408 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1810. 



William, viscount Lewisham, now 

 in his twenty-sixth year. The fol- 

 lowinglines were written on the late 

 earl, by the earl of Carlisle, when 

 they were boys at Eton school : 



" Mild as the dew that whitens yonder 

 plain, 



Legge shines serenest 'midst your youth- 

 ful train ; 



He whom the search of fame with rap- 

 ture moves. 



Disdains the pedant, though the muse he 

 loves ; — 



By nature formed with modesty to please, 



And joins with wisdom unaffected ease.'' 



At Mongeham parsonage, in the 

 eighty-second year of his age, after 

 a little more than an hour's indis- 

 position, the rev. Henry Dimock, 

 of Pembroke College, Oxford, 

 M. A. 1751; rector of St. Edmund 

 the King, and St. Nicholas Aeons, 

 London, and of Blackmanstone, 

 in this county. Of this good man, 

 at the close of a long life, spent 

 in the practice of every duty, pro- 

 fessional, social, and domestic, it 

 may be truly said, he fell asleep. 

 The depth and soundness of his 

 learning, the strict orthodoxy of 

 Lis belief, and the primitive simpli- 

 city and integrity of his manners, 

 might have entitled him to the 

 highest offices of the church ; but, 

 in this world, reward does not 

 always accompany desert. 



At Deal, aged eighty-seven, 

 John Carter, esq. the oldest ma- 

 gisLrate (perhaps with the excep- 

 tion of lord Frederick Campbell) 

 of the county. He was brother 

 of the celebrated Mrs. Elizabeth 

 Carter, the poetess, and learned 

 translator of Epictetus, who died 

 February 19th, 1806, aged eighty- 

 nine. He was born about Decem- 

 ber, 1723, the eldest son of Dr. 

 Nicholas Carter, minister of Deal, 

 and rector of Woodchurch and 

 of Ham, in the same county (a 



native of Buckinghamshire) who 

 died at Deal in 1774', aged eighty- 

 seven, by Margaret, daughter and 

 heiress of Richard Svir.yne, esq. of 

 Bere, in Dorsetshire, by a daugh- 

 ter of Thomas Trenchard, esq. 

 of Wolverton and Lychet-Maltra- 

 vers, in the same county. iVIr. 

 Carter, after having been educated 

 at Cambridge, went into the array, 

 and had a company in the ninth 

 regiment of foot (if we mistake 

 not) about sixty-five years ago. 

 At this period his active and in- 

 telligent mind made him much 

 consulted and employed, particu- 

 larly on the Kentish coast, when 

 the rebellion of 1745 created seri- 

 ous fears of an invasion. Some 

 years afterwards he married a lady 

 of good fortune at Deal, to whom 

 some of his sister's poems are ad- 

 dressed ; and retiring to the excel- 

 lent house which formed a portion 

 of her property in his native town, 

 there passed the remainder of his 

 life, and breathed his last. Soon 

 after, he was put into the commis- 

 sion of the peace for the county, 

 and discharged the duties of it for 

 a longperiod of yearswitheminent 

 superiority, so as to entitle him to 

 the elevation to the chair of the 

 East Kent sessions, which he filled 

 for some time with great credit. 

 He was a man of very lively and 

 acutenatural parts, veryhighlycul- 

 tivaled, an exact and elegant clas- 

 sical scholar, an excellent linguist, 

 and a manofextensiveand general 

 reading ; in all which various de- 

 partments he continued to exercise 

 his admirable faculties to the last, 

 his final illness not havingattacked 

 him for more than ten days before 

 his death. Till that period he en- 

 joyed all the powers of his body 

 and mind, with little apparent de- 

 cay ; his memory and vivacity were 



