1809.] 
At the Clarendon Hotel, Bond-street, Mrs. 
facquiet. 
In St. James’s Place, Arthur Ormsby, esq. 
a lieutenant-general in the army, and lieu- 
tenant-colonel in the 6th dragoon guards. 
At Kentish Town, A4iss Fane Teed, aged 
14, second daughter of Mr. Richard T. dress 
sword-maker to the Patriotic Fund. After 
being afilicted with a complication of disor- 
ders which baffled all medical aid for three 
years, during which period, she bore the 
greatest pains without a murmur. Her amia- 
ble disposition and manners were eminently 
conspicuous to all who knew her. To her 
parents she was at all times dutiful, and to 
her sisters and friends affectionately kind: it 
is remarkable that she was never known to 
be out of temper, and her gratitude for every 
attention to her wants was unbounded. ‘To 
her eldest sister she was attached by the 
strongest ties of love and esteem, which met 
a return that has been seldom equalled, for 
although there was a considerable disparity 
of years, there seemed but one heart and one 
soul. Miss Teed gave up every amusement 
fo be useful to her beloved sister, and was in 
fact, her nurse by day and by night through- 
out the whole period of her illness, which 
reflects upon her, the highest credit, and 
should operate as an example to others who 
are similarly circumstanced. ¢* Her body is 
committed to the ground, and her pure spirit 
to God who gave it.” 
Christiana, wife of Mr. Thomas Henkin, 
ef Stensted Abbot, Herts, a woman who 
combined great intellectual powers, with th® 
delicate sensibility of female excellence. 
She was superisr to the studied forms of po- 
liteness, but charmed by the affability and 
gentleness of her manners, Possessing a 
fine taste, she was an enthusiastic admirer of 
the beauties of nature, and delighted in the 
retirement of rural life. Her time and ta- 
lents were cheerfully devoted to forming the 
minds of a numerous family to virtue and 
knowledge, who are left todeplore her loss 
and mingle their tears with those of the 
neighbouring poor, to whom she was an ac- 
five, sympathising, benevolent mind. 
[ Further particulars of DAr. ohn Home, 
awbhose death is recorded at p. 595 in our last vo- 
lume. — Ue was descended of a respectable, and 
formerly illustrious, family. He was born 
in the vicinity of Ancrum, in Roxburghshire, 
in 1724, and received the first rudiments of 
education at the paroghial school, wliere Dr. 
Buchan, author of Domestic Medicine, was 
the companion of his studies. lt was 
Mr. Home’s. inciination, and the desire 
of his parents, that he should enter the 
church. He, therefore attended the philoso- 
phical and theological classes of the university 
of Edinburgh for several years. But his stu- 
dies were for a while suspended by the public 
commotions of the year £745. On the ap- 
proach of the insurgents, the citizens of Edin- 
purzh assembled, formed themselves inte an 
Account of the late Mr. John Home. (Boe 
and the defence of their city. 
eel 
association for the support of their sovereign, 
Mr. Home 
was one of about twenty students of the uni- 
versity who offered their services as volun- 
teers, to act against the common enemy. 
But intimidated by the number of their oppo- 
nents, or adverse to the hardships of a militae 
ty life, the college company soon disbanded. 
Mr. Home, however, retained his arms, and 
marched with a detachment of the royal ar- 
my to Falkirk; where, in the battle fought 
in its neighbourhood, in which the rebels van- 
quished the king’s troops, he was taken priso- 
ner, and confined for some time in the castle 
of Doune. From this place of captivity he 
effected his escape, and the battle of Culloden 
having blasted all the hopes of the Pretender’s 
adherents, tranquillity and order were soon 
restored, Mr. Home resumed his. studies, 
and was licensed to preach the gospel in 1747 
Not long after, Home visited England, for 
it appears that he was introduced to Collinsy 
the poet, at Winchester, by a Mr. Barrow, 
who had been his fellow student at the uni- 
versity. Collins addressed to him his ** Ode 
on the Superstition of the Highlanders,” cone 
sidered as the subject of poetry, composed in 
1749, but not published till many years 
after his death. It is evident that Home at 
this period had exhibited some poetical pow- 
ers. In the first stanza, Collins delivers a 
prediction, which was soon after fulfilled :-— 
‘6. Home, thou return’st from Vhames, 
whose Naiads long 
Have seen thee lingering witha fond delay 
*Midst those soft friends, whose hearts some 
future day ; 
Shall melt perhaps to bear thy tragic song.” 
About the year 1750, he was settled minister 
ef the parish of Athelstaneford, in Hast 
Lothian, and was the immediate successor of 
Robert Blair, author of ‘¢ The Grave.” 
Accustomed to the bustle of a city, and the 
society of men of letters, Mr. Home found 
himself rather disagreeably situated, in an 
obscure village, where he had no opportu- 
nity of distinguishing himself. From the 
vicinity of his residence to Edinburgh, he 
was in the practice of frequently resorting to 
the capital, to enjoy the company of man of 
talents. Several of these had instituted a 
society for literary and philosophical disqui- ~ 
sition, of which Mr. Home was an original 
and distinguished member. This institution 
comprehended several of the most eminent 
characters or the day. Among others, were 
enrolled the names of Mr. Alexander Wed- 
derburn, afterwards kiurl of Rosslyn, and 
Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain 5 
Ferguson, the philosopher; Hume and Ro- 
berison, the historians ; and SJair, the rhe- 
torician and divine; men, whom it would 
be superfluous here to panegyrise. It was 
about this périod that Mr. Home, in his re- 
tirement, began seriously to court the dra- 
matic muse. The first tragedy he wrote was 
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