A.

ANDERSON, Robert, M. D. Feb.
20. 1830; in Windmill Street,
Edinburgh; in his eighty-second year.
He was born at Carnwath, in Lanark-
shire, in the year 1749. He was the son
of William Anderson, feuar in that
place, and Margaret Melrose his wife.
He was educated at the school of La-
nark. In his tenth year he had the mis-
fortune to lose his father, who died in
his fortieth year, leaving his widow very
slenderly provided for, with four sons,
who were yet to be reared to manhood.
This task, however, she accomplished
with credit to herself, and advantage to
her children; and before she died, in
her 76th year, she had the satisfaction
of seeing her son Robert established in
good circumstances, and respected in
the estimation of all who knew him. He
showed very early a taste for study and
reading, though he received little en-
couragement from those around him,
their rural pursuits engaging them en-
tirely, and books, or the society of
learned men, being rarely to be found
in that quarter.
Aware that he must
be the maker of his own fortune, the
bent of his mind still inclined him to
follow some liberal profession. He had
one dear and early friend, James Groeme,
the son of a neighbour, whose taste and
pursuits were similar to his own. The
works of this friend he has inserted in

his edition of the British Poets; but
this amiable young man died of con-
sumption in his twenty-second year, in
the year 1792. Dr. Anderson's first
predilection was towards the clerical
profession; but circumstances altered
his intention, and he applied to the
study of medicine. After finishing his
medical studies, he went for a short time
as surgeon to the Dispensary of Bam-
borough Castle, in Northumberland.
From thence he visited Alnwick, and
formed some agreeable connections
among the best society there. In the
year 1777 he took his doctor's degree
at Edinburgh, and returned to Alnwick
to settle there as a physician. In the
same year he married Miss Grey,
daughter of John Grey, Esq. of Aln-
wick, a relation of the noble family of
that name. She was a most amiable
and accomplished woman, and every
way qualified to make her husband
happy. After passing a few years at
Alnwick, his wife's health began to de-
cline; and change of air was thought
advisable for her recovery. Dr. An-
derson returned to Scotland with his
family in the year 1784, and took a
house in the neighbourhood of Edin-
burgh. But in the end of the following
year he had the affliction to lose his
amiable partner, who sunk gradually
under a consumption. He was left at
her death with three infant daughters.
The youngest soon after followed her

mother to the grave. From the time of
his return to Scotland, Dr. Anderson
never wished for, or put himself in the
way of, practice; for, although not afflu-
ent, he had a moderate independence,
and his taste led him to retired and
studious pursuits. About the year
1793, his attention was somewhat di-
vided between his family cares in the
affectionate superintendence of his
daughters, to whose education he paid
the strictest attention, and his engage-
ments in preparing for the press the
Lives of the British Poets, that were
published by Mundell, and engrossed
much more of his time than at first he
had apprehended. In this year he
married Miss Dale, daughter of Mr.
David Dale, a schoolmaster in East
Lothian. His edition of the British
Poets was published from 1795 to 1807,
in fourteen large 8vo. volumes. His
collection of Dr. Smollet's miscellaneous
works has passed through six editions.
The eight separate editions of his ac-
count of that author appeared under the
title of "The Life of Tobias Smollet,
M. D., with Critical Observations on
his Works," 1818. His Life of Dr.
Samuel Johnson, with critical observ-
ations on his works, reached a third
edition, Edinb. 1815. At one time, he
proposed to bring out a separate edition
of the Lives of the British Poets. He
had collected some materials for that pur-
pose; but delicate health, and that spirit
of procrastination which increases with
advancing years, prevented him from
fulfilling what he had so much at heart.
He was for several years the editor of
the Edinburgh Magazine, which af-
forded him some amusement, and the
pleasure of occasionally bringing for-
ward the performances of his young
literary friends. In the year 1810 his
eldest daughter was married to David
Irving, LL.D. author of the Life of
George Buchanan, and other learned
works. In the year 1812, Dr. Ander-
son had the severe affliction of seeing
Mrs. Irving very suddenly withdrawn
from her family, at the moment when
every thing bade fair to her for length-
ened years and prosperity. She left a
son who still survives. Dr. Anderson's
habits were so regular, and his dispo-
sitions so cheerful and animated, that his
oldage stole on him almost imperceptibly.
For the last winter he had been more
than usually confined to the house by a
succession of bad colds: but the disease
which proved fatal, and terminated very

speedily, was a dropsy in the chest. Yet
to the last day of his life he retained the
possession of his mind, together with
his habitually kind and social temper.
On the close approach of death he dis-
played affecting and exemplary resig-
nation, and spoke of his dissolution with
tender remembrances of lost and sur-
viving friends, as well as with pious
hopes of futurity. His remains were
taken to his native place, Carnwath, and
deposited, as had always been his wish,
beside his father and mother.

As a literary critic, Dr. Anderson
was distinguished by a warm and honest
sensibility to the beauties of poetry, and
by extreme candour. His character as
a man was marked by the most urbane
manners, the most honourable probity
in his dealings, and by unshaken con-
stancy in friendship. He was an en-
couraging friend to young writers; and
to him the author of "The Pleasures
of Hope," who was long and mutually
attached to him, dedicated his first pro-
duction. New Monthly Magazine.

ATHOLL, the Most Noble John
Murray, fourth Duke of, Marquis of
Tullibardine, Earl of Strathtay and Strat-
hardle, Viscount of Balquhidar, Glen-
almond, and Glenlyon, Lord Murray,
Balvenie, and Gask (1703); fifth
Marquis of Atholl, Earl of Tullibar-
dine, Viscount of Balquhidar, Lord
Murray, Balvenie, and Gask (1676);
ninth Earl of Tullibardine (1606), and
sixth Earl of Atholl (1628); eighth
Lord Murray of Tullibardine (1604)

all Scottish honours; first Earl
Strange and Baron Murray of Stanley,
co. Gloucester (1786), and ninth Baron
Strange (by writ, 1628); K. T.; a
Privy Councillor, Lord Lieutenant and
Hereditary Sheriff of Perthshire, Go-
vernor of the Isle of Man, a General
of the Royal Archers of Scotland, and
F. R. S.; Sept. 29. 1830; at his palace
of Dunkeld, after a short illness,
aged 75.

His Grace was born June 30. 1755,
the eldest of the seven sons of John the
third Duke, K. T., by his cousin Lady
Charlotte Murray, only surviving child
and heiress of James the second Duke,
and K. T., and in her own right Baro-
ness Strange in the Peerage of Eng-
land. He succeeded to the dukedom,
and his father's other titles, Nov. 5.
1774; and married, at London, on the
26th of the following month, the Hon.
Jane Cathcart, eldest daughter of
Charles ninth Lord Cathcart, and sis-

ter to the present William-Schaw Earl
Cathcart, and K. T., and to Louisa
Countess of Mansfield.

On the 25th of March, 1775, the
Duke of Atholl was installed Grand
Master of the most ancient and ho-
nourable fraternity of Free and Ac-
cepted Masons, according to the old
institution. In 1799 he had occasion
to defend in Parliament the conduct of
that body, and at the same time assert-
ed their loyalty and obedience to the
laws.

In 1777 the Duke of Atholl raised
a regiment for the public service, which
was named the 77th regiment of foot,
or Atholl Highlanders, and of which
his uncle (afterwards Major-Gen.)
James Murray was appointed Colonel;
it was disbanded at the peace of 1783.
In 1780 his Grace was elected one of
the sixteen Representative Peers for
Scotland.

In 1781 he presented a petition to
Parliament, complaining of the provi-
sions of the Act of 1765, by which the
sovereignty of the Isle of Man had
been transferred from his father to the
Crown, and praying for a Bill to
amend the same. A petition was pre-
sented by the House of Keys against
the Bill; which, however, somewhat
amended, passed the Commons, but
was lost in the House of Lords.

In 1784 his Grace was not again
elected a Representative Peer; but, by
patent dated August 18. 1786, he was
introduced into the House of Lords in
his own right, as Baron Murray of
Stanley, in the county of Gloucester,
and Earl Strange. In 1788, when the
Regency question was debated, his
Grace voted with Ministers. In 1790,
considering that his father had been so
far intimidated, in consequence of the
suspicion attached to him as a partisan
of the House of Stuart, as to have
parted with his sovereignty of the Isle
of Man for an inadequate considera-
tion*, his Grace again petitioned the
House of Commons, praying for an
Act to appoint Commissioners, to en-
quire what rights might be restored to
him without prejudice to the object

The price was, however, no less
than 70,000l. and an annuity of 2000l.
to the Duke and Duchess for their
lives; and all manorial rights, and the
patronage of the bishopric and eccle-
siastical benefices, were also reserved.
Stat. 5 Geo. III. cap. 26.

which the Crown had in view in ob-
taining the sovereignty. An investi-
gation was in consequence made; but
the House of Keys again advanced in
opposition, and, after considerable dis-
cussion, Mr. Pitt, "notwithstanding
his full conviction of the propriety and
even necessity of proceeding with such
a measure, yet, after the unfavourable
impression which had gained ground
on the subject," thought it prudent to
postpone the Committee on the Bill
for three months. It was, however,
probably in consequence of the agita-
tion of the question, that the Crown
appointed the Duke of Atholl Captain-
general and Governor-in-chief of the
Isle of Man, Feb. 4. 1793.

Having lost his first Duchess, Dec. 5.
1790, his Grace married secondly,
March 11. 1794, Margery, dowager of
John Mackensie, Lord Macleod (the
eldest son of George, the third and
attainted Earl of Cromartie); eldest
daughter of James, 16th Lord Forbes,
and sister to the present possessor of
that title. Her Grace is still living.

On the 15th of May, 1796, in a re-
ply to the Duke of Bedford, the Duke
of Atholl declared that he was as
warm in support of the constitution, and
as independent, and as much a friend
to liberty," as the chief of the Russells.
The Duke of Atholl was sworn a Privy-
Councillor June 28. 1797; constituted
Lord Lieutenant of the county of Perth,
and Colonel of the Perthshire Militia,
in 1798; and invested with the Order
of the Thistle in 1799.

In 1805, a third petition respecting
the Isle of Man was presented to Par-
liament by the Duke; and a Bill for
granting him an annuity in further
compensation, was, after great opposi-
tion, carried in the Commons by a ma-
jority of 57, and in the Lords by 35 to
11.

By this Act one fourth of the
customs of the island was granted to
the Duke, and in hereditary succession
to the heir-general of the seventh Earl
of Derby. His mother, through whom
he had derived this golden claim upon
the public purse, just survived to wit-
ness the favourable decision, and died
Oct. 13. in the same year; whereupon
his Grace succeeded to the Barony of
Strange. During the last thirty-six
years he has discharged the various and
important duties attendant on his office
as Lord Lieutenant of Perthshire, with
a zeal and integrity which will make
the bereavement as severely felt by

that county, as his loss, as a patriotic
nobleman, will be lamented by the na-
tion at large. By his first marriage, the
Duke of Atholl had five sons and four
daughters: 1. Lady Charlotte, married
in 1797 to Sir John Menzies, of Castle
Menzies in Perthshire, Bart. who died
without issue in 1800; and secondly, in
1801, to Capt. Adam Drummond, R. N.
by whom she has several children; 2.
Lady Mary Louisa, who died an infant;
3. the Most Noble John now Duke of
Atholl, born in 1778; 4. the Right
Hon. Amelia-Sophia, Viscountess
Strathallen, married in 1809 to James
Drummond, esq. who succeeded to the
Viscounty of Strathallen in 1817, and
has a numerous family; 5. Major-Gen.
the Right Hon. James Lord Glenlyon,
who was created a Peer at the Corona-
tion of King George the Fourth, and
is a Lord of the Bedchamber; he mar-
ried in 1810 Lady Emily Percy, sister
to the Duke of Northumberland, and
has two sons and two daughters; 6.
Lord Edward, who died in 1795, aged
eleven; 7. Lord Robert, who died in
1793, aged seven; 8. Lady Elizabeth,
married in 1808 to Col. Sir Evan John
Macgregor Murray, Bart. Aid-de-
Camp to the King; and has a numer-
ous family; 9. Lord Frederick, who
died in infancy. The present Duchess
was mother of two children, Lady
Catherine, who died young; and Lord
Charles, who, having volunteered in the
cause of Greek independence, died at
Gastouini in Greece, Aug. 11. 1824,
aged 25.-Gentleman's Magazine.

B.

BALLARD, Samuel James, Esq.,
Vice-Admiral of the Blue, of Park-
Street, Bath, and Coates Hall, York-
shire; at Exmouth, October, 1829.

This officer's grandfather, a Dutch
merchant, settled at Portsmouth, and
married a grand-daughter of the Rev.
Francis Chandler, a bold, awakening,
and popular preacher, and a man of
great piety and learning, who lost a
considerable property in houses by the
Great Fire in 1666. His father,
Samuel, went to sea at a very early age
with Admiral Holmes, but afterwards
became a merchant at Portsmouth, and
married a Miss Flint, of Epsom in
Surrey, to which county he retired from
business in 1784.

Mr. S. J. Ballard entered the naval

service on board the Valiant, of 74 guns,*
commanded by the Hon. John Leveson
Gower, Dec. 1. 1776, and in that ship
was present at the capture of the Li-
corne and Pallas, French frigates, by
the fleet under Admiral Keppel; and
in the action with M. d'Orvilliers, off
Brest, July 27. 1778, on which occasion
the Valiant had 6 men killed and 26
wounded. In Oct. 1779, he was re-
moved into the Shrewsbury, another
third-rate, commanded by Captain
Mark Robinson, and soon after sailed
in company with the fleet under Sir G.
B. Rodney, to the relief of Gibraltar.

On the passage thither, the Shrews-
bury assisted at the capture of a Spanish
convoy, and the defeat of Don Juan de
Langara, Jan. 8. and 16. 1780. Re-
turning to England with the prizes in
the ensuing month, she also contributed
to the capture of a French 64, and se-
veral merchant ships, by the squadron
under Rear-Admiral Digby. We next
find her proceeding to the West Indies,
where she bore a part in no less than
five actions with the French fleet com-
manded by Count de Grasse, viz. off
Martinique, April 29. 1781; off the
Chesapeake, Sept. 5. in the same year;
and in Basseterre Road, Jan. 25, 26,
and 27. 1782. In the two former she
sustained a loss of 20 men slain, and
66 wounded.

Mr. Ballard was promoted to the
rank of Lieutenant by Rear-Admiral
Joshua Rowley, at Jamaica, Feb. 10.
1783; and from that period served
successively in the Shrewsbury, Torbay,
Astrea, Monarch, Alfred, and Queen,
from which latter ship, bearing the flag
of Rear-Admiral Gardner, he was made
a Commander for his gallant conduct
in the battles between Earl Howe and
M. Villaret de Joyeuse, May 28. and
29. and June 1. 1794. The Queen on
the latter day had 36 men killed, and
67 (including her captain and 3 lieu-
tenants) wounded.

Our officer's post commission bears
date Aug. 1. 1795; previously to which
he had acted as Captain in several line-
of-battle ships, during the temporary
absence of their proper commanders;
served as a volunteer in the Queen;
regulated the quota men on the coast of
Sussex; and commanded the Megæra
fire-vessel, attached to Lord Bridport's
fleet. He subsequently acted for some
time as Captain of the Thunderer 74;
and on the 20th Feb. 1796, obtained
the command of the Pearl frigate, in

which he was employed during the en-
suing two years in affording protection
to the Quebec, Baltic, and Newfound-
land trades, and in occasional cruises off
Calais and Havre.

In March 1798, the Pearl, in com-
pany with the Sheerness, of 44 guns,
bearing the broad pendant of Commo-
dore James Cornwallis, sailed for the
coast of Africa; from whence she was
sent to Barbadoes. Captain Ballard
arrived there at the close of July, and
from that period was principally em-
ployed as senior officer at the Saintes,
watching two French frigates in Bas-
seterre, and cruising to windward of
Deseada, where he captured le Scevola,
a privateer of 10 guns and 73 men;
l'Independance, of 12 guns and 66 men;
a row-boat, and a Dutch schooner; and
re-captured eight American vessels.
He returned to England in June 1799
with the Vengeance 74, and a large
fleet of merchantmen.

In October following, Captain Bal-
lard conveyed General Fox from Ports-
mouth to Minorca; and, during the
ensuing two years, he was engaged in
a great variety of service on the Medi-
terranean station, particularly in the
Gulf of Lyons, and in the defence of
Porto Ferrajo, in the island of Elba.
He returned Dec. 3. 1801, and paid
off the Pearl on the 14th March, 1802,
after commanding her for upwards of
six years, during which time he had
taken, destroyed, and re-captured about
80 vessels; among which, in addition
to those already mentioned, were
Genoese polacre, of 14 guns; la Vertu,
of 10 guns and 40 men; and an armed
xebec. He also assisted at the capture
of la Carerre, a French frigate of 40
guns and 356 men; l'Incroyable, of
28 guns and 220 men; and a Ragusan
brig bound to Algiers, with presents
from Bonaparte to the Dey.

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From this period, notwithstanding
his repeated applications for an active
ship, Captain Ballard could not obtain
any other command than that of a dis-
trict of Sea Fencibles, till Oct. 1809,
when he was appointed to the Sceptre,
of 74 guns, in which ship he soon after
sailed for the Leeward Islands; and
immediately on his arrival off Marti-
nique, with the Alfred 74, and Freija
frigate, under his orders, was sent by
Sir Alex. Cochrane in pursuance of
four French frigates, which had recently
captured the Junon, a British frigate;
and two of them, each pierced for 44

guns, were shortly after destroyed at
Ance la Barque, together with the
batteries and magazines under which
they had taken refuge.

Towards the latter end of Jan. 1810,
Captain Ballard escorted a division of
the army destined for the attack of
Guadaloupe from St. Lucia to the
Saintes, and from thence he proceeded
with the squadron under his orders,
and transports, towards Trois Rivières.
From that period until the surrender of
the island, he commanded the detach-
ment of seamen and marines attached
to the second division of the army; and
his active co-operation was acknow-
ledged with the best thanks of the
Commander of the Forces, Lieutenant-
General Sir George Beckwith, in
general orders.

Previously to his return to England,
Captain Ballard visited Antigua, Mar-
tinique, St. Lucia, Barbadoes, Tobago,
Trinidad, Dominica, St. Kitts, Tortola,
and St. Thomas's. He sailed from the
latter island with the homeward-bound
trade early in August, and arrived at
Spithead Sept. 25. 1810. After dock-
ing and refitting the Sceptre, he was
placed under the orders of Lord Gam-
bier, and by him occasionally intrusted
with the command of a detached squa-
dron employed in watching the enemy's
ships in Brest Harbour and Basque
Roads.

Some time in 1812 he re-
ceived official notice of his being ap-
pointed to superintend the payment of
the ships at Spithead; but, as he did
not wish to be superseded at sea, while
blockading an enemy, he remained in
the Sceptre, on Channel service, till she
was ordered to return to port, in Jan.
1813. He became a Rear-Admiral
June 4. 1814.

Admiral Ballard married, first, his
cousin Maria, only daughter of James
Flint, of Feversham, Esq.; and by her
had eight children, three of whom, a
son and two daughters, are now living;
secondly, Dec. 2. 1822, Catherine,
daughter of the late, and sister to the
present Sir Thomas Crawley Boevey,
Bart. of Flaxley Abbey, co. Gloucester.
-Marshall's Royal Naval Biography.

BELSHAM, the Rev. Thomas,
Minister of the Unitarian Chapel in
Essex Street, Nov. 1829, at Hampstead
(where he had for some time resided),
in his 80th year.

This celebrated preacher was the
elder brother of the late William Bel-
sham, the historian. He was educated