yer, 
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a the had done on er occasions, For his as- 
pain this occasion, he was complimented with 
a service of plate of the value of £300. The speech he 
delivere to the House was printed in the above-men- 
tioned year. | gs 2a toll 
Glover had now arrived at a of life which de- 
manded relief from the cares of business. He therefore 
retired to ease and independence, devoting himself prin- 
cipally to the exercise of private virtues and domestic 
duties, and to the pleasures of literature. He died at 
his house in Albemarle Street, on the 25th of Novem- 
ber 1785, in the 73d year of his age. Among other 
ipts, he left behind him,’ The Athenaid, a sequel 
midas, which was published in 1788. He also 
sequel to his Medea, which, however, has never 
been exhibited on the stage. 
. In his person and habits, Glover was a finished gen- 
tleman of the old school, slow and precise in his man- 
ner, grave and serious in his deportment, and always 
in the highest degree decorous ; but although his natu- 
ral jtemper was benevolent, he is said to have been at 
once irritable and violent, He was very strict in his 
moral conduct ; and although he was brought up in the 
erence of a dissenter, he attended the established 
ch. He appears to have been an accomplished 
scholar ; and it is evident from his life and writings, 
that his mind was much devoted to political subjects ; 
but he always avoided such topics of discussion m his 
own domestic circle. As a poet, Glover displays a cul- 
tivated mind, a poetical fancy, and a vigorous and har- 
monious flow of versification ; but he appears to have 
wanted that inventive imagination, and that higher spi- 
rit of enthusiasm, which give birth to the noblest pro- 
ductions of art. The chief defect of his Leonidas ap- 
pears to consist in the subject: the historical facts upon 
which the is founded, are too well known, and 
too sublime and affecting of themselves, to admit of di- 
latation or embellishment, without diminishing the im- 
pression made upon the mind by the simple and un- 
adorned recital. we 
Glover has been recently brought forward as a can- 
didate for the credit of the Letters of Junius. The hy- 
pothesis is not without some plausibility ; and there are 
certainly circumstances in his character and situation, 
which give considerable sup to his claim. But the 
presumptive proofs, we think, have not yet been array- 
ed in such order, or stated with naan | force, as to 
make the conjecture assume the appearance of probabi- 
lity. See Memoirs by a celebrated Literary and Political 
Character, London, 1814; and, An Inquiry concerning 
the Author of the Letters of Junius, with reference to the 
Memoirs, &c. London, 1814. (zx) 
._ GLOW-Worm. Several of the smaller animals are 
endowed with the remarkable property of emitting light 
from their bodies ee night advances, which becomes 
i ceptible on the approach of day): the creature can 
no be disti : frm the. myriads of beings 
it. mp genera of insects are known to be lu- 
minous in the dark, in which is included the genus Lam- 
ris of Linneus; the male, a winged animal of the co- 
pterous order, but the female is in general a worm, 
entirely destitute of wings, and so unlike the other, 
ss has been re- 
quired to establish its kindred. This is the common 
glow-worm, to which our attention shall be briefly di- 
. The Lampyris:noctiluea, or glow-worm, is about 
three quarters of an inch long, when full grown; dark- 
brown above, and yellowish-white below. It crawls on 
six feet, and its body is divided into eleven segments, of 
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which the last eight constitute the abdomen. The heat, Glow-wormh. 
which is very small, round, and black, is concealed 
the thorax, while in a state of repose. The eyes, side 
black, are large ; and the antenna, which are filiform, 
to the naked eye consist of eleven articulations, separa- 
ted by white rings. Neither wings nor their rudiments 
exist, and the animal advances ‘with a very sluggish 
motion, frequenting humid places, and living among 
the grass. Naturalists conjecture, from its conformation, 
that it is carnivorous, The male of this species; which 
is exceedingly rare, and which some of the most indus+ 
trious entomologists have never seen, is said to have 
brownish elytra:covering the wings; but the fernale is 
not only more numerous, but well known, from 
siting a cluster of eggs on twigs or straws; and the 
young animals pass through the state of a larva and 
nymph, between which there is less difference than 
among insects in general. 
The glow-worm, remaining in concealment through 
the day, crawls abroad at sight, when it. appears sur- 
rounded by a beautiful radiant light of considerable in- 
tensity, and of a mish colour. It is most. brilliant 
two or three hours before midnight; and an elegant 
and interesting spectacle is presented by collecting se« 
veral together in a glass vessel. More powerful emana- 
tions illuminate the animals; sometimes the light is 
suddenly extinguished, sometimes it shines at protract+ 
ed intervals, while the motion of the insects produces 
perpetual variety: but it always grows fainter and 
fainter, and at last» it almost totally disappears. The 
observer, in the course of his examination, discovers, 
that the exhibition and intensity of the light are partly 
under the controul of the glow-worm ;. that the place 
from which it emanates is in the last three rings of the 
abdomen ; and that it ceases entirely with the death 
of the animal, though a severed. portion will continue 
to be illuminated, and after extinction the light will 
at a moderate interval be renewed: 
The three rings, while illuminated, are of a pale yel~ 
lowish colour, and their internal surface is spread over, 
with a layer of a peculiar soft yellow substance, whose 
consistence resémbles paste. - The wholeinterior, how« 
ever, is not covered, as it is more or less deficient aleng 
the inner edges of the rings, where it forms an irregu- 
lar waving outline. We compare this substance to 
paste ; but, when magnified, it is found to be organised 
like the common interstitial matter of the animal's bo- 
dy, except that it is of a closer texture and paler yel- 
low ; and the segments of the abdomen, behind which 
it is situated, are thin and transparent, on purpose to 
expose the internal illumination. Several years ago, 
Count Razoumousky, a learned Polish naturalist, dis- 
covered that, besides the rings, there. were. luminous 
pee in the abdomen, giving out a more permanent 
ight ; and the ingenious experiments of Mr Macartney 
prove, that two minute bodies, endowed with this pro- 
perty, are lodged in two slight depressions in the shell 
of the last ring. By the microscope, these are found 
to consist of two saes, containing a substance similar to 
that lining the inner surface of the rings ; and the mem- 
brane composing the sacs is so strong and elastic, as to 
resume its figure after the contents are discharged. The 
light thence proceeding is less under the. controul of 
the insect than that of the luminous substance dissemi- 
nated over the rings: it is rarely distinguished even 
through the day, during the season that the glow-worm 
gives out light. The presence of these two bodies seems 
alluded to by Mr Waller, in the Philosophical Transac~ 
tions, soleng age as the year 1684, when speaking of those 
species of lampyrides, both male and female of which 
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