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jifstice, and lie deserves great praise for 

 Laving collected, in tlie twenty-fo'.ir 

 volumes of the Necrology, so much inter- 

 esting information respectng important 

 public ciiaraeters, which, hut for him, 

 would never have been handed down to 

 poslerity. After he went to iVFunich, it 

 was not possible for him to spare time to 

 continue this work. While he was en- 

 gaged in it, he yet found leisure for many 

 interesting archaeological labours. After 

 the death of the much lamented Duke 

 Ernest, which was preceded by that of 

 several of Schlichtegroll's best friends, he 

 felt himself less happy in Gotha,and there- 

 fore gladly accepted an invitation to go to 

 Munich. The learned Frederick Ja- 

 cobi had gone, in 1806, from Eiilin to 

 Munich, on the invitation of his friend, 

 Privy Counsellor Von .Schenk, and was 

 placed by the King of Bavaria, at 

 the head of the newly organized and 

 extended Bavarian academy. Jacohi, 

 who, from his personal knowledge of 

 Schlichtegroll, was thoroughly convinced 

 that he was of all men peculiarly qualihed 

 for the office of secretary, found men of 

 influence ready to adopt his views, and 

 Sehlichtegroll was accordingly invited to 

 Munich in 1307. There he found the 

 celebrated Wiheking Hamberger, formerly 

 librarian at Goiha, and the learned 

 Jakobs. A circle of enlightened and en- 

 ergetic men was formed round the Chris- 

 tian moralist, or elegant scholar Jacohi, 

 whose house was for years the centre of 

 the most delightful, instructive, and po- 

 lished society. We cannot enter into the 

 details of the extensive labouis to which 

 he dedicated himself with indefatigable 

 perseverance. His merit was d\ily appre- 

 ciated and rewarded by the king, and by 

 liis Hiiihncss the Crown Piince of Bava- 

 ria. He was himself always ready to 

 afford as>istance to those who needed it; 

 among others, he took great interest in the 

 success of Alvys Senncfclder, the in- 

 ventor of lithography. His constitution, 

 however, yielded at last to his iiuremittcd 

 labours. Thus, as far back as iVlay, 1820, 

 he wrote to an old friend : " The incessant 

 labours which engage me, tie unresisting 

 obligingness whicli can decline nothing, 



Abroad. ; ; 



even what could not be imposed on if^, 

 the inconveniences of advancing age ; all 

 this frequently makes me weary and tire(f 

 of life, notwithstanding the cordial inter- 

 est which I take in the times, which, in 

 spite of all eccentricities, 1 most seriously 

 take to be the best, the most reasonable, 

 the most enlightened, and the most active, 

 in the memory of man. For I too believe 

 in a truly Catholic infitUible church of all 

 languages and all confessions." This sense 

 of decaying strength induced him, in 18^1, 

 to request permission to resign the office of 

 s< cretaiy-general. His chief disorder of 

 late years was in tile bladder and kidneys,, 

 whicli undermined his otherwise strong 

 constitution. In his domestic circle he 

 was eminently happy. An affectionate 

 and truly accomplished wife, who under- 

 stood and entered into all his views, was 

 for thirty years his constant and tender 

 supporter. He saw his sons, after they 

 served with distinction in the late war for 

 the deliverance of Germany, placed in 

 honourable offices in the service of the- 

 state. He married his daughter, Antonia, 

 into one of the first families of Munich ; 

 and his favourite daughter, Sarah-Maria, 

 to a distinguished man of letters, and 

 member of the academy. In the course 

 of last summer he went, by the advice of 

 his physicians, to take the waters at 

 Kissmgen, whence he made an excursion 

 into the Saxon principalities, and paid a 

 visit to Gotha, his native city. On his 

 return, he scarcely perceived how much he 

 was changed ; even in his sick room he 

 was still active to fulfil the claims of duty 

 and friendship, and composed, on the mar- 

 riage of the amiable Princess Amelia with 

 Piince John of .Saxony, the poem ' Joy 

 and Giiel,' which is printed in the 

 Journal Flora, of November, 1822, re- 

 taining, to the last moment, the full and 

 unclouded possession of his mental facul- 

 ties, not perceiving the approach of the 

 Genius with the inverted Torch. He was 

 carried off by an apoplectic stroke on the 

 4th of Ueccniber, l82Si, and his obsequies 

 were performed in tlie Protestant church 

 on the 8ih of the same month, on which 

 day he would have completed bis 58th year. 



TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



We are still expecting Neictoii's House, as promised. The next analysis of publica- 

 tion xvill he the House of Lords. Benboiv's pamphlet, relative to the horrid abuses 

 171 a lunatic asylum at Hoxton, has arrested our altentimi, as we trust it will that of 

 the Legislature ; but its tipics are above the powers of our court of criticism, and tee 

 refer them to hiffher and more efficient authorities. The Stephensiana will be 

 resumed jm aur next ; and, we hope to be able to continue a series of article*, under the 

 head '''' Topic of the flloiUh." 



EiiRATUM.— Page 313 of our last Number, line 22 from top, for '^ Funds," read 

 " Tinuls.'' 



