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London, England, 1831-01-17 00:00:00

THE DISEASES AND C,

Abscess ... ... 91
Age. and debility
Apoplexy .. 404
Asthma ... • .11Si
&d-ridden ••• .. 1
Bile .. .. 17
Cancer ••• .. 104
Cbildbirth ••• ...991
Coosumption ... 4704
Contraction of the heart ... 3
Consolsloos • •
Croup .. ... 11111
Diabetes • • ... S
Diarrhoea ... .. 19
DivPil • • .. 919
Dropsy on the basis . . 793
Dropsy on the close .. 190
Dysentery

Bitiargesnent of the heart ... SO
EPY ...
...
57
Eruptive diseases ... ... 29
Erl4elas
Fever
Fever, Intermittent or Ape SD
Fever (Scarlet) .. ... 94
Fever (Typhus) ... .. 90
Finals .. .. ... n
FMK
Grief
Goat
Iljemorrhase

• • ... 1111

Stunt .. .. 61
Drowsed
Ifaxesehe drinking. ..
Inceateil ... .. 3
Found dead .. .. 13
Fractured • • .. 1
From ••• ... 1
Killed by falls and several
Weer accidents
Killed by fighting

... 67

The death of Niebuhr, while it deprives us of one of the
brightest ornaments of literature, and leaves a void in that
peculiar breach of it to which this great man more imme-
diately directed his attention, fills us no less with regret Oar
the loss of a penes with whom we bars Ismael M emanset
such estimable qualities of*. heart as well as the mind. It
is true, he had many enemies, men who are malicious enough
to rail over his grave, who will not be slow to rain their
yokes in the condemnation of one, before whom, when liv-
ing, they were glad to find a shelter to hide their diminished
heads. Niebuhr was a bold censurer, and was thus led,
very frequently, to appreciate the merits of ethers mini
truly than judiciously. In Germany, where an over-seed
for literature often involves its devotees in a personal fend,
where even the technicalities of phraseology, the obscure
hints of a commentator, the very non intelligo of a rival
Editor can convert the closest intimacy into the, most deadly
hatred, it is not much to be wondered that Niebuhr, in.
chasing before him the swarms of drones be was at times'
compelled to disperse, incurred their enmity when they could
not deny him their admiration.
In his family, and by all who knew him, be was beloved
end respected ; and even amongst those who did not know
him, be always commanded esteem. His habits of life went
temperate; his application incessant • and his erudition un-
bounded. He was not a man cast for the turbulent scenes
in which he bad lived, though in them he had taken a part,
and that, too, a zealous part. They had lent him, however,
en experience, that taught him from to pierce fu-
turity, and resolve history into so many cycles of events. I
recollect to have heard him, on the manias be received the
repoit of the late revolution in Pseis, enema spa the sub-
sequences to the several nations of Europe ; and so far. the
result bee verified his words. He had received the first in-
telligence of this great event, and devoted the boor usually
apportioned to his lecture, to its descriptions and probable
issue. None of the audience were at all conscious of it, and
it fell .upon all with a convulsive shock, that struck with a
simultaneous dread, so deeply rooted in men's minds are the
horrors of the former revolution. The feelings with which
the students of the University regarded this man were never
more identified than upon this occasion. Each' looked upon
him as a father and adviser, as he eloquently adverted to their
father-land, upon which he spoke with a freedom that, while
it vindicated himself from bias, still dictated roles of wisdom
and"worth to all.

?fielmihr was iducated strictly and severely in the 'disci-
pline of his fiaber,' whose mOntory he always cherisheid as
dear, in testimony of whieb there remains to as
and batiotifuliThemithalihtifiledthilier writings. Like him,
be was versed in Arabic,. thoiigh •in the inter years of his
life he did not devote much attention to it,.probobly, deem-
ing it,lis eiske was at last obliged *to-caress, bat a poor
indemnification for the loss of time. 'll.is love- for England
was intense, with WhiCh not oitlytis reiiidsuci idthis coon 7,
try tendiele 'tidbits him,' hitt ago' i'moreinthente know-
Ihdge of each period 'a .its hiitoiy, its free 'institutions,
and the unbending character of its people, that seemed
framed to command, while, on the other hand, be was ac- ,

When we say that Niebuhr was not suited to the scenes in
which he lived, we mean, that though full of the energy of the
times, be was not always prepared to decide upon them. His
politicatconduct cannot be impugned ; he was a liberal, and as
suchlived under a despotic Government. This course ofcond net,
he knew, did not tend to the attainment of place or power ;
but he pursued it, conscious that it was established in right;
He viewed each change with the eye of a calm philosopher,
and was a just judge of human nature. In his disposition
be was cheerful and gay, and adapted his conversation to
his bevels, always playful and good-humoured, and abound-
ing in anecdote. His lectures were the same, diversified by
the narration of coincident facts and frequent digressions ;
yet though at first he seemed to the student to wander from
the subject, he led him, by an untrodden and entertaining
pith, to the just and bisloricalconclusion. His memory was
accurate to a degree almost marvellous. Supported by it
alma', be used to travel through the detail of the most in-
tricate portions of ancient history, for his lectures were in-
variably delivered without a recurrence to notes ; and yet
be pursued his path with a steady and cautious step, never
father wanting facts or words in which to communicate
them.

At Bonn be lived for several years, not as Professor, but
lecturing merely from option. His literary occupations
there formed his sole delight; be lived, and enjoyed ease
and independence, in the bosom of his family and a few
friends, with the laudable ambition of perpetuating his fame.
This was to him real and unalloyed enjoyment; he bad
survived days of adversity and trouble, and bad arrived at an
age when he could remember them with pleasure. Fate did
not long permit him the enjoyment of this repose; he died
in his fifty-fourth year, after an illness of but a few days.
The burning of his house occurred about a year since, and
1 the disorder into which his library was thrown by this acci-
dent cost him much anxiety and trouble in remodelling it.
By the scholar his memory must be always held in esteem
—to the Mend it must ever remain dear. His loss to the
former is great, when we remember, that, after having
spent years in collecting materials for his history, he should
after all, have left it incomplete. Enough, however, re-
mains to preserve his fame unsullied; when the cavilling.
of his enemies shall have ceased, and when it shall be
forgotten or doubted whether such ever existed. To the
latter the lines of the sympathising poet will readily sug-
gest themselves :

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