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Few artists indeed have ever laboured with more persevering assiduity than Mr. Nollekens. He continued to do so until one morning in February, 1819; when, while sitting at breakfast, he received a violent paralytic stroke, which for a time deprived him of speech, and of the use of his left hand. Having recovered a little from the effects of this attack, he dabbled on until about two years before his death, when, in consequence of his increasing infirmities, and of his almost total loss of sight, he became incapable of any further personal exertion. On the 23d of April, 1823, at about half-past one o'clock he expired; being then in the 86th year of his age. of his age. He had been much convulsed during the night; but breathed his last tranquilly, and in full possession of his senses.

Mrs. Nollekens died in 1817; leaving no family.

When some alchemist, who pretended that he had discovered the philosopher's stone, offered to disclose his secret to Rubens, that great artist laughingly told him he needed it not, for that his pencil had long acquired the power of converting every thing it touched into gold. Mr. Nollekens' chisel seems to have had a similar property. It is probable that no artist ever amassed so much wealth. At the time of his decease, exaggerated accounts were circulated with respect to its amount; his will being proved, however, it was sworn by the executors, Sir William Beechey, John Thomas Smith, Esq., and Francis Douce, Esq., to be under two hundred thousand pounds. It was also rumoured that he had bequeathed fifty thousand pounds to his Majesty; a report entirely destitute of foundation. We fear that there is truth in another statement; namely, that he did not make a sufficient provision for several individuals whose long services entitled them to his grateful protection; but this is an omission that may easily be remedied, and that ought to be so. The legacies by his will, (some of which are to-public charities, and others of which, as one to Mr. West, another to Mr. Cosway, &c. are lapsed,) do not exceed nine thousand

pounds in amount. The residuary legatees are Francis Douce, Esq., Francis Russell Palmer, Esq., and the Rev.

Herrick.

Mr. Nollekens was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy of London on the 27th of August, 1771; and a Royal Academician on the 1st of Feb. 1772.

No. X.

EDWARD JENNER, Esq. M.D. LL.D. F.R.S. M.V.I.F. EXTRAORDINARY TO THE KING; AND A

A PHYSICIAN

MAGISTRATE OF THE COUNTY OF GLOUCESTER.

If the Romans considered that man worthy of a statue who by his exertions rescued a single citizen from the grave; what honours are too great for the memory of him, who, by the happiest discovery, and the most liberal communication of it to the public, has saved the lives of millions? Such is the service that has been rendered to mankind by our illustrious countryman, Edward Jenner: and, though he did not receive those high distinctions to which his merits had a fair claim, his name is ennobled by the admiration of the world, and it will be held in reverence to the remotest ages.

Dr. Jenner was born May 17th, 1749, at Berkeley in Gloucestershire. He was the youngest son of the Reverend Stephen Jenner, A.M., of the University of Oxford, Rector of Rockhampton, and Vicar of Berkeley. Independent of church preferment his father was possessed of considerable landed property. Dr. Jenner's mother was the daughter of the Reverend Henry Kead, of an ancient and respectable family in Berkshire, who also once held the living of Berkeley, and was at the same time a Prebendary of Bristol.

The family of Jenner, which is of ancient standing in Gloucestershire and the adjacent county of Worcester, has produced several men of eminence; among whom was Dr. Thomas Jenner, the immediate predecessor of the pious Dr. George Horne, in the Presidentship of Magdalen College, Oxford. Dr. Jenner's father had been tutor to the old Earl

of Berkeley; who gave him the valuable vicarage which he held till his death: and the whole of that noble house, particularly the late lord, and his brother the admiral, ever retained the warmest attachment to him and his family.

Dr. Jenner had the misfortune to lose his father at a very early period of life; but this loss, which too frequently prevents the proper cultivation of the mental faculties, was fortunately supplied by the affectionate and well-directed attention of his eldest brother, the Reverend Stephen Jenner, who brought him up with a tenderness truly parental. He had another brother, the Reverend Henry Jenner, many years domestic chaplain to the Earl of Aylesbury, and Vicar of Great Bedwin, Wilts; father of the Rev. George Jenner, and of Mr. Henry Jenner, surgeon of Berkeley, whose names so frequently appear in the history of Vaccine Inoculation.

When he was about eight years of age, he went to a school at Cirencester, where he remained only half a year. He was then consigned to the tuition of the Rev. - Clissold, at Wotton Underedge; by whom he was well grounded in classical knowledge. While here he became fond of natural history, and especially directed his attention to the dormouse, of the nests of which animal he made a large collection.

After leaving school, which was about the thirteenth year of his age, Dr. Jenner was placed under the care of the Messieurs Ludlow, then eminent practitioners at Sodbury, near Bristol; where he remained six years.

On the expiration of his articles, Dr. Jenner repaired to the metropolis, and became a pupil of St. George's Hospital, under the immediate care of the late John Hunter; with whom he lived two years as a house pupil, and with whom and for whom he laboured in the formation of that stupendous monument of anatomical and physiological industry, the Hunterian Museum. In liberal minds a congeniality of talent and pursuit lays the foundation of sincere and lasting friendship. The truth of this observation was fully exemplified by the intimacy which ever after subsisted between the celebrated preceptor and his no less celebrated pupil.

Such was the estimation in which Dr. Jenner's talents were atthat time held by Mr. Hunter, that he offered him a partnership in his profession, which was very valuable. Mr. Hunter was desirous of extending his lectures on anatomy and surgery to subjects of natural history, and justly appreciating the abilities of his pupil Jenner, and the ardour and perseverance of his inquiries into those subjects, he was desirous of obtaining his co-operation. So attached, however, was Dr. Jenner to a country life, to his native place, and above all, to the excellent brother whom, from difference of years and the decease of his father, he regarded rather filially than fraternally, that he declined the flattering proposal.

When a second voyage of discovery to the South Seas was projected, Dr. Jenner, who had materially assisted Sir Joseph Banks in forming a scientific arrangement of the curiosities and natural productions which he had brought from that part of the world, was solicited, but in vain, to become one of the literary associates in that enterprize.

Soon after, another invitation of the most advantageous description was made to him on the part of the late Warren Hastings, Esq., to go out in a medical capacity to Bengal; but neither could this alluring prospect tempt him to leave the land of his fathers. So strong indeed was the influence of the patria et natale solum, that to the day of his death he could never endure to reside for any length of time at any great distance from the place of his birth.

After finishing his studies in London, therefore, Dr. Jenner settled at Berkeley; and soon obtained practice to a great extent. Among other occurrences which considerably extended his reputation as a skilful surgeon, was the complete success of a very difficult and delicate operation which he performed in the Gloucester Infirmary, on a person suffering under a strangulated hernia.

In his leisure hours Dr. Jenner laid the foundation at Berkeley of a Museum of Natural History and Comparative Anatomy, which attracted very general notice. Being fond of ornithology, he entered into some very curious investi

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