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once that he was proscribed and doomed. At first he found hospitality 

 under the flag of one of the foreign ambassadors ; but it was soon 

 certain that neither Madrid nor Spain could afford him the shelter 

 his honor demanded. He therefore escaped to France, and passed a 

 period of no common anxiety at Paris and in its neighborhood. 



When calmer times came, the injustice that had been done to him 

 was felt by all. He was therefore recalled to Madrid, and received, 

 with other distinctions, that of a place in the Senate, whose duties he 

 fulfilled during the few remaining years of his life with assiduity and 

 dignity. But even in youth ambition had never been a prominent 

 trait in his character, and now in old age he felt more than most men 

 the unfitness of office and power. He never again sought public place, 

 but lived retired and much respected, either at Madrid during tlie 

 sessions of the Cortes, or at his villa on the shore of the Atlantic, 

 where he died. 



Sefior Calderon was a person of much elegant culture, and was 

 familiar in many languages in diffei-ent departments of literature, some 

 of which are rarely sought or valued by his countrymen. The Ameri- 

 can Academy may be thought bound to take the more careful charge 

 of his memory, since he lived so long among us, and since his only 

 published works, except those connected with his duties as a states- 

 man, were, we believe, two that appeared in the United States. One 

 of these is a graceful translation into Spanish octave verse of Wieland's 

 Oberon, which appeai'ed at New York in 1841, in a duodecimo volume 

 of 318 pages, of which it may be not unsuitable to add, that a copy, 

 materially corrected and improved by his own hand, is preserved by 

 one of his friends in this city. The other is a translation into Spanish 

 of Miiller's Universal History, in four large octavo volumes, published 

 at Boston in 1843, — a labor which, we believe, he undertook to 

 gratify friends in Mexico and Cuba, who desired to read in their own 

 language a book which he had taught them to believe was so much to 

 be valued for the condensed instruction it affords. 



The Foreign Honorary Members deceased during the past year are 

 BiOT and Barlow of the first Class, and Sir Francis Palgrave 

 of the third. 



Sir Francis Palgrave died on the 6th of July, 1861, aged seventy- 

 two years. He was one of those men who not only do honor to their 

 calling, but who elevate the calling itself. The strenuous application, 



