572 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1809. 



administration whenever Le consci- 

 entiously could; but he never gave 

 one vote with lord North during 

 the American war, uniformly divid- 

 ing with the opposition on every 

 question that had any relation to it. 

 When Mr, Pitt first moved for a 

 reform in parliament, sir Richard 

 voted in favour of that measure. In 

 ITS*, he also supported alderman 

 Sawbridge, and in 1797, Mr. Grey 

 on a similar occasion. He joined 

 for a time in favour of the former 

 contest with France ; but we at 

 length find him voting against the 

 continuance of the war, as he wish- 

 ed a stop to be put to the effusion 

 of human blood. In 1800, the 

 knight of the shire for Salop se- 

 conded a motion made by the late 

 sir William Pulteney, for leave to 

 bring in a bill to prevent the inhu- 

 man sport of bull-baiting. In 1802, 

 when Mr. Dent moved the second 

 reading of a similar bill, he begged 

 leave to "speak in behalf of a race 

 of poor friendless beings who cer- 

 tainly could not speak for them- 

 selves." After quoting several ap- 

 posite passages from the Proverbs 

 of Solomon, and the writings of sir 

 Matthew Hale, in opposition to cru- 

 elty to brute creatures, he jocularly 

 observed, that «'as the gentlemen 

 of Ireland had been so favourable 

 to their own hulls he was sure they 

 would be no less indulgent to ours."* 

 Sir Richard supported Mr. Adding- 

 ton's administration, and expressed 

 his approbation of the address to 

 the king on the renewal of hostili- 



ties. The public and private chari- 

 ties of the deceased baronet were 

 very liberal and extensive ; and what 

 is still better they were administered 

 in the true spirit of the gospel, with 

 tenderness and secrecy. The great 

 regularity which pervaded hishouse- 

 hold and numerous domestics exhi- 

 bited a pattern highly worthy of the 

 imitation of all others in the like 

 station of life ; at the same time 

 that liis munificence and hospitality 

 in the entertainment of his friends 

 were quite of the old English stamp. 

 His paternal estate he laid out with 

 great taste, insomuc'i that Hawk- 

 stone is one of the greatest orna- 

 ments of the county in which it 

 is situated, and the admiration of 

 all visitors. Sir Richard was never 

 married, so that his title and es- 

 tates descend to his eldest brotlier, 

 now sir John Hill. 



At his seat, near Alton, Hamp- 

 shire, Sir Thomas Pasley, bart. ad- 

 miral of the white, 74. He was 

 the fifth son of James Pasley, esq. 

 of Craig, in the county of Dum- 

 fries, North Britain, by Magdalen, 

 daughter of Robert Elliot, esq. of 

 Middleholm Mill, in the county of 

 Roxburgh. He was born at Craig, 

 on the 2nd of March, HSi, and 

 having, from his early youth, enter- 

 tained a strong predilection for the 

 naval service, he entered in 1752, 

 as a midshipman on board the Gar- 

 land frigate. Very soon afterwards, 

 he removed into the Weasel sloop 

 of war, at that time under orders 

 for the Jamaica station, and in 



which 



Sir Richard carried his consideration for his servants and domestic animals, par- 

 ticularly his horses, to a degree not very common at the present da}'. It is a feet, 

 that after bemg set down at the Houseof Commons, which he very regularly attend- 

 ed, if the weather either wiis or threatened to be bad, he would direct his coachman 

 to return immediately; and i-ather tlian keep his domestics and horses exposedto its 

 vicissitudes, he would himself brave its inclemency, at all hours, in a walk from 

 Westminster to Ms residence, at the very ex.tremity of Upper Harley -street. 



