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morning, in an after-dinner colloquy, or in a few hours in a country 

 house. 



Lord Macaulay was never married ; his strong domestic affections 

 were chiefly centred in his sister, happily married to his friend Sir 

 Charles Trevelyan, and her family. Her children were to him as 

 his own, and cherished with almost parental tenderness. As a friend, 

 he was singularly stedfast ; he was impatient of anything disparaging 

 of one for whom he entertained sincere esteem. In the war of political 

 life, he made, we believe, no lasting enemy ; he secured the un- 

 swerving attachment of his political friends, to whom he had been 

 unswervingly true. No act inconsistent with the highest honour and 

 integrity was ever whispered against him. In all his writings, how- 

 ever his opinions, so strongly uttered, may have given offence to 

 men of different sentiments, no sentence has been impeached as 

 jarring against the loftiest principles of honour, justice, pure morality, 

 rational religion. 



In early life he was robust and active ; and though his friends at 

 a later period could not but perceive the progress of some mysterious 

 malady (he was long harassed by a distressing cough), yet he rallied 

 so frequently, and seemed to have so much buoyancy of constitution, 

 that they hoped he might have life to achieve his great work. He 

 himself felt inward monitions ; his ambition receded from the hope 

 of reaching the close of the first Brunswicks ; before his last illness 

 he had reduced his plan to the reign of Queen Anne. 



His end, though not without warning to those who watched him 

 with friendship and affection, was sudden and singularly quiet ; on 

 December 28, 1859, he fell asleep and woke not again. 



He was buried, January 9, 1860, in Westminster Abbey, in Poet's 

 Corner, his favourite haunt ; and he was known to have expressed a 

 modest hope that he might be thought worthy to repose there with 

 the illustrious dead. He lies at the foot of Addison's statue, near to 

 Johnson, and among many other of our most famous statesmen and 

 men of letters. 



The following notice of Professor Powell is taken from the Report 

 for 1861 of the Council of the Royal Astronomical Society, of which 

 he was a distinguished member. 



"The Rev. BADEN POWELL was the eldest son of the late 



