It would be nearer the truth to say that the frame of Augustus Charles Hobart was literally worn out by travel and exposure and hard work of every kind which had been his lot, with but brief intervals of repose, ever since the day, in the year 1836, when as a boy of thirteen he joined the Navy as a midshipman.' * * * * * It will be gratifying to Englishmen to know that their distinguished countryman received at his burial all the honours due to his high station and noble qualities.
Such a concourse of people of all ranks and nations had never been seen at any public ceremony on the Bosphorus as that which, on July 24, accompanied the remains of Hobart Pasha to their last resting place in the English cemetery at Scutari, not far from the spot where a tall granite obelisk records the brave deeds and glorious death of those heroes who perished in the Crimean War. [Footnote 1: It must be understood that both men and boats were disguised so as to resemble the ordinary fishing coasters about those parts.] PRINTED BY SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE LONDON.