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spee?he* respecting America during I/>rd North* admi- 

 nistration, afford* a striking example of political ineon- 

 stenrv. A circumi.tanc, I m the ' 



Sir Samuel Romilly ' vol. ii.. \>. 124 \ which proves that 

 till within n few month* of liis death I/>rd Thurlow was 

 Mill confidentially consulted l>.v members of the 

 fcmilr. On occasion of the first comnv r the 



charge* made by Lady Douglas against * of 



Wale in 1808, tlie p. ected 



that Thurlow should he consulted, and the particulars of 



.Mterview between him and Sir Samuel Romilly are 



lintr. 



died :i1 Brighton, on the 12th of Septem- 

 ber. 1826, after an illness of two years. 



1'H, a German architect of some 



note, was bom at Munich, November :<. 17*'.'. '"it did not 

 begin to apply himself to architecture professionally until 

 when he became a pupil of Professor Fischer's, and 

 had for hU fellow-students Gartner, Ziebland, Ohlmuller 

 [ihiLMi-LLKR], and many others who have since rendered 

 themselves more or less di- i. At the end of the 



foil,, :i previous visit to Home at the com- 



mencement of it h- joined Hubsch, Heger (died 1837), 

 and Koch, in a professional excursion to Greece, where lie 

 pent five months in studying and drawing the remains of 

 hml.i theomsome fc-.v nf which he published on 



hn return, with the title of Ansiehten von At hen vind 

 seine Denkmaler,' 18:23-0. He did not however confine 

 of the Grecian style, nor v 

 r of it as to have no relish lor any 

 other; on the cunt! nan style ol 



the time of I.t-o \. to l>e equally worthy of the architect's 

 attention, and to deserve, to lie far better, more faithfully 

 and tastefully, represented by menus otmgrwriafp than it 

 previously had been, lie accordingly joined with Guten- 

 sonn in bringing out a ' Samrnlung von Deukmaler,' &c., 



lection of Architectural Studies, and Decoral ions from 

 Buildings at Home, of the fifteenth and sixteenth centu- 

 ries/the first number of which appeared in !S2(i : but. 

 unfortunately, it did not meet with the encouragement it 

 deserved, aikl was therefore given up, when very little 

 progress had been made with it. The publication how- 

 ever was BO far advantageous to Thurmer, since it i 

 mended him to notice, and led to 



at the same time two different invitations, one from 

 Frankfort, the other from Dresden, to which la-t li- 

 the preference. He was there made professor-extraordi- 

 nary at the school of architecture, and in 1K12 was pro- 

 moted to be first professor of architecture, in which capa- 



he did very much for the advancement of the art am' 

 the improvement of taste. Though he has left \er\ 

 little executed by himself in that city, the only public 

 building in it entirely by him being the post-onV 

 though the ' Banptwache,' or guard-housi led by 



him, it was after Schinkel's designs . his opinions bad a 

 very beneficial influence. That he should have 

 few' opportunities for displaying his ability, is not very sur- 

 prising, nor doe- ' I'roin his reputation, since fie dii 

 not lone survive the completion of his first edifice : he iliei 

 November 13th. 1KJ3. while Maun- at Miinich. What hi 

 might have done, had a longer life been granted him. is 

 ritown by the number of designs he left, all more m- l< - 

 stamped by originality and artist ical feeling. Tliat the 

 grateful regard expressed for his memory and his talents 

 by hi* friends and pupils was not a mere temporary <-r!V 



. in proved by their ImMiiir erected a. bronze bust am 

 monument to him, ii: ie Academy <if Art*. 



-. LST. der Nru< . Morgenblatt, 183fO 



TlirUNKVSSKR /I'M Till UN. LK< INAK1). : 

 braled alchcmi-' <>loger, was horn in !.">: i ai 



where his father carried on the trade of a goldsmith. 1 1 

 wa himself brought up to this employment, but he > 

 obliged to leave his native place when 

 age, on account of having sold to a Jew a piece of cilt le:u 

 ire goW. He ftrrt went to England, t hence to France 

 and afterward* to (Germany, whc-i v he enlisted nmong th< 

 troops of the margrave of Brandenburg. The following 

 year he was taken prisoner : from that tun. ii. 

 military life, nml having visited the mines nn>! 

 Ctcrniany and the north of Kurope, he came t 



'irnberg, Htrasuburg. and Hnstmt/. H. 

 carried on the trade of a goldsmith, and made much money 



skill in the art 



tit end dif- 



I558 he went to 



ill, on account of his reputation I 

 ii' mining, he was scut for to tin 

 'rent mineral works. 

 I'arenz in Upper Innthal. ami 

 account in that place, as well as at 8t. 



' 



mted still more ' 

 lad so much confidence in him that he sent bin; 



-it land, the Orkney I 

 rhurneysser also visited the coasts <>; 

 Egypt, Arabia, Svria, and 1' 



Tyrol in 1507. Two years afterwards, at the request of 



ne prince, he apiin visited the mines of Hungary 



md Bohemia. Tlie publication of his works made him 



nne to go to Miinster and Frankfort on t! 

 which latter place he became acquainted with l ; 

 of Brandenburir. whose wife he cured of a dangerous ill- 

 ness, and v- ' -1 to attach him ; 

 hope that he might discover in ) ^omc unknown 

 mineral treasures. Thurneysser accepted the offi< 

 ])hvsieian to the prince, and accompanied him to Berlin, 

 where, from his skill in profiting by the prejudices and 

 weaknesses of his contemporaries, and from l>cing ac- 

 quainted with all the resources of charlatanism, he soon 

 succeeded not only in acquiring considerable wealth, hut 

 also in passing himself oft' for one of the most learned and 

 scientific men of his acre. At length however, by the 

 of others, and still more by his own imprudence, his d. 

 tions were discovered, and he was. in 15s!. obliged to leave 

 Berlin. He v.,nt to Prague. Cologne, and Home: and 

 after bavins thus led a wandering life for sonn- 

 died at last in a convent at < 

 in l.">'.(0. He was an advocate for the pret 

 of alchemy and uromaney, and his whole hi tlfat 

 of most similar characters is a proof of tlie infh 

 that may be acquired in an icrnorar.t 

 enterprising man, when he po- 

 tion above the generality of his contemporaries. 

 writings were numerous, hut of little worth, and tin 

 now very seldom looked into. The titles of twelve of them 

 .en in the Binffnijifiir .^fft^^ra^f, from which work 

 the preceding account is taken. 

 Till HOT/, or THUHo ^11 count;- in Hun- 



iii the circle on this side the Danube. It is 

 on the north by Arva. on the east In l.eiitan :<nd Su 1 

 the south by liars, and on the wi^t In 



Its area is 4-15 sipiare mi!i-s. and the population -J2.000 in- 

 hiefly Slowacs. of whom about two-thirds are 

 ians and one-third Roman Catholics, except about 

 T>00 Jews. ' This country is justly called a beautiful 

 den ' says the anonymous author of the description of 

 Hungary, Croatia, and Slavonia', for it is surrounded on 

 all sides" with lofty mountains. ;us with walls, within which 

 nature has been ' lavish of the mo.st beautiful scenery. 

 Tliis only two entrances in the northern part, 



through which the "river Waaf enters and Icavi 

 country. The first entrain - inountai'i- 



chailU called theGreat and the Little Fatra. and the other 

 it Fatra has two summits, the 

 StocV lii-'h. and the Tlmrocz Krivan. 'hJo 



The climate is cold, but healthy. Though the soil 



.- no superfluity of natural product!"- 

 pi-odi- 6, but nearly s'uificicnt corn !chicfl\ I 



imntion of the inhabitants: and so 

 much - that some portion can K 



.if different kinds abounds, especially lap-. 

 1 peas. Potatoes are extensively cultivated, and 

 also a species of turnip peculiar to this country. Tlie in- 

 habitants collect a considerable quantity of a balsam from 



tin- m 



and extolli --ing great medicin. 



cvportcd to <;,>ni y, and even toAmei. 



numerous I' '-lieep on the lin "] the 



numerous MiUiv-. ( if i:isi.s-ji acics of productive land, 

 only <i-. I i/ ivered 



-. The chief town is St. Martin, on the river 

 Thurocz, which ha.- m inhabitants. It lias a 



handsome: count} -hall, and Ii Itomnn Catholic 



, ,- Blumculiacli. <> 



TIH - KK.] 



THURSO. 



