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obliged to part with his hounds ; 

 but even to the latter end of the 

 last hunting season, he would 

 meet the fox hounds on foot ; 

 and almost to the hour of his 

 death was fond of rehearsing the 

 sports of the field. 



At Colyton, Captain Henry 

 Wilson, late of the East India 

 Company's ship Worley, whose 

 name is in the recollection of the 

 public, as connected with that 

 most interesting narrative, pub- 

 lished from his journal, of the ship- 

 wreck and providential preserva- 

 tion of the crew of the Antelope 

 packet,on the Pelew Islands,1788. 

 On this occasion his intrepidity, 

 discretion, and talents, as a com- 

 mander, shone forth in a manner 

 which has rarely been excelled. 

 The most remarkable instance of 

 his abilities appears, when,unarm- 

 ed by authority or power, he was 

 able to persuade his people to de- 

 stroy all the spirituous liquors re- 

 maining on the wreck; scarcely any 

 governor ever produced a greater 

 act of self-denial for the public 

 good. His comprehensive under- 

 standing and persevering industry 

 raised him, through every gradua- 

 tion of a seaman's life, to the high- 

 est post in his own line;and he had 

 the honour to be second in com- 

 mand to commodore sir N. Dance, 

 whenAdmiral Linoisjin an eighty- 

 gun ship, with several frigates, was 

 baffled and discomfitted by a fleet 

 of East Indiamen, In private life 

 he was a firm and benevolent 

 friend, a kind parent, and died a 

 pious christian. Captain Wilson 

 had not long enjoyed his retire- 

 ment at Colyton ; and, but for the 

 distance, his remams would have 

 been interred near those of his 

 friend. Prince Lee Boo. 



At Aberdeen, in the sixty-ninth 



year of his age, Mr. James Chal- 

 mers, printer to the city and 

 university, and printer and pro- 

 prietor of the Aberdeen Journal, 

 which he conducted with uncom- 

 mon ability, and steady and loyal 

 consistency of principle, for the 

 long space of forty-six years. 

 Few men have departed life in 

 the city of Aberdeen with more 

 unfeigned regret, by a most nu- 

 merous and highly respectable 

 circle of friends, to whom he was 

 endeared by the best virtues that 

 adorn social life — inflexible integ- 

 rity, steady friendship, a disposi- 

 tion elevated, humane and charita- 

 ble, a temper unusually cheerful, 

 and a memory rich in anecdote and 

 information, chiefly of the literary 

 kind. His father, who cultivated 

 his profession for some years in 

 London, in the printing-office of 

 Mr. Watts (where he had the cele- 

 brated Dr. Franklin for his fellow- 

 journeyman) was afterwards rank- 

 ed among the literary printers of 

 his time, and at his death was re- 

 corded as a gentleman " well skill- 

 ed in the learned languages." His 

 father was the Rev. James Chal- 

 mers, Professor of Divinity in the 

 Marishal College, who died in 

 ni*. About the year H^O, his 

 son returned from London, and 

 in IT^B established the Aberdeen 

 Journal, at the close of the me- 

 morable rebellion, during which 

 ho was a considerable sufferer, 

 from his attachment to the House 

 of Hanover. His son, the sub- 

 ject of this article, was born in 

 March 1742, and, after a classi- 

 cal and academical education at 

 Marishal College, removed to 

 London, and improved himself 

 in the typographical art, both 

 there and at Cambridge, until 

 September 1764', when the death 



