Charles, author of the poem called the Burial of Sir John Moore, was a clergyman of the English Church at Donaghmore, in Ireland, and was born at Dublin, of a family that counted kindred with that which produced General Wolfe, on the 14th of December 1791. He was educated at the University of Dublin, and afterwards took holy orders in 1817. But his career was short, for he had hardly set his restless mind to its appointed work, when a consumptive tendency was brought to a height, and his useful labours were closed for ever on the 21st February 1823, in his thirty-first year. A volume of Wolfe's Remains were published in 1825. The grand, simple pathos of his poem on General Moore has hardly ever been surpassed. It was written in 1817, and appeared first of all with his initials, but without his knowledge, in the Newry Telegraph. Various parties were so mean as to claim the authorship of this much admired poem. The history of the poem and its real authorship will be found given in detail in the Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy for 1844.