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liberal education, engaged in active and extensive mercantile concerns, from which he realized a handsome independence, and retired from business about twenty-five years since. He was scrupulously just in all his dealings, and distinguished for the conspicuous probity of his morals. In the latter part of his life he acted in the commission of the peace in an independent and honourable manner. In him the poor have lost a warm and charitable friend, and the publick have to lament the deprivation of a most conscientious and upright magistrate.

P. 628, b. The Rev. J. F. Fearon, M.A. F.S.A. vicar of Cuckfield, rector of Selsea, and prebendary of the Cathedral Church of Chichester, died at Cuckfield, (aged 54,) where for thirty years he was resident, and where his generous and benevolent nature rendered him the admiration of his numerous friends, and the comfort of his family, who are left to deplore their irreparable loss.

VOL. LXXXVII. Part I.

ary there, to the duties of which situation he paid unwearied attention during a space of 25 years, though the greater part of the time engaged with an extensive practice; and in a pecuniary point of view he was a truly liberal benefactor to that institution. In early life he pursued his natural talent for Poetry as a favourite recreation - some beautiful specimens of which have been occasionally presented to his friends; and his love of classical and polite literature were eminently conspicuous during his whole life. In his political sentiments he was unquestionably loyal; although ever averse from controversy on this subject, especially in publick, yet to his intimate friends he was known to possess a sincere attachment to the constitution and liberties of his country, unbiassed by prejudice or party. The publick at large will sincerely regret the loss of his professional talents; while his relations and friends will long lament his social and endearing virtues, and with a melancholy pleasure recal to mind the

P. 90, a. Rev. Dr. Hunt, late Fellow of instructive lessons of justice and morality All Souls' college, Oxford.

P. 188, b. Dr. Walker, of Leeds, was born of highly respectable parents at Bradford, co. York, and received the first rudiments of his education at the free Grammar School there. He was afterwards placed under the care of David Hall of Skipton, (a Quaker of considerable learning and talents,) previously to commencing his professional studies at Edinburgh. Here his unceasing application and industry, in acquiring a thorough knowledge of the theoretical learning of his profession, were not less remarkable, than his anxiety and solicitude, when in extensive practice, to render his studies of use to posterity; having with great labour and assiduity, compiled many manuscript volumes of notes and observations upon the numerous and difficult cases in which he was consulted. In his practice (which was founded chiefly upon the principles of Cullen, Gregory, and Black) he displayed a praiseworthy independence of the inferior branches of the profession; and his brother physicians, who were in the habit of attending patients along with him, bear ample testimony to his liberality, and freedom from mercenary influ

ence. He originally commenced his professional career at Hull, where his success was so great as to afford the means of supporting a respectable establishment in the short space of one year. His removal to Leeds (owing to family circumstances), though at first calculated to retard his progress, may be considered to have been eventually a fortunate circumstance, by its having opened a wider field for the exertion of his talents. He was quickly elected a physician of the General infirm

which his enlightened conversation was accustomed to instil.

P. 279, b. William Thomson, LL.D. was born in 1746, at Burnside, in Perthshire, where his father was a carpenter in low circumstances. As the boy displayed superior parts, he was first sent to a grammar school, and afterwards to the University of St. Andrew's, where his proficiency recommended him to the patronage of the Earl of Kinnoul, who appointed him his Librarian, and intended to have given him a living. He was accordingly ordained as assistant to the minister of Monivard; but the gaiety of his disposition soon put an end to his ecclesiastical prospects, aud he repaired to London, after obtaining from his noble patron a pension of 501. a year. Soon after his arrival he was engaged to revise and complete Dr. Watson's History of Philip theThird; and he performed his part so well, as to gain great credit, the friendship of many men of literary eminence, and a degree from the University of Glasgow. He now became an Author by profession; and one of his first employments was to complete a Commentary on the Bible, which was published under the name of Harrison. He edited a new translation of Josephus, and translated Cunningham's History of Great Britain. Among other periodical publications in which he was engaged, were the English Review, the European Magazine, the Political Herald, and the Whitehall Evening Post. For ten years he compiled the historical part of Dodsley's Annual Register, and was editor of many books which have passed under different names; and among the rest, of Stedman's History of the American War.

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He was a man of extensive learning, and
possessed of a strong and vigorous intel-
lect. He was contemporary of the late
Gilbert Stuart, whose life he wrote, and
was intimately connected with the litera-
rature and eminent literati of the age.
His other publications, as far as they can
be ascertained, were, Man in the Moon,
1782," 2 vols. 12mo; "Travels in Eu-
rope, Asia, and Africa," 1782,
8vo;
"Memoirs of the War in Asia, from
1780 to 1784," 1788, two volumes 8vo;
"Mammuth, or Human Nature dis-
played, in a Tour with the Tinkers into
the central parts of Africa, 1789," 2 vols.
12mo; "Appeal to the people of Eng-
land in behalf of Mr. Hastings, 1788,"
8vo; "Letters from Scandinavia," 8vo;
Buchanan's Travels in the Hebrides,
1793," 8vo; "Introduction to the His-
tory of the Trial of Mr. Hastings, 1796,"
8vo; "Military Memoirs," 8vo; "Acer-
bi's Travels to the North Cape, translated
from the Italian, 1802,", 4to.-Dr. Thom-
son married a lady who has displayed her
literary talents in several Novels.

P. 280, a. H. E. Holder, M. D. re-
sided several years in the Island of Bar-
badoes, where he possessed, and success-
fully cultivated, an estate of considerable
value. To the occupations which this
pursuit afforded to his active and intelli-
gent mind, he added the severer labours
arising from the practice of medicine and
surgery, in which he equally and greatly
excelled. Dr. Holder graduated at Edin-
burgh in the summer of 1816, and dis-
played in his Thesis upon that occasion
talents for exact and practical observa-
tion of a very superior kind.

P. 285, b. Mrs. Hutton was the second
wife of her excellent husband; and no
woman ever filled more amiably the duties
of wife and step-mother. Grief for an
only daughter, whom she lost about 20
years since, undermined her constitution,
and produced an excess of nervous irrita-
bility, which led to her death. She had
walked out in the morning of the day on
which she died; and, meeting some un-
fortunate men, whom the unfeeling myr-
midons of the law were marching in irons
through the public streets, the shock on
her spirits produced a fit, from which she

B.A. 1778; M.A. 1781; in which year be
married Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Wil
liam Hartopp, esq. of Little Dalby, in
Leicestershire; and in 1783 was presented
by his brother-in-law, Edward Hartopp,
esq. to that Vicarage, which he resigned
in 1788. He was also rector of Stoke Al-
bany in Northamptonshire; and was for
some years tutor to the present Duke of
Portland. He was the author of several
fugitive poems and essays; and, particu-
larly, of a short series, under the title of

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Peeping Tom," which appeared about
25 years since in the Leicester Herald.

P. 382, a. William Price, esq. (who was
in his 62d year) was a Colonel in the army,
brother of Uvedale Price, esq. of Foxley,
co. Hereford, and nephew of the Bishop
of Durham.

P. 474, b. Mr. John Goss was a native
of Salisbury, and formerly a chorister boy
of that Cathedral. His superior abilities
had procured him the situation of a gentle.
man of the Chapel Royal, and Vicar
Choral of St. Paul's and Westminster
Abbey.

P. 478, b. Mrs. Heywood proved herself
an actress of considerable talents in cha-
racters of a lively and elegant cast, during
the short time that her health allowed her
to appear on the Bath Theatre, Her
maiden name was Dely, and at a very
early age she was introduced to the pub-
lick by Mr. Elliston at the Surrey Thea-
A broken heart hurried her to the
grave in her 28th year.

tre.

P. 569, a. In the early part of the
French Revolution, Cardinal Maury was
a Member of the National Assembly, and
distinguished himself by his fervid elo-
quence in opposition to the claims of
liberty, and in support of the antient re-
gime in Church and State. He was, how-
ever, successfully opposed by Mirabeau,
Rabaut St. Etienne, Bailly, Talleyrand
Perigord, Condorcet, Fayette, and others;
but he was so unpopular that the mob
would on one occasion have hanged him
on a lamp-post, if he had not converted
their tragedy into a farce, by asking
them,
Whether, after they had bung
him there, they thought they should see
any better?"

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P. 572, b. Mrs. Nevinson was a most

could not be recovered. She partook, in accomplished and interesting woman. She

the lighter walks of literature, in that taste
for books which has conferred so much
solid fame on her husband; and she was,
on most subjects of conversation, as intel-
ligent and agreeable, as in performing
the duties of social life she was good,
charitable, and exemplary.

P. 378, a. The late Rev. Henry Ryder
Knapp was a man of retired character, but
au elegant scholar, and of very superior
wit and genius.
He was elected from
Eton to King's College, Cambridge, 1773;

has left two children by Dr. Nevinson, and
was mother to Lieut. Moody, of the 56th
regt. in Portsmouth garrison; who being
under orders to embark for the Mediterra-
nean, had set off the same morning to take
leave of her, and arrived at her house scou
after she had been brought in a corpse.

P. 574, a. Mrs. Broadhead was mother
of Theodore Henry Broadhead, esq. M.P.
for Wareham, Colonel Broadhead, and
Lady Dashwood King. Her remains were
deposited in the family-vault at Hendon.

INDEX

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Adams's Narrative concerning Timbuc- Biography, observations on, 291, 292.

too, 221.

Africa, intelligence from, 71, 171, 267,
364, 461, 617.

Agriculture, French, remarks on, 299.
Netherlands, perfection of, 294.

Akenside, anecdotes of, 140..
Albemarle, Earl of, letter to, on Thanks-
giving for the Regent's safety, 416.
Algiers, intelligence from, 71, 171, 461.
description of, in 1740, 600.
Alnwick, account of, 577.

America, intelligence from, 72,172,267,
364, 461, 617.

on the Revolution in, Yellow

Fever, &c. 595.

Annunciation, Essay on the, 330.
Antiquities, Latent, 14, 114.
Arbuthnot's family and letters? 403.
Architectural Innovation, 7, 223.
Architecture, Progress temp. Geo. I. 223.
Aristophanes, valuable edition of, 206.
Army Estimates, debates, 258-261,548.
Articles A and AN, rules for use of, 304.
Arundel, antiquities found near, 464.
Asia, intelligence from, 71, 171, 266,
364, 460, 617.

Atherton-house, Yorkshire, 225.
Aurora Borealis, 220.

Austria, Emp. of, letter to Mad. Ney, 363.
Awliscombe, Devon, epitaphs at, 492.
Badius, Jodocus, Navis Stultiferæ Col-
lectanea, 23.

Baker,Mr. his "Northamptonshire," 500.
Ball's hill, co. Hertford, lowered, 464.
Bangor Cathedral School, 226.
Bankrupts' affairs, defects in administra-
tion, 130. A remedy in the Act, 598,
Bankrupts, humourous essay on, 387.
Barberry tree, ii. 220, 517.
Barclay's "Ship of Fools," 207.
Barton Segrave, account of, 201.
Basire, James, account of, 246.
Beaudesert, hill at? 348.

Beauties of England and Wales? 295.
Beck, Anthony de, Bp. of Norwich, 47.
Bees, advantages of keeping, 129.
the management of, 584.
Bell, Rev. Dr. W. benevolence of, 646.
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Birch, Eleazar, escape in 1745, 404.
Board of Agriculture, on report of, 132.
Booker, Mrs. and Rev. M. memoir of, 566.
Border Antiquities of England? 482.
Boullen, Anna, arms of, 520.

Bound, Dr. N. life and doctrines of,
503, 597.

Boxing-match, 173. encouragement of
Boxing reprobated, ii. 228, 496.
Bradshaw, President, his family, 123.
Brant's Stultifera Navis, 22, 23, 207.
Brazils, insurrection in, 618.

specting the Provinces, 619.
Bread, recipe for, 149.

facts re-

Bridges, John, historian,epitaph,201,202.
Briefs, statement respecting, 495.
Bristol Cathedral School, 327.

British Museum, Athenian marbles, 80.
Browne, Hawkins, character of, 56.
Bruand, M. Description of a Mosaic, 17.
Bryant, Mr. anecdote of, 180.
Buchan, Earl, epitaph on, 433.
Bull. See Bible Society.
Buonaparte, complaints of, 267. mo
tion respecting, 360.
Burgess. See St. David's.

Burial Service, omissions in, improper,
402.

Burn, Dr. J. epitaph on, 435.
Burnet, Bp. his character and monu-
ment,113.his house at Clerkenwell,497.
Dr. T. De statu mortuorum, 57..
Burslem, national school established at,

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Canal Shares, price of, 96, 192, 288, 384,

480, 576.

Cancellieri, on the word Dominus, 114.
Canning, Right hon. G. his Embassy to
Lisbon, 455.

Canterbury Cathedral School, 418.
Capital Punishments, hint respecting,607.
Carlos, Don, marriage of, 362.
Carter, Mrs. E. eulogy on her letters, 403.
Cashman the rioter, execution of, 270.
Cathedral Schools, 11. St. Asaph, 225.
Bangor, 226. Bristol, 327. Canter-
bury, 418.

Catholics in Ireland, proceedings, 268.
Catholic Emancipation, impolicy of, 399.
debates on, 545, 550.

Catholic. See Roman Catholic.
Celtic Funerals, &c. 16.

Chalmers, Alexander, his Biographical
Dictionary, 291.

Chalmers, Dr. Thomas, his preaching
commended, 481.

Chancery Proceedings, delay attending,

599.

Charles I. medallion of, 209.

Consular Annals, Fragment of, 347.
Copyright Act, hardship of, and petition
against, 490.

Corbet, J. of Sundorne, character of,
570, 636.

Corpulence, proper mode of subduing,

333, 334.

Covent-Garden Market, picture of, 112.
Cough and Catarrhal affections, relief for,

624.

County History, Compendium of, 25, 30,

123,210,299, 409, 505, 517, 604, 605.
commended, 122, 604.

Cox, W. his services in exploring the
Blue Mountains, 118, 119, 122.
Craniology satirized, 334.
Crawford, Dr. Adam, epitaph on, 149.
Creation, Scriptural account perverted,

107.

Criminals, repentance of, 607.
Crucifixion, darkness at, 136, 322, 444.
Cumberland, Duchess of, still-born child
of, 174.

Dagobert, Monument of in St. Denis,
423, 518.

Cheshire, Compendium of its History, 123. Dallaway, Mr. "English Architecture,"

Chimney sweeping, miseries of, 131.
meeting respecting, 173.

China, failure of the Embassy to, 266,
364, 461.

Chinese Dictionaries, 61.
Christenings, private, censured, 203.
Christian Religion, Sum of? 348.
Church Antiquities illustrated, 14.
Church, of St. Ebbe, co. Oxford, opened,
173. New Churches, at Weymouth,
462. at Frome, and at Guernsey, 463,
622 at Glasgow, 621. a Church in
Lincoln's Inn Fields projected, 500.
Churchmen frequenting Chapels of Dis-
senters, impropriety of, 400.
Circuits of the Judges, 176, 634.

392, 482.

Deaf and Dumb, successfully treated,

368.

Dean Forest, new Church in, 40%.
Dell, William, inquiry respecting, 482.
Denmark, intelligence from, 171, 266,
364.

Devonshire,compendium of its history, 25.
Digestive Organs, on the action of, 321.
Disney, Dr. account of, 189. his prin-

ciples censured, 212. query relative
to, 593.
Dissenters, some causes of their increase,
134.

Distresses of the Country, observations
on, 105, 106. speech on, 213.

Clark, Mr. Chamberlain, speech of, 174. Dollars, Bank, notice respecting, 78.

Claverton estate, 173.

Clergy, unjust character of, 592.

Bill respecting, 417, 454, 550.
Clerical Institution at St. Bees, 338.
Clock on a new principle, 78.
Coals, policy of taking off the duty, 21.
Coffee-Simmerer, described, 603.
Coinage, Silver, issue of, 175. proclama-
tion respecting new Coinage, 270.
of Henry VI. 326.

of Scotland, particulars, 602.
Coins, Buildings upon, 16.

Saron, discovered, 620.
Colchester, Lord, particulars respecting,

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Dominus, &c. M. Cancellieri on, 114.
Dorsetshire, compendium of its history,

30.

Drapers' Company, benevolent conduct
of, 520.

Drury Lane Theatre, meeting of propri
etors, 272.

Dry-Rot, Essay on, 414.

Dublin Charitable Association, 139.
Dudley, Rev. Sir H. B. vase presented
to, 272.

Dugdale, work erroneously attributed
to, 208.

Durham, compendium of its history, 210.
Bishops of, origin of rights, 211.
Ear, Dispensary for diseases of, 424.
Early Rising, advantages of, 272.
Earthquake, shock of at Mansfield, 268.
Echo, curious fact relating to, 77.
Ecclesiastical History, remarks on, 393,

397,586; bint respecting, ii.
Edgeworth, R. L. memoir of, 637.
Edinburgh College, proceedings, 173.
Education,

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Education, National, extension of, 559.
meeting of the National Society, 624.
Engraving, modes of, 244.
Erskine, Lord, brief account of, 433.
Lady, monument of, 433.
Escape from the Rebels in 1745, 404.
Essex, compendium of history, 299, 517.
Eton Montem, account of, 559.
Exmouth, Lord, presented with the
Freedom of London and a sword, 173.
Finance Committee, Report, 272, 450, 455.
Fires in Bishopsgate-street, Dyer's-
buildings, Ashridge, near Barnet, 80.
near Edmonton, 173. at Darlington,
268. near Penzance, 269. at Weston,
367. Great Wigborough, 368. Knott
Mill, Manchester, 462. Thame, 463.
Aldbourne, ibid. Birmingham, 464.
Exeter, 620. by lightning at Southamp-
ton, ibid. at Bermondsey, 624.
Fisher, Mr. his very curious Work on
"Stratford," 328, 489.
Fishery at Hartlepool, 484.
Fleming, Lieut. murder and suicide by,
373.

Flowers, Exotic, first importation of, 426.
Fonnereau, Rev. W. account of, 276.
Font at Litchet Maltravers Church, 209.
Food, at a cheap rate, 102, 230, 346.
quantity, &c. necessary for health, 419.
France, intelligence from, 67, 169, 264,
361,457, 557.

Frobisher, Martin, deed respecting his
expedition for the North-west passage,
585.

Fruits, Exotic, first importation of, 426.
Garrow, Sir W. invested as a Judge, 464.
Gem found near Rumsey, 209.
Geneva Catechism, observations on, 136,
520.

Genius, extraordinary instances, 78, 604.
George III. anecdotes of, 334, 387.
state of his health, 78, 173, 270, 368,
464, 559.

Germanicus, French Tragedy of, 361.
Germany, intelligence from, 70, 171,
266, 363, 459, 558.

Gibbon's Decline, &c. Bp. Newton on, 57.
Girtin, Thomas, account of, 247.
Glastonbury, Abbot's Inn at, 8, 225.
Glazier's horse, insecurity of, &c. 348.
Glesum, inquiry respecting, 111.
Gloucester, Duke of, brother of Henry V.
197.

Gloucestershire, compendium of its his-
tory, 409.

Gort, Viscount, account of, 563.

Graduates, lists of, wanted, 482.

Guernsey, Church for English at, 622.
Guildford, Earl, memoir of, 181.
Habeas Corpus Suspension Bill. debates
on, 353, 354, 356, 357. Royal assent,
358. continuation of, 549.

Hainault, House of, history, 103.

Jacoba, Countess, memoir, 196.
Province of, 293.

Hair, anecdotes concerning, 343.
Halle, visit to, 4.

Hampden Clubs, 167.

Hampshire, compendium of history, 505.
Hanbury, Rev. W. and his father, 468.
Hargrave, William, account of, 275.
Haricot, on the cultivation of, 298.
Hartlepool, fishery at, 484.

Harvey, Sir D. and Lady, portraits, 24.
Health, observations on, 321. old pre-
cepts to preserve, 580.

Hearne, Thomas, artist, memoir, 372.
Heat, extraordinary, 620, 624.
Hebrew Language, observations on, 538.
Henley, custom at, 157.

Henry III. Staff-head, inquiry, 482.
Henry V. critique on a passage in, 497.
High Treason, trials for, 560, 625.
Hill, Rev. R. Chapel assessed to Poor's
Rate, 80.

Hindoo apologue, 528.

Hinksey, North, account of Church, 393.
Hoffer, subscription for monument, 558.
Hogarth, paintings by, 111, 112.
Hole, Archdeacon, brief notice of, 228.
Holland family, pedigree of, &c. 124.
Holland, John, memoir of, 183.
Horner, Francis, memoir of, 275.
Horseleech, a prognosticator of weather,

77.

Horsley, Controversy with Priestley, 10.
Hospitals, Endowed, survey proposed,322.
Hossac, Dr. C. anecdote of, 518.
Howden Church, ruinous state of, 605.
Hughes, Dr. D. account of, 276.
Hutton,Miss, anecdotes of her father, 248.
Jackson on Timbuctoo, confirmed, 221.
Jamaica, proceedings in, 74.
Jesting, Fuller on, 436.

Jesuits, College of, at Stonyhurst, 173.
Index Indicatorius, ii. 61, 157, 253, 348,
444, 482.

Insane, inquiry as to treatment of, 24.
Insanity, remedy for, 348.
Insolvent Debtors, separation requisite,
348.

Inundations at Chirk Collieries, and in
the Isle of Ely, 76.

Johnson, Dr. Hints for his Life of Pope,
427. Strictures on his Lives, 58, 291.

Granger's Biography, new edition de- Johnson, John Mordaunt, memoir, &c.

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