The Sun.
London, England, 1824-09-23 00:00:00

LAST MOMENTS OF SCHILLER.

Feeling that his end was come, he prepared
himself to meet this stern and sudden call as became him ; not
with affected carelessness or superstitious fear, but with a quiet,
unpretending manliness, which, had marked the tenor of his
life. Of his friends and family he took a touching, but a
tranquil, farewell ; he ordered that his funeral should be
private, without any pomp or parade. Some one enquir-
ing how he felt, he said " calmer,"—simple and memor.
able words, expressive of the mild heroism of the man.—
About six he sunk again into a sleep, which deepened and
deepened till it changed into the sleep from which there is no
aivaking ; and all that remained of Schiller was a lifeless form,
soon to-he mingled with the clods of the valley.
Schiller's age was 45 years and a few months. Sickness had
long wasted his form, which at no time could bout of faultless
symmetry. Ile was tall and strongly broad, but untnuscalar and
lean : his body, It might be perceived, was wasting under the
energy of a spirit too keen for it : his face was pale ; the cheeks
and temples rather hollow; the chin somewhat deep and
slightly projecting; the nose regularly acquiline ; his
hair inclined to auburn. Withal his countenance was
attractive, and had a certain manly beauty. The lips
were curved together in a line expressing delicate and honest
sensibility ; a silent enthusiasm, impetuosity not unchecked by
melancholy, gleamed in his softly kindled eyes and pisle cheeks,
and the brow was high and thoughtful. To judge from
his portrait, Schiller's face expressed well the features of
his mind; it is mildness tempering strength—fiery ardour
shining through the clouds of suffering and disappoint-
ment, deep but patiently endured. Pile was its proper
tint ; the cheeks and temples were at best hollow. -There
are few faces that affect us more than Schiller's; it is at once
meek, tender, unpretending, and heroic. In his dress and
manner, as in all things, he was plain and unaffected. Among
strangers something shy and retiring might occasionally be
observed In him ; in his own family, or among his select
friends, he was kind-hearted, free, and gay, as a little
child. During his last 15 years he wrote his noblest works;
yet it has been proved too well, no day could have passed
without its load of pain. On a surgical inspection of his
body, after death, the most vital organs were found totally de-
ranged. " The structure of the lungs was in a great part de-
stroyetlfthe cavities of the heart nearly grown up, the liver had
become hard, and the gallbladder was extended to an extraor-
dinary size."—(London llfacazine.)

ACADEMIC FLATTERY.---.CLERMONT TONNETIE,
Bishop of Noyon, a man ridiculous for his attach-
ribirth, gave un annual prize to the
Frenchmeat
to high
Academy, to be bestowed on the best
poetical composition; but the only subject to be
treated of was the praise of Louis the Four-
teenth. After all the ordinary topics of adula-
tion had been exhausted, the ACademy pro:
posed, for the year 1700, the following text for
the prize-poem : 4! That the' King possesses all
the virtues in so eminent a degree, that it is im-
possible to jutiFe by which of them he is princi-
pally characterised." When this topic was shewn
to the king for his approbation, (for this was al-
ways done previously to its being given out ; and
his Majesty,moreover, sat to hear the piece recited)
enured as he was to tiattery,he felt that it was rather
too much, and put his negative upon it. The academy
then,by the advice of theßishop,letit_down a little

in the following manner: " Thaithe King unites in
his person so many great qualities, that it is diffi.
cult to judge which forms his principal cha-
racter." Even this qualified dose of incense
proved too strong for his Majesty's relish. The
Academy and Bishop, almost reduced to despair,
tremblingly proposed their third edition: " That
the King is not less distinguished by the virtues
of a man of worth, than by those of a, great
prince." This luckily did not offend the Mo-
narch's modesty, and he suffered it to pass with-
out further alteration.

GREENLAIID FISHERY.-With the exception of
two llull ships, all the ships at Greenland had
been at Shetland, or were known to have sailed
homeward ; anti, as their success was ascertained,
the calculation is an average of 53 tuns of oil to
each of the 30 fishing ships, one having been lost.
(Inverness Journal.)