1822.] Memoir of Lieut.-Gen. Sir H. A. M. Cosby, Knt. under General Smith at the second siege of Tanjore; which being at last carried by assault, after a passage had been effected over the ditch, he was deputed by the General to treat with the Rajah, who had (on the breach being carried) retired into his palace, and appeared to be determined to defend himself in that position to the last. Colonel Cosby, accompanied by an interpreter only, was admitted to his presence. In attaining this, Colonel Cosby had to pass through several intricate passages filled with the Rajah's adherents, who it seems had devoted themselves to share the fate of their Chief, and which their gloomy but determined countenances seemed strongly to indicate their being prepared to do. The Colonel found the Rajah in a small chamber, with a few of his most confidential friends. The interview was solemn and impressive, but it did not take much time to convince the Rajab of the imprudence of further resistance. Colonel Cosby assured him he was fully authorized to promise him not only that his life would be guaranteed by the English, but that every delicacy and respect should be observed to him, the females, and rest of his family: the Colonel reminded him of General Smith's well-known honourable character. The Rajah, after sighing once or twice, asked Colonel Cosby if he would swear by the sword he held in his hand to the truth of the statement, and that he was properly authorized to afford protection. The reply being in the affirmative, the Rajah arose, said he was satisfied, and gave orders to his people to lay down their arms, for he relied on the honour of the English. On this, proper guards were immediately ap pointed by Colonel Cosby for the protection of the Palace, &c. &c. In 1775 Colonel Cosby, being still Adjutant-General, was sent to England with Dispatches of a confidential nature from the Commander-in-Chief, accompanied with the highest testimonials to his zeal, abilities, and merit as an officer. Colonel Cosby returned to his station at Madras in 1777. A few weeks after his return (although somewhat out of the usage of the army, being still Adjutant-General,) he was appointed by the Government of Madras, to command a force consisting of three battalions of Native Infantry, with their field train, a battalion of the Nabob's troops, some cavalry, and an irregular force of the Calastry and the Ventitagherry Rajahs, to act against Bom Rauze, a Rajah of the first consideration, possessing an extensive tract of country, about 90 miles N. W. of Madras. This country had never yet been penetrated with the 181 least success by hostile arms, and had withstood very serious attacks both of Hyder's and of the Mahrattas,which it was enabled to do from its natural strength and local advantages for defence. The capital of the country was in the midst of high hills, and the whole face of the country was covered and intersected by woods and ravines; nor were batteries of cannon wanting to strengthen its defences, with a large body of brave men to avail themselves of these advantages. Still such was the superiority of English discipline, and the tactics brought into play on this service, that whilst diverting the attention of the enemy by false demonstrations, and turning their flanks, others were making more serious attacks on their principal barriers. From these they were driven one after the other, until our troops gained such a footing in the country, as to alarm and thereby cause a fluctuation of opinion among their chiefs, as to the probable success of further resistance; and which ultimately induced the Rajah to capitulate and agree to the terms settled by our ally the Nabob of Arcot (whose tributary he was), as those on which he would be permitted to retain his situa tion. He admitted Colonel Cosby to take possession of Cavaretty, his capital, until every thing was adjusted, and military roads cut through the country. The loss on the side of the English was very trifling; the Colonel had a narrow escape, his orderly Serjeant being killed close to him. The whole business was accomplished in six weeks, and Colonel Cosby received the thanks of the Madras Government on the occasion, for his celerity, enterprise, and judgment; and it ended opportunely, for the rainy season set in soon after. In 1778, intelligence being received at Madras by an overland dispatch, of the breaking out of war between Great Britain and France, the army on the coast of Coromandel was ordered to take the Field for the purpose of attacking Pondicherry. Lieutenant-Colonel Cosby being still Adjutant-General, had shortly before (in consequence of an application to the Government from the Nabob of Arcot) been appointed Commander of all the Nabob's regular Cavalry, then consisting of seven regiments, 550 each, with 200 Light Infantry, 40 artillery-men, and four six-pounders attached to each regiment, forming in all a most complete legion of 5,180 men, and 28 pieces of cannon. Although this ap. pointment was of itself of sufficient consequence to call for all Cosby's exertion; yet, at the particular request of the Commander-in-Chief, Sir Hector Munro, Colonel Cosby readily agreed to act in both 182 Lieut.-Col. James Chisholm.—Very Rev. Archdeacon Jefferson. [Feb. both capacities during the siege, and discharged those important duties till the fall of the place, which being most skilfully defended by General Bellacombe (at that time one of the best officers in the French service), did not surrender until a practicable breach was made in the face of the Queen's Bastion, and a passage effected across the ditch. On the completion of this important service, Colonel Cosby was allowed to resign the office of Adjutant-General, and it was very flatteringly notified by the Select Committee of the Madras Government. (To be concluded in our next.) LIEUT.-COL. JAMES CHISHOLM. In Invernesshire, Scotland, Lieut.-Col. James Chisholm, of the Royal African Corps. As an officer he was endowed with much personal bravery and gallantry in the field, and manifested great zeal for the service of his country, as well as an intimate knowledge of his profession. During a long course of active service, Colonel Chisholm, from the amenity of his disposition and manners, was more than usually felicitous in gaining the approbation and confidence of his superiors, and acquiring the friendship and esteem of all with whom he was acquainted. His first service was in the 58th regiment, in which corps the immortal Wellington then commanded a company. In 1796 he joined the 88th regiment, with a detachment of which he served in India, both in Guzerat, and in the Upper Provinces of Bengal, with distinguished gallantry, where he attracted the notice, and obtained the countenance, of the late General Lord Lake, and was with his detachment incorporated with the 76th regiment, at that time under the command of the Hon. Colonel Monson. He bore a conspicuous share in the operations of that destructive campaign, directed by the Commander-in chief in person, against the troops and fortresses of Rao Jeswunt Holkar. In one or more assaults made upon the strong-holds of that daring Chieftain of the Mahrattas, Captain Chisholm received five wounds, from some of which he never recovered. Though smarting from unhealed wounds, and his bealth greatly deteriorated by an arduous service of eight years between the tropicks, he was in the following year found engaged in the ill-fated attack upon Buenos Ayres, in July 1807, particularly in the rash assault of the city on the 5th of that month, wherein the British troops lost all but their honour. On this occasion, being ordered to cover the rear of the left column of his regiment, furiously pressed in the streets by a numerous and exasperated soldiery, and an armed population, and on the point of being surrounded and cut to pieces, this intrepid and experienced officer, with a handful of men, executed this service with such success, as to intimidate the enemy, and served to gain for the small remnant of his brave companions, a dearly-bought, but honourable capitulation. In this action he received a contusion on the head from a ball. In 1808 he was promoted to a majority in the Royal African Corps, with which he served on the coast of Africa, and, during a part of that time, as Commandant of Goree. While thus employed, he uniformly and determinedly opposed the abominable and inhuman traffic in slaves, many of whom he rescued from their oppressors, and restored to their families and to freedom. On his departure from the Island in 1816, the inhabitants of Goree, French as well as English, voted him a gold medal, and an affectionate address, as a flattering testimony of the sense they entertained of his services, and as a mark of gratitude for the zeal with which he watched over the safety and interests of the Settlement. The Reports of the Royal African Institution contain abundant proofs of his cordial exertions in favour of the unhappy natives of Africa;-exertions which, on his return to England, were justly appreciated by all his fellowlabourers in human emancipation, and particularly by that ardent and indefatigable philanthropist, Mr. Wilberforce. His death, though remotely attributable to the effects of intertropical complaints, was accelerated by an apoplectic seizure while on a visit with his friends in his native country. VERY REV. ARCHDEACON JEFFERSON. This excellent Divine, whose death is noticed in our last Obitnary, was collated to the Rectory of Weeley in the year 1806, by Bishop Porteus; and, a short time since, to the Vicarage of Witham in Essex, by the present Bishop of London; where he had so much gained the esteem of the neighbourhood, by the conscientious discharge of his important duties, and by his conciliating manners, that on Christmas day last, a large proportion of the numerous Dissenters resident in and about Witham, attended his Church, and expressed themselves much gratified by the able and impressive discourse which he delivered on that occasion. With a disinterested liberality, he had begun, and was carrying on, extensive improvements in the Vicarage-house, which bad 1822.] Very Rev. Archdeacon Jefferson.-Rev. John King. had become very much dilapidated under his predecessors. He was never married. His will is so short, and at the same time breathes so truly the spirit of religion and kindness, that it will no doubt be acceptable. I have been induced to communicate these few facts, however scanty and imperfect, in the hope that some friend, familiar with the public and private life of the Archdeacon, may enrich your pages with a memoir of so exemplary a character, that thus, though dead, he may yet speak. J. S. "Glory to God in the Highest, on Earth peace, goodwill towards men. "The last Will and Testament of Joseph Jefferson, Clerk. "I give and bequeath to the Colchester and Essex Hospital, the sum of 100%. To the Essex Clergy Charity, the sum of 31. To the Clergy Orphan Charity, the sum of 507. To the poor inhabitants of the parish of Weeley, without distinction as to lawful settlement, 201. to be distributed in four successive years, in equal portions, on Christmas day, in bread and coals. And all the rest and residue of my real and personal estate, including all plate, books, and other goods and chattels, of what nature or kind soever, I give and bequeath to my dear and beloved sister-in-law, Mary Jefferson, now residing with me, whose tenderness and affection has been unwearied and unremitting, for her sole use and benefit; and I hereby appoint her the sole executrix. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this 24th day of December, in the year of our Lord 1821. (Signed) "Jos. JEFFERSON." The personal effects were sworn under 60001. THE REV. JOHN KING, A. M. Mr. King was born at Richmond in Yorkshire, on the 28th of April 1738, and received the rudiments of his education at the Free Grammar School in that town, under the tuition of that truly classical scholar and liberal divine, the Rev. Anthony Temple *, A. M. Vicar of Easby. From Richmond he removed to Cambridge; and on the recommendation of the Rev. Francis Blackburnet, A. M. Archdeacon of Cleveland, an inti * For some account of Mr. Temple, see "Nichols's Illustrations of the Litetary History of the Eighteenth Century," vol. I. p. 767. For a Biographical Memoir of Mr. Blackburne, see "Nichols's Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century," VOL. III. pp. 14-24, 642; vol. VIII. pp. $7, 761; vol. IX. p. 785. * 183 mate friend of Dr. Law, then Master of St. Peter's College, and afterwards Bishop of Carlisle, he was entered of that Society. Here he proceeded to the degree of A. B. in 1760; and from the honor which he obtained on that occasion (being the seventh Wrangler on the tripos), he was elected Fellow. He soon, however, relinquished residence in college, having been appointed in that year (on the recommendation of his tutor, the Rev. Daniel Longmire, A. M.); Under Master of the Free Grammar School of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, then governed by that eminent scholar and able instructor, the Rev. Hugh Moises, A. M. In this situation he continued seven years; and during that period had the pleasure of seeing the school raised so high in reputation, and the number of scholars so considerably increased, as to require the appointment of a third Master. The present Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Eldon, and his learned brother, Lord Stowell, both received their education here while Mr. King was the Under Master. In 1763, he proceeded to the degree of A. M. In 1767, he removed from Newcastle to Ipswich, having been appointed Master of the Free Grammar School in that town, on the recommendation of his old friend and preceptor Mr. Temple, to whom the school committee had written, through the Rev. Andrew Layton, A. M. Rector of St. Matthew (whose sister Mr. Temple had married) to point out a person qualified to fill that situation. In the same year he was chosen by the Corporation the Town Preacher; and notwithstanding the changes in the political interests of the borough, he retained this situation for a period of twenty-three years. In 1776, he was presented by his College to the Rectory of Witnesham, near Ipswich. In 1798, on account of some dangerous attacks of illness, and an infirm state of health, he resigned the mastership of the school, which, by his talents and application, he had raised so high in the public estimation, as to have had upwards of seventy boarders at one time in his house; and retired to a residence on his rectory, where he closed his earthly career on the 26th of January 1822, in the 84th year of his age, perfectly satisfied with that lot and station assigned to him by Providence; and after having filled, throughout a long life, a public situation, with the highest credit to himself, and the greatest advantage to others. Mr. King was the author of the following works; viz. "Sententiæ ex diversis auctoribus excerptæ, et primis Linguæ 184 Memoir of Rev. John King, A. M. Linguæ Latina Tyronibus accommodatæ, opera Johannis King, A. B. apud Novocastrenses Sub-præceptoris." Newcastle, 1761. "A Sermon, preached at Witnesham, Nov. 29, 1798, being the day appointed for a General Thanksgiving on account of our late Naval Victories. Ipswich." sm. 4to. And "A Sermon on the Catholic Claims; with Notes and a Postscript. Ipswich, 1813." sm. 4to. There is an engraved Portrait of Mr. King (a private plate), by Bond, from a Miniature by Dunthorne. His remains were interred in the chancel of the church of Witnesham; but, by his express desire, a mural tablet is to be erected in the church of St. Mary at Tower, Ipswich, on which it is intended to inscribe the following memorial: "M. S. Johannis King, A. M. Collegii Divi Petri apud Cantabrigienses Socij; Ecclesiæ de Witnesham, in hoc Agro, Rectoris; et per annos XXIII apud Gippovicenses Publici Concionatoris. Qui, juventutis instituendæ peritissimus, scholæ Regiæ per annos XXXI summâ cum laude præfuit ; et cujus in honore erat septuaginta plus minus discipulos in ædibus suis simul accepisse. Vixit annos LXXXIII. Decessit VII Cal. Feb. MDCCCXXII." He married, June 10, 1777, Elizabeth Sarab, the only daughter of the Rev. Thomas Bishop, A. B. Rector of Trimley St. Martin and Ash by Campsey, in Suffolk, and Perpetual Curate of St. Mary at Tower, and St. Mary at Elms, in Ipswich. She died Dec. 30, 1813, and was interred at Witnesham, where, on a mural tablet, on the south side of the chancel, is the following inscription to her memory: "Arms. Arg. on a bend Gul. cotised, three besants. On an inescutcheon of pretence Or, three lions passant Sable. Crest: On a torse, a griffin Or, statant, and resting its right paw on a besant. "Elizabethæ Sarai King, Reydi Joannis King uxoris, et Revdi Thomæ Bishop unicæ filiæ et hæredis. Obiit die trigesimo Decembris, A. D. 1813, ætatis suæ 61. Nulla ferè, sive uxor, sive parens, omnibus magis præcellebat virtutibus nee liberis ejus fuit carior, imò jure fuit cara discipulis, quos viginti per annos summâ alebat curâ et sedulitate apud Gippovicenses." By her he had issue nine sons and one daughter. It was his lot, however, to have experienced, during his life-time, the painful trial attendant on the loss of five of these sons; which afflicting strokes of Providence he sustained with becoming resignation. His eldest son, John, was educated at St. Peter's Col [Feb. lege, Cambridge, where he proceeded to the degree of A. B. in 1800, and was elected Fellow. In 1803, he proceeded to that of A. M. and was called to the Bar. In 1808, he married Caroline Matilda Staple, of Hackney, and died Oct. 24, 1815 (leaving an only daughter), greatly respected by his relations and friends, and with the fairest prospect of rising to eminence in his profession, being possessed of considerable talent and the greatest industry. He was buried in the chancel of the church of Witnesham, where (on a handsome mural tablet affixed to the North wall, and surmounted by an urn, with drapery over it, beneath which is a scroll with this sentence-" The just is steady to his purpose," and a book which is lettered "Law"), is the following inscription : "Near this place are deposited the remains of John King, of the Middle Temple, Esq. Barrister at Law, late Fellow of St. Peter's College, Cambridge, A. M.; eldest son of the Rev. John King, Rector of this parish. He was born the 16th of May 1778, and died the 24th of October 1815. He married Miss Caroline Matilda Staple, of Hackney, by whom he had issue one daughter, Anne, and both of whom he left surviving him. His integrity and abilities promised him the highest success in his profession; his domestic virtues endeared him to his family and his friends; his religion enabled him to bear with patience a long and painful illness; and taught him to look forward with confidence to a blessed immortality. His widow hath caused this monument to be erected, as well to record his virtues, as to testify ber affection for bis memory. "Arms: quarterly, first and fourth, a lion rampant between three cross crosslets, 2 and 1; second and third, Arg. on a bend cotised Gul. three besants; impaling, Or, a chevron Erminois between three manches. Crest: a lion rampant crowned." He was the editor of "A Report of the Cases, the King v. Younge, and the King v. Wright, for selling Guineas; and of the Arguments of the Counsel; with the Judgement delivered thereon. 1811." 8vo: and of "Burn's Justice of the Peace, brought down to the 50th of George III." 5 vols. 8vo. His second son, Robert Carew, is a surgeon of eminence at Saxmundham in Suffolk. His third son, George, is in the medical department of the East India Company's service. His fourth son, William, is a physician in Queen Anne-street West, and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, London. He 1822.] Rev. John King, A. M.-Rev. Dr. Edward Barry. He was of St. Peter's College, Cambridge, where he proceeded to the degree of A. B. in 1809, being the twelfth Wrangler on the Tripos, and in consequence was elected Fellow. In 1812, he proceeded to the degree of A. M. His fifth son, Charles, was a lieutenant in the Royal Regiment of Artillery ; and, baving been severely wounded and taken prisoner Nov. 28, 1812, near Fort Erie, in Upper Canada, died at the Black Rock, Feb. 22, 1813. A mural tablet is erected to his memory in the chancel of the church of Witnesham, with the following inscription: "To the Memory of Lieut. Charles King, of the Royal Artillery, who was wounded severely, and taken prisoner, in the battle near Fort Detroit, Upper Canada, Nov. 28, 1812. He languished till Feb. 22, 1813, and was buried at Niagara, with military honours; aged 25. Pro Patria nos Patria Fines, et dilectos Parentes, nos Vitam." His sixth son, Richard Henry, served on-board the Shannon, under Sir P. B. V. Broke, and is a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy. His seventh son, Edward, a surgeon in the East India Company's service, died in camp at Talmauh, Madras, Aug. 14, 1817, from the effects of a march in bad weather, in the 25th year of his age. His daughter, Elizabeth, is unmarried; and two sons died in their infancy. REV. DR. EDWARD BARRY. Jan. 16. At Wallingford, the Rev. Edward Barry, M. D. and D. D. in the 63d year of his age. He was the son of Dr. Barry, a physician at Bristol, and was educated at Bristol School under that eminent scholar and master, Mr. Lee. He was originally intended for the profession of physic, and after the usual course of study, he graduated at St. Andrew's. But the bent of his mind was directed to divinity; and he accordingly made himself master of the principal Orthodox and Calvinistical divines. Having compared their arguments, and examined them by the safest and the purest test, the Holy Scriptures, he took orders, and warmly espoused the sound principles of the Church of England. He was several years Curate of Mary-lebonne, and was considered as one of the most popular preachers in the metropolis. He united zeal and knowledge; was energetic and persuasive; and most of the public charities in London were bighly benefited by his exertions in their favour. His exhortations to the sick were particularly calculated to convert the infidel, to humble the preGENT. MAG. February, 1822. 185 sumptuous, to raise the dejected, to comfort the desponding, to inspire faith and hope, and to conduct the dying Christian to the bosom of his Saviour and his God. The excellent Ordinary of Newgate, Mr. Villette, often availed himself of his assistance in softening the hardness of the offender by awakening the terrors of conscience. From the busy scenes of the metropolis, he was invited by the call of Friendship to reside in Reading, where he employed his leisure hours in pub. lishing some of his works. His attention was then attracted by a new species of Christians, who professed the principles, and preserved the forms of worship, of the Established Church, but who admitted dissenting preachers in their pulpits. The result of his examination of their conduct was his "Friendly Call to a new species of Dissenters," a publication, of which in a short time several editions were printed. It was dedicated to Sir William Scott, by whose interest he obtained the living of St. Mary's, and soon after the more valuable preferment of St. Leonard's, in Wallingford. There, by his assiduity in the duties of his profession, by bis affectionate and forcible private and public exhortations, and particularly by the institution of a Sunday evening lecture, he was gratified by the nost crowded congregations. Of the affection of his parishioners, and of the interest which his character excited in all descriptions of persons in the town, a most affecting proof was given by the immense concourse of people who attended his funeral, and by the tears which were shed on that solemn occasion. He possessed a considerable share of classical learning, and of general knowledge. He was cheerful and lively in conversation, zealous and active in the cause of benevolence; and his heart was so open to charity, that he never beheld a person in distress without affording relief in full proportion to his ability.He was twice married. His last wife, the eldest daughter of the late Mr. Morell of Oxford, survives him. He published the following works: "A Letter to Mr. Cumberland, occasioned by his Letter to the Bishop of Landaff," 1783, 8vo.-"A Sermon preached Aug. 14, 1786, before the British Assurance Society," 4to." A Sermon preached to the Convicts under Sentence of Death in Newgate, April 20," 1788, 4to." Twelve Sermons on particular Occasions," 1789, 8vo.-" A Letter on the Practice of Boxing, addressed to the King, Lords, and Commons," 1789, |
