Thomas Hawkins, of Trewithen; M76V-33D

On Sunday last, at Trewithen, after an illness of only a few days.--This distinguished traveller, scholar, and gentleman, was the fourth and youngest son of Thomas Hawkins, Esq., and of Anne, daughter of James Hey wood, Esq.--'No English gentleman,' says the late venerable and reverend Historian of Cornwall, 'was ever perhaps held in higher estimation on the Continent, where his route may often be traced in the writings of his most learned foreign contemporaries; in addition to the lustre which his classical researches shed around him, he was pre-eminently distinguished as a Botanist, Geologist, and Antiquary. His contributions to the Geological Society of Cornwall are of the first order, and greatly tend to increase the regret which has often been expressed, that no larger work has emanated from the mass of valuable materials which he has known to have brought with him from abroad.'--It was soon, we believe, after his return from his last travels to Greece, and the plains of Troy, that he married the highly accomplished daughter of Humphrey Sibthorpe, Esq. M. P. for Lincoln, a lady of congenial taste with himself in literature, and particularly botanical science. They have chiefly resided, for many years past, at their beautiful seat, Bignor Park, a blessing and a pattern to a neighbourhood which will be thrown into the deepest gloom by the melancholy and unlooked for tidings of Mr. Hawkin's almost sudden death.--Besides his afflicted widow and four daughters he has left behind him two sons, John Heywood Hawkins, Esq., who succeeds, we presume, to his fine estates in Sussex, and Cornwall, and Christopher Henry Thomas Hawkins, a Minor now in his 2lst year, to whom his late Uncle Sir Christopher Hawkins, Bart., bequeathed his very considerable Cornish property.