the lion may supply, as in the instance before us, a pretence for animal indulgence; and how numerous are the examples even of medical men, who in defiance of the clearest evidence, have become, by their habits of life, martyrs to the gout! What shall we think, for instance, of the infatuation of an eminent surgeon, whose case is recorded in "Collections from the unpublished Medical Writings of the late Dr. Parry." " At the age of forty-seven, the gentleman in question (notwithstanding he had an hereditary tendency to gout) was a free liver, eating and drinking a great deal, fond of hot suppers, sitting up late, taking strong exercise in the way of his profession, and often hunting in the course of the same day. He was liable to indigestion; and for the last three years, whenever the gout left his hands and elbows, however slowly, he was affected with sickness, &c. During, and after the attacks of the gout, he continued to drink, daily, from one pint to one pint and a half of Madeira, together with from one to two pints of home-brewed beer, of twelve bushels of malt to the hogshead.

"On the 27th of January, 1807, he had an attack in the stomach, of what is usually called irregular gout, and on the morning of the 8th of February expired. As it is foreign from my intention to give any circumstantial account of the intermediate progress and symptoms of the case, it may suffice to say, that on the 3rd of February, when Dr. P. first visited him, he was scarcely able to give any connected account of his feelings, and complained of

nothing but sickness; yet, up to this time, horrible to relate, he had continued to take wine, usquebaugh, pine-apple brandy, gout cordial, and other stimulants."

Even my old friend Abernethy, of whom I shall have so much to say by-and-by, compared himself to a directing post; thereby intimating, that whilst he was showing to others the right way, he was himself fixed to the earth. But Abernethy was never the man to do himself justice; and we must therefore take the above anecdote cum grano salis. I must be careful, moreover, after what I have been saying, not to do Dr. Glynn the injustice of representing him as an unsocial being. He was the very reverse of this; for it was only in his mode of supplying the calls of hunger that his character wore the least appearance of want of sociability. He was easy of access to all who had a claim upon him, either as a kind adviser or a learned and cheerful friend; and, more than all, as one who, adorned with the active virtues of the religion he so sincerely professed, was ever ready to respond, with heart and hand, to the call of the fatherless and widow in their affliction.

The young men of the University, with whom he had much intercourse, were particularly objects of his regard; and whilst, by his own elegant taste and acquaintance with the classics, he was capable of pointing out their various beauties, and of discoursing on them with his young friends, he endeavoured, by the tenor of his conversation, to make them better men as well as more refined scholars.

He never drank tea himself; but he frequently asked a few friends to come and take tea at his rooms. Upon such occasions, as I infer from what I myself witnessed, his custom was to walk about the room and talk most agreeably upon such topics as he thought likely to interest his company, which did not often consist of more than two or three persons. As soon as the tea-table was set in order, and the boiling water ready for making the infusion, the fragrant herb was taken, not from an ordinary teacaddy, but from a packet, consisting of several envelopes curiously put together, in the centre of which was the tea. Of this he used, at first, as much as would make a good cup for each of the party; and, to meet fresh demands, I observed that he invariably put an additional tea-spoonful into the tea-pot; the excellence of the beverage, thus prepared, insuring him custom. He had likewise a singular knack of supplying each cup with sugar from a considerable distance, by a jerk of the hand which discharged it from the sugar-tongs into the cup with unerring certainty, as he continued his walk around the table, scarcely seeming to stop whilst he performed these and the other requisite evolutions of the entertainment.

Such was one of the characteristic peculiarities of a man whose whole life has been delineated as 66 a uniform course of integrity and benevolence." For the honour of Cornwall, my native county, he was born there, on the 5th of August, 1719, and was educated at Eton, on the foundation. He died at his rooms in King's College, Cambridge,

on the 8th of February, 1800; and, in conformity with his own directions, his remains were quietly interred in the vault of the most magnificent chapel in the world, between ten and eleven o'clock at night; the funeral having been attended only by the members of the college. Who would not have wished to be present at such a scene! and to have listened, at that solemn hour-the heart thrilling with pious aspirations to those touching words of Holy Writ, adopted in our sublime and lovely burial service : "I heard a voice from heaven, saying unto me, Write; from henceforth blessed are the dead which die in the Lord; even so saith the Spirit; for they rest from their labours." But, although, his repeated wish to be thus privately interred was very properly complied with, the Vice-Chancellor, Dr. Mansell, afterwards Bishop of Bristol, and at that time Master of Trinity College, thought it right to mark the respect due to the memory of so excellent a man, by proceeding, in mourning, from Trinity College to St. Mary's Church, on the Sunday following the funeral, attended by the other Heads of Houses, the Noblemen of the University, and a numerous body of Masters of Arts; on which occasion, an impressive sermon was preached by Mr. Michell, Fellow of King's College. In his discourse, the preacher, who was intimately acquainted with the deceased, took occasion to speak of him as a consummate scholar, a judicious and skilful physician, and, more than all, a Christian, both in word and deed. And he forcibly appealed from what, he feared,

might be deemed the partiality of private attachment, to that general estimation of his worth, which was best collected from the concurrent voice of all, and they were not a few, "whom he had honoured with his friendship, sanctioned by his patronage, relieved by his skill, guided by his wisdom, or blessed by his bounty." He stated, most truly, as I have already done, that—

"Even his frailties lean'd to virtue's side;"

and that " these, such as they were, he had too much sincerity to dissemble, too much fortitude to deny." His characteristic warmth of temper was justly represented by Mr. Michell, 66 as the sensibility of an ardent advocate for truth, the avowed prepossession of an honest mind against all who practised, and all who palliated, vice." His kindness to the younger members of the University has been already alluded to, but I shall be excused for returning again to so amiable a feature. After asserting that he was the unflinching advocate of well-regulated academic discipline, in conjunction with sound learning and religion, the eloquent preacher proceeded to say that, "so far, nevertheless, was he removed from asperity or pride, that his friendship and familiarity were solicited by none more than by young persons. They sought his society; they courted his approbation; they acquiesced in his judgment. If his admonitions were received with anxiety, it was anxiety mixed with reverence for his wisdom, with affection for his tenderness. The frown of just reproof was sweetened by