Esq., the only surviving son of the deceased, three of the daughters of Mr. Tazewell, a number of his grandchildren, the bar of Norfolk and its vicinity, and many of our most venerable fellow-citizens.  From accident, the steamer did not reach the landing-place on the opposite shore till nearly dusk, and when the corpse was taken on shore the night had gathered in, and the burial service was read by candle-light.  The last scene was one of deep and impressive solemnity.

The vault, which was made only large enough to receive the coffin, was composed of solid slabs of granite united by hydraulic cement, five feet below the surface, and was covered by another slab of granite.  The vault was then covered with earth, and was ready to receive the monument, which is soon to be erected.  The grave was in an enclosure bounded by iron rails, and containing the tombs of Mrs. Tazewell, the wife of the deceased, of HENRY TAZEWELL, Esq., his eldest son, and of LITTLETON WALLER TAZEWELL, Esq., his youngest son.  The burial-ground is on the estate of King’s creek, which was given by the deceased to his son, JOHN N. TAZEWELL, Esq., who still owns it, and which holds the remains of a number of the ancestors of Mrs. Tazewell—­this last circumstance having led to its selection as a place of sepulchre for the family.

It was the public wish that the body of Mr. Tazewell should be deposited in one of the beautiful cemeteries of Norfolk, a city with which his name had been so long connected, and where the stranger would naturally seek his grave, and, I may add, where the lesson of such a pure and illustrious life might be read in the course of the year by thousands of his countrymen; but the peculiar circumstances of the case rendered the scheme impracticable.  I must, however, still indulge the hope that, hereafter, when the insecurity of graves on private estates, so signally represented by our Virginia experience, is fully considered, the descendants of this great man may in due time consent to the removal of his remains and those of the family to some more accessible and less exposed situation.

No.  VI.

PORTRAITS OF GOVERNOR TAZEWELL.

1.  A miniature of Mr. Tazewell before his marriage in 1802, by an unknown artist.  It could not have been good at any period of his life.

2.  The portrait by Thomson, taken in 1816, when he was about forty, which is a faithful likeness, and the most intellectual of all his portraits which I have seen.

3.  A copy of the above, by Leonard, a pupil of Thomson.

4.  A Crayon, by St. Mimin, taken in 1812, from which the engravings of Mr. Tazewell were taken.

5.  A portrait by Theodore Kennedy, taken when Mr. Tazewell was about seventy.  It has some good touches; but it lacks that high intellectual expression which was always present in the features of the original.

6.  A Pastile from the above.

7.  A portrait by Bonaud de St. Marcel, taken from a daguerreotype.  It represents Mr. Tazewell in his eighty-fourth year, and is under size.  It is a faithful copy from the daguerreotype, but it fails entirely to impart that majesty of feature which the face of the original retained to the last.