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assisting the aide-de-camp of Gen. Brock, after 

 that brave commander had received his death- 

 wound, he was wounded himself in the hip. 

 Afterwards, in the engagement at York, he 

 saved the colors of the York militia. He was 

 taken prisoner at the battle of Lundy's Lane, 

 and was sent to Greenbush, opposite Albany, 

 New York, where he was detained till the 

 peace. On the breaking out of the rebellion 

 in Upper Canada, his old military instincts 

 came back upon him, and he took an active 

 part against the men who had assembled at 

 Montgomery's tavern, near Toronto. After his 

 return from his imprisonment at Greenbush, 

 Mr. McLean was admitted to the bar ; and 

 soon after he was employed in a professional 

 capacity in the difficulties that arose out of the 

 contentions between the Northwest and the 

 Hudson Bay Companies. 



Mr. McLean represented Stormont and Corn- 

 wall, for several years, in the Legislative As- 

 sembly of Upper Canada, of which he was 

 twice elected Speaker. He was appointed 

 Judge of the Court of King's Bench, in the 

 early part of 1837 ; but he continued to feel an 

 interest in politics long after, and when the 

 union of Upper and Lower Canada was pro- 

 posed, he used whatever personal influence he 

 possessed with members of the Legislature or 

 otherwise in opposition to that measure. On 

 the appointment of Mr. Justice Draper to the 

 Chief Justiceship of the Common Pleas, Mr. 

 McLean, fancying injustice had been done to 

 him, resigned the Judgeship he had so long 

 held. Mr. Macdonald had afterwards an op- 

 portunity of making what even Mr. McLean 

 considered full amends, by appointing him Chief 

 Justice of Upper Canada. This promotion was 

 so wholly unexpected by the object of it, that 

 at first he could scarcely believe the intelli- 

 gence. Before he resigned the Chief Justice- 

 ship of the Court of Queen's Bench, his strength 

 had given way. Mr. Sandfield Macdonald, 

 when Attorney General, proposed that he 

 should take the Presidency of the Court of 

 Error and Appeal, a comparatively easy berth, 

 which had been filled by Sir John Beverley 

 Robinson before his death. Mr. McLean's in- 

 tegrity as a Judge was never questioned ; he 

 was much respected by the Bar; and his lib- 

 eral hospitalities while on circuit will be long 

 remembered. 



Nov. 25. PARKER, Chief-Justice. The de- 

 ceased Chief Justice was the eldest son of 

 Robert Parker, Esq., formerly Controller of H. 

 M. Customs at the port of St. John, N. B. He 

 commenced his studies in the office of "Ward 

 Chipman, Esq., afterwards Chief Justice of New 

 Brunswick. Before entering upon the duties 

 of the legal profession, Mr Robert Parker, at 

 the instance of his father, took charge of the 

 Customs Department in Miramichi, on the oc- 

 casion of a vacancy caused by the death of the 

 previous incumbent. About the year 1816 he 

 was called to the bar, and commenced his pro- 

 fessional business in St. John. In 1819 he 



married Susan, daughter of Lieut.-Col. Morris 

 Robinson, formerly Barrack-Master General at 

 Gibraltar. Mr. Parker was appointed to the 

 vacant office of Recorder, which he held for 

 four or five years, resigning it in 1829-'30. In 

 1826 he was elected to the Legislature, as one 

 of the members for the county of St. John, 

 and held the seat for some years, not, however, 

 without contests with opposing candidates. 

 He became Solicitor-General in 1828, and as 

 Attorney-General, pro tempore, he had the 

 management of the celebrated proceedings 

 taken against John Baker for hoisting the flag 

 of the United States on the territory in pos- 

 session of Great Britain, but claimed by the 

 United States, pending the settlement of the 

 Northeastern Boundary question effected by 

 the Ashburton Treaty. In 1834 a vacancy oc- 

 curred in the bench of the Supreme Court by 

 the death of Mr. Justice John Murray Bliss, and 

 he was then elevated to the bench. How Judge 

 Parker discharged the duties which now de- 

 volved upon him it is needless to say. Judge 

 Parker's accession to the office of Chief Justice 

 was so recent, that his discharge of the duties 

 of that office, for a brief period, does not call 

 for special remark. As a member of society, 

 the heart of the deceased Chief Justice was in 

 every good work. As President of the Bible 

 Society, for a very long period, he loved to 

 mark the growth and expansion of that truly 

 noble Society, whose object is to publish the 

 "Word of God, " without note or comment," in 

 all the languages of the world, and to supply a 

 copy to every human being. He watched, as 

 with parental fondness, the growth of the So- 

 ciety in New Brunswick, discharging the deli- 

 cate duties which devolved upon him with the 

 utmost assiduity and success. 



OBITUARIES EUROPEAN. Sept. 1 . CAS- 

 TELLASI, Chevalier FORTFXATO Pio, a celebrated 

 Italian artist and designer in jewelry, died at 

 Rome. His name had become noted through- 

 out Europe, by the classic taste which he dis- 

 played in adapting the designs of ancient 

 Etruscan artists to the exigencies of modern 

 jewelry. His studio was always crowded by 

 foreigners, and his classic necklace?, ear-rings, 

 and bracelets, were carried to all parts of Eu- 

 rope as trophies of Roman taste. 



Jan. 2. THOMSON, RICHARD, an English an- 

 tiquarian, and for more than thirty years libra- 

 rian of the London Institute, died at his apart- 

 ments there, aged 70 years. He was the author 

 of a number of published works, among which 

 were, " A Faithful Account of the Processions 

 and Ceremonies observed in the Coronations of 

 the Kings and Queens of England" (1820); 

 " The Book of Life, a Bibliographical Melody 

 dedicated to the Roxburghe Club" (1820); 

 "The Chronicles of London Bridge" (1827); 

 "Illustrations of British History" (1828); 

 " Tales of an Antiquary " (1828); "Historical 

 Essay on Magna Charta " (1829) ; "Legends of 

 London " (1832) ; and a catalogue of the library. 



Jan. 8. DOBSON, Jomr, an English architect 



