CHARACTERS. 
National Institute. Several of the 
French literati were admitted 
members of the Society, and the 
intercourse was rendered. more 
active by his own correspondence. 
In the same year he was himself 
nominated one of the foreign as~ 
sociates of the Institute, in addi- 
tion to the numerous honours of 
the same kind which had been 
conferred on him before. In the 
year 1803 he employed, and with 
complete success, the influence he 
had acquired as a man of letters, 
to preserve the university from 
experiencing any of those mise- 
ries which are the usual conse- 
quence of war; and on that occa- 
sion he received a very flattering 
letter from Berthier, then minis- 
ter at war, containing an assur- 
ance that the French army would 
grant special protection to that 
establishment. In 1806, when in 
the seventy-seventh year of his 
age, he undertook a tour to Arm- 
stadt, to see one of his daughters 
who had been married a short 
time before; but after this period 
his infirmities increased so much, 
that he could not endure violent 
motion, and in 1809 he resigned 
his office as professor of eloquence. 
In 1810 he was made a Knight of 
the Westphalian Order of the 
‘Crown, and died in the month of 
July 1812. After completing his 
‘Homer, he engaged in no work 
of any magnitude. He had once 
entertained an idea of writing a 
history of the university of Got- 
tingen, which was so dear to him ; 
but a few lines of it only were 
committed to paper. He, how- 
ever, laboured with more dili- 
gence for the Gottingen Society, 
and in particular the Literary Ga- 
zette. _ The numerous articles 
which he furnished to that work 
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453 
afford an evident proof that his fa- 
culties were still sound and vigo- 
rous. To Heyne nothing was so 
valuable as time. He rose at five 
o'clock in the morning, even in 
the latter years of his life; in his 
youth much earlier. The whole 
day was filled with writing, lec- 
turings, and other literary occu- 
pations, not, however, excluding 
domestic and social enjoyments; 
for he was by no means of a re- 
cluse or solitary disposition. Not- 
withstanding his great talents, 
and the celebrity he had acquired, 
he was not vain or conceited. 
He, however, set a proper value 
upon praise; but was much bet- 
ter pleased to be esteemed as a 
man than asa scholar. By his 
first wife he had one son and two 
daughters, one of whom married 
George Forster, son of the cele- 
brated. Dr. John Reinhold Fors- 
ter, and on _ his death became the 
wife of Mr. Huber. The fruits 
of his second marriage were two 
sons and four daughters. Heyne 
was a member of the Royal Society 
of London, and also of most of the 
learned societies in Europe. 
SMITHSON TENNANT, ESQ. 
[ A summary account of this es- 
timable person, distinguished by 
his chemical discoveries and gene- 
ral knowledge, will be found in 
our Chronicle, page 123. From 
an excellent piece of biography 
of which he is the subject, coms 
municated to. Dr. Thomson’s An 
nals of Philosophy, and printed in 
the Numbers for July and August 
1815, the following portraiture 
with which it. concludes is ex- 
tracted, } 
2F Mr, 
