and a testimonial from the Capudan at Gibraltar just in time to hear the pasha, with such ample remuneration booming of the guns of Trafalgar, that he felt justified in continuing his mingling with a terrific thunderstorm, travels for a time merely for amuse- and to see the San Ildefonso and four ment. At Smyrna he invested some of other vessels towed into the harbor as his capital in the cargo of a large prisoners. polacca about to sail for Malaga, and From Malaga he wished to proceed himself embarked as supercargo. Al- to Madrid, but the unsettled state of ways on the alert to increase his store the country made it a puzzling question of knowledge, he took this opportunity | how to do so safely. At last he was of studying navigation and the use of advised to buy a mule and join a carathe quadrant. van of arrieros or carriers (6 trusty At Malaga the medical supercargo as men, robust, agile, and good-natured; usual became a favorite in society, always laughing and singing, and on where his good looks, good manners, the best terms with the contrabandVenetian barcarolles and Greek ro- istas." He contracted with the leader manzas were in great request. He of the muleteers for board, while as to studied the guitar under Sor, and soon lodging "I had to sleep, like many of employed it, as skilfully as one to the my fellow-travellers, stretched on my manuer born, in serenading the Anda- face over the back of my docile animal, lusian ladies, of whose beauty he occasionally embracing its stiff neck and speaks rapturously. He seems, indeed, suffering my legs to dangle behind. I to have been a most impressionable had no saddle, but a thick, square person, and although he hints that pillow stuffed with hay, and an ordihopeless love—either on his side or nary bridle." Saddle-bags, gaily emthe lady's-hurried him away from his broidered by one of his fair Andalusian Greek friends at Terapia, he was cer- friends, contained all his travelling tainly soon consoled. No one could requisites. have acted more consistently Moore's philosophic axiom that

on

Professional practice, again, went hand in hand with social popularity, and Bozzi soon became so well known as a successful doctor that he was asked to form one of a commission to inquire into the origin and treatment of an epidemic of yellow fever raging in Malaga. Having noticed that such of the inhabitants as went to their country residences before sunset escaped infection, while those who left the country to sleep in town invariably fell victims to the malady, he recommended that bonfires of green wood should be lit every evening at each end of the streets, and the death-rate diminished noticeably directly the measure was adopted.

In the course of his excursions in the neighborhood of Malaga, Bozzi arrived

After three weeks of this peculiar mode of travelling Madrid was reached, and "Don Manuel Godoi, the lucky dragoon, now Principe de la Paz, absolute ruler, and the star to whom all bowed in adoration and submission," gave Dr. Bozzi a very gracious reception. Don Manuel was interested in the Pestalozzian system, which he had just introduced into Spain, and having heard that Dr. Bozzi's education had been partly conducted on that method, had many questions to ask him, and the prince also paid him compliments on his medical successes at Malaga.

While denouncing the unspeakable social and political corruption of Spain at this time, and the despicable intrigues through which Godoï had risen to power, Dr. Bozzi says:

Spanish literature and literary instituexistence in the midst of the disordered tions owed to the prince their continued state of the country, for in proportion as Don Manuel himself had in his youth been unprovided by nature or education with the love of learning, so did he strive to

make up for his own deficiencies by coming | communicated with the Marquis de Beauin contact with his superiors in intellect. harnais, French ambassador in Madrid, He was, above all, desirous of receiving all learned foreigners well.

The associations which gather round the title hardly prepare us to find that one of the gentlest mannered and most charming persons whose acquaintance Dr. Bozzi made in Madrid was the grand inquisitor, a handsome-looking prelate of fifty; his office, however, was then little more than nominal.

Although so well received at the palace, Dr. Bozzi also frequented the salon of the Prince of the Asturias, "who at the age of eighteen, had wedded a young Neapolitau princess whose feeble health soon removed her from a scene she could neither comprehend nor take a part in. This house of reunion was more a foyer of political intrigue than an assembly of distinguished Gallic sympathies were strong there, and one cannot wonder that any policy, any country which threatened the power of Godof should have been acceptable to the young prince.

men."

and equally representing the Italian Republic. As a subject of the latter it was considered perfectly regular that a record should be made of the letters, the wish to which they referred, and my resolution to act upon it of my own free will, there existing no impediment in the Italian code which prevented any citizen from assuming the name of a relative in connection with his own.

Probably this change of name, in conjunction with the interest he had always felt in English medical schools and medical men, influenced the next important step in the chequered career of Dr. Granville, as he must henceforth be called. He arrived at Lisbon, intending to enter the Portuguese navy, and join an expedition to the Brazils; but an uncontrollable melancholy and dissatisfaction took possession of him on learning that such an appointment was at his disposal; the state of the Brazilian colonies was unsatisfactory; an English fleet was lying at the mouth of the Tagus, he obtained an introduction to Captain McKinlay, senior officer in command, and was appointed acting assistant surgeon to H.M.S. Raven, about to return to Portsmouth on March 8, 1807.

Adventures are to the adventurous!

Whilst freely sharing in the ordinary social life of Madrid - then dazzling with the lurid brilliance attending certain forms of corruption and decay frequenting the splendid assemblies of the Condesa de Villaviciosa," the solitary example in Madrid of a lady of Dr. Granville being on board, the letters;" robbed, and narrowly escaped Raven had barely parted company with being assassinated by the bands of the rest of the fleet before she captured marauders who made the capital as a Danish merchantman conveying Genunsafe in broad day as in dark night; eral Solignac and his family to Pondioverwhelmed with horror and disgust cherry, where the general was to take a at the brutal bull-fights, which no command. amount of ridicule from his friends the assistant surgeon, was placed on A prize party, including could compel him even to affect to board the merchant-ship, and witness with equanimity; and studying Granville was much interested in the art in the magnificent collection of captives, Madame de Solignac becompictures-Dr. Bozzi received news of ing his patient.

the death of his beloved mother. The

Dr.

letters containing this intelligence reit- ville underwent an On landing at Portsmouth Dr. Granexamination at erated a wish expressed by her whilst Haslar Hospital1 somewhat under diffiher son was at Athens with Mr. Ham-culties, as none of the medical staff ilton that he would add to his paternal spoke any European language but their

name that of her own maternal ances

tors, the Granvilles.

1 He notes that one of the examiners, Mr. Vance, met with a tragic fate some years afterwards. An This wish I proceeded to carry out at insane patient whom he visited in the upper floor once, by presenting myself with both let-of a house in Sackville Street threw the doctor ters at the French Chancellerie, where I over the banisters, killing him on the spot.

own. At the suggestion of the surgeon | sian Admiral Siniavine whom I had met of the Raven, whose communications five years before in the brilliant salon of with his assistant had been carried on his imperial master's representative at in Latin, that language was employed, the Italian doctor passed triumphantly,

Corfu, Count_Mocenigo, who was then the Ionian Islands, for supporting which sharing with England the protectorate of

Siniavine had under his command in Greek waters the very fleet now surrendered to an English admiral, and on its way to a temporary captivity in England.

In 1808, Dr. Granville, now a full surgeon in the royal navy, was ap

and was transferred to the war schooner Millbrook, appointed to convoy the transports which conveyed part of the English army to Portugal: "As I had when a mere boy beheld Bonaparte entering Milan in 1796 at the head of twelve thousand soldiers, so in 1808 was I to see Sir Arthur Wellesley leav-pointed to the Cordelia, Captain Kennedy, belonging to the Channel fleet : ing England with the like body of men to defeat Junot at Vimiera." While That narrow part of the Channel being the Millbrook was stationed off Oporto, infested with privateers, the service was Dr. Grauville took part in several vol- looked upon as good fun. unteer night expeditions, bringing into most tempestuous nights that had been use the knowledge of navigation ac-known that winter, Captain Kennedy and quired in the Archipelago, and being instructed to reply to any challenge from the enemy's sentries, as he alone could command a word of French or Portuguese. These sallies were amusing to him, but had no more important result than the capture of some sheep destined to feed Junot's army.

On one of the

his surgeon had been invited to dine at Admiral Foley's table, when a signal of แ 'Privateer in the offing" was made from the Cordelia. Instantly the captain, and of course his surgeon, started for the shore, where offers were made by the gallant Deal boatmen to convey the two officers on board, and into one of the largest Deal boats they got, to be covered with a tarpaulin and launched by fifty hands into the surf, which rose in gigantic waves around them. In an hour the brave boat reached the Cordelia, at anchor in the Downs; the brig, slipping her single anchor, sailed at once, and on that terrible

night a French privateer was run down off Dungeness.

leave.

continued

During a terrific hurricane on the 25th of March the Millbrook struck, and Dr. Granville, who was lying down in his cabin, saw a piece of rock suddenly appear through its side; he rushed on deck, and, finding all the available boats already full, jumped overboard and thrust his right arm into This sort of service, the bung-hole of an empty cask, steering with his left until he struggled through the winter months, necessarily affected the health of a son of the ashore. The shipwrecked crew was sheltered for a time in the little Portu- South; Dr. Granville, crippled by guese fort, from which they were res-rheumatism, was sent to Deal on sick "I can never forget,' he cued by the Elizabeth, on board which vessel Dr. Granville remained as as- writes, "the extreme kindness I expesistant surgeon until the Convention of rienced from every one I had to deCintra, when he was transferred to La pend upon; a generous disposition in Vénus, and then occurred one of the my superior officers towards an afflicted strange situations of which his life was fellow-creature suggested their noble full: behavior throughout my illness and convalescence." Lady Foley (wife of the admiral) and Mrs. Kennedy not only looked after his physical comfort, but rendered him a more important service; the latter persuaded him to read the Prayer-book and New Testament, to increase his knowledge of the English language. Lady Foley, as

Here was I, escorting in one of his own ships, as prisoner of war, the identical Rus

1 Before his next examination in England-and he passed nine in all, including one before the College of Surgeons, and one before the Royal College of Physicians-Dr. Granville had mastered enough English to prevent this difficulty from recurring.

soon as he was sufficiently recovered, truly said to have carried out the pretook him to her parish church; the cept: "Physician, heal thyself." simplicity of the mode of worship The next two years were spent in pleased and impressed him; he saw visiting nearly all the principal West the influence of religion in the charac- Indian islands. At Port-au-Prince, ters of his new friends, and in the San Domingo, Christophe was still lives of their country-people. Alien- aping Napoleon, and the ship's officers ated from the church of his fathers, he were presented to the Ducs de la Marsays, by its "hollowness," and made melade and de la Limonade, and other miserable at heart even in the gayest black dignitaries whose titles might period of his youth, during his period have been selected from a Gilbertof agnosticism, by "isolation of soul and-Sullivan opera. Barbadoes, then and the dread of annihilation after exempt from yellow fever, was the death," he found conviction and peace general rendezvous for English menof mind in Protestant doctrine and rit-of-war, and in Bridgetown Granville ual, in which, having once embraced found that the leader of society amongst it, he felt a growing interest. English residents and visitors was a charming daughter of Dr. Valpy, of Reading.

With returning strength Dr. Granville was eager to get to work again, and volunteered for the Indian service, While anchoring in Carlisle Bay news where, in consequence of an outbreak arrived of the insurrection in the Caraof cholera, medical officers were greatly cas, and soon El Liberador in person needed. He hoped to sail in H.M. visited the admiral's ship, to solicit frigate Dover, but the medical super- in the name of the Junta the aid of intendent of Haslar did not consider Great Britain in proclaiming the indehim fit for active service, and was thus pendence of Columbia. Bolivar underthe means of saving his life; the Dover stood English, but his documents were struck on the Black Rock on the Irish written in Spanish, and Dr. Granville coast, and sank with all hands. Whilst was called upon to translate them. waiting for another ship Dr. Granville This led to frequent interviews with busied himself in studying English lit- the patriot, who is described as uniting erature, and falling in love (seriously, to a resolute air and martial aspect, this time) and marrying; his wife be- extreme gentleness of manner and ing the daughter of "Joseph Kerr, voice, great information, and sound Esq., of Blackheath." He also ob- knowledge. Granville ranks him with tained his M.R.C.S. degree, and was Kossuth and Garibaldi, while mention"made a free and accepted Mason." ing that his after fortune was very These interludes, however, did not af- different, his fellow citizens having fect the Indian project, and about two assigned him "a perpetual annuity of months after his marriage Dr. Gran-thirty thousand dollars. The climate ville was appointed to H.M.S. Arachne, being found seriously injurious to Dr. and entered Port Royal, Jamaica, on Granville's health, he was sent home, New Year's day, 1810. "To behold entrusted with Bolivar's papers, which the myriads of crabs that were crawl- were to be delivered to the colonial ing among the half-buried remains of secretary. At Downing Street he was the victims of yellow fever, and to be graciously received by "Mr. Peel," seized with the unmistakable symptoms whose youthful appearance astonished of that dreadful malady, was but the him, fame having already been so busy work of a few hours, for on the morn- with his name - and he renewed his ing of the 2nd of January I was found friendship with Mr. Hamilton. to be delirious." He had, however, A visit to Manchester on some famwith commendable foresight, taught ily affairs of his wife led to Dr. the sick-bay attendant of the ship how Granville's first venture in English to proceed in such a case, and, his literature-consisting of five critical instructions being followed, may be essays on the performances of Jobu

ing mathematics in Switzerland, and married to the young Sicilian princess, Marie Amélie. He showed much emotion on hearing that the medical officer of the ship had been frequently his mother's guest, and made many inquiries about her.

Philip Kemble, then starring in that town; in these essays he not only recorded his extreme admiration for the finest actor he had ever seen, but criticised his interpretation of the text; "and," he says, "considering that only five years before, the writer had been under the necessity of using the In 1812, at Mr. Hamilton's suggesLatin language to make himself under- tion, Dr. Granville resolved to abandon stood by English physicians, I know his sea life, with a half-pay allowance, not which of the two the public will and, while prosecuting his medical and condone the presumption of the un-surgical studies, to act as tutor to his dertaking or the manner in which the old friend's two sons. One of the author performed his task. Yet they most valuable acquaintances to whom were well received." During his next Mr. Hamilton introduced his tutor, appointment on board the Maidstone when they settled in London for the (where one of his messmates was Lieu- winter, was Sir Joseph Banks, whose tenant Edward Parry, afterwards of Sunday evening assemblies in Soho Arctic renown), Dr. Granville was pres- Square he thenceforward regularly atent at the bombardment of Cadiz, in tended, meeting there Sir Humphry March, 1812, and is retrospectively Davy, Humboldt, Whewell, Astley shocked at his own inhumanity in regarding the engagement chiefly as a fine display of fireworks.

Cooper, Brougham, Lansdowne, Playfair, and many men of scientific and political distinction. Blauco White, One of his patients during the Medi- James Morier, and Thirlwall, Bishop terranean cruise was the Duchesse of St. David's, also became Granville's d'Orleans (widow of Egalité), then liv-friends- his nationality, his travels, ing at Port Mahon, whom he describes and his scholarship affording common as gentle, hospitable, and dignified. ground on which each of them could It scarcely accords with the last epithet | meet him.

that the duchess should have spoken to More frivolous amusements were not a strange physician of "the black in- wholly despised. Mrs. Granville and gratitude of Madame de Genlis," and her child had by this time arrived in of her husband's attempts to extenuate London, and Dr. Granville took the his own excesses by pleading the ex- former to a fête at Vauxhall, at which ample of the prince regent and his the greatest amusement was what he associates. calls" a sort of royal vaudeville." The Prince and Princess of Wales had attended, each hoping the other would not be present, and a game of hideand-seek was kept up for an hour or two, to avoid a meeting.

The duchess entertained one or two officers of the English fleet every day, together with several of the resident civil and military authorities, and made Dr. Granville's invitation a (( standing order," so that he met many pleasant In 1813 Dr. Granville obtained his acquaintances at her table; one of diploma from the Royal College of Surthese who became most distinguished geons, and also became a member of was lieutenant, afterwards Admiral the Royal Institution (formed a dozen Lord Lyons; their friendship was cemented by an exchange of dictionaries, Lyons giving a Regiæ Parnassi purchased in Sicily for a Greco-Romaic dictionary of Granville's.

years previously at the suggestion of Count Rumford), of the Linnæan Society, and of the Society of Arts, His musical and operatic criticisms in L'Italico1 led to many acquaintances

When the ship visited Palermo for supplies she was boarded by many 1 A bi-monthly magazine started by Dr, Grancurious visitors, amongst them Louis of the ministers subscribed, on the ground of its ville in 1814, to which the prince regent and several Philippe, recently returned from teach-being "a literary and scientific miscellany written