1609.] 
mise, possessing abjlities and virtues which 
snust in time have raised him to eminence. 
At his lodgings, two pair of stairs room, 
in Angel-court, Windmill-street, Haymar- 
ket, 68, Mr. Christopher Bartholemew, for- 
merly proprietor of White Conduit House, 
which owed its celebrity to the taste he dise 
played in laying out the gardens and walks, 
rendering it the first place of resort in the 
class of tea-gardens. Possessed of a good for- 
tune from his parents, the gardens, and the 
Angel inn at Islington, being his freeholds ; 
renting 20001, a year in the neighbourhood 
of Islington and Molloway, remarkable for 
having the greatest quantity of hay-stacks of 
any grower in the neighbourhood of London ; 
‘at that time, the writer of this article was in~ 
formed by himself, he was worth 50,0001. 
Not content, he fell a victim to the mania of 
insuring in the lottery, for which he has 
paid 10001. a day. He passed the last 13 
years of his life in great poverty, subsisting 
by the charity of those who knew his better 
days, and as a juryman of the Sheritts’ Court 
for the county. In August 1807, he hada 
thirty-second share in a 40,0001, prize. By 
the advice of his friends, he purchased an 
annuity of 601. per annum; yet fatally 
addicted to that pernicious pursuit, insurance, 
he disposed of it, and lost it all; a few days 
before he died, he solicited a few shillings to 
buy him necessaries. A gentleman in his 
manners, witha mind rather superior to 
“the generality of men, he at one time pos- 
sessed the esteem of all who knew him; 
yet he became the prey of that artful and de- 
signing set of men, who are interested in 
eluding all the laws which are made to pre- 
vent their nefarious practices, and which 
never can be effected while government seduce 
the individual to pay 201. for the liberty of 
gambling for 101. This obituary is furnished 
as a warning to all ranks, particularly the 
trading one, not to engage in a pursuit which 
will ultimately be their rain; and when temp- 
ted to insure, let them remember the fate of 
Bartholemew. 
At his house in George-street, Hanover, 
square, Mr. Shelley, miniature painter. THis 
ingenious artist has long been distinguished 
for his merit in the above line, but he ren- 
dered that branch of art, subservient to the 
illustration of historical and pvetical sub- 
jects, which he treated with taste, skill, 
knowledge, and elegance. He was one of 
the founders of the exhibition of drawings in 
water-colours, in which department a degree 
of excellence has been attained, that de- 
Monstrates a considérable advance in the arts 
6f this country, and which far exceeds any 
thing of the same nature in former times. 
At Bath, where he had been some time for 
the benefit of his health, the Right Hon. Alan 
Gardner, Baron Gardner of Uttoxeter, indreland 
and Baron Gardner of Uttoxeter in England. 
This nobleman may be justly considered as 
the architect of his own fortupe. His father 
Account of Mr. Christopher Bartholemew, 
197 
was lieutenant-colonel of the 11th regiment 
of dragoons, and Alan was the eighth of 
twelve children by his second wife. Having 
manifested an early predilection for the naval 
service, he was stationed at the age of thirteen 
years, on the quarter deck of the Medway, 
of sixty guns, and had the good fortune to be 
placed under the immediate inspection of an 
excellent officer, Sir Peter Denis, who had 
been third lieutenant of the Centurion, and 
was patronized by Commodore, afterwards 
Lord Anson. In this vessel he remained two 
years, and was present at an engagement, at 
the conclusion of which a French ship of the 
line (the Duc d’Aquitaine) struck her colours 
to two English men of war. Our young 
midshipman afterwards accompanied his come 
mander, first into the Namur, of ninety guns, 
in which he served under the gallant Admiraé 
Hawke, during the expedition against Roch~ 
fort, and then into the Dorsetshire, of seventy 
guns. While on board of the latter, he wag- 
taught one of the lessons of the old, whick 
he, in his turn has frequently repeated to 
the new school. Being cruising with a 
Squadron to the westward, May 29, 1758, a 
signal was thrown out for his ship to give 
chase, which she accordingly obeyed, and soora 
aftercame up with the Raisonable, a French 
sixty-four, commanded by the Chevalierde Roe 
han. Captain Denis did not fire a single gun 
until he could doit with effect; and then, afe 
tera close engagement, that continued with- 
out interruption from seven until nine o’clock 
in the evening, obliged the enemy to strike: 
the number of the killed amounting to sixty- 
one, and the wounded to one hundred. Mr. 
Gardner was also on board the Dorsetshire, 
November the 20th, 1759, in the general en- 
gagement off Belisle between the English and 
French fleets, commanded by Sir Edward 
Hawke and the Marshal de Conflans 3 and 
Captain Denis was one of those officers wha 
particularly distinguished themselves on that 
occasion. The highest encomiums were be- 
stowed on him personally by the commander 
in chief, who thanking him for his services, 
in the warmth of his gratitude declared that 
the captains of the Dorsetshire and Resolue 
tion (Denis and Speke) *¢ had behaved like 
angels.” After near five years constant em- 
ployment, Mr. Gardner in 1760, passed the 
usual examination, and was appointed a lien- 
tenant on board the Bellona, into which he 
followed his patron, Sir Peter Denis, who 
was soon after appointed to the Charlotte 
yatch, for the purpose of bringing over her 
present Majesty. Under Captain Falconer, 
who succeeded to the command, he assisted at 
the capture of Le Courageux, of seventy-four 
guns, and was in April 1762 promoted to the 
rank of master and commander and appointed 
to the Raven, of sixteen guns. My. Gardner 
remained upwards of four years without ob- 
taining any superior rank. In May 1766 he 
was made post, into the Preston, of fifty guns, 
which had been fitted out as the flag ship of 
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