new that in this solemn ress his thankfulness for ify his last farewell. I ark of his love upon anya few weeks before his him and kissed her. The as the last memorial that d to him passed the œsooften happens with dying signs of death being close 1 all was over; and, as I could have no special effect of manly as the English, any act, From the usual standard of manwhen it recalls the spectator's as been able to work such a reagencies. The brave man has an: he has become an infant in In his craving for tenderness and wn his sexual character, and reman creature. And he that is the readiest to sympathise with amentary general of horse, a man all scenical displays of sentiment, , with sympathising tenderness, mortally wounded on the ground, away, entreated his relative to y must remember the immortal 1. on October 21, 1805, and the ghty admiral. And here again, nt, we read another indication, tures the sternest, that the last others in men of noble and ime, is the call for some relenting oment some phantom image of ctual presence of females is im had been am witness also quitted him, to attend som I spent at his a state of inse gible signs th he was therefo and pillows b again. He di was sometimes but about one movement towa he was thirsty; and water sweet not strength en flowing back, he rattling sound i more; and I con a way that I was And these were Mighty and sym away the bedcloth restored the cloth occasions I found were already grow At a quarter a February 12, 1804, *"It is enough:”—1 For those who watch, as ings that oftentimes hid sciousness on the part of ance would have seemed up a position for his final act, and posture which he preserved to the pulse was now no longer percept hands, feet, or neck. I tried ev beats, and found none but in the lef to beat with violence, but often in About ten o'clock in the forenoo able change; his eye was rigid, an came discoloured by a cadaverous the intensity of his constitutiona appeared of the cold sweat which the last mortal agony. It was near eleven o'clock when tion approached. His sister was the bed, his sister's son at the head still observing the fluctuations in at the bedside; and I called his se ness the death of his good master now advancing to its close, if ag where there seemed to be no strug this moment, his distinguished frie I had summoned by a messenger, e of all, the breath grew feebler; th larity of return; then it wholly inte lip was slightly convulsed; after th fceble respiration or sigh; and aft the pulse still beat for a few second slower and fainter, till it ceased altog stopped; the last motion was at a that moment the clock struck elever * Soon after his death the head of ] d settled into the precise e moment of death. The tible to the touch in his every part where a pulse eft hip, where it continued Intermitted. oon he suffered a remarkand his face and lips beis pallor. Still, such was mal habits, that no trace ich naturally accompanies en the moment of dissoluas standing at the foot of ead. I, for the purpose of in the pulse, was kneeling servant to come and witter. The last agony was agony it could be called, ruggle. And precisely at friend Mr R. R. V., whom r, entered the room. First - then it missed its regu_ntermitted, and the upper r this there followed one after that no more; but conds-slower and fainter, altogether; the mechanism at an end; and exactly at even. of Kant was shaved; and, Knorr, a plaster cast was taken, n designed of Dr Ga The con numbers c lowest, flo himself of himself to many days, house was t nishment of ance; and i and I thought papers, I very fra to carry it into effe and left the whole te foresaw that the stu allow themselves to E ing their veneration by a public funeral. The event showed that I was right; for a funeral such as Kant's, one so solemn and so magnificent, the city of Königsberg has never witnessed before or since. The public journals, and separate reports in pamphlets, &c., have given so minute an account of its details, that I shall here notice only the heads of the ceremony. On the 28th of February, at two o'clock in the afternoon, all the dignitaries of church and state, not only those resident in Königsberg, but from the remotest parts of Prussia, assembled in the church of the castle. Hence they were escorted by the whole body of the university, splendidly dressed for the occasion, and by many military officers of rank, with whom Kant had always been a great favourite, to the house of the deceased professor; from which the corpse was carried by torchlight, the bells of every church in Königsberg tolling, to the cathedral, which was lit up by innumerable wax-lights. A never-ending train of people followed it on foot. In the cathedral, after the usual burial rites, accompanied with every possible expression of national veneration to the deceased, there was a grand musical service, most admirably performed; at the close of which, Kant's mortal remains were lowered into the academic vault; and there he now rests among the patriarchs of the university. PEACE BE TO HIS DUST; AND TO HIS MEMORY EVERLASTING HONOUR! eral. The event showed such as Kant's, one so ity of Königsberg has The public journals, and - have given so minute ll here notice only the Do'clock in the after- body of the university, and by many military ad always been a great ceased professor; from torchlight, the bells of , to the cathedral, which ghts. A never-ending In the cathedral, after [ed with every possible to the deceased, there t admirably performed; al remains were lowered re he now rests among PEACE BE TO HIS DUST; HONOUR! majority in our any means of co "Thoughts on S World." By J. P. N sity of Glasgow. In this particular work -because in some in which this little pap But it would be doing authorise the reader formal review of that self, if I were suppos function. Grave and s ten in useless abunda |