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BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR OF THE LATE S. T. COLERIDGE. 



To the Editor of the Analyst. 

 gir^ Shrewsbury, September 22, 1834. 



Permit me, as a well-wisher to the success of your spirited undertaking, to correct 

 an error which appears in the Biographical Memoir of the late S. T. Coleridge, in 

 your second number. 



It is there stated, that when he was at Jesus College, Cambridge, « it does not 

 appear that he obtained, or even struggled for, academic honours." 



As t was his contemporary at the University, and enjoyed his youthful friendship, 

 (the kindly remembrance of which continued between us till his death, though we 

 had few opportunities of personal intercourse,) I beg to state that his Biographer has 

 under -rated both his struggles and his success. 



In the summer of 1792 he gained the " Browne medal" for his Greek ode on the 

 slave-trade, which contains some highly spirited and poetical passages, tinged with 

 a deep feeling of melancholy, and moral pathos : and in the months of December 

 and January following, he was a competitor for the University Scholarship, then 

 vacant by the election of the illustrious Richard Porson to the Greek Professorship, 

 who was himself the principal examiner on that occasion : and although he was not 

 successful, he was so far distinguished as to be one of the four who at a certain 

 period of the examination were selected from the general body of candidates, and 

 formed into a separate class for a second more severe and decisive trial. 



I beUeve no other opportunity occurred for his exertions during his stay at College, 

 he may, therefore, be fairly said to have distinguished himself on every occasion of 

 competition for first-rate honours while at the University. And I feel happy in this 

 opportunity of testifying my regard, and doing justice to the memory of a man whom 

 we cannot but admire for his talents and high attainments, pity for his severe and 

 protracted sufferings, and reverence for the patience and christian resignation with 

 which he endured them.* I remain, Sir, 



Your obedient Servant, 

 S. BUTLER. 



PREFERMENTS, MARRIAGES, &c. 



PREFERMENT. ces, eldest daughter of William Izon, Esq., 



mv.^ n rrv,-^^ oi ^,.^ viiAA.^-i^u tv/ta of the Lodge. — Henrj' Hom, ESQ., Fellow of 



.7 it,?.!' roc.i; P.^wL.l^ri^ ;^^^^^ Magdalen Ccllege, Oxford, and barrister-at- 



of Amroth Castle, Pembrokeshire, to the .J" . A^piia A^np piripst ria.iP-htPr of 



Prebendal Stall of mnelwedd. in the Col- '^^,;^ 'sam„"e GowS, I q' of'Saf eb ook! 



legiate Church of Brecon. .^ ^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^ Hereford.-At Abergavenny! 



TWTAPPTTi'n George Morison, Esq., to Olive, second 



MAKKiJiu. daughter of the Rev. Wm. Powell, Vicar of 



At Charleville, the seat of the Earl of Abergavenny, — At Martin Hussingtree, 



Rathdowne, Owen Blayney Cole, Esq. of Worcestershire, John Gregory, eldeht son of 



Knightsbridge, London, and Twickenham, John Watkins, Esq., of Woodfield House, 



Middlesex, Deputy-Lieutenant of the county near Ombersley, in the same county, to 



of Monaghan, to the Lady Frances Monck, Elizabeth Randle, only daughter of the late 



seconddaughterof the Earlof Rathilowne. — Mr. John Parker, of Balsall Heath, near 



At Walcot Church, Bath, John Hawkesworth, Birmingham. — At Clifton, William Gibbons, 



Esq., of Forest, Queen's county, to Floren- M.D., of Twickenham, to Psyche Emmeline, 



tina, eldest daughter of John Walmesley, youngest daughter of John King, Esq., of 



Esq., of the Circus, and grand-daughter of Clifton, and niece to the distinguished Maria 



Richard Long, Esq., of Rood Ashton, Wilts. Edgeworth.— At Bridgnorth, Salop, by the 



— At Hanliam, Denbighshire, L. R. Willan, Rev. Wm. Rivers Marshall, John Nigel 



l:sq., M.B. of St. Peter's College, Cambridge, Heathcote, Esq., to Elizabeth, third daughter 



to Alicia, third daughter of the late Joseph of the late H. Oakes, Esq., of Bridgnorth. — 



Peel, Esq., of Staperhill, in the county of At Birmigham, Mr. Dominic Poncia, eldest 



Derby. — At Blakemere, Herefordshire, Wm. son of Mr. John Poncia, of that town, to 



Higgins, Esq., of Hungerford Wharf, London, Maria Magdalene, only daughter of Mr. 



merchant, to Catherine Frances, second Andrew Poncia, merchant, of Amsterdam, 



daughter of Mr. Webster, of Moccas, in that —At Stafford, Thomas Messiter, Esq. of the 



county. — At West Bromwich, Mr. P. H. Inner Temple, London, barrister-at-law, to 



Chavasse, surgeon, of Birmingham, to Fran- Marianne Louisa, only child of Sir Charles 



* On this head one is almost tempted to say in the words of our greatest poet, divested of 

 their censure, 



" Nothing in his life 



Became him like the leaving it." 



NO. III. 2 a 



