(Lord). In our short sketch of the life of that gallant officer (Envel.), we mentioned with regret our not having heard of any monument being erected to his honour in his native country. We have since learned that there is a pillar upon the Brython in Shropshire, which was erected to his memory long before the publication of our article.

Having this great man again under our notice, we insert with pleasure the following extract of a letter, which we received from an obliging correspondent soon after the publication of the volume which contains our biographical sketch of the Admiral: "Whatever were Rodney's merits as a naval commander (says our correspondent), there is a more brilliant part of his character which you have entirely neglected. Prior to his success against the Spanish Admiral Don Langara, the English who had the misfortune to become prisoners of war to the Spaniards, were treated with the greatest inhumanity, and it required more than a common strength of constitution to exist for any length of time in a Spanish prison. When the Spanish admiral fell into the hands of Rodney, he, his officers and seamen, expected to meet with the same treatment they had always inflicted, and which they would have inflicted on Rodney, his officers, and seamen, had the Spaniards been the victors; but, to their surprise, they found in Admiral Rodney (and, of course, in all that were under his command) a man who sympathized in their misfortune, who ministered to their necessities, and, by a humane and polite behaviour to his prisoners, made an impression on the minds of the Spaniards, which could not but have its effect in mitigating the sufferings of the English in Spanish prisons: but he did not stop here; he took an opportunity, when their minds were expanded by gratitude (and in a state to receive the full force of such a representation), to represent to them the miserable condition of his countrymen who were prisoners in Spain, and obtained a promise (which, I believe, was punctually performed), that Englishmen, when prisoners in Spain, should be made as comfortable as their situation would admit of. This was a piece of service to his country which surely merits to be recorded, and which will exalt him as much in the opinion of good men as the most brilliant display of courage, which is a quality as frequently discovered in the savage as in the cultivated mind."