July 1756; he was a member of the respectable family of M'Christen, of the Isle of Man, "who," says Lysons, 66 for several generations, deemwere, sters, or judges, of that island." At the age of about twenty Mr. Curwen, then Mr. Christian, married Miss Taubman, of the Isle of Man, by whom he had issue one son. On her death, Mr. Curwen married his cousin, Miss Curwen, only daughter of the late Henry Curwen, esq. of Workington Hall, and last of the family of that name; Mr. Curwen therefore added Curwen to his name of Christian in 1790, by the king's sign manual. By his second marriage he had three sons, Henry, William, and John, and two daughters, all living, except William. Mrs. Curwen died in 1820. Mr. Curwen began his political career in 1786, in which year he was returned to parliament for the city of Carlisle, after a warm struggle; and he retained his seat till 1812. In 1816, on the death of Mr. Fawcett, Mr. Curwen was prevailed upon to quit his retirement, and again offer himself for Carlisle. He was elected after a sharp struggle with the late sir Philip Musgrave, bart. In June 1818, Mr. Curwen, in conjunction with sir James Graham, bart. was re-elected for Carlisle, without any other impediment than that opposed by the silly pretensions of Mr. Parkins. At the general election which followed the death of George the third, in 1820, Mr. Curwen, to the public surprise, once more presented himself to the Freemen of Carlisle, and was at first very coolly received, but was returned. At the Cumberland election, which shortly followed, Mr. Curwen declared himself a candi. date for the county representation, and succeeded in ousting lord Morpeth, without a contest. In 1826, he was again returned for Cumberland, and met with no opposition. Mr. Curwen was in early life actuated by a just sense of the importance of rural improvement. This incessantly engaged

his attention. Mr. Curwen was particularly attentive to assist that general law of nature, by which animals and vegetables reciprocally interchange their substance or qualities with each other; on this circumstance he founded the necessity and propriety of his "soiling system"-that is, by confining the animals to the spot where they are fed; by which means a more abundant quantity of dress is collected and prepared to be returned to the partly exhausted soil, whence the food has been produced. Hence Mr. Curwen was called "the Father of the Soiling System." He also studied, and successfully practised the means of rendering the food of cattle more nutritious, by preparing it for their use by steaming, in preference to simple boiling, thereby retaining the saccharine qualities of the roots, &c., which would, by boiling, be extracted

and lost.

11. In Cavendish-square, aged 76, William Phillips, esq.

18. In his 42nd year, Joseph Rebell, director of the gallery, and first professor of landscape-painting, at Vienna. His forte lay in views of coast and river scenery, in which branch of his art he may justly rank among the most eminent landscape-painters the present age has produced in any country.

20. At Clifton, lady Sawyer, wife of admiral sir Herbert Sawyer, K.C.B.

25. Aged 73, John Beevor, esq. major in the army, uncle to sir T. B. Beevor,

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