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separate collections, one in 1789, the other in 1791 among these, his lyrical effusions possess much merit. His Epigrams frequently enlivened the columns of the Morning Chronicle. Died April 14, aged 56. JORDAN, CAMILLE. This celebrated orator, and political character, was born at Lyons, Jan. 11, 1771. He first visited Paris in 1790; and in 1793, when Lyons opposed the tyranny of the national convention, first displayed his eloquence. After the siege of Lyons, he retired to Switzerland, and from thence came to this country, where he formed a connection with Erskine, Fox, &c. and studied our literature, legislation, and constitution. sequently he went to Germany, where he also became acquainted with several of the first literati. In 1800, he was recalled to France, and opposed the pretensions of Buonaparte, then First Consul. During the imperial government, he lived in entire seclusion, occupied solely with literary pursuits. Attached to the Bourbons, he endeavoured to promote their restoration, 1814. Died 19th of May, in his 51st year. KEATS, JOHN, a young man of distinguished genius as a poet. He died at Rome on the 28th of February, 1821, in the 25th year of his age. His works are, "Poems," published in 1817; Endymion, published in 1818; and Lamia, and other poems, published in 1820. Memoirs of his life are announced, to be accompanied with a selection from his unpublished manuscripts, which, when they appear, will be so particularly noticed in this Magazine as to render any further account at this time unnecessary.

KING, FRANCES ELIZABETH. This excellent woman, who was relict of the late Rev. Richard King, and sister to Sir Thomas Bernard, was author of A Tour in France, 1803; and of several religious and moral publications; viz. The Beneficial Effects of the Christian Temper on Human Happiness. Female Scripture Characters. 2 vols. 18mo, &c. Died Dec. 23, aged 64. KNOX, VICESIMUS, DD. a distinguished writer on subjects of education and Belles Lettres. His Essays obtained for him great reputation by the eloquence of the language and style; his Winter Evenings' Lucubrations are also a very agreeable collection of papers on literary topics. He also formed those popular compilations the Elegant Extracts, Prose, Verse, and Epistles. As a writer on religious subjects and divinity, he has not published much; but his productions in this line have been highly commended by those two eminent prelates, Horsley and Porteus. In his political opinions Dr. Knox was a whig. Born Dec. 8, 1752: died Sept. 6.

LINDSAY, REV. JAMES, DD. was a native of Scotland, and succeeded the celebrated Dr. Fordyce as pastor of the presbyterian congregation in Monkwell-street,

MALHAM, REV. JOHN, vicar of Helton, in Dorsetshire, was a native of Craven, in Yorkshire; at the Grammarschool of which place he received his education. He wrote and edited a variety of useful publications.

MARCHENA, ABBE DE, died at Madrid, in February; for a sketch of his character, see page 314 of our 4th Volume.

MORGAN, REV. THOMAS, DD. was a native of Langharm, Caermarthenshire, where he was born in 1752. Independently of being the author of some Discourses and Hymns, Dr. Morgan wrote for several years the Reviews of Foreign and Domestic Literature in the New Annual Register; many of the articles in the General Biogra phy, commenced by Dr. Enfield, and subsequently carried on by Dr. Aikin, &c. and was likewise a frequent contributor to the Gentleman's Magazine. Died July 21, in his 61st year.

MURRAY, CHARLES, an actor of considerable talent, was son of Sir John Murray, Bart. of Broughton, Secretary to the Pretender, 1745. He was originally intended for the medical profession, but his attachment to the Drama induced him to relinquish his original destination.

NEILSON, REV. W., DD. MRIA. Author of several useful publications for schools; Greek Exercises, and Key; Greek Idioms exhibited in Select Passages from the best Authors, 8vo. ; Elements of English Grammar; besides these, he wrote an Introduction to the Irish Language and some single Sermons.

PAGE, R. M. at one period an artist of some celebrity, terminated his existence in poverty about the latter end of last year.

PALMIERI, ABBATE VINCENZO, Professor of Theology at Pisa and Pavia, ob tained considerable notoriety by supporting doctrines not very favourable to the Church

of Rome. His Treatise on Indulgencies has been translated into several languages; but the work which has conferred on him most honour is his Treatise on the Truths of the Gospel.

PERRY, JAMES, a distinguished public journalist, of whom some account was given in our Number for January. To Mr. Perry belongs the honour of having raised the character of the daily press in respectability, giving to it an influence it did not before possess. He also considerably improved the whole system and routine of newspapers, rendering them a much more prompt channel of intelligence than formerly. Independently of his immediate professional studies, he possessed a general taste for elegant literature, of which there is sufficient proof in a very extensive and valuable collection of books which he had formed, and which have since his death been disposed of by public auction. Died December 5th, in his 65th year.

PECHEUX, LAURENCE, first painter to his Majesty the King of Sardinia, director of the school of painting, member of the Royal Academy of Sciences, and Knight of the order of St. Maurice and Lazarus. Of his talents as an artist he has left a fine monument in the beautiful Frescoes which he executed at the Villa Borghese. Died at Turin, in July.

PIOZZI, HESTER LYNCH. This lady I will not be remembered so much for her own productions as for having been, during a long series of years, the friend of the celebrated Johnson. As a writer, though occasionally lively, she is frequently frivolous and flippant. Died May 2, aged 82.

POLIDORI, J. W. MD., author of the Vampyre, a tale, which on its first appearance was assigned to Lord Byron; an Essay on Positive Pleasure; Ximenes, or the Wreath; the War of the Angels; and a few other poetical productions. Died suddenly at his lodgings in Great Pulteney

street.

RENNIE, JOHN, was born June 7th, 1761, at Preston Kirk, in the county of East Lothian, Scotland. In his carliest youth he discovered a taste for mechanics, and commenced life as a millwright, but fortunately soon afterwards connected himself with the late Mr. Watt, the inventor of the steam-engine. On the death of Mr. Smeaton, Mr. Rennie succeeded him in many public works, and was soon at the head of the list of civil engineers. He had now sufficient scope for the exertion of his talents; nor did he neglect the opportunity that now presented itself of acquiring fame as well as emolument. The London and East India docks, the harbours of Portsmouth, Plymouth, Liverpool, Leith, &c. the Bell Rock Light-house, the Quay at Woolwich, above all, the Waterloo bridge,

are indisputable proofs of his genius, and will perpetuate his name. M. Dupin has published a necrological memoir of him, Died October 4.

RICH, CLAUDIUS J., late resident of the East India Company at Bagdad, to which office he was raised before he had completed his 17th year, in consequence of his uncommon literary attainments and great merit. His Memoirs of Ancient Babylon display great historical erudition. Died at Shiraz, October 5, aged 35.

RIGBY, EDWARD, MD. An account is given of this gentleman at page 683 of our fourth volume.

RODRIGUEZ, an eminent Spanish Astronomer. He was appointed by the Spanish government to assist Biot and Arago in measuring an arc of the meridian; and was for some time engaged in astronomical pursuits at both London and Paris. Died, aged about 45.

SALMON, ROBERT, (born at Stratfordupon-Avon, 1763,) deserves to be recorded, on account of his numerous mechanical improvements for the purposes of agricul tural and rural economy. Died Oct. 9.

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SCOTT, JOHN. The particulars of the life of this gentleman, author of The Visit to Paris, Paris Revisited, The House of Mourning, a poem, and late editor of the London Magazine, are too important to be given in that brief space to which our present article would limit us. wait with anxiety for the appearance of memoirs of his life, from the pen of one who is of all persons the most competent to undertake such a work, and when these are published, we shall recur to the subject.

SCOTT, HELENUS, MD. of the Hon. East India Company, and First Member of the Medical Board of Bombay. Dr. Scott was an admirable chemist, and as a practical physician did much for the study of Pathology. It is to him that we are indebted for the practice of exhibiting, both internally and externally, the nitric and nitro-muriatic acids, as well as other agents of a similar nature, in siphilitic and hepatic diseases, and in maladies incidental to the climate of India. Died November 16, on his voyage to Van Diemen's Land.

SCOTT, Rev. THOMAS, Rector of Aston Sandford, Bucks, born at Brayloft, near Spilsby, in Lincolnshire, February, 1747, was author of several valuable theological and religious works. His Force of Truth is a popular publication, and has been frequently translated. Many of his writings were in reply to the objections raised against Christianity by infidel and speculative authors; such are his Answer to Paine; Rights of God, &c.; but he will be best known as a commentator on the Holy Scriptures. His edition of the Family Bible, on which he was employed for thirty-three years, has been frequently

STEPHENS, ALEXANDER. This gentleman, who was a native of Elgin, in Scotland, where he was born, 1757, was educated to the profession of the law, which he abandoned for that of literature. Mr. Stephens was an author from choice, being possessed of handsome property. Died February 24.

STEVENSON, WILLIAM, FAS., was a bookseller at Norwich, and for many years proprietor of the Norfolk Chronicle. He was much attached to archæological pursits, and the study of ancient architecture, to which he contributed much by his valuable supplement to his edition of Bentham's Ely. Died April 13, in his 72d year.

STOTHARD, CHARLES ALFRED, son of Thomas Stothard, Esq. RA. was an artist and antiquary of considerable cminence. His pencil was chiefly employed in delineating specimens of ancient costume, and on similar subjects, which were most congenial to his predilection for antiquarian inquiry. Of this description is his Monumental Effigies of Great Britain, a work of great interest, and supplying much information. In 1819 Mr. Stothard exhibited to the Society of Antiquaries his drawings from the Bayeux Tapestry, accompanied with an Historical Memoir. A short time previous to his death he had contemplated a work intended to illustrate the reign of Elizabeth. On the 28th of May, while copying a window in the church of Bere Ferrers, for a series of illustrations of the county of Devon, in Lyson's Magna Britannia, the ladder on which he stood broke, and, falling against a monument, he was killed on the spot.

THURSTON, JOHN, was a native of Scarborough; he designed a number of book-plates for popular works. Died, aged 48.

TWISS, RICHARD. This amusing tourist was born at Rotterdam, April 26, 1747, where his father, who was an eminent English merchant, resided. His works are Travels in Portugal and Spain, 2 vols. 8vo. 1772; Tour in Ireland, 1775; Trip to Paris, 1792: Anecdotes of Chess, 1792; Miscellanies, 2 vols. 8vo. 1805. Died March 5.

VENINI, (L'Abbate) FRANCESCO, Professor of the University of Parma, was a mathematician, philologist, and poet, and the author of several highly esteemed works. Died at Milan, April 5, aged 83.

VINCE, Rev. ARCHDEACON, MA. FRS. Plumian Professor of Astronomy at the University of Cambridge, known by his various writings on astronomical and mathematical subjects.

VOIGT, JEAN CHARLES GUILLAUME, was an excellent naturalist, and director of the mines at Ilmenau, on the subject of which he wrote an Essay, his latest production. He died at Ilmenau, January 1, in his 68th year.

WALKER, ADAM, Lecturer on Natural and Experimental Philosophy. This gentleman invented a variety of useful contrivances, machines, &c. viz. engines for raising water; improved method of pumping vessels at sea; wind and steam carriages; the empyreal air-stove; the celestina harpsicord; the eidouranion; the rotary lights on the Scilly Islands; a boat to work against the stream; a curious weather gauge, &c. Died February 11, aged 90.

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WALTERS, JOHN, Architect. principal works are, a beautiful Chapel, in the pointed style, on the London Hospital estate; the Auction Mart, by the Bank; and the Parish Church of St. Paul, Shadwell. In naval architecture he invented a diagonal truss, with metal braces to be placed on the bottom of the vessels. A discovery of considerable importance. Died at Brighton, October 4, aged 39.

WEBER, ANSELM. This celebrated composer was born at Manheim, 1766; he was at first destined for the church, and passed through a course of theological studies, but his attachment to music preponderated, and determined him to embrace that as his profession. He afterwards travelled with the celebrated Abbe Vogel through Holland, England, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden; became director of the band at the theatre at Berlin; and subsequently, on his return from Paris, in 1805, was appointed leader at the Chapel Royal at Berlin. He set to music many of the pieces of Goethe and Schiller; for the last he composed the music of Hermann and Thusnelda. His operas had great success. Died March 23.

WHITAKER, Rev. THOMAS DUNHAM, LLD. FSA., an eminent Antiquary, Historian, and Classical Scholar. In the former character he has been excelled by few with respect to research, interest, information, and taste: in proof of this, it is but necessary to name his histories of Whalley, Craven, and Richmondshire, and Loidis in Elmeté. As a writer of modern Latinity, his De Motu per Britanniam Civico is a work that confers honour

on his pen. Born, June 5, 1759, at Rainham, Norfolk. Died, December 18, aged 63.

ZETLITZ, JENS, was a native of Norway, and a Danish poet of some eminence. Some of his lyric effusions are esteemed the happiest specimens in this class of poetry that Denmark has produced. Born 1761.

THERE is no foreign news this month of any interest whatever. By the arrival of a Gottenburgh Mail, it is stated, that a declaration was expected at St. Petersburgh to be immediately issued by the Emperor Alexander, detailing the steps which he had taken for the maintenance of peace, and that this was to be followed by some important decision, as to the nature of which, however, we are left in the dark. The Paris papers state, that the language of the Porte had latterly become pacific; that in a note lately addressed by the Reis Effendi to the English ambassador and the Internuncio, the Divan acknowledges the obligation which it is under of conforming to treaties and of evacuating the principalities, which latter operation it states shall be commenced without delay. There is not, however, one word to which we can affix any official authenticity.

In France affairs continue in the same unsettled state, in which probably they will remain until the death of the present king. An election tumult of a serious nature took place at Lyons, during which the military were called out, the celebrated Marseillois hymn was sung, and cries of Vive Napoleon II. were uttered. These are portentous omens. The elections for the Chamber of Deputies have terminated in Paris and its adjoining department almost entirely in favour of the Liberals; Talleyrand and De Cazes have both lately been to Court, and by their junction it is supposed the Ultras will be dispossessed of power. The head of the late administration, the Duke de Richelieu, died after twenty-four hours' illness of a brain fever; he was a man of mediocre talents, but high in the confidence of Louis.

We are likely, it seems, to have the novel spectacle of a war between Russia and America. The dispute has arisen with respect to some territorial arrangements. Russia claims the sovereignty of the whole North West Coast of America within certain points, and prohibits the entrance of any foreign ships within the space claimed, and declares that she

will consider all vessels as wilfully contravening this her claim which have left an European port since last March, or shall leave an American port after the 1st of July next. The Americans have expressed their great amazement at this claim, and declare that the territorial line between the two countries ought to have been settled by commissioners appointed on each side. To this the Russian negotiator replies, that Russia being herself very well acquainted with the line of boundary, had no occasion to give or take any trouble on the subject. America, as might be expect ed, dissents from this logic, and threatens desperate deeds if the Russian claims shall be acted on. Thus matters stand at present.

His Algerine Highness threatens a declaration of war against Spain, on the alleged smallness of the tribute which he at present receives from that country! What does this Ultra Legitimate savage demand tribute for? It would however be a thou sand pities that he and Ferdinand should quarrel.

The last arrivals from the United States bring intelligence of rather an unpleasant nature from China. It seems there has been a serious difference between Captain Richardson, of his Britannic Majesty's frigate Topaze, and the native Chinese. The dispute arose at the village of Lintin, about twenty miles above Macao. The frigate's boats had gone on shore to water, when some difference arose between the seamen and the natives, who attacked the crew with bamboos and other weapons. Under these circumstances, Captain Richardson felt under the necessity of opening a fire in order to cover the retreat of his crew, the result of which was, that thirteen of the Chinese were either killed or wounded. The frigate and a large country ship were left lying at Lintin with their boarding netting up, under apprehension of an attack from the natives.

Russia has just promulgated a most rigorous Tariff, by which almost every article of British manu facture is excluded from her ports!