The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-03 00:00:00

TflEl LATE SIR A. COOPER.

For many months previous to his late illness, Sir Artley
Cooper had occasionally experienced knat dyspncea, up3n
the slightest exertion ; and it had been observed by his
friends that the peculiarity of his complexion bespoke some
serious impediment to the circulation. It was not, hew
ever, till about six weeks before his death that he found
difficulty in assuming the recumbent position; and about
that time he began to pass the greater part of his nights in
the a-m-chair, railer than attempt to lie down. He still
continued to see a few patients during the day, both at
home and at their own houses. Ho now became the sub-
ject of frequent cough ; which was immediately brought on,
if he attempted to recline. The gout, cf which he had for
several years experienced periodical attacks, showed itself
imperfectly in the fore-finger of the left hand; and his legs
began to swell, owing to the depending position in which
they cot stantly remained.
During all this time he refused medical aid; and it was
not till the 22d cd. January that he consented to see any
ono, to whom he might state his symptoms. At the time
he was first visited, he was sitting in his chair, with his
blely inclined forward, and his chin nearly resting on his
chest; the pulee accelerated; not the slightest bruit nor
abnormal sound in the heart, though the beat was extensive,
and heatd quite to the right side of the chest. The lungs
afforded considerable bronchial rattle, but were neither
consolidated nor compressed, and filled both cavities of the
chest.

Although remedies appeared more than once to produce
a temporary remission of his symptoms, and afurther attack
of gout in ono foot seemed to afford some relief to the
chest, yet, upon the whole, the diseased advancei, atm
was attended by frightful fits of dysprana, during which his
face was purple and his mind confused; and it was in one
of these paroxysms that he died, on the morning of the 12th
of February.
Shortly before his death, Sir Astley Cooper expressed
a wish that the appearances which should be presented on
the inspection of his body might be recorded in the Guy's
Hospital Reports. He bag particularly alluded to four
pcint?, the investigation of which be thought desirable ;
a cured oblique inguinal hernia ; a cured umbilical hernia ;
some suspected indications of phthisis in his youth ; and
an inability to sleep whilst lying oa his left side.—.llledica
Gazette.

Mr. George Hope is prevented attending his
Parliamentary duties for, the present, by an accident he
met wit►h or, Wednesday last.
MR. PLUMER WARD'S NEW NOVEL.—The
unusual interest excited by the announcemer4 of Mr.
Ward's "De Clifford, or the Constant Man," is at length
gratified, and the work proves, like all the previous produc-
tions of its writer, full of the highest species of interest
that can belong to fictions of this nature, the interest of
which springs from the actual life of the scenes and the
action represented. Through the medium of an intensely
exciting p!ot,' this accomplished writer places before us a
series of pictures so singularly true to nature, and so indi-
vidualized as to have all the air of portraits, and to create
the impression that they must have been drawn from ac-
tual observation; and as several of the leading ones among
them occupy prominent and precise positions in public
life at the commencement of the present century, it is al_
most impossible to avoid tracing in them, or fancying we
trace, likenesses of some of the celebrated men of that pe-
riod. Who can read, for instance, the admirable sketches
of Lord Castleton, the Marquis of Rochfort, Lori Felix,
Lord Albany, &c., without feeling that they aro not "of
imagination all compact." In this point of view, as well
as in its interest as a love story, "Do Clifford" is likely
to rival its celebrated predecessors from the same pen.
THE LIFE OF PETRARCH, BY THOMAS
CAMPBELL. —We may assert with confidence, that there
are very few even among well-informed persons, who
know anything more of Petrarch than as a poet and as
the adorer of Laura. They are not aware that this poet
of love for all times and all nations, was also a statesman
who lived and corresponded with the greatest men of his
age, and who was intrusted with important diplomatic
missions; and that literature owes him infinite obligations
for the pains which he took to preserve the ancient classic
writers, and to encourage a taste for the study of their
works. Those who would wish to make themselves
quainted with Petrarch's history and merits, will learn with
interest that the celebrated author of " The Pleasures
of Hope" has just completed a Life of him, in which,
with the feeling of a genuine poet he will doubtless do
full justice to the character of that eminent man in all its
bearings.