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Biographical Memoirs of Eminent Persons. 



[JULY, 



25th of January, a friend called upon him, 

 and found him reading " Moore's Life of 

 Byron." He talked and laughed on various 

 suhjects for half an hour, and had never ap- 

 peared in better spirits. "Within live mi- 

 nutes of his death, he had franked a letter 

 for a friend. He was found quite dead, sit- 

 ting in his arm-chair, as though he had 

 been asleep, and had probably passed un- 

 consciously into another state of existence. 

 On account of the suddenness of his death, 

 a Coroner's Inquest was held upon his 

 body ; and the verdict returned was 

 " That the deceased died a natural death by 

 the visitation of God, occasioned by en- 

 largement of the heart." 



Amongst several pamphlets written by 

 Mr. Tierney, were " Two Letters on the 

 Colchester Petition, 1791 ;" and, in the 

 same year " A Letter to the Right Hon. 

 Henry Dundas, on the Situation of the 

 East India Company." Mr. Anderson, 

 accountant to the East India Board, contro- 

 verted the statements of Mr. Tierney, and 

 that gentleman replied in a second letter to 

 Mr. Dundas. 



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GENERAL GARTH. jjjj a \ 



"\Vithin the last three or four years more 

 than one notorious transactions has brought 

 the name of Garth a name previously al- 

 ways mentioned and heard with respect 

 somewhat too much before the public. It 

 can hardly be necessary to say that we 

 allude, in the first instance, to a crim. con. 

 affair, Astley v. Garth, in which the son of 

 the general figured as defendant ; and, more 

 recently, to a disgraceful and scandalous 

 business, which furnished the pro-popery 

 journals with an opportunity of emitting 

 volumes of the grossest slander and libel, 

 against one of the most distinguished per- 

 sonages of the realm. With all this, how- 

 ever, beyond its marking the fact of rela- 

 tionship, we have nothing to do. 



Thomas Garth, to whom this brief notice 

 immediately refers, was born about the year 

 1 744 ; and his youth and prime of manhood 

 appear to have been passed in the service of 

 his country. He entered the army on the 

 12th of August, 1762, as a cornet in the 

 1 st dragoons ; served in the campaign of 

 that year, in Germany, in the allied army 

 under the command of Prince Ferdinand ; 

 in 1765, obtained a lieutenancy; and, in 

 1775, was appointed captain in his regiment. 

 In 1779, he exchanged into the 20th Light 

 Dragoons, and proceeded to the West Indies 

 in the intended expedition against the Spa- 

 nish Main ; which, however, was anticipat- 

 ed by Lieutenant General Sir J. Dalling, 

 Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica. 



Captain Garth returned to England in 

 1792, and was reduced to half-pay, with 

 other officers of the 20th Light Dragoons. 

 Immediately afterwards he obtained the ma- 

 jority of the Second Dragoon Guards ; and, 

 in 1794, he was appointed lieutenant-colonel 

 of the First Dragoons; with which regiment 



he was engaged in most of the actions that 

 occurred from the 17th of April to the close 

 of the campaign of 179^5 9 J 



This officer was next appointed colonel of 

 the Sussex Fencibles ; and afterwards, on 

 the death of Lord Fielding, to the late 22d 

 Light Dragoons, raised by the Earl of Shef- 

 field. On the 7th of January, 1801, he 

 was appointed colonel of his former regi- 

 ment, the First Dragoons. He received 

 the rank of major-general on the 1st of 

 January, 1798 ; that of lieutenant-general 

 in 1805 ; and that of general, on the 4th of 

 June, 1814. 



General Garth died at his house, in Gros- 

 venor Place, at the advanced age of 85, on 

 the 18th of November, 1829. His wiU, 

 dated on the 12th of the preceding Septem- 

 ber, was proved on the 10th December, and 

 the personal property sworn under ,16,000. 

 The general bequeathed to his son, Thomas 

 Garth, the moiety of an annuity of 3,000, 

 payable out of the Duchy of Cornwall, and 

 held by letters patent of King Charles II., 

 which, by indenture of the 17th of Novem- 

 ber, 1820, General Garth had. procured to 

 be settled on himself for life, with remainder 

 to his said son for life, and his lawful issue, 

 failing which, remainder to the testator's 

 nephew, Captain Thomas Garth, R.N. To 

 his son, General Garth also left his house 

 in Grosvenor Place, and all his plate, wines, 

 furniture, &c. either there or at his residence 

 at Peddlecombe, Dorsetshire ; directing that 

 any sums of money which might have been 

 advanced him to purchase army commis- 

 sions, or for other purposes, should be consi- 

 dered as gifts, not loans. Some landed 

 property which had been bequeathed to 

 General Garth, by his late sister, Elizabeth 

 Garth, he left to his nephew, Captain Garth, 

 R.N. To his niece, Miss Frances Garth, 

 he left a life annuity of 300. The residue 

 of the general's property was left to Captain 

 Garth, who, with another nephew of the 

 testator, John Fullerton, Esq., of Thoy- 

 burgh, in Yorkshire, was appointed exe- 

 cutor. 







LIEUTENANT-GENERAL SIR HENRY 

 CLINTON, K. C. H. 



This officer, a distant relation of the Duke 

 of Newcastle, was the son of Sir Henry 

 Clinton, who distinguished himself in Ame- 

 rica, during the war of independence, and 

 succeeded Sir William Howe, as Com- 

 mander-in-Chief. He was also the brother 

 of Lieutenant-General Sir William Henry 

 Clinton, G.C.P., M.P., &c., late Com- 

 mander-in-Chief in Portugal. 



Sir Henry Clinton had seen much service, 

 and was an officer of considerable reputa- 

 tion. He entered the army at an early age ; 

 and, in 1?95, was appointed Lieutenant- 

 Colonel of the 66th Foot, from which regi- 

 ment he exchanged the same year, into the 

 1st Foot Guards. With that regiment he 

 remained till the 20th of May, 1813, when 

 he was made Colonel-Commandant of a bat- 



