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of Cambridge, the latest survivor of the children of George the Third ; the Duke of Wellington, the pride of the English people ; Count Roy, of the ancient re gime of France ; the aged Lady Charleville ; and the amiable Countess of Blessington, who delighted to fos ter the talents of others, as well as to exercise her own. Of the rulers of the lyre, have fallen, Wordsworth and Southey, Campbell and Montgomery, Talfourd and Joanna Baillie. Of other lights in the firmament of literature, Coleridge and Professor Wilson, Dr. Chal mers, Dr. Arnold, and the Rev. Sydney Smith ; Lockhart, and the genial Allan Cunningham ; John Foster, the forcible essayist, and his placid friend, John Shephard, author of the &quot; Autumn Dream ; &quot; Maria Edgeworth, Mary Russell Mitford, and Jane Porter ; Mrs. Opie and Mrs. Southey, Mrs. Shelley and Mrs. Hoffland. Of philosophers, the white-haired Arago; of philanthropists, the serene Joseph John Gurney, and his blessed sister, Mrs. Fry, who has exchanged the sighing of the prisoner for the hymn of angels.

Looking still more closely over the groups that re membrance has embalmed, I miss the classic features of Baron Gurney, one of the twelve judges of England ; the benevolent countenance of his brother, William B. Gurney, long a reporter to Parliament, an earnest Christian and my^true friend ; the pale, sublimated features of the Rev. T. Hankinson, so in harmony with his saintly sermons and his sacred lyre ; and of those who exercised sweet, sisterly influences over the sons of song, Dorothy Wordsworth and Mary Lamb.

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