Juxtà hic sub marmoreo tumulo jacet GULIELMUS COURTEN, cui Gulielmus pater, Gulielmus avus, mater, Catharina, Joannis Comitis de Bridgwater filia, Paternum vel ad Indos præclarum Nomen; qui tantis haudquaquam degener parentibus, Summâ cum laude vitæ decurrit tramitem; Gazarum per Europam indagator sedulus, quas hinc illinc sibi partas negavit nemini, sed cupientibus exposuit humanissimè, Non avaræ mentis pabulum, sed ingenii si quid naturæ, si quid artis nobile Opus, id quovis pretio suum esse voluit ut musis lucidum conderet sacrarium; ast mortis hæc non sunt curæ! Hic Musarum cultor tam eximius, Hic tam insignis viator, Obiit, Quievit, 7 Cal. Apr. A.D. 1702. Vixit annos 62, menses xi, dies 28. Pompa, quam vivus fugit, ne mortuo fieret, testamento cavit, sed hoc qualecumque monumentum, et quam potuit immortalitatem, bene merenti mœrens dedit HANS SLOANE, M.D. Sir Hans SLOANE was the seventh and youngest son of Alexander SLOANE, a Scotchman who had married one of the daughters of Dr. George HICKES, Prebendary of Winchester, and who had settled in Ireland on receiving the appointment of receiver-general of the estates of the Lord CLANEBOY, afterwards Earl of CLANRICARDE. [Sidenote: LIFE OF SIR HANS SLOANE.] He was born at Killileagh, in the county Down, on the 16th of April, 1660. We learn that almost from earliest youth, Hans SLOANE evinced his possession of quick parts and of keen powers of observation. And he gave early indications of that happy constitution of mind and will which now and then permits the union of intellectual ambition and aspiration, with not a little of prudential shrewdness. A special bias towards the study of the natural sciences was—as it has often been in like cases—one of the things that were soonest taken note of by those about him. Faculties such as these naturally pointed to medicine as a fitting profession for their early possessor. His home studies, however, were checked by a severe illness which threatened his life, and from some of the effects of which he never quite recovered. But that illness helped to qualify him for his future profession. If it took away, for life, the likelihood that the bright promises of the dawn would be altogether realized in his maturity, it seems to have strengthened, in an unusual degree, both the prudential element which already marked his character, and his predisposition to rely mainly, for the success of his plans, upon plodding industry. From youth to old age an unweariable power of taking pains was his leading characteristic.