ceeded, with a brigade of seamen and marines, to co-operate with the army under General Grinfield. These services were gratefully acknowledged by Commodore Hood, who intrusted him with the despatches home.

The Argo was next ordered to Egypt, with the notorious Elfi Bey on board, and Captain Hallowell appears to have been one of the first who detected his true character. In the summer of 1804 he convoyed the Mediterranean trade into the Channel, and on his arrival was appointed to that fine ship the Tigre, of 80 guns, in which he accompanied Nelson to the West Indies, in his fruitless pursuit of the combined fleets of France and Spain.

Captain Hallowell convoyed the second expedition to Egypt, with 5000 troops under Major-General Fraser, early in 1807; and he remained on that coast till the evacuation of Alexandria, in September, when he was stationed off Toulon. On this service his diligence was exemplary, but there was no particular opportunity for distinction till October, 1809, when he assisted Sir George Martin in driving on shore four French ships of war in the Gulf of Foz; and then following the eleven vessels that had escaped to the Bay of Rosas, disposed of the whole convoy by burning what could not be brought away. In July, 1810, this gallant officer was rewarded with a Colonelcy of Marines. In the following year he became a Rear-Admiral; and in January, 1812, hoisting his flag in the Malta, of 80 guns - perhaps the finest two-decker then afloathe again proceeded to the Mediterranean, and availed himself of every circumstance and opportunity for aiding and encouraging the Spanish patriots in Catalonia, Valencia, and other parts of that distracted country.

After the fall of Napoleon, Admiral Hallowell retired to enjoy that peaceful relaxation which he had so well earned; and on the opening of the order of the Bath he was created a Knight Commander. He subsequently commanded on the Irish station for the customary period of three years; and in the summer of 1821 hoisted his flag on board the Prince Re

gent of 120 guns, as Commander-in-Chief in the Medway. This was his last service afloat, but he was decorated with the Grand Cross of the Bath, and became a full Admiral in July,

1830.

During his professional career, Sir Benjamin gave many amiable traits of a generous dispositon, as well as great naval skill, and calm intrepidity. When at Gibraltar, in 1806, he sent a trunk filled with wearing apparel, and a check on his agents for 100%. to the Captain of a French man-of-war, whose ship had been sunk and himself taken prisoner, and who, in consequence, he believed to be in want of temporary assistance. During the siege of St. Elmo, it became necessary to cut down a tree, which interposed between a battery and the enemy's walls; and the Neapolitan labourers being afraid to perform so dangerous a service, Capt. Hallowell, with Trowbridge and two other persons, advanced from the works for the purpose of encouraging them. On reaching the tree a shot was fired at the officers, which struck the ground between their legs, fortunately without doing any injury to either.

Sir Benjamin Hallowell succeeded to the estates of the Carews of Beddington, and assumed the name and arms, pursuant to the will of his cousin Mrs. Anne Paston Gee, who died March 28. 1828. Neither himself nor that lady was descended of the blood of that ancient family; but her husband William Gee, Esq., who died in 1815, was descended from the Sir Nicholas Carew who died in 1687, and was brother to Richard Gee, Esq., who, after inheriting the property under an entail created by the last male heir of the family, assumed the name of Carew, and on his death in 1816 left the whole of his property to his brother's widow, the lady above mentioned. The estates are entailed on Sir B. H. Carew's sons in succession, and their male issue,*

The Admiral died on the 2d of September, 1834, at Bed

* To a friend who congratulated the gallant hero on this windfall his answer was touching:- "Half as much," said he, "half as much twenty years ago, had indeed been a blessing; but I am now old and crank."

dington Park, Surrey, aged 74, leaving issue. His eldest son Charles is a Post Captain of 1827, and married, June 12. 1828, Mary Murray, daughter of the late Sir Murray Maxwell, C.B.

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No. XXVII.

SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, Esq.

"Call it not vain! they do not err
Who say that when a poet dies

Mute nature mourns her worshipper,
And celebrates his obsequies."

and

"No man was ever more beloved by his friends among them were many of the great as well as the goodthan the poet Coleridge. We so call him; for he alone, perhaps, of all men that ever lived, was always a poet,—in all his moods and they were many-inspired. His genius

never seemed to burn low, to need fuel or fanning; but, gently stirred, up rose the magic flame, and the flame was fire. His waking thoughts had all the vividness of visions, all the variousness of dreams: but the will, whose wand in sleep is powerless, reigned over all those beautiful reveries which were often like revelations; while fancy and imagination, still obedient to reason, the lawgiver, arrayed earth and life in such many-coloured radiance, that they grew all divine." Blackwood's Magazine.

Mr. Coleridge was the youngest son of the Rev. John Coleridge, Vicar of St. Mary Ottery, Devonshire, and Ann his wife, and was born in that parish, where he was baptized 30th December, 1772.

"St. Mary Ottery, my native village,

In the sweet shire of Devon,"

to commence with a quotation from the beautiful play of his friend and schoolfellow Charles Lamb.

His father died in the month of October, 1781, leaving his widow with a family of eleven children, of whom one, the Rev.

George Coleridge, eventually succeeded him at Ottery St. Mary. A presentation to Christ's Hospital, London, was procured for the subject of this memoir from John Way, Esq., one of the governors, and the boy was admitted to that most excellent school on the 18th of July, 1782. His father had formerly been a schoolmaster at South Molton, and is said to have assisted Dr. Kennicott in the collation of manuscripts for his Hebrew Bible: he published Dissertations arising from the 17th and 18th Chapters of the Book of Judges, and other works. Samuel must have been well prepared for school by his father; for the age of nine years is rather a late period from which to start for the honours of Grecian and university exhibitionist at Christ's Hospital, — honours which he obtained in other nine years. But he has himself, in a work which he published in the year 1817, left us some records of his school education, which must not be omitted. The work is entitled "Biographia Literaria," but, as he himself assures us, "the least part of it concerns himself personally." Throughout this memoir we shall avail ourselves of such parts as are autobiographical, and thus, as far as possible, make Mr. Coleridge his own historian. Of his early and most important days the work tells us :

"At school I enjoyed the inestimable advantage of a very sensible, though at the same time a very severe, master (the Rev. James Bowyer). He early moulded my taste to the preference of Demosthenes to Cicero, of Homer and Theocritus to Virgil, and again of Virgil to Ovid. He habituated me to compare Lucretius, Terence, and above all, the chaster poems of Catullus, not only with the Roman poets of the (so called) silver and brazen ages, but with even those of the Augustan era; and, on grounds of plain sense and universal logic, to see and assert the superiority of the former in the truth and nativeness both of their thoughts and diction. At the same time that we were studying the Greek tragic poets he made us read Shakspeare and Milton as lessons, and they were the lessons, too, which required most time and trouble to bring up, so as to escape his censure. I learned from him that