MEMOIR OP THOMAS BEWICK. 5L 
with several other engravings. But his children, 
finding, probably, that much related to events and 
circumstances that principally concerned themselves, 
and family affairs, which, however interesting to 
themselves, might not he so to the public, or might 
subject them to the imputation of vanity, have, with 
a delicacy that cannot but he respected, declined its 
publication. 
NOTE. 
As we conceive all will feel an interest in the cha- 
racter and history of this extraordinary man ; we 
make no apology for introducing here some memo- 
randa of his more familiar hours, contributed to 
Loudon’s Magazine in 1829-30, shortly after his 
death, by his personal friend, John F. M. Dovaston, 
Esq. A. M. 
“ The brief and desultory remarks I am about to 
incorporate amid the congenial pages of your Maga- 
zine of Natural History, arise from a fond and fertile 
memory of much conversation, and a long and 
frequent correspondence, with my excellent and 
beloved friend. 
“ The first time I had a personal- interview with 
the venerable Bewick, was at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 
on Wednesday, October 1, 1823, after perambulat- 
ing the romantic regions of Cumberland and West- 
moreland with my friend, John E. Bowman, Esq. 
F. L. S. We had been told that he retired from his 
