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 cause of the unusual success that marked the career of the late Mr. Pennington, and to consider how far his reputation was a just or a factitious one. His extensive practice, so far as I can ascertain, appears fairly deducible from a well-grounded confidence of the public in his professional skill, obtained by patient industry and an ardent love for his profession. Mr. Pennington ascribed his own early success to the great advantages he acquired from his daily intercourse with the person, and practice of his great benefactor, and to his possessing the intimate friendship and the benevolent assistance of the late Dr. Pitcairn, then Mr. Pott’s colleague at St. Bartholomew's Hospital.

To a thorough knowledge of the Therapeutic art, he added an indefatigable energy in its practice, from which all the attractions of society failed to entice him. The experience of his later years was derived entirely from observation, the most valuable school of medical proficiency; and, among his medical friends, his powers of diagnosis were considered of a very high order. He, early in life, took a high station in the profession as a family medical adviser, and it was his no inglorious boast that, at one time, he attended professionally every Cabinet Minister, and every Judge upon the bench.

In his private character, he was practically a most kind and benevolent man; his philanthropy was large and generous, his sympathies were readily enlisted, and his purse opened to distress and difficulty, more especially among his younger professional brethren. His mind revolted from an act of meanness or dishonour, and I believe it may be said of him, without flattery to his memory, that he never sullied his integrity by a single ungenerous or sordid act during a long