Star.
London, England, 1827-11-17 00:00:00

VEATiI NFIL CLOBELL.

MU THg sitnlio GAZIITTZ lIMAOIIIOI4IIY,
OF AUGUST 14.
FRRETOWN, Maus: 14.
This. morning, at 'five minutes past nine o'clock,
de-
pparted this life, after - short, but severe illness, his
I.:flinty aso;Genera I air Neil Campbell; C.D. Captain
General and Governoiain•Chier. Immediately after this
;ad event, his Honour Lieutenant Lolonel Luniley, the
Lieutenant Governor, Assembled the. Members of his
majesty's Cotlncih to tomMu nicate to them the afflicting
Intelligence, and to take such steps as are usual on oc-
casions of the.like Melancholy naiirre. His Honour,
in communicating to the public the severe loss the
'Colony hell sustained by this very melancholy event,
leelVthit he cannot adequately express his opkion on
the death of so distinguished and valuable an officer, of
whr;nt it may be truly said, that he has sacrified his life
to his never ceasing teal and exertions. •
The following is a statement of the disease of his late,
Excellency, together with its alarming rapid progress,
Signed by the medical Gentlemen who attended him :-
6. After a febrile indisposition of several days, against which be
endeavoured to contend, his Excellency Major-General Sir Neil
Campbell reluctantly-subMitted to medical treatment on Monday,
the Sth instant, after which period he laboured under the usual
symptoms of remittent fever. On the morning of the 9th a remis-
sion took place, when his Excellency, contrary to the repeated and
argent solicitations of his medical attendants, entered deeply into
public hu.iness of rather an agitating nature. On the same even-
ing the complaiivr renamed, and was shortly followed by an alarm-
ing loss of nuntal power, which continued and was accompanied by
gradual sinking of the bodily poweta until the morning of the pith,
when his Excellency expired at nine o'clock. (Signed)
WILLIAhI BARRY, Dep. Inspector Hospitals.
“ JAM RS BOYLE, Colonial Surgeon.
t. W. FEROUSSON, Surgeon, It.A.C.C.”
Noises.—His Honour the Lieutenant Governor directs, that the
Civil talkers put on deep mourning for six weeks, as a mark of
diode( respect to the memory of their late lamented Governor in
'Chief, MalorGenerai Sir Neil Campbell, Kut. C.B. deceased.
By his Honor's command,
WALTER W. LEWIS, Colonial Secretary.
gam TR& FRLgTOWN ROYAL GAZZYTZ 01 AUG. 18.

The funeral of his Excellency the late Major General
Sir Neil Campbell, our lamented Goveinor-in•Cliiel,
left the Government House at a little after two on
Wednesday afternoon, (the 15th) preceded by a de-
tachment of the Royal African Colonial Corps, and the
band of that Regiment. It was followed by his Ho-
nour Lieutenant Colonel Lumley, the Lieutenant Go-
vernor, the Members of the Council, the Civil and
Military Officers, the troops of the garrison, and nearly
the whole of the respectable part of the population;
and although the weather was excceedingly unfa-
vourable, there was a large concourse of spectators.
During the movement of this mournful procession to-'
wards the burial ground, there were fifty minute guns
fired from Fort Thornton. the ♦frican, a steam vessel,
and the Prince Regent, East Indiaman. The remains
of his Excellency were deposited in a vault prepared for
its reception, about half-past three, with the honours
doe to officers of his rank.

His Excellency commenced his military career in the
6th West India regiment, to which he was appointed
Ensign, on the 2d of April, 1797, and was soon after
promoted to a Lieutenancy in the .67th regiment. After
serving upwards of three years in the West Indies,• he
returned to England, and in 1801 obtained a Company
in the Rifle Corps (then the 95th Foot). About this
eme his great abilities began to attract the attention of
his superior Officers, and, after having been some time
at the Military College, he was appointed Assistant
Quartermaster General to the Southern District of
England, in which situation he remained until promoted
ton Majority in the 43d regiment,in January, 1805, from
which he was shortly after removed to the 54th Foot.
Is the month of August, 1806, he was appointed De-
pot)? Adjutant General to the Forces in the Windward
and Leeward Wands, with the rank of Lieut.-Colonel.
He served in the several expeditions undertaken against li
Martinique, Gaudaloupe, Stc. in 1809.10. The follow-
ing extract from Major-General Maitland's public dis-
patch, dated April 18, 1809, will strew how- highly
Lieuteaant- Colonel Campbell's sex vices were appreciated
by that gallant officer:—
" Lieutenant Colonel Campbell, Deputy Adjutant General, has
been always (onward ; he is an slicer wbo mast rise by his merit."
The following observation also, which occurs in a dis-
patch from Major-General Harcourt to Sir George
Beckwith on the capture of Guadaloupe, speaks more
warmly of his able services :

" Gaudaloope, Feb. 7th, 1310.
" Lieutenant Colonel Campbell, Deputy Adjutant General, me-
rits my warmest acknowledgments by his zealous services, which
have been unremitting ; and particularly for his exertions and ablk
'lnstance In the affair of the 3d."

Lieutenant-Colonel Campbell having returned to
England in the latter part of 1810, proceeded immedi-
ately to the Peninsula, then the seat of war, having
previously resigned Lis situation as Deputy Adjutant-
General to the Forces in the West Indies.
In April, 1811, he was appointed Colonel of the 16th
Regiment of Portuguese Infantry, and was actively
engaged in the military operations of that period, par-
ocularly at the sieges of Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajos; and
Burgos, and at the battle of Salamanca. On these
occasions the Duke of Wellington made honourable
nention of Colonel Campbell's name, in his dispatches
of the 20th January and 21st September, 1812.
Or the retreat of the British army, in 1813, Col-Camp -
beton consequence of severe illness, returned to England.
In the month of February, 1813, he proceeded to join
Eul Cathcart, at the head quarters cf the Emperor of
Itthsia, in Poland. Here he was employed, along with
Sir Robert Wilson and Colonel L:swe, in reporting on
the force and military operations Cif the different corps
of the Russian army. His eminent services while in
this station are known to all Europe. On the 24th of
March, 1814, he was severely wounded at Fere Champe-
noise, in France, as appears from the following dispatch
from Lord Burghersh, dated March 26th, 1814:
" It n with the greatest regret I have to announce to your Lord-
-14 that Colonel Campbell was yesterday most severely wounded
bl +Casa& Colonel Campbell, continuing that gallant, distill.
talked course, which has ever marked his military career, had
chatted with the first cavalry, which penetrated the French
Imam. The Cossacks, who came to aupport this cavalry, mis.
took him for a French officer, and struck him to the ground."
In June, 1814, he was gazetted Colonel of the British
army: and subsequently received no less than five
afferent Orders from the crowned heads of Europe,
and the honour of KnighthOod from his own Sovereign.
After the campaign of 1815, in which he. as usual, was
found at his post, Colonel Campbell retired to private
life, covered with honours...
On the 27th of May, 1825, Colonel Campbell was
aPpo nted a Major-General ; and on the 18th of April,
1828, on the lamented demise of General Turner being
known in England, was commissioned ►y his Majecy
as Governor in Chief of these possessions. He strived
in this Colony on • the 22J of August following : thus
Lasing, within a twelvemonth atter landing, termi-
ated a life, dui ing which his zealous exertions were
over devoted to the duties of his profession; and
sere more particularly exemplified to ourselves in the
extended duties which devolved upon him in the ad-
ministration of this Government, and in the public and
Private interest he took in all that concerned its trade
a .d commerce, its agriculture, and its foreign and do-
Mestic policy with the surrounding nations of the Co.lony, and our important dependency in the Gambia.

• • HA,, ES TUNNEL:
The wor acs of the Tu lint I ate sp far aciOsitifeci, that
the Shield is already in solid undisturbed grotind, and
there is; therefore, every prospect of the %veils being
pushed with the insult! iigour.
We understand that upwards of 400 plans had been,
sent to Mr. Brunel for mending the hole made by the
river; anti, that of this number there ‘s ere 250 by let-
ter, from Ungliusd, different parts cf Europe, and even
From A neer ica.

Since the water hal been stopped, several of these
cOntributors have applied td Mr. Brunel for pecuniary
compensation, under the impression that there could be
but one way of stopping the hole, and that way as
pointed out by themselves. Some of the claimants, we
underitand, have been extremely troublesome, and as
theie is no knowing how many more claims may be
set up of a similar nature, Mr. Brunel has bit upon the
expedient of collecting all the plans, and arranging
them under their different heads, that the parties them-
selves may know the claim they have to remuneration.
This number is exclusive of;confidential communication.
FI.AWS FOS STOPPING THE HOLE, MADE Sr THE RMS.-A HOLE,
WHICH NMS mama= 40,000 SHIMS FEET Or 0 SOUND TO FILL IT OF.
lst. A covering with sails, tarpauling, hides, mattresses,
or matting . 39
2d. A spacious lid, made of can Iron, wrought iron, copper,
or lead . . 22
3d. • Rafts, differing but little in their form or application 42
4th. Barges, sunk close to one another, or inverted vessels,
operating as a Op, or as a diving bell . 40
sth. Cofferdams . • • . . 4
.
6th. Shafts : • . • • 2
. 7th. Plug of suitable dissensions . .
sib. Floodgates, applied in various way--some at the bottom
of the river, others to be shut after the men have walked
off, and one In particular to act as a pennon, to be shoved
down from the top of the river . . 5
9th. Sheri Paling . . 6
,
10th. New Tunnel . 3
11th. A New Shield 1
• •

_ .
12th. Sundry schemes, which are not sufficiently well defined
to be classed—among which, an arch of masonry across the
river for making the Tunnel under it . 7.2
13th. Offers of plans, of which the nature is not disclosed,
and only their infallibility confidently urged: indeed, of all
the projects on this occasion, these, we are assured, set up
the strongest claims to infallibility. At the same time,
they are distinguished by an abuse and reprobation of every
thing that has been dune since the accident, or that had
been done previously, as injudicious, and totally unfit for
the purpose. In others, the pertinacity of adhering to the
course that has been pursued, of throwing in stuff, is strongly
deprecated, when an effectual remedy for the present, and
a certain preventive for the future, might be obtained—to
be compassed likewise in a minute or two, according to
some, or, in a few hours, according to others, whilst the
projectors offer to stake their honour, their fortunes, nay,
their very lives, on the infallibility of their plans •611
Making a grand total of - 281
It would not be amiss, however, to apprise the
claimants, that Mr. Brunel has also a claim, resting
upon the successful result of an experiment, which
originated with himself alone. This plan (a very
valuable one, as the result has shewn) consisted in
throwing in bags of clay, studded through with hazel
rods. As to the tarpaulings, they were not used by
Mr. Brunel till after the water had been so far stopped,
that it could be easily kept down by the two pumps,
that are worked by the steam engine. As he has now
overcome the worst that could happen, and thus'
incontestibly proved the strength and fertility of his
genies, we are not surprised at the confident hopes
which generally prevail of his accomplishing this mag-
nificent undertaking.
We visited the tunnel. ourselves on Wednesday last,
on which occasion we obtained the foregoing parti-
culars ; and if we do not attempt to describe the work
itself, it is because we despair of doing justice to the
subject, or of conveying to others the wonder we
experienced ourselves. Whilst we were on the spot,
our attention was never diverted by a sense of inse-
curity ; for so happily are beauty, solidity, and gran-
deur combined, that our admiration was not checked,
even for a moment, by a consciousness of the fact,
that the majestic Thames, with her thousand ships, was
flowing all the time over our heads.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
SWAFFHAM COURSING MEETING.
Swistruass, Fishier. Moannto.
The company was not quite so nfimerosis yesterday as on the pre-
ceding days, nor was the coursing so good. The hares were rather
scarce, but, fortunately; a sufficient number were found for the
various matches. The Course for the Cup between Mr. Gurdon's
Skylark and Mr. Carter's Gustavus, was remarkably severe; they
gave each other the go-by frequently, and the hare was turned £0
or 30 times; a finer match was never run. The Ball last night was
very numerously attended, all the leading families of the county
being present. The following is a return of the third day's sport-
-1011 THS GOLD COP.
Ist Course—Mr. Gurclon's bl. and w. b. Skylark . .. I
Mr. Carter's bi. d. Gustavus . . 2
24 Course—Mr. Gurney's red Is Asp . I
Mr. Gurney's brind. d. Abel . . . 2
The We.tacre sod Harboroagh Stakes for dog puppies.
Mr. Buckworth's red d. p. Brickdust beat Mr. Ayton's bl. and w.
sd. p. Paris, and won the Stakes.
Westacre and Harborough Stakes for bitch puppies.
Mr. Gurney's bl. and w. b. p. Anna beat Mr. Gunton s bL b. p.
Starling, and won the Stakes
MATCHES.
1 Mr. Stonehewer's Othello and hit. Edwards's Exploit undecided
2 Mr. Buck wist th's b. and w. b. p. Brisk . I
Me. •Edwards's blk. d. p. Euselrus . 2
• .
•
3 Mr. Buckworth's blk. and w. b. p. Brief . 1
3.1 r. Denu's brind. b. p. Dewdrop . 2
4 Mr. Young's blue d. Vademecum . . • . I
Colonel Wilson's blk. b. p. Neva . . • 2
2 Mr. Shute's blk. 4: Ulysses . No course
Mr. Wilkinson's brind. d. Csemicbeff . • Ditto 1
6 Mr. Rust's red b. p. Wildfire . 3
Mr. Gurney's red and w. b. p. Arabella . 2'
7 Mr. Carter's blk. d. Gas . 1
Mr. Redhead's blue d. Lamplighter . . 2
$ Mr. Rust's red d. William , . 1
Mr. Stonebewer's brind. d. Oscar . 2
.
9 Mr. F.dwarsb's dun. d. Expert . . • 1..
Mr. Redhead's blue b. Lyra . . 2
10 Mr. Wilkinson'. red d. p. Constance . . 1
Mr. Shute's blue b. p. Upas . . 2
11 Mr. Denu's blk. b. p. Dinab . . undecided
•
Mr. Tyssen's blk. b. p. Fortune . . Ditto
. .
12 Mr. Carter's red b. Gavot . . 1
blk. b. Puss . 2
•
Mr. Ayton's
.
13 Mr. Rust's red b. Windermere . . 1
• Mr. Denny blk. 4. Despot • ' 2
. .
14 Mr. Don's kind. b. p. Damsel . . undecided
Mr. Buckworth's blk. b. p. Barbara . . Ditto
15 Mr. Rust's red d. p. Wasp • . . . 1
Mr. Wilkinson's w. and blk. ticked d. p. Cygnet . . . 2
HUNTING.
The Earl of Derby's Stag Hounds meet on Tuesday, at Chatter-
ham Common.
H. Jolliffe, Esq.'s Fox Hounds on Monday, at Kingswood Gate;
Wednesday, at horse Hills; and Saturday, at Platt's Green.
The Surrey Fox Hounds on Monday, at Addington Bottom;
Thiusday, at Godstone; and Saturday, at Pratt's Bottom.

COURT OP CHANCERT.—An injunction has this day
been granted by the Loan Coascautos, to restrain G. Lamerte
from making or selling any Blacking with Labels in imitation of
the genuine Warren's Blacking, which he has been in the habit of
doing by using the fictitious name of Jonathan Warren, and other•
wise imitating the genuine Labels of ItostalWaaaint, 30, STRAND.
It is, therefore, strongly recommended, that those Shopkeepers, or
others who have any of the counterfeit Blacking, as above de-
scribed, do return it to die parties from whom they received it,
which- they are justified in thing. By neglecting this Ranee, they
will be hable to the heavy expenses and penalties of o tuff in Chancery,
which will be immediately commenced against them. The genuine
Llacking. is signed " Rosary WAaaan, 50, Smoot," on each
Label—al/ others are counterfeit, and of very inferior quality.—
Landon, 15th November, 1827.

; • • • • . •
' • Itßl6;ilJEttit
• (Prole the Reports of the ontimissioner; to Inquire Into Chaiitiel
in Enittanci and Wittei, 'already numbering 15 robe inhume.)
Griffith Atnerifleth, of Exeter, in 1556, give land's,
&c. valued then at 38s. en bi received b 9 the Mayor,
&c: for the time being, " Co be bestowed for ever to
-wards the buying of slirouds for pri-rinets who 'should
:be t refuted at Ringsw.ll, and for the maintinance of
the wall whch should encompais the ground which
should be hallowed there for the prisoners' remains to'
be buried in."• Such testator's son strengthened hii
father's becittests, by will of 1661, i*speeting " all Id.
judged to suffer death, not leaving sufficient to buy
a shrond."confirming the grant of certain rents, &c.
to buy shrouds, with which the bodiet being covered
might be decently buried—(Sixth Report, p. 118.)—
The Commissioners afterwards state, " ltingswell is
situated near the village of Heavitree, and was the
usual place for the execution of criminals, for whom
shrouds used to be provided from this gift by the
warden of the poor. The expense was 3s. 6d. for each
person executed. Of late years, since the erection of a
new gaol, no executions have taken place at the gaol,
and no shrouds have since been provided from this
fund. If the rents and occasional fines are :dot required
for this purpose, we (the Commissioners) conceive that
they ought to be applied to some other object as nearly
approaching that which wa; pointed out by the donor,
as existing fit cumstances will permit. It might be
proper to have the directions of the Court of Chancery
on this point."—lbid. p. 119.
Sir George Barnes, Knight and Alderman, by will of
1557, gave to the parson of the parish of St. Bartholo-
mew, Royal Exchange, &c. " two little messuages or
tenements, at tl.e farthest end of London Bridge, ad-
joining to the great stoop there, on the west side, and
lying in the parish of Sr. Olave, Southwark, for white,
!stead for the communion there; also every Sunday,
15 penny loaves; one penny loaf to the clerk of the
parish, one other to the sexton, and 13 to 13 poor folks,
&c.; and the residue for the repair of the church:
The amount of compensa:ion from the Corporation of
Lonslon, &c. is now invested in the funds.--Eigkih
Report, p. 252.
Hobby s Charity, left to the Cloth Workers' Company,
in 1677, various lands, &c. for different purposes; in
consequsoce of which, the Company are liable (in re-
spect of lands in Kent) to the payment of a moiety of
the wall scot (a tax for preserving the banks of the river
Thames); also to a moiety for the erection of Maidstone
gaol, &c.—Rep. 6, p. 240. Also 501. and upwards,
annually, for the release of poor debtors, " out of the
two Compters of Ludgate.'
Bellowe's Gift, of 1614, gave to the Brewer's Company
divers propel ty value 961. a year, for-the use of poor
ale brewers, to Yeoman Brewers, ke. which amount is
now regularly carried to the Company's general account,
and no payments (say the Commissioners) are made in
respect of it, affording to the directions of the donor's
will. " There are not at this time any Yeoman Brewers;
' but it is understood that there formerly were persons,
known by that description, forming a branch of the
Brewers Company."—Report 8, p. 306.
Botekr's Charity, Biddenharn, Bedfordshire, gives 51.
annually out of an estate (now Lord Hampden's) for
the purchase of a Bull, which is killed, and the flesh
thereof given away amongst the poorof the parish ; the
deficiency in the sum is made up out of Mrs. Boteler's
charity. Some years ago (the Commissioners relate) it
was proposed by the Vicar to expend the money in
buying-meat ; " but the poor insisted on the customary
purchase of a Bull being continued, and the usage is
accordingly kept up.—Rep. 6, p. 32.
Wardell, by will of 1656, gave to the Grocer's Com-1
pany, a house, the White Bear, Walbrook, for the Church.
wardens of St. Botolph, Billingsgate, to provide a
sufficient iron and glass lantern, with a candle, for the
direction of passengers to go with more security to and
from the water side, all night long, to be fixed at the
east corner of the parish church of St. Botolph, from St.
Bartholomew's Day to Lady Day, IL to be paid to the
sexton for taking care of the said lantern." There is
now annually paid 4/. to the Churchwardens of St. Bo-
tolph, Billingsgate, for such purpose.—Rep.6, p. 276.
Robert and Simon Harding': Charity.—Per 'will of
,1568, gave to the Fishmongers' Company an annuity
of 91.65. fld. &c. issuing out of tenements in Pudding-
lane, to pay sums in " the Lent season to such poor in •
habiters and artificers of Old Fish-street, compelled by
necessity to repair thither to buy the crating: of, and
refuse offish." The Commissioners add, there being noi
poor persons of this description, the fund is now distri.-
buted to ,the half yearly poor at Christmas.—Report'
12, p. 109.
Custom Money, Great Barr, Staffordshire—ln Shaw's
History of Staffordshire, is mentioned (Report of the
Commissioners) a custom formerly prevalent in this
parish, for the Rector, on every Christmas Day, to give
to every person, great and small, of Iris parish, that
would then come to Iris house, as much bread, beef,
mustard, and vinegar tis they could cat. We were _in-
formed by an old parishioner, that lie had often heard
his father speak of this dinner, as having been usually
given in his time. It has for many years been discon-
tinued, and instead thereof, the Rector of Aldridge now
gives, to every housekeeper who demands it in Aldridge,
6d. and in Barr, Bd. which is called Custom Money.-1
The origin of the custom is unknown, Import, 12. p. 542.
Cary s 'hardy, per will of 1691, gives to the Borough
of 'New Woodstock, Oxfordshire, a rent charge of
81. 10s. for various purposes, part of it to the clerk or
sexton " whicihould ring the eight o'clock bell at night,
for the guide and direction of travd!ers ; and in case they
should refuse or neglect to ring the bell in manner afore-
said, then the amount to cease, to be paid to the mayor,
&c. The custom is continued, the corporation paying
an addition for the ringing of the eight o'clock bell from
their own funds.) Rep. 12, p. 328.
Twickenkam(Middlesez), Bull Land—From a copy of
Court Roll of the manor of Isleworth Sion, dated Dec.
29, 1675, it appears that Thomas Cole surrendered
4a. and Ir. of customary land, lying in several places in
the fields of Twickenham, anciently btlonging to the
inhabitants of Twickenham, for keeping a bull for the
common use of the inhabitants, in trust, for the use of the
said inhabitants, for keeping and maintaining a sufficient
bull for the use aforesaid. The ground was let, accord.
ing to an old churchwarden's ledger, Oct. 6, 1622, to
Mr. R. Bartlett, paying rent for the Bull-mead, and
receiving a bull from the churchwardens for the common
use of the parishioners, to keep the same at his own
charge, and if the bull should die to provide another—
Rep. 8, p. 401.
Nicholas Spicer, Alderman of Exeter, by indenture
Of Feotment cf 1609, gave to the Exeter Corporation,
lands, &c. for various purposes—amongst others, 40s.
Yearly towards " the better maintenance of candle light
in the dark nights, between the feasts of All Saints and
the Purification, to be placed and set up in such conte-
nient places, as to the corporation should be thought
meet, to give better light to people passing and going
in the streets of the said city';' 6s. 81 to the night-
bellman—Reporl 8, p. 71.