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      THE literature and history of our country have been of late much enriched by the publication of the private papers and correspondence of men eminent for their ialents and station within the two last centuries . In our XlVth Volume , pp . 22 , 156 ,

      229 and 373 , we made some extracts from a work of this description , which will ever be regarded as a book of authority , viz . the Memoirs of Mr . Evelyn . In these Memoirs frequent and respectful mention is made of Mr .

      Pepys , This circumstance probably awakened attention to the papers left by this gentleman to Magdalene College , Cambridge . The present Master of Magdalene , the Hon . and Rev . G . Neville , M . A ., caused them to be

      examined ; and a Diary , in short-hand , consisting of six volumes , being discovered , he procured it to be deciphered by the Rev . John Smith , A . B ., of St . John ' s , and prevailed upon his brother , Lord Braybrooke , of Audley End , to superintend it $ publication . The work , the full title of which we

      put below , * is in two handsome 4 to . volumes , corresponding in appearance to Evelyn ' s Memoirs . It is to be regretted that it is published in so expensive a form ( the price is six guineas ) ; f but we still rejoice in its publication as an accession to our

      * Memoirs of Samuel Pepys , Esq ., F . R . S ., Secretary to the Admiralty in the Roigns of Charles II . and James II ., comprizing his Diary from 1659 to 1669 , deciphered by the Rev . John Smith ,

      A . B ., of St . John ' s College , Cambridge , from the Original Short-hand MS . in the ^ epysiau Library , and a Selection from nis Private Correspondence . Edited by Richard Lord Braybrooke J . Colbum . 1825 .

      t Were it not for the aristocraHa&ypearance and pretension of the work , which warn away the commonalty of readers , we should say a word or two upon the merits of the Noble Editor as a benefactor to the Republic of letters .

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      historic collections relating to a critical period : and we take the earliest opportunity of laying before out readers a series of extracts on topics which are most congenial with the spirit of our Repository . Samuel Pe pys was descended from

      u younger branch of the ancient family of Pepysj who are represented to have settled at Cottenharn , in Cambridgeshire , early in the 16 th century . His father was a citizen of London , " a tailor , who retired to Brampton , in Huntingdonshire , upon a small

      property derived from an elder brother . Samuel was born February 23 , 1632 ; was educated at St . Paul ' s school , and entered Trinity College , Cambridge , and thence removed to Magdalene College . He was related to Sir Edward Montagu , afterwards Earl of Sandwich , the celebrated naval

      commander , who took so prominent a part in the Restoration of Charles II ., and by his good offices Mr . Pepys obtained a place under the government , and at length arose to the honourable and lucrative appointment of Secretary to the Admiralty . From his first

      connexion with the navy , he studied to become thoroughly acquainted with the details of that department of the administration of government , and to discharge fully the duties of his appointment . By this means he made himself useful and valuable . The

      reforms in the navy , which have been attributed to the Duke of York , afterwards James II ., were , as Lord JSraybrooke shews from these papers , the sole work of Mr . Pepys . His merits attracted the notice of Charles II ., and the confidence of his shortlived successor . * On the Revolution

      • Lord Braybrooke , ia the Life of Pepys prefixed to the Diary , &c , relates an anecdote of James II ., which proves both his attachment to an old servant in comparatively humble life , and his remkrkable self-possession : — " When his Majesty was sitting to Kneller for his

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1825, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2539/page/1/