In adverting to the last hours of his existence he was conscious of approaching dissolution and was prepared for the awful change. Shortly before he breathed his last, he was asked if he wished a chapter of the Bible to be read to him; he replied, "Not at present-that his mind was not in a state to grap. ple with the subject, but that it was all right with him; he knew whom he trusted."

His remains were interred in the Scotch Burial Ground on the evening of Wednesday the 1st September 1847, amongst a most crowded attendance on the mournful occasion, including all the ministers and Missionaries of the different denominations in Calcutta, and even clergymen belonging to the Established Church of England, -in honor of one who was so extensively beloved and admired for his eminent talents and his still more eminent piety and virtues.

The Monument erected over his grave bears the following Inscription :

In Memory of the Rev. John Macdonald,

Missionary Minister of the Free Church of Scotland, who was born in Edinburgh on the
17th of Feb. 1807, landed in Calcutta on the 4th of Feb. 1838, and who fell
asleep in Jesus on the 1st of September 1847.

This tablet is affectionately inscribed by his tenderly attached widow.
"Christ sent me to preach the Gospel."-1 Corinth i. 17.

"Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.-Acts xvi. 31.

MRS. HILL.

Mrs. Hill, wife of the Rev. M. Hill, acting Pastor of the Union Chapel of Calcutta, was converted to God at the age of fourteen. A faithful and Evangelical clergyman, the Rev. Clement Leigh, Rector of Newcastle, Staffordshire, who had been appointed to the Church she attended, was eminently useful to her during this process of spiritual regeneration, by guiding the young convert into the pastures of the Lord, where she found the proper food for her soul. To the period of her death, she cherished the most grateful feelings towards that venerable servant of God. And she became one of that good man's active auxiliaries in every scheme for the spiritual and temporal benefit of his parishioners. Mrs. Hill's acquaintances were mostly dissenters; and Mr. Hill first became acquainted with her through the introduction of an independent Minister. Her religion was fraught with deep humility and contrition, tempered with lively faith in the Redeemer, and accompanied by constant breathings and strivings after holiness. Spiritual-mindedness, a prayerful disposition, an active and operative faith, and charity in its widest sense, were the peculiar characteristics of her life.

On her arrival in India, March 1822, her husband was located at the London Missionary Society's station, Tally Gunge, 5 miles south of Calcutta, where she had commenced a girl's School, when in the beginning of 1824, the Diocesan Committee, at the request of Bishop Heber, solicited the London Missionary Society to transfer the station to the Society for the propagation of the Gospel in foreign parts. Mrs. Hill then accompanied her husband to Berhampore, where her life as a Missionary may be said to have commenced. The erection of her first native girl's school occasioned a great commotion in the community; from several quarters, both the Civil and Military authorities were petitioned to remove it. Mrs. Hill had at one time several native girl's schools and also a Portuguese girl's school under her superintendence. This latter was kept up for years whilst Berhampore continued a depot for European troops. The former were at length resigned for the female orphan asylum, which, with the Christian village, fully occupied her time. Useful as were her labours in these schools, they were still more blessed in the instruction of women from the Barracks of the European troops, among whom many have died in the faith who before were destitute of Godliness, and others still live to praise God for her faithful and affectionate instruction. Nor were her efforts confined to the humbler classes of society; among the rich there were some who had been thoughtless and gay who have attributed their conversion to the subject of this obituary notice.

For several successive years Mrs. Hill accompanied her husband in his itinerancies, in which she journied hundreds of miles, and never repined at the difficulties inseparable from travelling in tents. Her success in administering medicines to the sick natives brought upon her incessant employment, and at more halting-places than one she has had upwards of 250 patients in a day; her arrival at the next encamping ground was hailed by all, and her departure lamented by many who had come too late to obtain her assistance; in this way, as well as by distributing tracts and occasionally gaining access to the respectable females of the first native families, she facilitated her husband's labours in preaching the Gospel. From the moment of her arrival in Calcutta, she took a very active part in the Calcutta Dorcas Society, whose aim it is to furnish the poor with articles of clothing; and to the period of her death, she was one of its most efficient members. Her prayers for others were incessant, and how earnestly she longed for the conversion of the souls committed to the pastoral charge of her husband, the following conversation with a friend, a few days before she was taken ill, will shew. She came in after paying some of her visits of love, and with an expression of deepfelt grief, said, "Ah! Mr. Lacroix, tell me what is the reason that though my dear husband and myself have been here nearly six months, we see no souls converted; whilst at Berhampore, we were privi leged and rejoiced to see at least now and then some one turn to the Lord?" Mr. L. endeavoured to comfort her by saying that the efforts put forth were not lost, and that God would afterwards cause the seed sown to spring up, and to bear fruit. 'May the Lord grant it!" she added.

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As an instance of Mrs. Hill's active disposition and anxiety to do good it deserves to be noticed, that when in England some years ago, she originated, with the aid of some other ladies, the Walthamstow Institution for the education of the daughters of Missionaries. Such an Institution had been talked of; but the projectors had been discouraged and given up the scheme, she roused the latent, but expiring zeal, and did not rest till the plan was brought to maturity. Her own two daughters formed the nucleus around which other Missionary children gathered.

The following brief sketch of her dying hours will best show the state of her mind in respect to these things.

At an early stage of the disease, Mrs. Hill became conscious of her approaching end, and expressed great concern for her youngest daughter's spiritual welfare, breathing out in the following manner, "O my child if I knew that your heart was given to God, I could depart in peace," "O if she were a child of God, I feel I could desire no greater happiness." "I have prayed much, much for her."

On another occasion she remarked, "Oh! this dreadful feeling of faintness; but it will not be for ever; I am daily getting weaker." Mr. Lacroix, who was present, answered :-"I hope the Lord has yet much work for you to do ;-we do not feel as if we could spare you yet. We want your prayers and your counsels to animate us to greater zeal." She replied, "Me! to animate you indeed! I have been an unprofitable servant. I have done nothing for my Saviour's cause. I have lived too much to myself. Oh! that I had loved souls more."

On the Sabbath week morning preceding her death, having passed a restless night of pain and suffering, she said, "now I feel easier, isn't it a mercy?" After a while, she heard a sound of singing, and rised her head and enquired, "Am I dreaming, or is it music I hear? It seems so soft, so sweet and heavenly?" Mrs. Parker answered, "service has commenced at Chapel." She added, "what must be the heavenly choir, if on earth it sounds so sweet!" She looked at Mrs. P. with a sweet expression and replied;-"Ah! we must first be there to comprehend its sweetness! No sin there; all will be holy! This world would be beautiful, but it suffers from the effects of sin. O to be freed from sin!"

On another occasion, she said, "my mind seems wandering: I cannot fix my thoughts. I want Christ always present to my mind; but this suffering body seems to engross my thoughts," then suddenly, as if recollecting herself, she exclaimed, "Lord Jesus! give me a spirit of resignation and submission, keep me from repining. What are my sufferings in comparison with thine? Mine are the deserts of my sin; but thou wert pure and holy, and suffered for fallen guilty sinners. If ever I am saved, it will be through the sovereign grace of God. He first loved me!"

Not a single day passed without her breathing after holiness, and complaining of the sinfulness of her heart. On the Sabbath prior to her death, she seemed in an exceedingly sweet frame of mind. Soon after Mrs. Parker entered her room, she asked her, "How does Mr. Hill bear the tidings?" (meaning the prospect of losing her.) Mrs. P. replied, "he has all the consolations of the Gospel to support him, and you know that they are neither few nor small." She said, "I feel for him in his present weak state; he has been buoying himself up with fallacious hopes of my recovery. May the Lord take care of him when I am gone! I have been but a poor helper to him, and fallen far short of my duties to so kind and faithful a friend!"

This day her will and affections seemed entirely swallowed up in her Lord's will. her wishes with regard to some temporal concerns, relative to her family, she said : nothing on my mind. I feel quite happy," &c.

After expressing
Now, I have

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It seems that shortly before her death, the powers of darkness attempted to distress her and to assault her faith; on this occasion, with wildness in her looks, she said, "go away, go away! I do not want to see you! I want to see the Lord Jesus!" Her husband then knelt down near her bed and prayed, upon which she said: They are gone,-gone!" "What were they?" enquired her husband. A friend caught her reply: she said, "satan,-sin!"

As the hour of her departure drew near, the pains caused by her spasms were very severe, and she cried out; "patience, patience." Her husband then again prayed with her; and though the pain still seemed excruciating, she said; "It is the Lord. It is the Lord,"--but could not finish with: "let him do what seemeth him good." As the pain gradually subsided, she said: "Lord Jesus intercede for me." Her husband then said, "my love, Jesus is praying for you, and His prayer is now being answered; Father, I will that they whom thou hast given me be with me, that they may behold my glory. You will soon see that glory and then you will have no sins, no fears, no doubts."Doubts! doubts !"-she repeated. "I have no doubts." These were her last words to her surviving friends! and she sunk into the arms of death. Precious in the sight of the Lord, is the death of his saints.

The following minute, by the Missionary Conference, (kindly forwarded by Rev. A. Duff, D. D., Chairman of Standing Committee, to her husband) is appended, as shewing the estimate which the Missionaries of the various Denominations in Calcutta, had formed of her character and life.

"The Missionary Conference having heard of the death of Mrs. HILL, the respected partner of their eldest surviving member, the Rev. Micaiah Hill,-desire to record their sense of the rare Christian worth of the departed, and to convey to their bereaved brother, an expression of their unfeigned sorrow and condolence, under this afflictive dispensation.

When the wife of a missionary, by her intelligent converse and cordial sympathy, helps to cheer her husband's spirits, amid all the crosses, griefs, and disappointments of his arduous career; and when, moreover, she is enabled faithfully and assiduously to discharge, in a noiseless and unostentatious manner, all the more private, but necessary duties of the household and general domestic economy-. thereby relieving the mind of her partner from many cares and anxieties, which otherwise might embarrass and oppress him ;-such an one is decidedly and deservedly entitled to the honourable appellation of "helpmeet," and to the still more honourable designation of "fellow labourer" in the great cause of heathen evangelization.

Such an one was the late Mrs. Hill. But she was more than all this. By the favour and grace of her God, she was endowed with an uncommon gift of spiritual edification. Kind, gentle, and conciliatory in her manners, attractive, seasonable, and skilfully accommodative in her discourse, she won her way into the understandings and hearts of old and young around her. And the influence she thus obtained was uniformly exerted in the promotion of her Master's cause-in plucking brands from the burning, in winning souls to Christ, and in building up saints in their most holy faith.

Nor was she satisfied with passively waiting for occasions of well doing;-she was wont, diligently and incessantly, to seek for opportunities of usefulness to the souls and bodies of her fellow-creatures. And in prosecuting her unobtrusive labours of love, she has often been favoured with special tokens of the Divine approbation and blessing. As a counsellor, too, in all circumstances of providential difficulty or embarrassment, she was always faithful, and often displayed no ordinary degree of sound practical wisdom. In her somewhat sudden removal from this vale of tears, to her heavenly Father's house, with its many mansions, her husband and children have been left to sorrow,-though not as others who have no hope-over the loss of their best, and kindest, and most considerate earthly friend; and the Church and Mission to which she more particularly belonged, over the departure of one of their best earthly benefactors and most devoted evangelical labourers."

The following Inscription is taken from her Monument :

In Memory of Mary Hill, wife of the Rev. Micaiah Hill, of the

London Missionary Society, and acting Pastor of the Union Chapel Dhurromtollah;
Obit. 7th Sept. 1847, Et. 57 years.

This Monument is erected by the Church and Congregation, from respect and esteem for
her Christian virtues, and Missionary zeal, in establishing and superintending
Religious Schools, both for heathen children and for poor Christian females,
during a period of 24 years, at Berhampore; and also to record

their grateful remembrance of the deep interest she took in the spiritual and temporal welfare of the people; among whom, in the providence of God, she came for a time

to reside, and among whom, she closed her earthly career of usefulness and Christian benevolence.

JAMES KYD, ESQ., Ship Builder.

Mr. Kyd was the son of the late General Kyd of the Bengal Engineers (whose Mausoleum forms an elegant object in the Company's Botanic Garden, which he laid out) and was universally recognized as the head of the East Indian class, to which he belonged, quando ullum invenient parem. But the high esteem in which he was regarded, was not confined to his own class; it followed him every where, for it was the natural and spontaneous tribute to a most benevolent disposition, associated with talents of no mean character, which pointed him out for selection as a member of almost every public committee. The charities of this really good man were not ostentatious, nor were they distributed with a lavish hand; they were the silent bounty of a kind heart that could not brook the sight of wretchedness and sympathised with distresses which he well understood; they were numerous and continual, and well applied; at one time rescuing from starvation the poor refugees of Saugor and the Soonderbuns, who flocked to Kidderpore after the inundation of 1833; at another, offering an asylum to some friendless European, not for a day but for months, till employment could be found to procure him a maintenance. Mr. Kyd from a boy was brought up to the trade of a ship-builder. He came out from England in 1800, as an assistant to Mr. Waddell, the Company's Master-builder, who had then the same yard at Kidderpore, which afterwards, on Mr. Waddell's retirement in 1807, became the property of the two brothers, Messrs. James and Robert Kyd, who succeeded him. From this yard was launched the Hastings 74, the only line of battle ship ever built in Calcutta, a ship built by private subscription among the merchants and afterwards sold to His Majesty's Government. In 1814, Mr. Kyd made a voyage to England in another fine ship, the "General Kyd," of his construction the year before, and during the voyage an accident occurred which tended further to establish his reputation with the Admiralty and the East India Company. On nearing St. Helena the Semiramis frigate (the Commodore's ship) having on board Sir John Cradock, ex-Governor of the Cape, ran foul of the Vansittart, an Indiaman of 1200 tons, and was so much injured by the shock, that she was with difficulty carried into St. Helena in a sinking state. To repair her there, was thought impossible, aud it was besides of the utmost consequence not to delay the fleet, which consisted of seventeen sail; on the other hand, this being war time, and the property afloat worth some millions sterling, to proceed without the convoy ship would have involved great risk and very serious responsibility. Mr. Kyd was consulted; he examined the frigate and undertook to repair her damages, if all the carpenters of the fleet were placed at his disposal, and to the astonishment of every body he got the vessel for sea in about ten days. It may well be supposed, he might have bargained for a large sum as the value of the service he performed; but no remuneration did he ever ask for. He had, however a higher gratification in receiving the thanks of the Commodore, of the East India Company and of the Admiralty, expressed in the most complimentary language and the compliments of the Admiralty were accompanied with a Silver Salver, valued at a hundred guineas, bearing the device of a Ship and an appropriate inscription. Mr. Kyd was held in high respect by the Marquis of Hastings, who paid him considerable attention in society. Mr. Kyd published a pamphlet many years ago with the object of inducing young men of his own class to imitate his example and betake themselves to handycraft more generally than they were wont to do.

Mr. Kyd died at Kidderpore from a disease in the knee, and his remains were interred in the Scotch Burial Ground on the 26th day of October 1836.

The following letters will shew the high esteem in which Mr. Kyd was held by the Government and those who presided over the affairs of India.

(PUBLIC DEPT.) To Mr. James Kyd.

Sir, The Commander of the Hon'ble Company's Ship "Earl Spencer," having submitted to his Excellency the most noble the Governor General in Council a copy of the letter addressed to him at sea, on the 23d of October last, by his passengers, in consequence of the very sickly state of the crew

of the Earl Spencer, I am directed by his Excellency in Council to express to you the particular approbation of the Governor General in Council of your conduct on the occasion.

Fort William, the 1st April 1801.

I am, &c.

(Signed,) C. R. CROMMELIN. Admiralty Office, 2d March, 1815.

Sir,-Captain Thomas Priggs of His Majesty's Ship "Leviathan," having in his letters of the 25th of last month, represented to me for the information of my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, the very meritorious and indefatigable exertions made by you, not only in the exercise of your professional abilities as a ship builder, but by personally working yourself in repairing the damages sustained by his Majesty's ship Semiramis, in consequence of her being run on board by the "Vansittart" Indiaman, in May last, off St. Helena, I have it in command from my Lords, to express to you their thanks for your conduct upon the occasion above mentioned, and, at the same time I am to request that you will accept of a piece of plate of the value of one hundred guineas, from my Lords, in which will be inscribed a suitable testimony of their Lordship's approbation of your conduct in the instance in question.

am, &c.
(Signed,) J. W. CROKER.

SIR, The Court of Directors of the East India Company have received a letter from Captain Charles Richardson, late Commander of his Majesty's Ship Sermiramis, stating, that in his passage home last year with the India Convoy, the Semiramis received so much damage to windward of St. Helena, that it was with the greatest difficulty she could be kept afloat till the next day, when she was towed into the roads; that you offered your professional services to repair the damages; which you performed in so masterly a manner and with such celerity, that the convoy was not delayed by the accident.

In obedience to the Court's command I have to express the very high sense they entertain of your meritorious conduct in the instance above adverted to, and to assure you that the Court will feel very great satisfaction in communicating to the Bengal Government the favorable opinion they have of services so truly valuable and important to the interest of the Company and the nation.

JAMES Kyd, Esq.,

East India House, the 13th June, 1815.

I am, &c.
(Signed,) JAMES COBB,

Secretary.

THE LATE CAPTAIN A. B. CLAPPERTON-(Master Attendant of the Port of Calcutta.) Captain Andrew Balfour Clapperton commenced his professional life in the year 1808 in the Honorable Company's regular service, in one of those magnificent merchantmen which surpassed in size, as some of them almost equalled in discipline, the dashing frigates of those days. In the Honorable Company's ship "Pitt," he served in the expeditions against the Isle of France and Java, volunteering for active duty with the naval forces at both places. He afterwards commanded merchant ships out of this port, for several years, increasing his professional knowledge, and earning the well merited confidence of his employers. No man in the country service ever bore a higher character. In 1822 or 23 he commanded the "Lord Lyndoch” of Calcutta ; he circumnavigated the globe, rounding Cape Horn with a lascar crew, without losing a man of them, a performance and result creditable to his enterprizing spirit, skill and humanity, and which serves also to show, that in those days, (at least) native seamen were to be relied on when under able and kind commanders, even in climates so little congenial to them as those they must pass through in such voyages.

In January 1826, Capt. Clapperton entered the service of this Government as 2d Assistant Master Attendant, and he continued to serve in the Bankshall Office up to the date of his death, with the exception of one year that he had command of the " Enterprize" steamer. During the period mentioned, owing to the changes that took place in grades above him, he was sometimes 1st Assistant and sometimes 2d. When a Master Attendant died or went on leave, he got the step from 2d to 1st Assistant. When a successor was sent out, or the absent one returned, he fell back to the junior place. On the demise of Captain Hope in 1837, Captain Clapperton became again first Assistant Master Attendant by Captain Harrington's promotion, and after this, never descended below this grade; for that officer was confirmed as Master Attendant; on his death, Captain Clapperton rose to the situation of Master Attendant, which he filled from November 1841 to Sept. 1842, when he was superseded by Captain Rogers, appointed by the Court, and again he fell back to 1st Assistant. For a few months in 1844, he acted as Secretary to the Superintendent of Marine during Mr. Greenlaw's sickness, and under Lieutenant Colonel Irvine, then became 1st Assistant Master Attendant again. On the Colonel's resignation in January 1846, Captain Rogers was appointed officiating Superintendent of Marine and Capt. Clapperton acted as Master Attendant until June 1847, when both officers received from the Honorable Court letters confirming them in their respective appointments. The latter did not live long to enjoy this recognition of his merit; for after a short illness he died at Barrackpore on Monday evening the 20th of September 1847, in the 54th year of his age, only four months after the receipt of his appointment from home.

Captain Clapperton had also during this long period of service, at various times filled the office of Judge Advocate of the Marine Committees of Enquiry, since superseded by the Pilot's Court.

In all the situations specified, Captain Clapperton afforded proofs of his zeal and ability, and equally gained the confidence of his superiors and of his subordinates, as well as of the mercantile community with whom his duties brought him in contact, and to whom his pleasing manner and obliging disposition, strongly commended him.

Such is a brief record of Captain Clapperton's career. On any professional point no man's judgment was entitled to, or, probably, commanded more confidence. As a public officer his skill and zeal

were highly appreciated by the Government, and as a member of society he was generally known and greatly respected; and he enjoyed the esteem and attachment of a large circle of friends to whom his worth and amiable qualities were more intimately known, and by whom his loss is deeply lamented. To sum up; the service has lost in him a tried and valuable officer, society an honorable and amiable member. His remains were interred in the Scotch Burial Ground, and no Monument or Tablet has been erected to mark the spot.