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imental Hannah More, stands an urn commemorative of Locke, the gift of Mrs. Montague, with the following inscription: To JOHN LOCKE, Born in this village. This memorial is erected by Mrs. Montague, and presented to HANNAH MORE. J. SILVESTER. * * * * * THE SELECTOR, AND LITERARY NOTICES OF _NEW WORKS_. * * * * * A FUNERAL AT SEA. We quote the following "last scene of poor Jack's eventful history" from Capt. Basil Hall's _Fragments of Voyages and Travel_, a work, observes the _Quarterly Review_, "sure sooner or later, to be in everybody's hands." "It need not be mentioned, that the surgeon is in constant attendance upon the dying man, who has generally been removed from his hammock to a cot, which is larger and more commodious, and is placed within a screen on one side of the sick bay, as the hospital of the ship is called. It is usual for the captain to pass through this place, and to speak to the men every morning; and I imagine there is hardly a ship in the service in which wine, fresh meat, and any other supplies recommended by the surgeon, are not sent from the tables of the captain and officers to such of the sick men as require a more generous diet than the ship's stores provided. After the carver in the gun-room has helped his messmates, he generally turns to the surgeon, and says, 'Doctor, what shall I send to the sick?' But, even without this, the steward would certainly be taken to task were he to omit inquiring, as a matter of course, what was wanted in the sick bay. The restoration of the health of the invalids by such supplies is perhaps not more important, however, than the moral influence of the attention on the part of the officers. I would strongly recommend every captain to be seen (no matter for how short a time) by the bed-side of any of his crew whom the surgeon may report as dying. Not occasionally, and in the flourishing style with which we read of great generals visiting hospitals, but uniformly and in the quiet sobriety of real kindness, as well as hearty consideration for the feelings of a man falling at his post in the service of his country. He who is killed in action has a brilliant Gazette to record his exploits, and the whole country may be said to attend his death-bed. But the merit is not less--or may even be much greater--of the soldie
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