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intimated, on what is termed the popular 
side of the question. The warmth with 
which he advocated the cause of the late 
Queen Caroline will not soon be forgotten. 
In the debates at the India-House, as 
well as in those of the House of Commons, 
Mr. Moore frequently took an active part. 
As a projector, a speculator, and a pro- 
moter of public works, no man was more 
distinguished. He exerted himself with 
much success respecting the erection of 
Drury Lane theatre; and, for some time, 
he was the chairman of the committee for 
the management of that concern. He was 
engaged in the Highgate-tunnel affair. He 
was also a successful promoter of the Impe- 
tial Gas Light Company, the bills for the 
incorporation of which-he carried through 
Parliament, and was made its deputy-chair- 
man; and he conducted the opposition 
made, by the Imperial and other gas com- 
panies, against the projectors of an Oil Gas 
Company. He defeated his opponents, with 
a lors of £30,000.; while, on his side, not 
mere than half of that sum was expended. 
During the years 1824 and 1825, Mr. 
Moore was much courted by the projectozs 
of many of the Stock Exchange bubbles. 
By connecting himself with these baseless 
eoncerns,. he subjected himself to heavy 
responsibilities. Bythe John Bull, and other 
Tory papers, he was, in consequence, very 
roughly handled; and, if we are to credit 
the statements and insinuations of those pa- 
pers, his conduct was not, upon every occa- 
sion, of the most satisfactory or honourable 
description. Under a fictitious name, he 
is thought to be one of the dramatis per- 
sone in the novel of “‘ George Godfrey” — 
a work in which the schemes of the Alley 
ere held up to severe and pointed ridicule. 
Having been some time held in durance, 
and finding himself assailed by legal pro- 
cess on all sides, Mr. Moore, to avoid the 
prospect of passing his last days within the 
walls of a prison, deemed it expedient to 
pass over to France. For some time he re- 
sided at Dieppe, but latterly at Abbeville, 
where he died, on the 5th of May. 
This being, pre-eminently, the age of 
auto-biography, reminiscences, &c., Mr. 
Moore had been occupying himself in the 
task of writing the Memoirs of his own Life 
and Times; but his mind is said to have 
been too much harassed by the reverses of 
his fortune, and his anxieties respecting the 
affairs in which he had been engaged in 
England, to allow him to make much pro- 
press! bane 
Mr. Moore kas left one son, now in India; 
and two daughters, one married, and both 
respectably situated in life. 
JOHN SCOTT. 
JEEvery collector of fine and valuable prints 
will remember the name of Scott, as that of 
an artist of high celebrity, in the depart- 
ment of animal and figure engraving Mr. 
Scott may almost be said to have been 
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born an engraver. His birthplace was at 
Neweastle-upon-Tyne, about the year 1773. 
His education was probably humble, as he 
was apprenticed to a tallow-chandler, named 
Greenwell, in the Old Flesh Market, New- 
castle. His leisure hours, especially during 
the latter portion of his term, were sedu- 
lously devoted to the arts of drawing and 
engraving. At length he was induced to 
shew his performances to his friend, Mr. 
Fisher, the keeper of a circulating-library, 
and clerk of the parish of St. Nicholas. 
Mr. Fisher submitted these productions to 
the examination of certain gentlemen who 
frequented his library, and by whom, as 
executed by a self-taught youth, they were 
thought highly of. On the suggestion of 
Mr. Fisher, young Scott wrote to Mr. Robert 
Pollard, the engraver, in London—trans- 
mitted to him some specimens of his talent 
—and solicited his advice as to the propriety 
of his visiting London, with the view of 
adopting the profession of an engraver. Mr. 
Pollard acted most generously : satisfied of 
his ability, he not only encouraged the pro- 
ject, but took him under his own tuition, 
gave up his claim to the customary fee, and 
allowed him a progressively increasing 
weekly payment. Under such auspices, he 
rapidly improved, and ultimately attained 
the summit of his art. His master-pieces 
were the Fox-Chase, from a painting by 
Reinagle and Marshall; and the Death of 
the Fox, from a picture by Gilpin, the pro- 
perty of the late Colonel Thornton, of sport- 
ing notoriety. The latter, if we mistake 
not, was -the picture for which Colonel 
Thornton—then resident at, and the pro- 
prietor of, Thornville Royal—had several of 
the finest sporting dogs in the kingdom 
killed, and placed in the requisite positions, 
to assist the painter in its production.— 
Other principal works by Mr. Scott were the 
various characters of dogs, and of horses, on 
a royal quarto size, with letter-press descrip- 
tions of the qualities and properties of these 
animals. 
Asa man, Mr. Scott was distinguished 
by unaffected plainness, scrupulous integrity, 
and general worth. He was one of the eight 
artists who, in the year 1809-10, assembled, 
and formed the plan of, the Artists’ Joint 
Stock Fund, for the benefit of decayed mem- 
bers, their widows, and children. This noble 
institution has so prospered, that, from its 
own subscriptions, and the contributions of 
gentlemen and amateurs, it is now in pos- 
‘session of government securities to a large 
amount. It is melancholy to add—though, 
at the same time, the circumstance shews 
the value of such societies—that Mr. Scott 
himself lived to become a quarterly depen- 
dent upon the very institution of which he 
had been a principal founder and promoter. 
Five or six years hence, after serving as stew- 
ard to the society, in high health and spirits, 
at one of its annual meetings, at the Free- 
mason’s Tayern, London, he was taken ill; 
subsequently, he lost his reason; and, at 
