The Sun.
London, England, 1812-03-13 00:00:00

CIVIL SIDE.

On the Citil Side, the Special Jury Causes were
not interesting, except to the parties concerned.
SIR CHARLES ELICKE (nominally) v. DUDLEY.
This cause came on for re-heating before a Spe-
cial Jury, when nearly the same evidence was ad-
duced, reTeaing the fall of timber, as on the
former trial.

On the close of the plaintiff's case,
Mr. Justice GROSE observed, that he could not
but think that this question was fitter for reference,
than the decision of a Jury. He remembered the
arguments on the several affidavits in this cause, in
the Court of King's Bench, and that the Court re-
commended a reference. His Lordship said, he
continued in the same opinion ; besides, "consider-
able difficulty must arise, if it was thought neces-
sary for the Jury to take a view.
Mr. Serjeant SHEPHERD here stated, that it had
always been the disposition of his client, the Rev.
Dr. Dudley, to be guided by this opinion of the
Court, who had in consequence proposed krefer-
ence through his Solicitor, which was rejected on
the part of the plaintiff.
'Mr. GARROW, on the other side, after some con-
sultation, consented io a reference on the part of
Major Hay. . . .

On this, Mr. Serjeant SHEPHERD said, be thought
it right to remark, that considering how this ques-
tion had formerly been brought on by surprise, in
the absence of his client in Ireland, it became ne-
cessary for him to shew, that the aalual number of
trees felled had been cut down under the authority
of Sir Charles Blicke himself, as agent La Mts.
Allen, who directed him to grant her permission to
fell the timber necessary to cover the expenses of
the various repairs on the estate, which she should
have done herself, and for which a quantity of oak
timber had been felled the year before, but was car-
ried off and sold by Mrs. Allen, just before Dri
Dudley took possession ; and that this leave Sir
C. Blicke fully acknowledges to have been given
him, by his answers to the two bills in equity, then
in Court It was also farther necessary to observe,
that Dr. udley and his sub-tenant had expended
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Above 20 I. on such repairs, more than the sum de,
rived from the commutation of the timber, &c. in-
tended for these purposes. The grounds of reference
were_then adjusted between the Counsel, and Mr.
Bolland was nominated referee, with full power, to
decide upon ail the points, both at law, and in equi-
ty, of this complicated case.
THURSDAY, MARCH 12.
THE REV. DR. DUDLEY V. ALSTOSIE.
This was an action, tried by a Special Jury, to
eject, the defendant out of two extensive marsh
farmS in Tillingharn and -Bradwell, on a breach of
covenant, by subletting the said farms without con-
sent or privity of the plaintiff.
A verdict was given for the plaintiff. _

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40101E6 OP 1u LATii
HENRY ILILLMiII BUNBURY,SQ.

kenry William iitinbury so universally celebrat-
ed for his genius, taste, and skill, in the fine arts,
more particularly in the lined caricature pa;nting,
died in May 18 1 1 , at his residence near Keswick,
near Cumberland, having completed tie age of
somewhat more than threescore years.

He was the youngest son of the Rev. Sir MTHNam
unbary, Bart. of Mildenhall and Great Barton,
Suffolk, and Stanvey and Bunbury, in the county .of
Chester, some time Fellow of Cathetine Hall,
Cambridge, who died in 1764 ; his eldest son Tho-
mas Charles, then twenty-four years of age, succeed-
ing to the title and estates.
Mr. Henry Bunbury, the immediate subject of
this memoir, was educated at Westminster School,
and finished his studies at Catherine Hall, Cain-.
bridge. Pursuing the bent of his inclinations for the
Muses; and an ardent disposition for
,the cultivation
of the fine arts, for which he discovered an early
and most happy genius, he never engaged in any
profession or public employment. He was once
married to Catherine, the younger sister of the late
General Horneck, who has 'been dead many years.
This marriage produced two sons. Charles, who
had a troop in General G. Aroyne's regiment of ca-
valry, and who died while serving in India. Henry
Edward, a Colonel in thti army, who aeled as Quar-
ter-master-General at (he battle of Maida, and at
pr.eien! fills the employment 'of Under-Secretary of
Sate for Ore War D,-partment.
Mr. Buributy's former residence was at Bars( St.
Edmund's, in Suffolk, also at Batton, where he bed
a house near his brother. But. his visits to the
Lakes 0f Cumberland and Westmoreland had so
impressed his susceptible imagioation with the pic-
turesque beauties and grandeur of the romantic sce-
nery, that he at length determined on the erection
of a house at Keswick, whe-re he could enjoy his fa-
YOU:ite water and mountain views, during the sum-
mer and :iutumnai mouths. He had just completed
his building, and was engaged in providing the fur-
niture, when he received that summons to an eter-
mansion against which no flesh can appeal. The
solicitude of a most affeEtinnate brother to remove
him to Suffolk into the bosom Of his family, unhap-
pily proved fruitless.
It would be difficult to fix upon any individual
of our times, who was more cordially esteemed. and
beloved in the circle of his frieeds, or more gene-
rally acceptable where he was known, than Henry
Bunbury. He possessed, indeed, his full share of
the family good nature, and kindness of heart, which
in an especial manner attraaed towards him the
attachment and respeEt of the lower classes. But
his personal chargier will appear to more advantage,
with more truth and exactness, as well as more
warmth of delineation, when proceeding from the
pen of an old and most intimate friend, of fifty years
standing :

He was distinguished at a very early age by a
most extraordinary degree of taste and knowledge
in the fine arts. The produClions of his pencil have
from his childhood, been the admiration and delight
of the public. The exquisite humour of some of
his drawings, and the grace and elegance of the rest,
were unrivalled ; and he is, perhaps, the only in-
stance in which the excellence of such various and
opposite characters has been united, in the same
subjed, in an equal degree. But, though he pos-
sessed in this respect a peculiar genius, he neg-
leded no branch of polite literature. He was a good
classical scholar, and smit with the love of sacred
song.' The Muse were to him dukes ante omnia.'
He was an excellent judge of poetry, and the speci-
me►.s remaining of his own composition put it be-
yond a doubt that he would have been eminent in
that delightful art, if his natural ;modesty, under-
rating his own powers, bad not prevented him from
pursuing it with more application. His social and
moral qualities,. whilst any of those remain who
shared his friendship, will continue the objet of
fond admiration and regret. No ribaldry, no pro-
faneness, no ill-natured censure, ever flowed from
his lips; but his conversation abounded in humour
aria pleasantry ; it was charming to persons of all
descriptions. His feelings were the most benevo-
lent, his afitaions the most delicate, his heart • the
most sincere. He was Void of all affectation, alive
to praise, but not obtrusively courting it. Consci-
ous, but not ostentatious of merit, of unblemished
honour ; full of that piety which influences the
heart, and seeks the witness, not of the world, but
of God. All who had the slightest acquaintance
with him will bear witness to the extraordinary ten-
derness of his disposition, to his kind and aatiee
friendship, to his universal benevolence, praCtically
displayed throughout the whole of his terrestrial ex-
istence."

To these really charaaeristic traits, which have
been seleaed from known and good authority, need
only be added, he loved the social enjoyment of his
bottle with his friend.

The caricature paintings of Bunbury have long
since passed the ordeal, and received the full sanaion-
of public Opinion.- The truth and reality of his ge-
nius had a professional voucher, whose ability to de-
cide no one will he disposped to controvert. On its
first appearance, Sir Joshua Reynolds declared to a
friend, that Mr. Banbury's Barber's-shop was one
of the best drawings he had ever seen, and that it
would be admired in every age and every country.
He was truly an original, and that principle of the
vis comiea, with which his mind was naturally im-
pressed, as. well as his style and manner of execu-
tion, were peculiarly his own. He possessed the
magic power; with his pencil; to touch the chords of
risibility in every human breast, where such existed.
and to draw forth instantaneous and congenial sen-
sations. He was from nature so complete a master
of the res (udicra, that, whatever his pencil intend-'
ed for a burlesque, must inevitably prove such to
every human eye ; an indubitable test of genius,
and in some sort independent of technical, precision
in th,e execution. On this ground, doubtless,- the
judgment of Sir Joshua Reynolds rested. Genuine
irresistible humour flowed also through the pen.as
well as the pencil of Bunbury, as every reader, im-
bued with a moderate portion of the animal risibile,
will find himself involuntarily ready to acknowledge,
in a perusal of the sage directions for bad horsemen,
by Professor Geoffry Gambado. In the delineation
of piduresque and mountain Scenery, he drew with

the band of a master ; his performanzes of tat
kind art full of enthusiasm, nature, and teste, a;)d
e?.tretnely valued b their p&.ses"Sors. it may
be §afely averred, 1.-villever be the case with his wok
in general; of which it is ftgretted that a list cann,it
here be given, accompanied. %Alin specimens of
poetic talent ; both which deiderata it is intended
to supply on some future occasion.

Tuesday night a soldier belooog to the Derby
Militia; lying on the Heights at Dover,
road, and tell into one of the trenches, which are A
great depth ; he was picked op in the morning;
with but signs of life.