, never very numerous, came at length to be few and far
between; though his political friends regarded him with infinite favor,
they began to think he might be just as useful to them in Florence as in
London, especially as the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill was soon to be
brought in; and although that appointment amounted to shelving for life
a man not yet 60 years of age, though it was nothing less than an
expatriation of the individual and an extinction of what might have been
a growing fame, yet he submitted not merely with a philosophical
indifference, but almost in a joyous spirit, feeling, or seeming to
feel, that it was great promotion and a dignified retirement. He was old
in constitution, if not in years, with powers better suited to the
development of general principles than to that successful administration
of details which a practical age demands. With Grattan, Flood, and
Curran, he would have well co-operated from 1782 to 1800, but amongst
the public men of England in the middle of this century he appeared
grievously out of place, and he therefore was perhaps quite sincere in
the expressions of delight with which he escaped from Downing-street to
enjoy the fine vintages and bright sunshine of the south. He is stated
to have expired at Florence on the 26th ult., owing to an attack of gout
in the stomach.--_London Times, June 3._

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MR. RICHARD PHILLIPS, the well-known chemist, died suddenly in London on
the tenth of May. He was in his seventy-fifth year, and at least fifty
years of his life had been devoted to science. He was one of the
founders of the Geological Society, a very old member of the Royal
Society, and for many years a member of its Council. In the
_Transactions_ of that body will be found numerous papers by him on
chemical subjects, and many of his discoveries were of great importance
to the analytical chemist. He was editor of the _Annals of Philosophy_
from 1812, and one of the editors of the _Philosophical Magazine_. He
was appointed Lecturer on Chemistry at the London Hospital in 1817, and
for many years was Lecturer on Chemistry at St. Thomas's Hospital, to
which office he was appointed in 1832; and was among the earliest
chemists to the Museum of Practical Geology.

His attention to Pharmaceutical Chemistry was very great; and the
regular improvement which has marked during the period of more than
twenty years the _London Pharmacopoeia_ has been large