370 Biographical Notice of Haiiy. 
m . satisfied by granting to the husband of his niece 
nee tit station in the department of finance. Who 
could believe that a recompense so well merited as this, 
would disappear on the first political change, and that the 
friends of Haiiy should be able to obtain no otber reply to 
their solicitations, than that ‘* there was no connection 
between the public contributions and crystallography.’ 
his trial was not the only one which this ates 
savant had to support. A short time afterwards, the state 
of the finances occasioned him to lose a pension which he 
ene, badly dispense with. His brother who had been 
nvited to Russia to spread a knowledge of the method of 
saihiucting the blind, returned from that country without a 
pees of any of the promises that bad been made him, 
in a state of health so enfecbled as to render him a 
Sane to his family. It was thus that towards the end of 
his days, Haily found himself reduced to the same neces- 
sitous dh eee that he had more than once experienced. 
ious resignation would have become of psncnees 
ble i Timpani to him, if his young relations had not c 
cealed from him with the greatest care, the cabetenmbe 
of his worldly affairs. The less he had it in his power to 
testify his gratitude to them, the more earnest were they 
to bestow upon him every delicate Sores The love 
of his pupils, and the respect of all Europe contributed 
also to console him. Intelligent men of all ranks who 
came to Paris, were anxious to express their tena for 
him and almost at the close of his life, we have seen the 
ae ofa great kingdom (the Prince Royal of Denmark) 
ous _ opporgnnilies of conversing with him at his 
ncing in the most feeling terms, the inter- 
Me in his welfare. But the best sup 
which he expopenced in this period of trial, was, that in 
the midst of his glory and of his fortune, he had never 
abandoned his college habits, nor those of bis. native vil- 
lage. His hour of rising, of falice his pera and of going 
to bed, had never been changed ; every day near~ 
2 same exercise, walked int 
walks, found some occasion | 
; the way, he conducted him himeelf or ¢ x 1 
iexel of admis sion to the collections ; _humerons 
lence. When he saw a stranger in difficulty with | 
