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and moral Enquiry into the Causes of that internal restlessness and disorder in Man, which has been the complaint of all ages,” 1778, in which he was much assisted by Dr. Owen, the late Vicar of Edmondton, whom he rewarded by a present of 500l. He is said to have died worth 80,000l.

1786. April 4. Overwhelmed with age and poverty, Wells Egelsham, bred a printer, but many years a writer of fugitive pieces for the newspapers. He was author of "A Short Sketch of English Grammar," 8vo.

July 1. At Chiswick, Dr. William Rose, translator of Selections from Sallust, and largely concerned in the Monthly Review.

10. At Acomb, near York, Wm. Cooper, D. D. Archdeacon of York.

Aug. 27. At Nottingham, Matthew Unwin, hosier, author of a small volume of "Poems, Sacred and Evangelical," 1783.

Sept. 25. At Bath, Edw. Ives, author of "A Voyage from England to India in 1754,” 1773, 4to.

Oct. 24. At Lincoln, Cecil Willis, D. D. Vicar of Holbeach.

1786. Nov.

. Rev. Edw. Clarke, A. M. Rector of Buxted, Sussex, author of "Letters concerning the Spanish Nation," 1763, 4to. &c. 1787. Jan. 8. At Bath, Lieut. Gen. Sir William Draper, K. B.

21. Nearly 70, Gustavus Brander, F. R. and A. S.S.

Feb. 1. At Ashted, Surry, æt. 61, Thomas Tyers,

Esq.

1787.

1787. March 3. At Hertford, aged near 70, Benjamin Bartlet, F. R.S. a great collector of coins.

1788.

April 1. Floyer Sydenham, well known by his elaborate comment on the works of Plato, born 1710.

June 14. Israel Mauduit, Esq. F. A. S. aged 79. Aug. 4. In Gray's Inn, John Baynes, Esq. æt. 30.

-15. Joseph Reed, æt. 65, a rope-maker, author of "The Register Office," and other dramatic pieces. Sept. 12. At Edinburgh, John Brown, painter, author of "Letters on the Italian Opera."

13. Rev. Moses Brown, aged 83, Vicar of Olney, Bucks, author of " Piscatory Eclogues," &c. &c.

At Dresden, Kenneth Fergusson, Secretary to Morton Eden, Esq. a young man of great genius and learning, and translator of an epic poem, entitled "Joseph

Nov. 3. Rev. John Glen King, D. D. Rector of
Wormley, Herts.

13. At Oxford, Geo. Jubb, D. D. &c.

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Nov. At Bury, Suff. Rev. Philip Laurents, A. M. many years Head-Master of the Grammar-school there.

Isaac Ritson, Translator of Homer's Hymn to Venus, with notes, 1788. He was a schoolmaster at Penrith, in Cumberland, in a lucrative and respectable situation, which he quitted, and then went to Edinburgh to study physic under the late Dr. Brown. He has been absurdly confounded with Joseph Ritson,

who,

who, I believe, did not understand a syllable

of Greek.

1788. Oct. 18. In Jamaica, John Lindsay, D. D. author of "A Voyage to Senegal," of several novels, and a poem, called

Tostle."

"Sir John

Nov. 25. Aged 97, Thomas Amory, M. D. author of "John Buncle."

1789. Jan. 23. In Petty France, aged 80, John Cleland. 26. At Leicester, æt. 61, Rev. Wm. Bicker

staffe.

Mar. 24. Aged 42, Mrs. Anne Emelinda Foster,
author of "The Old Maid," a Novel, &c.
April 17. Æt. 32, Wm. Jackson, Esq. an io-
genious young man, at Canterbury, author of
several poems in Nichols's Collection, &c.
May 5. Joseph Baretti,

21. Æt. 71, Sir John Hawkins, Kt.

July 20. Rev. James Ramsay, A. M. Vicar of
Teston, Kent, aged 55.

Aug. 8. At York, aged upwards of 80, Joseph

Randall, author of the "Semi-Virgilian Husbandry," 1764, 8vo. &c. He was formerly Master of the Academy at Heath, near Wakefield.

Joseph Harris, æt. 38, formerly Secretary to Vice-Admiral Milbanke, and author of "Naval Characters," &c.

Sept. 14. At Busbridge, Surry, Sir Rob. Barker,
Bar ·

Rev. John Walters, poet, Master of Ruthin school, son of the Rev. John Walters, the in

genious

genious and learned author of the English Welsh Dictionary, died before Oct. 1789. 1789. In France, James Paine, Esq. the celebrated architect, æt. 73. He published two volumes. of Plans, Elevations, &c. of Noblemen's, Gentlemen's, and other Houses and Buildings, designed by him," 1783.

Nov. 29. In Ireland, Geo. Cleghorn, M.D. aged 75.

Nov. 26. James Ibbetson, Barrister at Law. 1790. Jan. 30. John Watson Reed, F. S. A.

At Cotterstock, Northamptonshire, Rev. Sam. Ward, author of "The Modern System of Natural History," in 12 vols.

April 12. Dr. Nathaniel Forster, Rector of All
Saints, Colchester.

July 24. Rev. Mr. Withers, in Newgate.
Aug. 2. Rev. Wm. Dade, who in 1783 published
Proposals for "The History and Antiquities
of Holderness in Yorkshire." He was F.A.S.
Rector of Barmston, Co. of York, and Curate
of the perpetual Curacy of St. Olave, More-
gate, without Bootham-Bar.
Aug. 22. Mr. Macdonald, author of "The
Tragedy of Vimonda." He was also author
of a Novel, entitled "The Independent."
Aug. 1. Mr. John Knox, formerly a bookseller

in London, and author of "A Systematic
View of Scotland, with regard to its Fishe-
ries," &c.

Sept. 23. John Aitken, M. D. Fellow of the

Royal College of Surgeons, &c. and author of several publications on his profession.

1790. Oct. 11. At Wycliffe, Co. of York, Marmaduke Cuthbert Tunsall, Esq. F. R. and A. S. S. Editor of "Ornithologia Britannica,” 1771, Fol.

Francis Pigott, Esq. Barrister at Law, of
Berks, and Oxfordshire.

Nov. 5. At his house in Savile Row, Michael
Lort, D. D.

1790. July 27. Rev. Sam. Rogers, A. M. æt. 60, author of two volumes of "Miscellaneous Pieces in Verse," 12mo. He died at the Close, Salisbury, and was Rector of Husband Bosworth, Co. of Leicester, and of Brampton, Co. of Northampton.

1791.

- At Pant-y-kelyn, near Llandevery, in Carmarthenshire, aged 72, the Rev. Wm. Williams, a methodistical clergyman of distinguished talents and character, said to be "probably the last lyric poet of South Wales."

Mrs. Celesia, daughter of David Mallet, at Genoa. She wrote a Tragedy, called "Almida," 1771.

April 23. Lockyer Davis, bookseller, aged 73. He edited "Rochefoucault's Maxims,” 1774, 8vo.

3. Dr. John Berkenhout, æt. 61.

Near Pershore, Co. of Worcester, Henry Winchescomb, author of "The Lyre of Amphion," and other poetical effusions.

[To be continued.]

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