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"This GAZETTEER is adapted to all the new statistical arrangements, and bears with it the promise of becoming a valuable and popular Work: an abstract of historical facts, county notices, antiquities, scientific and literary institutions, railroads and canal communications, and every subject possible to insert with advantage to trolled the vessel of the state, had virtually resigned the helm, and were scudding before the storm; a description hardly figurative, perhaps involving their best apology in future times. The Provost looked for repose, and soon repaired to his diocese. There he found but a change of laborious duty. On this point, we cannot do better than quote the language of the Memoir which has supplied the entire materials of this sketch :-"Never did any city, or any diocese, want more the superintendence of an active bishop. No man fitted for such a station had been promoted to that see for upwards of a century, and the charitable institutions of the city wanted some guide to direct and animate individual exertion. The bishop remained but two years at Limerick, and one of these was a year of disturbance, the other of famine. In the dreadful winter of 1821, his firmness and intrepidity were of signal advantage; the English military officers gladly availed themselves of the bishop's advice, when such a panic had seized the magistracy that, in their application for the Insurrection Act, they endeavoured to shelter themselves under the protection of a Round Robin. The bishop soon gave a practical proof of his courage; for he set out on a tour of visitation before the disturbances had terminated, lest he might increase the panic in the country by putting off what had been long officially announced. In this tour he visited parts of the united dioceses, where a bishop had not been for sixty years. In the time of famine, not only his personal exertions, but his purse, was ever ready to give assistance, with a liberality which considerably entangled him ;-for now what he studiously concealed may be toldhe expended in the two years at Limerick more than £3,000 above the income of his bishopric." And After two years he was translated to Ferns, where his conduct won the respect and affection of every class. During his remaining life in this diocese, his admirable combination of strict discipline, with the kindliest intercourse of hospitality and personal kindness with his clergy, was such as to conciliate their affection and reverence. the same prompt alacrity to promote the best interests of all classes, with the liberality of his munificence and the wisdom of his counsel, made him no less the object of regard and respect to all. "How he conducted himself," writes our chief authority, "may best be proved by the dismay which the account of his death occasioned." This event occurred in consequence of a paralytic stroke, at Liverpool, on the 12th of July, 1835. We regret that we have not room to mention several incidents illustrative of the character of this eminent prelate.”* * We are compelled by the same consideration to terminate at this point, the ecclesiastical division of this volume.-The few eminent names thus omitted are too recent in the recollection of the Irish public to be yet considered as strictly historical. Of the Rev. B. W. Mathias, there is a popular Memoir by his son, interesting in itself, and no less so for the notices it contains of Mr. Walker, the founder of a sect called after his name. Of that most eminent and worthy clergyman, the Rev. Peter Roe of Kilkenny, who, under Providence, was a chosen instrument in the restoration of the Irish church, there is a full Memoir of the deepest interest, containing the fullest account yet written of the occurrences to which they relate, by far the most truly important in the sum of human events. This volume, from which our entire materials should have been taken, has been written by a personal friend and fellow-labourer, the Rev. Samuel Madden. Other names LITERARY SERIES.* +Edward Hill, Regius Professor of Medicine, T.C.D. BORN 1741-DIED 1830. THIS distinguished scholar was the son of Thomas Hill, Esq., who resided near Ballyporeen in the county of Tipperary; he was born on the 14th of May, 1741, and received the first rudiments of his education in the chapel of Carrigavistele, in that neighbourhood, under the tuition of the priest of that parish. In memory of which, in the year 1811, he gave as a present to the chapel a silver chalice and paten, on the former of which is engraved the following inscription. HUNC CALICEM EDVARDUS HILL MED. DOCTOR, ET IN ACADEMIA DUBLINIENSI MDCCCXI. After the decease of his father, the family, consisting of his mother, five sons and two daughters, resided at another property which they had near Cashel. Edward, who was the eldest, went daily to a classical there are, somewhat less, but still eminently deserving the biographer's labour, which we should have gladly noticed, but think it vain to merely enumerate. The record of the Christian is not for perishable fame, and is needless unless it can be made available for example. For one omission we must apologize,-that of the late Rev. Dr. Doyle, the celebrated titular Bishop of Kildare. Our former publishers had, in some mea.. sure, pledged us to the insertion of his Memoir; and we can assure that portion of the public which may blame the omission that, were it possible, it should not have occurred. Had a Memoir (according to our publisher's general notice) been transmitted to us, it should have found its place without too minute a scrutiny of any political differences from the well known views of these volumes. As for any effort on our own part to supply this want, we have to say, that a fair consideration of the very liberal spirit in which our labours have been generally received by the members of his church, would have prompted us, had we not been restrained by an opposite motive suggested by the very same sense. That able and eminent man was so wholly identified with public questions-which we could only state in the character of an antagonist-that, on the fullest consideration, we have concluded that silence is the more gracious office. With Bishop Doyle we had the honour and pleasure of an acquaintance during a short interval, and can bear testimony to his talent, amiability, and many good and pleasing qualities: he had not at the time attained the celebrity which he afterwards acquired. * The shortness of this series is, in a great measure, owing to the fact, that the most important portion of our literature has proceeded from the Irish clergy. The editor is indebted to the Rev. Mr. Hill of Carrick-on-Suir for this me school in that city, but after some time was placed as a boarder in the diocesan school in Clonmel, under the tuition of the Rev. Mr. Harwood, where he finished his school education, and then entered college as a pensioner, with great credit to himself and his master, in the year 1760. In his undergraduate course he obtained every honour. Premiums at examinations, a scholarship, native's place, exhibitions, and a moderatorship, and would have been a fellow, had he sought it. The beauty of his penmanship was particularly noticed in college; and he was requested by the board to write the Duke of Bedford's testimonium, which he did; and, on the 7th of January 1766, they gave him a present of five guineas for it. In 1768 he was a medical bachelor, and was appointed to the professorship of botany in 1773, on the decease of doctor James Span. That professorship he held until the year 1800, at which time an act of parliament was passed which prohibited any person holding two professorships. In 1781, on the recommendation of Dr. Wm. Clements, vice-provost, he was appointed regius professor of physic, which he held for the remainder of his life, forty-nine years, and was incessant in his labours for promoting the interests of the school of physic in Ireland. No physician of his time paid so much attention to the diseases of children; his practice among them was most extensive, and it is much to be regretted that he did not write on the subject for the benefit of posterity. At an early period of his life he became passionately fond of Milton's works, particularly the Paradise Lost; and having discovered that numerous alterations and mistakes were made in every edition of that divine poem, through the carelessness of editors and printers, he procured a copy of every edition, and determined on correcting them in an edition to be edited by himself. He began this laborious task about the year 1769, and made it the business of spare hours from medical attendance. He compiled a most laborious index of all the words, a prolegomena, a critical examination of French translations, and a number of notes of his own, of Newton and others, and went over this laborious work several times in a most beautiful style of writing, both as to composition and penmanship, and was engaged in that work to within a short time before his death; but unfortunately his labours have not been brought to press, though many exertions have been made to attain that object. In literary attainments Dr. Hill stood unrivalled among his cotemporaries, a highly accomplished scholar, in Greek, Latin, French, and Italian; in grammatical composition and elegance of expression, no man could excel him. From extensive reading he was well acquainted with every subject and science, and possessed a great share of mechanical ingenuity. He was well skilled in ancient architecture; and, in 1814, when the Wellington Testimonial was in contemplation, he designed a beautiful circular temple, consisting of ten Ionic columns, its basement, entablature, and dome. The model was elegantly executed, and was exhibited at the Dublin Society house, with the other models; it was greatly admired, but was not chosen by the Wellington committee. He published three excellent letters on the occasion, which proved him to be a complete master of the subject of architecture. Had the Testimonial been built from that design, in Stephen's Green, the place for which the doctor intended it, it would have been an elegant ornament |