Pages bearing funeral feathers, with attendants. Four Porters in silk dresses. THE HEARSE, (Drawn by six horses decorated with velvet and feathers) Containing the Body enclosed in a leaden coffin; the outer wooden one was covered with black velvet, ornamented with gilt furniture, and bore the following inscription: HENRY FUSELI, ESQ. A. M. R. A. KEEPER AND PROFESSOR OF PAINTING TO THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF LONDON, AGED 86 YEARS.* The hearse was followed by eight mourning coaches drawn each by four horses, the first with the two Executors, Mr. Knowles and Mr. Balmanno. In the others were the President, Secretary, Treasurer, and Council of the Academy, and the private friends of the deceased, in the following order :- Sir Thomas Lawrence, * At this time, his age could not be accurately ascertained he was in his eighty-fifth year, having completed his eighty-fourth on the 7th of February preceding his death. President; Henry Howard, Esq. Secretary; Robert Smirke, Jun. Esq. Treasurer. Sir William Beechy, R. A.; T. Phillips, Esq, R. A.; A. Chalon, Esq. R. A.; William Mulready, Esq. R. A.; G. Jones, Esq. R. A.; R. R. Reinagle, Esq. R. A.; J. Wyatville, Esq. R. A. Lord James Stuart, M. P.; Vice Admiral Sir Graham Moore, K. C. B.; The Hon. Colonel Howard, M. P.; Sir E. Antrobus, Bart.; The Very Reverend Dr. Charles Symmons; William Lock; Samuel Cartwright; Samuel Rogers; Henry Rogers; William Young Ottley; William Roscoe, Jun.; Henry Roscoe; M. Haughton; T. G. Wainewright, and R. B. Haydon, Esqrs. The procession was closed by the private carriages of the following persons, the intimate friends of the deceased. Mrs. Coutts (now Duchess of St. Alban's), Marquis of Bute, Countess of Guilford; each drawn by four horses, with the servants in state liveries. Lord Rivers; Lord James Stuart; Honorable Colonel Howard; Sir Edmond Antrobus, Bart.; Rear Admiral Sir Graham Moore; Sir Thomas Lawrence; Dr. Symmons; Mr. Lock; Mr. Richard Cartwright; Mr. Smirke, and Mr. Wyatville. The body was deposited in a small vault formed for the purpose, in the crypt of St. Paul's Cathedral, between those which contain the remains of his friends, Sir Joshua Reynolds and Opie. On our return to the Royal Academy, the will was opened, with the contents of which I was previously acquainted, as Fuseli consulted me when he made it; and the following is a copy : "I, Henry Fuseli, Keeper of the Royal Academy, of London, being in health and of sound mind, do make this my last will and testament. I do hereby leave and bequeath unto my wife, Sophia Fuseli, all money and every other description of property that I may be possessed of at the time of my decease, to be for her own and sole use. And I do hereby constitute and appoint, John Knowles of the Navy Office, and Robert Balmanno, of Mornington Place, Hampstead Road, Esquires, as Executors to this my last Will and Testament, revoking all other Wills and Testaments. Given under my hand and seal, this twenty-first day of November, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and twenty-two. "JAMES JONES, "HENRY FUSELI," (L. S.) Witnesses." WILLIAM CHURCH, In carrying this Will into execution, a difference of opinion arose between Mr. Balmanno and myself respecting the propriety of disposing of some of the property by private contract; and the matter was accordingly referred to Mrs. Fuseli. As this lady gave her assent to the view which I had taken of the affair, Mr. Balmanno, in consequence, renounced the trust. The Will was therefore proved by me, solely, in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, on the 7th September 1825. CHAPTER XIII. Fuseli's personal appearance and habits.-Existing Memorials of him in Pictures and Busts.-His method of dividing his time.--Anecdotes exemplifying his irritability.-His attainments in classical and in modern Languages.-Instances of his Powers of Memory.--His intimate knowledge of English Poetry and Literature.-His admiration of Dante.-His Passion for Entomology. His opinions of some contemporary Artists.-His conversational powers. -Anecdotes. His deficient acquaintance with the pure Physical Sciences. IT It may now be proper to give some description of Fuseli's person and habits. He was rather short in stature, about five feet two inches in height, his limbs were well proportioned, his shoulders broad, and his chest capacious. His complexion was fair; his forehead broad; his eyes were large, blue, and peculiarly expressive and penetrating; his nose large, and somewhat aquiline; his mouth was rather wide; and although his features were not strictly regular, yet his countenance was, in the highest degree, intelligent and energetic; the expres |