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the time may not be yet come . for , declaring . A little before his death be had commenced a ,. prosecution against Mr-O'Meara . for relating in his bot / k of Napoleon ' s conversations , a statement of the Ex-emperor ' s that the British minister had personally partaken of the spoils of France . In private life , the Marquis of Londonderry is said to have been
amiable ;' his public character is known , unhappily for his reputation , throughout Europe . He had talents for business , but in Parliament he had influence without respect . His speecjhes were laboured , dull , unsatisfactory and often ludicrous : they were so managed , however , as to hide the question , when it was not convenient that it should be exposed , and to confuse the minds of common
hearers , and to throw a certain mistiness upon subjects , under cover of which members might vote without self-animadversion . The manner of his death was shocking . His intellect was no doubt disordered , but the cause of the disorder is not yet sufficiently explained . He has left a widow , Amelia , the youngest
daughter of the late Earl of Buckinghamshire . Having no issue , his title and estates descend to his brother , Lord Stewart . He was buried in Westminster Abbey on the 20 th hist ., and his corpse was received by the populace with indecorous and ungenerous expressions of their feelings .
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DEATH ABROAD . Abbe Haiiy . June 3 , was interred , the slbhe ( Ren 4 Juste ) HAiiv , member of the slcademie Hoyale des Sciences . Standing beside his grave , M . Cuvier , perpetual Secretary of the Academie Royale des Sciences , and Superintendant of the Museum d'flhtoife Naturelle , in the name of those two
institutions pronounced the following oration : " My fellow-mourners ! By what sad fatality have the arrows of death fallen of late so thickly around us ? At the distance of but a few days we have acconjpanied to their long home , Halle , Hichelieu , Sicard and Fan Spandock Talents , grea , tneas , active benevolence , all have pleaded in vain against the stern 4 ec . Again the mortal stroke has fallen
° « genius and virtue ; has bereft us of the most perfect model of the philosopher devoted to the . stxi ' dy of nature , and of the sage blest iu the enjoyment of truth , a |> d of that' happiness which is . uudimimshed by the revolutions and the caprices of fate . "Itt the midst of humble and laboii-° »» occupations , one } dea took posses-
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don qi tfcemliHlof M- fiajty ^ 3 i * d to that luminous and fruitful ide # , his time and his faculties were frpia that period consecrated : it led him to the study of mineralogy , geometry and all the science of nature ; it impelled him , as it were , to acquire a new existence . How magnificent the reward granted to his exertions ! He cast aside the veil which
concealed the fabric of those mysterious ^ productions in which inan imate matter seemed to present the first motions of life , in which it appeared to assume such precise and unvarying forms by principles analogous to those of organization . Our philosopher separated and measured , in thought , the invisible materials forming
those wonderful edifices ; he subjected them to invariable laws ; his scientific eye foresaw the results of their union ; and amongst the thousands of calculations which he made , none were ever found defective . From the cube of salt , the formation of which we perpetually behold . to the sapphire and the ruby vainly
hidden iu gloomy caverns from our luxuriousness and avarice , every substance obeys the same laws ; and amidst the innumerable metamorphoses to which they are all subjected , not one exists unforeseen by the calculations of M Hauy . " An illustrious member of our § ocjety has well said , that no second Newton
will be born , because there is not a seqond system of the Universe : so we may say , in reference to a more limited object , that there will be no second Hauy ,. because no different structure of crystals exists . Like the discoveries of Newton , those of M . Haiiy , far from appearing restricted in their nature from the
improvements since made in science , seem constantly increasing in genera . 1 usefulness ; and his genius partook of the character of his discoveries : age detracted upthing from the merit of his writings , the last of them was always the most perfect ; and those persons who have seen the work which occupied him in his last moments , assure us that it is the most admirable
of all his productions . " How sweet is that life which is devoted to the pursuit of an important and demonstrable truth , one which daily leads to the discovery of other truths connepted with it ! To him who is worthy to fc ^ joy such a life , —and who was ever more
worthy thaji M . Haiiy?—haw far dp its charms exceed all the splendid offers 1 J 1 © world can . make ! The natural objects that were constantly under the inspection of this philosopher , the precious stoifes so madly sought in distant climes , at the price of labour , sometimes of blood , had no value in h& estimation fete that whfeh
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Obituary . —AbbiHwiip . 513
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1822, page 513, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2515/page/57/
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