Judge Advocate in the Island of Malta; and, 3. Edward, just now returned from the East Indies, w he has for some years been secretary to Edward: Pellew, our admiral on that station The daughters are Lucy and Eliza, both of whom are unmarried.

This noble-hearted officer died at Greenwich, Dec. 26, 180, at the age of 70; and his funeral was anded by his sons, his noble pupil Lord Nelson, and two old private friends.

Bred as it were in the lap of literature, under the immediate superintendance of his father and of Mr. Stillingfleet, it is not at all surprizing that he imbibed an early attachment to literature, which he retained to the close of his life. A short specimen. of it, and of his uniform inclination to confer favours, shall be given, from one of his familiar letters:

66 SIR, West Malling, Kent, July 9, 1783. "I have at last sent you the book I mentioned to you, of my late worthy uncle [Oratorios *], and the drawing of some Stones, much of the same kind as Stonehenge in Wiltshire. They are in the grounds of Mr. Bartholomew, an acquaintance of mine, at Addington Place, in the parish of Addington, in this neighbourhood. He says they have been examined two or three different times, but undetermined what they were. If you will favour me with a call, I will attend you there, or any where in this neighbourhood, with great pleasure. I did not recollect to tell you, that Mr. Stillingfleet had ordered all his papers to be destroyed at his death, possibly not choosing any thing of his might be published afterwards. I wrote to my brother to know if he could furnish you with any anecdotes of our worthy

* A small volume of "Oratorios" by Mr. Stillingfleet, of which a very small number had been printed for private use, but which Mr. Locker was very desirous should be published. After the lapse of many years, they are now actually in the press; and will probably appear long before this Memoir, as part of a selection of the Works of Mr. Stillingfleet, with Notes and Illustrations, and Memoirs of that ingenious and unassuming Writer, by a Gentleman every way qualified to do justice to his memory.

By Serres, the celebrated Sea-painter.

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worthe highest sense of honour, by an enlarged inmentioned with the world, and by that inartificial hich had been contracted in the highest The Lieutenant uniformly displayed the innoof books and pictures; the humility as well as the ticularly, a considerable numelage was equalled officers, many of whom, with honest ex benevolence generally styled "his younkers." A good porti As of him, from a painting by Abbott, was engraved soon after his death, by Heath, at the expence of the family, as a private plate, to be presented to his intimates, in lieu of the customary gift of mourning rings; an example worthy of imitation, and infinitely to be preferred in every case where the person deceased has acquired a right to be perpetuated.

He was indefatigable, not only as an active and gallant officer, but in his researches into whatever related to the history of his profession; and in 1792 we find him sanctioning the annexed advertisement: Captain William Locker, of the Royal Navy, resident at Kensington, having put various naval papers * for publication into the hands of Mr. Nicholson, of Red Lion-square; it is agreed that Mr. Nicholson shall select the most interesting and valuable, and publish the same on the ac

These papers appear to have been the principal basis of the six volumes "Biographia Navalis," published by the late John Charnock, esq.; who, after paying proper acknowledgments" to the British Museum and the College of Arms; the former, as a repository to which the munificence and liberality of the Nation affords admittance to us in common with the rest of our fellow-citizens, and the latter, to which we owe our admission to the private friendship and politeness of its individual members;" makes his acknowledgments to William Locker, esq. Lieutenant-governor of Greenwich hospital; who, by an indefatigable attention to the study of naval biography for many years, has collected from authentic documents, or private information not less respectable, the major part of those anecdotes which are here arranged collectively. We need only say of them, that they relate not only to the public conduct, but the private history also, of the principal number of those characters, who have contributed, under different sovereigns, to defend and aggrandize their native country.

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count of Messrs. Faulder and Leigh and Sotheby, with such annotations as he shall think necessary: that Captain Locker will add his name to a prefatory advertisement in support of the authenticity of the papers to the purport of the annexed; and lastly, that the size shall be quarto, and the printing, &c. in every respect beautifully executed. "WM. NICHOLSON, WM. FAULDER,

LEIGH and SOTHEBY,

Booksellers.

"The following authentic letters, journals, and other naval papers, were collected by Capt. William Locker of the Royal Navy. The chief motive for his giving them to be published was, to rescue several worthy characters of sea-officers from the malevolent aspersions of different parties, as will appear by some of their instructions from the Crowns they served under. Another inducement was, to form a foundation for an authentic naval history, which this kingdom has hitherto been shamefully without. He has given them to the publishers only on the following conditions: In the first place, that nothing shall be admitted into this work but what is manifestly authentic; and in the next, that it shall be printed on a good paper, with a good letter; and that the publishers shall give him a number of copies, not exceeding twenty, for himself and friends who have supplied him with materials for the work. This being all the advantage the Captain derives from the publication, he therefore hopes those Families who are possessed of authentic naval papers will be induced, both from justice to their ancestors and the country, to send them to Mr. Nicholson, the editor; or the publishers, Mr. Faulder, bookseller in Bond-street; and Messrs. Leigh and Sotheby, Yorkstreet, Covent Garden.-Sir John Narbrough's papers, from Lady D'Aeth and Sir Narbrough D'Aeth of Kent; Sir Richard Haddock's, and Vice-admiral Haddock's, from their descendant Charles Haddock, esq. of Wrotham, Kent; Sir George Rooke's, from Robert Kingsmill, esq. Capt. R. N. of Sidemontone Place, Hants;

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Sir John Norris's, from Mrs. Norris, his granddaughter, of Kent; Sir Cloudsley Shovell's, from Lord Romney, and the honourable Mrs. Marsham, of Kent; Sir Hovenden Walker's, from F. J. Hartwell, esq. Capt. R. N.; Vice-admiral Man's, from Robert Man, esq. Capt. R. N.; Lord Berkeley's, &c. from the honourable G. C. Berkeley, Capt. R. N."

CHARLES LYTTELTON, third son of Sir Thomas, and brother to George first Lord Lyttelton, was born at Hagley hall, in 1714; educated at Eton, went from University college, Oxford, to the Inner Temple, and became a barrister-at-law; but entering into holy orders, was collated by the venerable Bp. Hough to the rectory of Alvechurch, in Worcestershire, Aug. 13, 1742. He took the degree of LL. B. March 28, 1745; and LL.D. June 18, the same year.

In a letter to Mr. Neve, July 5, 1746, Mr. Johnson says, "I request you, Sir, to make my services acceptable to Dr. Charles Lyttelton. That learned, ingenious, and worthy gentleman does us great honour in permitting us to number him amongst our members, as approving of our institution and endeavours, whereby we shew our love to learning at least." Again, Feb. 11, 1746-7, "I request you to acquaint Dr. Lyttelton he was, according to our rules, proposed September 18, and elected upon ballot October the 2d last, of which I wish myself joy in being of two Societies with him." March 30, 1750, "I pray make my services acceptable to Mr. Dean of Exeter, to whom I notified his being admitted a member of our Gentlemen's Society here (as he desired by you), but have not been favoured with an answer; and to Dr. Ernely Bertie, another of our members and good friend of mine, when you see them *."

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* In the same letter Mr. Johnson writes, "We keep up well, and have had a kind present, from another member, of a quarto MS. and his memoirs taken from memory at returning home

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Dr. Lyttelton was appointed king's chaplain in December 1747; dean of Exeter in May 1748; and was consecrated Bishop of Carlisle March 21, 1762. In 1754 he caused the ceiling and cornices of the chancel of Hagley church to be ornamented with shields of arms in their proper colours, representing the paternal coats of his antient and respectable family. In Gutch's "Collectanea Curiosa," vol. II. p. 354, is "Dean Lyttelton's Memoir concerning the authenticity of his [copy of] Magna Charta, from the Minutes of the Antiquary Society, June 3, 1761;” and in p.357 of the same work, is "Mr. Blackstone's Memoir in answer to the late Dean of Exeter [Dr. Lyttelton], now Bishop of Carlisle, May 29, 1762."

In 1765, on the death of Hugh lord Willoughby of Parham, Bp. Lyttelton was unanimously elected President of the Society of Antiquaries; a station in

from meetings of the Royal Society in 1740 and 1741, and of these we read one memoir at a meeting; and they are very judicious, of variety of matter, and afford much improvement and entertainment, which every letter from our few good correspondents and occasional occurrences sets me in stock, so that our Secretary is sure of something worth the hearing to read to the company, and making mention of in the Minutes of our Society's observations, whereof he is now filling a fifth volume in folio, bound up and indexed. When we have indexed and bound up our literary correspondences, essays, poems, and dissertations, they will make a valuable set of papers, and may be of use to posterity; but we have long staid for a hand, having as yet no binder here; and these are a sort of papers I never thought proper to trust abroad to be bound, as I did the Minutes of our accounts and observations; or they had been bound up ere this, as those are, in vellum, and gratis; but I hope to have a man to do them here under my own care and inspection, for I think them too great a treasure to trust otherwise; and, when bound, not out of the Museum of the Society, but in the Secretary's hands."

* This ingenious and learned Nobleman, who was elected Vice-president of the Royal Society Nov. 30, 1752, accepted the Presidentship of the Society of Antiquaries July 26, 1754. His Lordship was also one of the Trustees of the British Museum ; President of the Society for equitable assurance on lives and survivorship, in Nicholas-lane, near Lombard-street, London; and one of the Vice-presidents of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, He died a bachelor, Jan. 21, 1765.