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Cliace, and liie Fair Matilda, wliirli Mr. 

 Warren's ,>-lK>pineii supplied liim witli — tlie 

 paltiy proiits from wliitli, were to be in- 

 creased to two millions sterling! At this 

 time Mr. Robert Hodgson, father to the 

 liiifhly respectable Mr. J. Hodgson, book- 

 seller, of this town, lived in Norlli-street. 

 Luke Wliite ivas in the habit of calling on 

 him, to get some of his workmen to patch 

 up the broken binding of the second-hand 

 purchase. To erase from the title-page 

 the word " vol.'' — to scrape out the same 

 at the end of the book — ^to mend its rrazy 

 joints — to )io!ish up its worn-out sides — to 

 yellow its edges, and to make it jiass upon 

 the less learned, in those matters, as a 

 complete work, " little used," is a portion 

 cf duty well known to the speculators in 

 library rubbish. We are to suppose that 

 Mr. White, with the aid of the bookbinder, 

 was not behind others in his trade. The 

 best and usual mode adapted to getting 

 off works of this description is, by auction. 

 There is then no time to examine into the 

 merits of what is put up, or to collale over 

 ils signatures ; " going, going," and as the 

 auctioneer tells his auditory, that the' like 

 advantage will never occur again, the 

 f;aping multitude " taking the ball oa the 

 first hop," and the book goes off at a good 

 value. Mr. White was also mifi at this 

 branch of his business ; and was in the 

 practice of selling by auction his pani- 

 j.hlets and imperfect volumes, in the public 

 streets of Belfast. On these occasions he 

 nscd to borrow a three-legged stool from 

 Mr. Hodgson, to elevate himself above his 

 literary congregatiim j and, as if the 

 smiling goddess, who led him throuah plea- 

 sant walks to a bank of wealth, had de- 

 termined to flirt with her own freaks, she 

 changed the three Itgs of the stool, in the 

 common street, to three seats in the Com- 

 mons' House! His future history is well 

 known. The knowledge he thus acquired 

 of public sales, procured him the situation 

 of clerk to an auctioneer, in Dublin. He 

 oj)ened a small book-shop, became eminent 

 in that line, sold lottery tickets, and specu- 

 lated in the funds. By stock-jobbing and 

 contracting for government loans, he was 

 enabled to bequeath, at his death, 30,000/. 

 a-year, and 100,000/. in money and securi- 

 ties. This remained after the enormous 

 sum of 200,000/.cxptnded upon elections,] 

 [The late Mr, liuwdich was born in June 

 1793, at Bristol, where his father was a 

 considerable manufacturer. At a very 

 eailyage he was sent to the Grammar 

 .School of that city, and soon gave the 

 utrongest indications of those talents which 

 <listingiii>hcd him in future life. He was 

 allerwards placed at a school at Corshain, 

 in Wiltshire, of high classical reputation, 

 and siibseijiK-ntly, for a short time, was 

 attached to one of the Halls, in Oxfoid, 

 alilioiigh, it is bi'lievcd, he was never re- 

 gularly matriculated. At an curly age, 



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Mr. Bowdich formed a matrii'tionial con- 

 nexion, and for some years remained resi- 

 dent in Bristol, participating in liis father's 

 business. A variety of circumstances, 

 however, and especially a distaste for 

 trade, induced him to seek a more con- 

 genial pursuit, a:id a near relative, filling 

 at that time an important situation on the 

 Gold Coast, Mr.'Bowdich solicited, and ob- 

 tained an appointment as writer in the ser- 

 vice of the African Company. He arrivetl 

 at Cape Coast Castle in the year 1816, 

 anil was shortly afterwards joined byJiis 

 wife, the cheerful participator of all liiS" 

 dangers, and the efficient assistant in bis 

 scientific labonis. It being determined 

 to send an embassy to the interior king- 

 dom of Ashantee, a service in which few. 

 were willing to embark, Mr. Bowdicli 

 promptly sought permission to lead or 

 accompany it. This mission was success- 

 fiil ill all its objects, and Mr. Bowdicli 

 fortunately achieved the distinction of 

 being, amongst the many who had devoted 

 themselves to the fearful object of ex- 

 ploring tlie interior of Africa, the olily one 

 whose laliours were crowned with com-, 

 plete success. Keturning to England to 

 comniiinicate the interesting and valuable^ 

 details, which even the imminent perils of 

 his situation had not diverted him from 

 coUeciiug, and to solicit the means of 

 more extensive and cflacient research, 

 Mr. Bowdicli was greeted by all who were 

 eminent in science or station, with the most 

 tiattering testimonials of the value of his dis- 

 co veries and acknowledgments of ths merits 

 of his personal exertions. He afterwards 

 repaired to Paris, endeavouring to obtain, 

 by his own industry, the means of pursuing 

 the object of his ambition, and, having at 

 length effected the necessary arrange- 

 ments, he took his dtparliire for Africa, 

 and there died a martjr in the cause to 

 which he had dedicated himself, leaving 

 an accomplished and amiable widow, witli 

 three children, totally unprovided for. 

 Ml. Bowdich was a member of many of 

 the learned societies of this country and 

 the continent, and, besides the very inte- 

 resting account of his mission to Ashantee, 

 was the author of several scientific works.] 



ECCr.ESIASTICAL PROMOTIONS, 



Kev. W. Gooch, to the rectory of Ben- 

 acre with Eastou Bavant, with Northales, 

 Suffolk. 



Rev. R. Prowde, to the rectory of Hin- 

 derwell, Yorkshire. 



Rev. T. Brown, to the lectureship of 

 St. Anilrew'<, IMymouth. 



Rev. H. Robinson, m.a. to the perpe- 

 tual curacy of the parish of St. Sepulchre, 

 Cambridge. 



Rev. T. Gronow, to the perpetual cu- 

 racy of Langnke, Olamorganshirc. 



Rev. T. Wilkinson, to be a iniuor canon 

 of Carlisle Cathedral. 



Rev. 



