COLLBTTA COLMAN. 



who had generously befriended the brother (or 

 rather the father) poet, the wondrous ballad tale 

 of " Christabel." In 1818, was published the 

 drama of "Zapolya." In 1825, "Aids to Reflec- 

 tion, in the formation of a manly Character, on the 

 several grounds of Prudence, Morality, and Reli- 

 gion ; illustrated by select Passages from our elder 

 Divines, especially from Archbishop Leighton." 

 This is a very precious manual. And to con- 

 clude the catalogue of his works in 1830 he pub- 

 lished a small volume " On the Constitution of the 

 Church and State, according to the Idea of each, with 

 Aids toward a right Judgment on the late Catholic 

 Bill." In the year 1828, the whole of his poetical 

 works, including the dramas of Wallenstein (which 

 hud been long out of print), Remorse, and Zapolya, 

 were collected in three elegant volumes by Mr 

 Pickering. 



The latter years of Coleridge's life were made 

 easy by a domestication with his friend Mr Gill- 

 man, the surgeon of Highgate Grove, and for 

 some years the poet deservedly received an annuity 

 from George IV. of 100 per annum, as an acade- 

 mician of the royal society of literature. Cole, 

 ridge contributed one or two erudite papers to 

 the transactions of this society. In the summer 

 of 1828, he made the tour of Holland, Flan- 

 ders, and up the Rhine as far as Bergen. For 

 some years before his death he was afflicted with 

 great bodily pain ; and was on one occasion heard 

 to say, that for thirteen months he had from this 

 cause walked up and down his chamber seventeen 

 hours each day. He died on the 25th of July, 

 1834, having previously written the following epi- 

 taph for himself: 



" Stop, Christian passer-by ! Stop, child of God ! 

 And read with gentle breast. Beneath this sod 

 A poet lies, or that which once seem'd he 

 Oh, lift a thought in prayer for S. T. C. ! 

 That he. who, many a year, with toil of breath, 

 Found death in life, may here find life in death ! 

 Mercy for praise to be forgiven fur fame, 

 He a-kcd and hoped through Christ. Do thon the same." 



lie was buried in Highgate church. He left 

 three children, namely, Hartley, Derwent, and Sara. 

 The first has published a volume of poems, of 

 which it is enough to say that they are worthy of 

 Mr Wordsworth's verses addressed to him at "six 

 years old. :> The second son is in holy orders, and 

 is married and settled in the west of England ; and 

 the poet's daughter is united to her learned and 

 lively cousin, Mr Henry Nelson Coleridge, the 

 author of " Six Months in the West Indies." This 

 young lady had the good fortune to be educated in 

 the noble library on the banks of the Cumberland 

 Greta, where she assisted her accomplished uncle 

 in translating from the old French the history of 

 the chevalier Bayard, and from the Latin the ac- 

 count of the Abipones, or Equestrian Indians of 

 South America, by the Jesuit Martin Dobrizhoffer; 

 both of which works were published by Mr Mur- 

 ray. 



COLLETTA, PETER, a Neapolitan general and 

 historian, was born at Naples in 1775. He early 

 applied himself to the study of mathematics, while 

 his classical education was not neglected. In 1796 

 he entered the military service as an officer in the 

 artillery, and was present during the disastrous 

 campaign against the French in 1798. He served 

 afterwards under the turbulent and short-lived re- 

 public, .without being either a demagogue or a 

 fanatic. His friends succeeded in saving him from 

 the proscriptions that followed. Being, however, 



dismissed from the service, he found employment 

 as a civil engineer in draining the marshi's near the 

 mouth of the Ofauto. When the French took 

 possession of Naples, for the second time, in 1806, 

 Colletta was reinstated in his nuik, and employed 

 at the siege of Gaeta, and at the inking of Capri. 

 He was afterwards sent by Munit, as Intendant, to 

 Calabria, where he remained two years. In 1812, 

 he was made a general, and director of the roads 

 and bridges. Two of the finest roads in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Naples were planned by him, and exe- 

 cuted under his directions. In 1813, he \\as 

 appointed chief of the engineer department. He 

 accompanied Murat in his two campaigns of LSI 4- 

 15, and after the reverses of the last, he was sent 

 by him to the Austrian head-quarters, where he 

 signed the capitulation of Cassalanza, by which 

 Ferdinand was restored to the kingdom of Naples. 

 He was continued in his employments by the re- 

 stored government, which he served with loyalty. 

 He kept entirely aloof from the plots and machina- 

 tions that brought about the revolution of IH^O. 

 During the short period of the constitutional gov- 

 ernment he was sent as captain-general to Sicily, 

 to restore order in that island, and was subse- 

 quently appointed minister of war : but the entrance 

 of the Austrians, and the overthrow of the consti- 

 tution, again and finally threw him out of employ- 

 ment, and drove him into exile along with many 

 others, on account of their liberal opinions. After 

 spending two years in the Austrian dominions, 

 where he was treated with respect and attention 

 by that government, he was allowed, on account 

 of his health, to return to Italy in 1823. He took 

 up his residence in Tuscany, and beguiled the te- 

 dium of exile, in his latter years by composing a 

 history of the kingdom of Naples, which forms a 

 most valuable addition to the stock of Italian his- 

 tories, and may be considered as a worthy continua- 

 tion of Giannone's history of Naples. It embraces 

 the period from the establishment of the Spanish 

 Bourbon dynasty on the throne of Naples, in 1734, 

 to the death of Ferdinand I., in 1825. Colletta 

 I died in November, 1831. 



COLMAN, GEORGE, " the younger," an English 

 dramatic writer, and in his old days " licenser of 

 plays," in which latter profession he was as remark- 

 able for the severity of his decorum as his own 

 writings were for their laxness, was the son of 

 George Colman, the author of the Jealous Wife, 

 and the translator of Terence, (for whom see body 

 of work,) and was born in London, 21st Oct. 17G2. 

 After having passed through Westminster school, 

 he was sent to Oxford, and afterwards to King's 

 college, Aberdeen. At Aberdeen, young Colman 

 published a little poem, entitled " The Man of the 

 People,'' the hero of which was Charles Fox. He 

 then finished a musical farce, in two acts, which 

 he called " The Female Dramatist," and trans- 

 mitted it to his father. This was brought out, at 

 the Haymarket, anonymously, on the benefit-night 

 of Jewell, the treasurer; but it was condemned. 

 Undismayed by this failure, he proceeded to the 

 composition of a three-act comedy. This was en- 

 titled "Two to One," and was the first of his pub- 

 licly avowed dramas. It was sent to town early 

 in 1783, was immediately accepted by his father, 

 but was not performed until the season of 1784. 

 Its success was very flattering, and it had a run. 

 He returned to London in Jan. 1784. In August 

 of the same year he went to Paris, in consequence 

 of an odd commutation of his father's design to 



