DIED,

Daily Southern Cross, Volume VIII, Issue 518, 15 June 1852, Page 2

DIED,

On the 22nd November, 1851, at the Royal Crescent, Glasgow, Charles Inches, M.D., Surgeon, R.N., aged 58 , much respected as an officer and a gentleman, both in and out of the service, and will be sincerely regretted by* a large circle of attached friends and sorrowing relatives-— Hampshire Telegraph. [The late Dr. Charles Inches was as generally known as he was deservedly esteemed in the Australian Colonies, with which, he was long and intimately connected ; not merely from having made many voyages as Surgeon Superintendent of convict 6hips, but in consequence of his having for several years satisfactorily filled the office of Australian Emigration Agent, in Scotland Yard, Whitehall. Dr. Inches three times experienced shipwreckFirst, in the Cambrian, frigate, Captain Hamilton, immediately subsequent to the battle of Navarino. Next, on the east coast of Van Diemen'g Land, in the Leith Australian Company's ship, Portland, And again in the Medora, from Sydney to London, on the shoals off the entrance to Babia. By the failure of the Bank of Australia, the savings of the best fifteen years of Dr. Inches profeaiional life were entirely swept away; and in 1844, his last visit in charge of convicts to Tasmania, by the ship London, was paid in the sanguine but unavailing hope that something for his children might be saved from that gigantic bankruptcy. Dr. Inches received several subsequent appointments from the Admiralty, but these, declining health compelled him successively to relinquish. There are few who have possessed a warmer heart or a kindlier spirit than the late justly regretted Dr. Charles Inches.— Ep. 8. P.]