Some other accessions came to Mr. TOWNELEY by gift. The _Tumbler and Crocodile_, and the small statue of _Pan_ (_A. M._, pt. x, § 24), were the gift of Lord CAWDOR. The _Oracle of Apollo_ was a present from the Duke of BEDFORD. This accession—in 1804—was the last work which Mr. TOWNELEY had the pleasure of seeing placed in his gallery. He died in London, on the 3rd of January, 1805. He had been made, in 1791, a Trustee of the British Museum, in the progress of which he took a great interest. Family circumstances, as it seems, occurred which at last dictated a change in the original disposition which he had made of his Collection. [Sidenote: MR. TOWNELEY’S WILL.] [Sidenote: Codicil of 22 Dec., 1804.] By a Codicil, executed only twelve days before his death, he bequeathed the Collection to his only brother Edward TOWNELEY-STANDISH, on condition that a sum of at least four thousand five hundred pounds should be expended for the erection of a suitable repository in which the Collection should be arranged and exhibited. Failing such expenditure by the brother, the Collection was to go to John TOWNELEY, uncle of the Testator. Should he decline to fulfil the conditions, then the Collection should go, according to the Testator’s first intent, to the British Museum. Eventually, it appeared, on an application from the Museum Trustees, that the heirs were willing to transfer the Collection to the Public, but that Mr. TOWNELEY had left his estate subject to a mortgage debt of £36,500. [Sidenote: _Act of 45 Geo. III._] The Trustees, therefore, resolved to apply to Parliament for a grant, and this noble Collection was acquired for the Nation on the payment of the sum of £20,000, very inadequate, it need scarcely be added, to its intrinsic worth. Charles TOWNELEY possessed considerable skill, both as a draughtsman and as an engraver. In authorship, his only public appearance was as the writer of a dissertation on a relic of antiquity (the ‘Ribchester Helmet’), printed in the _Vetusta Monumenta_. He was a learned, genial, and benevolent man. His intense love of ancient art did not blind his eyes to things beyond art, and above it. The impulses of the collector did not obstruct the duties of the citizen. He was a good landlord; a generous friend. It may be said of him, with literal truth, that he restricted his personal indulgences in order that he might the more abundantly minister to the wants of others. Charles TOWNELEY was buried at Burnley. The following inscription was placed upon his monument: