86 OBITUARY.-Mr. Archdeacon Coxe. trict. He was under the Duke of York, on the expedition to the Texel, commanding two battalions of the 5th regi. ment, in the division of Prince William of Gloucester. In this expedition he was severely and dangerously wounded. He was appointed Colonel of the York Rangers, which was raising with other forces for service in Africa, as connected with the abolition of the Slave Trade, and to extend his protection to the late Mungo Park; but events on the Continent of Europe suspended the expedition. The deceased was appointed Colonel in the army and of the late York Rangers, Sept. 25, 1803; Major-General in 1810; and Lieutenant-General in 1814. MR. ARCHDEACON COXE. June 8. At his Rectory of Bemerton, aged 81, the Rev. William Coxe, Archdeacon of Wilts. Mr. Coxe was the eldest son of Dr. William Coxe, physician to the King's household in London. He was born in Dover-street Piccadilly, on the 7th of March, 1747, O. S.; and in his fifth year, was placed under the care of the Rev. Mr. Fountaine, who kept the Grammar School at Mary-le-Bone. In 1753 he was removed to Eton, and continued his education there under the Rev. Dr. Bernard, till 1765; when he was elected to King's College, Cambridge. Jn 1768 he was chosen a Fellow of that College, and during his residence at that University he distinguished himself by his classical attainments; and twice gained the Bachelor's prize, for the best Latin Dissertation. Dr. Glynn, whose worth and excellence need no other recollection than bis name, was at that time Senior Resident Fellow at King's College, and was pleased to honour Mr. Coxe, as a young man of ability, with his peculiar favour. His advice was, that he should immediately enter upon some work of useful information, with a view to publication. It may be, he said, that you will not succeed at first, but you must have a beginning practice in composition is every thing. It was this advice, that induced Mr. Coxe to direct his attention, at an earlier day than usual, to the attainment of literary reputation: and which subsequently raised him to the high consideration to which he aspired as an author. Having devoted himself to the church, in 1771 he was admitted to Deacon's Orders, by Dr. Terrick, Bishop of London. The Thesis, which he wrote on that occasion, was so highly approved, [July, that, when he presented himself for Priest's orders in the succeeding year, the Bishop declined subjecting him to any further examination. In March 1771 Mr. Coxe was appointed to the Curacy of Denham, near Uxbridge; but in the course of a few months he received an invitation from the late Duke of Marlborough, to whom he had been recommended by the learned Mr. Bryant, to be tutor to the Marquis of Blandford, the present Duke. In this situation he remained two years, but was obliged to relinquish it by reason of indisposition; the continuance of which was the cause that he could not re-asssume that appointment, though for some time it was graciously kept open for him, in the hope of his recovery. In 1775 Mr. Coxe accompanied the late Earl of Pembroke, then Lord Herbert, in a Tour on the Continent. During that journey, which embraced a considerable portion of Europe, Mr. Coxe's attention was particularly struck by a country so interesting, and then comparatively so little known, as Switzerland. The result of his observations there was his first publication, intituled, "Sketches on the Natural, Civil, and Political State of Switzerland," in one vol. 8vo. and which appeared before his return to England; but being enlarged and improved by his further researches during a second tour in the summer of 1779, it was reprinted under the title of "Travels in Switzerland; and the Country of the Grisons," in 3 vols. 8vo. and to which has been added, in the fourth and last edition of that work, a very accurate historical sketch of the revolution in Switzerland in the year 1798. When, in the further prosecution of this tour, Mr. Coxe was in Russia, his inquiries were directed to the discoveries that had been made by the Russian navigators, in the seas which divide the two continents of Asia and America; a subject to which the then recent Voyage of Cook bad given a considerable degree of interest. On this point he collected much valuable information, particularly from those celebrated Naturalists, Muller and Pallas; and in 1780 he gave to the world his "Russian Discoveries," containing not only a sketch of different voyages, undertaken by the Russians; but also a brief narrative of the Conquest of Siberia; and an account of the Commercial intercourse between Russia and China. This work has since been much improved and augmented; so as to present a comparative statement of the progress of that branch of maritime discovery, to the time of Van 1828.] OBITUARY.-Mr. Archdeacon Coxe. couver. In 1784 appeared "Travels into Poland, Russia, Sweden, and Denmark," in five vols. 8vo. Soon after the publication of this last work, Mr. Coxe made a new tour on the continent, with the late Samuel Whitbread, esq.; and travelling through Germany, Switzerland, and Italy, the Low Countries, and the northern kingdoms of Europe, be returned to England in May 1786; and shortly after he again visited the continent with H. B. Portman, esq., eldest son of W. H. Portman, esq. of Bryanston, Dorset, and having passed through Switzerland and France, spent the winter at Paris and the Hague; he concluded his engagement with this gentleman, visiting in his company the most interesting parts of England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland. In 1786 Mr. Coxe was presented by the Society of King's College, Cambridge, to the living of Kingston on Thames, which he resigned in 1788, on being presented to the Rectory of Bemerton by the Earl of Pembroke. Here he chiefly fixed bis subsequent residence; and to this agreeable retreat he was always strongly attached, being used to say, "Deus nobis hæc otia fecit." In 1794 he again repaired to the continent, with Lord Brome, eldest son of the Marquis Cornwallis; and spent five months in travelling over Holland, Germany, and part of Hungary. The Marquis presented to him the Chaplaincy of the Tower. In the course of his different travels, Mr. Coxe had made extensive collections for an Historical and Statistical Account of Europe, and the work was even advanced to a considerable degree of forwardness; but the disturbed and uncertain state of public affairs induced him to relinquish his design. He then commenced the "Memoirs of Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford, illustrated with Original Correspondence, and Authentic Papers," &c. ; which work was first published with those papers in 1798, in 3 vols. 4to.; afterwards in 3 vols. 8vo. without them; and finally in 4 vols. 8vo., with a selection of the most curious documents. In the autumn of 1798 be accompanied his friend Sir Richard Colt Hoare in an excursion into Monmouthshire. The natural beauties and historical associations of that small but interest ing county, appeared to him to furnish a fertile subject of description; and having extended and corrected his first observations in subsequent journies, he published the "Historical Tour in Monmouthshire," illustrated with plates from the drawings of Sir R. C. Hoare, in 2 vols. 4to. 87 Soon afterwards he was presented by Sir Rd. Hoare, to the Rectory of Stourton, which he held till he was presented to the Rectory of Fovant, Wilts, by the late Earl of Pembroke, in 1811. In 1802 he publisked, in one vol. 4to., the "Memoirs of Horatio Lord Walpole," as a continuation to those of his brother, Sir Robert Walpole. In 1803 be was elected one of the Canons Residentiary of the Cathedral of Salisbury; and in 1805 appointed Archdeacon of Wilts by the venerable Bishop Douglas, to whom he had first become known, by the publication of his Russian Discoveries, and whose memory he greatly revered. In 1803 he espoused Eleanora, dau. of Walter Shairp, esq. Consul General of Russia; and widow of Thomas Yeldham, esq. of the British Factory at St. Petersburgh. The researches connected with the Historical Tour in Monmouthshire, diverted for a time the attention of Mr. Coxe to the study of antiquities; and he purposed to undertake an Historical account of Wiltshire. But he relinquished that intention, and resumed his usual pursuits, by preparing for the press the " History of the House of Austria," of which he had sketched the outline in his intended Historical and Statistical View of Europe. This work appeared in 1807, in three vols. 4to. It procured him considerable credit, and the honour of a visit from the Archdukes John and Leopold of Austria, who were then on a tour through the western counties of England; these Princes, in terms highly flattering to the author, not only bore ample testimony to the general truth and accuracy of the history, and to the impartial delineation of the characters of the respective Princes of their house, and for which they requested him to accept their thanks; but expressed also great surprise that he should have obtained possession of certain facts, given in that work to the public, which they conceived were known only to themselves. The extraordinary events which about this period occurred in Spain, induced Mr. Coxe to undertake the Historical Memoirs of the Bourbon Kings of Spain. These Memoirs appeared in 1813, in 3 vols. 4to.; and subsequent to that publication Mr. Coxe commenced the "Memoirs of John Duke of Marlborough," principally drawn from the rich collection of papers preserved at Blegheim. Of this elaborate work, the first volume appeared in 1817, the second in 1818, and the third in 1819. Before it was completed, a second edition in 8vo. was called for. 88 OBITUARY. Mr. Archdeacon Coxe. While in the progress of this arduous undertaking, Mt. Coxe first experi enced symptoms of that approaching decay of sight, which eventually terminated in total darkness; as heavy a calamity in the catalogue of human infirmities, as could fall to the lot of a literary man; who, from his earliest years, was engaged in unremitting lite rary pursuits. Considerable, indeed, at first was the depression of his spirits, by this heavy visitation; but his constitu tional fortitude, and his religious feelings, always awake when called into action, were powerfully operative to reconcile him soon to his misfortune. As sight became weak, intellect, in proportion, became strong; his memory, at all times good, was then remarkably tenacious; and so powerful was its ope ration, that it was not uncommon to observe when he referred those who as sisted him in his labours to identify certain historical facts and dates, that he rather directed them to the objects in question, whose business it was to direct him; hence he prosecuted with the same unabated ardoor and exactness the work in which he was engaged, as before his loss of sight; and was enabled to prepare for the press; first, the "Private and Original Correspondence of the Duke of Shrewsbury, illustrated with Narratives Historical and Biographical," and which was published in 1821, in 1 vol. 4to.; and then to leave also for the press, wanting only the necessary attention of revision, "The Memoirs of the Administration of Mr. Pelham," drawn from the papers in the possession of His Grace the Duke of Newcastle, and the Earl of Chichester; and intended as a sequel to the "Memoirs of Sir Robert and Lord Walpole." Of the publications of Mr. Coxe, which, strictly speaking, may be considered as of a minor character, the following may be noted: "The Literary Life, and Select Works of Benjamin Stillingfleet, esq.," in 3 vols. 8vo.; the Lives of Handel and Smith, in 4to.; two Pamphlets, addressed to J. Benett, esq., M. P. for Wilts, on the Nature and History of Tithes; A Vindication of the Celts; a small edition of the "Fables of Gay," with notes; a volume of "Miscellaneous Tracts, comprising an Account of the Prisons and Hospitals in Russia, Sweden, and Denmark," Letter on the Secret Tribunal of Westphalia;" and "Sketches of the lives of Correggio and Parm-giano." These publications (as already said) are of a minor character, but they bear their suitable and appropriate place in the scale of interest; and are no less marked a [July, with that intelligent investigation which constitute the merits of his more finished works; and are also strikingly expressive of that peculiar facility with which he could direct his mind to any object of enquiry. The religious compositions of Mr. Coxe, are these: "An explanation of the Catechism of the Church of England." "An Abridgement of Secker's Tract on Confirmation, for the Use of Young Persons." A Sermon on the Excellence of British Jurisprudence; preached before the Judges of Assize at Salisbury." And "a Sermon delivered at St. Paul's, at the Anniversary of the Meeting of the Sons of the Clergy." But here it must be mentioned with regret, and it is a regret that was felt and confessed by no one more than by Mr. Coxe himself, that his historical and other publications surpassed considerably in numbers those on religion. Nor did this proceed from inattention: for various, as we are informed, are the theological disquisitions, tracts, and sermons, that have been found scattered among his numerous manuscripts; and which distinctly shew, that he was as indefatigable in his search after religious knowledge and truth as after any other branch of literature; and that, if he permitted not these papers to meet the public eye, it arose, probably, from dif fidence; say rather, from that sensitive apprehension inseparable from an author, lest, by entering on a road distinct from that on which he usually travelled, he might rashly hazard a reputation already established. Of the character of Mr. Coxe as a writer, the judgment rests with the public, though that judgment may be considered as partly pronounced, by the honourable selection made in his favour, of the Gold Medal, presented to him by the Royal Society of Literature. But of Mr. Coxe's character as a man, never did any character stand higher, or draw around him when living, or carry away with him dead, a 'more abundant testimony of respect, veneration, and love. Feelingly alive to distress, in whatever form it met his knowledge, or his view, bis interest, his services, his purse, were ever ready to relieve; and in singleness of heart, he was pre-eminent; truly a christian, in action as in persuasion, all that he thought, said, and did, was so built and grounded on christian principle, that it constituted as it were a part of his nature. Mr. Coxe was of middle stature, corpulent and erect in person, and even in his advanced years he seemed to have preserved the strength of earlier life, by 1828.] OBITUARY.-Rev. Jeremiah Jackson, M. A. the firmness of his step, and the alertness of his motions; his countenance was the index of his mind, gentle and benevolent, and when impressed by any sentiment or feeling more than usual, it beamed with benignity. Till nearly the close of his valuable life, Mr. Coxe had the happiness to enjoy almost uninterrupted health; when, therefore, the disorder which preceded his dissolution came, he did not at first consider it as alarming, still less as fatal; nor when it increased did it occasion affright; he was long prepared by meditation and prayer for death, and when death arrived he met it without dismay. He died as he lived, rich in faith and good works; and thus piously, and meekly rendered up his soul into the hands of a merciful and indulgent Creator. The remains of Mr. Coxe were, on Monday the 16th June, deposited in the chancel of his church at Bemerton; in conformity with his own wish, to repose under the same sacred roof with his distinguished predecessors, Herbert and Norris. REV. JEREMIAH JACKSON. May 31. At his Parsonage-house, Offord Darcy, in Huntingdonshire, in his 78th year, the Rev. Jeremiah Jack son, M. A. for 13 years Rector of that parish. This exemplary clergyman was born at Fanningstown, near Limerick in the kingdom of Ireland, being the second and youngest son of Jeremiah Jackson, esq. of that place. He was in early youth sent into England, and was edueated under the Rev. E. Markham at Oakbam School. At the usual time he removed to St. John's College, Cambridge, and took his first degree in 1771. His merit as a scholar and a gentleman, recommended him to a fellowship in that society, which, however, he soon resigned for the College Living of Ospringe in Kent; and being about the same period elected head master of the school at Uppingham, he took up his residence there, and shortly raised that seminary to great celebrity. His reputation attracting pupils from distant counties, be here educated some of the first men in, the kingdom for talents and fortune. As an instructor, be was eminently successful. Many of his pupils were and are distinguished in the walks of elevated, society, and many more are honourably discharging the duties of middle life in the learned professions; and of nearly all of them it may be truly said, that they owe more than probably themselves are aware of, GENT. MAG. July, 1828. 89 to the urbanity, integrity, and erudition of their accomplished preceptor. Though no mean master of the abstruse and exact sciences, for he obtained the honour of sixth Wrangler in a year of uncommon ability, it was a favourite maxim of his, that the classical authors are the proper, and should be the peculiar study of the school-boy, and that mathematical reading is best deferred to amaturerage; for that, if an accurate acquaintance with the former be not attained at school, it is seldom attained at all, while an adequate knowledge of the latter may be secured in the few years well-employed which are usually spent at the University. His rules of management were few and simple, but no deviation what soever from them was either allowed or attempted. The hours at which the studies of the school commenced, or at which the boys when out of school-were expected to make their appearance, were required to be observed, and were in fact observed, with even military strictness; and thus habits of punctuality and of business were imperceptibly instilled into the mind at a time when all impressions are most deep and lasting. The appointed composition, whether in verse or prose, and a reasonable knowledge of the lesson, whatever it might be, was so much a thing of course, that neither stupidity or indolence ever thought of evading it; while every aid that the most extensive and accurate scholarship could supply, was freely and cheerfully communicated by him, the prime mover and regulator of the system. His assiduity never flagged, his vigilance never slept. Little, if any, positive instruction was given as to propriety of behaviour, but so courteous was his own address, invariably taking off his hat to return the salutation of the least boy in the school, that all caught something of the sweetness and dignity of his demeanour; and he perhaps never sent out a pupil of any standing into the world, whose manners did not in some degree partake of the same conspicuous elegance. And such was his delicacy with regard to oral communications and fidelity to secrets, that he used to admonish his boys never to mention in one company what they had heard in another. This laborious, and, for the most part, ill-requited employment, he held for seventeen years, and sighing for the hour at which he could be more completely sui juris, he at the close of 1793 retired to his living of Ospringe. He there entered largely into society, was received with open arms into the first families of that neighbourhood, and was 90 OBITUARY.-Sir William Drummond. the ornament and delight of every company. Here he lost the dearly cherished wife of his youth, Frances, the daughter of Thomas Jackson, esq., of Duddington in Northamptonshire. A sincere mourner for the loss that seldom, if ever, was fully repaired, he withdrew himself in a great measure from the world, and soon after receiving the offer of the rectory of Offord Darcy, through the friendship of John Heathcote, esq. of Connington, one of his early pupils, he accepted it, chiefly, because his quitting of Kent would extricate him from the round of society which now for him had lost its charm. He accordingly removed into Huntingdonshire, and there devoted partly to his friends, but chiefly to his books, the last few years of his life. From the time he left Uppingham, theological studies engrossed his lei sure, and a vast collection of annotations on the sacred text remain to attest his depth of knowledge and unwearied industry, and which it is devoutly to be wished will yet be given to the world. That nothing might be wanted, to his various intellectual endowments were added singular beauty of features, and a fine well-proportioned person; and the mild dignity of his look excited respect in the most indifferent bebolder. No man living could insult him. His temper, naturally warm, was chastened and subdued by politeness and christian feeling, His voice was pleasing; his conversation clear, argumentative, and forcible, without pedantry and without assumption. He had a noble independence of spirit, not only free from, but incapable of, meanness in any kind or degree. His views of the state and interest of the christian world were large and exact; and, although attached from conviction to the established church, be was candid and liberal towards believers of all denominations, interfering with none unless to do them service. And to crown his character, his charities, limited but by his means, were exempt from ostentation, his morals were pure without austerity, his piety deep and fervid, without the least tincture of fanaticism; he was an admirable parish priest, and a truly enlightened and conscientious minister of the gospel. It might be supposed that such a man would infallably arise to eminence in the church; but his qualities, as the event has proved, were better adapted to rivet the attachment of the wise and good, than to advance him in his profession. In an establishment abounding with bonours and emoluments, his was the exaltation of virtue, not of rank or wealth; and with qualifications calculated to dignify the [July, and His highest place, he was content thankful in one of the lowest. health had for the last two or three years gradually declined. A few days before his death, he sank into a state that left no hope of his recovery; and on the day abovementioned, without a struggle or a sigh, he closed his eyes for ever, on a world, which, in his narrow sphere, he had adorned by his manners, and edified by his wisdom and his example, leaving one only daughter, married many years since, to mourn with her husband and family their irreparable loss. SIR WM. DRUMMOND. March 29. At Rome, the Right Hon. Sir William Drummond, of Logie Almond, North Britain, Knight of the Crescent, a Privy Councillor, and Fellow of the Royal Societies of London and Edinburgh; formerly His Britannic Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of the Two Sicilies. Sir William was well known as an author, and a profound and elegant scholar. His first work in 1794 was "A Review of the Governments of Sparta and Athens," large 8vo. At the close of 1795 he was returned to Parliament on a vacancy in the representation of the borough of St. Mawes; and in the two following Parliaments, which met in 1796 and 1801, be sat for Lostwithiel. At the time of his second election he was Envoy-extraordinary at the Court of Naples. In 1798 he publised in 8vo, "The Satires of Persius, translated:" which happened to appear about the same time as the translation of the same poet by Mr. Gifford, the late Editor of the Quarterly Review. In 1801, being Ambassador to the Ottoman Porte, Mr. Drummond was honoured with the order of the Crescent, which was confirmed by licence in the London Gazette, Sept. 8, 1803. In 1805 Sir William published in 4to. "Academical Questions;" in 1810, in association with Robert Walpole, esq. "Herculanensia; or Archæological and Philological Dissertations; containing a MS. found among the ruins of Herculaneum," 4to; in 1811 an "Essay on a Punic Inscription found in the Isle of Malta," royal 4to; in 1818 "Odin, a poem," 4to; and in 1824 "Origines; or, Remarks on the Origin of several Empires, States, and Cities," 2 vols. 8vo. reviewed in vol. xcv. ii. 44. Sir William also printed, but not for sale, a work entiled" (Edipus Judaicus." In this an attempt was made to consider certain of the histories and other parts |