fice of Croxton Kevryel, in Liecestershire. Mr Crabbe's last published volume was Tales of the Hall,' which appeared in 1819. J. W. VON GOETHÉ. March 22d, 1833. prepara Crabbe was invited to Beaconsville, the seat of his protector and there placed in a convenient apartment, supplied with books, for his information and amusement, and made a member of the family. Having explained all his difficulties to Mr Burke, and been assisted by him in his tions for holy orders, Mr Crabbe was ordained a Deacon in 1781, and priest in the following year. He immediately after became Curate to the Rev. James Bennet at Aldborough. The efforts of his friends did not rest here; through the personal influence of Mr Burke he was introduced to the Duke of Rutland, who appointed him his domestic chaplain. In 1788, Lord Thurlow, at the recommendation of Mr Burke, presented Mr Crabbe to the rectory of Frome St Quenton, in Dorsetshire, which he held for about six years. At the end of that period Lord Thurlow presented him with the rectories of Muston in Leicestershire, and West Allington in Lincoln - At Weimar, Germany, John Wolfgang Von Goethe, the patriarch of German Literature, aged 82, Goethé was born at Frankfort, Aug. 28, 1749, the son of a gentleman in easy circumstances and of cultivated taste. At the age of 15 he was sent to the university of Leipsic, where he passed four years. He then went to Alsace and subsequently to Frankfort; but in 1775 he settled at Weimar, upon the invitation of the Grand Duke Charles Augustus, whom he had met at Frankfort, and there he continued to reside for the residue of his brilliant career, under the special patronage of his adopted sovereign, whose prime minister he was for many years. Goethe's first literary attempts were made in the annuals and literary journals. His 'Goetz with the iron hand' appeared in 1773, and the 'Sorrows of Werter' in the following year. This work, which was founded on the suicide of Jerusalem, the son of a celebrated theologian, who fell a sacrifice to his passion for the wife of a friend, met with wonderful success. It was translated into all the living languages, was universally circulated, and illustrating feelings, which all supposed themselves capable of entertaining, turned the heads of half the milliners and idle young men in Christendom. Its false and morbid sentiments, and its immoral reasoning became fashionable, and a host of imitators bid fair to flood the press with their sickly sentimentality, until Goethe himself, by his wit and irony, checked the insanity, that he had called into action. His other most celebrated productions were his Faust, Wilhelm Meister's apprenticeship, and Elective affinities. The former, which is generally supposed to be founded on the vulgar tradition of Faustus, is without a parallel. It is an allegorical romance, or a tale of witchcraft, in scenes and dialogues. In this work, Goethé has displayed all the power and versatility of his talent, and in spite of his mysticism, he proves himself to be a poet of the highest order. His Wilhelm Meister is strongly marked by brilliant wit, profound knowledge and genius, combined with the same tendency to mysticism which is found in his other works. It produced a powerful impression in Germany, as the philosophical and religious opinions therein expressed were supposed to be hostile to Protestantism. But Goethé was a Protestant after his own method, and notwithstanding his powerful mind rejected the peculiar dogmas of the Catholic faith, he has evinced in that work a predilection for its pomp and ceremonies. As a poet, Goethé excited the unqualified admiration of his countrymen. The beauty of language, which characterises his writings, has a peculiar charm, and his style is happily adapted to every subject simple as well as sublime. He retained to an advanced age all the powers of his comprehensive mind, which he delighted to engage in the most abstruse problems of science. Comparative anatomy, geology, botany, the theory of colors, the drama, crit icism, in short, every department of literature and science were the objects of his attention. His genius embraced everything, and no one attempted to dispute his supremacy. His empire over German literature was acquiesced in by every candidate for literary fame, and he himself regarded his rank in society, and his varied powers of mind, merely as means, by which he might promote the improvement of science, literature and art in Germany. During his long career he was constantly engaged in stimulating talent of every kind, and in publishing works, which exercised a powerful influence over public opinion. By this course he added to the literary reputation of the court, of which he was so distinguished an ornament. Weimar was, before his arrival, celebrated as the residence of Weiland, Bode, Musaeus, and Bertuch, and attracted by the character of the sovereign and court, it soon became the Athens of Germany. Schiller, Herder, the Schlegels, Kuebel, Emsiedel, Seckendorff, Boethiger and Madame Wollzogen and Amelia Imhoff, all contributed to render it illustrious. Its gardens and public walks became to the Germans what the Portico and Academic Groves were to the Greeks; although the mystic dreams of Goethe very inadequately supplied the lofty and sublime visions of Plato. Still their influence imparted a literary character to the court and to society; and of the assemblages of the distinguished Germans that resorted to Wiemar, Goethé was the undisputed head. Less occupied with his own fame, than with an ardent desire to promote the glory of his country, he devoted his life to promote the advancement of German literature. In 1786 he made the tour of Ita- In nurturing thine age's mind. M. CHAMPOLLION. May 15th, 1832.-M. Champollion, one of the most indefatigable and enlightened scholars of the age, died at Paris in his 42d year, after a long and severe illness, the effect probably of his travels in Egypt, combined with his incessant application to the great object of his literary lifethe elucidation of the historical records and monuments of that country. His loss to the lovers of Egyptian literature is almost irreparable. He survived but a short period his great rival in the discovery of the real meaning of those mystic symbols, which had so long attracted the curiosity and repelled the attempts of the learned, and which by common consent, had been pronounced a hopeless inquiry. The labors of Dr Young and M. Champollion penetrated through the darkness of ages, and afforded a clue to the intricacies of the long labyrinth, which had perplexed and bewildered others. If the lives of those eminent men had been extended but a few years, when the jealousy for priority of claim was happily at an end, and mutual good will, and a desire to promote each others designs had sprung up in its place, the learned world might have looked forward to results of no ordinary nature. The brilliant light of their united exertions would have dispelled all the obscurity which envelopes the chronology of history, and puzzles and confounds the student. Most of the letters which contain the particulars of Champollion's visit to Egypt have already met the public eye, and the brief summary which they give of his labors and discoveries in that land of wonders, did but increase the anxiety for the appearance of that magnificent work, which the author had announced. With what delight and interest must the companions of his travels have entered into the palaces of the Theban Phariohs, and listened to the mighty magician who could unfold to them' the hand writing on the wall,' and could point out to them, among the sculptured reliefs, the triumphs of Shishak over thirty princes, and in that number the name and title of the King of Judah, thus confirming in a remarkable manner, the fact related in the first Book of Kings, when Jerusalem was plundered by the Egyptian conqueror. In another and most interesting letter, Champollion has described the stupendous palace of Rameses Meiammoun, or friend of Ammon, the grandfather of Sesostris. The granite sarcophagus of this monarch was removed to Paris by the interest of the French consul: but its lid of red granite had been previously removed, and presented to the Fitzwilliam Museum by Belzoni. The reign of Rameses Meiammoun carries us back sixteen centuries before the Christian era. To Champollion's sagacity and communication we are indebted for the explanation of the mystic legend which surrounds the lid of the sarcophagus, and which proclaims the titles and name of the hero. After having served during the campaigns in Italy of 1799 and 1800, in the engineer corps, he quitted the army and devoted himself to commerce, in compliance with the last wishes of his father. In 1802, Casimir Périer established at Paris in conjunction with his brother, Scipion Périer, a banking house, in the management of which his active and sagacious mind acquired information, which he subsequently applied sc usefully to the elucidation of questions of finance as a public man. He carried on, in connexion with his banking business, various establishments of manufacture, at Paris, Chaillot, Passy, and elsewhere. In 1816, he published an essay on the subject of foreign loans, which attracted much attention; and in 1817, he was elected member of the Chamber of Deputies for the Department of the Seine. From that time until the time of his death he continued in the Chamber. Previous to the Revolution of July, 1830, Casimir Périer was a zealous partisan on the side of the Opposition. His particular familiarity with subjects of finance made him especially redoubtable to the several ministers of that period on all revenue questions; but he proved an able and efficient debater upon other topics of public interest, and this most of all under the long administration of M. de Villèle. Owing to such circumstances, M. Périer stood prominent among those individuals, to whom the French looked for direction at the epoch of the Three Days of July. On Monday, July 26th, the day of the publication of the ordinances which led to the Revolution, several of the liberal dep uties met, first at the house of Alexandre de Laborde, and the next day at the house of Casimir Périer, to consult upon the measures proper for them to adopt; and on Wednesday, July 28th, Périer was one of a committee with General Gérard, the Comte de Lobau, and MM. Lafitte and Mauguin, appointed to go to the Tuileries, and confer with Marshal Marmont, in order, if possible, to prevent the further effusion of blood, and procure the dismissal of the Polignac ministry. These facts prove that M. Périer could not have been backward at this crisis, although, subsequently to the Revolution, the more violent of the victors of the Three Days were disposed to call his patriotism in question. And when the Chamber of Deputies met, Casimir Périer was elected to the eminent office of President of that body, being also made a member of the cabinet of Louis Philippe, but without a ministerial port folio. When the government of Louis Philippe was at length fully organized, they, who had thus far co-operated together, if not cordially, still at any rate zealously, now divided upon various topics of domestic and foreign policy, and contended with quite as much animosity as the royalist and liberal parties had done prior to the Three Days. One side advocated measures of a republican tendency at home, and of fraternization with the liberal Belgians, Poles, Italians, and Spaniards abroad, even at the hazard of war. The other side upheld the existing institutions guarantied by the Charter; and while professing, and probably feeling, much good will towards the oppressed of other countries, yet anxiously main tained the doctrine of non-intervention, although at some sacrifice of the national point of hon or. Of this latter party, Casimer Périer became the responsible head, being appointed, on the 13th March, 1831, President of the Council and Minister of the Interior. M. Périer continued in office, except with a brief intermission in July 1831, until the time of his death,which happened May 16th, 1832, in consequence of an attack of the cholera morbus. His biography during this period, is the history of France, in relating which from year to year in the Register, we have fully explained his public character, and to which we refer the reader, for additional information upon this point. NATHANIEL ROCHESTER. May 17th, 1832.-- In Rochester, N. Y. Col. Nathaniel Rochester, aged 79. His family was of English descent, and, for three generations, resided in Westmoreland county, Vir. where he was born, Feb. 21, 1752. The opportunities for a liberal education were, at that time, extremely limited. The varied and accurate information for which Mr Rochester was distinguished in private intercourse, as well as in the public trusts he so honorably filled, was the fruit of the application of a vigorous and clear mind, in the intervals of leisure afforded by a life of no ordinary activity and vicissitude. At the age of twenty he commenced his mercantile career, in company with Col. John Hamilton, who afterwards held the Consulate for the British Government, in the middle States. The struggle of the |