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ra Two Porters. 
/ Singing Men and Boys, two and two. 
Mr. Wilson, the Undertaker. 
_A Page. The Feather-lid. A Page. 
Dr. Davy, Physician. Mr. Oakes, Apothecary. 
The Rew John Shepherd, Mivister of Trinity 
Church. ° 
’ The Rev. Henshaw Conductor of the 
Chapel. 
The Lord Bishop of Bristol, Master. 
| © The body supported by the eight fol- 
Jowing-senior Tellows, viz. 
Rev. G. A. Browne Rev. G. F. Tavell 
Rev. Dr. Ramsden Rev. |. Hailstone 
Rev. Dr. Raine Rev, J. Davis ; 
Rev. j. Lambert Rev. J. H. Renon- 
; ard, Vice Master. 
CHIEF MOURNERS, 
James Perry, and Siday Hawes, jan. 
Brother-in-law, and Nephew of the deceased, 
N Junior Fellows, two and two. 
Bachelors, two and two. 
Scholars, two and two. 
Pensioners, two and two. 
Mr. John Newby, Clerk of the Chapel, 
and 
Other Servants of the College, two and two. 
Qn entering the Chapel, which was il- 
luminated, the Lord Bishop, Chief Mour- 
ners, and all the Members of the College 
_. took their places, and the Choir perform- 
~ edan Anthem. 
i After which the Lord Bishop read the 
Jesson, and the procession.moved in the 
same order to the grave, which was at the 
foot of the statue of Sir Isaac Newton, 
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and surrounded by those of all the illus-- 
trious persons which this great and dis- 
tingnished College has produced, When 
they had taken their stations around the 
grave, and the body was placed above it 
ready for interment, the funeral Anthem 
was performed by the Choir in the ad- 
joining Chapel, during the most perfect 
‘silence of the auditory, and with the 
most solemn effect. stay, . 
The service: was then read by the Bi- 
shop -with great pathos... The senior 
Members*of the College who had lived 
“with the Proressor in habits of the most 
endearing intercourse for thirty years, and 
who had had the best means of estimating ; 
his attainments, shed tears of sorrow over 
his grave; and the whole assembly dis- 
played a feeling of grief and interest, 
which bespoke the sense they entertain- 
ed of the irreparable loss, that not only 
their own society, but the literary. world 
had suffered by bis death. 
The following was the simple inserip= 
tion engraved in brass on his coffin:— 
RICARDUS * PORSON® 
) APUD CANTABRIGIENSES®* 
LINGUAE * GRAECAE. PROFESSOR. - 
ET 4 
COLL.* TRIN. * SS,* ET. IND.* OLIM. SOC, 
APUD "LONDINENSES* 
INSTITUTIONIS* LITTERARIAE®* 
BIBLIOTHECARIUS * PRINCEPS 
NATUS* VIII." CAL. * IAN. *MDCCLX, 
OBiIIT.* VIl.* CAL.* OCT. * MDCCCVIIIe 
PHYSIOGNOMY. 
Nearly treatise of physiognomy was 
composed by Michael Scott, who 
_ flourished in the thirteenth century, and is 
mentioned by Dante, in the twentieth 
canto of his Inferno, as a notorious ma- 
gician. It was printed at Venice in 1533, 
with this title, “ Physionomia la qual 
compild maestro Michele Scotto a prieghi 
di Federico Romano Imperatore.” The 
biography of this writer might be further 
elucidated, and his magical feats cele- 
brated in ballads. ‘ 
XANTHICUS. 
Our cualligraphers are so much at a loss 
for words beginning with an ex, that in 
their alphabetic specimens of penmanship 
engraved for chidren to copy, the most 
ridiculous abbreviations are recurred to, 
and the word exumple is written with an 
apostrophe ’xumple. If these writing- 
rs r@ad the Bible carefully, they 
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might have found the name of the Mace= 
donian month Xanthicus (2 Maccabees, 
c. xi. v. 30) which was the second of the 
spring quarter, and the time for beginning 
public drills and exhibiting military ex- 
ercises, 
MISTAKE.OF DANTE. 
Dante in the nineteenth canto of his 
Inferno uses these words: i 
Ahi Constantin, di quanto mal fu matre, 
Non la tua conversion, ma quella dote, 
Che da te prese il primo ricco patre, 
which Milton has thus translated, 
Ah Constantine, of how much ill was cause 
Not thy conversion,’ but those rich domains, 
That the first wealthy Pope received of thee. 
Two distinct Constantines are in this 
passage confounded. The first emperor 
of that name was indeed a convert to 
christianity; but he did not bestow on: 
the church those temporal dominions, 
which 
