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bly employed various eminent men to superintend 

 the publication of his manuscripts. The names of 

 Uterverus and Montalbani we have already men- 

 tioned ; and Dempster, a Scotsman, and Ambro- 

 sinus, completed the vast undertaking. These il- 

 ^strious Naturalists were liberally rewarded, and 

 .he whole expenses were defrayed from the public 

 treasury ; so proud was his country of her illus- 

 trious son. 



And notwithstanding all, this is the dying pauper, 

 miserably neglected, in the Public Hospital ! We 

 cannot believe it. We see no evidence for it ; we 

 see much against it. Sure there is enough of real 

 tragedy in life to spare the necessity of our seeking 

 it in the fictitious and the untrue. Our author 

 was poor ! but it was the voluntary poverty of a 

 man who knew no other use of money than to 

 supply the immediate exigencies of himself, and 

 those dependant on him ; who spent it faster than 

 he could procure it, though it was for a noble end. 

 He was poor, as it regarded this world's pelf; but 

 he was rich in the conviction that he had not 

 lived and laboured for nought in the interest he 

 preserved in the productions of his hand and his 

 head in the admiration of the wise and the good 

 of his own and of succeeding days. To his poverty 

 was added blindness. Nor can we wonder, when we 

 think of his great age and industry, " by night 

 and by day, during summer and winter." From 

 what we have seen, however, he would probably be 



