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An engraving from this picture, or rather 
from a part of it, has found its way into the 
windows of our print-shops, in which some 
of the vices of the French school are suffi- 
ciently discernible. It reminds one of 
JEneas bearing away Anchises from the 
flames of Troy; and of an old book-print, 
indeed, of that very subject; only that the 
money-bag supplies the place of the House- 
hold Gods. 
REVEREND ROBERT BLAND. 
Mr. Bland, the son of a physician in 
London, was born in the year 1779, and 
educated at Harrow School, and at Pem- 
broke College, Cambridge. He went 
from thence, after taking a Bachelot of Arts’ 
degree, back to Harrow, as an assistant- 
master of that scliool, having entered into 
the church, and engaged in clerical duties, 
about the same time. 
At Harrow, he continued in his office 
several years, and on resigning that situa- 
tion, was engaged for a time as reader and 
preacher at some of the London chapels. 
He was subsequently appointed minister 
to the English church at Amsterdam, 
whither he proceeded, on that occasion. 
The circumstances of the times not.per- 
mitting him to fulfil the objects of his ap- 
pointment, he returned to England, and 
accepted the curacy of Prittlewell, in Essex ; 
where he settled on his marriage with Eliza, 
third daughter of Archdale Wilson Taylor, 
Esq., in the year 1813. He removed, early 
in the year 1816, to the curacy of Kenil- 
worth, in Warwickshire, where he was also 
employed in the education of young men 
for the Universities. He died at Leaming- 
ton, on the 12th of March, 1825, leaving a 
wife and six young children to lament his 
loss. 
Mr. Bland was a very accomplished 
scholar, both in the learned languages and 
in the French and Italian. His character 
as an instructor of young men, in the clas- 
sies, stood high among his contemporaries ; 
and the attainments, upon which that cha- 
racter was founded, were increasing and 
heightening as he advanced in life. Well- 
grounded, from the first, in the grammatical 
knowledge of Greek and Latin, he ex- 
panded and strengthened that information, 
in his later years, by the careful study, in 
their best editions, of the particular works 
upon which he purposed to be employed 
with his pupils. 
The general improvement in the exami- 
nations at our universities, and the corres- 
ponding stimulus given to the studies at our 
public schools, acted naturally as an incite- 
ment to his emulation in these respects ; 
and his exertions and native ability fully 
kept pace with the progress of learning 
around him. 
His MS. notes, which he was in the 
habit of putting down on the margins of a 
few favourite authors, prove the care with 
which he had studied Livy; and the same 
Obituary of the Month, 
{May I, 
remark applies to Horace, into whose Gre- 
cisms, and other “ curious felicities,’’ he 
was very fond of inquiring. Latterly, in- 
deed, he became much interested in general 
etymological pursuits ; and showed great 
ingenuity in tracing derivations through 
various languages. 
He was author of several publications 
which have been held in considerable esti- 
mation. Among these may be enumerated 
—‘ The Four Slaves of Cythera,” a Ro- 
mance in ten cantos, 8vo. Longman, 1809. 
“ Edwy and Elgiva,” and “ Sir Everard ;”” 
two tales, 16mo., 1808. The same, with 
other tales and poems, 8yvo., 1809. Col- 
lections from the Greek Anthology, and 
from the Pastoral, Elegiac and Dramatic 
Poets of Greece, évo. Murray, 1813 (in 
which the articles distinguished by the sig- 
nature B. are his own). Many of the 
translated pieces in this work are contained 
in a smaller previous publication, entitled 
“ Translations,” chiefly from the Greek 
Anthology, with Tales and Miscellaneous 
Poems,”’ small 8vo., Phillips, 1806. He 
published also a manual of instruction, in 
the composition of Latin verse, entitled 
“ Elements of Latin Hexameters and Pen- 
tameters,’’ which has reached a fourth 
edition. Mr. Bland was a contributor, at 
different periods of his life, to some of our 
critical works; he translated, also, some 
French publications of considerable length. 
Some of his sermons were yery eloquent, 
and his fine voice gave them full effect in 
the delivery. } 
He was most highly valued where he 
was best known ; and, in the bosom of his 
family, it may be with truth affirmed (in 
his hours of health and peace), that it was 
impossible even to imagine a more affec- 
tionate husband and father—a kinder or 
sincerer friend. His conversation was often 
richly amusing, and had a vein of peculiar 
pleasantry—a sort of overflowing hyperbo- 
lical irony—as original in its effect as harm- 
less in its application. He was, in a word, 
in his social moments, playful and good- 
humoured in its extreme. His charity to 
the poor extended always as far as his 
means, and not unfrequently farther; and 
his considerate kindness to his servants has 
caused a regret for his loss. 
M. DE PELTIER. 
LATELY, in Paris, M. de Peltier, the 
author of several political pamphlets.— 
Although, at first, professing Republican 
principles, during the Revolution, as he has 
himself allowed, in some of his writings, 
published in England ; he soon joined him- 
self with Champetznec and Rivarol, and, in 
concert with them, published the “ Acts of 
the Apostles,’ a periodical work, principally 
directed against the measures of the Con- 
stituent Assembly. Obliged to quit France 
after the fatal 10th of August, in which 
he asserted that he took an active part, 
he fled to England, and settled in Lon- 
don, 
