hath converted into mercies, sane tifying them as instruments of fatherlychastisement for instruction, prevention, and restraint. Praise in the highest, and thanksgiving and adoring love, to the 'I AM, with the co-eternal Word, and the Spirit proceeding, one God from everlasting to everlasting; His staff and His rod alike comfort me.' The original revised, interlined, and corrected by his own hand. Signed by himself, and witnessed by Ann Gillman and Henry Langley Porter. " Grove Highgate, July 2, 1830. of such survivor, the sum, whatever it may be, which in the will aforesaid I bequeathed to my son, Hartley Coleridge, after the decease of his mother, Sarah Coleridge, upon trust. And I hereby request them, the said Joseph Henry Green, Henry Nelson Coleridge, and James Gillman, esquires, to hold the sum accruing to Hartley Coleridge, from the equal division of my total bequest between him, his brother Derwent, and his sister, Sara Coleridge, after their mother's decease, to dispose of the interest or proceeds of the same portion to or for the use of "This is a codicil to my last my dear son, Hartley Coleridge, will and testament. "S. T. COLERIDGE. Most desirous to secure, as far as in me lies, for my dear son, Hartley Coleridge, the tranquillity indispensable to any continued and successful exertion of his literary talents, and which, from the like characters of our minds in this respect, I know to be especially requisite for his happiness, and persuaded that he will recognise in this provision that anxious affection by which it is dictated, I affix this codicil to my last will and testament. "And I hereby give and be queath to Joseph Henry Green, esquire, to Henry Nelson Coleridge Esquire, and to James Gill. man, Esquire, and the survivor of them, and the executor and assigns at such time or times, in such manner, and under such conditions, as they, the trustees above named, know to be my wish, and shall deem conducive to the attainment of my object in adding this codicil; namely, the anxious wish to insure for my son the continued means of a home, in which I comprise board, lodging, and raiment ; providing that nothing in this codicil shall be so interpreted as to interfere with my son Hartley Coleridge's freedom of choice respecting his place of residence, or with his power of disposing of his portion by will after his decease, according as his own judgment and affections may decide. "S. T. COLERidge. "2nd July, 1830. "Witnesses, Ann Gillman, "James Gillman, jun." CHARACTERS OF LORD ROSSLYN, LORD MANSFIELD, Lord Kenyon, LORD ELLENBOROUGH, JUDGE LAWRENCE, LORD ERSKINE, SPENCER PERCEVAL, LORD Alvanley. [By Sir Egerton Brydges.] LORD ROSSLYN was a subtle and convinced no one. As he was reasoner; but he had no strength, not loud, but flexible and insinucloseness, or rectitude about him, ating, his very manner raised suspicion. Lord Mansfield had something of the same sort, but he was more eloquent, and had a higher taste. He had lived with poets and great men from his youth, and could exhibit Truth dressed in her native beauty; but he could also set off the false déesse in attractive colours when it answered his purpose to do so. Andrew Stuart's "Letters" to him on the Douglas cause made a great impression, and will never be forgotten. Lord Kenyon's manner was entirely technical: he had no eloquence nor command of language; but he was supposed to have a deep skill in the law, and, having natural acuteness and sagacity, to apply it in most cases accurately. But his temper was quick and irritable, and never having had a liberal education nor lived in the world, his notions and sentiments were narrow and bigoted; he could not generalise; and these defects gave him a want of dignity, which much detracted from the influence and weight of his decisions. Lord Ellenborough was brought up at Peter-house, Cambridge, of which his father, the Bishop of Carlisle, was master. He was considered rather industrious, but scarcely above par in talents, yet then displayed the same violent and overbearing temper as he did through life. He allowed no peace to those over whom his surly and sarcastic spirit got the ascendantwitness poor Capel Lofft, his fellow-collegian. He was very unlike his younger brother, George, now Bishop of Bath and Wells, who was a milder man, and had better talents, and took a much higher degree many years afterwards, I think in 1781. We were a short time at college together, but I saw little of him, as he was at that time immersed in his prepare for his degree, and therefore associated with scarcely any one. It was long before Edward made any way at the bar, till, being connected with the East Indians by the marriage of his sister with Sir Thomas Rumbold, he was employed as one of the counsel on Hastings trial. From that time he got on a little, but was never considered as a leader, till, on the sudden dissolution of Pitt's ministry in 1801, when Addington had a difficulty of making up his patched adminis tration, Law, much to every one's surprise, was named attorneygeneral. He was then fifty years old. It was supposed that with a party formed of such feeble and discordant ingredients, a bold man was wanted in that post, and that Law's sarcastic temper would be of use to them. He had been there scarcely a year when Kenyon's death opened to him the high office of chief-justice of King's Bench and a peerage. Naturally inclined to exercise the ascendancy of his humour, that sudden tide of fortune puffed him into the skies. He was impatient, hasty, vitupe. rative, and by necessary conse quence sometimes incorrect in his authorities, arguments, conclusions, and opinions. As long as Judge Lawrence, who was known to be a better lawyer, as well as of better abilities and of greater mildness of temper and disposition, remained on the Bench, he was in some degree under his control. There is some advantage to the public, though not to the suitors, in such a mind and temper as Lord Ellenborough's; it makes dispatch of business, for what it cannot untie, it cuts or tears asunder. 1 Lord Erskine was a perfect contrast to all these. He was a most brilliant, but sometimes a shooting, star. He had every variety of intellect, and was adorned with all beauty of language, all harmony of utterance, and all fire and grace of expression in his countenance and form. As he was of the highest Scottish nobility and blood, so he showed it in all his mien, tone, and manners. The very conflicting brilliance of his numerous superiorities led him into unsteadiness, and often into errors. He some times passed too hastily over subjects to have entered deep into them, and thus incurred the charge of superficial talents, when no man was more capable of entering profoundly into an investigation, or had a more sagacious and correct judgment when he chose to give his mind to it; but the meteors that danced before him often led him on too rapidly and too irregularly. He was apt to grasp at too much, and not unfrequently found that he embraced clouds which vanished in his arms. His imagination ion often led him into wider fields than a court of law relishes or comprehends; and the airy notions and profusion of colours which he interposed occasionally, became fatiguing and oppressive to the technical dulness of professional men. They were considered by them to be lights that led astray, but still they were lights from heaven. He abounded in beautiful reflection and sentiment; but some may have supposed these to have ave been supplied rather by memory than from original internal sources. I do not admit this: the application of them was so happy, that they could not have so fitted if they had not been original. The ingredients may have been new combined in large portions; not so original, for instance, in all their particles as those of Burke, of whom not only the whole, but every separate part is commonly new. Erskine's rapidity and lightness of wing made him oftener take the first hasty view of his own mind, than search in books for technical knowledge and arbitrary authority. authority. His arguments, therefore, are commonly addressed rather to the general condition of men's understandings than to professional auditors, All these distinctions may be exemplified and illustrated by a comparison of his speeches with those of the other law lords in the Banbury case, as reported by Le Marchant. Erskine, by his constant practice in the courts of common law, was not qualified to shine as lord chancellor. The fall of his party soon removed him from the woolsack; and then his faculties seemed to be worn out, and that brilliant constellation of mind threw out nothing but casual, erratic, and flighty sparks. We are bound to remember the splendour of the noon-day sun, and not reproach the evening if it sets in clouds. Perceval had the most extraordinary rise. From no practice at all, he was, at the age of thirtynine, appointed by Addington solicitor-general; the next year he succeeded Law as attorneygeneral; and then, on the dismissal of the Talents, was made the Duke of Portland's chancellor of the exchequer, on whose death he became premier; and, what is singular, had no adequate capacity for any one of these situations. He had no oratory, but a barking, snappish manner; a little plain person, and an inharmonious voice; he had quickness, but it appeared to me principally the quickness of temper: his turn was sarcasm and biting cavil, which certainly had the effect of keeping people in subjection. He was an inveterate Tory, and thought all nobility was monopolized by the house of Per ceval. I must not leave Pepper Arden, Lord Alvanley, out of the groud; for his ugly, broken-nosed face and goggle eyes often made me laugh; and I once was near having the misfortune of swamping him-most unintentionally. It was at Bath, in the early part of the year 1797, when he was Sir Pepper Arden, knight, and master of the rolls into the bargain. I then commanded a troop of fencible cavalry; and our colonel, being very justly proud of his regiment, and anxious to show it off in all his manœuvres, begged his friend, the learned knight, to come and review them on one of the Downs near the city, no doubt because he thought him as good a judge of a regiment and its movements as he was of all the intricacies of a question at law; and his honour being a very good natured man, not at all like Sir Edward Law, then only king's counsel, obeyed the summons. The little man, though I observed him something timorous and fidgetty, was placed in front of the battle, and desired to inspect us with the severest scrutiny, for our colonel was sure that he would find nothing but to praise. At length came the charge; the colonel assured him that he might keep his station, for he was as safe as on his seat in the Rolls Court, and that at the word The "Halt!" the whole six troops in a line would stop dead, however loudly and fiercely they should come rattling on towards him. Unluckily the whole were fired with glory, and began to increase their speed, till, being on a blood charger of considerable swiftness, my horse could not bear the clatter behind him, and off he shot beyond my momentary control. His honour was right before me: he gave a shriek and a groan; I saw his distress, and by one mighty effort brought up my horse, and had the happiness thus to save the life of this eloquent oracles of the law, over whom I must otherwise have gone sword in hand; and what a crush and manglement would then have ensued! colonel made many apologies, and I got a severe rating. But, lo! what his honour lived for-to vote, six years afterwards, against the Chandos claim; of the merits of which, as he had but lately been elevated to the upper house, he knew nothing. Lord Alvanley had a confused, babbling manuer of talking, which made it wonderful how he had ever attained to high offices in the law; nor had he more credit for knowledge in his profession than for oratory.Pitt had promoted him to the attorneygeneralship, among the many strange choices of the patronage which he conferred; and he became the subject of one of the most ludicrous odes in the "Rolliad." They who knew him better than I did considered him of an easy temper, and not meaning ill, though of a blundering understanding. PATENT S. DAVID REDMUND, of Wellington Foundry, Charles-street, City-road, for certain improvements in steam-carriages. George Frederick Muntz, of Birming ham, for an improved manufacture of boilers used for generating steam. Charles Joseph Hullmandel, of Great Marlborough-street, printer, for a certain improvement in the art of block-printing, as applied to calico, &c. Hugh Lee Pattinson, of Summer-hillterrace, Northumberland, for an improved method of separating silver from lead. Jacob Frederick Zeitter, of New Cavendish-street, piano-forte maker, for 'certain improvements in piano-fortes and other stringed musical instruments. John Travis the younger, of Shaw Mills, near Manchester, for certain improvements in machinery for spinning wool, flax, cotton, or other fibrous ma terials. William Brunton, of Charlotte-row, Mansion-house, in the city of London, engineer, for an apparatus to facilitate and improve the excavation of ground, "and the formation of embankments. 190 Dominick Stafford, of Duke-street, Adelphi, for an improvement in fuel. Communicated by a foreigner. - T Joseph Wass, of Lea, Derbyshire, millwright and engineer, for certain mechanical powers, which may be made applicable to various useful purposes. Richard Holme, of Kingston-uponHull, for improvements in apparatus and means of generating steam, and in other parts of steam-engines, and also in the means of producing heat. Henry Robinson Palmer, of Fludyerstreet, Westminster, civil engineer, for improvements in the construction of arches, roofs, and other parts of buildings; which may also be applied to other useful purposes. Peter Ewart, of Manchester, for improvements in the spinning-machine called the mule. John Page, of Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, watch maker, for certain im provements in horological machines. Robert William Brandling, of Low Gosforth, Northumberland, esq., for improvements in applying steam and other power to ships, boats, &c. John Cooper Douglas, of Great Or mond-street, esq., for certain improvements in the construction of furnaces for generating heat; and also in the construction of apparatus or vessels for applying heat to various purposes. '- i The same, for certain improvements which prevent either the explosion or the collapse of steam and other boilers from an excess of internal or external pressure. Marcel Roman, of St. Michael's Alley, Cornhill, for certain improvements in apparatus or methods employed in throwing or winding silk or other threads. Barthelemy Richard Comte de Predaval, of Leicester-place, Leicestersquare, engineer, for an engine for producing motive power applicable to various purposes. Stephen Perry, of 25, Wilmingtonsquare, Clerkenwell, Edward Massey, and Paul Joseph Gauci, for certain improvements in pens and pen-holders. Daniel Ledsam, and William Jones, both of Birmingham, in the county of Warwick, screw manufacturers, for certain improvements in machinery for the the manufacture of pins and needles. John Cooper Douglas, of Great Ormond-street, for certain improvements for depriving vegetable juices and fermented and distilled liquors of their acid qualities, also of their colouring matter and essential oils. Thomas Sharp and Richard Roberts, of Manchester, engineers, for certain improvements in machinery for grinding corn and other materials. Joshua Taylor Beale, of Church-lane, Whitechapel, engineer, for his invention of a lamp, applicable to the burning of substances not hitherto usually burned in such vessels or apparatus. Frederick Plant, of Bread-street Hill, fur-cutter, for his invention of an improved fur-cutting machine. Pennock Tigar of Grove-hill, Beverley, |