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manners, the customs, languages, and 
opinions of most of the European nations— 
was introduced to the first company—and 
had the honour of associating and convers- 
ing with the highest circles. 
Mr. Coxe was chaplain to his Grace the 
Duke of Marlborough; but we are not 
aware that he obtained any church prefer- 
ment through the influence of his grace’s 
family. When he had reached the age of 
forty, his college presented him with the 
vicarage of Kingston-upon-Thames ; which, 
two years afterwards, he was obliged to re- 
sign, on obtaining the rectory of Tuggle- 
ston-cum-Bemerton, near Salisbury. In 
1801, after he had passed his grand climac- 
teric, he was presented by Sir Richard 
Hoare with the rectory of Slousten ; and, 
nearly at the same time, Dr. Douglas, whose 
early years had been spent in a manner si- 
milar to his own, nominated him one of the 
six canons of Salisbury cathedral, archdea- 
con of the county of Wilts, and made him 
his own domestic chaplain. 
It was in the capacity of an author that 
Mr. Archdeacon Coxe obtained the greatest 
distinction. In 1799, he published Sketches 
of Switzerland; in 1780, an Account of the 
Russian Discoveries between Asia and 
America—to which are added, the Conquest 
of Siberia, and the History of the Transac- 
tions and Commerce between Russia and 
China; in 1781, an Account of the Prisons 
‘and Hospitals in Russia; and, in 1784, 
Travels in Poland, Russia, Sweden, and 
Denmark. In 1787, Mr. Coxe published 
a Comparative View of the Russian Disco- 
veries, with those made by Captains Cook 
and Clarke ; his Travels in Switzerland ap- 
peared in 1789; in 1790, he sent forth a 
Letter to Dr. Price, on his Discourse on the 
Love of.our Country, and Biographical 
‘Anecdotes of Handel and Smith; in 1792, 
an Explanation of the Catechism of the 
Church of England ; in 1793, an Explana- 
tion of the Service of Confirmation of the 
Church of England; and, in 1796, Gay’s 
Fables, with Notes. 
Mr. Coxe’s succeeding works were yet 
more important: Having, in 1796, been 
admitted by the Walpole family to inspect 
the papers in their possession, he published, 
in 1798, his Memoirs of Sir Robert Wal- 
pole, in three volnmes, quarto —a work which 
forms a> useful addition to the history of 
England. In 1801, having, three years be- 
fore, accompanied his friend, Sir Richard 
Hoare, on a journey to Wales, he published 
his Historical Tour in Monmouthshire, 
with Notes by Sir Richard C. Hoare, Barts 
In 4802, after examaining and digesting the 
contents of one hundred and forty folio vo- 
lumes, his Memoirs of Sir Robert Walpole 
was followed by his Memoirs of Horatio 
Suord Walpole. In 1807, he published a 
History of the House of Austria, from the 
Foundation of that Monarchy to the Death 
of Leopold, in three volumes, quarto ; and 
Memoirs of the Kings of Spain, of the 
Biographical Memoirs of Eminent Persons. 
[Avaust, 
House of Bourbon. In 1811, he became 
editor of the Literary Life and Select Works 
of Benjamin Stillingfleet, in three volumes, 
octavo. His latest production, the third and 
last volume of which was published in 1819, 
was the Life of John Churchill, Duke of 
Marlborough, in three volumes, quarto. 
Amongst Mr. Coxe’s works, we also find 
mentioned a Letter on the Secret Tribunals 
of Westphalia, addressed to the Countess of 
Pembroke ; anda Sermon on the Excellence 
of British Jurisprudence, preached before 
the Hon. Sir Francis Buller, Bart., and 
the Hon. Sir Nash Grosse, Knt., March 10, 
1799, in the cathedral church of Salisbury. 
Mr. Coxe was a man of much and various 
learning. As a historian, he is industrious, 
profound, and accurate; as a biographer, 
clear and discriminating, but eulogizing, 
perhaps, too much, the virtues, and soften- 
ing the vices, of his subject ; as a traveller, 
he is entertaining, moral, and instructive. 
Mr. Coxe was a member of the Royal 
Society, the Society of Antiquaries, and the 
Royal Society of Literature, of London ; of 
the Imperial Economical Society of St. Pe- 
tersburgh; and of the Royal Society of 
Sciences, at Copenhagen. At a meeting of 
the council of the Royal Society of Litera- 
ture, on the 14th of April last, one of the 
two royal golden medals, of the value of fifty 
guineas each, presented annually to indivi- 
duals distinguished by the production of 
works eminent in literature, was adjudged 
to Mr. Archdeacon Coxe, as thé author of 
many volumes of great historical research. 
At the succeeding general annual meeting. 
of the Society, on the 24th of the same 
month, this adjudication was announced 
from the chair, by the Bishop of Salisbury, 
as president. The reception of this honour 
was acknowledged by the aged and venerable 
author in a strain of much feeling ; and, 
within a month afterwards, his earthly ca- 
reer was closed ! 
THE BARON RAMOND. 
Ramond, from his earliest youth, seems to 
have been animated with the love of study- 
ing on the spot the beauties of mountain 
scenery ; for which purpose he frequently 
attained on foot the romantic summits of © 
the Vosgien mountains, and haunted the 
ruins of their ancient castles: indeed, such 
effect had these excursions upon his mind, 
that he there composed not only elegies, but 
even dramas. “ These imposing remains of 
the middle ages,” says M. Cuvier, “inspired 
him with the idea of painting the manners 
of those times in a series of continued dia- 
logue pictures, like the historical tragedies 
of Shakspeare. This work was printed at 
Basle, in 1780, under the title of Guerre 
@ Alsace pendant le grand Schisme d’Oc- 
cident. But, at an epoch when the classic 
rules bore unbounded sway over our lite- 
rature, it was no wonder that such a 
work was scarcely ever known beyond 
the chain of the Vosgien mountains. More 
