*180 Major James- 
published three volumes of that work, 
which has met with the most favourable 
reception.’* 
Mr. Bomiyeastle was the author of the 
following- much-admired works : 
The Scholar's Guide to Arithmetic. 12mo. 
An Introduction to Algebra, )2mo, 1782. 
Euclid’s Elements. 1789. 
General History of Mathematics. 1803. 
A Treatise of Plain and Spheiical Trigonometry. 
1806. 
Introduction to Arithmetic; bcingthe first part 
of a General Course of Mathematics. 1810. 
A Treatise of Algebra, 2 vols. 
At his house, Gloucester-place, New 
Road, 56, Major Charles James , a native 
of Warwickshire, well known as a writer 
on military topics, and as an eleg-ant poet. 
He served originally in one of the regi¬ 
ments of the Yorkshire Militia, but being 
related to, or respected by, some noble fa¬ 
milies, he left that.regiment and settled in 
London. His first work was an Opera, 
translated from Beaumarehois, 1787 ; 
Poems, in 2 vols, 1789 ; Hints, founded on 
facts, respecting our Military Establish¬ 
ments, Svo, 1791 ; Suicide Rejected, a 
Poem; Poems Svo, 1791. All these works 
evince a fine imagination, and his political 
epigrams have long been celebrated for 
their wit. Few men ever evinced more 
activity in all the transactions of life; and in 
his profession his various works prove that 
he had not been an inattentive spectator. 
In 1794 he published a work on the abuses 
in the militia, with a plan for its better re¬ 
gulation; aud in 1797, he brought out ano¬ 
ther work on the abuses in the militia, and 
he lived to see most of his plans adopted at 
the War-office. The Regimental Compa¬ 
nion came out in 1789 ; but his chief mi¬ 
litary work, and one of the best in the lan¬ 
guage, was his Military Dictionary, pub¬ 
lished in 1802, and of which he lived to 
revise a fourth edi’ion. Major James was 
au ardent lover of civil liberty, and was 
much elated with the prospects which 
opened to the world at the beginning of the 
revolution in France. In 1792 he publish¬ 
ed Audi Alteram Partem , or an Extenua¬ 
tion of the Conduct of the French Patriots. 
His gentlemanly manners procured him 
many friends among the higher orders of 
society. By the Earl of Moira he was par¬ 
ticularly patronized, and he acted for 
some time as his confidential secretary ; 
and when that excellent nobleman was 
at the head of the Ordnance, he ap¬ 
pointed Captain James to be major of the 
Artillery Drivers, a situation which he did 
not hold long after his patron retired, and 
from which he retired on a remuneration. 
On the appointment of his lordship to be 
Governor General, it is believed that Major 
James might have chosen his own station, 
but he would not sacrifice his health, the 
society of London, and his domestic com¬ 
forts, to prospects of wealth and vain am¬ 
bition, and, to the great surprise of his 
-Mrs. Piozzf. | Sepf. 
friends, he remained in England. As a 
lyric poet and epigramatist, he was above 
mediocrity. Some of his songs are the best 
in the language, aud his epigrams have for 
many years gratified the readers of ihe 
Morning Chronicle, and sometimes of this 
Miscellany. His collected poems exhibit 
specimens of bis varied powers of versifi¬ 
cation, but his strength will be found in his 
songs and epigrams. He was one of the 
most liberal hearted of men ; his muse— 
his time—and his purse were at the service 
of persons in distress, to whom he always 
listened with a tear starting in his eye. 
Yet he was also a man of the world, and 
with some mental reserve, mixed in the 
circles of high life. Altogether he was 
beloved by every one who knew him, and 
the notice of his death in the newspapers 
gave acute pain to his friends, because his 
vigour and activity warranted the expecta¬ 
tion of greater length of life. He has left a 
widow and four sons, youths of considera¬ 
ble promise. 
At Belie Vue, near Southampton, Sir 
R. R. Bligh. He was born in Cornwall, in 
1737, of a family long connected with the 
navy, and had the good fortune to have 
Lord Rodney, then a captain, to be his god¬ 
father. . Under bis auspices he entered the 
sea-service, but did not attain the rank of 
post captain until 1777. In 1794, he com¬ 
manded the Alexander, in which ship he 
was taken by a French squadron of five 
seventy-four gun ships and three large fri¬ 
gates, but did not strike his colours until 
he had evinced a spirit and resolution never 
perhaps surpassed in our naval annals. He 
■was promoted in his turn to be rear and 
vice-admiral, and to be admiral; in April, 
1804, be was named Admiral of the Red. 
When the King encreased the number of 
Knights of the Bath, he was named a Grand 
Cross. At the time of his decease he was 
the eighth on the list of flag officers. After 
he had resigned the command of the Leith 
station, in 1804, he retired, and died at the 
age of 84. He was twice married, but has 
left only a son, Capt. G. M. Bligh, R.N. 
At her house in Flintshire, aged 79, Mrs. 
Esther Lynch Piozzi. This lady was the 
daughter of John Salisbury, Esq. of Bodvil, 
in Caernarvonshire, born about the year 
1748, and in 1768 married to Henry Thrale, 
Esq. an eminent brewer of Southwark, and 
M P. for that boroug’h. That gentleman 
dying in 1781, Mrs. Thrale bad many suit¬ 
ors, but in 1784 she gave her hand to an 
Italian music master, named Gabriel Piozzi. 
With him she visited the continent, and 
resided some time at Florence. The cele¬ 
brated Dr. Johnson bad been patronised 
by her first husband, and is said to have 
aspired to succeed him. The choice she 
made of the Italian gave the doctor great 
offence. On bis death she published let¬ 
ters and anecdotes of that singular charac¬ 
ter. 
