fice, or elsewhere, in the public funds, in the name of the said Joseph Henry Green; and he shall pay the dividends of the stock to be purchased therewith to my wife, Sarah Coleridge, during her life, and after her death pay the same dividends to my daughter, Sara Coleridge, she being unmarried, and as long as she shall remain single. But if my daughter, Sara Coleridge, shall before or at the time of my death have married, (unless, indeed, she, which may the Almighty in his mercy forefend, should be left a widow, wholly unprovided for by her husband's will and property, or otherwise; in which case the former disposition of this testament is to revive and take place,) I then give the dividends of the stock purchased to be equally divided between my three children-Hartley Coleridge, the rev. Derwent Coleridge, and the aforesaid Sara Coleridge; or, if one of these, my three children, should die, then to be equally divided between the two survivors, and the whole dividend of the stock to be paid to the last survivor. Still it is, however, my will that each of the three, namely, Hartley and Derwent, and my daughter, Sara, should retain the right and power each of bequeathing the third part of the principal, after the death of the last survivor, according to his or her pleasure. And my will is that, notwithstand ing any thing herein and before contained, and it is my desire, that my friend, Mr. Joseph Henry Green, shall, in lieu of selling my books, have the option of purchasing the same at such price as he shall himself determine, inasmuch as their chief value will be dependent on his possession of them. Nevertheless, it is my will

that, in case the said Joseph Henry Green should think it expedient to publish any of the notes or writings made by me in the same books, or any of them, or to publish any other manuscripts or writings of mine, or any other letters of mine, which shall be hereafter collected from, or sup plied by friends and correspondents, then my will is that the proceeds, and all benefits accruing therefrom, shall be subject to the same trusts, and to be paid to or amongst such persons as shall be entitled to my said personal estate, hereinafter bequeathed.

The pictures and engravings belonging to me, in the house of my dear friends, James and Ann Gillman, (my more than friends, the guardians of my health, happiness, and interests, during the fourteen years of my life that I have enjoyed the proofs of their constant, zealous, and disinterested affection, as an inmate and member of their family) I give and bequeath to Ann Gillman, the wife of my dear friend, my love for whom, and my sense of her unremitted goodness, and neverwearied kindness to me, I hope and humbly trust will follow me as a part of my abiding being in that state into which I hope to rise, through the merits and mediation and by the efficacious power of the Son of God incarnate, in the blessed Jesus, whom I believe in my heart, and confess with my mouth, to have been from everlasting the way and the truth, and to have become man, that for fallen and sinful men he might be the resurrection and the life. And, further, I hereby tell my children, Hartley, Derwent, and Sara, that I have but little to leave them, but I hope, and indeed confidently be

lieve, that they will regard it as a part of their inheritance, when I thus bequeath to them my affection and gratitude to Mr. and Mrs. Gillman and to the dear friend, the companion, partner, and help mate of my worthiest studies, Mr. Joseph Henry Green. Further to Mr. Gillman, as the most expressive way in which I can only mark my relation to him, and in remembrance of a great and good man, revered by us both, I leave the manuscript volume lettered Arist. Manuscript-Birds, Acharnians, Knights, presented to me by my friend and patron, the right honourable John Hookman Frere, who of all the men that I have had the means of knowing during my life appears to me eminently to deserve to be characterised as xaλò x' ayábos i Φιλόκαλος.

"To Mr. Frere himself I can only bequeath my assurance, grounded on a faith equally precious to him as to me, of a continuance "of those prayers which I have for many years offered for his temporal and spiritual well-being. And further, in remembrance that it was under his (Mr. Gillman's) roof I enjoyed so many hours of delightful and profitable communion with Mr. J. H. Frere, it is my wish that this volume should, after the demise of James Gillman, senior, belong, and I do hereby bequeath the same to James Gillman, junior, in the hope that it will remain as an heir-loom in the Gillman family.

"On revising this my will, there seemed at first some reason to apprehend that in the disposition of my books, as above determined, I might have imposed on my executor a too delicate office. But, on the other hand, the motive, from the peculiar character of the books, VOL. LXXVI.

is so evident, and the reverential sense which all my children enter. tain of Mr. Green's character, both as the personal friend of their father, and as the man most intimate with their father's intellectual labours, purposes, and aspirations, I believe to be such as will, I trust, be sufficient to preclude any delicacy that might result from the said disposition.

"To my daughter Sara Coleridge, exemplary in all the relations of life in which she hath been placed, a blessing to both her parents, and to her mother the rich reward which the anxious fulfilment of her maternal duties had, humanly speaking, merited, I bequeath the presentation copy of the

Georgica Heptaglotta,' given me by my highly-respected friend, William Sotheby, Esquire. And it is my wish that Sara should never part with this volume; but that if she should marry and have a daughter, it may descend to her, or if daughters to her eldest daughter, as a memento that her mother's accomplishments, and her unusual attainments in ancient and modern languages, were not so much or so justly the object of admiration, as their co-existence with piety, simplicity, and a characteristic meekness; in short, with mind, manners, and character so perfectly feminine. And for this purpose I have recorded this my wish, in the same equivalent words, on the first titlepage of this splendid work.

"To my daughter-in-law, Mary Coleridge, the wife of the Rev. Derwent Coleridge, whom I bless God that I have been permitted to see, and to have so seen as to esteem and love on my own judgment, and to be grateful for her on my own account as well as on behalf of my dear son, I give the inter2 C

leaved copy of The Friend,' corrected by myself, and with sundry notes and additions in my own handwriting, in trust for my grandson, Derwent Coleridge, that if it should please God to preserve his life, he may possess some memento of the paternal grandfather, who blesses him unseen, and fervently commends him to the great Father in heaven, whose face his angels evermore behold.'-Matt. xviii. 10. "And further, as a relief of my own feelings by the opportunity of mentioning their names, I request of my executor, that a small plain gold mourning ring, with my hair, may be presented to the following persons; namely,-1. To my oldest friend and ever-beloved schoolfellow, Charles Lamb; and in the deep and almost life-long affection of which this is the slender record, his equally beloved sister, Mary Lamb, will know herself to be included. 2. To my old and very kind friend, Basil Montague, esq. 3. To Thomas Pool, esq. of Nether Stowey. The dedicatory poem to my Juvenile Poems,' and my Tears in Solitude,' render it unnecessary to say more than that what I then, in my early manhood, thought and felt, I now, a greyheaded man, still think and feel. 4. To Mr. Josiah Wade, whose zealous friendship and important services during my residences at Bristol I never have forgotten, or, while reason and memory remain, can forget. 5. To my filial friend, dear to me by a double bond in his father's right, and in his own, Launcelot Wade. 6. to Miss Sarah Hutchinson.

"To Robert Southey and to William Wordsworth my children have a debt of gratitude and reverential affection on their own account; and the sentiments I have

left on record in my Literary Life,' and in my poems, and which are the convictions of the present moment, supersede the necessity of any other memorial of my regard and respect.

"There is one thing yet on my heart to say, as far as it may con sist with entire submission to the Divine will, namely that I have too little proposed to myself any temporal interests, either of fortune or literary reputation, and that the sole regret I now feel at the scantiness of my means arises out of my inability to make such present provision for my dear Hartley, my first-born, as might set his feelings at ease and his mind at liberty from the depressing anxieties of to-day, and exempt him from the necessity of diverting the talents, with which it has pleased God to intrust him, to subjects of temporary interests, knowing that it is with him, as it ever has been with myself, that his powers, and the ability and disposition to exert them, are greatest when the mo tives from without are least, or of least urgency. But with earnest prayer, and through faith in Jesus the Mediator, I commit him, with his dear brother and sister, to the care and providence of the Father in heaven, and affectionately leave this my last injunction,-My dear children, love one another."

"Lastly, with awe and thankfulness, I acknowledge, that from God, who has graciously endow. ed me, a creature of the dust, with the distinction, with the glorious capability of knowing him the Eternal, as the Author of my being, and of desiring and seeking Him, as its ultimate end, I have received all good, and good alone-yea, the evil from my own corrupt yet responsible will He

hath converted into mercies, sanc 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. "This is a codicil to my last 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

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 my dear son, Hartley Coleridge, 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."

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 studies to 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 administration, 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, vituperative, and by necessary consequence 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.