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S'ir li. J. Sulivan. — Captain JocclT/n. [Sejit. 1, 



ery : it is an aflive fpirit that literally goes 

 about to do good ; of which as it is no Icfs 

 <Uf5ii'ult to mike the doubters of forrow and of 

 the affeftion on which it is founded believe 

 thill- it can continue its duties, after its objeft 

 has '.eeii lonj mingled with the dull, in the 

 manner in wliich they are chcriflied by L.ily 

 Dacie, than to credit that benevolencs may 

 be. as powerful as love, even in a bofom '.vhcre 

 forro-. • nas eftabli/hed a throne, let the whole- 

 nelghcorrhood of Lee, lend -vigour to their 

 /ait!., qven if it cannot animate their virtue. " 

 The vc-ieration paid by this lady to the me- 

 mory of her departed Lord was confpicuous in 

 the moft common incidents- of life. She 

 never fat Ao-kv. to dinner v.itiiout having the 

 chair, in which fhe ufed to fit, placed at the 

 head of thi- table with a plate, knltc, fork, 

 &c. nay fo ftrong w-us her attachment to every 

 objcft \vhic>. recalled him to her mind, that ffie 

 altered all thofe articles or his apparel which 

 were capable of'being converted to her own 

 ufe, and was in the conftant habit of v.-earing 

 tlicm. Her figure was t.ill and niafculine, 

 file generally :ippcared in ;! ridinj; htibit and 

 roan's hat, and while in health took a great 

 deal of cxercife either on horfeback or on 

 foot in the neighbourhood of Lee. Her cha- 

 rity and attention to the poor in that village, 

 when Ihe frequently vifitcd and fupplicd with 

 the comforts of life, are not Icfs honourable 

 to her character than her almoft unexampled 

 conjuE-il attachment. 



Hir R^rJjO'd y^'fiph Sulk'ait, hart., tuhofe 

 death is mciitioncci at p. 90 cf our l/iji mnnbcr, 

 -was c;;rly in life fent to Alia, with his bro- 

 ther, the Right Hon. ]o!in S., reprcfentative 

 in parliament ior Aldborough, under the auf- 

 pices of the late Laurence Sulivan, efq. chair- 

 man of the Eail India Company. On his re- 

 turn to Euro;-'c he made a to-.n- thruvigh vari- 

 ous parts of England, Scotland, and Wales, 

 which he publiih- d in a fcrics of letters in two 

 oftavo volumes in 1780. Not long after- 

 -ward, he printed A Letter to the Eift India 

 D^reiiors, which was followed by An Ana- 

 lyfiS of the Political Hi'iory of India, in an 

 oftavo volume, Thoughts on Marti:il Law, a 

 piiti-iphU't, and Philofophicil Rhapfodics, 

 F^agments of Akhur of CcttiS, cont.dning Re- 

 flections on the Laws, Manners, Cui'toms, and 

 Relifsinns of cert.iin Afiatic, Afiic, and Euro- 

 pean Nations, in three volumes oflavo. The 

 la ft of thefe works though faid to be written 

 by a native of Allyri-.'., w.is foon found to i.e 

 much more deeply tiniSured with European than 

 -with Oiientalphilofophy. In. 1791 Mr. Suli- 

 van publifiied A View of Nature, in Letters 

 to a Traveller among the Alps, a work uhcie 

 titlu attradled a degree of cuviofity w-hich its 

 contents were not calculated tograti y. The 

 author of the Purl'r.irs of Literature has 

 thought proper to di-nity this publication 

 with the eharaftcr of '* a work of labour and 

 or general utility digcit«d from original writers 



with judgment, and with an upright, virtu- 

 ous heart, in a pleafing and inftrutlive man- 

 ner," — a fentence totally unworthy of him 

 who paffed it. To the goodnefs of the 

 writer's heart it is wiipoflible to ubjeft, but as 

 a philofopher, he is below mediocrity. The 

 lad; volume alone is in any degree worthy of a 

 philofopliic pen. In the parliament convoked 

 in 17;)0 Mr. Sulivan was tlcfted for the bo- 

 rough of New Romncy, and at the general 

 election in 'iPAi'i he was rerurned for Seafordj 

 after a iharp conteft. In lU0i4 he was created 

 a baronet of Great Britain, and on the 8th of 

 June in the fame year he divided with the ex- 

 niinitter Mr. Addington, againft the firft mca- 

 fure of J\Ii. Pitt's admlniftra'ion, the addi- 

 tional force-bill. On the 8th of -April, 1805, 

 when the conduct of Lord Melville became a 

 fubjedt o"" di.'cuffion in the houfe, he was in 

 the minority in favour of the amendment of 

 the Chancellor of the exchequer to the mo- 

 tion of Mr. Whitbread.] 



^Further f^iitictilars of Captain Jocdyn, 

 •wh'.fe dejth is mcr.iicneii at p. 90 of our lap 

 inimber. He was fon of Lieut.-col. J. and de- 

 fce'ded, in the fame degree of relationlhip 

 with tlie late Earl of Roden, from Sir Robert 

 J. bart. of Kyde-iiall, near Sawbridgeworth, 

 Herts. He married Elizabeth daughter and 

 fole heirefs of John Salulhury, efq. of Bryny- 

 barcutt, county of Denbigh j by whom he had 

 two fons and two daughters ; the eldeft a 

 captain in the 58th foot, now in Sicily ; 

 tiie youngclt, a youth ot great promife, who 

 was a lieutenant in the fame regiment, fell, 

 in his 18th year, in Egypt, on the ever me- 

 morable 21!1; of March, 1801, when the 

 brave Abercromhie received his death-wound. 

 Capt. J. was entered in the navy at a very 

 early age, and for a long feries of years faith* 

 fully fcrved his king and country. He v.'as 

 Lo: d Anion's firft lieutenant in the Royal 

 George, and acquitted himfelf with great 

 credit, and the acknov.dedged fatisfaftion of 

 his noble commander, who exprclTed much 

 pleafurc in the opportunity of ferving him. 

 He commanded his majelly's (liip Lenox, of 

 7 1 guns, at the taking of the Manillas, where 

 he was cntrufted with the cai-e of the difem- 

 barkiitioii ; and, to ufe the words of the Ga- 

 zette upon that occafion, "did everything 

 tliat could be expetted from a diligent good 

 officer.'-' He loft a confideiable Ihare of prize 

 monev hy a pe.ice being concluded before the 

 account of tiie capture arrived j and Govern- 

 ment not eJpouling the caufe of the captors. 

 He was alfo unfortunate in being, with a 

 long lift of brave officers, cruelly deprived of 

 his ranlc by the unprecedented promotion of 

 the late Lord Ho-.ve, and put upon a fuper- 

 annuated lift created by his lordlhip for unre.s 

 warded valour. He was a man of the ftriifteft 

 honour and integrity ; a cool, aflive, intrepid ' 

 officer ; and confcientioully difcharged the 

 dutiei of hulband, parent, and friend- 



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