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dictated by the climate, the season, nnd the nature of the disease, and 

 of which the boldness was justified by success. La Chaume himself 

 was attacked by the epidemic, and a great number of medical officers 

 of all ranks, as well as the nurses, were carried off by it. When peace 

 was concluded La Chaume returned to France, and was received with 

 distinction by the Comte d'Artois (afterwards Charles X.), who had 

 been a witness of his self-devotion and success at Algcsiras, and who 

 appointed him to bo one of his own physicians. Shortly afterwards 

 ho married, but in the winter of 1785-86 he found that, in consequence 

 of the rapid progress made by a pulmonary disease which had for 

 some time threatened him, it was necessary for him to go to the south 

 of France. Here he met with the kindest attentions from the officers 

 of the regiment which he had formerly taken charge of at Ajaccio, 

 who were at this time in garrison at Montpellier ; at which place he 

 died, October 28; 1786, at the early age of thirty-six. Thion de la 

 Chaume wrote but little, though he is said to have carefully noted 

 down every night whatever he had seen during the day worth record- 

 ing ; he nevertheless occupies a high rank in the list of army surgeons. 

 His writings consist almost entirely of articles in medical dictionaries 

 and periodicals, of which the most interesting is the account of the 

 epidemic at Algesiras, which was published in the second volume of 

 the ' Journal de Mddicine Militaire.' (Biographic M6dicale.) 



* THIRL WALL, RT. REV. CONNOP, Bishop of St. David's, was 

 born in 1797, at Stepney, in Middlesex. His father was rector of 

 Bowers-Qifford, Essex. He was educated at Trinity College, Cam- 

 bridge, where he took his degree of B.A. in 1818, and M.A. in 1821, 

 and of which he became a Fellow. He was called to the bar of 

 Lincoln's Inn in 1825, but withdrew from the legal profession, was 

 ordained, and became rector of Kirby-under-Dale, Yorkshire. In 

 1828 appeared the first volume of ' The History of Rome,' by G. B. 

 Niebuhr, translated by Julius Charles Hare, M.A., and Counop Thirl- 

 wall, M.A., Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge, 8vo, and they 



translated also the second volume, but the third volume, published in 

 1832, after Niebuhr' a death, was translated by Dr. W. Smith an 1 Jjr. 

 L. Schmitz. In 1835 Mr. Thirlwall published in ' Larduer'a Cabiuet 

 Cyclopaedia ' the first volume of his ' History of Greece,' and the 

 work was completed in 8 vols. 12mo. It commences with a series of 

 learned inquiries into the early history and antiquities of Greece, and 

 extends to the capture of Corinth by Mumiuius, B.C. 146, and the trans- 

 formation of Greece into a itoinan province. A few pages on the future 

 state of the country completes the work. In 1840 he took the degrees 

 of B.D. and D.D., and in the same year was created Bishop of St. 

 David's. He was formerly an Examiner of the University of London, 

 and is now Visitor of St. David's College, Lampeter. 



In 1845 Bishop Thirlwall commenced the publication of a new 

 edition of his ' History of Greece,' the plan of the work being consider- 

 ably enlarged, as well as the materials improved and expanded ' The 

 History of Greece,' by Connop Thirlwall, D.D., Bishop of St. Davids, 

 8 vols. 8vo, 1845-52. In 1851 was published ' A History of Greece, 

 from the Earliest Timea to the Destruction of Corinth, B.C. 146, mainly 

 based upon that of Connop Thirlwall, D.D., Bishop of 8k David's,' by 

 Leonhard Schmitz, F.R.S.E., Rector of the High School of Edinburgh, 

 12mo, London. In the preface to this work Dr. Schmitz makes the 

 following remarks : " Within the last fifty years more has been done 

 by both English and foreign scholars to elucidate the history of 

 Greece than at any former period since the revival of learning ; and 

 the results of all these labours are two English works on the history 

 of Greece such as no other nation can boast of." These two works, 

 he observes, " have been executed by Bishop Thirlwall and Mr. Grote 

 in a manner which throws all previous attempts of a similar nature 

 into the shade." 



Bishop Thirlwall has not written any other work of importance. A 

 few of his Sermons and of his Charges to the clergy of his diocese 

 have been published in a separate form. 



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