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of a likeness. But we hope a more full 
and claburate memoir may be, ere long, 
prepared, which may not only enter into 
every minute particular of the Profes- 
sor’s life, but gratify us with as coinplete 
a list of his numerous writings as can be 
recovered. 
We must not, however, longer delay 
to mention the “ Public Characters of 
1809-10,” forming the tenth volume of 
the series. Like the preceding ones, we 
are told, its contents have been supplied 
by contributions from the pens of seve- 
ral authors; who have thus assuredly 
added to the variety, as well as to the in- 
terest of the whole. The characters 
which form the main body of the volume 
are twenty-five in number; of which the 
following are the principal:—Dr. Bur- 
gess, Bishop of St. David's; Rev, Wil- 
liam Coxe; Lord Henry Petty; Lord 
Holland; Lord Cochrane; Sir Samuel 
Romilly; Sir John Stuart; Dr. Bathurst, 
Bishop of Norwich; General Fitzpa- 
trick; Mr. Perceval; Mr. Sturt; Mr. 
M. P. Andrews; and Mr. Professor 
Davy. The Appendix contains a va- 
riety of additions, as well as emenda- 
tions. 
In the “ Biographical Peerage of the 
Empire of Great Britain,” in two smail 
_ volumes, the reader has something more 
offered him than the mere minutia of ge- 
nealogy. ‘The time and the cause of the 
first rise of families, the traits of charac- 
_ ter they have exhibited, and the merits by 
which they have justified the rank con- 
ferred upon them, are all recorded with 
a scrupulous care. The compiler pru- 
fesses to have regarded the integrity of 
biography and history, without sacrif- 
cing to flattery. Among the lists with 
which the work opens is one of peers, 
classed according to the source from 
whence the ancestor of each derived his 
peerave; all prior to the extinction of 
the House of Tudor being classed as feu- 
dal. ‘Vhirty titles are recorded as feu- 
dal; thirty-one derived from statesmen ; 
twenty-seven from lawyers; fifteen from 
the navy; fourteen from mil:tary men; 
twenty from courtiers; seventy from 
country gentlemen; ten from branches 
of nebility; seventeen from marriages ; 
and two from trade. As a specimen of 
the execution of the work, we shall 
quote the short account of the Beautort 
family :— 
“ Henry Charles Somerset, Duke of 
Beaufort, 1682. 
_ This noble house is descended ille- 
gitimately from the house of Beaufort, 
Retrospect of Domestic Literature—Biography. 
Dukes of Somerset, who sprung frons 
John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster (son 
of Edward III.), by his last wile, Kathe- 
rine Swinford. Henry Beaufort, chiid 
Duke of Somerset, who was belieaded 
for his adherence to Henry VI. in 1463, 
being taken prisoner in the hattle of 
Hexham, left a natural son, Charles, by 
Joan Hill, who assumed the name of So- 
merset; and was patronized and pro- 
moted by Henry VIL. by whom he was 
made a knight of the garter, in the eigh- 
teenth of that reign. Soon after he 
married a great heiress, Elizabeth, sole 
daughter and beir of William Ilerbert, 
Earl of Huntingdon, Lord Herbert, of 
Ragland, Chepstow, and Gower. In 
514, he was created Earl of Worees- 
ter; and dicd 1526. Henry, fifth earl, 
was created by Charles I. Marquis of 
Worcester, 1642; he suffered greatly ia 
the civil wars for his loyalty, and died 
December 1646. His son, the secone 
marquis, had a great mechanical genius, 
and published * A Century of Inven- 
tious,” &c. He died 1667. Henry, his 
successor, was created Duke of Beau- 
fort in 1682: he refused to take the oaths 
at the revolution, and retiring, died 
1699, xt. 70. 
“ His present grace is sixth duke, and 
succeeded his father in October $803. 
He was born in 1766, and married 1791 
Lady Charlotte L. Gower, daughter of 
the iate Marquis of Stafford, by whom he 
has several children. His grace has se- 
veral brothers in the army. 
“ Female Descent.—Herbert, of Rog- 
land; Browne, North, Hastings, Russe}, 
Dormer, Capel, Noel, Berkeley, of 
Stoke; Boscawen. 
“Chief Seat.—Badminton, Glouces- 
tersbire, not far from Bath; where, and 
in Monmouthshire, his estates lie, 
“ Heir Apparent.—Uenry, Marquis of 
Worcester, born 1792.” 
The arms of the different peers are 
engraved in ood at the head of their 
respective articles. 
In Mr. Cayrey’s * Memoirsof Sir Tho- 
mas More, with anew Translation of his 
Utopia, his History af King Richard ILL. 
and his Latin Poems,” we have a work 
of no inconsiderable interest. Tn point 
of composition, Mr, Cayley has been 
more successful than in Sir Walter Ra. 
leigh’s Life; and, in point of documents, 
more hberal. In short, the life of so 
eminent a statesinan, and patron of let- 
ters, as Sir Thomas More, cannot fail, 
even by its own intrinsic worth, to come 
mand attention. 
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