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The Times, 1824-05-12T00:00:00

Extract of a letter frorn falta, -ated the 6th of April 1824.-" We have been fully occupied here for some time pastwith a General Court-4lartial, held on two oflicers of the Royal Ar- tillery. whose rclbgioau- scruples were so great, that they would not fire the usual salutes witb which the inhabitants have been hithertn indulged on. their ftstivals ever since the island has been in posses. -sion of the British, and tsom time immemorial." The remainder of the mathematical instrumenis were esterday morningsent down tothe 11e&a and:Furp attNorthfeet. 'Vh;s day the Lords efthe Admiralty, the Dke of NWellington, and several of the Cabinet' Ministersi eJmbark on board the Conet, Government steam.vexseL 'he ships will leave Northfleet on Saturday or-Sunday at farthest. Ar. Blake, the Catholfc Barrister an(d Chief Remem- brancer of the Cotirt of Exchequer in Ireland has been elected a bencher of the hon: society of the King's Ions, Jublin. This is the first instance of this pro6fessional distinction being conferred on a Catholic. It wash Mr. Bunu, the stage-manager, we believe, antl not i.it. Winstoni.who made the apology on Malonday night at Drury- lane, for the non-appearance of 31r. Kc4n.' On lookingat the Vote-paper of the House of Commons, we obserxe the nntii on the secord reading of the West India Cdmpaziybill ate stdted to be4 106 for. the bill. 30 a-ainst it; and not I02'tor, ani 30'aginst- so that the majority wasgreater by four than otut repott stated.: The.towu andl Pier of MI1argate, togelher with the towni of Rami.gate, wil be lighted with gas in the easuing season. FRaANCIS MASEnt5) CURSITOIt BARLON OF TIIrE EXt'UaE QUER.-On Monday morring this distinguished individual closed his long and v:luable life; at tie advnaced agc of 93. Baron Mia- scres wascf a refugee fainily; his grandfather car..e over with King WV'illiam; -and.him mind,-asu mightnaturally be expected, was early imbued witdt a hatred, of every thing-ii the shape of religious perse- cutionn. He was a feleowtf'ClareHnil, Cambridge, ttd very early dirplayed tllat profouhld knowledge of mathematics, to the peculiat study-of which-hehad devdted hinmself, mt1d to which he was, no doubt, excited-by thermany celebratednames which, in this depart- nent.4f sciencc, have.-done-honour -to that celebrated university. Hie publisheid,,as early as 179, .a work on tbe negative sipn in which-he. orgued, against the rececived docLriule of negatuve qnantiLies,:aunt some tine .afterwnarda -published hi,- valuable coUlection of- tbe .Ser-iplarcef LoguzrWrici, in six vols.. 4to * a work op Iiie annuitics, and.saverM historical works, anmong which were AfayIjistoryoftlte Parliarvic,lara Ludlowk' Letters. It was to the, liberal and cnlightened patronage of Batot Allsacrts that the public are indcbted for the 'Rev. John Iellius' valuable transla- tion of Dor.na-Agueal's-nrtit.aai oni . Anelytwik. t-hnd been trans- lated maniy years befobre by the-then late Professor Co-son, the inge- nioau romment;ttor on the Fluxions.of Newton. Baron illateres, w-ho in his early. life had-known Colson, and had reason to infer, from his -conversmtionu, that he had written a treatise on the higher geometry, which,behad-neverpublished,- was desirous of discobvcing this na- u,urs pts.an4 ofgiving-it to thewokid, In his search hiefonud,notthe -work hueIsked for,;but the ttuohlation just mentioned.; andaRterrc- mQovingotom-pecuniiaryuhifTiculties, - which without such generous as. sistance .*ould prob4bly have been for ever-wiuhbcldfroni thb world, he obtained a copy of it,suad put it into thehaitulsof Mir.- Hellins,' -who undertooktobccomeitsesditor1 andunduerwhoseinspection it was print- edin 1804 Iprivatelite$.thb:disposition of Baton lastresWas kjidness itsel`, asni his integilty was.thexesiult ol'a iniitid disciplined tronm .arly 'tte Itl -all-itb fealiuugs -and-disipterested -in all its habits.' In poliics lhe was awhiig-;of: tnid schoolaverse from all wild in novatiob.% but loving liberty-4o thesake of humankind, aiddespis ditg:tit cotnv)ronuisc:wittrlesgpotisn,- flis ireligious tenets were thosc ot a`strict!and stiwch Unitarian; but w~ithyerfect good fecEng to- wardls'everyobe!of diff'erenteutiunente.. li{x-memory-as will often happen-with thoserwhose- live ihavC been dlovoted to abstract studies -adfaileahinmalniost-totally tor, hiany-months- before his death. He-wns-nevevri.rl-6% i andhraml a~ o I uovcry near relatives leehinmi hint.;:ia died at his hops3s. at .Reigate, ip..Surre5, to which h heen- removtd SomCAlne,before hidttii; . t --I'' .~ .,,.,,,-, ,,,, , .. .... .. ....- .----.. , ? . .