young men properly qualified were not to be found in the college, aliens of the most distinguished merit were sought from other foundations. Mr. Martyn was accordingly invited to Sidney, and elected a fellow thereof, about the same time as the late master, Dr. Elliston, and the venerable Dr. Hey. Mr. Martyn proceeded M. A. in 1759; and in 1761, when his father, after having most ably filled the botanical chair for thirty years, resigning it, the son was chosen to succeed him; and on the election of Dr. Elliston to the mastership, he was appointed one of the tutors of the College. In both offices he exerted his talents with assiduity; as professor he read lectures in English instead of Latin, and subsequently voluntarily extended his duties to the illustration of the animal and mineral kingdoms as far as they are connected with Botany. In 1763, he published his first works: "Plantæ Cantabrigienses", or a Catalogue of the Plants which grow wild in the County of Cambridge, disposed according to the System of Linnæus; "Herbationes Cantabrigienses," or directions to the places where they may be found, comprehended in three botanical excursions; to which are added, Lists of the more rare Plants growing in many parts of England and Wales, 8vo.; and "A short Account of the Donation of a Botanic Garden to the University by Dr. Walker, Vice-Master of Trinity College, with rules and orders for the government of it," 4to. In 1764 he served proctor for the university; and in 1766 he proceeded B. D. In the latter year he published "The English Connois "Sermon for the benefit of Addenbrooke's Hospital." In the same year he lost his father, and the two following were spent on a work which should perpetuate that father's memory. This was editing the doctor's learned "Dissertations and Critical Remarks on the Æneid of Virgil," containing among other interesting particulars, a full vindication of the poet from the charge of an anachronism with regard to the foundation of Carthage. To this work, which was published in 12mo, 1770, he prefixed a life of the author, and a complete catalogue of his works, accompanied by notices of other branches of his family, and numerous literary characters, as specified in " Nichols's Literary Anecdotes," vol. iii. p. 157. In 1771 he produced a "Catalogus Horti Cantabrigiensis," Svo.; and in the following year a second edition, accompanied by his Botanical Lectures, and a plan of the Garden. In 1771 he was presented to the rectory of Ludgershall, Bucks, a living in the patronage of his own family, which he retained till 1785; and soon after he married Miss Elliston, sister to his friend the master of Sidney, and aunt to the manager of Drury-Lane theatre. This lady survives him, with one son, who has become a Moravian minister. The latter has, however, a large family, one of whom, regularly educated for the church, will probably be hereafter presented to Pertenhall. In 1773 appeared in 4to, "The Antiquities of Herculaneum," translated from the Italian, by Thomas Martyn and John Lettice, bachelors of divinity, and fellows of Sidney College, Cambridge. Vol. i. containing the Pictures. On this laborious work Mr. Martyn and his coadjutor (now D. D. and vicar of Peasemarsh, in Sussex) had been employed for five years. The original had been printed at the expense of his Neapolitan majesty, and his royal jealousy was unaccountably excited by the DEATHS.-June. English translation, which he imagined was the production of the university of Cambridge as a body, and would injure the sale of his own work. His majesty accordingly was pleased to order, that, instead of the high price it was before sold at, the original, in order to undersell the translators, should be sold considerably under its prime cost. Nor did the translators meet with the encouragement they expected in their own country; so the work was discontinued, though it was announced in the preface to the first volume, that the translations and the engravings were at length finished. Mr. Martyn's next work was, "Elements of Natural History, 1775," 8vo. On the 23rd December 1776, he was preferred to the vicarage of Little Marlow, Bucks, by his pupil, admiral sir John Borlase Warren, bart. At this, or probably an earlier period, Mr. Martyn resided at Triplow, near Cambridge, engaged as private tutor to four or five young men of fortune. On August 6, 1777, the rev. Mr. Tyson wrote to Mr. Gough :"Martyn is about a Flora Cantabrigiensis, to be published next spring. I have the sheets to make additions to, and to correct." Whether this work was actually published, or the materials incorporated in another work, does not appear. In 1785 he published in 8vo. a "Translation of Rousseau's Letters on the Elements of Botany, accompanied by additional Letters;" a second edition appeared in 1787. In the latter year he was presented by the earl of Coventry to the perpetual curacy of Edgware, which he retained till his death. In 1778 he edited "Thirty-eight Plates, drawn and engraved by F. Nodder, Botanical Painter to his Majesty, with explanations to illustrate the Linnæan System of Vegetables, and particularly adapted to the Letters on the Elements of Botany," 8vo. The professor occasionally attended on queen Charlotte in the gardens at Kew. About this time Mr. Martyn VOL. LXVII. accompanied through France, Switzerland, and Italy, Mr. Hartopp Wigley, of Dalby-hall, Leicestershire, who was another of his pupils. These travels produced from the professor three publications: "A Sketch of a Tour through Switzerland," &c. 1787, 8vo. ; a new edition (the ninth) of " The Gentleman's Guide in his Tour through France," &c. 1787, 8vo.; and a most useful "Tour through Italy," 1791, 8vo. The latter contains full directions for travelling in that interesting country, ample catalogues of every thing curious in Architecture, Painting, Sculpture, &c.; some observations on the Natural History, and very particular descriptions of the four principal cities, Rome, Florence, Naples, and Venice, with their environs ;" and a coloured Chart. After his return, Mr. Martyn resided about three years on his living at Little Marlow, and during that time issued his "Flora Rustica,' 2 vols. 1792-4; and first published. his " Language of Botany, being a Dictionary of the terms made use of in that Science, principally by Linnæus, with familiar explanations, and an attempt to establish significant English terms," 1793, 8vo. second edition 1796, third edition 1807. A "Description of Hemanthus Multiflorus," with an engraving, appeared as a separate 8vo. pamphlet. From Little Marlow the professor removed to London, on accepting the honorary office of secretary to the society for the improvement of naval architecture. But Mr. Martyn's grand labour was a much improved edition of "Miller's Gardener's and Botanist's Dictionary," in 4 vols. folio, 1803-7, dedicated to sir Joseph Banks. To this he for the first time added "A complete Enumeration and Description of all Plants hitherto known, with their generic and specific characters, places of growth, times of flowering, and uses, both medicinal and economical; with the addition of all the modern improvements in Landscape Gardening, and in the S 66 DEATHS.-JUNE. culture of trees, plants, and fruits, particularly in the various kinds of hot-houses and forcing frames." At one time Mr. Martyn intended to reprint Stillingfleet's Miscellaneous Tracts," but this was prevented by more important avocations. The task was, however, afterwards ably performed by Mr. Archdeacon Coxe. In 1818 he removed to Pertenhall, the place of his decease, being presented to that rectory (a family living), by the rev. John King Martyn. 3. At Newcastle, advanced in years, Mary, daughter of J. Cook, esq. of Togston, and widow of Henry Scott, esq. merchant, brother of the lord chancellor and lord Stowell, who died December 8, 1779, aged 51. They had an only daughter, married July 8, 1794, to Joseph Forster, esq. of Seaton Burn. 5. In Conduit-street, aged 56, sir Henry-Carr Ibbetson, bart. of Denton-park, Yorkshire. At his seat, Langley-park, Buckinghamshire, sir Robert Bateson Harvey, bart., in the 78th year of his age. At his house, Cavendishsquare, John Bourdieu, esq. 7. In Stratton-street, Caroline, eldest daughter of colonel and lady Caroline Wood, in the 22nd year of her age. At Cheltenham, in his 67th year, sir John Walsh, bart. of Warfieldworth, county of Berks. 8. At Woolwich, Sophia Mary, wife of B. W. Roberts, esq. surgeon general Royal Artillery, and daughter of the late sir George Bolton, of Tutshill, Gloucestershire. 9. At the Borghese-palace, near Florence, after a long and painful illness, the princess Paulina Borghese, sister to Napoleon Buonaparte. She has left a will, in which, after deducting the legal part devolving to her mother, Letitia Buonaparte, she appoints her two brothers, the count of St. Leu (Louis), and the prince of Montfort (Jerome), her principal heirs. To Lucien she bequeaths only her pardon for his treatment of her. The daughters 9. At the house of H. Villebois, square, in his 82nd DEATHS.-JUNE. nings, the learned author of a work on Jewish antiquities, and Mr. (afterwards Dr. Samuel Morton) Savage. Here he made such proficiency, especially in the mathematics, that, a vacancy occurring in that department of tuition, he was appointed by the trustees of the institution to fill it, before his regular term of study was completed. In this arduous situation he gave so much satisfaction, that he was soon after chosen to the more responsible office of resident tutor, which he continued to hold for 23 years, to the credit of the academy and the great advantage of the dissenting cause. On his resignation the academy was dissolved, which he always lamented as an event most injurious to the interests of the dissenters, especially in and about the metropolis. For some time Dr. Rees officiated only as an occasional preacher. At length, in July, 1768, he was unanimously elected to succeed the rev. Mr. Read as pastor of the presbyterian congregation, St. Thomas's, Southwark; a connexion of which he was always accustomed to speak with pleasure. He remained in this situation 15 years, and the congregation flourished under his ministry. At the end of that term, he was invited to become minister of the congregation of Jewin-street, then assembling in the Old Jewry, in a place consecrated by the labours of a succession of eminently pious men, nearly the last of whom was the highly-gifted and learned Dr. Chandler. From various causes, the congregation had much declined, and it was judged (wisely as appear ed by the event), that Dr. Rees would revive its prosperity. With this hope, and without any calculation of an increase of emolument, he accepted the invitation, and from 1783 to the period of his death, continued to labour with unquestionable and increasing success. During a period of some years he was engaged with his friend, the late eloquent Hugh Worthington, The in delivering winter evening lectures at Salters'-hall, by means of which his usefulness and reputation as a preacher were much extended. For a short time he was tutor of Hebrew and of the mathematics in the new college at Hackney, which was set on foot with great liberality and high expectations, but by the operation of many adverse causes soon declined and fell, to the mortification of its patrons and the lasting regret of the liberal dissenters. It was in 1781 that the first numbers of "Chambers's Encyclopædia," edited by Dr. Rees, appeared; and that edition was completed in four volumes folio, in 1786. He was about that time elected a fellow of the Royal Society; and at different periods his eminent attainments received similar tokens of respect from other public bodies. university of Edinburgh conferred on him the degree of D. D. from the spontaneous recommendation of Dr. Robertson the historian, at that time principal. He was chosen a fellow of the Linnæan society soon after its institution. More recently he was made an honorary fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and was besides an honorary member of some foreign literary and scientific institutions. Before embarking in the vast undertaking of a new Cyclopædia, Dr. Rees published several single sermons, some of which were the following: "A Sermon on the Obligation and Importance of Searching the Scriptures," 8vo. "The Advantages of Knowledge, a Sermon preached before the Supporters of the New College at Hackney," 1788, 8vo. "Two Sermons, preached at Cambridge on the Death of the rev. Robert Robinson," 1790. Funeral Sermon on the Death of Dr. Roger Flexman," 1795. Another, "On the Death of Dr. Kippis," 1795. "The Privileges of Britain, a Sermon on the Thanksgiving Day," Nov. 29, 1798. "Economy illustrated and recommended, and a caution against Modern Infidelity, "A |