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it is held, to impress that moderation of con- 
duct, tenderness of feeling, and liberality of 
sentiment, are the best guides, when men 
are entrusted witha ‘little brief authority,” 
or when the times assume that awful charac- 
ter, that the laws cease to exercise their 
wholesome control. 
At Kinsale, in-the 25d year of his age, 
William Tribe, eaq. surgeon of the 6th foot, 
and third son of Mr. T. of Chatham. His 
death was occasioned by being seized with the 
_ cramp while bathing. He was a young man 
whose tising genius, in all probability, would 
soon have placed him high in his profession + 
his generosity of mind and affability of man- 
ners, had obtained him the esteem of every 
officer in the regiment, whose honourable 
testimony to his character, through their co- 
onel, cannot fail to offer a high degree of 
satisfaction to his otherwise disconsolate fa- 
mily, and the regiment will have long to 
regret the loss of one whose kind attention in 
his profession to every individual is seldom 
execeded. 
Col. David Collins. He was the eldest son 
of Gen. Arthur Tooker Collins, and Harriet 
Fraser, of Pack, in the King’s county, Ire- 
land, and grandson of Arthur Collins, esq. 
author of the Peerage of England, &c. He 
was born the 3d of March, 1756, and received 
a liberal education, under the Rev. Mr, Mar- 
shall, Master of.the Grammar School at Exe- 
ter, where his father resided. In 1770 he 
was, appointed lieutenant in the Marines 5 
and, in 1772, was with the Jate Admiral 
M:Bride, in the Southampton frigate, when 
the unfortunate Matilda, Queen of Denmark, 
was rescued from the dangers that awaited 
her by the energy of the British government, 
and conveyed to a place of safety in the king 
her brother’s Hanoverian dominions. On 
that occasion he commanded the guard that 
received her Majesty, and had the honour of 
kissing her hand. In 1775, he was at the 
“pattle of Bunker’s Hill; in which the first’ 
_ pattalion of Marines, to which he belonged, ° 
"so signally distinguished itself, having its 
commanding officer, the gallant’ Major Pit- 
cairne, and a great many officers and men, 
killed in storming the redoubt, besides a very 
“large proportion of wounded. In 1777, he 
was Adjutant of the Chatham Division; and,” 
in 1782, Captain of Marines on board the 
* Courageux, of 74 guns, commanded by the 
an) 
. valtar. 
- who survives him, but without issue) ; and, ~ 
Bate Lord Mulgrave, and participated in the 
partial action that took place with the ene= 
» Pat 
my’s fleet, when Lord Howe relieved Gib- 
3 Reduced to half-pay at the peace of 
1782, he resided at Rochester, in Kent, (ha- 
ving previously married an American lady, 
“pn its being determined to found a colony, 
by sending convicts to Botany Bay, he was 
appointed Judge Advocate to the intended set- 
tlement, and in that capacity sailed with 
Governor Philip in May 1787 (who more- 
ever appointed him his secretary), which 
_gituation he filled with the greatest credit to 
Deaths Abroad. 
himself and advantage to the Colony, until 
his return to England in 1797. The History 
of the Settlement, which he soon after pub. 
lished, followed by a second volume, a work 
abounding with information, highly inter 
esting, and written with the utmost simpli- 
city, will be read and referred to as a book of 
authority, as long as the Colony exists whose 
name it bears. The appointment of Judge 
Advocate, however, proved eventually “inju- 
rious to his real interests. While absent, he 
had been passed over when it came to his 
turn to be put on full pays; nor was he per-~ 
mitted to return to England to reclaim his 
rank in the corps: nor could he ever obtain 
any effectual redress, but was afterwards 
compelled fo come in as junior captain of the 
corps, though with his proper rank in the 
army. The difference this made in regard to 
his promotion was, that he died a captain in- 
stead of a colonel-commandant, his rank in 
the army being merely brevet. He had 
then the mortification of finding that, after 
10 years’ distinguished service in the infancy 
of a colony, and to the sacrifice of every 
real comfort, his only reward had been the 
loss of many years’ rank, a vital injury to an 
officer, A remark which his wounded fecl- 
ings wrung from him at the close of the se- 
cond volume of his History of the Settlement, 
appears to have awakened the sympathy cf 
those in power; and he was, almost imme- 
diately after its publication, offered the go- 
vernment of the projected Settlement on Vaz 
Diemen’s Land, which he accepted, and sailed 
once more for that quarter of the globe, 
where he founded his new colony ; struggle¢ 
with great difficulties, which he overcame 5 
and, after remaining there eight years, was 
erjoying the flourishing state his exertions 
had produced, when he died suddenly, after a 
few days’ confinement from a slight cold, on 
the 24th March, 1810. His person was re= 
markably handsome, and his manners ex- 
tremely prepossessing ; while, to a cultivated 
understanding, and an early fondness for the 
Belles Lettres, he joined the most cheerful 
and social disposition. How he was esteemed 
by the inhabitants of the Colony over which 
he presided, will appear from the following 
extract of a letter announcing his decease, 
By the death of Col. Collins * this Colony 
has sustained a loss it will take a number of 
years to pet over. I have known and served 
with him from the first establishment of the 
Colony; and, when I speak the feelings of 
my heart on this melancholy occasion, Tm 
sure that it is not my single voice, but that of 
every department whatsoever in the Settle- 
ment, who, with the most hearfelt regret, 
universally acknowledge him to have been 
the father and friend of all.” 
DEATHS ABROAD. 
At Madeira, whither he went for the reco- 
very of his health, H. Palmer Acland, esq, 
eldest son of John A. esq. of Fairfield, So- 
mersetshire. 
At Gibraltar, Mr.. Mansel, eldest son of 
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