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ledge, were held at his house . He was a person of great simplicity 

 of manners, a warm and active friend, zealous in the promotion of 

 objects of charity and usefulness, and in the practice of his profession 

 singularly kind to the poor. 



The death of Lord Dover in the course of this year excited an 

 unusual degree of public sympathy and sorrow, from his youth and 

 high birth, his domestic virtues, and perhaps also his domestic hap- 

 piness, his unsullied public character, his cultivated taste for the 

 arts, and his liberal and enlightened patronage of artists, and most 

 of all from the promise of the highest literary distinction afforded by 

 his very interesting historical memoirs and other literary productions. 

 Such qualities and attainments, whilst they give dignity to all who 

 possess them, acquire a peculiar grace and lustre when found in 

 those classes of society in which the possession of rank and wealth 

 separate altogether the pursuit of knowledge and of fame from all 

 taint of a suspected union with the desire of mere personal aggran- 

 dizement. 



The Rev. Bewick Bridge, Fellow of St. Peter's College, Cam- 

 bridge, obtained the highest mathematical honours in his own acade- 

 mical year. He was for many years Mathematical Professor in the East 

 India College at Haileybury, and was the author of several elemen- 

 tary works on different parts of mathematics, which are remarkable 

 for their judicious adaptation to the capacities of ordinary students, 

 by the union of simplicity and fulness in the developement of first 

 principles, — a species of merit which those only can duly estimate 

 whose experience in education has shown it to be very rarely at- 

 tained. Mr. Bridge was a person of great benevolence, who devoted 

 his life and fortune to the promotion of objects of charity and pub- 

 lic utility, and whose purity of character and kindness of heart se- 

 cured him the affectionate attachment of a large circle of friends. 



Captain Lyon became first known to the public from his having 

 accompanied the late Mr. Ritchie in his journey into the interior of 

 Africa. His companion died at Moorzouk, and after encountering 

 the ordinary succession of sufferings and dangers which characterize 

 the melancholy records of African discovery, he succeeded in effect- 

 ing his return, and published a very modest and interesting journal 

 of his travels. He afterwards accompanied Captain Parry in the 

 second voyage to the Arctic Regions, as commander of one of the 

 two ships which composed that expedition. After his return -he was 

 chosen, from a knowledge of his enterprising and energetic charac- 

 ter, to conduct a party of English miners to Zacatecas and Bolanos 

 in Mexico, and to undertake the management of the first of these 

 mining establishments : and though he continued there for a short 

 time only, being compelled by domestic circumstances to return to 

 England, his services were of such a kind as to produce the most 

 important results. His Mexican adventures form a narrative full of 

 interesting, amusing and instructive details. He was afterwards 

 chosen by the Brazilian Company to superintend the celebrated gold 

 mines at Gongo Soco, in the province of Minas Geraes, which under 

 his management became so productive, as fully to. vindicate and re- 



