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people's desires. Sir F. Burdett strongly supported the Bill. Lord J. Russell replied, and the House proceeded to a division: For the second reading, 367; against it, 231; Majority in its favour 136. The Bill was then read a second time, and ordered to be committed on Tuesday next.

July 10.-The Chancellor of the Exchequer stated that he did not intend to renew his proposition for a tax on steam-boats.-Lord Milton gave notice that when the Reform Bill was in committee he would move that the right of voting in counties be not given to leaseholders. Also, that the entire schedule D be omitted, and all the boroughs of that schedule be inserted in schedule C, in order to enable all the newly constituted boroughs to return each of them two Members.-The House then went into a Committee of Supply on the Miscellaneous Estimates, and several votes were granted.

July 11.-The House having resolved itself into a committee on the Customs Act, the Chancellor of the Exchequer renewed his propositions of last Session regarding the Wine Duties. The right hon. gentleman stated the plan to be that the duties on foreign wines shall be equalized: the duty henceforth to be 5s. 6d. per gallon, and to be carried into effect this year; the duty on Cape wines to be 2s. 9d. till 1834.-The House then went into a Committee of Supply. Mr. G. Dawson rose to bring before the House the case of Sir A. B. King, to whom a remuneration of 25001. per annum had been awarded, as an equivalent for his surrender of the King s patent for stationery for Ireland. The patent might be revoked; but it would be unprecedented to do it without compensation. The House divided on Mr. Dawson's proposition, which was negatived by a majority of 58. The Lunatic Bill was read a third time and passed.

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July 12.-Mr. Hunt presented a petition from a meeting of the working classes held in Portman Market praying for universal suffrage, annual parliaments, and vote by ballot. On the motion of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, his Majesty's message concerning a provision for the Queen was read; after which his Lordship moved the Order of the Day for a Committee of the whole House to take it into consideration. The resolution was agreed to, and the House resumed.-The House having resolved itself into a Committee on the Reform Bill, Lord Maitland moved that he might present a petition from Appleby, praying that Counsel might be heard at the bar against the disfranchisement of that borough. This led to a considerable discussion; and no less than seven divisions took place in the course of the evening. Lord Maitland's motion having been seconded by Colonel Conolly, Lord John Russell urged that the progress of the Bill ought not to be impeded by this proposition, the Bill not being one of pains and penalties: the question was one of fact-the amount of the population of Appleby; and to ascertain that fact it was not necessary to call in Counsel. Sir R. Peel defended the petitioners. The Attorney-General opposed the application, and reprobated the object of the petition, Sir E. Sugden supported the petition. The House then divided For the motion 187, against it 284, Majority 97. On the question that the Speaker do leave the Chair, various members addressed the House, speaking to the general question, and occupying the time till one o'clock. Colonel Conolly, Mr. Fane, Mr. C. Pelham, and Mr. Attwood were amongst the members who condemned the Bill as violent, revolutionary, sweeping, delusive, incongruous, incomprehensible, and "repugnant to the first principles of justice, to the known maxims of the constitution, and to every thing that favoured the security of property; also as a flagrant insult to the understanding of the British nation." Colonel Gordon moved an adjournment. Lord Althorp pressed for the committal of the Bill-the House then divided: against the adjournment 328, in favour of it 102, Majority 226. In the absence of strangers the House again divided on the question "that the Speaker do leave the Chair," the numbers being-For the motion 286, against it 90, Majority 196. A long and warm debate then took place on the motion that the debate should be adjourned till Thursday: For the motion 63, against it 235, Majority 172. Lord Stormont moved that the debate be adjourned till to-morrow at five o'clock, on which the House divided: For the adjournment 44, against it 214, Majority 170. The debate upon the question of adjournment was again resumed with much vigour on both sides, upon the motion of Lord Stormont, seconded by Mr. Praed; after which the House again divided, when the numbers for and against the adjournment appeared to be-Noes 203, Ayes 37, Majority 166. The adjournment was again moved, and after another discussion equally animated, and carried on with equal perseverance as any of the preceding ones. The House again divided; For the adjournment 25, against it 187, Majority 162. The motion for adjournment was again put, and after a consequent discussion upon it, in which Sir C.Wetherell and others, who were opposed to the Bill, were very conspicuous, the House divided for the last time: For the motion 24, against it 187, Majority 163. Sir C. Wetherell then asked if no compromise could be entered into by the two conflicting parties. The Speaker-"The question before the House is, that I do now leave the Chair. As many as are of that opinion say Aye”-(a loud burst of Ayes). The right, hon. member then vacated the Chair at Half-past Seven.

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MEMOIRS OF PERSONS LATELY DECEASED.

MR. ROSCOE.

This distinguished individual expired last month at Liverpool. His health had been declining for some time, and the infirmities of age, though not affecting his mental powers, had long rendered the repose and tranquillity of domestic privacy essential. Few persons consequently, except the members of his family and his immediate connexions, had been allowed of late to enjoy the pleasure of his rich and useful conversation; and he was thus already to many people of the town, on which he had conferred advantages of the most valuable description, as one of the great and good of a former age. But though this declining state of health, and the apprehensions which eighty years naturally inspire, had given warning of his approaching dissolution, the attack which carried him off was sudden; and the letter which acquainted his sons in town with his illness, was followed the next day by one which gave intelligence of his death. The career of Mr. Roscoe began like that of many other celebrated men under circumstances little calculated to encourage ambition; but the difficulties which subdue ordinary minds, seem to be regarded by intellects of a higher order, as only placed in their way to be overcome and we are disposed to believe that genius stands greatly in need of that moral chastening in its youth, which its buoyancy and pride would prevent its receiving from any other monitor but adversity. The parents of Mr. Roscoe were far from affluent, and, owing to this circumstance, were unable to offer him any other advantages of education but such as could be found in a common school for reading and writing. With a strong consciousness, however, of his own powers of acquiring knowledge, he resolutely resisted the intention of sending him to school at all, as the one chosen for him had so little to recommend it, and he was in consequence left to acquire the rudiments of education as his own natural good sense and ability dictated. The experiment, not dangerous only in such cases as his, succeeded. He read the best writers of his own language with delight and profit. As early as the age of sixteen he wrote verses of considerable merit; and as a still greater proof of the general strength of his mind, he was found qualified at about the same time to enter, as articled clerk, the office of Mr. Eyes, one of the most respectable solicitors of Liverpool. The most zealous attention to the studies of his profession, and an equally zealous and honourable endeavour to fulfil the wishes of his employer, characterized the young poet in his new situation, and he acquired golden opinions from all around him. But, careful as he was in his more necessary occupations, he lost no portion

character; and, urged by the example of of his admiration for studies of a lighter Latin classics, he commenced the transa friend to attempt the perusal of the lation of Cicero's "De Amicitiâ." As it does not appear that he had any aid in this undertaking, but such as he could and perhaps the occasional suggestions derive from a grammar and dictionary, of his friend, the task must have been one of no slight difficulty. But he succeeded in it sufficiently well to encourage him to proceed, and he continued his Latin studies till he had made himself acquainted with all the best authors cations were in the meantime attended in that language. His professional avoto with unabated steadiness, and we have heard it said by one well acquainted with his early history, that he did as much of the office-work as all the other clerks together. The period of his apprenticeship had not been long expired, when he was invited by Mr. Aspinall, a solicitor of extensive practice in Liverpool, to accept a share in his business. The invitation was in many respects adhim in a situation in which his talents vantageous to Mr. Roscoe, and it placed ductive of fortune and eminence. His and industry could not fail of being proliterary tastes, however, suffered nothing from the increased demand which professional cares now made upon his attention. In the midst of the most active pursuits, he found time to cultivate his early love for poetry and the arts in general; and in December 1773, he delivered an ode before the Society established in Liverpool, for the encouragement of painting and sculpture, and, some time after, several lectures which gance of taste for which he was subsecontained many indications of that elequently distinguished. But to the hohis genius was ever on the watch for nour of this excellent man be it spoken, opportunities of serving the great cause among the first that were raised against of humanity, and his voice was heard the Slave Trade. On the appearance of a work entitled " into the Licentiousness of the Slave Trade," written by a Spanish Jesuit, Scriptural Researches named Raymond Harris, he undertook the investigation of the subject, and produced a reply, which was published under the title of "A Scriptural Refutation of a Pamphlet lately published by the Rev. Raymond Harris." This work was followed by his well-known poem, "The Wrongs of Africa," of which the first part appeared in 1787, and the second the following year. The breaking out of the French revolution afforded him another ample and spirit-stirring theme; and both his heart and his imagination caught the fervour with which most were inspired. His admirable ballads, men like himself, at that eventful period,

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"Millions be free," and "The Vinecovered Hills," were echoed, not only through every part of the United Kingdom, but in France itself, with an enthusiasm which at once raised their author to the zenith of popularity. These topics, however, of temporary interest, did not prevent him from forming schemes for establishing his literary reputation on a firmer basis; and in 1790, he began his "Life of Lorenzo de' Medici," a work which exhibits a greater variety of excellence than any of a similar kind that had appeared in our, or perhaps any modern, language. It was published in 1796, and printed in Liverpool at an office which Mr. Roscoe established, at his own risk, for that pose. At the head of this establishment he placed Mr. M'Creery, who was recommended to him by early acquaintance and a similarity of taste, and whom we have heard pronounce the name of his venerable friend with the gratitude and affection, which such a name must inspire in every worthy bosom. The flattering manner in which the "Life of Lorenzo" was received by the public, was a reward which the author well merited at its hands. Few works of celebrity have been produced under circumstances of greater difficulty. No large collection of either books or manuscripts was to be found in the neighbourhood, and he had consequently to obtain his materials not only at great expence, but with many interruptions and delays. Add to this, the only time he could, or was willing to devote to the undertaking, were the hours which remained after the business of the day was over, and which might very fairly have been expended in recreation of a lighter kind. The origin of his love for Italian literature is to be ascribed, we believe, to his acquaintance with a gentleman who was ardently attached to the pursuit; and who, during his travels in Italy, had collected several documents and notices, which the historic eye of our author at once saw might be rendered highly useful to enlarged biographies of the Medici. As the most trifling circumstances, in regard to the productions of men of genius, are considered interesting, we may mention that the whole manuscript of the "Life of Lorenzo" was written with a single pen! Mr. Roscoe, soon after the appearance of this work, retired from practice as a solicitor, and entered himself at Gray's Inn, with the intention of becoming a barrister. During his residence in town, he commenced the study of Greek; and, in compliance with the suggestions of numerous admirers of his "Life of Lorenzo," began that of" Leo the Tenth." This latter work appeared in 1805; and, shortly after its publication, he became a partner in the wealthy

and long-established banking-house of Clarke and Sons, of Liverpool. The following year he was chosen member of parliament for that town; and during the short period he occupied a seat in the House of Commons, he appeared as the warm and untiring friend of slave emancipation. At the dissolution, which happened in 1807, Mr Roscoe's party was not in a condition to secure his return again for the borough; and he declined standing, though urged to do so by a large body of his friends. His retirement, however, from parliament was not the consequence of any dislike to politics; and he continued, by means of pamphlets, to impress his sentiments on all the most important questions of public interest. The extensive and prosperous concerns in which he was in the mean time engaged, placed him in a situation of more than ordinary affluence, and his house became the resort of the most distinguished men of the country. Among his visitors were the Dukes of Sussex and Gloucester, many noblemen eminent for their talents as well as station, and several of the highest literary characters of the age. The names of Rogers and Parr,-the most learned men of his time, were his intimate friends; and the present Lord Chancellor was connected with him by the double tie of personal and political attachment. The munificence with which he supported every project calculated for the public good, and the extent of his private charities, were in perfect harmony with the noble hospitality of his domestic establishment. The Athenæum,' the Botanic Garden, and other literary and scientific institutions, owed their origin or success mainly to his liberality or judgment; and while he thus sought to improve the taste of his fellow-townsmen by these judicious efforts, he formed a collection of books and paintings, which rendered his own library one of the most splendid that a private individual had ever possessed. But while thus engaged in pursuits equally honourable to him as a man of business and a man of letters, the bank received a shock from the particular circumstances of the times, which it was alike impossible for human prudence to foresee or prevent. By that event, Mr. Roscoe, now verging towards the seventieth year of his age, found himself called upon to sustain a heavy trial of his fortitude. We need scarcely say, that it was sustained as wise and good men will ever bear such trials; and those who had loved and admired him before, instead of feeling any call upon their pity at his misfortunes, only loved and admired him more than ever. The magnanimity with which he refused to accept of his library, handsomely restored to him by the claimants on his estate,

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presented one of the many traits of his character, on which the future biographer will love to expatiate. Since the above period, Mr. Roscoe lived in contented, and, we may add, elegant retirement; his name held in universal veneration, and his infirmities alleviated by the tender assiduities of affectionate children. His faculties remained active to the last; and we may say the same of his generous love of liberty, and his ardent, consistent benevolence. The progress of the Reform question afforded him the highest pleasure, for he felt it as the triumph of opinions he had advocated through life; but his political feelings never perverted the goodness of his nature; and we have been informed by one of his nearest connexions, that while the examination of Prince Polignac and his associates was pending, he wrote to General Lafayette, begging him in the strongest terms not to let the triumph of French liberty be polluted by the shedding of one drop of blood on the scaffold. The General answered him as one man so great and good might be expected to answer another of similar character on such a subject. The literary merits of the author of the "Lives of Lorenzo and Leo the Tenth," have been fully discussed by the public, and by critics of every description. His chief characteristics as a writer were the taste which enabled him to appreciate the beautiful, under whatever form it can appear; and an amenity of style which has been rarely equalled. Considering, moreover, that he was the first English writer in the class of biography, to which he devoted his talents, he justly merits the claim of originality; and to him, without dispute, belongs in a great degree the revival in this country of a taste for Italian literature and art.

Of his character as a man, we could hardly say too much-his virtues were so in harmony with the unstudied dispositions of his heart, that we must believe them to have been born there; they were at the same time so consistent with sound principle and reason, that they may be regarded as the fruit of religion and philosophy.-Athenæum.

ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS. Professor Lee, of Cambridge, to the Prebendary of Bristol, vacant by the death of Dr. Randolph.-The Rev. F. G. Leach, to the Rectory of Stackpool-Elidor, otherwise Cheriton; and the Rev. Wm. Allen, to the Vicarage of Bosherston; both in Pembrokeshire, vacant by the demise of the Rev. J. Jones.-The Rev. Mr. Harries, of Trevacoon, in the same county, to the Prebendal Stall at St. David, also vacant by the death of the Rev. J. Jones.-The Rev. C. F. Millard, B.A. to the Vicarage of Sedgeford, Norfolk.-The Rev. W. H. Drage, M.A. of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, to a Minor Canonry in Rochester Cathedral.-The Rev. S. Hall, B.D. to the Rectory of Middleton Cheney, Northamptonshire, vacant by the death of the Rev. R. Churton.-The Rev. H. W. Cottle, to the Vicarage of Watford, Northamptonshire, vacant by the resignation of the Rev. T. Cole.

ship of the King's School, Canterbury.-The
G. Wallace, Esq. B.A. to the Second Master-
Rev. G. Pearse, to the Vicarage of Henley,
Suffolk, vacant by the resignation of the Rev.
C. R. Millard; to the Rectory of St. Saviour,
and to the Perpetual Curacy of St. Martin at
Pellew, to the Perpetual Curacy of Great Yar-
Oak, both in Norwich.-The Hon. and Rev. E.
mouth.-The Rev. T. Clowes, to
Suffolk.-The Rev. J. Hoste, A.M. to the Rec-
Church or Chapel of St. Mary, of Southtown,
the New
tory of Ingoldisthorpe, in Norfolk.-The Rev.
dentiary, void by the death of the Rev. Canon
A. Matthews, B.D. to the office of Canon Resi-
Russell.-The Rev. Sir G. W. Bishop, Bart.
M.A. to the Deanery of Lismore, Ireland.-
The Rev. T. R. Wolcombe to be Rural Dean
of the Deanery of Castlemartin, vice the Rev.
toy, M.A. to the Rectory of Exton, void by the
C. Phillipps, resigned.-The_Rev. W. Dusau-
Goodden, B.A. to the Rectory of North Bar-
decease of the Rev. J. Baynes.-The Rev. G.
row, Somersetshire.-The Rev. P. Jacob, to
the Rectory of Crawley, near Winchester, va-
cant by the death of the Rev. H. T. Dampier.
-The Rev. C. Pilkington, B.C.L. to the Rec-
the death of the Rev. Dr. Gabell.-The Rev.
tory of St. Lawrence, Winchester, vacant by
R. Roberts, to the Rectory of Wadenhoe, Nor-
thamptonshire, vacant by the resignation of the
Rev. J. Shillibeer.-The Rev. Wm. Knight,
Vicarage of Willoughby-on-the-Woulds, Notts.
M.A. to the Perpetual Curacy of St. James's,
Myton, Yorkshire.-The Rev. J. Clifton, to the

The Rev. C. Sympson, A.M. to the Rectory of
Taversal.-The Rev. S. Hudson, jun. to the
Rectory of Castle Carrock, vacant by the death
of the Rev. Mr. Bowe.-The Rev. G. H. Bow-
ers to the Rectory of St. Paul, Covent Garden,
vacant by the death of the Rev. Dr. Randolph.
-The Rev. S. Cragg, M.A. to the Curacy of the
Davidson, M.A. to the Vicarage of East Harp-
New Church at Ilford, Essex.-The Rev. J. N.
tree, Somerset.-The Rev. C. H. Lutwidge,
B.A. to the Perpetual Curacy of St. Paul,
Huddersfield.--The Rev. St. V. L. Hammick,
M.A. to the Ministry of Brunswick Chapel,
William Fawssett.
Marylebone, vacant by the death of the Rev.

Married.]-At Chelsea, the Rev. C. J. Glyn,
Rector of Witchampton, Dorset, to Augusta,
daughter of John Granville, Esq.

At St. George's, Hanover Square, M. T.
Sir M. W. Ridley, Bart. M.P.
Smith, Esq. M.P. to Louisa, third daughter of

R. Berners, to Eliza, third daughter of the late
At St. Mary's, Bryanstone Square, the Rev.
General Sir C. Cuyler, Bart.

Hon. F. H. Arden, daughter of the late Lord
At St. James's, J. Warrender, Esq. to the
Alvanley.

At St. George's, Hanover Square, Sir John
Ogilvy, Bart. to Juliana Barbara, youngest
daughter of the late Lord H. Howard.

Died.]-At Twickenham, Mrs. E. Wilmot.
In Argyll-Place, James Northcote, Esq. R.A.
At Clifton, Eliza, the wife of Lieut.-General
Sir Hussey Vivian, Bart.

In Albemarle Street, Sir John Thorold, Bart.
of Syston Park, Lincolnshire.

At Liverpool, W. Roscoe, Esq. aged 79.
At Devizes, E. F. Bourke, Esq. late of Penn
House, Amersham.

At Bath, R. Maryan, Esq. formerly of Hat-
field Peverel, Essex.

In St. James's Square, Sir G. Montgomery,
Bart.

Elizabeth Countess of Eldon, eldest daughter
Tyne.
of Anbone Surtees, Esq. of Newcastle-upon-

In the vicinity of Rome, the Rt. Hon. Lady
Clifford, daughter of Cardinal Weld.

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ORIGINAL PAPERS.

ABERNETHY, the late Mr., 182. Anecdotes of 352, 356
Æolian Harp, Lines to a broken one, 61

Association for the Encouragement of Literature 244

Biography of Odd Fellows, No. I. 428

Bridal of Pisa, The, a Poem, 395

Calas, The Execution of, 49

Call to Poland 72

Campbell, Thomas, his Remarks on the Geography of the Ancients 1.

On the View from St. Leonard's 187.

Captivity among the Rockites 233

Carnival, The Quakers', in Dublin, 163
Christopher North and Reform 294
College, Memorials of our, 264

Convent Sketches, No. I. 362

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Lines on Poland 217

Falkland's Dream, by James Montgomery, 113
Fashion in Music 23

France and Europe, Letters respecting, 109, 213

General Assembly of the Church of Scotland 337
Geography, Remarks on Ancient, by T. Campbell, 1
Graces in Ireland, The, 249

Hypochondriac, The, 41

Jack the Giant, by the Author of "Tales of a Tar," 298
July, 1830, a Poem, 404

Juries, The Unanimity of, 175

Lady of Quality, Memoirs of the Macaw of a, 29, 122
Letters on France and Europe I. 109. II. 213
Life of a Sailor No. I. 87. II. 145. III. 250. IV. 385
Lines, 1831, 181. On St. Leonard's 187. On Poland 217
Literature of the Day 17. Retrospect of 190, 225, 345
Association for the Encouragement of, 244

Lord Chancellor's Levee, Account of the, 81

Macaw, Memoirs of a, by Lady Morgan, 29, 122

Madalina, Lines to, 252

Magazine, The New, 17

May-day, Lines, to, 22

Memorials of our College 264

Memoirs of the Macaw of a Lady of Quality 29, 122

Mendizabel, Passage in the Life of Father, 362

Montgomery, James, Lord Falkland's Dream by, 113. Retrospect of

Literature by, No. I. 190. II. 225. II. Part 2. 345

Music, Fashion in, 23

Index.-VOL. I. NO. IV.

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