An Account of the Automaton; or, Perpetual Motion of Orfxyreus, with additional remarks, &c.' the other, 'A Lecture on the perpetual Motion,' which harmlessly, if not successfully, employed him, and certainly evinced a considerable knowledge of the science of mechanics. About the same time he published a translation of, De Lolme on the Constitution, which we presume he did not execute.

"In 1772, he disgraced his character by an atrocious attack on Garrick, called “Love in the Suds" for which that gentleman commenced a prosecution in the Court of King's Bench. Kenrick immediately published "a Letter to David Garrick, &c." in which he informed the public the cause of his quarrel with him, and the motives of his writing "Love in the Suds." A public apology appeared in the newspapers, November 26, as mean and false as the libel itself.The issue of the prosecution we have not discovered.

In 1773, he collected the works of Lloyd, 2 vols. 8 vo. with a life of that unfortunate poet, remarkable for being written without any dates. In the same year, he produced "The Duellist," a comedy, acted only one night; and published a "Dictionary of the English Language, 4to." in the preliminary parts of which are many shrewd and useful discussions and remarks. The little credit he had with the world at this time, must, we think, have impeded the success of this work, in which he shews himself a philologer of no mean talents.

In 1774, we find him giving lectures at the Devil Tavern, which he called "A School of Shakspeare," and about the same time addressed the artists and manufacturers of Great Britain respecting an application to Parliament for ascertaining the right of property in new discoveries and inventions. Fancying that he had discovered the perpetual motion, he was at this time alarmed by the literary property bill; but we hear no more afterwards of his discovery.

In January, 1775, he commenced his "London Review," and along with his own name, placed in the title those of H. Reimarus, J. U. D.; R. Williams, M.D.; E. Warner, A.M.

and the Rev. S. Maty. Except Reimarus, we believe it will be difficult to find these names in any list of "gentlemen of the first rank in the world of letters." The Review, however, went on for some years, and contains, from the pen of its chief author, repeated attacks upon his bretheren in every profession. It continued a few months after his death, and then sunk into oblivion. In the same year, 1775, he begán á translation of Buffon, to be published in numbers, and in 1778 a translation of Voltaire's works. His last dramatic attempt was "The Lady of the Manor," a comic opera, taken from Johnson's "Country Lasses;" and, his last original publications, both of some degree of merit, were "Observations on the Marriage Contract;" and "Observations on Jenyn's View of the Internal Evidence, &c." This last had formed an article in his Review, whence other articles of equal ability might be selected, were they not all contaminated by a style vituperative and malignant. In his latter days, his constitution was so much injured by inebriety, that he generally wrote with a bottle of brandy at his elbow, which at length terminated his career, June 10, 1779, less lamented than perhaps any person known in the literary world, yet possessed of the lents, which, under a steady and virtuous direction, might have procured him an honourable place among the authori of his time,"

Thomas Evans was the publisher of Kenrick's London Review, in eleven volumes, and after the author's death, frè quently relieved his family.

Gilbert Stuart, (or Gibby Stuart, as he was frequently called,) was also another literary friend of the elder. Evanst and of the late Mr. Goldsmith; another bookseller of the old school, with whom, and many literary characters of that period, it was their afternoon's practice to take their Nips of Burton Ale. at a once celebrated house in Gray's Inn-lane,

* 1 must be pardoned for making a remark here. A Review continued for Rome years after Kenrick's death, under the title of "Maty's Review." Maty I believe was Under-Librarian at the British Museum. It was puti. lished by the elder Wilkie (John) whose health, it was in the year 1785, my office for some time to enquire the state of.—W. W.

The talented Mr. Alexander Chalmers has given an admirable biographical memoir of his countryman, Stuart, which I conceive will be found interesting.

"Gilbert Stuart, a Scottish historian, was born at Edinburgh, in 1742. His father, Mr. George Stuart, who died in 1793, was professor of humanity in that University, and a man of considerable eminence for classical taste and literature. Gilbert Stuart having made the usual preparations in the Grammar School and the University, applied himself to the study of Jurisprudence... For that profession, however, he is said to have been disqualified by indolence; and he early began to indulge his passion for general literature and boundless dissipation: yet his youth was not altogether wasted in idleness, for before he had completed his twenty-second year, he published "An Historical Dissertation concerning the Antiquity of the British Constitution," which had so much merit as to obtain for him the degree of doctor of law, from the University of Edinburgh. After an interval of some years, in which he could not have neglected his studies, he produced A View of Society in Europe, in its progress from Rudeness to Refinement; or, Enquiries concerning the History of Laws, Government, and Manners." This is a valuable work, and proves that he had meditated with much attention on the most important monuments of the middle ages, About the time when the first edition of this book appeared, Dr. Stuart applied for the professorship of public law in the University of Edinburgh; but being disappointed, removed soon after to London. He there became, from 1768 to 1773, one of the writers of the Monthly Review: he then returned to Edinburgh, where he began a Magazine and Review, called from the name of that city, the first number of which appeared in October 1773. In this he was assisted by William Smellie, but owing to the virulent spirit displayed by the writers, it was obliged to be discontinued in 1776. In 1778, his ⚫ View of Society' was republished. In 1782, he again visited London, and engaged in the Political Herald' and the English Review; but being attacked by two formidable disorders,

These two periodicals were published by the late John Murray.