278 Account of Mr 



sary fnr tlie study of aiiatomy. His class 

 •still fuitluT incn'tisini;, lie converted the 

 first Theatre into a Miiseir.ii, aud built <i 

 iniich laij;er one, wliicli lie opened in 

 October, 18'23, suiToiinded by near 300 

 pupils, into wlioin lie had infused an en- 

 tlmsiasni for the [noi'cssion, which was 

 only to be equalled by their res|)ect for his 

 abilities, and their esteem for his character. 

 —The causes vviiich led so rapidly to the 

 liigh and deserved reputation of Mr. 

 Jidward Grainger were, first, his intimate 

 knowledge of the structure and functions 

 of the buiiian body; 'Jdly, his snrjjrisin^ 

 power of ar!an!;inK and exlidjitint; that 

 knowledge so distinctly, as to make what 

 he taught plainly intellijjible; and 3dly, 

 the deep interest which he took in the wel- 

 fare and improvement of his pupils, being 

 at all times their iincere friend, and acces- 

 siiiie preceptor. 



[The late Jaseph Marnjalt, esq. whose 

 <leath was noticed in our last, was de- 

 scended from a hiirlily respectable family 

 at East Bcrgholt ni Sufiblk. His father 

 was an eminent pliysLcian, who practised 

 in Lolhbiiry. Being intended for the ge- 

 neral profession of a nieichaiit, he was sent 

 out, lu an early age, to the Island of Gre- 

 nada, where, iiotwiliistandiiig some unto- 

 ward rirciinisiances, which would, ever af- 

 tfr^la^ds, liav>; <1. imped the ardour of many 

 mi'.id.s, and deterred them fnim the prose- 

 rniion of ,si:eli a career as he had emliaiked 

 in, belaid the foiiiulatiori of that intimate 

 local knowledge of the whole West Indian 

 Archipeligo, and of its comprehensive re- 

 lations bolli with Europe and Amcricji, 

 which not only led to his subse(|uci)t suc- 

 cess in life, but which gave to all his 

 (>pinioi:s connected with the concerns of 

 (hose important Colonies, that wcii;lit and 

 that value wiiicli they afterwards acrjnired. 

 From the West Indies he went, in the 

 year J780, for a short time to North Ame- 

 lica, and visited 15oslon, where he became 

 aecpiaintcd with the family of the late 

 Erederick Gear, esq. an American loyalist. 

 He married ?dr. Gear's third daughter, 

 Charlotte, by whom, his surviving relict, 

 he has left nine children to share tlie- 

 .-plei'.ilid earnings ot his well-spent life. 

 Ha relnrned to Grriiada after his marriage, 

 where he continued to reside about a 

 twelvemonth ; but on the birth of his 

 eldest son, in 178'.', he revisited England, 

 wiiieh he never afterwards qi ilted, except 

 t J eiijoy, with his family, a short excursion 

 to Fiance. His wealth, there is reason to 

 believe, amounts to considerably nioie 

 llian six hundred thousand pounds. On all 

 g! cat questions connected with the colo- 

 nial policy, or the shipping interests of the 

 country, few men were more thoroughly 

 conversant; and, viitli a very extensive 

 correspondence to keep up with the most 

 distant partsof the empire, he never seem- 

 ed enibai rasped by Iheiiumber, the weight, 



Marry ait. [-\piil 1, 



or the variety, of his pursuits. Amidst the 

 complicated points growing out of iifs 

 profession as a merchant, which were 

 constantly coming before him, and the 

 conflicting variety ot interests which they 

 would sometimes involve, he had a clear- 

 ness of intellect, a wonderful readiness of 

 tact, to seize the true gist and merits ot" 

 the case, which never forsook him. It 

 was this happy faculty of disengaging from 

 a mass of intricate matter that vvhieli was 

 extraneous and not relevant to the purpose, 

 that enabled him to despatch business with 

 wonderful quickness, and to keep his mind 

 unembarrassed where many others would 

 have been perplexed with fearful obscu- 

 rity. On tlie great question which re- 

 cently agitated so much the minds of men, 

 in the last session of Parliament, respect- 

 ing the equalization of duties on East and 

 West India sugars, Mr. Marryatt greatly 

 distinguished himself both by his speeches 

 and his writings; and it is not, perhaps, 

 too much, mainly to attribute the failure 

 of that important measure to the very able 

 opposition it met with from him, in every 

 stage of its progress, liut the most lasting 

 monument of its usefulness will, perhaps, 

 be lelt at Lloyd's; and that lespectable 

 body, equally with the West India propri- 

 etors, will ever owe to him the deepest 

 obligations. The admirable regulations 

 lie established for managing their extensive 

 concerns, and the niiecasing care wjifi 

 which he watched over every thing which 

 could tend to the promoiion of their in- 

 terests, will imt soon be forgotten. In 

 the general style of his c!o(|uenee, whether 

 in or out of Parliament, Mr. Marryatt was 

 not an cle.:ant speaker, but he was a pow- 

 erful, energetic, argumentative, and (lei-^ 

 suasive one ; he never committed himself 

 but on topics, the real tiaiiire of wbicli he 

 had not calmly and dispassionately wcigli- 

 Rd and made himself perfectly acquainted 

 with ; so that when be did speak, his opi- 

 nions carried the greater weight; having 

 great command of words, and an easy yet 

 emphatic mode of expressing his ideas, a 

 mode which from the decided manner in 

 which it was pronounced, gave to those 

 who did not know him an ex cathedra kind 

 of style, which, though ever commanduig, 

 yet was not always calculated to please or 

 to capiivate.] 



lii the notice of Sir H. B. Dudley, in 

 our last, for humbugs read hont-boijs ; and 

 for rivals, read rival candidates. 



ECCr.ESIASTICAI, PROMOTIONS. 



Rev. K. Thomas, to the perpetual cu- 

 racy of Hemswell, Lincolnshire. 



Kev. G. Greaves, to be chaplain to the 

 British Factory at Archangel. 



Rev. J. E. Jones, m.a. to be chaplain to 

 the Baroness Dov/aiier Lavington, ' 



Rev. T. R. Smith, to the vicarage of 

 Startforth, Yorkshire. 



Kev. 



