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which, with its mounting and the building which contains it, as well 

 as the publication of its elaborate description by the present Astro- 

 nomer Royal, he defrayed the entire cost. The recent appearance 

 of Sir John Herschel's Astronomical Observations at the Cape of 

 Good Hope, as he himself informs us in his preface to the volume 

 containing them, was owing to the destination by his Grace of a 

 large sum in aid of their publication. In his own county, and 

 through the whole extent of his vast territorial property, he stood 

 forward as the patron and supporter of every institution tending to- 

 wards public improvement ; and the general prosperity and advancing 

 condition of a tenantry more numerous and substantial as a body 

 than those probably of any landed proprietor in the British dominions, 

 bears honourable testimony to the enlightenment of his views and 

 his identification of their interests with his own. 



His death took place on the 11th of February of the current year. 

 It was sudden and unexpected, having been preceded only by an 

 attack of influenza, from which no ultimate danger was apprehended. 



Nicholas Carlisle was born at Stillington in the county of 

 Durham in 1771. His father married, first. Miss Elizabeth Hutch- 

 inson, an immediate descendant from Colonel Hutchinson, who de- 

 fended Nottingham Castle ; and, secondly, Susanna Shottom, to 

 whose father. Captain Cook, our celebrated circumnavigator, owed 

 his education. Mr. Carlisle was the son of the last-named lady, 

 while his half-brother, the late celebrated surgeon, Sir Anthony 

 Carlisle, was the fruit of the first marriage. 



After receiving the usual grammar-school education, Mr. Carlisle 

 entered the naval service of the East India Company, where he 

 amassed a considerable sum of money, most of which he expended 

 as joint housekeeper with his brother, to whom he was much attached, 

 and whom he thus assisted at the commencement of his professional 

 career. 



In the year 1807, he was elected a Fellow of the Society of Anti- 

 quaries, and in the same year succeeded to the office of one of its 

 Secretaries, from which he retired a few months only before his 

 decease. 



In 1808, he commenced his Topographical Dictionary of England, 

 Scotland and Ireland, and completed it in six volumes 4to in 1813. 



In the year 1814, he became a Member of the Royal Society, and 

 in 1815 a Member of the Irish Academy. 



In 1818, he was appointed Secretary to the Committee of Educa- 

 tion ; and in 1835, he became one of the Commissioners for inquiring 

 into the state of the public charities. 



For his various publications, and more especially for his laborious 

 and long- continued, though unsuccessful, attempts to establish pro- 

 fessorships of the English language in various foreign Universities, 

 he was rewarded by orders from several courts. Among these was 

 the Order of Hanover, and that of the Iron Crown of Italy, bestowed 

 on him by the Emperor of Austria. 



He assisted in drawing up returns to Parliament on the state of 



