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M. Salvador's later works were : " Jesus Christ 

 and His Doctrine," 1838, 2 vols., 8vo; "His- 

 tory of the Roman Rule in Judea, and the De- 

 struction of Jerusalem," 1846, 2 vols., 8vo. 

 "Paris, Rome, Jerusalem; or, the Religions 

 Question of the Nineteenth Century," 2 vols., 

 1859. 



March 18. GlESEBRECHT, LlJDWIG, Ph. D., 



a distinguished German poet and historian ; 

 died in Germany in his 81st year. 



March 20. CHUECH, Sir RICHABD, G. C. H., 

 a British officer in the Greek service, and de- 

 servedly called the Liberator of Greece; died 

 at Athens at the age of 88 years. He was 

 born in County Cork, Ireland, in 1785, entered 

 the British army in 1800, served at Ferrol, 

 Malta, and in Egypt, and then passed into the 

 service of the King of Naples, and was severe- 

 ly wounded at Capri. In 1811 he raised a 

 Greek corps, and was again seriously wound- 

 ed at Stelleman. He became lieutenant-colo- 

 nel in the British Army in 1812, was created 

 0. B. in 1815, knighted in 1822, aud made G. 

 C. H. in 1837. Early in the Greek Revolution 

 Sir Richard was appointed by the Greek Na- 

 tional Assembly commander -in-chief of the 

 land forces, aud at once commenced operations 

 against Athens ; bat owing to internal dissen- 

 sions in bis army, he was obliged for some 

 time to carry on a guerrilla warfare. After the 

 victory of Navarino, he invaded Acarnania 

 with 5,000 men, and occupied nearly the en- 

 tire province. In 1828 he compelled Eeschid 

 Pasha to retreat, and the following year made 

 himself master of the Ambracian Gulf, and 

 blockaded and captured Preveso May 17, 1829. 

 On the conclusion of peace, Capo d'Istrias, a 

 Greek political leader, was preferred to Sir 

 Richard as the President of the Republic, and 

 Sir Richard retired to Argos, and lived in se- 

 clusion, having sent in his resignation to the 

 National Assembly. After tlie assassination 

 of Capo d'Istrias, in 1831, he was again called 

 to the command of the army, and for a time 

 was a terror to the politicians of Athens. 

 After the coronation of Otho, he was appoint- 

 ed a Councillor of State, and subsequently a 

 member of the Senate, in the deliberations of 

 which he continued to take an active part. He 

 was the author of but one work: "Observa- 

 tions on an Eligible Line of Frontier for 

 Greece," London, 1840. 



March 27. GUICCIOLI, TERESA GAMBA, 

 Countess, a notorious, but in early life very 

 brilliant and beautiful Italian woman, the 

 daughter of a Romagnese nobleman, and mar- 

 ricil to a wealthy but aged Italian count, 

 whom she forsook to become the mistress of 

 Lord Byron; died in Rome, aged 72 years. 

 She had married the Count Guiccioli at the age 

 of seventeen, just after coming out of a convent, 

 and when, a year later, she met the poet, she 

 was in the zenith of her beauty, highly ac- 

 complished, and like many of her country- 

 women, extremely indiscreet. Both parties 

 were averse to an introduction, which was 



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brought about by the Countess Benzoni, at 

 Venice, in the spring of 1819; but, once in- 

 troduced to each other, they met every day, 

 and Count Guiccioli being banished from the 

 Tuscan states, whither they had removed, Lord 

 Bja-on took the countess, and her brothers, 

 the Counts Gamba, under his protection ; first 

 at Pisa, and afterward at Genoa, This liaiton 

 continued till 1823, when Byron went to 

 Greece, whither the Counts Gamba followed 1 

 him, but the countess did not. In 1851 she 

 was married to the Marquis de Boissy, a 

 wealthy but eccentric French nobleman, and 

 senator, who died in 1866. In 1869 she pub- 

 lished a narrative entitled " My Recollections 

 of Lord Byron, and those of Eye-witnesses of 

 his Life," a very dull book, provoked, possibly, 

 by Mrs. Stowe's " True Story of Lady Byron." 

 The countess manifested no consciousness of 

 any immorality in her relations with Lord 

 Byron. 



March 28. BELL, General Sir WILLIAM, 

 K. C. B., a brave and veteran officer of the 

 British Army, colonel-commandant of the Roy- 

 al Artillery ; died in London, aged 84 years. He 

 entered the army, in the Thirty-fourth regi- 

 ment, in March,1811, and served under the Duke 

 of Wellington in almost every battle in the Pen- 

 insula, until the termination of the war there, 

 in 1814. He was afterward for some years 

 with his regiment in Ceylon and the East In- 

 dies, and was an active participant in the first 

 Burmese War in 1826. In 1837-'38 he was in 

 Canada, and was actively employed during the 

 rebellion there; while in Canada he was bre- 

 vetted major-general. He subsequently served 

 in Gibraltar, Nova Scotia, the West Indies, 

 the Mediterranean, Turkey, and in the Cri- 

 mean campaign of 1854-'56, where he com- 

 manded the Royal Artillery in the battles of the 

 Alma and Inkerman, and was wounded at the 

 siege of Sevastopol. He had been connected 

 with the Royal Artillery regiment for more 

 than thirty years (besides long previous service 

 in the Thirty -fourth and Forty-fifth regiments, 

 where he was appointed, in October, 1868, 

 colonel of the One hundred and fourth regi- 

 ment Bengal Fusiliers). (The colonelcy of 

 British regiments is an honorary appointment 

 given to officers of high rank, the lieutenant- 

 colonel being the real commander. Nearly 

 all the generals, lieutenant-generals, and most 

 of the major-generals, in the Britis-h Army, are 

 colonels of some regiment.) From this regi- 

 ment he was transferred in 1867 to the Thirty- 

 second regiment, and subsequently reappointed 

 to his old corps, the Royal Artillery. General 

 Bell had received numerous war medals, with 

 clasps indicative of the severe battles in which 

 he had been engaged, as well as orders of 

 merit from his own and foreign courts. He 

 published in 18(57 "Rough Notes by an Old 

 Soldier during Fifty Years' Service," a very 

 interesting collection of reminiscences. 



March . HAUOHTON JAMES, an Irish mer- 

 chant and reformer, associated with Buxton 



