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were little able to advance his education, yet anxious for his improvement, kept him at school about six years. At the age of sixteen he was articled to a respectable attorney. During his spare moments he occupied himself in reading the works of standard English authors, and also amused himself with painting on china. In the varied situations in which he was placed, he cultivated his literary and poetic taste, occasionally writing for the press. At the age of twenty years, he read, in the original language, several of the Italian historians, and at that time even, he had set his mind on becoming the biographer of Lorenzo de Medici, the great patron and early restorer of ancient learning. In the year 1789, he began to devote himself to the object of his early ambition, the "Life of Lorenzo the Magnificent." This work, which was published in 1822, added much to his already established literary reputation.

Mr. Roscoe, from an early period, took a deep interest in political matters. In the year 1787, the agitation of the abolition of the slave-trade at that period so agitated his mind, that in the same year he published his well known effusion, "The Wrongs of Africa," in two parts-the profits for the sale of which he placed at the disposal of the committee then formed for the suppression of the slavetrade.

Towards the close of 1815, by one of the frequent commercial convulsions, the affairs of the bank in which Mr. Roscoe was a partner, became so involved, that their house found it necessary to suspend payments. For four years they endeavored to discharge their engagements, but the depreciation of their property was so great, that in 1820 they became bankrupts. Previous to this Mr. R. sold his fine collection of prints, drawings, &c. His noble library was sold, and the proceeds of the sale were applied to the payment of the debts of the house. His collection of books, prints, and paintings, were so extensive that they were sold for £11,025. In public life, Mr. Roscoe was a consistent and fearless champion of civil and religious liberty. He died June 30, 1831.

FELICIA HEMANS.

Felicia Hemand

FELICIA DOROTHY BROWN, afterwards Mrs. Hemans, was born in Liverpool, September 25th, 1793. Mrs. Hemans' Signature. Her father, a merchant, was a native of Ireland. Before the poetess was seven years of age, her father, having suffered losses in trade, retired from business, and settled at Gwrych, in Denbyshire, in Wales, in a large, old, solitary

VIEW OF LIVERPOOL, (LOOKING NORTH.)

On the left is seen the river Mersey flowing northward into the Irish Sea. The town of Birkenhead on the west side of the river is seen in the extreme distance; on the east side is Liverpool, with its forests of masts which rise from the shipping in the extensive docks before the city.

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