tinge of bigotry, his charity without the shadow of ostentation. He was manly, generous, and frank; and in him the elements were mingled so happily, that they constituted in their combination a beautiful symmetry and consistency of character. His amiable virtues indeed can be fully and adequately appreciated by those alone who were united to him by the ties of conjugal and filial affection: and with them the unavailing tear can only be dried by the prospect of a blessed reunion in that immortal state where the wise and good of every age and clime shall be assembled, and death and separation be known no more." * CATALOGUE OF THE WORKS OF DR JOHN EVANS. 1. An Address designed to promote a Revival of Religion among the General Baptists, 1793. 12mo. 2. Juvenile Pieces designed for Youth of both Sexes, 1793. 12mo. 3. A Brief Sketch of the several Denominations into which the Christian World is divided; accompanied with a Persuasive to Religious Moderation, 1794. 12mo. 4. A Sequel to the Sketch, 1796. 12mo. 5. A Sermon preached at Worship street, Shoreditch, Oct. 18, 1795; being a sincere tribute of respect to the Memory of the Rev. Samuel Stennett, D.D., the Rev. Andrew Kippis, D.D., and the Rev. Rice Harris, D.D. to which are prefixed a few particulars of their Lives and Writings, 1795. 8vo. 6. A Preservative against the Infidelity and Uncharitableness of the Eighteenth Century. 12mo. 7. A Sermon preached April 30, 1797, on the Decease of the Rev. Charles Bulkeley; with a Sketch of his Life, Character, and Writings. 8vo. Lond. 1797. 8. An Apology for Human Nature, by the late Charles Bulkeley; with a prefatory Address, 1797. 12mo. 9. An Attempt to account for the Infidelity of the late Mr Gibbon, founded on his own Memoirs, 1797. 8vo. 10. Moral Reflections, suggested by a View of London from the Monument, 1798. 12mo. 11. An Essay on the Education of Youth, 1798. 12mo. 12. An Epitome of Geography, 1801. 12mo. 13. An Address to Young People on the Necessity and Importance of Religion, 1801. 12mo. 14. A Sermon on the Peace of Amiens, 1802. 8vo. * Monthly Repository, New Series, vol. i. p. 227. 15. The Duty of every Briton at this perilous Moment: a Sermon on the threatened Invasion, 1803. 8vo. 16. The Juvenile Tourist, or Excursions through various Parts of Great Britain, 1803. 8vo. 17. The unhappy Effects of Enthusiasm and Superstition: a Sermon, 1804. 8vo. 18. The Destruction of the combined Fleets of France and Spain: a Sermon on the Victory of Trafalgar, 1805. 8vo. 19. A Picture of Worthing, 1805. 12mo. 20. The Poetic Garland; or, Beauties of Modern Poetry, 1807. 24mo. 21. Flowers of Poetry. 24mo. 22. The Prosaic Garland. 24mo. 23. A Sermon at the Opening of a new Place of Worship at Cranbrook, 1808. 8vo. 24. A Sermon on behalf of the Lancasterian System of educating the Poor, 1808. 8vo. 25. An Address on the Baptism of Isaac Littleton, a converted Jew, 1808. 8vo. 26. General Redemption, the only proper Basis of General Benevolence: a Letter to Robert Hawker, D.D. suggested by his Defence of the London Female Penitentiary, 1809. 8vo. 27. A New Geographical Grammar, 1809. 2 vols. 8vo. 28. The Jubilee rendered a Source of Religious Improvement: a Sermon, 1809. 8vo. 29. An Address on the Interment of Stephen Lowdell, Esq. 1809. 8vo. 30. A Sermon on the Death of the Princess Amelia, 1810. 8vo. 31. Religious Liberty, the Offspring of Christianity: a Sermon on the Rejection of Lord Sidmouth's Bill, 1811. 8vo. 32. The Christian Minister's Retrospect: a Sermon preached at Worship street, on the twentieth Anniversary of his Ministry, Nov. 3, 1811. 8vo. 33. The Superior Glory of the Second Temple: a Sermon preached at the opening of Salem Chapel, King's Lynn, Jan. 5, 1812. 8vo. 34. Protestantism and Popery illustrated, in two Letters from a Catholic Priest, 1812. 8vo. 35. A Sermon on the Decease of J. Brent, Esq. 1812. 8vo. 36. A Sermon on the Decease of the Rev. Hugh Worthington, 1813. 8vo. 37. Complete Religious Liberty vindicated, in a Letter respecting the Petition for the Abolition of all Penal Statutes in matters of Religion, 1813. 8vo. 38. A Sermon on the Death of Thomas Mullett, Esq. merchant, 1815. 8vo. 39. An Excursion to Windsor; to which is added, a Journal of a Trip to Paris, by John Evans, Jun. M.A. 40. The Vanity of Human Expectations: a Sermon on the Death of the Princess Charlotte of Wales. 8vo. 41. Memoirs of the Rev. William Richard, LL.D. including a Sketch of his Character and Writings; with an Appendix, containing some Account of the Rev. Roger Williams, founder of the State of Rhode Island, North America, 1819. 8vo. 42. The Christianity of the New Testament impregnable and imperishable: an Address occasioned by the Trial of Richard Carlile, 1819. 8vo. 43. Death the inevitable Lot of Man: Reflections on the Decease of George the Third and the Duke of Kent. 8vo. 44. Recreation for the Young and Old; an Excursion to Brighton, a Visit to Tunbridge Wells, and a Trip to Southend; with an Alphabetical List of all the Watering Places in the Kingdom. 1821. 45. Richmond and its Vicinity; with a Glance at Twickenham, Strawberry Hill, and Hampton Court, 1824. 12mo. 46. Discourses on the Christian Temper. 1824. 47. Tracts, Sermons, and Funeral Òrations; published between 1795 and 1825; and Six New Discourses, 1826, 8vo. This work is illustrated by an excellent Portrait of Dr Evans, by Woodman. 48. The Fears of Dying annihilated by the Hope of Heaven: a Dialogue on Death, by John Mason, A.M. with Memoirs of the Author, and Illustrations of the Happiness of Heaven, 1826. 12mo. 49. Four Lectures on Christian Baptism, by John Evans, LL.D. . Edwin Chapman, James Gilchrist, and David Eaton, 1826. 8vo. Dr Evans was the author of several Funeral Discourses and other single Sermons, besides those specified in this Catalogue; and he also edited a treatise on the Welsh Druids, by his friend Dr Richard, of Lynn, to which he added Biographical Notices of Nonconformist Divines belonging to the Principality. CLAUDE DENIS RAFFENEL. "Dans la première jeunesse, au moment où le cœur reçoit des impressions vives, la plupart des Européens studieux, oubliant presque leur pays, ont l'imagination occupée de l'ancienne Rome, et surtout de la Grèce, dont Rome admira le génie, de cette Grèce brillante qui apparaît toujours au-delà, et peut-être au-dessus de Rome même. Ainsi s'explique l'enthousiasme qui s'est propagé, au seul bruit des destinées nouvelles dont les enfans de l'Attique, de l'Argolide, et de la Thessalie avaient accueillé l'espérance. Ils devaient eux-mêmes leurs plus nobles inspirations au souvenir de leurs ancêtres qu'ils avaient trouvé inséparable des traditions littéraires, au milieu des écoles, dans l'Allemagne savante, dans ingénieuse Italie, dans la généreuse France."-De l'Intervention des Peuples en Faveur de la Grèce-Essai par Sismondi.-Revue Encyclopédique, Mars 1827. AMONG the natives of Western Europe, whose heroism has been excited by the struggles of the modern Greeks to free themselves from the yoke of the Ottomans, M. RAFFENEL, a young Frenchman of considerable talents and acquirements, deserves to be commemorated. His history is rendered remarkable not only by the spirit of enterprise and enthusiasm for liberty which induced him at one time to explore the deserts of Africa, and subsequently to become a volunteer in the cause of liberty, but also by his literary efforts, which were principally directed to the elucidation of the history of ancient and modern Greece. Claude Denis Raffenel was born about the year 1797, in the department of Jura, and was the son of an officer in the naval service, who became commandant at La Rochelle. Having finished his studies at Clermont in Auvergne, he was placed for instruction, in 1816, in a commercial house, on leaving which he engaged in some adventurous speculations in the Levant seas. An irresistible inclination led him to seek for that knowledge which can only be attained in the course of distant and dangerous voyages; and being also inspired with a taste for literary and scientific researches, his commercial enterprises were so regulated as to facilitate the prosecution of his favourite objects. He had already visited various eastern countries, when happening to be in the colony of Senegal at the period of the shipwreck of the Medusa, (whose terrible catastrophe served as the ground-work of the impressive description of the horrors of famine in Lord Byron's Don Juan,) he was so strongly impressed by the event, that he resolved to engage in the most adventurous expeditions into the interior of unknown regions; and in fact, to a certain extent, he carried his design into execution, having passed several months in a hut erected in the precincts of a forest, where he was seized with a dangerous fit of illness, and was near losing his life. The curious details which he afterwards gave his friends relative to this part of his travels in Africa, afford cause for regretting that he did not, as he proposed, draw up a narrative of his adventures and observations for the press. Afterwards attached to one of the French consulates, in the ports of the Levant, Raffenel witnessed the first revolutionary movements among the Greeks, and he vowed to devote all his talents to their cause. He founded at Smyrna, under the title of L'Observateur Oriental,' a journal written in French, and which he wished to consecrate to the interests of the commerce of the Franks, deeply compromised by the consequences of the insurrection. But he was unable to carry on the publication by means of his own resources alone; and he chose rather to abandon it altogether than to accept the assistance of persons whose feelings and sentiments were different from his own. Having then removed into the Morea, he became in some measure engaged in the events which signalised the first campaign of the Hellenic revolution. Ill health, however, obliged him to return to his native country, where he met with a friendly reception from general La Fayette, who employed him to superintend the education of his grandsons; and while thus occupied, he dedicated his leisure to the composition of a work which first excited an interest in France in favour of that holy cause, to which the author himself was destined to become one of the generous martyrs.* He was about to put the finishing strokes to some of * This production is intitled 'A Complete History of the Events in Greece, from the first Commotions to the present Day,' the first volume of which appeared in 1822. M. Sismondi, in the paper referred to at the beginning of this article, says-" Everything concerning the Greeks was now read with avidity; and narratives and memoirs multiplied apace. About this time may be distinguished those of M. Raybaud, preceded by a good introduction by M. Rabbe; and soon after appeared Le Vrai Système de l'Europe relativement à la Grèce,' by M. de Pradt. About the middle of 1825 the journals began to give regular notices of the Biography of the Hellenes,' a periodical collection in which may be particularly remarked a memoir of Botzaris, the Leonidas of modern Greece. In giving an account of a Résumé de l'Histoire de la Régénération de la Grèce,' which must not be confounded with the work of M. Pouqueville, nor with the Histoire des Evénémens de la Grèce,' by M. Raffenel, a journalist mentions the avidity displayed by the |