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fOn Tuesday, May oth, at lis house in Mer- 
' ¥lon-square, Patrick Plunket, esq. M. D. 
In this excellent man and distinguished phy- 
Sician Society has sustained a loss which wiil 
be widely felt and deeply lamented—Jong ad- 
mired for his talents, and beloved for his vir- 
tues, he has passed through life with a respect 
to be equalled.only by the sorrow which ac- 
ecmpanies him the graye. His endow- 
ments as a man, a‘gentleman, and a scholar, 
were such as conjointly have fallen to the lot 
of few; yet the even and unassuming port 
with which he carried himself, and the dis- 
cretion and good sense which marked every 
particular of his conduct, were perhaps even 
still more rare. As an engaging and classical 
companion, he was unrivailed; cheerful in his 
temper, kindin his dispositions, and playful 
in his conversation, the-effusions of his fancy 
mever failed to exhilarate and to delight; 
whilst even in the liveliest. sallies of 
bis wit he was incapable of offending. 
Tn his friendship he was steady and unshaken 3 ; 
and in all the strong. points of character, in 
probity, in public spirit, in the general dis- 
eharge of duty, he was governed by prin-. 
ciples which could not swerve; by the 
powerful impulse of an honourable senti- 
ment, and by the strong sense of a moral 
and religious obligation, so that in his instance 
were to be found most happily, and uncom. 
monly blended, the amiable ana the entettain- 
ing, with the respectable and the serious, 
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€ Cum tristibus. severe. cum remissis jucunde,” 
wasin him not the result of artificial accom. 
modation, but the spontaneous growth of a 
benevolent sympathy. ‘These are some of the 
features of this valuable mah, which met the 
publiceye. But it was in the retirement of 
domestic privacy, that all his estimable qua- 
lities were most fully unfolded ; and the. few 
who had the happiness gt enemas an inter=. 
course with him, in those more secluded 
scenes, can alone sufficiently appreciate the. 
rare assemblage of qualifications which adorned 
his character. Happy is it for those intimates 
and relatives whom he so tenderly loved, and 
by whom he must be so exguisitely mourned, 
that under privations such as these, the 
very circumstances which heighten regret, 
at the same time minister consolation. 
The contemplation of departed worth brings 
with it a softened sorrow ; and from the re- 
flection, that.a beloved iriend -has lived and 
died without a stain, and is gone before to that 
place where uprightness shall meetits reward, 
and where all virtuous friends shall again be 
united, there springs up a melancholy pleas 
sure, that can enable the nfourner almost, 
whilst bending over the bier, to,exclaim, in 
the noble triumgh ef a Christian over the 
selfishness of g grief, ‘© O Death, where is thy 
sting 2? O Grave, where is thy Victory?” 
Lately, at Donaghmore, county of Done- 
gal, Miss Spence, daughter to the Rev. N. 
Spence. 
MONTHLY BOTANICAL REPORT. 
” IN our Jast Report, we erroneously stated, that the Botanist’s Repository had not been 
published for the'two preceding months; our bookseller, not having received the usual supply, 
concluded this to be the case: but we are happy to find, that he was mistaken, and hasten 
to Jay before our readers some account of the three last.numbers. 
No. 117 contains: Siparia spberica, from a specimen which flowered at Fonthill. This. 
is a very curious diadelphous shrub, and the more interesting, as it was from this species 
that Linneus established the genus. We doubt, however, if any of those which have been 
since added, really belong to it. 
Ceanothus /aniger, native of New Holland, communicated by Mr. Lambert, ae his 
eollection at Boyton. Justicia x/tida; from the same collection, to which it was introduced 
by Lord Seaforth, on his return from his government in the West Indies. Wabl remarks, 
that he did not observe the two sterile stamens in the: bottom of the tube ef the corolla, as: 
described by Jacquin; nor is there any appearance of such in this drawing, prior to which, 
there was no tolerable figure of this plant extant. 
Sida patens; anew species, communicated by Lord Valentia. it is a native of Abyasinea: and 
therefore a great curiosity, as the communication with that country from Europe is so very 
limited. Protea saligna. A valuable plate, as containing representations of both a male 
and female plant. No, 118 contains: : 
Magnolia auriculata; a species commonly known by the name of Fraser’s Magnolia. As 
an account of this tr ee, with a sort of figure, was given in Walter’s Flora Caroliniana, pub- 
lished in 1788, it is rather surprising, that no mention should be made of it in Martyn’s 
edition of Millev’s Dictionary. ‘Two figures of this Magnoliushave been lately published, 
the one in the Paradisus ered andthe other in the Botanical Magazine ; the latter 
drawn from the same tree as Mr. Andrews’s figure, which has, however, the advantage of 
being taken at the time the stamians were in perfection. 
Pultenza chcordata; frem the collection of Mr. Lambert. It is not improbable that 
this species may be sufficiently hardy to bear our winters sub dio, being a native of Van Die- 
men’s Island. Martynia diandra; this species has been long ago figured by- Ehret, and 
since by. Jacquin in his Hortus Schoenbrunnensis. It was also communicated by Mr. Lambert. 
Lithospermum 
