CAPT. F. G. WILLOCK. Feb. 18, 1834. At Bushire, Gore Willock, esq. Capt. R.N.

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This officer was a native of the West Indies. He first entered the service under the auspices of Sir Joseph Yorke, and was present in the capacity of Midshipman in the battle of Trafalgar. He subsequently served in the Northumberland 74, in the action off St. Domingo; and in 1807 was appointed Lieutenant of the Osprey, which was cast away in Bayo Honda, and it being found necessary to fire her, to prevent her falling into the enemy's hands, he received Lord Mulgrave's approbation for his conduct on that occasion.

At the reduction of Martinique he performed the duty of First Lieutenant of the Abercrombie; he served subsequently on board the Dragon, and from her was appointed to command the Wanderer. In 1811, in command of the Spider, he for some time protected the trade of Tortola and the adjacent islands, for his "very judicious and officer-like conduct" in which service he received the "fullest approbation" of Rear-Adm. Sir F. Laforey.

In 1814 he removed into the Fox, in which he served during the American war, and was promoted to Post rank Nov. 25, 1815. After this he was not employed again afloat; though he actually offered to fit out a ship at his own expense, if the First Lord of the Admi. ralty would honour him by nomination to a command. Impatient of repose, he gave exercise to the activity of his mind in travel. Russia, the Caucasus, Georgia, Persia, parts of Arabia, and the wide territories of British India, were all visited by him; and he was about to return to his native county, when he took his fatal fever at the cove of Muscat, where the Arab vessel touched in which he was sailing from Bombay to Bushire.

Capt. Willock was characterised by the genuine virtues of an ocean son,frank, enthusiastic, brave, and humane; those noble and generous qualities, accompanied by occasional eccentricities, gave a warmth and colouring to the most trifling actions of his life.

W. R. SPENCER, ESQ. Oct. 23. At Paris, aged 65, William Robert Spencer, esq., cousin-german to the Duke of Marlborough.

This accomplished gentleman was the second son of the late Lord Charles Spencer, by the Hon. Mary Beauclerk, daughter of Lord Vere, and sister to Aubrey fifth Duke of St. Alban's.

The younger son of a younger son,

ness.

Mr. Spencer, early in life, found it prudent to accept the appointment of Commissioner of Stamps. The office disqualified him for sitting in Parliament. Mr. Spencer was a poet of much sweetHis poetical works were a Translation of Leonora, from the German of Burger, a folio volume, embellished with designs by his aunt, Lady Diana Beauclerk. 1796. Urania, or the Illuminé, a comedy; the Prologue by Lord John Townshend. 1802. The Year of Sorrow. 1804. 4to. A volume of Poems. 181. Mr. Spencer was one of the most highly gifted and accomplished men of the age in which he lived, though a love of contemplation rather than of action, a natural, a constitutional indolence, governed him with irresistible sway, and forbade those exertions which might have ranked him among the great poets of his day, or have placed him in a situation where his extensive knowledge and numerous attainments would have rendered him useful to bis country, either in a diplomatic or legislative capacity. As a diplomatist, his qualifications were of a very superior kind. To an intimate acquaintance with the politics of the different courts of Europe, he added, what indeed enabled him to acquire this information, a thorough mastery of the French, Italian, and German languages, which he spoke with a fluency and grace that excited the admiration of all the well-educated and enlightened foreigners with whom he was in constant intercourse.

Like some to whom nature has been liberal in bestowing genius, but parsimonious in the more useful gifts of activity and steadiness of pursuit, Mr. Spencer shone with extraordinary brilliancy in conversation. His knowledge was extensive, his memory retentive, and his wit ready, refined, and sparkling; but this was so invariably under the control of a benevolent disposition, of pure good nature, that he was never known to exercise it in a manner to give even momentary pain.

Though he never became the colleague of statesmen, he was sought as their companion; and at his house in Curzonstreet, the two great political opponents, Mr. Pitt and Mr. Fox, met at least once as upon neutral ground, and enjoyed the charms of literary conversation and polished wit, unleavened by party feeling or a struggle for superiority. Among those, too, with whom he lived on terms of intimacy, were the Prince of Wales, Sheridan, Dr. Lawrence, Sydney Smith, Horner, and others of deservedly high

reputation.

During the last ten years Mr. Spencer

resided in Paris, where he died; not missed, perhaps because the state of his health had long condemned him to utter seclusion-but lamented by all who had known him, from whose memories the charms of his conversation and his social qualities can never be effaced.

Mr. Spencer married, Dec. 13, 1791, the Countess Susan, daughter of Francis Count Jenison-Walworth,* (of the Holy Roman Empire) and widow of Count Spreti; and by that lady, who survives him, he had issue five sons and two daughters: 1. Louisa-Georgiana; 2. Charles, who died an infant in 1793; 3. the Rev. Aubrey George Spencer, Archdeacon of Bermuda, who married in 1822 Eliza. daughter of John Musson, esq. and has issue; 4. William Spencer, esq. who married in 1820 Frances, daughter of John Garland, esq. and has issue; 5. Harriet-Caroline-Octavia, married in 1819 to her cousin-german Count Charles Westerholt, Chamberlain to the King of Bavaria; 6. the Rev. George John Trevor Spencer, Rector of Leaden Roding, in Essex, and Perpetual Curate of Buxton, in Derbyshire, who married in 1823 Harriet-Theodore, 4th daughter of the late Sir Benjamin Hobhouse, Bart. and has issue; and 7. Frederick-William.

THOMAS TELFORD, ESQ. Sept. 2. In Abingdon-street, aged 77, Thomas Telford, esq. President of the Society of Civil Engineers.

This highly talented man was born in the parish of Westerkirk, in the county of Dumfries, in the year 1757, and was educated at the parish school. At the age of fourteen, he was apprenticed to the trade of a mason, and employed in building a house at Ramerskales in Annandale, for Dr. Mountjoy, who had returned from being first physician to the court of Petersburg.

In early life, Mr. Telford gave indications of poetical talent. He wrote a

Of this family, formerly seated at Walworth in the county of Durham, a pedigree will be found in Surtees's History of that County, vol. iii. p. 321. Count Jenison- Walworth, brother to the Countess Susan and now Envoy in this country from the King of Bavaria, married Mary Beauclerk daughter of Topham Beauclerk, esq. by Lady Diana Spencer, and cousin-german to the subject of this

memoir.

By his will, Mr. Telford has left to the ministers of Westerkirk and the neighbouring town of Langholm, 1000l. each, in trust for the purchase of books for the parochial libraries.

poem intitled Eskdale, and was the "Eskdale Tam" of the poetical corner of the Scots Magazine. On the death of Burns, he wrote some very beautiful verses to his memory, published in Dr. Currie's Life of the Ayrshire bard. On reading which, one is tempted to say as Pope did of Mansfield,―

"How sweet a Ramsay was in Telford lost!"

Mr. Telford continued to be employed in house and bridge building, in his native district of Eskdale, until 1783, when, having been taught architectural drawing at Edinburgh, he proceeded to London, and was for some time employed at the great square of public offices at Somerset house. He afterwards superintended public buildings at Portsmouth dockyard, previous to acting generally as an architect and engineer. His gradual rise from the stonemasons' and builders' yard to the summit of his profession in his own country, or it may be said, in the world, is to be ascribed not more to his genius, his consummate ability, and persevering industry, than to his plain, honest, straightforward dealing, and the integrity and candour which marked his character throughout life.

His works are so numerous all over the island, that there is hardly a county in England, Wales, or Scotland, in which they may not be pointed out. The Menai and Conway bridges, the Caledonian Canal, the St. Katharine's Docks, the Holyhead roads and bridges, the Highland roads and bridges, the Chirk and Pont-y-cisylte aqueducts, the canals in Salop, and great works in that county, of which he was surveyor for more than half a century, are some of the great works which will immortalize the name of Thomas Telford. We are enabled, however, to give a chronological list of his principal works, which we consider a very interesting document:

1788. A new gaol built for the county of Salop (Shrewsbury Castle being converted into a dwelling-house).

Twenty-six bridges in the same county, from 20 to 130 feet span; two of them over the river Severn.

1798. A bridge over the Severn at Bewdley, consisting of three arches.

A bridge, 112 feet span, over the Dee, at Kirkcudbright, in Scotland.

Bridgenorth church (see the Edinburgh Encylopædia.)

The Ellesmere canal, commenced in 1790; length 103 miles. Chief works, Pont-y-cisylte Aqueduct, one thousand feet long, and one hundred and twenty eight feet high; Chirk Aqueduct,

six hundred feet long, and seventy feet high.

In 1790, by the British Fishery Society, for the inspection of harbours on the coast of Caithness, and to devise a plan for an extensive establishment at Wick, in that county. This work was regularly accomplished, and it has been the chief centre of the herring fishery on that coast, under the name of Pulteney Town.

Highland roads and bridges, commenced in 1803. Under this commission were built one thousand one hundred and seventeen bridges in the Highlands; and, in the roads the great difficulties he overcame in passing through a rugged, hilly, and mountainous district, triumphantly attest his great skill as an engineer.

The Caledonian canal, begun in 1804. Locks, each 180 feet long, 40 wide, depth of water, 20 feet.

Dunkeld bridge, finished in 1809. Nine arches, centre one 90 feet span.

The Glasgow, Paisley, and Ardrossan canal.

Aberdeen harbour, extension and improvements, commenced in 1810.

Dundee harbour, extension and improvements, commenced in 1815; the Ferry Piers, on both sides of the river, in 1822.

The Glasgow and Carlisle road, commenced in 1816, upen which were built 23 bridges of 150, 90, 80, 60, 50 feet span and under.

The Lanarkshire roads, including bridge at Cartland Craigs, 123 feet high; and four other large bridges.

Increasing the width of the roadway over Glasgow old bridge with cast-iron.

The Dean bridge over Leith Water, at Edinburgh, four arches, each 90 feet span; roadway above the river 108 feet.

Pathhead bridge, 11 miles from Edinburgh, on the Dalkeith road; five arches, 70 feet high.

Morpeth bridge, Northumberland, consisting of three arches.

The Holyhead road from London to Dublin, including the Menai and Conway bridges.

Improving the river Weever navigation, between the Cheshire salt works and sea

entrance.

Constructing a tunnel 3000 yards in length, through Harecastle hill, upon the Trent and Mersey navigation, near the great Staffordshire Potteries.

Making a canal from ditto, 29 miles in length, by Macclesfield, to the Peak forest and Huddersfield canals.

Improving the Birminghain old canal, formerly laid out by Mr. Brindley.

Making a canal 39 miles in length with a branch 11 miles, to connect the Birmingham canal with the Shropshire and Cheshire canals, and open a new communication with Liverpool and Manchester, and thence to London.

Improving the outfalls of the river Ouse, in Norfolk, and the Nene in Lincolnshire, including the drainage of the North Bedford Level, between the Nene and the Welland.

Constructing the St. Katharine Docks, adjoining Tower Hill, London.

Constructing a cast-iron bridge, 170 feet span, over the river Severn, at Tewkesbury, in Gloucestershire.

Building a stone bridge, 150 feet, over the Severn, near the city of Gloucester.

Designing a stone bridge of seven arches, 50 feet wide within the parapets, and 500 feet long, about to be built over the Clyde, at Glasgow, on the site of Jamaica Street bridge.

Opening a navigable communication across Sweden, from Gothenburg, on the North Sea, to Soderking, on the Baltic.

In the year 1817, Loan Commissioners were appointed to apply 1,750,000l. towards carrying on public works. Mr. Telford was employed as their engineer; and since that time he has examined and reported on the following works, for which aid was requested.

The Regent's canal, from Paddington, by Islington, to Limehouse.

A cast-iron bridge across the Thames from Queen-street.

A short canal between the Thames and Isis, and the Wilts and Berks canal. For an extension of Folkstone Harbour, on the coast of Kent.

For completing the Thames and Medway canal, from Gravesend to Rochester. For completing the Gloucester and Berkeley canal, which was done under his direction.

For completing the Portsmouth and Arundel canal.

For the Tay ferry piers, which were constructed under his direction.

For rebuilding Folly bridge, at Oxford, on the site of Friar Bacon's study.

For making a short canal between the river Lea and the Regent's canal.

For rebuilding Windsor and Kingston bridges upon the river Thames.

For making a canal from Exeter to the sea.

For constructing a harbour at Shoreham, on the coast of Sussex.

For building a timber bridge at Teign

For constructing locks and wears upon the river Thames.

For completing the Liverpool and Manchester railway.

For completing Courtown harbour, in Ireland.

On the proposed railway between Waterford and Limerick.

On the Ulster canal, as proposed, in the north of Ireland.

On the Norwich and Lowestoft navigation, previous to the commencement, and while in progress.

Mr. Telford also made several extensive surveys of the mail-coach roads, by direction of the Post Office: and many details of his works are contained in Sir Henry Parnell's Treatise on Roads. It is said that he was inclined to set a bigher value on the success which has attended his exertions for improving the great communication from London to Holyhead, the alterations of the line of road, its smoothness, and the excellence of the bridges, than on the success of any other work he executed. The Menai bridge will probably be regarded as the most imperishable monument of Mr. Telford's fame. Only last year, he wrote a "Report on the means of supplying the metropolis with pure water," which proves that his research and discrimination were not at all impaired by his great age.

Mr. Telford has for some time past been gradually retiring from professional business; and latterly chiefly occupied himself in preparing a detailed account of the great works which he planned and lived to see executed; and it is a singular and fortunate circumstance, that his clerk completed the manuscript of the work, under his direction, a few days before his death. It will be illustrated by more than eighty plates.

The Council of the Institution of Civil Engineers, of which Mr. Telford was President nearly from its commencement, have published the following judicious, eloquent, and well-earned tribute to his memory:

"The Council of the Institution of Civil Engineers, feel themselves called upon to address the members of that body on the occasion of the great loss they have sustained by the death of their venerable President, to express their high sense of his talents and eminence as a professional man, and their heartfelt respect for his memory. His various works are conspicuous ornaments to the country, and speak for themselves, as the most durable monument of a well-earned fame: in number, magnitude, and usefulness, they are too intimately connected with

the prosperity of the British people to be overlooked or forgotten in future times; and the name of TELFORD must remain permanently associated with that remarkable progress of public improve ment which has distinguished the age in which he lived.

"The boldness and originality of thought in which his designs were conceived, has been only equalled by the success with which they have been executed, and by the public benefits which have resulted from their use; whilst the general admiration with which his structures are regarded, is an evidence of his good taste, in giving elegance of appearance to the most substantial fabrics.

"The profession in which, during a long and successful career, Mr. Telford was one of the brightest ornaments, has been greatly advanced in public estimation by his unceasing efforts for its improvement. The members of that profession can never forget the liberality with which he patronised and encouraged young men, his ready accessibility, and the uniform kindness of feeling and urbanity of manners evinced in his intercouse with every one.

"The Institution of Civil Engineers has been particularly indebted to Mr. Telford, who was chosen President at an early stage of its formation, and has always exerted his influence to promote its objects and consolidate its foundation; his presents to the library and collection have been most liberal, his attendance at the meetings constant, and his conduct in presiding has been in every way calculated to promote mutual good feelings, harmony of sentiments, and co-operation of talents."

Mr. Telford taught himself Latin, French, Italian, and German; and could read those languages with facility, and converse freely in French. He under. stood algebra well, but held mathematical investigation rather cheap, and always resorted to experiment when practicable, to determine the relative value of any plans on which it was his business to decide. He was not an inventor in a wide sense of the term, but readily adapted well-proved means to his ends. He took one patent in his lifetime, and it gave him so much trouble, that he resolved never to have another, and kept his resolution. He delighted in employing the vast in nature to contribute to the accommodation of man. His eyes once glistened with joy, at a relation of the conception of a statue being cut out of a mountain, holding a city in its hand; he exclaimed that the suggestor was a magnificent fellow!