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Latin Dictionary, which he had 

 destined to form the consumma- 

 tion of his labours, and the depo- 

 sitory of the knowledge of Latin, 

 which t!,;; indefatigable study of 

 fifty years iiad conferred, suggests 

 an additional and abundant source 

 of regret that the intelligent pub- 

 lic must experience from the loss 

 of this valuable man. 



At Seville, in the seventy-fourth 

 year of his age, L. Geronimo de 

 UstarizTovar, Marquis of Ustariz, 

 Member of the Supreme Council 

 of War, Assistant of Seville, and 

 Intendant in Commission of Anda- 

 lusia. He was employed in va- 

 rious public situations for fifty 

 years with the approbation of his 

 country. When Intendant of Es- 

 tremadura, he introduced a va- 

 riety of reforms and improve- 

 ments, the eftects of which were 

 soon manifest in the increasing 

 prosperity of that province ; and 

 he had the satisfaction of seeing 

 many of his agricultural, financial, 

 and judicial regulations, adopted 

 by the royal cabinet, and extend- 

 ed to the whole of Spain. From 

 Estremadura he was promoted to 

 the Assistantship of Seville; but 

 unfortunately for his country, he 

 WIS removed, to make way for a 

 cousin of the infamous Godoy. 

 In reward for his public labours, 

 he was nominally honoured with a 

 seat in the council of war, but was 

 actually banished to Teruel ; 

 though the disgrace of this pro- 

 ceeding was attempted to be dis- 

 guised, by appointing him a com- 

 missioner of mines ii\ tiiat quarter. 

 Here he remained manyycars;neg- 

 lected by the court, but honoured 

 with the attachment, esteem, and 

 confidence of the Arragonese. To 

 his popular conduct, and thegene- 

 ral admiration of his civic virtues, 



is chiefly to be ascribed the patrio- 

 tic stand made by the Arragonese 

 in the present contest. This vene- 

 rable, but proscribed, reformer, 

 the instant the proceedings at Bay- 

 onne were known at Teruel, sallied 

 from his retirement, and with all 

 the ardour of youth, traversed 

 the province in every direction, 

 to rouse the inhabitants to resist- 

 ance. He recognized, and treat- 

 ed with the utmost respect, the 

 new authority of General Palafox, 

 and accepted a seat in the junta 

 of government. After ten months 

 of indefatigable service in Arra- 

 gon, he received a royal order 

 from the Supreme Junta to re- 

 sume the Assistantship of Seville, 

 and his functions as Member of 

 the Supreme Council of War. 

 His death, though naturally to 

 have been expected from his ad- 

 vanced years and increasing infir- 

 mities, was no doubt accelerated 

 by the incessant labours to which 

 he devoted himself since the 

 commencement of the contest 

 with France. Before, and after 

 his arrival at Seville, every inter- 

 val which he could snatch from 

 his official duties was employed 

 in digesting a plan of a new con- 

 stitution for Spain. His papers 

 are said to furnish, upon this sub- 

 ject, an inestimable treasure of 

 historical and political know- 

 ledge, applied to the exigencies 

 of his fellow-citizens with all the 

 discrimination of a statesman and 

 philosopher. 



Captain C. W. Boyes, comman- 

 der of his majesty's ship Statira. 

 When in his sixteenth year, he lost 

 a leg in the battle of the memo- 

 rable first of June ; and after a 

 constant prosecution of the most 

 honourable services, he was cut off 

 in the prime of life, after a short 



