No optician of modern times has gained a higher reputation; and I for one do not hesitate to call his loss national; for he cannot be replaced at present by any one else in his own peculiar line.

I shall carry the recollection of the affectionate esteem in which I held Thomas Cooke with me to my grave.

Alas! that he should be cut off just at the moment when he was about to reap the rewards due to his unrivalled excellence.

I have said that F.R.S.and medals were to be his.

But he is, we fondly trust, in a better and higher state than that of earthly distinction.