The fate of this clever young artist and satirist was both singular and tragical. It appears that on the 21st of February, 1828, Theodore Lane, who then resided in Judd Street, Brunswick Square, called upon his brother-in-law, Mr. Wakefield, a surgeon of Battle Bridge, intending to proceed in the latter's gig to Hampstead, to join a party of friends who had gone there to spend the day. Mr. Wakefield having to visit a patient in Manchester Street, Gray's Inn Lane, drove there with his brother-in-law, and this was the last time he was seen alive. Close to the place was a horse bazaar, which the artist appears to have entered by way of passing the time. The horse and trap were there, but no trace of poor Lane; and on search being made, his body was found lying lifeless at the foot of the auctioneer's stand. He appears to have wandered into the betting-room, and by some unexplained means or other fallen backwards through an insufficiently protected skylight. The clever head was battered so completely out of recognition that he was only identified by his card-case. That Lane was a man of unusual promise is shown by the fact that amongst the subscribers for the benefit of the widow and children of the deceased, we find the names of Sir Thomas Lawrence, president of the Royal Academy; F. Chantrey, R.A.; George Westmacott; Cooper, the celebrated animal painter; and Leahy, the painter of the celebrated picture of "Mary Stuart's Farewell to France." The remains of this ill-fated, talented young fellow lie in the burial ground of old St. Pancras. FOOTNOTES: [23] "Fifty Years of my Life," by George Thomas, Earl of Albemarle, vol. i. p. 270. [24] "Annual Register," 1813. [25] _Ibid._ (Chronicle), 342. [26] See the letter of the Princess of Wales, "Annual Register," 1813 (Chronicle), 342. [27] See speech of Mr. Whitbread, "Annual Register," 1813 (20). [28] "Annual Register," 1813 (Chronicle), 345. [29] "Annual Register," 1813, p. 24. [30] Whitbread. [31] Sir John and Lady Douglas. [32] Letter from the queen to the Princess of Wales of 23rd May, 1814.--"Annual Register," 1814, p. 349. [33] So called because he carried home with him, in sundry bags, the cases pending his judgments. [34] Wade's, "British History," p. 765. [35] See "Greville Memoirs," vol. i. p. 24 (February 24th). [36] "Annual Register," 1820, p. 135. [37] _Ibid._, pp. 131, 132. [38] "Greville Memoirs," vol. i. p. 28. [39] "Fifty Years of my Life," by George Thomas, Earl of Albemarle, vol. ii. p. 123. [40] "Annual Register," 1820, p. 986. [41] See caricatures of Robert Cruikshank, 1820. [42] "Annual Register," 1820, p. 1149; see also the impartial opinion of the Duke of Portland, "Greville Memoirs," vol. i. p. 56. [43] See "Annual Register," 1820, p. 1139 _et seq._