Obituary.

Mr . V . was remarkably chearful in his disposition ; his talents in conversation were of the lirst rate , his manners of the most insinuating kind ; his benevolence anient and extensive . With these accompaniments his piety became as engaging as it was sincere ; and the young and the careless were often

struck , in his company , with admiration of the benefit of religion , which diffused a glow of happiness and of good will to bis fellow-creatures , to which the vicious cannot but own themselves slrangers . Capt . John Eaton , who with the rank of master and commanderhad

, been appointed to the command of the Marlborough , provisionally , when Captain Nicolls was put on shore , in consequence of the mutiny . He arrived on the 3 d of July at the Admiralty , about eleven o ' clock , enquired for Earl Spencer , aud seemed to be extremely agitated . There were several

gentlemen waiting in the same room , and they conversed together for some time ; when Captain E . suddenly and uuperceived by any person , drew his hanger , and slabbed himself in the belly , repealing his thrust within two

inches of the first wound , and , before the weapon could be wrenched out of his hand , he wounded himself twice in the neck , and died in half an hour . He gave no explanation of thecause of this horrid act , but muttered some inarticulate sentences respecting the mutiny , and accused an officer of false

charges against him . The suicide was committed at the very moment when a commission , appointing him a post-captain , ivas making out , as a reward for his behaviour in the late insurrection . It was evident that an impression , which disordered his senses , had been made upon his mind by these shocking

disturbances . On the next day a coroner's inquest was held upon his body , when it appeared clearly from the evidence of Capt . Otighton and several others , that the deceased was in a state of insanity previous to the commission ofthe fatal act . Mr . W . Lj-nn of

Par-, surgeon , liament-street , deposed , that lie was called in just at the moment the deceased appeared to be dying from loss of blood , occasioned by his wont-its . On opening the body , he found several wounds , in none of which the-

instrument had penetrated deeply , exrent irl one , in which it had entered into the cavity of the belly , slig htly wounded the liver arid the gall-bladder , and let out tlie contents of it ; it then passed and scratched the colon , and I lien divided a branch ofthe superior mesenteric artery . He also found about two

quarts of blood in the cavity of the abdomen ; and entertained no doubt but that the wound was the cause of lus death . The jury brought in a verdict of Lunacy . Capt . E . was born m America , Jan . 7 . 170 S . His father was engaged in a commercial line , and quitted . England with a view of settling in that

country . The unhappy subject of this account entered into the navy , under tlie late Commodore Edward Thompson , during the American war , at which time ihe rest of his family returned 16 England . In 1790 he was promoted lo

tlie rank of lieutenant , and served in the present war as lieutenant of tlie Arethusa and the Aquilon . In the last frigate he was first-lieutenant in the action with the French fleet on the istof June , 1794 , when the Aquiloil was the signal frigate , and towed the Marlborough , then commanded by the

Hon . Capt . G . Berkeley , from between two French ships of war that were attacking her . From the representation made of his services by Capt . Stopford , who was captain ofthe Aquilon , he was promoted to a master and commander ; went out in the temporary command of the Marlboroughwhen she sailed

, with Lord Bridpovt on the last cruise ; and it is feared the intemperate and violent conduct of her crew excited an anxiety , and created a fatigue , by which his mind was totaly exhausted . He had risen entirely by his own professional merit . His mother is at this

time the mistress of a respectable boarding house at Margate . He was married , about six months ago , to the niece of a banker at Plymouth , with whom he acquired some property , and whom he left at Plymouth when he set off for London . His body was interredon the 7 thin a

, , vault under the church of St . Anne , Soho . It is unnecessary to add any tiling to what has been already said of his professional merit ; the uniform testimony of every man who has served with him , and the high rank he had attained in the service , considering