t7D ANNUAL REGISTER, 1810. 



officer distinguished himself at the 

 Biegeof Seringapatam, As8aye,and 

 Vellore, receiving, while serving 

 with the nintteenth light dragoons 

 at the latter place, at the head of 

 his reginaent, for most meritorious 

 conduct, the thanks of colonel Gil- 

 lespie. In 1800 he returned to this 

 country with his regiment, after an 

 absence of eleven years; preferring 

 however an active situation, he 

 exchanged into the seventeenth 

 light dragoons, then on their way 

 to India, whither he proceeded to 

 join tiiem, and on the day of his 

 reaching quarters v/as seized with 

 afever, which, afterseventeendays, 

 terminated anexistencehonourabie 

 to his memory. The whole garri- 

 son of Surat attended his funeral. 



At Arnlieim, in Holland, Mat- 

 thys Bademaker, at tlie great age 

 of 110 years. He worked at liis 

 trade, as ashoemaker, until theage 

 of ninet)'. He was only once mar- 

 ried, and had no more than two 

 children, both females. Both of 

 these however, having married, the 

 old mandiedgrandfather to twelve 

 persons, and great-grandfather to 

 twenty, the eldest of whom was 

 twenty-one years of age at the 

 time of his decease. He retained 

 his faculties and health until with- 

 in three weeks of his death. When 

 king Louis visited Arnheim last 

 year, he settled a pension of 400 

 guilders on him. 



On his passage to Madeira, the 

 rev. Lewis Roberts, the younger 

 son of an opulent merchant settled 

 at Lisbon. He was born in that 

 city about 1772, and was brought 

 up in the persuasion of the church 

 of Rome, of which both his parents 

 were communicants. At the pro- 

 per age he became a member of 

 a college of celebrity, where he 

 was soon distinguished by the un- 



comraon vigour of his mind, the 

 fertility of his genius, and the ap- 

 titude with which he acquired all 

 kinds of erudition. His passion 

 for knowledge was unbounded; 

 and he applied himself with un- 

 wearied zeal in the study of the 

 classics, of ethics, of divinity, and 

 all the higher branches of science. 

 Having stored his mind with these 

 important attainments, he did not 

 disdain the lighter pursuits of li- 

 terature. History, poetry, and 

 the belles lettres, opened a 

 wide field to his imagination; and 

 such was the facility with which 

 he acquired the modern languages, 

 thatbefore he attained his twentieth 

 year, he spoke and wrote with 

 equal propriety and elegance the 

 Englis!), French, Portuguese, 

 Spanish, and Italian. Thus quali- 

 fied to fill any situation with 

 credit, he was induced, by the ad- 

 vice of a tutor who had early been 

 intrusted with the care of his edu- 

 cation, to become a Catholic cler- 

 gyman, contrary to the inclina- 

 tions of his family, who had hoped 

 that his abilities might be display- 

 ed in a more active scene of life. 

 His exertions in the pulpit chal- 

 lengedthe applauseofall whoheard 

 him; and while the public did 

 justice to his oratorial abilities, his 

 private friends were not less de- 

 lighted with the charms of his con- 

 versation, which was at once amus- 

 ing from itsvariety,instructivefrora 

 the information itafforded, and in- 

 teresting from the simplicity with 

 which it was expressed. Having 

 established a high reputation as a 

 preacher and a man of letters at 

 Lisbon, he removed with his fa- 

 ther's family to England, and set- 

 tled in London. But though he 

 henceforward resided principallyin 

 the British metropolis, he took op- 



