ticians, he adds — Thus I have much pleasure in a double degree, viz. both in serving and encouraging very able and worthy persons, and in supplying useful institutions with good and proper teachers.' "I must not omit to add, that Dr. Hutton was a cordial friend to the education of the poor; contributing liberally to Lancasterian and other schools, for their instruction; often expatiating on the advantages, moral and political, which would necessarily accrue from the diffusion of knowledge amongst them; and successfully exposing the folly of expecting on the one hand that if men were left ignorant and without principles they would abstain from crimes, yet of fearing on the other, that if they obtained knowledge and imbibed good principles, they would in consequence go the more astray! "Nor, lastly, would it be just to omit, that my venerable friend was a man of genuine, but unassuming benevolence. Never, during our long and close intimacy, did I know him turn a deaf ear to a case of real distress. On paying him one of my periodical visits, about five years ago, I found him reading a letter, the tears trickling down his cheeks. Read this,' said he, putting the letter into my hand. It was from the wife of a country schoolmaster, describing how, by a series of misfortunes, he had been reduced to penury, and had just been hurried off to jail, while the sheriff's officers had seized his furniture, leaving her and her children without a shilling. Can you rely upon this statement?' I asked. -"Yes,' said he: I have formation from another quarter which confirms its truth.' Then what do you mean to do? 'I mean,' replied the Doctor, smiling, 'to demand a guinea from you, and the same sum from every friend who calls upon me to-day; then to make up the amount twenty guineas, and send it off by this night's post.' He knew nothing of this family, but that, though they were unfortunate, they were honest and industrious, and therefore deserved relief. “I could detail many similar examples; but it is unnecessary. Ex uno disce omnes.' "OLINTHUS GREGORY." We have already stated that the name of the Lord Chancellor was at the head of the list of the subscribers to Dr. Hutton's bust. On that occasion, the Doctor wrote a letter of thanks; and, a few days after his father's decease, General Hutton sent a medal to that highly distinguished nobleman, with an account of the melancholy event. The following letter, which was written in reply, is not less honourable to his Lordship's feelings than to Dr. Hutton's memory: Feb. 3. 1823. "SIR, "I request you to accept my very sincere thanks for your communication received on Saturday last. "Full sixty years have passed since I had the benefit of your venerable father's instructions, and that benefit I regard as one of the many blessings which I have enjoyed in life, and of which blessings I wish I had been more worthy. "I feel very painfully that I did not wait upon Dr. Hutton personally to thank him for his letter, in which he wrote with such remarkable and affecting kindness respecting Lady Eldon and myself, both his pupils. I shall preserve that letter as a testimony that a person of his eminence had, through so many years, recollected us with a sort of parental affection. "I shall not fail to preserve anxiously the medal which you have been pleased to send to me, and for which I beg you to receive my thanks. To secure to his memory the respect and veneration of his country, this memorial was not wanting: he will long be remembered by a country so essentially benefited by his life, and works. "I am, Sir, "Your obedient and obliged servant, "To Lieut.-Gen. Hutton. Letters similar to the above, in praise of the deceased, were written by several other illustrious characters; among whom may be mentioned his Grace the Duke of Wellington, General Sir Thomas Hislop, &c. &c. Dr. Hutton bequeathed his marble bust to the Philosophical Society of Newcastle. It is to be placed in their new and splendid Institution, where it will no doubt be long regarded with pride and veneration. He always manifested a laudable affection for his native place, of which he gave a proof soon after his retirement from Woolwich, by investing sums of money for the perpetual support of a school, &c. at Newcastle. His benevolence was extensive. To merit in distress, and more especially to the votaries of science, he was always a kind friend and benefactor. “Quando ullum invenient parem ?" His remains were interred in the family vault, at Charlton, in Kent; and his funeral was most respectably and numerously attended. Dr. Hutton was twice married: his surviving family consists of a son and two daughters. The former was educated at the Royal Military Academy, at an early age obtained a commission in the Royal Artillery, and is now a LieutenantGeneral in the army. General Hutton is a member of several learned societies, and was honoured, some years ago, with the degree of LL. D. by the Marischal College at Aberdeen. 89 No. IV. MRS. ANN RADCLIFFE. AMONG the eminent Englishwomen who have contributed by their talents to the intellectual character of their country, the name of Mrs. Ann Radcliffe will always stand highly distinguished. Mrs. Radcliffe was a native of London, and was born on the 9th of July, 1764. By a communication which we shall annex to this brief memoir, it appears that her family and connections were of the most respectable description. Her maiden name was Ward. In her twenty-third year she married at Bath (where her parents then resided), William Radcliffe, Esq., a graduate of Oxford; and who, intending to pursue the profession of the law, kept several terms at one of the Inns of Court; but, changing his resolution, was never called to the bar. Mr. Radcliffe subsequently became the proprietor and editor of the English Chronicle. Soon after her marriage, the powers of Mrs. Radcliffe's mind began to develope themselves in the production of a series of romances, of which it is not too much to say that they rank with the best that have appeared in the English language. They have been translated into every European tongue; and have been everywhere read with enthusiastic delight. Of the peculiar character of Mrs. Radcliffe's works we cannot convey a more adequate notion than by quoting the following extracts from a prefatory introduction written by Mrs. Barbauld to “The Romance of the Forest," which, with "The Mysteries of Udolpho," was incorporated by that lady into her edition of THE BRITISH NOVELISTS: "Though every production which is good in its kind entitles its author to praise, a greater distinction is due to those Her which stand at the head of a class; and such are undoubtedly the novels of Mrs. Radcliffe; which exhibit a genius of no common stamp. She seems to scorn to move those passions which form the interest of common novels: she alarms the soul with terror; agitates it with suspense, prolonged and wrought up to the most intense feeling by mysterious hints and obscure intimations of unseen danger. The scenery of her tales is in "time-shook towers," vast uninhabited castles, winding staircases, long echoing aisles; or, if abroad, lonely heaths, gloomy forests, and abrupt precipices, the haunt of banditti; the canvass and the figures of Salvator Rosa. living characters correspond to the scenery: their wicked projects are dark, singular, atrocious. They are not of English growth; their guilt is tinged with a darker hue than that of the bad and profligate characters we see in the world about us; they seem almost to belong to an unearthly sphere of powerful mischief. But to the terror produced by the machinations of guilt, and the perception of danger, this writer has had the art to unite another, and possibly a stronger feeling. There is, perhaps, in every breast at all susceptible of the influence of imagination, the germ of a certain superstitious dread of the world unknown, which easily suggests the idea of commerce with it. Solitude, darkness, low-whispered sounds, obscure glimpses of objects, flitting forms, tend to raise in the mind that thrilling mysterious terror, which has for its object the "powers unseen, and mightier far than we." But these ideas are suggested only; for it is the peculiar management of this author, that though she gives, as it were, a glimpse of the world of terrible shadows, she yet stops short of any thing really supernatural: for all the strange and alarming circumstances brought forward in the narrative are explained in the winding up of the story by natural causes; but in the mean time the reader has felt their full impression. "The first production of this lady, in which her peculiar genius was strikingly developed, is 'The Romance of the Forrest,' and in some respects it is perhaps the best. It turns upon the machinations of a profligate villain, and his agent, against an |