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nelcy of the 24tli, and was placed in the 

 foreign staff -under Lord Cathcart, with 

 ■whom he served at the bombardment of Co- 

 penhagen, and was wounded in the arm. 



The last service in which Sir David 

 Baird engaged was, in lOOfl, to command 

 a body of troops, sent to reinforce the army 

 of Sir John Hloore, in Spain. He joined 

 that officer, and greatly distinguished him- 

 self in the battle of Cotunna. When Sir 

 John iMoore fell, he took the command ; 

 but, soon afterwards, losing an arm, he was 

 obliged to relinquish it to General Hope. 

 For this service he was, on the 13th of 

 April, Ifi09, rewarded with a patent of ba- 

 ronetcy, witli remainder, in defaidt of male 

 issue, to his brother, Robert Baird, of New- 

 byth, in the county of Haddington, Esq. 



Sir David Baird attained the rank of Ge- 

 neral in 1814; and, in 1819, he was made 

 Governor of Kinsal, and subsequently Go- 

 vernor of Fott George, which he held till 

 the time of his decease, which occurred at 

 liis seat at Fernton, in Perthshire, in the 

 month of September. 



Sir David Baird married, on the 4th of 

 August, 1810, Miss Preston Campbell, of 

 Fernton and Lochlane, in the county of 

 Pertli ; but the marriage was not produc- 

 tive of issue, 



JOSIAU SPODE, ESQ. 



It is only two years since we contributed 

 a brief memoir of the life and successful 

 career of Josiah Spode the elder, the great 

 manufacturer of Staffordshire ware and Eng- 

 lish porcelain, in their present state of un- 

 rivalled excellence ; and we are now called 

 upon to perform the same duty to the me- 

 mory of his son, .Josiah Spode, of the house 

 of Spode and C'opeland, Portugal-street, 

 Lincoln's Inn Fields, tlic tliird eminent 

 potter of the name. 



The younger Josiah Spode, who, as a 

 tradesman and as a friend, inherited all tlic 

 virtues of his predecessors, was born in Fore- 

 street, Cripplegate, in the year 1776. At 

 an early period of his existence, he was 

 removed to the residence of his paternal 

 grandfather, at Stoke-upon-Trent, Stafford- 

 shire ; and he was educated at the Free 

 Grannnar School, Newcastle-undcr-Lyme, 

 in the same county. As soon as his youth 

 permitted, lie w."s iniiiated in tlie business 

 of a potter, under his grandfutlier, and lie 

 continued engaged in it till about the year 

 1010, when he retired to the more quiet 

 pursuit of agriculture, on his estate at Fen- 

 ton, near Stoke. 



A lamentable accident occurred to him in 

 180H. His father had just conii)lfl',;d the 

 erection of a steam-engine and niill-woik, 

 for the grinding of materials required in tlie 

 manufacture of pottery and po.celaiii. i\Ir. 

 Spode was inspecting the operations, when 

 a crown wl)eel struck his haf; and, in lift- 

 ing his left nrm to protect iiimsclf, (lie 

 liand pasned between the cogs of the wheels, 



and immediate amputation became indiS' 

 pensable. 



During his retirement, Mr. Spode thrice 

 filled the office of chm-chwarden for Stoke 

 parish ; and in the performance of that duty 

 he was called to advance funds for the paro- 

 chial disbursements, to the amount of seve- 

 ral thousand pounds, some of which is yet 

 to be repaid to his trustees. 



In consequence of tlie sickness whicli 

 ultimately proved fatal to liis father, 3Irv 

 Spode returned to the business, and re- 

 mained in it till his demise, which occurred 

 with awful suddenness on the 6th of Octo- 

 ber, lie had reached home, from a journey 

 into Suffolk, on the evening of Sunday, the 

 4th ; and his health was in that general 

 good state which he had some time enjoyed. 

 On the Tuesday morning, however, while 

 engaged in conversation with his family 

 and his medical friend, he was seized with 

 nausea ; a blood vessel was in consequence 

 ruptured; and, witliin two hour,-, his suf- 

 ferings were terminated, without his having 

 been once able to open his eyes, or to give 

 any intimation of the nature of his attack. 



Mr. Spod2 died at the Jlount, the splen- 

 did mansion which his father erected in the 

 year 1803. In the several relations of civil 

 and domestic society, his character ranked 

 very high. As a friend and benefactor he 

 was invaluable. Though possessed of im- 

 mense property, his modesty and affability 

 remained unaffected by his elevated condi- 

 tion. Towards the poor, his sympathy and 

 benevolence were almost boundless. In 

 the relief of private individuals, labouring 

 under sickness and distress, his expenditure, 

 since he last engaged in business, is known 

 to have been not less than 500/. per an- 

 num. 



JIONSIEUn STEPHEN DUMONT. 



M. Stephen Dumont, a Jesuit, and a 

 writer of eminence, was a native of Geneva, 

 where he was born about the year l^M. 

 For some time he was a coadjutor of I\I. 

 Duroveray's, in the editorship of a journal 

 in continuation of that of ]\lirabeau. 



In 1792, he enjoyed the office of libra- 

 rian to the Marquess of Lansdowne ; and it 

 was, we believe, in England, that he con- 

 tracted an intimate and lasting friendship 

 with the celebrated Mr. Jeremy Bentliam. 

 That gentleman entrusted liim witli the 

 manuscript of his great work, written in 

 French, imdtr tlie title of " Traite de I-e- 

 gislation Civile," in three volumes, 8vo, 

 wliich he published in the year 1802. A 

 second work of INIr. Bentham's was trans- 

 lated by Mons. Dumont, in 1812, from his 

 manuscript entitled " Theorie des Peines 

 et des Kf compenscs," in two volumes, 8vo. 

 Wk believe he also puldislied Mr. Ben- 

 tham's " Tactics of Legislative Assemblies, 

 to which is added a Treatise on Political 

 Sophisms," in two volunics, 8vo, 181C. It 

 is stated that, of the first of these works, 

 tliree thousand copies were sold ; and that 



