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author of the magnificent portico of London University College, 

 the National Gallery, and of other important edifices in London. 

 He was latterly compelled by the declining state of his health and 

 by repeated attacks of the gout, to retire from his professional en- 

 gagements, though he did not abandon those studies which had formed 

 his delight and occupation from his earliest years. In 1837, he 

 published bis " Prolusiones Architectonicee, or Essays on subjects 

 connected with Grecian and Roman Architecture," which were 

 designed, in some degree, as a substitute for those lectures, which, 

 under other circumstances, he would have been called upon to 

 deliver, as Professor of Architecture, to the students of the Royal 

 Academy. During the last year of his life, though constantly 

 confined to his bed, and extremely weakened and emaciated by dis- 

 ease, he still continued his favourite pursuits until within a few 

 days of his death, which took place on the last day of August last. 



The Rev. Archibald Alison, senior Minister of St. Paul's Chapel, 

 Edinburgh, was born in 1757, became a member of the University 

 of Glasgow in 1772, and of Baliol College, Oxfqrd, in 1775, and 

 took the degree of B.C.L. in 1784 : he soon afterwards took holy 

 orders in the English Church, and was presented to several eccle- 

 siastical preferments by Sir William Pulteney, Lord Chancellor 

 Loughborough, and Bishop Douglas of Salisbury. In 1784 he mar- 

 ried tlie daughter of the celebrated Dr. John Gregory of Edinburgh, 

 with whom he lived in uninterrupted happiness for forty years of his 

 life. His celebrated Essay " on the Nature and Principles of Taste " 

 was first published in 1790, and speedily became incorporated into 

 the standard literature of Great Britain. Towards the close of the 

 last century, he became a permanent resident in his native city as 

 minister of the Episcopal chapel, Cowgate, and afterwards of St. 

 Paul's, where he was connected by congenial tastes and pursuits 

 with Dugald Stewart, Playfair, Henry Mackenzie, Dr. Gregory, and 

 the many other distinguished men who, during so many years, made 

 that beautiful and picturesque city the metropolis of British lite- 

 rature. In 1814, he published two volumes of sermons; and at a 

 later period, a very interesting memoir of his accomplished friend 

 the Hon. Eraser Tytler Lord Woodhouslee. Mr, Alison was a man 

 of very pleasing and refined manners, of great cheerfulness and 

 equanimity of temper, of a clear and temperate judgment, and pos- 

 sessing a very extensive knowledge of mankind. He was habitually 

 pious and humble-minded, exhibiting, in the whole tenor of his life, 

 the blessed influence of that Gospel of which he was the ordained 

 minister. All his writings are characterized by that pure and cor- 

 rect taste, the principles of which he had illustrated with so much 

 elegance and beauty. 



Edmund Law Lushington was born in 1766, at the lodge of 

 St. Peter's College, Cambridge, of which his grandfather. Bishop 

 Law, was master. He became a student, and afterwards a fellow of 

 Queen's College in that University, and attained the fourth place on 

 the mathematical tripos in 1787. After practising for some years 

 at the bar, he was appointed Chief Justice of Ceylon, a station 



