1823.] liev. W. Bingley — Mr. 



into small ones ; but the plan did not suc- 

 ceed, and the parties became bankrupts. 

 Mr. P. now subsisted for several years as a 

 writer by profession for the newspapers 

 and booksellers, and suflFered all the mi- 

 sery consequent on a precarious employ- 

 ment without original capital. On the 

 restoration of the Bourbons he went again 

 to Paris, and there conducted Galignani's 

 English newspaper, till driven away by a 

 prosecution for some insignificant libel. 

 Since that time he has existed, we cannot 

 say subsisted, in London, by essay-writing 

 jmd translating. His constitution being, 

 however, broken up, and his means having 

 become precarious, he died from old age, 

 which event, perhaps, was accelerated by 

 anxiety of mind. He was the inventor 

 of what he called Linear Arithmetic, or 

 a means of representing by lines the in- 

 crease and decrease of quantities and 

 amounts, much admired, and applied by 

 bim to a great vaiiety of subjects. His 

 name also appears to a bulky work on the 

 families of our peerage, and to a vast num- 

 ber of pamphlets. He was an amiable and 

 inoffensive man, not prepossessing in his 

 appearance and address, but with a strong 

 and decisive physiognomy, like that of his 

 late brother. He has left a wife and 

 daughter, whose present condition ought to 

 command the assistance of the benevolent. 

 At the Woodlands, Blackheath, John 

 Julius Angerstein, esq. This gentleman, 

 who was descended from a respectable 

 family, was born at St. Petersbnrgh, in 

 the year 1735. About 1749 he came to 

 England, under the patronage of the late 

 Andrew Thompson, esq, an opulent Rus- 

 sian merchant. In that gentleman's count- 

 ing-house he remained for some time, and, 

 when he came of age, he was introduced 

 to Lloyd's by his patron. With good natu- 

 ral abilities and unwearied application, 

 Mr. Angerstein quickly became celebrated 

 as a broker and underwriter. His sub- 

 scription to a policy was quite sufficient 

 to induce other underwriters to add their 

 names. In such repute were his policies, 

 that, for some years after, they were called 

 Juliant, as a mark of distinction. It is, 

 therefore, not surprising that he at length 

 reached the summit of commercial fame 

 and prosperity ; his reputation being 

 spread to all quarters where commerce is 

 known. In public loans his list was always 

 ranked among the first, and monied men 

 were anxious to obtain a place in it. Nor 

 were his exertions confined only to his 

 own benefit. The frequenters of Lloyd's 

 Coffee-house owe to bis strenuous efforts 

 tlie accommodations which they at pre- 

 sent enjoy. He was the proposer of the 

 issue of Exchequer Bills in 1793, by which, 

 at a critical moment, relief was afforded to 

 trade. 'I'he Veterinary College would, 

 perhaps, have simk to the groimd, had he 

 Dot made a vigorous etl'ort in its favour, at 



Playjair — Lord Keith. i7i 



a moment when its funds were nearlj ex- 

 hausted ; and he was the first to propose, 

 from the fund at Lloyd's, a reward of two 

 thousand pounds to that meritorious disco- 

 very, the Life boat. In private life, Mr. 

 Angerstein was amiable, benevolent, and 

 hospitable. It is no slight proof of his 

 worth, that he enjoyed the friendship of 

 Dr. Johnson, Sir JoshuaReynolds,Grarrick, 

 Jonas Hanway, and many other eminent 

 contemporaries. As a patron of art he 

 ranked high. His collection in Pail Mall 

 contained some of the finest works of the 

 foreign and British artists, and were always 

 visible through the courtesy of their pos- 

 sessor. Mr, Angerstein retired from busi- 

 ness about twenty years ago. 



At his seat near Kincardine, Scotland, 

 Admiral Lord Keith. He was the son of 

 Lord Charles Elphinstone, and was born in 

 1747. His promotion, as post-captain, 

 bears date May 11, 1775; and, the follow- 

 ing year, he was appointed to the Pearl 

 frigate, of thirty-two guns, in which vessel 

 he served in America, under the orders of 

 Lord Howe ; and afterwards in the Perseua 

 frigate, under Admiral Arbuthnot, at the 

 reduction of Charlestown, on which occa- 

 sion he commanded a detachment of sea- 

 men on-shore, and received the official 

 praise of General Clinton. On his return 

 from America, Captain Elphinstone was 

 appointed to the Warwick, of fifty guns, 

 in which vessel he fell in with, and 

 captured, the Rotterdam, a Dutch man-of- 

 war, of equal force ■, and some time after 

 L'Aigle, a French frigate, of forty guns and 

 600 men. On the commencement of th« 

 war with France, in the year 1793, he was 

 appointed to command the Robust, of 

 seventy-four guns, one of the squadron un- 

 der Lord Hood, which sailed for the Medi- 

 terranean in the month of May, In the 

 arduous and difficult post of Governor of 

 Fort la Malgue, and commander of the 

 troops landed at Toulon, Captain Elphin- 

 stone displayed consummate knowledge of 

 military tactics. When it became una- 

 voidably necessary that Toulon should be 

 evacuated, the care of embarking the 

 artillery stores, and troops, was committed 

 to Captain Elphinstone. For some other 

 important services, he was, in 1797, created 

 a baron of the kingdom of Ireland, by the 

 title of Lord Keith, and for a short time 

 commanded a detachment of the Channel 

 Fleet. In the summer of the following 

 year, he succeeded Earl St. Vincent in the 

 command of the fleet in the Mediterra- 

 nean, and soon after had the misfortune to 

 lose his ship, the Queen Charlotte, in the 

 Bay of Genoa,by an accidental fire. On the 

 Ist of January, 1801, Lord Keith was ad- 

 vanced to be Admiral of the Blue; he, at 

 this time, commanded the naval force em- 

 l)loyed against the French on the coast of 

 Egypt. His conduct, on this important 

 station, v\as fully equal to the high promise 



which 



