The Late Chaplain-General...
On Friday the venerable Archd-ea thx Owen, Chaplain-General to his lajestya tForces, wax buried a East Horiely, a small lniec g in eiarrey, wiihtheArs, bishop of CLanterbury preseiteed to bim.7 or 8 yeats ago. To this retired spot he urually withdrew during the autumn, and shut himself 6ut of the world, with his brotherinlaw, Mr. Beardmore, and bis nieces. The funeral was very prinate, an't onu fot,'although the distance from the uasronage to the church ap- peared between one -and two miles. 1lie>was not followedI by any'. friends, exceptla few poor men of th parish, .by Samuel hasthen, Esq., from Glocestershire, who marriedone of his nieces, by Johh Beardmore, Esq., of Canonhiury, at whose house he chiefly ralided the last IO years, and by lais only nephew, Joseph Beardrnore~Esq., from Devonshire. Itis supposedtbat aife ArchdeaconOwen was-him. self the founder of" Clericus' Fund." which he put under the cafe. of the Society for Promotding Christii X *noW.dgc.fbr thepjiurpose. of providing religious books -for soldiers -on foreign staltions.' I'his fund niowamnoanistobetween 6,004l1. and 6,000L., ancl is comnposed en- tirely of anonymo"us gifts at variouas periods, ffurnfished throiigh tie' hiands of the Clhaplain-Gencral. It is supposed, also, that be has left twro or three large legacdes to the. Bible and A~issionary Societies, and half te remainder of his fortune, whicli is said to be upwards. of 100,0001., to his nephew, who is his s'oleniale relative, and wiom be eduicated himself. - The Chaplain-General w'as never married, and lhas probably always been a saving man, notwithstanding hi& charities; he possessed, inde~ed, peculiar habits, and thouigh be felt for others, he was himself a man of vast absteiniousness. and nersonal frugality. Jlis conversation was not less striking than hs appearance; it combined a perfect 'clearness and simiplicity of ex- -pression with a 'convincirng of the underitanding-qualities which ought always to be the resxttt of~. kniowledge and learning, though it .islalettably too frequently otherwise., Hlewas`i the East-Indies from aboit the year 1783to. 1793, fromi whence he returned by laud, end wValked a great part of the journey. He wasw with'theDuke of Y6rk in the exuedition, to: Ho1land-, and wthbSir Aifiur Wellesley in PotV and was appointed by, his late -Majesty-tothb qhaplaln-Genera Cy about the Ho'82. It climnates had given him the look of snsan of 90,. although it appeass he had attained enly his 70th yeart,he was.himself brou ht-up At Eton an aferwrds at hrit Curc, Oxford tand though, itt geneal,he as a adocae jo a.pubic educatioa, he coinicided verymuchwit Palyupoi tat i~3otalAtquestion. The Achdec~,nOwenwas uri,,,.,, he had,lived, witbouit os. and -many poor. - ~regacl of many wise .tteh. THE LATB CIHAPLAINGEIVARL.