The Sun.
London, England, 1869-12-24 00:00:00

MR. PEABODY'S WILL.

Peabody's will has been proved in the Probate Court.
As much interest attaches to it, and as many bequests have
been erroneously reported, we give the main provisions
in full. The personal property in England is sworn
under £lOO,OOO :—" I, George Peabody, gentleman, do
make this my last will and testament, Firstly, I direct
that my remains shall be sent to my native town of
Danvers, now incorporated by the name of Peabody, in the
county of Essex and commonwealth of Massachusetts,
and be deposited in the ground appropriated to that pur-
pose in the cemetery of Harmony-grove, in Salem, in said
county (near Peabody Town line) under the direction of
my executors, hereinafter named. Secondly, I give and
bequeath to Henry West, of 22, Old Broad-street,
London, the sum of £2,200, and in the event of his
decease, to his wife, Louisa West ; and, in the event of
her decease, to his surviving children, to share and share
alike. Thirdly, I give and bequeath to Thomas Per-
man, of 22, Old Broad-street, London, the sum of £l,OOO,
and, in the event of his decease, to his wife, Annetta
Emma Perman ; and, in the event of her decease, to
his surviving children, to share and share alike ; and
I empower my executors to pay the above-named lega-
cies within six months after my decease, and free
from any tax, duty, or charges whatever. Fourthly, I give
and bequeath to the Right Hon. Lord Stanley ; the Ameri-
can Minister at the Court of St. James's for the time
being ; the Right Hon. Sir Stafford Northcote, Bart.;
Sir Curtis Miranda Lampson, Bart.; and Junius Spencer
Morgan, Esq., trustees of the Peabody Donation Fund,
and their successors, trustees of the said fund, the
sum of £150,000 upon trust for the building of lodging-
houses, for the labouring poor of London, as defined in my
late letters to the said trustees ; and I direct that this
legacy be considered a part of the second trust, and dis-
posed of in accordance with the said trust. And I direct
that my executors, hereinafter named as my London execu-
tors, shall, of the said sum of £150,000, pay to said trustees
of the Peabody Donation Fund the sum of £lOO,OOO on the
first Monday of October, A.D. 1873, and the sum of £50,000
at any time during said year of our Lord 1873. As this
work progresses, the labour and responsibility increase,
and I therefore deem it essential that another
trustee be added, who will have the necessary time and
possess the requisite knowledge of all that may be needed
for the successful prosecution of the trust.. Without as-
suming to dictate to the trustees, I would mention the
name of Charles Reed, Esq., M.P., who is well known to
me for his high and most honourable character, as a most
suitable person to fill that office. Fifthly, I nominate,
constitute, and appoint Sir Curtis Miranda Lampson, 80,
Eaton-square,Pimlico, in the county of Middlesex; Charles
Reed, Esq., M.P.; George Peabody Russell, of Salem, in the
county of Essex, and State of Massachusets, Esq.; R.
Singleton Peabody, of Rutland, in the State of Vermont,
Esq., counsellor ; and Charles W. Chandler, of Zanesville,
in the State of Ohio, Esq., counsellor, executors of this my
last will and testament, fully authorising said Sir Curtis
Miranda Lampsen and said Charles Reed, hereafter
called my London executors, to act independently of said
George Peabody Russell, and R. Singleton Peabody,
and said Charles W. Chandler, hereafter called my Ameri-
can executors; and I also authorise my American exe-
cutors to act independently of my said London executors ;
but it is my wish and hope that all my executors, both
London and American, may act together with the utmost
harmony. Sixthly, I direct that all and each of execu-
tors aforesaid be exempt and excused from giving bonds to
any court or magistrate or otherwise for the performance
of their ditties or offices as my executors. Seventhly, I

give and bequeath to the said Sir Curtis Miranda Lamp-
son and said Charles Reed the sum of £5,000 each
for their services. Eighthly, I give and bequeath to the
said George Peabody Russell, It. Singleton Peabody,
and Charles W. Chandler, my American executors, the
sum of $5,000 each. Ninthly, I give and bequeath to the
George Peabody Russell. R. Singleton Peabody, and
Charles W. Chandler all the rest, residue, and remainder
of the property, both real and personal, of which I shall
be possessed at my decease, or which may afterwards come
or fall into my estate upon trust to sell, exchange, or
retain, and the interest accruing on the same, to divide
semi-annually (reinvesting the same in the case of minor
children) among the parties named as beneficiaries in
the family trust, of which Messrs. J. M. Beebe, S. T. Dana,
and J. Endicott Peabody are trustees, according to the
proportions of the sums allotted to each in said trust or
such other proportions as I may hereafter prescribe to
the, my said American executors. In witness whereof, I
the said G eorge Peabody, declaring this to be my last will
and testament, written on seven pages of paper, have
hereto set my hand and seal this oth day of September,
1360.

A critic makes mention of a class of Americans In
this wise : " They all belong to that keen, nervous, sallow-
faced breed of mankind who are qualified at a moment's
notice to keep a school or edit a newspaper."
A. few years ago an ig,genious gentleman managed
to get drunk free of expense almost daily in the streets of
London by falling down in a fit, with a small placard on
his breast, " Don't bleed me, but give me a glass of hot
brandy and water."
Lockyer, the famous Surrey wicket-keeper has
just died. Between the years 1850 and 1861-2 he was
universally recognised as without rival in his special
department of the game of cricket.
The following advertisement is cut from a daily
contemporary : " Education.—Wanted, by a father, a school,
where his son may receive an education to fit him for a
manly and useful life, without any humbug as to nations
dead and buried thousands of years ago.—Address stating
terms, A., at —."
GRATTAN.—It was said he took Chatham for his
model, and there are certainly many points of resemblance
between them. Still Grattan's manner was distinctive
enough to reject all idea of imitation, and there weretraces
of that Celtic nature so evident about him, it would have
been impossible for him to have conformed to any discip-
line that should have curbed the imaginative discursive-
ness of his mind, and the play of a fancy that soared to the
highest flights of poetry. His own adoration of Chatham
—of whom he said, " Modern degeneracy had not reached
him, the features of his character had the hardihood
of antiquity, his august mind overawed majesty itself,"—
may have contributed to the impression that he
had taken him for his model. There was, however,
in Grattan one characteristic eminently individual, and,
in a great degree, Celtic. He was extremely antithetical,
not so much from any deficiency in the power of graduated
reasoning and close logical ability, as from his instinctive
quickness of perception, amounting to positive impatience,
which rejected the slow march of a demonstration, when
by a bound he could grasp the proof that lay under his
hand. Wide and great as were his intellectual powers,
there was that in his temperament aerial and lofty
that soared high above them. Engaged with a great
subject, or with one to which his genius had lent
greatness, his enthusiasm know no bounds. All
the resources of that splendid intellect came forth in
glittering array, and no man could marshal them with
such terrible effect : lofty and impassioned appeal, noble
sentiment, classic allusion, brilliant imagery, the most
polished wit, sarcasm the most withering, and, not least
of all, a tone of tenderness that vibrated in every heart
that heard him. All were his, and none could vary, com-
bine, or alternate them with more consummate art. Above
all his intellect rose his personal nature. There never
lived a more generous, more forgiving, more kindly man—
none who could dwell with more heartfelt pathos on the ties
of friendship, nor one who could depict an adversary with
more generous justice. The charm that surrounded him in
private life, they who knew him in his intimacy speak of
as something of actual fascination. There was not one of
his great powers that he could not bring, reduced to the
meridian of daily life, to the intercourse of society. With-
out a touch of pedantry, he gave to common conversation
the elegance of literary culture, and this without a vestige
of the great political leader, or ever overbearing by his
superiority the least venturesome or ambitious about him.
—From qhmpricicina. in Aliq cornliio JlcTazt:n; \!*l.l.
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