no more !—And he, who, in histrionic art, could so well depict the final pangs of nature, has been called on in turn to act the part in sad reality. I have seen the physician who attended him, and, anxious to obtain particulars of the latter days of so great and worthy a character, for my own satisfaction, and for your information, I hastily subjoin the result.

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of a friend in the neighbourhood, and was observed to be in extremely good spirits; a few friends drank tea with him on the following eveninghe was very partial), and appeared in when he played his rubber (to which excellent health. On the Sunday after this day, Mr. Kemble walked for two hours in the sunshine of his garden, and no sign of illness was remarked. He arose on the following morning as well as usual, and conversed with Mrs. Kemble on indifferent matters; when, according to his usual custom, he read a chap

Mrs. Kemble in the breakfast room, and said to her, "Don't be alarmed, my dear, I have had a slight attack of apoplexy." Mrs. Kemble was daturally very much terrified, and Dr. Schole was accordingly sent for; who, in a short time, arrived at Beausite, and bled Mr. Kemble himself. One attack, however, succeeded another so rapidly, that Mr. Kemble never spoke afterwards; though he seemed perfectly sensible at intervals. Until nine o'clock on Wednesday morning he lingered in this speechless state, when he died without any apparent suffering. Thus died this amiable and intellectual man--full of years and honour, in a distant land !

On Sunday, the 23d instant, he was, in his own estimation, so very comfortable, that, on sending away his hair-dresser, he requested that he would say to his friend, Mr. Precote, that it would give him pleasure to learn, that after the operation of shaving, his friend was as well as he was. In fact, he seemed. on that day inter in his Bible. He again joined particularly good spirits. The next morning he rose apparently quite well,-break fasted at nine, and subsequently went to an adjoining room to speak to Mrs. Kemble; and then returning to his room, was observed to totter in his gait.-Mrs. Kemble noticed this with anxiety, and assisted him to his chair, and when seated, he took up a number of Galignani's Messenger; but getting worse, his friend and physician Dr. Schole was sent for; who arrived in stantly, and found him in the position de scribed, but already altered, and exhibiting very unfavourable symptoms-his left side had suffered a decided attack, and he could with difficulty articulate. He seemed tremely anxious to spare the feelings of Mrs. Kemble. Dr. Schóle, with the assistance of his old attached servant George, helped him to his bed, and, in the act of conducting him there, a second attack took place, so suddenly, that his clothes were obliged to be cut asunder, in order that he might the more speedily be let blood. But nature was fast exhausting; nor could he ever make use of his speech after a few words which he had uttered on Dr. Schole's arrival. He, however, assented or dissented by signs of the head, until within two hours of his complete extinction. His last intelligible words were 66 George, George;" and you may imagine the feelings of an attached servant to an excellent master under such circumstances. In fine, a third attack, on Wednesday the 26th instant, just forty-eight hours after the first, proved fatal; and though to a stranger he might appear to suffer, it is the opinion of the doctor that he was long insensible to acute feelings of pain. The English cler gyman was also present.

Lausanne had agreed with Mr. Kemble-and it was believed by his friends that he was fast recovering from the fatal effects of his visit to Italy. His death,, however, was near at hand;-aud the true particulars of his last illness are these. On Wednesday, the 19th of February, Mr. Kemble dined at the house

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The funeral took place on Saturday the 1st of March, in a piece of ground adjoining the cemeterie,✨on the Berne Road, procured under the direction of Mrs. Kemble. Mr. Capel, and several English, are here in terred. The Dean of Raphoe, who had lately returned to Lausanne, read the funeral service at the house of Mr. Kemble; and Mr. Cheesebrough, the resident clergyman, performed the melancholy ceremony at the grave. The age of sixty-six was recorded on the coffin. Mr. Cheesebrough read prayers to Mr. Kemble when he could attend to them-and was with him when he died. The death of Mr. Kemble was sincerely felt by all persons at Lausaune, and his remains were followed to the grave by all the resident English, and by many of the Swiss. The English, indeed, had no parties during the week-and one foreign lady of fashion, Madame - put off a splendid party on account of Mr. Kemble's decease.

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Sir-It is with deep regret that I ammounce to you an affliction, and sudden event, the decease of Mr. Kemble, who breathed his last at a eter past nine o'clock this morning. He had been seized with an apoplectic attack about forty-eight hours before his death; and, though it was not of - any very alarming nature at first, yet it was no less fatal, and he gradually I declined, till, without a single sigh or groan, his soul, released from its earthly tenement, returned to Him, who gave it, hrow 3: tada posTY XIA

During a week or more prior to this attack, his health seemed more satisfactory than for months before, so that poor Mrs. Kemble was very ill proIvided for so unexpected a blow, and consequently has been in such a distressed state as, I cannot pretend to describe. She is, indeed, much indisposed at present, from the effects of a violent nervous attack, which seized her when all our fears of her husband were confirmed; but in a little time I have no doubt but a sense of her religious duties, in addition to her exceldent understanding, will conduce to her amendment and resignation. To • you, Sir, no comments on this excellent man's character here are necessary. I will only say, that he was universally beloved by both his countrymen and -natives, and that I am deprived of, in my little flock, a most pious and worthy member-but God's will be done! We are naturally grieved at the loss of what was ever amiable, excellent, and of good report, as a standing example to all around; but, how great, on reflexion, should be our joy, that the feeble praise of man is succeeded by the immortal honour and approving smile of the best and greatest of all beings? I was with him during the 2greater part of his last hours, and at the final close; and, our commending his soul to his gracious keeping, whose blood and mediatorial power could alone present it spotless before God, I could not avoid secretly exclaiming, iff Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my latter end be like his."

It is by Mrs. Kemble's desire that I write to you, who, with her kindest regards, begs you will take upon you, as early as possible, the painful task of communicating it to Miss Siddons, and gradually to prepare Mrs. Siddons 10 for such an afflicting stroke, in order that she may not first learn it from any other quarter. Mrs. Kemble's poignancy is increased, on considering what will be the agonizing feelings of Mrs. Siddons, but calculates much on your kind attention herein I have written to Mr. Charles Kemble by this post. I beg my respectful compliments to Mrs. Siddons; and having now hastily ofulfilled my truly painful duty, b691.9 MEG! Ibsen't

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I have the honour to remain, &c. &c. "

In reading this letter we cannot
but feel struck with that p
passage
which details the p
pious close of the
existence of such a man as Mr. Kem
ble, who had passed a maddening,
distracting day of fame, and could
scarcely be expected to tame down
into the careful and unassuming ob-
server of a religious and retired life.
He who was almost adored in the
temple of fame-became, it is seen,
loved in the domestic house! It
his
custom, as we have shown,
to read a chapter in the Bible every

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To Mrs. Siddons the loss must be indeed poignant, irreparable! She, and her brother John Kemble, had

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seen the same sum rise upon their fame had gathered laurels from the saine tree!They lived in glory together. They retired from public life nearly at the same time. She always appeared to us to be the only actress worthy to mate him in the drama. The same crown taken from Tragedy's forehead fitted both their brows.

We never remember, in nour time, any actor who acquired so much popularity as John Kemble; he bore the young lovers of the drama along with him like a clan, and they always seemed ready to fight for the supremacy of his genius. The first rows of the pit were nightly crowded

Some public testimony of respect to this great actor has been very properly talked of; and indeed Lord Holland, Lord Aberdeen, Sir James Mackintosh, and a few other eminent characters, have taken some steps for effecting such an object. Such talents ought, indeed, so to be honoured. We should conceive that the best way would be to call a meeting for the purpose-when, we are confident, the subscription for a monument would be filled in a day.

THE MISCELLANY.

THE FLOOD OF THESSALY, THE GIRL OF PROVENCE, AND OTHERS (**)
POEMS. BY BARRY CORNWALL.

WE E are enabled to gratify our readers with a few extracts from Mr. Barry Cornwall's new volume of Poems; neither our time nor our limits will allow us at this late moment to enter critically into the volume. We must, however, say, that we think it the very best work by far which has yet come! from the author's pen. In an early number we hope to return to the subject.

Over the waters where the trade-winds blew They passed, and where men find the golden ore,

And where long since the Hesperian apples
grew;

While, far beneath, the Old world and the
New

Stretched out their tiny shapes, and their thick chain

Of islands, spangling like bright gems the main.

'And then they moved beneath a lovelier sky, O'er green savannahs where cool waters run 4. O'er hills and valleys; o'er vast plains that

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I dream I dream I dream

Of shadow and light, of pleasure and pain,
Of Heaven,-of Hell.-And visions seem
Streaming for ever athwart my brain.
The present is here, and the past that fied.
So quick, is returned with its buried dead,
And the future hath bared its scrolls of
fame,

And I see the 'is' and the WAS' the same,
In spirit alike, but changed in name.
I see the phantoms of Earth and Air,
A thousand are foul where one is fair,
(But that one' is divine, and her blue

To look upon your pale society.
Already have I o'ermatched the Sybil's art,
By darker spells that spotted the clear moon;
And now I come to syllable my power
Here, in your black domain. That hag
-She caught

Her incantations from the dreaming winds, Babblers of common tales; but I have words

The wealth of an Arabian wizard's brain,
Accents drawn from the thunder,-from
eclipse;

Interpretations of the rebel hills,
When Earth was in her anarchy; from
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That blow shot death: From waves that kissa
the clouds;

From clouds that spit their spite out en gray hairs;

From the dumb ice; from rains and huricane:

Thus am I armed, dull Spirit; and beside With poisonous unguents which no man uncharmed

Can touch and die not; and with drops, like gall,

Wrung from the adder when its hate was highest

Parricide tears; and rich Egyptian dust Sitting Are)>(Stol'n from a pyramid)—which once was besowflesh if?.

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"Alas! my life has been a trifling to literature, from a man of busibusy one," says Richardson, "Iness! Hear it, ye slaves, who never found time to read all the think that money-getting is the only Spectators." A fine compliment this useful employment.