370 Biographical Notice of Haiiy. 
mediately satisfied by granting to the husband of his niece 
some little station in the department of finance. Wh 
could believe that a recompense so well merited as_ this, 
would disappear on the first political change, and that the 
friends of Haiiy should be able to obtain no other reply to 
their solicitations, than that ‘ there was no connection 
between the public contributions and crystallography.” 
This trial was not the only one which this fies! 
savant had to support. A short time afterwards, the state 
of the finances occasioned him to lose a pension which he 
could badly dispense with. His brother who had been 
invited to Russia to spread a knowledge of the method of 
instructing the blind, returned from that country without a 
fulfilment of any of the promises that had been made him, 
and in a state of health so enfecbled as to render him a 
charge to his family. It was thus that towards the end of 
his days, Haty found himself reduced to the same neces- 
sitous condition that he had more than once experienced. 
His religious resignation would have become of indispensa- 
ble importance to him, if his young relations had not con- 
cealed from him with he greatest care, the embarrassments 
of his worldly affairs. The less he had it in his power to 
testify his gratitude to them, the more earnest were they 
to bestow upon him every delicate attention. The love 
of his pupils, and the respect of all Europe contributed 
also to console him. Intelligent men of all ranks who 
came to Paris, were anxious to express their regard for 
him and almost at the close of his life, we have seen the 
heir of a great kingdom (the Prince, Royal of Denmark) 
take various opportunities of conversing with him at his 
bed side, and evincing in the most feeling terms, the inter- 
est which he took in his welfare. But the best support 
which he experienced in this period of trial, was, that in 
the midst of his glory and of his fortune, he had never, 
abandoned his college habits, nor those of his native vil- 
lage. His hour of rising, of taking his meals, and of going 
~ to bed, had never been changed ; he took every day near- 
ly the same exercise, walked in the same places, and even 
in his walks, found some occasion for the exercise of his 
benevolence. When he saw a stranger in difficulty with 
respect to the way, he conducted him himself or sent him 
a ticket of admission to the collections ; numerous are the 
