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- Account of the late Thomas Pinch, Esq. 
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talents” are Kean iin Kies: By Lord at an age which seemed to promise a prolonga,, 
Hood it was observed, that ‘the on Hf! wanted 
" thé “opportunity to” prove himself a secomd 
Nelson. After the battle of Trafalgar, he 
was raised to the rank of Admiral of the Red, 
- created Baron Collingwéod of Culdburn and 
Hethpole, in Northumberlafd, and a grant 
of 20001. a year voted to him during his own 
- life, 10001. to his lady, and 5001. tu each of 
his daughters. During the last five years, 
he has ‘scarcely ever been on shore; and in 
one of his. letters to a friend, he observes, 
** since 1793, I have been only one year at 
home. To my own children I am scarcely 
known; yet, while I have health and strength 
to serve my, country, I consider that health 
and strength due to it; and tf I serve it 
successfully as 1 ever have done faithfully, 
my ¢hildren will not want friends.” His 
natura! diflidence and unassuming character 
-4ndoced a rather disadvantageous opinion of 
“real merit; he despised ostentation, and evin- 
ced a kind of patriarchial simplicity in his 
whole conduct. To the charitable instituti- 
ons of Newcastle he has been a most liberal 
benefactor, and has also subscribed to raise a 
“monument to his master, the Jate Rev. Mr. 
Moises. His noble title is now extinct; but 
the records of his brave achievements and his 
personal worth, will be banded down to future 
“ages, while naval warfare shall continue to 
engage the attention of nations; and the 
~ names of Nelson and Collingwood be blazen- 
ed by posterity, as models of the most heroic 
A relation of his 
) Terdship, the late i. Collingwood, esq. left 
“him his estate worth about 20001. besides a 
y handsome fibrary. Wich this addition, it is 
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presumed that his lordship possessed a very 
_ ample fortune. The body of the Jamented 
admiral was brought to England in the Ne- 
~ eus frigate, and conveyed Frotiphheaidess ii 
the commissioner’s yacht to Greenwich. 
' Here it lay in state for some days in the 
_ Painted Chamber in the Hospital, and was 
then deposited in its final resting-place under 
* es dome of St. Paul’s, close by the coffin of 
d Nelson; so that it may with truth be 
said, that even in death these heroic friends 
are undivided. Lord Collingwood was of 
middling stature, but extremely thin, and 
temperate in his general habits; ate always 
_ with an appetite, drank moderately after din- 
¥ ner, but never indulged afterwands in spirits 
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or wine. Jt was his general rule, in tempes- 
tuons weather, and upon any hostile emer- 
gency that occurred, to sleep upon his sofa 
in a fiannel gown, taking off only his epaulet- 
ted coat. 
eut his hat; and his grey hair floating to the 
wiod,-whilst torrents of rain poured down 
through theshrouds, and his eye, lixe the ea- 
gle’s,onthe watch. Bodily exposure,colds,rheu- 
matism, ague, all, were nothing to him when 
his duty called ; and to this contempt of per- 
sonal comfort and indulgence his country 
doubtless owes the privation of his services, 
Montuaty Maa. No. 200, 
He would appear upon deck with-. 
tion of them for many years ] 
{ Further particulars of the late Thomas Finch, 
éig. whose death was anrounted in page 499 of our 
last Number. We was princioally educated at 
Merchant Taylors’-school, and was afterwards 
Fellow of St. John’s cilia’ Oxford, where 
his academical career was markéd by the most 
correct conduct, and considerable literary dis- 
tinction. The loss of this truly excellent 
man and accomplished scholar will be long 
and deeply felt by the select circle of friends, 
who well knew how to estimate his numerous 
good qualities. The calmness, resignations 
and Christian heroism, with which he met 
the slow and gradual advances of death, were 
the best evidences of that senuine piety 
which happily revolted equally from extreme 
Calvinism as frormSocinianism, and which was 
founded upon the true and aU Len Lee doc- 
trines of our excellent church, of the trath of 
which he was thoroughly Baavincks, as well 
by his own accurate judgment, as by an exten- 
Sive acquaintance with the writings of our 
ablest supporters, In his manners, and in his 
whole deportment, he never lost sight of that 
élegant and gentlemanly reserve, which 
migit keep rudeness or impertinence at a 
distance, but which marked the true gentle- 
man, and evinced a proper self- -esteem, anda 
laudable conscience of that rank, which his 
birth and talents entitled him to hold in so- 
ciety. In the profession of the law he uni- 
formly proved himself an upright and discreet 
adviser; a sound and able advocate. In the 
early part of his ‘career at the Bar, he at- 
tracted the peculiar notice and marked atten- 
tion of Lord Thurlow, whose discernment 
would, there is little doubt, had he filled the 
office of Chancellor, have elevated him to 
a station where his merit would have shone 
more conspicuously, and his talents have been 
more diffusely useful. ‘The * Precedents in 
Chancery,” which he edited with consideradle 
care and ability, will not permit his name to 
be entirely forgotten in the protession. It is 
much to be regretted, that the weakness of 
his health, combined with his great aversion 
to all speculative enterprize, deprived his 
country at large of that learaing, judgment, 
and eloquence, joined to great political know- 
ledge, which would have done henour to her 
parliamentary representation. Asa scholar, 
he was ‘highly capable of relishing the beau- 
ties and sublimities of those works which are 
the great standards of classical composition, 
his grammatical acquaintance with the Greek 
and Latin languages was correct, and his taste 
perhaps almost too fastidiously refined. The 
Holy Scriptures formed a favourite branch of 
his studies, which his experience and skill in 
the Hebrew language rendered more deliy 
fulto him. With the principal modern jan. 
guages he was well acquainted, and was par- 
ticularly attached to the German. He con- 
versed in French with great fluency and pro- 
priety, The unexampled care and attention 
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