relief to persons in necessitous circumstances, and also occasional assistance to other benevolent institutions in or near this city, to enable them to continue or increase their usefulness; and that especial regard be had to the Samaritan Society, of which Richard Reynolds was the founder. Among numerous testimonies to the excellence of this good man's character from some of the most respectable and enlightened citizens of Bristol, a just, eloquent, and affecting eulogy was pronounced by the Rev. W. Thorp; and the promptness and cordiality with which the infant institution was supported, prove that they did not plead in vain for an imitation of the virtues and benevolence of Richard Reynolds.-A wholelength portrait of this revered man, which during his lifetime was concealed, from regard to his

frequently exceeded that sum; indeed it is asserted on good authority, that in one year he expended nearly 20,000l. in acts of benevolence. He united, in a remarkable manner, great liberality with just discrimination; and, although the sums he annually distributed were large, yet he never relieved any object without previous investigation; he was therefore seldom imposed upon: and that wealth, of which he only considered himself the steward, was employed almost invariably in aiding the friendless and distressed. His modesty and humility were as distinguished features of his character as his liberality; for, in the practice of his long and well spent life, the precept, "Let not thy right hand know what thy left hand doeth," was strictly fulfilled. The influential example of this excellent man has given the tone to the philanthropic exertions of his fellow-known humility, has been pubcitizens, who have formed a charitable institution to perpetuate his memory. At a general meeting of the inhabitants of Bristol, convened by public advertisement, for that purpose, the following resolutions were unanimously agreed to: 1. That in consequence of the severe loss society has sustained by the death of the venerable Richard Reynolds, and in order to perpetuate as far as may be the great and important benefits he has conferred on the city of Bristol and its vicinity, and to excite others to imitate the example of the depart-mother had eloped from the house ed Philanthropist, an association of her father, a dignified clergybe formed, under the designation man, while the captain was on of" Reynolds' Commemoration So- duty with his regiment in Wales. ciety." 2. That the members of Necessity compelled the youthful this society do consist of life-sub-pair, it is said, to have recourse to scribers of ten guineas or upwards, and annual subscribers of one guinea or upwards. 3. That the object of this Society be, to grant

licly exhibited at Bristol, as well as a half-length, which is about to be engraved; both are esteemed faithful likenesses.

At St. Cloud, the celebrated and favourite representative muse, MRS. DOROTHEA JORDAN. She had been seized with an inflammation of the lungs, but the more immediate cause of her death was the rupture of a blood-vessel in a fit of coughing. She was the daughter of an Irish officer, of the name of Bland, with whom her

the stage for support; and the little Dorothea first drew her breath among the Thespian corps. The father of Mrs. Jordan, capt.

gaged at Drury-lane at four pounds a week. Peggy, in The Country Girl, was her chef d'œuvre, and we despair of ever again witnessing the sterling naïveté with which she performed that character. He salary, after performing this part, was immediately doubled, then trebled, and two benefits in the season were allowed her. Fora very long period, she continued in the highest receipt of any salary before given at Drury-lane. Soon after her engagement in the me tropolis, she lost her mother; bui all her relatives have felt the ef fects of her bounty; for though ber maternal fondness certainly first

Bland, was of a very respectable | the London managers, and enfamily in Ireland, who were also in possession of a genteel income; his embracing the profession of an actor, therefore, tended to widen the breach already made amongst his relatives by his precipitate marriage: these relatives, at length, succeeded in disannulling the marriage; and Mrs. Bland was left with a numerous family, totally dependent on herself for that inadequate support afforded by her profession. To the honour of Mrs. Jordan's filial affection, as she advanced towards womanhood, she nobly resolved to exert all her abilities to assist her unhappy mother; and at a very early age she procured an engagement with Ry-pointed towards her own numer der, the Dublin manager, making ous family, yet her generosity has her first appearance in Phabe, in As You Like It, little imagining then that she would fascinate a

been extreme to others.

At Verona, of an abscess on the lungs, in her 28th year, the Em press of Austria, second wife of the Emperor Francis. Her majesty was born at Milan on the 14th of December, 1787. Though edu

crowded audience in London by her Rosalind. A natural sense of propriety induced her to take the name of Francis, on her first appearance, in order to avoid wounding the pride of her father's rela-cated in the retirement of the tives. Daly soon afterwards engaged her for his theatre, in Crowstreet, and her favour with the public increased; but some improper conduct towards her, on the part of the manager, obliging her to quit Dublin, she joined the Yorkshire company of Tate Wilkinson, at Leeds. The manager asking her what line she wished to engage in, she immediately answered, with that fascinating frankness and vivacity so natural to her, "All!" she was then first introduced, the same night, as Calista in The Fair Penitent and Lucy in The Virgin Unmasked. Her fame soon became known the applause she received, in what-youth, began to take a lively in ever character she undertook, was terest in the events which convul· unbounded: she was applied to by sed Europe, in 1799, 1800, &c.—

cloister, and destined by her allgust parents to take the veil, she showed from earliest youth very extraordinary talents. As the a gust family of Este was compelled by the French in 1796 to leave Lombardy, the princess, then nine years of age, was also obliged to retire with her parents into the interior of the Austrian states, and at a subsequent period to Netstadt, four (German) miles from Vienna, where her education was completed under the immediate care of her mother, the Arch duchess Beatrice, of Este. It was here that the princess, in silent retirement, though still in tender

be allowed to deplore a young princess who so forcibly called to mind the youth of the great Maria Theresa. Journal de Frankfort, April 26.

At Maydown (Armagh,) aged 90, Mr. Arthur O'Neill, professor of the Irish Harp, a pleasing companion, full of anecdote and historical information. He was a perfect reservoir of antient Irish harmony. Many of the Irish national airs would have been lost but for his retentive memory and pure taste. His performance on the harp was unrivalled; but he adhered tenaciously to the genuine style and simple taste of the Irish musical compositions, rejecting with disdain the corrupt adscititious ornaments with which it has been loaded by modern performers. Like Ossian, Carolan, and Stanley, he was blind. In Irish genealogy, in heraldry, and in bardic lore, O'Neill was pre-eminent. He was, better than all this, an honest worthy man. There is an excellent portrait of him in Mr. Bunting's Collection of Irish Airs.

cian, Dr. Eusebius Valli, not less conspicuous for his courage and enthusiasm than for his powers of observation and his profound acquirements. He took a voyage to Smyrna in 1786, when only 18 years of age, and in 1803, repair ed to Constantinople, with the design which he executed, of catching the plague, in order the better to ascertain its true nature, and the treatment proper for its cure.

As he had remarked that persons seized with the small pox are but little liable to take the plague, or that if they do take it, both diseases cease to be malignant, he conceived the idea of inoculating them reciprocally in order to temper one by the other. He succeeded in the experiment, as he has shown in his account of the plague of Constantinople printed at Mantua. Dr. Valli on another occasion, and from the same spirit of self-devotion, calmly sucked in the poison of a mad dog, to en- | courage a lady who had just been bitten, and whose imagination was overpowered by the apprehension of the consequences.

This resolute and estimable Died, at the Havannah, on the physician, instigated by the love of 24th Sept. 1815, Dr. EUSEBIUS his art and of humanity, is now VALLI. The two following letters, about to proceed to the United one taken from the French Jour-States, with the intention of brav nal de Paris, and understood to have been written by an eminent savant of that capital; the other from the New York Evening Post; will serve to display at large the extraordinary career and charac-measles, which commit as much ter of the defunct.

ing the yellow fever, and studying the means of correcting its virulence.

He has, for a long time, bestowed particular attention on the

havoc as the yellow fever, if not more; and he proposes to inoculate interchangeably in this case, as in the one just mentioned; after having modified the matter of the measles by reactives.

Physicians and all good men should follow this courageous philanthropist with their best wishes

MR. EDITOR-The inclosed let-the 7th of September; and as some ter I offer you for insertion; interesting, at least, as it evinces the enthusiasm and folly of a celebrated European character. Should you publish it, I must add, that it is not meant to lead to any controversy on questions much discussed before.