please God to preserve his life, he may possess some memento of the paternal grandfather, who blesses him unseen, and fervently commends him to the great Father in heaven, face his angels evermore behold.'- Matt. xviii. 10.

whose

"And further, as a relief to my own feelings by the opportunity of mentioning their names, I request of my executor, that a small plain gold mourning ring, with my hair, may be presented to the following persons; namely, -1. To my oldest friend and ever-beloved schoolfellow, Charles Lamb; and in the deep and almost life-long affection of which this is the slender record, his equally beloved sister, Mary Lamb, will know herself to be included. 2. To my old and very kind friend, Basil Montague, Esq. 3. To Thomas Poole, Esq. of Nether Stowey. The dedicatory Poem to my Juvenile Poems,' and my Tears in Solitude,' render it unnecessary to say more than that what I then, in my early manhood, thought and felt, I now, a grey-headed man, still think and feel. 4. To Mr. Josiah Wade, whose zealous friendship and important services during my residences at Bristol I never have forgotten, or, while reason and memory remain, can forget. 5. To my filial friend, dear to me by a double bond in his father's right, and in his own, Launcelot Wade. 6. To Miss Sarah Hutchinson.

"To Robert Southey and to William Wordsworth my children have a debt of gratitude and reverential affection on their own account; and the sentiments I have left on record in my Literary Life,' and in my Poems, and which are the convictions of the present moment, supersede the necessity of other memorial of my regard and respect. any

"There is one thing yet on my heart to say, as far as it may consist with entire submission to the Divine will, namely, that I have too little proposed to myself any temporal interests, either of fortune or literary reputation, and that the sole regret I now feel at the scantiness of my means arises out of my inability to make such present provision for my dear Hartley, my first-born, as might set his feelings at ease and his mind at liberty from the depressing anxieties of to

day, and exempt him from the necessity of diverting the talents, with which it hath pleased God to intrust him, to subjects of temporary interests, knowing that it is with him, as it ever has been with myself, that his powers, and the ability and disposition to exert them, are greatest when the motives from without are least, or of least urgency. But with earnest prayer, and through faith in Jesus the Mediator, I commit him, with his dear brother and sister, to the care and providence of the Father in heaven, and affectionately leave this my last injunction, My dear children, love one another.'

"Lastly, with awe and thankfulness, I acknowledge, that from God, who has graciously endowed me, a creature of the dust, with the distinction, with the glorious capability of knowing him the Enal, as the Author of my being, and of desiring and seeking Him, as its ultimate end, I have received all good, and good alone-yea, the evil from my own corrupt yet responsible will He hath converted into mercies, sanctifying them as instruments of fatherly chastisement for instruction, prevention, and restraint. Praise in the highest, and thanksgiving and adoring love, to the I AM,' with the co-eternal Word, and the Spirit proceeding, one God from everlasting to everlasting; His staff and His rod alike comfort me."

The original revised, interlined, and corrected by his own hand. Signed by himself, and witnessed by Ann Gillman and Henry Langlay Porter.

"Grove, Highgate, July 2. 1830.

"This is a codicil to my last will and testament.

"S. T. COLERIDGE.

"Most desirous to secure, as far as in me lies, for my dear son, Hartley Coleridge, the tranquillity indispensable to any continued and successful exertion of his literary talents, and which, from the like characters of our minds in this respect, I know to be especially requisite for his happiness, and per

suaded that he will recognise in this provision that anxious affection by which it is dictated, I affix this codicil to my last will and testament.

"And I hereby give and bequeath to Joseph Henry Green, Esquire, to Henry Nelson Coleridge, Esquire, and to James Gillman, Esquire, and the survivor of them, and the executor and assigns of such survivor, the sum, whatever it may be, which in the will aforesaid I bequeathed to my son, Hartley Coleridge, after the decease of his mother, Sarah Coleridge, upon trust. And I hereby request them, the said Joseph Henry Green, Henry Nelson Coleridge, and James Gillman, Esquires, to hold the sum accruing to Hartley Coleridge, from the equal division of my total bequest between him, his brother Derwent, and his sister, Sara Coleridge, after their mother's decease, to dispose of the interest or proceeds of the same portion to or for the use of my dear son, Hartley Coleridge, at such time or times, in such manner, and under such conditions, as they, the trustees above named, know to be my wish, and shall deem conducive to the attainment of my object in adding this codicil; namely, the anxious wish to insure for my son the continued means of a home, in which I comprise board, lodging, and raiment; providing that nothing in this codicil shall be so interpreted as to interfere with my son Hartley Coleridge's freedom of choice respecting his place of residence, or with his power of disposing of his portion by will after his decease, according as his own judgment and affections may decide.

"S. T. COLEridge.

"Witnesses,-Ann Gillman,

"James Gillman, jun.”

"2d July, 1830.

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No. XXVIII.

HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS

PRINCE WILLIAM FREDERICK,

DUKE OF GLOUCESTER AND EDINBURGH,

AND EARL OF CONNAUGHT; K.G., G.C.B., F.R.S., AND D.C.L.; CHANCELLOR OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE; A FIELDMARSHAL IN THE ARMY; COLONEL OF THE THIRD REGIMENT OF FOOT-GUARDS, OR ROYAL SCOTS FUSILEERS; LORD HIGH STEWARD OF GLOUCESTER; GOVERNOR OF PORTSMOUTH; RANGER OF BAGSHOT PARK; PRESIDENT OF THE AFRICAN INSTITUTION, ETC.

HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS was the son of Prince William Henry, third son of his Royal Highness Frederick, Prince of Wales, and brother of his Majesty, King George the Third, (created, by patent, dated 19th of November, 1764, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh, in Great Britain, and Earl of Connaught, in Ireland,) by Maria, Countess-Dowager of Waldegrave, daughter of the Hon. Sir Edward Walpole, K.B., and granddaughter of Sir Robert Walpole, first Earl of Orford, K.G.

His Royal Highness was born at Rome, January 15th, 1776. He received the early part of his education under Dr. Walsby. Afterwards, when he was entered at Cambridge, Dr. Beadon was his tutor. Like his father, he was destined to the profession of arms;

and he had scarcely

completed his studies before he entered the army.

His Royal Highness's first commission was that of Captain in the 1st Foot Guards, with the rank of Colonel, and dated the 11th of March, 1789. In March, 1794, his Royal Highness, then Prince William, went to Flanders to join his

company in the 1st battalion, and on the 16th of April was appointed to the command of a brigade, consisting of the 14th, 37th, and 53d regiments of the line. On the 17th he was employed in the columns under Sir W. Erskine, who ordered his Royal Highness to attack the village of Premont, and the wood on its left, in which he succeeded, and received the General's thanks on the field. His Royal Highness was immediately afterwards appointed to the command of the 115th regiment, (3d May, 1794,) and had a letter of service as Colonel upon the Staff, (21st February, 1794,) and to do the duty of a general officer in the army, in which quality he served the whole of that campaign. The 26th February, 1795, he received the rank of Major-General, and the 8th November, 1795, he was appointed Colonel of the 6th foot; and from the time he received the rank of Major-General he was constantly employed upon the Staff in Great Britain, in the north-eastern, the eastern, and the southern districts, till he went to Holland in 1799, in command of a brigade, comprising two battalions of the 5th and two of the 35th regiments, forming part of the Duke of York's army in the expedition to the Helder.

On the 19th of September this brigade was attached to the column commanded by Lieut.-General D. Dundas. In the course of the morning the whole of it was, by degrees, detached, excepting the 1st battalion of the 35th, with which, only 600 strong, his Royal Highness was called upon to support the Russians. Finding that Lieut.-General Hermann was made prisoner, and Lieut.-General Gerebzoff killed, and that the command had, consequently, devolved upon himself, his Royal Highness determined to attack the village of Schorel, from which he found Major-General Manners's brigade (two battalions of the 9th and one of the 56th regiments) was retreating, closely pursued by the enemy in great force.

Prince William, covering the Major-General's retreat, ordered him to form in his rear; and with this reinforcement to his own single battalion his Royal Highness advanced to