1822.] 
{At Brighton, Phebe Hassell, aged 108. 
She was born in- 1713, and served for many 
years as a private soldier in the fifth regiment 
ot foot, in difierent parts of Europe ; and in 
1745, fought under the command of the Duke 
of Cumberland at the battle of Fontenoy, 
where she received a bayonet wound in her 
arm. She lived the reigns of five British 
sovereigns, Anne and the four Georges ; and 
through the reyal bounty and the occasional 
assistance of many liberal persons in Brigh- 
ton, she passed the evenivg of her life in 
tranquillity and comfort.] 
[At Loodeanah, in the East Indies, on the 
18th cf May last, 30, Captain George Rod- 
ney Blane, of the Bengal Engineers, the 
second son of Sir Gilbert Blane; bart. He 
received his education at the Charter-house, 
and the Military College at Marlow, which 
he joined in 1804, as a cadet of the East 
India Company. He went there on the 
department of the line, but was transferred 
to that of the ordnance, on account of his 
superior talent in mathematics; and on 
this occasion, he attracted the particular 
notice and patronage of Mr. Pitt, then 
prime-minister. He completed his educa- 
‘tion at Woolwich, and embarked for India 
in 1807; where, on his arrival, he was se- 
jected for the corps of Engineers. He 
assisted in surveying the province of Cut- 
tack, and the survey of Sangor and the 
Sunderlands; and in 1814, he served in 
the Nepau! war, and directed the works at 
the siege of Kalunga, under Gen. Gillespie. 
—In storming this piace, Blane received a 
musket-bail in the arm, and having retired 
to the rear to have it extracted, returned 
into action. Capt. Blane was after this 
employed in surveying the skirts of the 
Himaleh mountains, near the sources of 
the Jumna ; and in repairing the fortifica- 
tion of Loodeanah, on the river Setledge. 
The service upon which the government of 
Jndia have so highly recognised his merit, 
was that of the restoration of the antient 
canals of irrigation, which had been choak- 
ed up more than a century, and on which 
artificial watering, extensive territories 
to the N.W. of Delhi, depend for their 
fertility. The restoration of these canals 
had occurred to some of Lord Hastings’ 
predecessors, but owing to various objec- 
tions made at that time, the work was not 
deemed advisable. At an early part of 
the administration of the present patriotic 
and benevolent governor general, the idea 
of restoring the canals was again revived ; 
and Capt. Blane haying already given emi- 
nent proofs of his superior skill, was no- 
minated superintendent ofthis undertaking, 
in 1814. Various incidents prevented his 
being called on to commence operations 
till 1817. The interval he employed in 
making himself master of the most approy- 
ed methods of conducting embankments 
Captain Blane. Rev. John 
Malham.— Mr. Glasspool. 86 
and excavations, in which he received 
considerable assistance from the late Mr. 
Rennie, and several other eminent engi- 
neers. Capt. Blane commenced his opera- 
tions in the autumn of 1817, and com- 
pleted the whole undertaking in May 1820, 
being within half the period originally 
prescribed. The completion of this grand 
undertaking, has not only tended to in- 
crease the fame of Capt. Blane, but will 
also prove a source of great pecuniary 
profit to the company; and the govern- 
ment were so highly pleased with the ex- 
pedition, success and economy with which 
this great work had been achieved, that 
they appointed Capt. B. superintendent of 
all canals in that quarter. A protracted 
and severe illness, however, frustrated the 
execution of several other undertakings of 
great utility. His death was announced 
in the Government Gazette, dated Calcutta, 
June 5, 1821, and attords ample testi- 
mony to his public and private virtues and 
talents. Bur 
{Lately, 75, the Rev. John Malham, 
vicar of Helton, Dorset. He was a native 
of Craven in Yorkshire, and in 1768 he 
published several mathematical commuui- 
cations in the Leeds Mercury, at which 
time he conducted a school. Soon after 
entering into holy orders, he served a cu- 
. racy in Northamptonshire: in 1781, he 
resumed as schoolmaster, and after several 
changes, lie settled at Salisbury. In 1801, 
he was presented to the vicarage of Helton; 
but he latterly resided in London, and was 
chiefly employed by the bookselJers, en- 
gaged in publishing bibles and other works 
in weekly numbers. He also published 
several theological and elementary works; 
among which are ‘‘ the Schoolmaster’s 
Complete Companion, and Scholar’s Uni- 
versal Guide to Arithmetic, 1782 :” ** Two 
Sermons on National Gratitude ;”  “ the 
Scarcity of Wheat Considered,” 1800, 
“‘ Lowndes’s History of England, brought 
down to 1812,” 12mo; “ A new Intro- 
duction to Book-keeping,” fifth edition ; 
and several smaller works.] 
{In Lant-street, Southwark, E.Glasspool, 
esq. Mr. G.who held a situation in the 
Victualling Department, rose at his usual 
hour, and proceeded from his chamber to 
the kitchen; shortly after the bed-room 
bell rang, and the servants went up-stairs 
to attend on Mrs. G. Almost immediately 
after they had left the kitchen, a report of 
a pistol was heard, followed by a groan. 
The servants lost no time in going down 
stairs, when on entering the kitchen they 
discovered their master lying on the floor, 
weltering in blood. A large horse-pistol 
was lying by his side, with which he had 
shot himself completely through the 
heart. The deceased had lately been dis- 
missed from a high and lucrative situation 
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