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five years which immediately succeeded the 
cessation of hostilities, were passed by Capt. 
Pasley in the relaxation of domestic retire- 
ment. In 1788, he was invested with the 
chief command in the Medway, and hoisted 
his broad pendant on board the Vengeance, 
From this station he removed, first into the 
Scipio, and then into the Bellerophon. In 
the latter he was ordered to join the chan- 
nel fleet, in consequence of the apprehended 
ruptures with Russia and Spain. These dis- 
putes being compromised, he repaired to 
Chatham, where he continued during the 
customary period allotted to such a command. 
Retiring for a time from the service, he 
again remained unemployed till the com- 
mencement of the war with France in 1793. 
He was then appointed, as an_ established 
commodore, to fioist his broad pendant on 
board his former ship, the Bellerophon, and 
ordered to join the main fleet, under the or- 
ders of Lord Howe, On the 12th of April 
1794, being advanced to the rank of rear- 
admiral of the white, he hoisted his flag on 
board the same ship to which he had been 
so long attached. In the partial affairs which 
preceded the glorious ist of June, as wellas 
in the engagement on that day, the Bel- 
lerophon took a conspicuous part; and 
towards the conclusion of the conflict, 
Admiral Pasley had the misfortune to lose his 
leg. He had, however, the satisfaction to 
receive every palliative co his wound, which 
the attention of his sovereign, his com- 
mander, and his country, could bestow. His 
majesty conferred on him the dignity of a 
baronet, accompanied with a pension of 10001, 
a year. The personal injury he hed sus- 
tained necessarily deprived the nation of his 
farther services in an active capacity. In 
1798, in consequence of the mutiny at the 
Nore, Sir Thomas was appointed for a short 
time commander-in-chief in the Thames and 
Medway; but relinquished this station as 
goon as the trials of the mutineers were con- 
cluded. In 1799; he was appo‘nted port- 
admiral at Portsmouth, where he displayed 
the same activity and ability which con- 
stantly marked his character, while the un- 
impaired state of his body permitted him to 
engage in a more interesting department of 
the service. Sir Thomas married Mary, 
daughter of "Thomas Heywood, esq. chief 
justice of the Isle of Man, who died in 
1788, and was buried at Avignon, in France; 
by whom he had two daughters, Maria, mar- 
ried ty Captain Sabine, of the Guards, and 
Magdalen. i 
‘At his house, in Spital-square, William 
Hawes, M.D. a man whose long, active, dis- 
interested, and unwearied éxertions in the 
cause of humanity, justly secured to him the 
regard, esteem, and affection of all who knew 
him, or who feel an interest in whatever pro- 
motes the happiness of their species ; nor can 
these exertions fail to endear his memory to 
posterity, asa benefactor to the human race, 
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» Account of the late W. Hawes, M.D, 
\ add a 
He was born at Islington, of respectable pa- 
rents, on November 28, 1756. Aft iv 
ing his education at St. Paul’s school, he 
went as an apprentice, in the year 1751, te 
Mr. Corson, an eminent apothecary at Lam~ 
beth. On the terminatien of his apprentice- 
ship, he attended with great diligence the lec- 
tures given at the hospital, and by the diffe- 
rent Iccturers of the time. His favourite 
lecturer was the lute Dr, George Fordyce, and 
on whom he attended for some time after he 
entered into business, living in his immedi- 
ate neighbourhood. 1n 1759, he settled as an 
apothecary in the Strand: here he practised 
for many years with considerable success to 
his patients and himself. In the year 1767, 
a society was instituted at Amsterdam, for the 
recovery of the drowned, in consequence of 
some instances of recovery which had been 
happily effected, a short time before, in 
Switzerland. Memoirs of this society were 
published, anda copy of them-brought from 
Holland by Dr. Cogan; these he translated 
in 1773, inorder to show to the British pub- 
lic the practicability of recovering persons whe 
had hitherto been considered as dead, in con-~ 
sequence of being taken out of the water with 
every appearance of death. ‘These memoirs 
were no sooner translated, than they engaged 
the benevolent and humane’ mind of Mr. 
Hawes. He immediately advertized that he 
would pay rewards to those who would ac~ 
quaint him, within a certain time, of any” 
person who had been drowned in his neigh- 
bourhood. ‘This he» did -till the society was 
established in the following year: and cer~ 
tainly, he could not have given a more sincere 
or disinterested proof of his wish to promoce 
so valuable and benevolent an object. Inthe 
spring of 1774, Mr. Hawes published his 
*¢ Account of the late Dr. Goldsmith’s Hl. 
ness, so far as relates to the Exhibition of Dr, 
James’s Powder; together with Remarks on 
the Use and Abuse of that powerful Medi- 
cine, in the beginning of acute Disease.” Dr. 
Goldsmith was his intimate friend, and one 
of the first whom he consulted on his plan of 
offering the rewards just méntioned. Mr. 
Hawes’ only motive in this publication ap- 
pears to have been the wish of being service~ 
able to others; and to prevent men, if pose 
sible, trom destroying their own lives by the 
injudicious use of strong and (what are call- 
ed) infallible remedies. ‘© Ifthe desire I have, 
(he observes) to warn mankind against the fa- 
tal effects produced by the indiscriminate ex 
hibition of various potent medicines has be- 
trayed me into an improper warmth of expres« 
sion, I hope to stand excused by the humane 
and sensible part-of the public, when it is consi- 
dered that the preservation of the lives of my 
fellow-creatures was my principal inducement 
to it.” He acknowledges, however, with the 
greatest candour, that much good has arisen 
from the proper and skilful exhibition of Dr; 
James’s powder, in many cases of fever; but 
declares that he kas .lso seen several cases in 
* whigh 
