The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1821-09-17 00:00:00

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SUDDEN AND MELANCHOLY DEATH.

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We have this day the pr SABI duty of recording the sud-
den sod regretted death of Mr. Robert Wardell, Wmtbouror.
place. Sloane-square, fattier of she presem Proprietor of
The Steteessees Newspaper, who died we Friday morning,
at balf.past fuer o'clock. On Thonday he was is the so.
joymeat of his health. At bell-past eight be retired to rest,
having complaised of excessive drowsiness, sad a pain in
the bead. At kalf.past nine be requested to have a little
gruel; it was prepared, bat when taken to bin he was found
lyiag across the bed, In aAt of apoplexy. The effects of
bleeding sod other applications were ioeffectually tried; he
remained is a Maloof ioseadbility till the inseam* shot he
breathed his lam. 4

IMr. Wardell woes native of the county of Yolk, aid In that
part of des limploss be spent the greater portion of his life.
He was originally designed by his parents for the church,
and sent to school In receive a suitable education ; but the
diversions for which Yorkshire has bag been noted. possessed
to him greater attractions than literature. He was fond of
riding and of being antosgst hones, sad unlined of divinity
and theelogye the sports of the held, the pleasures of hunt-
ing and beiremrseiug predominated in his mind, amid min-
cipallroteepled hie Nitration ; every pursuit indeed which
required activity nr a particular best of pekoe afforded him
gratification. He was • great agricultural experimentalist, and
succeeded ill oblaiaing produce from • peculiar kind of laud
which bed periemly bees umwasageable ; he knew the
practice as *ell as the theory of farming; was an excellent
feeder of Mott, and was famous for having tare, crops. To
this knowledge be added that of • most opposite k ind—a know-
ledge oldie game of white ; at the age of fourteen be play-
ed it to perfection. and he OM, met with any one who was
so well acquainted with in as himself; indeed, to whatever
be directed his fancy, at any period of his life, in that be ex.
celled his compeers. When • boy, he was superior to all
his juvenile associates, in all their amusements; and when
he followed the fox-hosinds, he was always the first in at the
death, took the highest and most dangenuse leaps, and coin.
monly carried off the brush. But, of all the occupations in
which he ever eogaged, he permed sone so usremittiogly, so
earnestly, or so profitably, as the amusements of the turf.
This be was fond of from his very cradle, and for 45 years,
and till within three years of the close of his life, the turf
excluded every other pursuit. He possessed • minute know-
ledge of hones, their quad's:otiose, their defects, their
powers, their capabilities, their comparative est-enemies,
the nature of their breed, time cassaities to which they are
subject, the proper method of breeding, of training, of bring.
log !helots an equality by imitable weights, the way is which
they should be rode in a race, according to the peculiar qua-
lities of each, in what part or how • race was lost or won by
jeckephip. He wee acquainted with the pedigree of every
race-horse of celebrity that had appeared for the last sixty
years, and could trace from memory the origin of their stock
in this country. He knew which was of the best blood and
most suitable to breed from; I. short, his information
respecting bones was such as liner was and *ever will be
equalled. While the late Mr. Pick was compiling The
Turf Register, on the occerresee of every difficulty he wee
consulted, sod without his aasistasee it never would have
been published; to him also was the tate Mr. Bartholonmo
indebted for brining into satire the York Mirada a vat-
lag paper, and rendering it the doerisbing eaellieo dot it
was at the period of his death, a few yam
it hie amiaimice is formatting the sportiof.emelidielleffme
he also introduced the system of betting new eletalled,
practised by cautious betters., that is, the system of haffing
round's, belling to hook, as it is called. It mighleotedetfp
be repaid that by being furnished with thaionddfitimee
adrusiera, be was able to tars them to good eaulladllza
indostretas4 enlessee be acquired a large ferliMille,
was elMst astutel as it was realised. by
teeloMoco Miami friends, whore dope he became by 100
alookailig, and lee great facility of disposition. A real osapli
yoga oak of embarrassment invariably exdted..M.
lama sod eonspaseims, and the cunning knave boa,
where to borrow "miry so long as Mr. Wardell had its
sod the,. are these perhaps whose eye ibis will meet, sod
wba. from soder Ids pillow.—his sick pillow too—have net
seised porktli.benk containing hundreds of untold inuorp,
fee. which they had been allowed to take what they wanted
foe their necessities; and there are those too who will shriek
"Iwo told of them, that they have abused this miudoess of
boort, and the hundreds they have received have sever
Ikea returned. In his speculations so the turf be was not
lass unfortunate than in his bons fide transactions in meet.
lag with permit who deceived and wronged him. For
though his judgment led him to the right side, yet de.
&utters were always so numerous as to deduct considerably
from what became his due; and on the last uccasiestef his
interesting himself in a race, the defalcations of ewe he
Itosted were so assay and so heavy, that the fulfilaseut of the
whole of his engagements was fur a short period prolonged,
and be ultimately left the turf in disgust. The circumstance,
however, of his not completing those engagements at the
moment, bad an immediate and visible effect on his mind
and his. health. His delicate and almost romantic sense of
honour was nut to be overcome, and the writer of this article
does not hesitate to affirm that his disappointments lists
shortened his days. Let it be, however, remembered. that
its whole sneerer he experienced on the turf was the result
of strict honour and integrity sad judgment. He rejected all
Information that might have been communicated to him from
the stables by boys, by grooms, by jockeys, Of any &scrip.
tiou of persons whatever, a. to the condiliun of any horses
that were about to rua, or as to their comparative speed se
ascertained in private trials. He ever complained of mut*
practices of this hind, and equally cuademued lie pallellell
who would them betray the interests of their eampleeMir IMO
those who would encourage them, and endeavour to prat by
their misdeeds.
Little need be said of his disinestic lay. The tears that
litcompany him to the grave, abusdantly spew how much he
idis respected, loved, mid revered. His widow, we lament
to say, is inconsolable; his children are scarcely able to use
that fortitude which youth enables them to exert, and all his
friends are airlock with the suddenness of the dreadful event
of his death, and grieve fur him whose society they have
lost. He was eccentric, 'Hs true, but his eccentricities were
of a harmless nature, and more frequently excited plea-
santry. than ridicule or disgust. His temper was maternity
sanguise sad irascible; but whatever way he ',hewed thatt
nervous ability to which he was outlier% he showed that
his 'Begetter was good—that his heart was simmer. He poe-
ticised a degree of what might consistently be termed rustic
frankness, which to strangers sometimes appeared ample-
sant ; but which to his intimate friends became not *sly to-
lerable but agreeable. He was 61 years of age, and bad
been married 40 years whine • few mouths.
A glance at his political sentiments will suffice; be lowed
his own country dearly; be detested Pith's principles, and
hated Bonaparte from the moment he became • despot; ho
was a warm supporter of his country's rights, and a Arm
advocate of the people.
Some of our readers may think that we have somewhat
unprofitably occupied thus • parties aim paper, but we are
aware that there are thorsandemed lea of tboasaads to whom
this sketch will prove interesting. He was the best of hos-
boade--the kindest of fathers-41e dames* of (Meade.—

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