1806.] 



Mr. Dogherty-^ Richard Hulfe, Efq. 



573 



putable independence to an extent almoft un- 

 parallelled ; it being an unimpeachable faft, 

 that after a devotion of his time and fortune 

 during twenty yc^rs to public fervice; after 

 the moft aftive fupport of government in 

 church and ftate ; after difplaying, in the 

 moft turbulent of political feafons, an ardent 

 and inflexible zeal ror his fov.ereign, with ■> 

 fervid adherence to the Britiih conititution ; 

 neither title, place, penllon, or office of in- 

 fluence or emolument, lias ever been pofl'efled 

 or procured by him, either for hiirfelf, family, 

 or friends : thereby well meriting the appli- 

 cation of Butler's oft-quoted difticii upon his 

 own unrequired loyii]ty. 



" True as the dial to the fun, 

 Altho' it be not fiin'J upon." 

 Mr. Le Mefuncr was the third of five fons ; 

 the elder of whom, Peter L,c Mefurier, efq., 

 died about three years fince, governor of 

 Alderney, in which patrimony he was fuc- 

 ceeded by his eldeft fon. Major John Le 

 Mefurier (of the47th), whohas lately finally 

 fold the patent government of the ifland to 

 the crown for 20,000/. The fecond brother, 

 Frederic, died fome years fince, captain of the 

 Ponlborne Eaft Indiaman. The fourth bro- 

 ther, the Rev. Thomns Le Mefurier, after 

 l)avin!r piaftifed fome years at the bar, went 

 into holy orders, and is now reftor of Neun- 

 ton Longville, Bucks. The fifth and younger 

 brother, Havil.md Le Mei'uiier, efq was in a 

 mercantile partnc."/?! p nith the fubjedt of 

 thefe memoirs, af:;c/ iiaving lucccffively filled 

 with great I'c'at and unimpeachable punftu- 

 ality, tl e office of commifldry-general to the 

 allied army, in their retreat from the conti- 

 nent after the diKiftrous campaign of 1794. ; 

 alfo tliat Oi commiUary-general of the fouth- 

 ern diftrift of Lng'and, at the eftablifhment 

 of home-depots ana diftritt magazines of 

 provifion and forage in 1797 J alfocommiiVary- 

 gcneral to the Britift array in tgypt, at the 

 clofe of, and at their return from, their bril- 

 liant and fuccefsful opciat'ons in th.it v.'ell- 

 difputcd country Mr. Alderman Le Mefurier 

 had two fillers, the elder of whom was the 

 wife of Sir John Dumarefq, the chief la>v- 

 officcr of the iiland of Jerley; the lecond 

 W3S married to Richard iaumarez, efq. (a 

 brother of Admiral Sir James Saumarez, 

 K. B.) a gentleman well known in the walks 

 of literature and ctiirurgical fcience at New- 

 ington, as was -Afo his accomplifhed and 

 much-lamented lady as a moft fuccefsful 

 elTayift i'l poetry and belles lettres.^Mr. Lc 

 Mefurier had a numerous family, of which 

 one fon and three daughters arc now furviv- 

 ing. 



[^Further fartkuliiri of Mr. Dogbcty, ivhofe 

 death ii recorded at fa^e 371 cf this •volume. 

 —Mr. D. wab one of thofe lelf-taught ge- 

 niufcs that appear but feldom in any protef- 

 fion. He v^as born in Ireland, as his name 

 befpeaks, and received a (lender education at 

 a country fchool. He, like many others, 

 cumc to thit country inthc hop« ut bettervig 



his condition, -without any partlc\ilar prof- 

 peft in view, andtrufting entirely to chance. 

 When he had more than reached the age of 

 manhood, he became clerk to tbat profound 

 lawyer the hce Mr. Bower. He employed 

 his extrn hours, and often fat up whole nights, 

 in acquiring a knowledge of fpecjal pleading, 

 and the law connected with that abftrufc 

 fcience ; and fuch w--.s his diligence tliLit, in 

 a comparatively Ihort time, he accumulated a 

 colleftion of precedents and notes that afto- 

 niflied his employer. He invented, for to 

 him it was an invention, a common-placc- 

 book, on the plan of Mr. Locke's, whicli he 

 often declared he had not then fuen. After 

 having been many years with Mr. Bower, 

 he, by the advice of that gentleman, com- 

 menced fpecial pleader ; and his drafts, which 

 were geaerally the work of his own hand, 

 were allowed to be models of accuracy. They 

 were formed according to the neat and con- 

 cife fyftem of Mr. Bower, and his great friend 

 and patron Sir Jofepli Yates, many of whofc 

 books, not&s, and precedents, as well as 

 thofe of Sir Thomas Davenport, Mr. Dog- 

 herty poflelTed. His intenfe application 

 greatly impaired his health, which was vifi- 

 bly on the decline for many months before 

 his deceaie. Mr. D. was the author ar.d 

 editor of fome valuable works on criminal 

 law. He publilhed, 1790, a new edition of 

 the Crown Circuit Companion, with very 

 confiderable additions; and, 1786, an origi- 

 nal compofition, the Crown Circuit Afliftant, 

 which is a moft ufeful fupplement to the fov- 

 mer. His comm-m-place and ofiice-books 

 would, if publifhed, be an invaluable trea- 

 fure fwcre it merely to ferve the purpofe of 

 an index), not only to the ftudent but to the 

 mi^re experienced lawyer. But the moft efti- 

 mable part of Mr- Dogherty's charafter was 

 his private worth, his modelt and un.iffuming 

 manners, his independent mind, his ftrift 

 'honour and probity. Ke was an exemplary 

 hulband and father, and a truly fincere 

 friend. He has left a large family, confifting, 

 principally, of females; and it is much to 

 be regretted that the fruits of his induftry 

 are far from being adequate to his labours and 

 merits. 



[Further particulars of Richard Hulfi; efj: 

 lakoje death is mentioned at page 491 of the 

 Lifl number. — He was one of the younger 

 fons of Sir Richard Hulfe, bart. (who was 

 eminently dillinguiilicd in his profeflion, and 

 was phylicisn to both their late Mjjcfties), 

 by Elizabeth daughter of Sir Richard Levctt, 

 knight, lord mayor of London 1705. He 

 was placed under the private tuition of thi; 

 juftly-celebratei Dr. jortin, and completed 

 his education at the Charter-lioufc, where he 

 was a contemporary with that illuftrious 

 ftatefman the Earl of Liverpool. Thence he 

 removed to St. Peter's-college, Cambridge, 

 and was admitted a member of Lincoln's inn; 

 from which honourable fociety he w;is called 

 tj the bat'. His utcendaiicu upon Wcilnun- 



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