that he might become personally conversant with the treatment to which patients were subjected in the lazarettos of that cèlebrated city. Such an unwearied spirit of enterprise, and so intense a heroism in suffering, roused the most vivid feelings of admiration throughout all Europe. At home, subscriptions for a public monument to perpetuate his name were proposed, and liberally tendered, but the entreaties of his own modesty intercepted the fulfilment of the honour. "Have I not one friend in England,' he asked, 'who would save me from the pain of such a proceeding?' The design was therefore deferentially abandoned, but the money collected was laid at his own disposal for charitable purposes. announcement. Returning home soon after, he devoted two more years to ascertain the extent of improvement which had taken place in the various prisons, bridewells, hospitals, hulks, &c. &c., throughout the kingdom. The first part of the year 1789 he spent in methodising and printing his "Account of the principal lazarettos in Europe, with various papers relative to the plague, and further observations on prisons and hospitals." In this volume he communicated an intention of again leaving his country, for the purpose of revisiting Russia and Turkey; and, as soon as the contents were laid before the public, he proceeded to fulfil the As this was his last voyage, the view which he took of it himself may not prove uninteresting to the reader, for whom his words are here extracted. "I am not insensible," he observed, "of the dangers that must attend such a journey. Trusting, however, in the protection of that kind Providence which has hitherto preserved me, I calmly and cheerfully commit myself to the disposal of unerring wisdom. Should it please God to cut off my life in the prosecution of this design, let not my conduct be uncandidly imputed to rashness or enthusiasm, but to a serious and deliberate conviction that I am pursuing the path of duty; and to a sincere desire of being made an instrument of more extensive usefulness to my fellow-creatures, than could be expected in the narrow circle of retired life.” If we connect the solemnity of this passage, with the fatality that ensued, we shall feel almost justified in asserting that a presentiment of the future was impressed upon his mind when he wrote it. For the result he looked forward to with so much solicitude, speedily took place. Prompted by that benevolence which always urged him into the most hazardous extremes, he pe netrated as far as Cherson, a new settlement in Russia, which had proved fatal to thousands. At this remote spot, he engaged, with the activity of youth, in a series of experiments to counteract the insalubrity which afflicted the inhabitants; and amongst others, was induced to visit a young lady, who lay ill of an epidemi fever. But in his endeavours to recover her, he caught the dis temper himself, and, after years of exposure, fell a martyr to his own humanity. Prince Potemkin, the favourite minister of the great Catherine, no sooner heard of his indisposition, tha he despatched his private physician to his relief. All attentions, however, proved vain; the measure of his labours was numbered; and he expired on the twelfth day of his confinement. His body was interred in the garden of a French gentleman in the neighbourhood, and the grateful admiration of the Russian empire has since honoured the spot with a handsome tomb. In England, the event was announced in the Gazette, a compliment which had never before been conferred on a private individual; and all ranks concurred in sincere expressions of regard for the memory of a man, who, in the most essential points, usurps the praise of having been an ornament to human nature. John Howard, the philanthropist, was unquestionably one of the most extraordinary characters who figure upon the volumi nous pages of universal biography. He travelled thrice through France, four times through Germany, five times through Hol land, twice through Italy, once through Spain and Portugal, and paid different visits to Denmark, Sweden, Russia, Poland, and Turkey. The cause of humanity has certainly been more benefited by others, and at greater sacrifices, but never upon terms more surprising, or a dearer price. He was admirably fitted for his labours; never indulging in the use of spirituous liquors, sparingly n of conversant with social pleasures, and ever habituated to a system rigorous temperance, he lived in the poorest countries with content, and passed through the most necessitous emergencies without irksomeness. With him the mind appears to have ever absolute master of the body, and thus he submitted to all hardships with alacrity, and underwent every mortification without been the smallest reluctance. Calm in temper, and most resolute in judgment, he was parsimonious to his own person, but unbounded in his expenditure upon others. To him money seems to have been only valuable in proportion to the good it enabled him to render his fellow-creatures. His talents were the most useful, but not shining; he wrote with much good sense, and but little elegance; for his education was deficient, and his acquirements in every respect attained by the force of inherent power and constitutional perseverance. In his principles there was nothing speculative; his opinions were founded upon accurate observation, and all his statements were the evidence of facts. His eagerness to ameliorate the wretchedness of the prisoner, never made him the less anxious to correct vice, and deter from crime: he reformed, while he punished; and insinuated the charms of order into the atonement of licentiousness. Discipline, strict, invariable, but gentle discipline, softened by every comfort which is compatible with the circumstances of the sufferer, was uniformly the doctrine he desired to inculcate. Wherever he went, his reputation was the highest: at home and abroad, state prisons and public hospitals were thrown open to his touch with grateful alacrity; the most exalted flattered him with respect, the lowest hailed him with veneration; and he moved about in his own department, by common consent, the most influential censor of the age. Burke pronounced a most splendid panegyric upon the motives and incidents of his life: it was introduced into a speech delivered at the election of Bristol, for 1780, and ran thus:-" I cannot name this gentleman without remarking that his labours and writings have done much to open the eyes and hearts of mankind. He has visited all Europe-not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, or to form a scale of the curiosities of modern art; not to collect me- dals, or collate manuscripts ;-but to dive into the depths of dungeons, to plunge into the infection of hospitals, to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain, to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt; to remember the forgotten, to attend the neglected, to visit the forsaken; to collate and con-pare the distresses of all men, in all countries, and edit the mis fortunes of the human race. His plan is original; and it is as full of genius, as it is of humanity. It was a voyage of discovery; a circumnavigation of charity. Already the benefit of his exertions is felt more or less in every country: I hope he will anticipate his reward by seeing all its effects realized in his own. He will receive, not by retail,, but in gross, the reward of those who visit the prisoner; as he has so forestalled and monopolized this branch of charity, that there will be, I trust, little room to merit by such acts of benevolence hereafter." EARL HOWE, K.G. THE monument erected by the gratitude of his country to perpetuate the reputation of this successful Admiral,* stands under the east window of the south transept in St. Paul's Cathedral. In front is placed a statue of his lordship, leaning on a telescope, and guarded by a lion couched, the figure of British strength and security. Above, on a rostrated column, sits Britannia with her trident, and to her right below, History appears in the act of recording the more prominent of his Lordhip's In the south aisle of Westminster Abbey, is a monument to the me mory of GEORGE AUGUSTUS VISCOUNT HOWE, and elder brother to the subject of this sketch. It consists of a large heavy tablet, surmounted by his lordship's coat of arms, affixed to a military trophy, before which a female gure reclines in the expression of grief. It was designed by B. Stewart, and executed by Scheemakers, but to neither the one artist nor the other is much praise due for the performance. The inscription details his Lordship's claim to notice with sufficient clearness. The Province of Massachusets Bay, in New England, Bearing date February the 1st, 1659, Caused this monument to |