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His remains were deposited in a vault at Paddington. On his coffin he is described to have died aged sixty-seven; and on it might have been justly inscribed,

NON OMNIS MORIAR.

"I come to bury Cæsar, not to praise him.
The evil, that men do, lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones;
So let it be with Cæsar." SHAKESPEAR.

APPENDIX.

NOTE A-See page 6.

In the kingdom of Siam, which is situated in a large vale between two ridges of mountains, its river Meinham, that is, The Mother of Waters, is celebrated among Oriental rivers. The trees on the banks of this river are finely illuminated with swarms of fire-flies, which emit or conceal their light as uniformly as if it proceeded from a machine of the most exact contrivance.

Though this morceau of natural history would be sufficient for the present purpose, yet, for its curiosity, it may not be uninteresting to subjoin the account of these beautiful insects, as related by Dr. Shaw in his Zoology, vol. vi. part 1. page 144, &c.

"The Fulgora Lanternaria, or Peruvian Lantern Fly, is undoubtedly one of the most curious of insects: it is of a very considerable size, measuring nearly three inches and a half from the tip of the front to that of the tail, and about five inches and a half from wing's end to wing's end, when expanded: the body is of a lengthened oval shape, roundish or subcylindric, and divided into several rings or segments: the head is nearly equal to the length of the rest of the animal, and is oval, inflated, and bent slightly upwards: the ground-colour is an elegant yellow, with a strong tinge of green in some parts, and marked with numerous bright

nut-brown variegations in the form of stripes and spots: the wings are very large, of a yellow colour, most elegantly varied with brown undulations and spots, and the lower pair are decorated by a very large eye-shaped spot on the middle of each, the iris or border of the spot being red, and the centre half red and half semi-transparent white: the head or lantern is pale yellow, with longitudinal red stripes. This beautiful insect is a native of Surinam and many other parts of South America, and during the night diffuses so strong a phosphoric splendor from its head or lantern that it may be employed for the purpose of a candle or torch; and it is said, that three or four of the insects tied to the top of a stick, are frequently used by travellers for that purpose. The celebrated Madam Merian, in her work on the insects of Surinam, gives a very agreeable account of the surprise into which she was thrown by the first view of the flashes of light proceeding from these insects. 'The Indians once brought me,' says she, before I knew that they shone by night, a number of these lantern flies, which I shut up in a large wooden box. In the night they made such a noise that I awoke in a fright, and ordered a light to be brought, not knowing from whence the noise proceeded. As soon as we found that it came from the box, we opened it; but were still much more alarmed, and let it fall to the ground in a fright, at seeing a flame of fire come out of it; and as many animals as came out, so many flames of fire appeared. When we found this to be the case, we recovered from our fright, and again collected the insects, highly admiring their splendid appearance.'

"Dr. Darwin, in a note to some lines relative to luminous insects, in his beautiful poem of the Loves of the Plants, makes Madam Merian affirm that she drew and finished her figure of the insect by its own light. On examination, how

doubts about it. It is not stated to me what these important consultations were about. From M'Cann he heard that a Baronial meeting was to be at Bond's on the 12th of March, and that there was material business to transact, and desired Reynolds to attend-that is all that Reynolds heard from M'Cann, and M'Cann is now no more, and this part of the case is in doubt and obscurity. For my part I am not satisfied that any thing criminal did pass at the meeting at Bond's on the 12th of March.-No man can say so-on the evidence produced they do not say that, they only do suppose there was. Were the jury to judge of their own present view, I do not think they would come justly with their verdict of condemnation.

"Bond has been resident in this city twenty years; in your walks of life, gentlemen of the jury, you never heard any thing to his prejudice before this charge. I know my duty to my client, and must tell you, if you have had prejudices I know you will discard them; I am not paying you any compliment, I have spoken under the feelings of an Irishman during the course of these trials; I have endeavoured to speak to your understandings; I have not ventured to entreat you on behalf of my client, because I am sure you will give your justice and your merits free operation, in your minds and consciences, at this trial. I am sure you will try the cause fairly, and admit every circumstance into your reflexions: in a case between the crown and the prisoner I have not ventured to address you on the public feelings at this important crisis; you will preserve the subject for the sake of the law, and preserve the law for the sake of the crown. You are to decide by your sober and deliberate understandings, and hold the balances equal between the crown and the subject; for you are called upon to pronounce your sentence of condemnation or acquittal of the prisoner at the

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bar. If you should be mistaken in your verdict it cannot shake the safety of the state; you are called upon with the less anxiety, because whichever way your verdict may be, you are not to be told, remember the safety of your king, or your own safety; you are to have in recollection your solemn oath, to decide according to the evidence, and give such a verdict as may always be satisfactory to your consciences at the last moment of your existence. The court will tell you

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it is your province to decide on matter of fact, and as to opinion on matter of law the court will explain that to you. Your verdict can never die. As to my opinions of the law, whatever they may be, I shall never have an opportunity of uttering to you again; your verdict will stamp infamy on the prisoner, or support the throne of the law; I need not remind you that the present moment is aweful. My friends, if you suffer your consciences to be influenced, to be de graded, into opinions of the consequences of verdict; you are bound to decide by the evidences, the glorious privilege of trial by jury!!! If martial law must cut the thread of brotherly affection, the necessity of it will cease, for verdicts of honest jurors will restore your country to peace and tranquillity, and the liberties of your country will by that means be secured; the supreme government of a nation be protected and supported, whatever the form of that government may be. Let me, however, ask, is there no species of law to be resorted to but terror? let me observe to you, that the moral law is destroyed when it is stained with the effusion of blood; and it is much to be regretted, when the terrors of the criminal law are obliged to be resorted to, to enforce obedience to the common law of the land by the people, for the sword may cover the land with millions of deluded men. Is it become necessary to hurl destruction round the land till it shivers into a thousand particles, to the destruction of all moral law, and all moral obligations?

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