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REMARKABLE PETRIFACTIONS. 29
Wilson, and Le Pere Eliseo. Lord Yarmouth, Sir Sydney
Smith, the Honourable Mr. Lyttelton, and other personages
of distinction, were present. The result proved the deceased
to have been a perfect male; and the following certificate to
that effect was circulated by Mr. Copeland.
“ I hereby certify, that I have inspected and dissected the
body of the Chevalier D’Eon, in the presence of Mr. Adair,
Mr. Wilson, and Le P£re Elisee, and have found the male
organs in every respect perfectly formed.
(Signed) “ T. COPELAND.
Golden Square.” “ Surgeon.”
Many persons of high rank, and professional men after-
wards visited the house, and examined the body. His remains
were privately interred in the church of St. Pancras on the
28th. He had made a will, in which Sir Sydney Smith was
appointed executor, but it was never signed.
The private life of the Chevalier has always been under-
stood to have been amiable : his natural abilities were great,
and Iris acquirements numerous. He possessed an extensive
knowledge of the antient and modern languages: in horse-
manship his superior excellence was universally acknowledg-
ed; and his skill in fencing was deemed by the best judges to
be pre-eminent.
His MSS. and printed books, including the collection of
one hundred editions of Horace, originally formed by Dr.
Mead, and enlarged by Dr. Douglas, of whose executors it
was purchased by the Chevalier, were sold by auction at
Christie’s, in Pall Mall, on the 19th of February, 1813, by
order of the administrator.
REMARKABLE PETRIFACTIONS.
It is a question of considerable importance among natu-
ralists to ascertain the time employed by nature in petrifying
bpdies of an ordinary size. Leopold I. emperor of Ger-
Wilson, and Le Pere Eliseo. Lord Yarmouth, Sir Sydney
Smith, the Honourable Mr. Lyttelton, and other personages
of distinction, were present. The result proved the deceased
to have been a perfect male; and the following certificate to
that effect was circulated by Mr. Copeland.
“ I hereby certify, that I have inspected and dissected the
body of the Chevalier D’Eon, in the presence of Mr. Adair,
Mr. Wilson, and Le P£re Elisee, and have found the male
organs in every respect perfectly formed.
(Signed) “ T. COPELAND.
Golden Square.” “ Surgeon.”
Many persons of high rank, and professional men after-
wards visited the house, and examined the body. His remains
were privately interred in the church of St. Pancras on the
28th. He had made a will, in which Sir Sydney Smith was
appointed executor, but it was never signed.
The private life of the Chevalier has always been under-
stood to have been amiable : his natural abilities were great,
and Iris acquirements numerous. He possessed an extensive
knowledge of the antient and modern languages: in horse-
manship his superior excellence was universally acknowledg-
ed; and his skill in fencing was deemed by the best judges to
be pre-eminent.
His MSS. and printed books, including the collection of
one hundred editions of Horace, originally formed by Dr.
Mead, and enlarged by Dr. Douglas, of whose executors it
was purchased by the Chevalier, were sold by auction at
Christie’s, in Pall Mall, on the 19th of February, 1813, by
order of the administrator.
REMARKABLE PETRIFACTIONS.
It is a question of considerable importance among natu-
ralists to ascertain the time employed by nature in petrifying
bpdies of an ordinary size. Leopold I. emperor of Ger-