WAS a teacher of drawing in Cork, where he died about the year 1807. He was a pupil of Butts, and, like him, painted figures and landscape. Grogan’s pictures are coloured in the worst manner of the Flemish school, but nevertheless possess considerable merit and humour in the composition.

He published a series of views of the neighbourhood of Cork in aqua tinta, engraved by himself; and also the Country Schoolmaster, a plate of considerable size, which has been much admired. The productions of Grogan’s pencil are said to be chiefly in the possession of Lord Ennismore and Mr. John Barrett of Cork. The breaking up of an Irish Fair, and an Irish Wake, are, we believe, his most esteemed performances. {289}

EMINENT for his profound knowledge of the Irish language, was the son of a respectable apothecary and druggist in Dublin, in which city he was born. He was articled to an attorney, and when out of his apprenticeship, was patronised by Lord Norbury, and was appointed deputy filazer to the Court of Common Pleas. To a fine taste for the arts he added a critical knowledge of the classics and modem languages; but that in which he was most deeply versed was the Irish, with which, until the latter years of his life, he had been wholly unacquainted. By close application to the vellum MSS. assisted by imperfect Irish glossaries, he attained so extraordinary a facility in understanding the most ancient writings of the country, as surprised those whose native tongue it was from their infancy; a circumstance which should operate as an incentive to the study of a language by no means difficult to acquire, and to which recent elementary works afford great facilities.

He commenced a translation of Keating’s History of Ireland, of which one volume was published; but his premature death, at the age of twenty-four, deprived the lovers of Irish literature of the labours of this promising young man and accomplished scholar.

Three months prior to his decease (which occurred on the 26th of October, 1812) he had married an amiable young lady, who has erected a monument to his memory in Tawney church, Dundrum, near Dublin.

He also composed an Irish grammar, of the duodecimo size, containing many curious observations on the declensions and prosody of the Irish language, highly indicative of the author’s genius and taste.

WAS descended from a younger branch of the Dukes of Hamilton, and was born in Ireland about 1646. His {290} mother was sister to the Great Duke of Ormond, viceroy of that kingdom. The troubles in which his country was involved, occasioned the removal of his family to France while he was an infant, and he was educated in the religion and language of that country. During the reign of Charles the Second he made several visits to England; but his religion, to which he adhered stedfastly, prevented him from obtaining any public employment there. His sister; afterwards married to Philibert, Count of Grammont, was one of the ornaments of that gay court, and it is said that a scene, not unlike that in the Mariage Forcé, took place between the brother and the lover, when the latter was on his way to quit the kingdom without fulfilling his engagement. At the accession of James the Second, he was presented with a regiment of infantry in Ireland, and raised to the important post of governor of Limerick; but, upon the ruin of that monarch’s affairs, the Count thought it prudent to accompany him back to France, where he ended his days, dying at St. Germains in 1720, at the advanced age of seventy-four.

The works of Count Hamilton, in the French language, were printed collectively in six volumes limo, in 1749. They consist chiefly of poems, many of which possess all the ease and delicacy of the best French poets; also Fairy Tales, which were intended as a refined piece of ridicule on the then prevailing passion for the marvellous; and his celebrated “Memoirs of Count Grammont,” which will always excite curiosity, as giving a striking and faithful detail of the dissolute manners of the court of Charles the Second. This, says Voltaire, is of all books, that in which the most slender ground-work is set off with the gayest, and most lively and agreeable style. The hero, his brother-in-law, (adds one of his biographers,) is little more than a genteel sharper, and the adventures which befall him are the common vices of such a character; but they are related with irresistible pleasantry and all the grace of fashionable conversation. The work is filled with portraits and anecdotes of the most celebrated per{291}sonages in the court of Charles the Second, which has rendered it particularly interesting to English readers. The late Lord Orford (Horace Walpole) printed a splendid edition of it at his private press, adorned with fine engravings from original portraits; and it was likewise reprinted in London in 1805, in three volumes 8vo.

AN artist of some eminence, was born in Dublin about the year 1734. He studied the elements of his art at the Academy House in Grafton-street; and to his ingenuity we are indebted for the invention of that species of portrait painting which is a mixture of crayons and chalks, and in which he so much excelled, that his likenesses were held in high estimation.

He pursued his art with increased success in England, {292} where he had the honour of having the King, Queen, and several of the royal family, to sit to him. From England he proceeded to Italy, where he resided twelve yean; and while pursuing his studies from the models of excellence in that country, exchanged his crayons for the palette and pencil. His portraits in oil were not less distinguished for characteristic likeness, knowledge of half-tint and good drawing, than his former productions in crayons: and his efforts in historic painting, prove how much be would have excelled, had his genius taken an earlier direction in that line. A Cupid and Psyche, in the possession of Lord Charleville; and a fine sketch of Prometheus snatching fire from the car of Apollo, are strong evidences of his talents in the higher walks of art.

Hugh Hamilton died in Dublin in 1806.

AN eminent divine and naturalist, was a native of the county of Antrim. He received his education at Trinity College, Dublin, where he took the degree of A. M. and was afterwards elected to a fellowship. He had always been addicted to the study of natural philosophy and geology, and the leisure of a college retirement enabled him to resume those pursuits with great application and success. His “Letters on the Coast of the County of Antrim” very early attracted the notice of philosophers. It contains an ingenious and masterly review of the opinions concerning the origin and productions of the basaltic strata; and although his own theory on the subject may be equally unfounded with those which he com-bats, yet his observations will be found useful as pointing out the defects of the descriptions and engravings of the Giant’s Causeway, which had been previously published. His topographical notices are very few and scanty; but bit account of the mineralogy of the district, is evidently written by a man who had devoted much time to the study. This work was very popular on the Continent, {293} and introduced its author to the correspondence of several of the most eminent philosophers, and to the acquaintance of almost every foreigner of science who visited Ireland. In 1788, he published “An Account of Experiments for determining the Temperature of the Earth’s Surface in Ireland,” which was printed in the Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy. About the year 1790, he was appointed by the University rector of Fanet, in the county of Donegal, where the variety and extent of his professional occupations, unavoidably interrupted his philosophical studies. He, however, found leisure for the composition and publication of “Letters on the French Revolution”, written principally with the benevolent intention of informing the minds of the middle and lower ranks of his countrymen in the North, on a subject which had agitated them to an alarming degree.

A residence of seven years at his rectory, had secured to him the respect and confidence of a most extensive and populous tract of country, in which he was the only resident magistrate and incumbent. In both these capacities, his attention had been uniformly directed to the welfare, good order, and improvement of that remote and little frequented district. His efforts had been singularly successful. The country advanced rapidly in industry and prosperity; and, while the other parts of the North were in a state of disturbance, long remained tranquil. At length the contagion unhappily reached his neighbourhood, and his active measures and personal exertions had succeeded in giving a check to its progress, when, on March 2nd, 1797, on his return from Raphoe, where he had spent the preceding night at the Bishop’s, he was murdered. The roughness of the weather had caused some delay at the ferry over Lough Swilly, which induced him to take the opportunity of calling on his friend Dr. Waller, of Sharon, who resided about a mile from that place, where he was unfortunately prevailed on to remain all night. About nine in the evening, the house was beset by a number of armed men, who, after firing several shots through the window of the room in which they were. {294} sitting, and mortally wounding Mrs. Waller, threatened to burn the house and destroy all its inhabitants, unless Dr. Hamilton was instantly delivered into their hands. In the terror and distraction of so dreadful a scene, this was forcibly effected by the servants; Dr. H. was thrust out of the house, and immediately dispatched, and the assailants made their retreat unmolested.

Thus miserably perished, in the full vigour and exercise of his talents, one of the most active of the defenders of his distracted country. By his death the literary world was deprived of many observations and discoveries In natural philosophy, of which he had not had leisure to prepare a regular account, - his parishioners of a faithful friend and pastor, - and his country of a support and ornament. He is supposed to have fallen a victim to his exertions for suppressing that spirit of insurrection which had just manifested itself in his district; by his vigilance and activity as a magistrate, he had apprehended some of the ringleaders, and driven others out of his neighbourhood; these are supposed to have been lurking in the woods about Sharon, and thus to have taken a fell and deadly revenge for their disappointed expectations. At the following assizes a servant of Dr. Waller’s, who had taken a share in delivering up Dr. Hamilton to the assassins, was tried as an accomplice in the murder, but was acquitted. On his death he left a widow and nine children, who have since been liberally provided for by the British Government. “In consequence,” says the resolution of the Irish House of Commons, March 3, 1797, “of his meritorious exertions as a magistrate.”

A posthumous paper by Dr. Hamilton, “on the Climate of Ireland”, was printed in the Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy for 1797.

Is a name which reflects honour on his race and country; - one who, at sixteen, entered the word without a guide, and in the midst of a camp, whether exposed to danger, {295} or solicited by pleasure, devoted every leisure hour to honourable studies, and lived in the practice of every Christian virtue. He was born at Belfast, in the year 1753, and went out to India in 1769. From the commencement of his military career, he zealously applied to the study of the oriental languages, and was early associated with those eminent characters, the Asiatic Society established at Calcutta.

The expedition against the Rohillas, was a subject of general interest, on which no one was so competent to afford information as Mr. Hamilton, who had been personally engaged in the service. Induced by various considerations, he began the Rohilla history, and had already made some progress, when a more important object arrested his attention, Amongst many magnificent literary plans, originating in the enlightened liberality of Mr. Hastings, was a proposal for translating from the Persian, the "Hedaya, or, Code of Mussulman Laws," a stupendous undertaking, of which it was difficult to calculate the toil or predict the termination. Mr. Anderson, a member of the Asiatic Society, eminent for his knowledge of oriental literature, was the person first selected for the task; but the state of his health rendered his return to Europe necessary, and the governor and council transferred the office to his intimate and valued friend Mr. Hamilton; who considered that the leisure, ease, and tranquillity, so essential to the performance of this work, could only be enjoyed in England, and accordingly obtained permission for five years absence. It was nearly thirteen years since he landed in Asia, a solitary stranger, without patronage or protection; - now he was returning to his native country, and affectionate relatives, with reputation and distinction, acquired by intense application and unblemished conduct: with such reflections he beguiled the tedious voyage, nor would he descend to lament the waste of health and strength by which these honours had been purchased. On the 20th of December, 1786, Mr. Hamilton arrived at Ingram’s Crook, Stirlingshire, the residence of his affec{293}tionate and valued sister Elizabeth, where, after reposing a few days, he proceeded to Dublin to see his eldest sister. In his subsequent journey to London, he enjoyed the society of this lady; and when he had transacted his necessary business, and published the History of the Rohilla War, they set off for the tranquil cottage, and joined their dear sister, and this affectionate family was, for the first time since their mother’s death, reunited under the same roof. During several months, Mr. Hamilton was sedulously engaged in unravelling all the intricacies of the Persian tongue; and in this happy domestic circle time passed rapidly away. In 1788, Mr. Hamilton quitted this agreeable retreat for London, attended by his sisters. With the consummation of Mr. Hamilton’s labours, ended the happiness of the little party that had so long subsisted in affectionate cordiality. The printing of the Hedaya being completed, Mr. Hamilton was appointed resident at the Vizier’s court, and had consequently to prepare for his departure from England. It should be observed, the East India Directors undertook to defray the expense of printing the Hedaya, and to receive a certain number of copies, the remainder to be the property of the translator; but, on the suggestion of some intimate friends, Mr. Hamilton presented a memorial to the directors, which Mr. Hastings warmly supported, in consequence of which, they purchased the copyright and the unsold copies of the work. He now prepared for his departure to the East, and in the summer of 1791, his sisters took their leave of him, and returned to the North; but his affectionate heart, after some weeks, followed to bid a last adieu. In September he returned to London, but owing to some unexpected circumstance, his embarkation was deferred to the spring. In his last journey from Scotland he caught a cold, which produced alarming pulmonary symptoms. A voyage to Lisbon was urged by his medical friends, but he could not resolve to go, until some concerns at the India House were concluded; and exerting himself more than was consistent with the state of his health, he was not in a state to under{297}take it. He had for some weeks resided at Hampstead, and in December his sisters joined him. Calm, patient, and affectionate, he endeavoured to cheer them, preserving, to the last moment, all the sensibilities that endear the man, or exalt the Christian. This valuable being, in the prime of life, and with the most gratifying prospects of distinction, terminated his earthly career on the 14th of March, 1792. His remains were privately interred in Bunhill Fields; and a monument was afterwards erected by his sisters at Belfast.

THE sister of the foregoing, and alike celebrated for her virtue and talents, was born at Belfast, July 25th, 1758; her father died in 1759. At the age of six years, in consequence of the perplexity of her mother’s situation, she was surrendered to the care of Mr. and Mrs. Marshal, who resided in a solitary mansion near Stirling, in Scotland. Mrs. Marshal, a sensible and accomplished woman, adopted with fond affection the daughter of a beloved brother; and Mr. Marshal appears to have partaken of the same feeling, and to have attended to her education, with all the delight and ardour of parental tenderness. The first two years, she was confined but little to her books, but suffered, as it were, to run wild, with a playmate of the other sex; with him she was stimulated to feats of hardihood and enterprise; with him she would ford the burns in summer, or slide in winter over their frozen surface. By these means nature had free scope, and she acquired that force of character, activity, and decision, which fitted her for the arduous situations of life. Having completed her eighth year, it was judged necessary to habituate her to regular application. In the town of Stirling there were many day schools; but as the distance of four miles precluded daily attendance, Mrs. Marshal adopted the expedient of boarding her niece from Monday to Saturday with a female friend, from whose house she could easily attend {298} the best seminary that Stirling afforded. In this new situation she was accompanied by a young girl (Isabel Irvine) in the capacity of servant, to whom she became much attached, and whose instruction afterwards formed one of her voluntary studies. It was a master who presided over the school to which Elizabeth was introduced; a custom at that time prevalent in Scotland and Ireland; and, by a curious coincidence, a master of the same name, Manson, kept a school on a similar plan at Belfast, and there the sister of Elizabeth was one of his pupils. To writing, geography, and the use of the globes, she applied with assiduity, and with a degree of success that delighted her master, who, in a poem written forty years after, referred with generous pride to the period when she was his pupil. The following year added to the list of her studies and acquirements, music, drawing, and dancing. With such various avocations she experienced neither weariness nor disgust during her absence from her happy home; yet the return of Saturday was always anticipated with ardour, for, excluding tasks and sermons on the Sunday, unsuited to the taste and capacity of childhood, religion assumed in this family a most engaging aspect; and to the example, still more than the precept of her excellent friends, Mrs. Hamilton always referred the formation of her own moral and religions sentiments. Some time before this she had lost her mother; but the care and tenderness she experienced from her adopted parents, rendered the impression transient. In her thirteenth year, she was reestablished at home, where her kind aunt had engaged a young friend to assist her progress in music and drawing. About this time an intimate of the family took some pains to shake the foundation of her religious principles. Ridicule and arguments were employed - her curiosity was excited, and her inexperience perplexed - she could not easily believe that her aunt, wise and good, could be the dupe of error. To terminate this state of doubt, which to her ardent temper was insupportable, she took the prompt resolution of reading the Scriptures by stealth, {299} and deciding the question by her own judgment. The result of this examination was, a conviction of their truth; and she observed, that the moral precepts connected with the doctrines of Christianity, were too pure to be promulgated by an impostor. In the year 1785, Miss Hamilton sent her first contribution to the press, in a number of the Lounger, which was accepted by the editor without any knowledge of the author: of the same date is a sportive poem, called "Anticipation," written with the facility and freedom of a practised pen, though it does not appear she at this period devoted much time to it. The actual duties of domestic life, of which she felt the full claim, left little leisure for solitary study, without encroaching on the season of repose. The morning hours were allotted to household superintendence, and the evening dedicated to her uncle’s amusement, to which she most sedulously attended, urged thereto by every feeling of duty, gratitude, and affection. Noris it probable, at this period, she aspired to literary fame; a fairer vision floated before her, a happiness dearer than distinction, appeared to court her acceptance; but the vision passed away, and she felt the pangs of disappointment; yet her strong and well-regulated mind prevented it casting an invidious shade on her future existence.

In December 1786, Miss Hamilton experienced the delight of seeing her valuable brother arrive from India; and to her it seemed a new era of existence. It was impossible that she should not have been essentially benefited by her daily intercourse with this enlightened man, who, from natural and acquired endowments, was eminently calculated to enlarge her views, and to regulate her opinions, by correcting the mistakes incident to a self-taught recluse, and engrafting liberality and candour on her native stock of good sense, and mental independence. He taught her to explore her own latent and hitherto unappropriated treasures. His conversation inspired her with a taste for oriental literature; and she spontaneously caught the idioms, as she insensibly became familiar with {300} the customs and manners of the East. In 1788, Mr. Hamilton quitted his agreeable retreat at Ingram’s Crook, and Mr. Marshal willingly allowed his niece to pay her first visit to London under his protection. There she was introduced into an intellectual and polished circle, and became more alive to the consciousness of her own peculiar talents. In the summer Miss Hamilton returned home, and in the autumn Mr. Marshal was attacked by an epidemic complaint, which in a few days conducted him to the grave. Miss Hamilton had now no motive for remaining at Ingram’s Crook; she therefore speedily rejoined her brother and sister, with whom she spent nearly two years, chiefly in the metropolis. In whatever scene she appeared, she obtained the consideration due to sound sense and discriminating judgment. At this period it was her happiness to form a friendship with a literary family, who, next to her brother, fostered her rising talents, and contributed to her future fame. In the Rev. Dr. G——, whose life was an honour to his profession, her grateful heart delighted to acknowledge the judicious adviser to those literary pursuits, which made her so extensively useful. In his wife, she found a woman congenial to her taste, who, in mind and manners, realised all she had con-ceived of female excellence; she became her chosen, cherished friend; and the various vicissitudes of thirty years only confirmed the strength and tenderness of this mutual attachment. About this time Mr. Hamilton pre- pared for his return to India, and the sisters took their leave of him. Miss Hamilton resumed possession of Ingram’s Crook, where she was rather unexpectedly gratified by a parting visit from her affectionate brother, who took the opportunity to re-urge what he had often recommended her, to engage in some literary pursuit, which, by affording constant occupation to her thoughts, might beguile the tedious season of their separation. He Cook his departure from thence in September 1791, and returned to town; but owing to some unexpected circumstance, his embarkation was deferred to the spring. In December {301} she received a letter from him, which awakened her apprehensions, in regard to his health; she replied in person, and in agony reached his lodgings at Hampstead, where her sister had before joined him, and they both continued in affectionate and nnremitted attendance until he died, in March 1792. The loss of such a brother, was felt by both sisters as irreparable; and anxious to escape from a scene, which could no longer be contemplated without the most bitter retrospections, they retired to Hadleigh, in Suffolk, and afterwards to Sunning, in Berkshire; but to both, society and retirement were equally divested of their former attractions. Miss Hamilton often reverted to her brother’s admonitions, that she should devote her talents to some literary pursuit; and, alive only to recollections appertaining to him, and ideas acquired from his conversation, she was insensibly led to conceive the design of writing the “Hindoo Rajah” in which she was not only permitted to recall those ideas, but to pourtray his character, and commemorate his talents and virtues. When she had written a few sheets, she felt reluctant to proceed, but submitted it to the determination of a friend, with a diffidence that betrayed the dejection of her spirits: this friend decided for the Rajah’s appearance; but it was not until 1796, that it was permitted to struggle into existence. Its reception encouraged her; and she engaged in another work - "The Modern Philosophers." This appeared early in 1800, and passed through two editions before the end of the year: to this succeeded, "Letters on Education" in which it was her aim, not to state and explain new systems, but to suggest for those already known a prompt and practical application.

In 1803, “Agrippina” issued from the press, a work erroneously classed with novels; for she was careful to substantiate every fact, by references to classical authority. In 1804, she fixed her residence in Edinburgh, and soon after was informed of the pension conferred on her by his majesty, as an acknowledgment that her literary talents had been meritoriously exerted in the cause of {302} religion and virtue. At this period she was earnestly solicited by a widowed nobleman, to superintend the education of his children, offering her a separate establishment, and the choice of the governess on whom was to devolve the subordinate office of tuition, with the absolute control of every thing connected with her department; but she valued too highly personal independence, to listen to proposals that might militate against it. At length, however, she consented to reside in the family as a friend for a few months, to assist his lordship in forming proper arrangements; and at the expiration of six, she resigned the trust. Her thoughts were, however, occupied with the subject, and she composed the "Letters to the Daughter of a Nobleman," which were published in the spring of 1806, and obtained a most flattering reception from the public. The return of Miss Hamilton to Edinburgh, diffused general satisfaction; she soon took an active part with the ladies who had formed the House of Industry, a most useful establishment for the education of girls of the lowest class; and contributed essentially to the improvement of an institution, which promises to be beneficial to the community. For their use, she composed a little work, entitled, “Exercises in Religious Knowledge:” this publication, which received the sanction of Bishop Sandford and the Rev. Mr. Alison, was published in 1809. Shortly after, she began “The Cottagers of Glenburnie”, as the amusement of an idle hour: but on reading the first sheets to some friends, who pressed her to proceed with it, she extended her plan, and with some reluctance sent it to the press. To the honour of North Britain, its success was equal to its merits, and the demand for the work was such, as induced the publishers to print a cheap edition, which circulated to the Highlands, where the influence of good sense, impressed the importance of domestic economy, and produced the most happy results. In 1812, Miss Hamilton’s health excited so much alarm, that it was deemed advisable she should pass the winter in England. Her first station was al Kenilworth; from {303} this place she transmitted the last pages of “Popular Essays on the Elementary Principles of the Human Mind,” the chief object of which is, to establish as a fundamental principle, the opposition of the selfish propensities to the cultivation of benevolence, and the attainment of felicity. Suffering from ill health, yet alive to the most generous feelings, she, in 1815, published a small volume, entitled, “Hints to the Patrons and Directors of Public Schools”, recommending a partial adoption of the play introduced in Switzerland, by Pestalozzi. Annexed to the Hints is a separate volume on Questions, exhibiting the plao of instruction to be adopted by the teacher.

In 1813, she had sketched a novel, and planned many other works; yet, on the reperusal, each was rejected. She had long borne the pains of rheumatism and gout, with a degree of cheerfulness, which astonished all who approached her: but the frail tenement that shrouded her radiant spirit, could not long withstand these repeated attacks; a nervous irritability was the consequence; and finally, a violent inflammation of the eyes confined her to an apartment, from which light was excluded. The pain she experienced was so exquisite, that even conversation was distressing; her spirits began to languish, her appetite foiled, and her strength declined. She had returned to her comfortable home, but it was again deemed advisable she should remove to England; and, on the 13th of May, she was removed from her apartment to the carriage which conveyed her for ever from the scene to which she had so long been attached, attended by her affectionate sister: they proceeded by easy stages. At first she seemed to derive benefit from the change; but before their arrival at Harrowgate, her increasing weakness, alarmed Mrs. Blake, and suggested the most gloomy forebodings. During some weeks she lingered perfectly sensible to the progress of decay; but supported by piety and resignation, she sunk gently into the arms of death at Harrowgate, on the $3rd of July, 1816, in the fifty-eighth year of her age.

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A RENOWNED harper, but better known by the appellation of the Man with two Heads, was a native of Craigmore, near Carvagh, in the county of Derry. He lost his sight at the age of three years by the small pox, and at twelve began to receive instructions on the harp from Bridgit O Cahan. His next instructor was John O Garragher, a blind travelling harper, whom he followed to Buncranagh, and he had afterwards Laughlin Harring, and Pat Connor in succession, as masters.

When he had attained his eighteenth year, he began to play for himself, and was taken into the house of a counsellor Canning, at Carvagh, where he remained about half a year. He then amused himself for nearly ten yean in seeing a little of the world; during which period he travelled through Ireland and Scotland, and used to relate many facetious anecdotes of gentlemen in both countries; and, among others, that in passing near the place of Sir J. Campbell, at Aghanbrack, he was informed that this gentleman being of a liberal disposition, had disencumbered himself of the greater part of his wealth, and was then living on so much per week of allowance. Hampson being unluckily possessed of great natural delicacy, would not intrude himself on his presence; consequently, some of the domestics were sent after him; he was overtaken, and on coming into the castle, Sir J. asked him why he had not called, adding, “Sir, there was never a harper but yourself, that passed the door of my father’s house;” to which Hampson politely replied, “that he had been informed in the neighbourhood, that his honour was not often at home,” with which evasion, so delicately expressed, Sir J. was satisfied. Hampson used to declare, that this was the highest bred and stateliest man he ever knew; for if be, even putting on a new pair of gloves, and one of them dropped on the floor (though ever so dean), he would immediately order the servant to bring him another pair. {305}

After this characteristic anecdote, we cannot wonder at Sir J.’s riches not being inexhaustible. in the year 1745, he made a second trip to Scotland, and was at Edinburgh when the Pretender was there. He was called into the Great Hall to play; at first be was alone, but shortly afterwards, he was joined by four fiddlers, when the tune called for was, The King shall enjoy his own again, which he played and sung. He was then brought into the Pretender’s presence by Colonel Kelly and Snr Thomas Sheridan, at which period he was above fifty years old.

He returned once more to his native country, where he astonished and interested every body by his musical powers. He afterwards visited Magilligan; and at the advanced age of eighty-six, married a woman of Innisowen, whom he found living in the house of a friend. By this wife he had one daughter, who affectionately attended him for upwards of thirty years. Death, however, terminated his harmonious life, on the 5th of November, 1807, being then in the one hundred and eleventh year of his age.

A few hours prior to his death he tuned his harp, in order to have it in readiness to entertain Sir H. Bruce’s family, who were expected to pass that way in a few days, and who were in the habit of stopping to hear his music. Shortly after this act he felt the approach of that grim monarch, whom no melody can persuade to delay his visit, - and calling his family around him, he resigned his breath to him who gave it, without either sigh or struggle, being in perfect possession of his faculties to the last moment of his existence.

A REMARK ABLE dwarf, who measured only four feet seven inches, and who attained the advanced age of one hundred and twenty-six.

She was born near Dungannon, and remembered to {306} have heard the shots fired in an engagement that took place there in the year 1690; she likewise remembered carrying the victuals, &c. to the masons and carpenters who built Cullybackey meeting-house in 1727, being then forty-five years of age.

She was not married till she had reached a period of old maidenism, consequently had no children, and enjoyed a continued state of good health until a few days prior to her decease, which occurred on the 18th of April, 1808.

OF this much celebrated young man, whose extraordinary acquirements attracted the notice, and even commanded the respect of Dr. Johnson, several accounts have been published, abounding with eulogium. By many he has been supposed to emulate the variety and extent of knowledge possessed by the admirable Creichton, and, like that highly-gifted character, he has left but little on which posterity may form a judgment regarding the truth of those praises which have so liberally been bestowed upon him.

He was born of pious and respectable parents on the 27th of March, 1757, at Bellegarance, near Limerick, and received his education among the methodists. At the early age of eight years, he was so well versed in the Latin language, as to be able to teach it at the school of Kingswood, in Gloucestershire, from whence he was removed to the newly instituted college erected by Lady Huntingdon, at Trewecca, in South Wales; which, after a residence of several years, he quitted, to assist in the management of a school at Hanham.

The shortness of the distance between Hanham add Bristol was of great service to young Henderson, as It enabled him to gratify that thirst for information which he possessed in so eminent a degree, by introducing him to the intimacy of several men of the greatest talents and piety in that city. Indeed, his extensive and general knowledge, and his innate worth, were such as to ren{307}der every one eager to enrol himself in the number of his friends. Among these was a worthy and ingenious physician, by profession a quaker, between whom and Henderson there existed an intimacy closer almost than that of brothers, and which continued undiminished till death. Whether this connexion first inclined him to the study of medicine, is uncertain; but, from this time, he paid so strict an attention to that science and its auxiliaries, as to bp perfectly qualified to shine in the profession, if he had chosen it for his future pursuit. But his attainments in this or in any other science were never pursued with a view to personal advantages, either of praise or profit. He exerted himself in this study only for the liberal purpose of extending his benevolent assistance to all who needed it. And, in justice to his friend, it must be observed, that he also was actuated by the same generous motives; indeed, if he had not, how could he have delighted so much in the friendship of John Henderson? It was a pleasing sight to see these two excellent men, arm-in-arm, visiting their patients; and, if they paid a greeter attention to one class than another, it was directed to those from whose poverty no gratuity could be expected.

It must, however, be admitted, that Henderson’s studies in this science, were altogether empirical. Modern sys-tems he either read not, or despised; and, though he mentioned Boerhaave with respect, he more frequently quoted Sydenham and Cheyne. On these, however, he depended much less than he did on Paracelsus, Salmon, and Culpeper; the great tendency of his mind to astrology, and the occult sciences, probably influencing him much in his choice of medical authors. But, whatever may be the opinion as to his course of studies, his practice, though so very remote from that in use, is stated to have been in numerous instances eminently successful.

His predilection for the occult sciences has been alluded to above, and in these be was for a long time almost totally involved. He sought after books on these subjects, {308}which abounded so much in the preceding century, with the greatest avidity. Astrology and alchemy first engaged his attention. To the study of the former, he Brought an extensive knowledge of astronomy and ancient and modern physics; he was, however, at length dissatisfied with it. “Though,” said he, “I cannot take upon me to deny its general principle in the face of evidence, yet I cannot approve its particular application.” We may, indeed, be surprised that so vigorous and penetrating a mind as Henderson’s, should have devoted itself to such studies; but our surprise will be lessened, when we remember that the great Boyle was a believer in alchemy, and the abstruse doctrine of sympathies; and that Flamsteed, and even Newton, have constructed astrological schemes. His studies in the occult sciences did not rest here; he proceeded still farther, and penetrated into the mysterious arcana of magic. That communication with the inhabitants of the aerial sphere is impossible, may be asserted with sufficient confidence by the cold metaphysician; but it is mere peremptoriness without proof. All ages and all nations have witnessed the most respectable decla-rations of such a communication; and what has been asserted on credible testimony, is not to be shaken by mere positive denial. History has recorded numerous instances of these appearances, and the greatest and best of men have witnessed to the truth of them; so that, however fashionable scepticism on the subject may be, those who believe in them ought not to be branded either as credulous or superstitious.

The belief of unembodied and disembodied spirits assuming the human form, or becoming audible and conversable, has a wonderful effect in raising the mind to a contemplation of that world for which the present is but a probation. It creates an awe in the mind, it gives the imagination a lofty scope for exercise, it raises in the soul an elevation of sentiment by anticipating its future union with beings unconfined in earth; the cause of morality is strengthened by it, and faith and hope have a more {309} abundant spring of consolation. Those beings, though superior to us in perception and activity, are yet parts of the same great system of intelligence.

Such were the sentiments of Henderson; but it is impossible to do justice to the strength and clearness of his reasoning on the subject. When he condescended to enter upon the discussion of it, the narrowest incredulity must have Expanded itself, and the coldest and most insensible mind have felt a momentary desire and admiration.

But though the communication between the material and immaterial worlds be thus reasonable - yet, that rules or methods should subsist among us to compel invisible beings to embody themselves and become obedient to our commands, is not so easy of belief. Credulity itself is here staggered: nor does it appear, that Henderson, though he amassed all the books which have treated of incantations, and studied them with the greatest ardour, was satisfied of the existence of those powerful engines, which would shake the world of spirits with awe, and compel them to become subservient to their inferior, man. Physiognomy, which had been usually enumerated among the occult sciences, till raised in the estimation of the world by the extensive and amusing researches of the ingenious Lavater, was another subject of Henderson’s study. Of this he spoke with great confidence. In fact, his decisions in this way, were often very surprising, and carried with them an oracular importance. His piercing eye enabled him to read the countenance and manner of a person with great precision, and his judgment always improved what his senses observed. Self-knowledge enabled him wonderfully to penetrate into the characters and motives of others. The face, the voice, and the air, disclosed the moving principle within. And it is much to be questioned, whether he was ever deceived in the judgment he formed of others. An observation of his on this subject deserves great commendation, and shews that this study in him neither resulted from, nor produced, a spirit {310} of misanthropy. “Physiognomy,” said Mr. Henderson, “may increase a man’s knowledge, but not his happiness; the physiognomist first discovers the evil in another, and afterwards the good; but the man unskilled in the science first discovers the good, which pleases him, and afterwards the evil, which disgusts him.”

Whether Henderson ever read Lavater’s splendid and ingenious work, is not known; his opinion, however, on these subjects was fully formed long before that performance was known in England. Mr. Cooper acknowledges his obligation to him for the account of magic, in his curious and entertaining paper on physiognomy, in the third volume of the Manchester Transactions.

Though these were distinguishing and singular features in his character, his attainments in other branches of knowledge were equally strong and comprehensive. There was no subject totally unknown to him, no branch of science or of literature unexplored by him.

The fluency with which he spoke the Latin language was wonderful, and his remarks on classical obscurities, astonished even those who were critics by profession.

After due residence at Oxford, he took his degree of bachelor of arts, and from this period his life passed with little variety and no adventures. His thirst after knowledge appears to have been both unabated and unbounded; he was admired and generally respected; and he acquired habits, some of which brought him into the notice of the world almost as much as his talents. “His clothes,” observes a friend who appears to have known him intimately, “were made in a fashion peculiar to himself. He wore no stock or neck-cloth; his buckles were so small as not to exceed the dimensions of an ordinary knee-buckle, at a time when very large buckles were in vogue; and, although he was then twenty-four years of age, he wore his hair like that of a school-boy of six.”

He died at Oxford, the second day of October, 1788, and was buried on the eighteenth, at St. George Kingwood; the body being accompanied by Mr. Agutter, {311} who, on the following Sunday, preached the funeral sermon which has furnished many of the particulars which we have inserted above.

With talents at once so solid and so brilliant as those of Henderson, it is to be regretted that the world received so little benefit from them, as, with the exception of an Appendix to the Dissertation on Everlasting Punishments, by William Matthews, and some Letters to Dr. Priestley, published in the Gentleman’s Magazine, we do not know that any of his works are in existence.

WAS an author well deserving the epithet ingenious, and he was likewise one of those unhappy unions of small talent with great vice, which it has been our fate too frequently to lament He was born in the county of Dublin, in 1719, and received the early part of his education at a {312} grammar school in that county. From this seminary be was removed to one in the city of Dublin, celebrated for teaching the classics, and where he was educated sacerdotaliy, being intended for a Roman catholic priest, his parents being of that persuasion. For the completion of his education, he was afterwards sent to a college in the South of France, where he became acquainted with several students, many of whom were afterwards much renowned in the republic of letters, and particularly the celebrated Rousseau and Marmontel. He remained at this college and at Paris for near seventeen years; and the greater part of the English and Irish students at this college being educated for the profession of medicine, oar author took out his bachelor’s degrees accordingly, and shortly afterwards returned to Dublin, in order to practise his profession; but nothing can be easier than to account for the reason why he did not fulfil his resolution on his arrival in that city. He was possessed of an unconquerable love of indolence and dissipation. The regularities of any profession were circles too confined for him, and the day that was passing over him, was generally to decide what he should do. With this disposition for seeing a little of life, and leaving his profession to shift for itself, be sought amusement amidst the convivial and social meetings of his countrymen; and, as he was a good scholar, abounded in anecdote, and might at that rima have imported some of the agreeable manners of the French, he found a ready chair at many of the respectable tables in Dublin.

Shortly afterwards, he was employed to write against the celebrated patriot Dr. Lucas, and undertook a periodical publication, which was called The Tickler: this being a party paper, it made its way for some time, and proved the highest advantage that our author prised, - that of living in a round of invitations at private and at public tables. He was also a remarkably acceptable guest to the aldermen of Dublin, as those who had their great political opponent periodically abused, felt a peculiar gra{313}tification in the company of their champion; and one of his biographers gravely informs us, that Hiffernan was a man very well qualified to sit at an alderman’s table." Our author not feeling altogether comfortable in Dublin, (for giving both an improper licence to his tongue and pen, be met with several insults in coffee houses, and other public places) thought it advisable in either 1753 or 1754, to illuminate London with his presence. Here, immediately after his arrival, he published five numbers of a pamphlet, entitled The Tuner/ in which, with more humour than he ever discovered afterwards, he ridiculed the new plays of “Philoclea,” “Boadicea,” “Constantine,” “Virginia,” &c. He was also employed as a translator from the French and Latin, but was neither successful nor deserving of success. In 1755, he treated the world with a volume of “Miscellanies in prose and verse,” which was a happy union of ingenuity and nonsense, but which produced him some money, as he had the art of disposing of his books among his friends and acquaintances by personal application, and other modes of address, not very creditable either to learning or delicacy. The line of authorship he took up after the publication of these miscellanies was, any mode which presented itself to gain a temporary existence; sometimes by writing a pamphlet, and privately subscribing it amongst his friends and acquaintances, and, sometimes, by becoming the patron or defender of some novice for the stage, or of some artist who wanted to make his way to public notice by puffing, or other indirect means. It is said he had several players and painters under contribution for this purpose; and, as be was a man of some plausibility, and had a known intimacy with Garrick, Foote, and many of the literati, it is no wonder that he sometimes gained proselytes. His grand place of rendezvous was the cider cellar, Maiden-lane; a place he usually resorted to on those evenings, when, to use his own expression, he was not housed for the night. Here it was he played the part of patron or preceptor with some dexterity. If any painter {314} found his favourite work excluded from a place in the exhibition, or wanted his piece puffed through the papers, Hiffernan was “the lord of infamy or praise.” If any player took dudgeon at his manager or rival brother, our author’s pen was ready to defend him; and if any person, as a candidate for the stage, wanted instruction or recommendation, who so fit as Hiffernan, the great scholar and travelled man, the writer of plays himself, the intimate friend, and occasional scourge, of both managers and actors, to instruct them in the elements of their intended profession?

When a candidate for the stage was first announced by the waiter to Dr. Hiffernan, the doctor never rose from his seat, but drawing the pipe which he smoked from his mouth, gave a slight inclination of the head, and dented him to sit down; he then listened very attentively to the novice’s account of himself, his studies, and line of pre* tensions, but then gave no opinion; he reserved himself for a private meeting the next night at the Black Lion, Russell-street, or some other favourite ale-house; and, if the candidate wished to do the civil thing," by his preceptor, i. e. offered to pay the reckoning, the doctor was not in the least offended, but on the contrary, considered it as the perquisite of his own superiority.

When they met on the next night, the preliminaries of business were opened, which first began by the doctor’s explaining his terms, which were, a guinea entrance, another guinea for instruction, and two guineas more to be paid on his getting an engagement at either of the London theatres; all this being settled, and the doctor having pocketed his first guinea, he began by attentively eyeing the height and figure of the performer, and, in order to ascertain this with mathematical precision, be pulled out a six-inch rule, which he carried about him on these occasions, and measured him against the wainscot. If the candidate happened to be very tall, “to be sure that was not so well;” but then Barry was as tall, and nobody objected to his theatrical abilities. If he was short, “that {315} was against his being much of a hero; but then, there was Garrick, whom all the world admired.” He therefore generally consoled his pupil, let him be of what size or figure be might be, with the superiority which merit has over all external qualifications; concluding with Churchill upon the same subject,

”Before each merit all distinctions fly,
Pritchard’s genteel, and Garrick’s six feet high.”

In this wretched manner did our author while away the greater part of a life, which, with becoming industry, and his stores of information, might have been made useful to the world and respectable to himself. He never, however, wholly gave up the trade of book-making, every now and then producing some original matter, or translation from the French. The next thing of any consequence that engaged the doctor’s attention, was a work called “Dramatic Genius”, which be dedicated to Garrick, his friend and patron through life. The subscriptions he gained by this work were very considerable, as Garrick exerted himself amongst his friends for the author, - and who could refuse Garrick on the subject of the stage? The amount of these subscriptions we do not exactly know, but should suppose it to be from one hundred and twenty to one hundred and fifty pounds; a temporary mine to such a man as Hiffernan, who lived so much with the public, and who in his interior life, there is every reason to suppose, practised a rigid economy. With this money he emerged a little more into life, quitted the old English dress, (as he used to call his seedy clothes,) for a new suit of black, and knocked at the doors of his friends, with all the confidence of a successful author. His next production was a thing which he called “The Philosophic Whim,” and which he ironically dedicated to the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. This is such a jumble of nonsense, that there is no reading or defining it; if it aims at any thing, it appears to be a laugh against some branches of modern philosophy; but so miserably executed, as to warrant a supposition, that the man must be {316} mad or drunk who wrote it. The publication, however, answered his purpose; for, as be was very heedless of his literary reputation, or perhaps did not always know when be was degrading it, he, as usual, subscribed it amongst his friends; and generally wherever he went to dine, taxed his host from balf-a-crown to a guinea (just as he could get it) for this pamphlet. Hugh Kelly, who had previously seen it at a friend’s house, generously sent him a guinea for a copy, but consoled himself, at the same time, that be was under no obligation to read it.

Talking of this strange publication at that time, gave rise to one of the last flashes of poor Goldsmith: - “How does this poor devil of an author,” says a friend, "contrive to get credit even with his bookseller for paper, print, and advertising?” - “Oh! my dear Sir,” says Goldsmith, very easily - he steals the brooms ready made."

The next year, 1775, Dr. Hiffernan appeared as a dramatic author, by the introduction of a tragedy at Drury Lane theatre, under the title of “The Heroine of the Cave.” - The history of this piece is as follows: After the death of Henry Jones, the author of the tragedy of the Earl of Essex, this piece was found amongst his loose papers by the late Mr. Reddish of Drury Lane theatre, who soon after brought it out for his benefit. Hiffernan and Reddish living in close habits of intimacy, the latter, after his benefit, gave it to the doctor, and suggested to him that he might make something of it by extending the plot and adding some new characters.

Hiffernan undertook it, and brought it out the next year for the benefit of the celebrated Miss Younge, and, by her inimitable performance of the heroine, it went off with considerable applause.

The doctor lived upon the profits of this tragedy for some time; but, as usual, never made a calculation what he was to do next, till poverty pressed him to do something. After casting about for some time, (and occasionally damning the booksellers for their want of taste ia not encouraging learning, and the performers of both theatres {317} for a dearth of abilities, that discouraged any author of eminence from writing for them,) he undertook to give a course of lectures on the anatomy of the human body. He instantly published proposals, namely, a guinea for the course, to consist of three lectures, and the subscribers not to exceed twenty, in order to be the better accommodated in a private room. The subscription (which was evidently given under the impression of charity) was soon filled by the exertions of his friends; and the first day was announced by the doctor’s going round to the subscribers himself to inform them of it: “This method,” said he, “I look upon as the best, as it prevents any imputation of quacking by a public advertisement.

The room fixed on for this exhibition was at the Percy coffee-house - the hour one o clock in the forenoon. At this hour the following gentlemen assembled; - Dr. Kennedy, physician to the Prince of Wales, and the present inspector-general to the hospitals under the Duke of York; Mr. George Garrick; Mr. Becket of Pall-Mall; and another gentleman.

They waited till two for more company, but no more coming, the doctor made his appearance from an inside closet, dressed out in a full suit of black, and placing himself before a little round table, made a very formal obeisance to his small auditory.

The company could not help smiling at this mode of beginning; but the doctor, proceeding with great gravity, pulled out of his pocket a small print of a human skeleton, evidently cut out of some anatomical magazine, and laying it on the table, thus proceeded:

“I am now, gentlemen, about to open a subject to you of the greatest importance in life - which is the knowledge of ourselves - which Plato recommends in that short but forcible maxim of ‘Nosce teipsum’ - Pope, by saying, ‘The proper study of mankind is man;’ - and our divine Shakspeare, by exclaiming, ‘What a piece of work is man ! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculties! in form and moving, how express and admirable in action, how {318} like an angel! in apprehension, how like a god! the beauty of the world - the paragon of animals!’ Having thus given the general opinion of three great men on this subject, I shall commence with describing the Aeodof this paragon of animals?”- Here the doctor entered into a common-place description of the skull, the brains, &c., which lasted about half an hour; when, taking up the print, and restoring the head of the skeleton (which he had previously doubled down) to its former position, he next undertook a description of the breast.

“Here, gentlemen, says he, is the next part of this very extraordinary animal, which may be very properly called, from its very curious bend and texture, the bread-basketry of the human frame. At this the audience could hold out no longer, but unanimously burst out into a horse laugh, which made the doctor pause for some minutes, and produced in the company likewise an aukward [sic] and embarrassed silence. At last, one of the gentlemen broke ground by saying, “Why, doctor, as we are all friends and as the subscription has been paid in, what signifies giving yourself any further trouble? We are satisfied of your capacity, and we can dispense with any further lectures.” - “Aye, aye,” joined the rest of the company. “Why, then,” continued the first speaker, “suppose you all come and take a bit of dinner with me to-day, when we shall see what we are able to do in anatomising the bottle.”

The sound of a gratuitous good dinner always fell very musically on Hiffernan’s ear, and in the present instance peculiarly so, as it not only plentifully provided for the wants of one day, but released him from the trouble of two days more attendance, without losing any part of his subscription-money. Hence the brow of the grave and philosophic lecturer instantly relaxed into that of the convivial, familiar acquaintance - he stepped from behind the corner of his little table with the utmost cheerfulness, paid his congees separately to his friends, ordered up some coffee, which he left them to pay for, and soon after met {319} them at the dinner rendezvous, in all the hilarity of an eleemosynary guest.

This transient exhibition, we believe, was his last public effort, either as a physician or an author: not but he sometimes used to advertise works, perhaps without any design of publishing them, but for the purpose of giving pain or extorting money. In this list we find many pamphlets, some perhaps written, others intended to be written, but all calculated to form his miserable ways and means for raising the supplies.

In this shifting manner our author went on, living as he most conveniently could make it out, without feeling much of the disgrace or embarrassment of his situation, till the spring of 1777, when he contracted the jaundice, which very soon made an evident impression on his frame and spirits. His friends, knowing his pecuniary situation, saw it was necessary for him to confine himself to his apartments, and liberally assisted him for this purpose. Amongst these were Mr. Garrick, Mr. Murphy, Dr. Kennedy, Mrs. Abington, and others. The doctor, however, used to creep out during the morning sun for an hour or two, which he trusted would do him more good than either physic or confinement.

In one of these morning excursions, he gave a singular proof of the ruling passion sticking to us even in the hour of death. Calling at a friend’s house, so faint and spiritless that he was unable to walk up to the drawing room, be was told, in as delicate a manner as possible, “that as sickness always brought on additional expenses, if he would give his friend his address, he would very readily lend him a guinea per week until he recovered.”

The doctor received the promise of the loan with becoming gratitude, but referred him for his address to the usual place, “The Bedford coffee-house.” “My dear doctor,” says the other, “this is no time to trifle; I do not make this inquiry from any impertinent curiosity, or idle wish to extort a secret from you under your present circumstances; my only reason is, for the quicker {320} dispatch of sending you any thing that may be needful." The doctor still expressed his gratitude with a sigh, and ardent grasp of the hand, but left the house by referring his friend to the Bedford coffee-house.

It was in vain to expostulate further - the gentleman sent on the two following Saturdays a guinea each day, sealed up in a letter; which, on inquiry, he found the doctor received; but on the third Saturday, no messenger arriving, upon inquiry it was found that the doctor was no more - having died the preceding night at his lodgings in one of the little courts off St. Martin’s Lane, about the beginning of June 1777.

Thus ends the “eventful” history of a man who was possessed of learning sufficient to fill several situations in life, and that degree of talent and observation which, if connected with a moderate share of industry and prudence, would, in all probability, have rendered him both respected and independent.

All his had qualities seemed to arise from his intolerable indolence; and he adds another name to the almost inter-minable list of men who have willingly sacrificed themselves to this destructive and degrading vice. Men of this stamp act as if they considered themselves as a kind of rent-charge upon Providence, who is obliged to invert the order of nature in their favour, and provide for them at the public expense.

A succession of disappointments - poverty, with all its attendant ills, or the contempt of the world, cannot teach them wisdom; and they proceed from indolence to folly, and from folly to vice, till at length the intellects become unstrung - the constitution undermined, and they drop into the grave, pitied by none but their companions in torpidity.

Such was the fate of Hiffernan, and such has been the fate of thousands; and melancholy and unavailing will the records be, that these individuals will one day have to give, of the numberless hours spent in the pursuit of vice, or wasted in the bosom of idleness.

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Was as a brave soldier, who attained distinguished honours in the Russian service. He was born at Rathkeale, in the county of Limerick, and entered the Russian service at an early age in 1794, by the invitation and under the patronage of his countryman and kinsman, the celebrated General M. Lacy. He was an able officer, and seconded, to the utmost of his power, the plans of his noble general.

He made the glorious campaign of 1799, in Italy, under Suwarrow, and earned, in the course of it, by his gallant and skilful conduct against the enemy in the field, many of the orders with which he died decorated. The numerous wounds he received in the successive actions of that memorable campaign, soon disabled him for further active service, and after some time obliged him to retire altogether from the army. He was, however, allowed, in consideration of his numerous services, to retain to his death the rank he had borne, and the privileges of captain in the Imperial army.

He died on the 30th of March, 1815, at Grodno, in Lithuanian Poland. {322}

AN enterprising African traveller, and a native of Ireland; but where born, or in what year, we know not. Having got through a genteel fortune with Uncommon celerity, he went to the coast of Africa; and, during the lake war, served with great approbation as Fort Major of Goree, during which period several excursions into the country gave him an acquaintance with the character and language of the natives, and particularly qualified him for the arduous situation in which he was latterly employed. He returned from the African coast about the year 1780; and after having been some time a widower, married about 1783 or 1784, a lady residing then in Spring Gardens, the reputation of whose fortune quickly drew a swarm of creditors about him, with so many troublesome importunities, that by this (otherwise) eligible match, his embarrassments were rather augmented than diminished. This it was, added to a degree of enterprise implanted in him by nature, that induced him to accept of a proposal made to him by the African Society, to undertake the exploring of such interior parts of that continent as had not come within the route of the romantic Valliant, or the philosophic Gordon.

When the major set out upon the expedition, a son of his, then an officer at Goree, sued very hard to be the companion of his travels; but the father’s prudence wisely {323} induced him steadily to resist every solicitation of that nature, and he went alone.

He died suddenly during the early part of the year 1794; but not before he had accomplished the business on which he was deputed by one of the British settlements in Africa, to some of the princes of that immense continent. He was/ound dead in his bed, when within two days journey of an English colony; and although without any visible signs of violence, there is much reason to fear he was murdered by those who attended him, for the sake of the presents, &c. with which he was returning.

There were few men better qualified than Major Houghton for the expedition in which he was engaged. Though upwards of fifty years of age, his constitution was vigorous, and his frame manly and robust. He possessed uncommon courage and resolution, with a cool and well- regulated temper. His address was insinuating, and he had in a very peculiar degree the art of varying his manners, and accommodating himself to the dispositions and characters of those he had to deal with. He had the advantage of a liberal education, and his reading was various and extensive.

AN eminent mezzotinto engraver, was a native of Ireland. He was lamentably dissipated. Sayer the print-seller, advanced him money; but the more Houston became involved, the less he liked to meet him; the consequence of which was, Sayer arrested him, and confined him in the Fleet, in order (as he said) that he might know where to find him, and have him under his eye. He remained confined for many years, and was not released until the accession of his late majesty George III.

He died about the age of fifty-four.

He engraved a great number of portraits, and many miscellaneous subjects, the major part of which are highly esteemed. {324}

A VOLUMINOUS and very ingenious author, who was a compound of talents and absurdity, was a native of Ireland, and received his school education under the Rev. Dr. Sheridan, the companion of Swift, and then esteemed the first schoolmaster in Ireland. With him be continued until he was qualified for entering the univeraity of Dublin.

He was author of three tragedies, “Almeyda; or, the Rival Kings,” 1770; “The Siege of Tamor,” 1773; and “The Female Gamester,” 1778. He was an attorney in Dublin, and wrote several law books, having been better acquainted with the proceedings of the courts than the business of a theatre. - According to his own account, he did not begin to court the tragic muse till he was fifty years of age; and, probably, the lady thought him at too advanced a period of life to bestow on him any of her gracious smiles. - The first tragedy was played for a benefit at Smock Alley, Dublin, and universal laughter attended the distresses of his hero and heroine. The second was performed to empty benches at Fishamble-street. He produced a volume of poems, but complained, that “though they were published for the benefit of a charity, the envious town refused to encourage the sale.” He died some years since.*

* We here beg to observe, that we conceive it desirable that authors as the present should be suffered to tell their own history; and we have little doubt but that our readers will be infinitely better satisfied and amused with Mr. Howard’s account of himself, than one abridged, or even enlarged with the animadversions of a biographer. {325}

WAS a native of Cork, and painted whole length portraits in oil. He began his career as a mariner, and suffered shipwreck five times. He evinced his disposition for the polite arts by drawing the figures from the stems {325} of vessels, and was particularly noticed and protected by Lord Chancellor Bowes.

He entertained his friends in the evening, sometimes in his kitchen, u where, we are told, he informed them by his discourse, and improved them by his manners. He was possessed of a simplicity of heart and suavity of disposition, that rendered him esteemed by all who knew him. He died (much lamented) at an advanced age, at his house in Eustace-street, Dublin, in 1782.

WAS an ingenious moral philosopher, whose researches and works have contributed much to our knowledge of the human mind, and whose example stimulated those exertions which have since given to the world -the immortal writings of Reid, Smith, Beattie, Campbell, and Stewart.

He was the son of a dissenting minister in the north of Ireland, and was born August 8th, 1694. At an early age he discovered a superior capacity; and, after going through the usual course of grammar-school education, he was sent to an academy to commence his philosophical pursuits. In 1710, he was removed to the university of Glasgow, where he renewed his classical studies, and made such proficiency in mathematics, logic, natural and moral philosophy, as was suitable to his talents and application. He then entered on the study of divinity to qualify himself for the Christian ministry, which he proposed to make his profession for life.

At the end of six years, he returned to Ireland, and, after due examination, was admitted to become a preacher amongst the presbyterians, and was about to be ordained pastor to a small congregation, when some gentlemen near Dublin, who knew his great abilities, invited him to open a private academy there; which he did, and met with very great success. He had not been long settled in that city, before his talents and accomplishments made {326} him generally known; and his society was courted by persons of all ranks, who had any taste for learning and science, or knew how to esteem learned men. Amongst others, Lord Molesworth took great pleasure in his conversation, and assisted him with his observations and criticisms upon his “Enquiry into the Ideas of Beauty and Virtue,” before it was sent to the press. He received the same favour from Dr. Synge, Bishop of Elphin, with whom he lived on terms of the most intimate friendship. The first edition of this work was published in 1785, without the author’s name; but its great merit would not allow the author to be long concealed. Its high reputation and excellence, induced Lord Granville, then lord-lieutenant of Ireland, to send his private secretary to the bookseller, to inquire the name; and when he could not learn it, he left a letter to be conveyed to him. In consequence of this, Mr. Hutcheson became known to the noble peer, who, during the whole time of his government, treated him with distinguished marks of familiarity and kindness.

Archbishop King held him in high esteem; and the friendship of that prelate was of great use in protecting him from two malicious attempts which were made to prosecute him in the archiepiscopal court, for undertaking the education of youth, without having qualified himself, according to the laws then existing, by subscribing to the ecclesiastical canons, and obtaining a licence from the bishop. Mr. Hutcheson, also, was highly esteemed by Primate Boulter, who, through his influence, made a donation to the university of Glasgow of a yearly fund, or bursary, to each student in that college. In 1788, he published a Treatise on the Passions, in octavo, which, together with his former work, has often been republished and has been admired for sentiment and language, even by those who have not coincided with the author in his philosophical opinions. About this time, he wrote none philosophical papers, accounting for laughter in a way different from Hobbes, and more honourable to human nature, which were published in the collection called {387} “Hibernicus’s Letters”. He also published an answer to some tetters in the “London Journal,” in 1728, subscribed Philaretus, containing objections to some parts of his philosophical doctrines in the Enquiry, &c. Both letters and answer were afterwards published in a separate pamphlet.

He had now conducted his academy with great reputation and success for seven or eight years, and by his works was favourably known to the whole literary world, when Ireland was doomed to part with this genius of her own production, and give him to be an ornament and light to another land. The university of Glasgow, induced by the desire of having distinguished men to keep up her high fame a9 a seat of learning, invited Mr. Hutcheson, in 1729 to become their professor of philosophy. He accepted the honour; and, as the chair of moral philosophy was assigned to him, he had now full leisure, and every inducement to pursue with increasing assiduity his favorite study of human nature. His high reputation attracted many students from England and Ireland, and it was about this time probably he had his degree of L.L.D. conferred on him. The remainder of his valuable life was spent in a very honourable manner; being divided between his studies, and the duties of his office, except what he allotted to friendship and society. Regarding the culture of the heart as the principal end of all moral instruction, he kept this constantly in view; and his uncommon vivacity of thought, and sensibility of temper, rendering him quickly susceptible of the warmest emotions upon the great subjects of morality and religion, the strain of his discourses commanded the attention of the students, and at the same time left strong impressions on their minds. Having occasion every year to explain the origin of government, and to compare the different forms of it, he took particular care, when he was upon this subject, to inculcate the importance of civil and religious liberty to the happiness of mankind; and on this point he always dwelt with peculiar pleasure, treating it at {328} great length with equal force of argument, and earnestness of persuasion. His attention, however, was not confined to the pupils under his own immediate care; he endeavoured to be useful to the students in all the different faculties; and was peculiarly solicitous to be serviceable to those in divinity. He was a valuable member of the university in all other respects, as well as that of professor; his great abilities qualifying him, and his zeal prompting him, on all occasions, to promote its civil as well as literary interests. A firm constitution, with pretty uniform state of good health, excepting some slight attacks of the gout, seemed to promise the world a long enjoyment of his valuable life; but he died of a sudden attack of that disease in his fifty-third year, in 1747.

He had married soon after his settling in Dublin, Mrs. Mary Wilson, the daughter of a gentleman in the county of Longford, by whom he had a son, Francis Hutcheson, M.D. who published from the original MS. of his father, A System of Moral Philosophy/9 in three books, Glasgow, 1755, 2 vols. 4to. To this work is prefixed, Some Account of the Life, Writings, and Character of the Author/9 by Dr. Leechman, professor of divinity in the same university.

Dr. Hutcheson acquired a lasting fame by his academical lectures; and he did an inestimable benefit to moral science, by diffusing a taste for analytical investigation, to which the world is indebted for the highly esteemed works of those authors mentioned at the commencement of this article, by means of whose labours this branch of philosophy has since made so remarkable an advancement.

AN eminent lawyer and senator, was the son of Francis Hely, Esq. and received his education in the university of Dublin. At a very early period, he distinguished him{329}self by his talents and academical acquirements, as a very promising candidate for the profession of the law, to which he was destined, and of which he became a very splendid ornament. He was called to the Irish bar in Michaelmas term 1748, and afterwards took the additional name of Hutchinson in right of his wife, Christina, daughter of Lorenzo Nixon, of Murny, in the county of Wicklow, Esq. and niece and heiress of Richard Hutchinson, Esq. of Knocklofty, in the county of Tipperary. With family connexions of high respectability, a learned and accomplished education, and a commanding eloquence, Mr. Hutchinson rapidly made his way to eminence in his profession; and at an early period, obtained a seat in the House of Commons, the great lottery for advancement, to which, even up to the hour of its final dissolution on the Union, the gentlemen of the Irish bar, looked as the most lucrative mart of talents, and the certain road to power and wealth. His political information, and his powers of oratory, soon rendered his alliance and support a desirable acquirement with the government of that day. He speedily acquired the honourable distinction of a silk gown; and, in the year 1762, received the appointment of his majesty’s prime serjeant at law, which office he retained until 1774, when he resigned that and all the emoluments of his legal profession, to embrace the appointment of provost of Trinity College, Dublin, on the death of Francis Andrews, L.L.D.; which office he retained till his death, in 1795. He represented for many years the city of Cork, in parliament, and in that assembly was long eminent for the splendour of his talents, and the powers of his eloquence.

In his personal contests with the celebrated Mr. Flood, (for, in the earlier part of their parliamentary career, they were engaged in many,) Mr. Hutchinson was supposed to have had the advantage. The respect which he uniformly observed towards the House, and the style of his eloquence, might have contributed somewhat to this. His oratory was of that gayer kind, which captivates an Irish {320 } audience, and incorporated itself more easily with the subjects which, at that period, engaged the attention of the House of Commons.

To the anger of Flood, Hutchinson opposed the powers of ridicule to his strength, refinement to the weight of his arguments, an easy, flexible, ingenuity, nice discrimination, and graceful appeal to the passions. Did the debate run high - Flood alternately displayed austere reasoning and tempestuous reproof: his colours were chaste, but gloomy. Hutchinson’s, on the contrary, were “those which April wears,” bright, various, and transitory; but it was like a vernal evening after a storm; and he was held the more successful, because the more pleasing. He always evinced a great sense of public propriety. He never seemed tedious, but he sometimes enlarged on subjects more than was necessary, a defect which his enemies criticised with peculiar severity. Mr. Gerard Hamilton, a judge of public eloquence seldom equalled, observed, “that he was the speaker, who, in support of the government, had always something to say which gratified the House: - that he could go out in all weathers, and, as a debater, was therefore inestimable.”

As a forensic orator, he not only excelled in the fluency and elegance of his speeches, but in the tactics of diffuseness, where the nature of his subject, or the lack of strong argument, for the interests of his clients, required a profusion of words, either to cover the weakness of his cause, to drown the reasonings, or limit the reply of his antagonist, or to weary the patience of a judge or jury; and was sometimes in the habit of puzzling the intellect, and trying the patience, of Lord Chancellor Lifford, who has frequently, in the fervour of a keen appetite, partly interrupted him with - “Mr. Hutchinson, I have not the least doubt of your eloquence; and I only request you wiU come to the point, as briefly as may be convenient.”

In the year 1760, he left the Opposition, in whose ranks he had been a formidable ally - and accepted the office of prime serjeant. Some of his enemies attempted {351} attack bid in the House of Commons; as a deserter from his political friends. But he was a man of high spirit, and asserted himself in so firm and lofty a tone, that it was thought prudent to attack him no more.

Mr. Hutchinson’s resignation of the prime serjeantcy, and acceptance of the provostship of Trinity College, though highly gratifying to his classical ambition, was perhaps an imprudent step, because its results were not only injurious to his peace of mind, but preclusive to all hopes of further advancement in his profession, to the highest honours of which he would otherwise most probably have attained. The provostship was the capital prize in the lottery of learning which the fellows of the university considered peculiarly and exclusively the right of their order. The clergy could not have been more offended at seeing the archiepiscopal mitre placed on the head of a physician, nor the army at finding a churchman their commander-in-chief, than were the monks of Trinity, on viewing a professional alien, transferred from the forensic drudgeries of the bar, to the throne of learning, and ruling over men who had devoted their lives to literary and philosophical science in that college, whose honours and emoluments they considered as their legitimate inheritance. They, therefore, regarded not only with jealousy, but marked hostility, the appointment of Mr. Hutchinson; and this hostility was, after a short time, much exasperated by an attempt of the new provost to innovate on the profound gravity of alma mater, by introducing the manly exercises, and the polite accomplishments, as part of a system hitherto exclusively devoted to scholastic studies. Instead, therefore, of implicitly following the steps of his predecessors, he formed the project of rendering the university, a school of elegance as well as of literature and science. He knew that a very great majority of the students in the university had no views to professional pursuits, but were intended to move in life as private gentlemen, and were sent there by their parents merely to complete their classical studies, and occupy {352} their minds during the years of adolescence, in a manner suited to fit them for intercourse in their appropriate rank of society. To such students the polite accomplishments were more an object than abstruse learning or profound science. Those accomplishments, necessary to gentlemen! must be acquired at some time. The Irish metropolis has presented few, and but very detached and imperfect means for such acquirements. The academic grove, or park, at the rear of the university, allowed no other sources of recreation or amusement, but leaping and football; amusements which, however conducive to manly vigour, robust health, and rude agility, were but ill calculated to form gentlemanly manners, or graceful deportment. Horsemanship, fencing, music, drawing, dancing, and modern languages, had no place within the university indeed, they were almost proscribed within its walls; where every thing incompatible with the austerities of study was discountenanced by the fellows, and could only be acquired out of doors, at a very heavy expense from occasional and very incompetent masters, besides exposing the pupils to the risk of improper intercourse and vulgar association. This was a defect in the Irish system of academical education, sensibly felt by the parents of pupils. It had by no means escaped the notice of Mr. Hutchinson, and, to remedy that defect, was one of his first objects. He thought it much more eligible to afford to young gentlemen, within the walls of the university, the means of acquiring every accomplishment necessary to their rank, under approved and skilful masters, than leave them to seek at random elsewhere for irregular and imperfect instruction, or be exposed to the temptation of spending their hours of amusement at taverns, billiard rooms, or gaining tables; instead of attaching them to more eligible intercourse within their college, and occupying their minds, in the hours of relaxation from learned studies, by attractions really conducive to their personal improvement.

Indeed, the system of college discipline for a long series {353} of years previous to the presidency of Mr. Hutchinson, gave facilities for the wildest irregularity in the conduct of the students. The taverns, the billiard rooms, the gaming tables, and places of still worse resort, were crouded every night with young gownsmen, and even those who, obedient to the last summons of the ten o clock bell, hurried within the gates, for fear of lecture or rustication, afterwards, instead of retiring to bed, scaled the college walls, and returned to their nocturnal haunts, where, elevated with wine, they sallied forth from those orgies, scoured the streets in tipsey groupes, broke the lamps, beat the watchmen, attacked all whom they met, regardless of age, sex, or condition. They were at open war with the middling and lower orders of citizens; perpetually in midnight broils with butchers boys, city apprentices, and others, who frequently mustered in groups, either for self-defence, or to avenge some former outrage, upon the collegians, who made common cause against all classes but their own. Hevegh for Trinity! was at once their parole and watchword; and scarcely a night passed without some formidable fray, or mischievous frolic of their contrivance. But the night which followed their day of half-yearly examinations, was always a night of terror to all who ventured into the streets in the vicinity of the college. On this night they paid off their scores on the common enemy. They sallied forth from the taverns, heated by wine, and paraded the streets, with bludgeons and drawn swords, assaulting all they met. They attacked the theatre, knocked down the door-keepers, forced their way to the galleries, pit, boxes, and even to the stage and green-room; put the whole audience and corps dramatique to the route; and then rushed forth again to wreak their vengeance on their devoted enemies, the watchmen, chairmen, and hackney coachmen, and all who ventured to oppose their career. In these desperate conflicts, many wounds and fractures were interchanged, and not unfrequently lives lost. Such was the state of things up to the time of Mr. Hutchinson’s induction to the academic chair; and against this system {334} his best exertions were zealously directed. Measures of severity, fines, rustications, and expulsions, had proved ineffectual, - and, therefore, others were to be tried, apparently more indirect, but rapidly more effectual. Amongst these means was a project, for blending with the severer studies of the Parthenon, the more vigorous and attractive exercises of the Gymnasium. A riding-house was to be erected, for instructions in horsemanship; accomplished masters in fencing, dancing, and music, as well as in the modern European languages, were to be appointed; and a new era was about to dawn in the system of academical tuition; when the fellows, roused from their sound slumbers by the rumour, took the alarm at these unstatutable novelties, and those birds of Minerva, dreading the prophanation of her temple, and the consequent desertion of the goddess, emerged from the gloom of their ivied and hooted, in harsh concert, against their new provost; and his menaced arrangements. All the rusty armour of college wit was hastily furbished for the war, which immediately broke out against Mr. Hutchinson, in pasquinades, lampoons, epigrams, doggrel rhymes, pamphlets, essays, and newspaper squibs. The chief engineer of this ordnance was the late Doctor Patrick Duigenan, of virulent memory, then one of the senior fellows of the university; and no man ever proved himself more skilled in the pyrotechnics of vituperation. He was an accomplished master in the science of scurrility, and possessed all that happy coarseness and copia verborum, that might have well entitled him to a professor’s chair, had the eloquence of the fish-market formed a branch of study in the college system. The Hibernian Journal, a popular newspaper of the day, became, on this occasion, a gratuitous channel for the ridicule and sarcasm of the doctor and his partisans. He attacked the provost under the appellation of Prancer, allusive to the horsemanships dancing, fencing, &c. which he proposed to introduce; and these fugitive effusions were afterwards collected into a volume, published under the title of Pranceriana.

{355} One of the points of attack which lay most exposed to the doctor and the coadjutors was the eminent alacrity ediaoed by Mr. Hutchinson, to reap the full benefits of patronage from the government he had so eminently served; and to let no post of emolument pass him unasked, which could be had for solicitation, or acquired by address. He had for many years enjoyed the prime serjeantcy, a lucrative and honourable post in the law; he held, at the same time, the sinecure appointments of searcher, and packer, and comptroller, and guager, in the easterns; be had also the sinecure post of alnager of Ireland, which waft the collectorship of a duty on woollen cloths, typified by a leaden seal of his office affixed to each piece; and, at one time, when the tide of patronage flowed too tardily for his wishes, he became urgent with the then chief governor, Lord Townsend, who told him banteringly, that really nothing had fallen in of late worth his acceptance, but a majority of horse - never supposing that such a post could be acceptable to a law officer of the crown. Mr. Hutchinson, however, convinced him to the contrary, by actually soliciting the commission until something better should occur. It was granted, and, although he did not fill it in person, he found a friend to substitute, for certain adequate considerations. He was at the same time a privy councillor, and held the high office of secretary of state. There is on record a bon mot of Lord North’s, reflecting archly upon this propensity to place-seeking statesmen. The story says, that when Mr. Hutchinson once paid his devoirs at the royal levee, Mt St. James’s palace, and was introduced in the usual forms, his late majesty privately asked Lord North, who that gentleman was? The facetious minister answered, “that is your majesty’s principal secretary of state on the Irish establishment; a man, on whom, if your majesty were pleased to bestow both England and Ireland, he would ask for the Isle of Man for a potato garden.”

The college was now split into hostile factions. The fellows and then partisans on the one side, and a host of {356} the gentlemen pensioners and junior students adhered to the side of the provost. The severity of Dr. Duigenan was not limited to the productions of his pen; - for his abuse of the provost sometimes extended to coarse personal scurrility; but it was deemed beneath notice. For, although the provost was a man of high spirit, he held it incompatible with the decorum of his station to seek personal satisfaction from the doctor, whose courage was held to be rather problematical, and who would be more likely to choose the court of King’s Bench, than the field of honour, to settle any claims of that nature. The students who adhered to the provost’s cause, also incurred the hostility of the doctor and fellows, and felt considerable impediment to their graduation, on that account. The provost had, at this time, three of his sons in the university; Richard, the present Lord Donoughmore, - John, the present Lord Hutchinson, - and Francis, a junior bro-ther, who, as well as the eldest, was afterwards called to the bar. They were but striplings at the time, yet inheriting the spirit of their venerated father, they would not have hesitated to call the doctor to account, had they not been restrained by their father’s strict injunctions to the contrary. There were two of the grown students, the sons of Mr. Meyers, the college architect, who have since attained high distinction in the army; they were the protégés of the Hutchinson family, and they resolved, wholly unknown to their patron, to call the doctor to account in an honourable way. The brothers were comely and athletic, and extremely like each other. One of them deputed the other to bear a challenge to the doctor, who was himself a practising barrister, and did not choose to settle such affairs with pistols: he understood the safer maxim, cedant arma logos, and he indicted, as he thought, the bearer of the challenge in the court of King’s Bench: but, when the day of trial arrived, he found, on coming to give his evidence, that he had selected the wrong name for crimination, and that his indictment attached to the sender, and not the bearer of the hostile message. He {} was, therefore, defeated in his prosecution, but consoled himself by saying, that though he was disappointed now, he should be more certain the next time; for, if another challenge was brought him, he should cut off the bearer’s eap, and match them to his head in court. This subterfuge, however, did not quite answer the learned doctor’s purpose. The imputation of cowardice was as highly disgraceful with the Irish bar, as it could be in the military profession; and the doctor, in consequence of his prosecution, quickly found himself in Coventry with his brother gownsmen, and that nothing could restore him to their intercourse but the purification of his honour. He resolved, therefore, to take the first opportunity, which was soon afforded him by the very youth he had prosecuted, who sent him a message by a herald with whom there could be no shuffling. The doctor accepted the invitation. The next morning was appointed for the interview. His antagonist, with a friend, was first on the ground. The doctor’s delay excited some doubts, but a hackney coach, in which were the doctor and his second, was seen approaching, and soon drew up close to the scene of action; immediately the doctor descending from the off side, made the detour round the vehicle, and followed by his second, advanced towards his antagonist in a very formidable stile. He was muffled to the chin in a heavy great coat, his nose surmounted by a huge pair of spectacles, and with a large bell-muzzled blunderbuss raised to his shoulder, he marched towards his opponent, and demanded, where was the villain that had designs upon his life - that he might blow him to atoms. The opposite second demanded a parley, and remonstrated on the total unfitness of fighting with such a weapon: but the doctor would hear no argument; he came there to fight, and not to talk he was not obliged to please any man’s fancy in the choice of his weapon, and he would fight with no other. - Where was his antagonist I and why did he not take his ground - (cocking and presenting his wall-piece with deliberate aim.) It was {338} impossible for a second to allow his principal to engage against such formidable odds. There was no other blunderbuss at hand, to balance advantages: the battle was adjourned - and this rare de guerre saved the doctor’s credit in a way not very compatible with the laws of honour.

The printer of the Hibernian Journal, who was the midwife of the doctor’s scurrilous muse, now became an object for vengeance to a number of students of the provost’s party; and they determined to punish him by a few of their own, which had no place in the statute book. About a dozen of these youngsters came with a hackney coach to the printer’s shop-door, on an autumnal evening, after night-fall. He was lured by a sham message to attend a customer in the carriage, towards which he had no sooner advanced on the pavement, than his retreat was cut off from his house by a detachment who surrounded and forced him into the carriage, where he wo secured by those within, and the rest being well armed, formed air escort to the vehicle, which was driven off at fast gallop to the college square, where the outer gates being closed, the unfortunate printer was forcibly subjected to the discipline of the pump, and while under the operation, kicked and pummelled most unmercifully, until his life was in danger; when he was rescued by some other students, from the gripe of his tormentors, and sent back to his own house in the same vehicle that brought him. This outrage excited considerable agitation; many of the assailants were rusticated. The printer was confined several weeks under medical care; he was at length enabled to ascertain only one of the offenders, a young American, then a student, and since a fellow and parliamentary representative of the college. He generously waived his claims for a severe judgment, and subsequent action for damages,on condition of the offenders making a contrite apology.

We decline farther details on the events of this corniest. It does not appear that the plan of the GymMMmn {} into AVer carried iWtW execution. But Mr. Hutchinson notified MB prbtofctaAiip during his life- He Wright, had he chosen, have been derated to the honours of the peerage; but circumstances induced him to accept that distinction for his family in the person of his lady, who was created a baroness, by the title of Baroness Donoughmore, October 16, 1788, with remainder to her heirs. Her ladyship died on the 24th of June, 1788, and was succeeded in the title, by her eldest son, Richard Hely Hutchinson, the present earl, who was advanced to the dignity of viscount on the 7th of November, 1797, and to that of an Earl, on the 29th December, 1800, with collateral remainder to his brother.

Mr. Hutchinson, during, the whole time of his collegiate dignity, retained also his seat in parliament for the city of Cork. He was a zealous supporter of many public measures which he deemed of solid advantage to his country: - the bill for octennial parliaments, for free trade, and the bill for the emancipation of his catholic fellow-subjects, in which last he was followed with hereditary talents by his sons. Though the vigour of his early eloquence declined, With his advanced years, he spoke on the catholic bill, arid that proposed for parliamentary reform in his old age, with powers apparently undiminished. Time had, indeed, changed his manner; but even so changed, it was still the placid manner of dignified age; and the House listened to him with respect, deference, and satisfaction. At a somewhat earlier period - when he had long enjoyed a parliamentary fame, - it was said by those who could envy without rivalling his talents, that he was no orator; and, after the most lucrative practice at the bar, that he was no lawyer. But eminence at the bar, and in the senate, could never have been attained amidst such rivals as he had to contend with without abilities of the first class. The public ultimately decided with propriety and candour. All the force of wit and talent arrayed against him in his academical contests, could not authenticate their supposed discoveries of his defective abilities . His country {340} thought far differently; and his reputational a man of genius, activity, and political knowledge, remained nndi- minished to the last. He died in 1795.

AN eminent painter on glass, was born in Dublin about 1749. He first practised his art in his native city, in the prosecution of which he was much assisted by the chemical instructions of the late Dr. Cunningham. He then removed to London, where he was soon distinguished, and was employed to execute those beautiful works in painted glass at Oxford and Windsor, from the designs and under the inspection of Sir Joshua Reynolds and Mr. President West.

Jarvis died in London in 1804, greatly regretted by the admirers of the fine arts.

AUTHOR of the celebrated novel, Chrysal; or, the Adventures of a Guinea, wasborn about the year 1719, at Carrigogunnell, in the county of Limerick, and STUB descended from a branch of the Johnstons of Annandaim He was educated at Trinity College; was called to the bar, and came over to England for practice in that profession; but deafness preventing him from attending the courts, he confined himself to the employment of a chamber counsel. His success in the arduous profession of the law, not being so great as he expected, he was obliged to have recourse to his pen, and produced, in 176% the tarn first volumes of Chrysal, which sold with such rapidity that in 1765, he was induced to add two more volumes, aa inferior to the former, either in merit or success.

In 178% having some prospect of bettering his fortunes in India, he embarked for Bengal with Captain Mesis, ie the Brilliant, which was wrecked off Johanna, an island situated {343} between Madagascar and the continent of Africa. Captain Mena, with hiss oo, daughter, Mr. Johnston, and some others, were saved, and ultimately reached India. Here he employed his abilities in writing essays for the Bengal newspapers, under the signature of “Oneiropolos,” and at length became a joint proprietor of a paper, and by this and some other speculations acquired property. He died thereabout 180k. The other works of this author are, “The Reverie," 3 vols. 12mo.; “The History of Arsace”, 2 vols. 12mo; “The Pilgrim," 2 vols. 12mo.; “Juniper Jack," 2 vols. 12mo.

THAT genius is of no country, and that it is not attached to any sphere of life, the subject of the present memoir fully proves. He was a dramatic writer of no mean celebrity, and was born at Drogheda, in the county of Meath. He was bred a bricklayer; but having an innate attachment to the Muses, he pursued his devotions to them even during the labours of his mechanical avocations, and composing alternately a line of brick and a line of verse, his walls and poems rose in growth together, and that with an equal, degree of durability, time has fully determined. His early attempts (as is often the case with bards of bumble origin) were panegyrics. These procured him some friends; and, in 1745, when the celebrated Earl of Chesterfield went over to Ireland as lord-lieutenant, the talents of Jones were recommended to the protection of his Lordship, who was not more remarkable for his own shining talents and mental endowments, than for his Melons and liberal patronage of genius wheresoever he might cbaoce to meet it, His excellency, delighted with the discovery of this mechanic muse, not only favoured him with his own patronage and generous munificence; but also thought proper to transplant him to the more thriving dhuuie of England. Accordingly, when he left Ireland, he {343} brought Jones with him, and sedulously endeavoured -to promote his interest, and advance his reputation, by vo commending him to many of the nobility; and not only by his influence procured him a large subscription for the publishing a collection of his Poems but it is said eves took on himself the correction and alteration of his tragedy, “The Earl of Essex,” and also the trouble of prevailing on the managers of Covent Garden theatre to bring it os the stage. This nobleman likewise recommended him in the warmest manner to the celebrated Colley Cibber, whose friendly and humane disposition induced him to render Jones a thousand acts of friendship, and even to make several strong efforts by his court interest to secure him the succession of the laurels after his death. At this period, nothing seemed wanting to complete his future success in life; and with these favourable prospects before him, it might rationally have been expected, that he would have passed through life with such a degree of conduct as to have ensured his own happiness, and done credit to the partiality of his friends; but this unfortunately was not the case.

”His temper,” says one who seems to have been thoroughly acquainted with his character, “was, in consequence of the dominion of his passions, uncertain and capricious, easily engaged, and easily disgusted; and as economy was a virtue which could never be taken into his catalogue, he appeared to think himself born rather to be supported by others, than under a duty to secure to himself the profits which his writings, and the munificence of his patrons from time to time afforded. Jones, who had in early life sacrificed to vanity, as he grew older, grew sturdy and unpropitiating, and thus offering no more the food expected by the great, the bed expected from them was (of course) withheld. After experiencing several reverses of fortune, which ab rtnfcansn* able spirit and a want of prudence contributed tO;d*W da him, he died in great want, in April 1770, in a garret belonging to the master of the Bedford coffeehouse, upon whose charity he had for some time lingered out a {345} miserable existence, having an example (often set, and too often followed) to those who, treating with otter contempt the maxims of prudence, proceed from profosion to poverty, and terminate an existence, which might otherwise have been happy, in the precincts of a gaol, or in any hovel that enseal humanity may have pointed out for their relief.

His principal performance, “The Earl of Essex”, appeared in 1753, and ran twelve nights. He also left a tragedy unfinished, entitled, “The Cave of Idra”, which falling into the hands of Dr. Hiffernan, he enlarged it into five acts, and brought it out under the title of “The Heroine of the Cave”. His last publications were, “Merit;” “The Relief;” and “Vectis; or, the Isle of Wight”, poems: but his poetical worth, though far from being contemptible, was not of the first-rate kind.

Few men, says Charnock, who have not lived to attain the rank of commanders-in-chief, or, at least flag officers, have ever acquired so much renown as this gentleman, who was born at Bandon, in the county of Cork. His first commission as second lieutenant of the Resolution, was given him by Lord Dartmouth, on November 1688. Having served afterwards with distinguished reputation, in various ships, his diligent attention to the duties of his several stations, procured him, in 1694, the command of the Weymouth, a fourth rate, in which he quickly acquired the greatest renown. On the 17th of June, being on a cruise off the coast of Ireland, he pursued and captured the Invincible, a very large French privateer; on the 31st of the same month, after a very long chase, he took a second, which had done incredible mischief to the commerce of the allied powers; and, on the 31st of August, he took a third, mounting twenty-eight guns. The captain of this vessel, being a man of most daring courage, and having a chosen, as well as a numerous aww to support him, did not surrender till after a desperate {346} action, in which he had thirty men killed, twenty-five wounded, the major part of them mortally. On the gSrd of September, this career of success was somewhat checked; having, during the chase of a. large French ship, carried away his foretopmast, and foretop-gallantmast; his antagonist, drawing courage from this miefirttnoe, tacked aqd bore down upon him; but on Captain Jumper receiving him with a hearty broadside, disliking, so roegfa 8 salutation, be betook himself to immediate Right, the disabled state of the Weymouth preventing her-AM pursuing.

In May 1695, he captured two privateers; aod, on the 19th of July, he fell in with a large one from St. Maioes, pierced for forty-eight guns, and carrying thirty-six. Being of much larger dimensions than the Weymouth herself, and the French commander a man of considerable gallantry, a very spirited contest ensued; but the enemy having lost all their masts and a considerable number of men, were at length compelled to surrender. In Timm bar, he captured another large privateer; having in the interval taken several very valuable prizes.

The rapid tide of success, which, with few- euoeptiaao, had so long attended him, was interrupted in the following month, by a very melancholy private misfortune. Ac he was coming on shore at Plymouth, in company with his wife, and Captain Smith of the Portland, the piounce overset, and Captain Smith, as well as Mrs. Jumper unhappily lost their lives. As soon as he had in some degree recovered from this shock, Captain Jumper put to sea , and captured, in February, a large privateer, and several other prizes of inferior consequence. He continued, during the whole of this year, in the same kind of service; and in the beginning of December, captured a French ship of war, mounting forty guns, which, having struck on a rock during the engagement, sank soon afterwards. On the 22nd of the same mouth, he fell in with a ship of war, mounting fifty guns, which he in all probability would have taken, jad not considerable damage {347} and confusion resulted from several cartridges blowing up on board the Weymouth. The enemy attempted to escape; but Captain Jumper, having succeeded in extinguishing the fire, pursued her, and brought her again to close action; her bowsprit, however, carrying away the Weymouth’s mainmast, she finally escaped; thus depriving Captain Jumper of the reward his gallantry merited, and would, but for that accident, undoubtedly have obtained.

After a continued series of brilliant accomplishments, he was appointed to the Lenox, which served under Sir George Rooke in the expedition against Cadiz; in the attack against which he bore a greater part than any other naval commander; completely executing the arduous services entrusted to him with the most spirited address. The brilliant success which crowned the expedition under Sir George Rooke, two years afterwards, is well known; and in every operation the bravery of Captain Jumper was singularly conspicuous. After being most eminently instrumental in the reduction of Gibraltar, he signalised himself no less remarkably at the battle off Malaga, having engaged and driven three of the enemy’s ships out of the line. He way dangerously wounded in this encounter, but was not thereby prevented from continuing in service; nor does it appear that he even quitted his ship on that account. It if a singular circumstance, that after the accession of Queen Anne, during a service of many years continuance, he never changed his ship. Soon after his return to England, he received the honour of knighthood, as a public and highly-merited mark of the royal approbation of his conduct.

The extreme caution of the enemy, after the battle off hfaJaga, inducing them to leave the English undisputed masters of the Mediterranean, Sir William had subsequently little opportunity of signalising himself. While waiting at Lisbon, in January 1705-6, to convoy the fleet to England, he dispatched to Gibraltar one of the vessels under his command with a supply of money, for want of which the garrison way almost in a state of mutiny, And though tfiiy anecdote may appear, perhaps too trivial for {348} insertion, yet when we consider that by so doing he voluntarily diminished his own force, and incurred an additional responsibility, which the bravest men have frequently wished to avoid, we may probably be induced to attach a greater share of merit to this unostentatious transaction, than to others which have stood much higher in public esteem.

Returning from the straits with Sir Cloudesly Shovel, he arrived at Falmouth in safety, on October 22nd, 1707, in the evening of which day, the melancholy catastrophe which befel [sic passim] Sir Cloudesly and a part of the fleet off Scilly, took place. It is believed that he never went to sea after this time. He had a handsome pension granted to him on his retirement from the service, and no person appears to have thought this mark of royal munificence, or public gratitude, improperly or extravagantly bestowed. In 1714, he was appointed commissioner of the navy, resident at Plymouth; an office he did not long live to enjoy, dying on the 12th of March, in the following year.

THE celebrated Irish historian, was bora in the province of Munster, of English ancestry, and flourished in the earlier part of the seventeenth century. He was educated for the Roman Catholic church, and having received at a foreign university the degree of D. D. he returned to his native country, and became a celebrated preacher. Being well versed in the ancient Irish language, he collected the remains of the early history and antiquities of his native country, and formed them into a regular narrative. This work, which he finished about the accession of Charles I commences from the first planting of Ireland, after the deluge, and goes on to the seventeenth year of King Henry II., giving an account of the lives and reigns of one hundred and seventy-four kings of the Milesian race; and containing what many have regarded as an exuberance of fictitious personages and fabulous narratives.

This work remained in MS., in the original language, {349} till it was translated into English by Dermot O Connor, and published in Landon in 1723: - a better edition appeared in 1738, with plates of the arms of the principal Irish families; and an appendix, (not in the former,) respecting the ancient names of places.

Keating died about the middle of the seventeenth century, or, as some think, much earlier, about 1623. He wrote some pieces of a religious cast, and two poems; one, an “Elegy on the death of the Lord Decies”; the other, a burlesque on his servant Simon, whom he compares with the ancient heroes.

A DRAMATIC and miscellaneous author of some celebrity, was born on the banks of the Lake of Killarney, in 1739. He served his apprenticeship to a stay-maker, at the expiration of which he set out for London, in 1760, in order to procure a livelihood by his business. This unfortunately he found very difficult, and was soon reduced to absolute want. In this forlorn situation, a stranger and friendless, he used to pass many of his hours at a public house in Russell-street, Covent Garden, much resorted to by the young players. Having an uncommon share of good humour and address, he soon attracted the attention of a club, who held their meetings there, and became so well acquainted with their characters, that he gave a humorous description of them in one of the daily papers, and the likenesses were so well executed as to draw their attention and. excite their curiosity to discover the author. Their suspicions soon fixed on Mr. Kelly, and from that time he became distinguished among them.

An attorney, one of the members of this society, commiserating Mr. Kelly’s situation, invited him to his house, and employed him in copying and transcribing, an occupation which he prosecuted with so much assiduity, that he earned about three guineas a week. From his accidental acquaintance with some booksellers, he, in 1762, became {350} the editor of the “Ladies’ Museum,” the “Court Magazine,” and exerted himself greatly in the various branches of periodical literature, being then lately married, and having an increasing family, whose sole dependence was on his industry.

He wrote many political pamphlets. In 1767 “The Babbler” appeared in two pocket volumes; also “Louisa Mildmay,” and “Thespis,” a satire. In 1768, he produced his comedy of “False Delicacy”, the success of which may be judged from the circumstance of its being translated into Portuguese, French, Italian, and German. After this, he wrote “A Word to the Wise”; and a tragedy, entitled “Clementina”, both of which were unsuccessful. The bad success of the two pieces above, is attributed to a report having been circulated that Kelly was employed to defend administration, as a pamphleteer. To prevail condemnation again taking place, in 1774, Justice Addington kindly helped to conceal the name of the real author, by lending his own to the comedy of “The School for Wives”; by this manoeuvre the critics were deceived, and the play succeeded: however, after fhe character df the comedy was fully established, and any further concealment became unnecessary, Mr. Addington very genteely, in a public advertisement, resigned his borrowed plumes. W. Kelly’s next production was the “Romance of an Hour”, a farce; then followed his comedy of “The Man of Reason”, which was unsuccessful. This was his fast attempt; for the sedentary life, to which his constant labour subjected him, injured his health, and early in 1777, an abscess formed in his side, which, after few days illness, put a period to his existence, on 3rd February. He left behind him a widow and five children, of the last of which she was delivered about a month after his death. Very soon after his decease, his comedy of "A Word to the Wise," was revived for the benefit of his Wife and family, and introduced by an elegant and pathetic prologue, written by Dr. Johnson. About the sUketittfe* an edition of his works was published in quarto, with A life of the author, from which the above is taken*.

A VERY learned divine, was born about the middle of the last century at Cioonelieve, near Limerick, and was [educated] at Trinity College, where he continued seven {352} years. His learning was immense; so much so, that we are told there were few branches of learning, from the alphabet to the oriental languages, but what he was acquainted with.

The following inscription is fixed in gold letters over one of the hall doors in Oxford University:

Reverend Dr. Johannes Keogh, magnus
Hibernicum solvebat talem questionem tali die

for answering a mathematical problem, sent from Paris, which could not be resolved by any other person in Great Britain.

He was the author of a Hebrew Lexicon, a Latin Grammar, a Greek Grammar, and Demonstration of the Trinity, in Latin verse, which latter was shewn to Sir Isaac Newton, who highly approved of it.

Dr. Keogh married the daughter of Dr. Clopton, of Stratford on Avon, by whom he had twenty-one children, six only of which survived him. The time of his decease we are unacquainted with.

THIS learned prelate, who distinguished himself greatly as a firm supporter of what was called the Protestant interest, was born at Antrim, May 1, 1650. He was educated at the grammar school of Dungannon, which he quitted at the age of seventeen, for Trinity College where he regularly took his degrees in arts. In 1076, Parker, Archbishop of Tuam, appointed him his chaplain, and presented him to a prebend, and afterwards to the precentorship of that cathedral. On the translation of his patron to Dublin, he was promoted to the chancellorship of St. Patrick’s, and consequently to the care of the large and populous parish of St. Warburgh. Soon after the accession of James the Second, an opportunity offered for displaying his seal in the Protestant cause. Peter Manby, Dean of Deny, having recanted {353} and gone over to the Romish church, published, in 1687, pamphlet in vindication of his conduct. This was answered by Mr. King; Manby replied, and King rejoined. On this Manby dropping the controversy, dispersed a sheet of paper, containing a succinct account of the reasons which influenced his secession, which was likewise answered by our author. During this controversy he was elected Dean of St. Patrick’s, and soon after took his doctor’s degree. Having been extremely active in pro noting the Revolution, be was twice imprisoned in Dublin castle, during the short slay of King James in Ireland, and is said to have been so peculiarly obnoxious to that monarch’s party, that his life was more than once in danger from them.

In recompence for his zeal and sufferings in the cause of the Revolution, he was created Bishop of Derry in 1691, and in the same year published his celebrated work, The State of the Protestants of Ireland, under the late King James’s government, &c.; a book which, being strongly imbued with party spirit, was at that time eagerly read, and is still frequently referred to. Bishop Burnet speaks of this work in very favourable terms; not so Mr. C. Leslie, who immediately attacked it, affirming that “there is not one single fact he has inquired into, but he found it false in whole or in part, aggravated or misrepresented, so as to alter the whole face of the story, and give it perfectly another air and turn; insomuch that, though many things he says, were true, yet be has hardly spoke a true word, that is, told truly and nakedly, without a warp.”

Being now freed from all apprehensions of popery, the bishop’s fears for the safety of the establishment were directed to another quarter. A vast number of Scotch presbyterians having lately quitted their native country, and settled in his diocese, Dr. King’s endeavours to persuade them to conform, engaged him in a fresh controversy with Mr. Joseph Boyce, one of their ministers, in which, as usual, Dr. King had the last word. In 1702, he published his treatise “De Origine Mali,” in which he {354} advanced a theory on that subject which met with swell opposition on the continent from the pens of Bayle, Leibnitz, and others. To these writers Dr. King, daring his life, published no reply, but left behind him a number of papers, in which he endeavours to vindicate his system from their objections. These papers coming into the possession of Mr. Edmund Law, afterwards Bishop of Carlisle, who had prepared a translation of the original treatise with notes, he enlarged the notes so far as to comprehend the substance of the papers, and published the whole in 1738. This book, which was for some yean in great vogue at Cambridge, has been long declining in reputation.

Soon after the publication of this treatise, he was translated to the see of Dublin; and, in 1717, was appointed one of the lords justices, which office he again held in 1781 and 1723. He died at his palace in Dublin, May 8, 1789.

THIS gallant officer, whose original name was Brice, was descended of a respectable family, long settled at Belfast, and was born about the year 1730. At a proper age he entered the royal navy, and after passing through the subordinate ranks with great credit, was appointed “lieutenant” in April 1756. In January 1761, he was sent to sea, for the first time in an independent station, as acting commander of the Swallow Bloop of war, with orders to cruise off the French coast, where he fell in with, and captured, alesoel without resistance, a privateer from Bayonne, called (he Sultan. In July of the same year, he was appointed to the command of the Basilisk bomb-ketch, which formed part of the expedition against Martinique, under Admiral Rodney. After the successful accomplishment of this service, Mr. Brice returned to England, and was appointed to command one of the yachts, then equipping for the purpose of convoying the late queen to this eenntty. Is the ensuing spring, he was raised to the rank of post-captain {355} appointed to the Crescent frigate, was ordered to the West Indies, on which station he regained till the end of 1764, when he returned to England. Being paid off in the ensuing spring, he retired to the comforts of domestic society, and, in 1765, married Miss Kingsmill, a Berkshire lady of very respectable family, and thus came into the possession of a very considerable landed property, in consequence of which he assumed the name of Kingsmill.

During the long peace which ensued, he declined accepting any commission; but on the rupture with France* in 1780, he again embarked in his country’s service, and was appointed to the command of the Vigilant, of sixty- four guns, in which ship be was present at the action off Ushant. The rage of party, and the known independence of his principles, caused, as it is reported, the country to lose the advantages of his knowledge and abilities during the greater part of the war. The Vigilant being ordered to the West Indies, he removed from that ship, and it was pot till the accession of the Rockingham administration, in the spring of 1782, that he received a commission, appointing him to command the Elizabeth, of seventy-four guns. The great exertions made by the French to acquire a naval superiority in the East Indies, rendered it necessary to augment the British fleet on that station; accordingly, an armament was fitted out for that purpose, consisting of the Elizabeth, another seventy-four gun ship, sixty-four, and a frigate of thirty-two guns, and placed under the command of Captain Kingsmill. This squadron, after much delay, sailed from Spithead in the beginning of 1783; but after having, with much difficulty, reached the Bay of Biscay, a continued tempest dispersed all the ships which composed it, each of which after fruitless efforts to proceed on the voyage, was compelled to return to England, which they were all fortunate enough to reach. In the meanwhile, the preliminaries of peace having been concluded, the necessity of the expedition Wi of fip.pjse, sflgersRded* The Elizabeth however, being {356} placed on the peace establishment, Captain Kingsmill retained his command for three years, at the expiration of which, he returned to the enjoyment of a quiet and honourable retirement.

At the commencement of the war with France, in 1793, Mr. Kingsmill was promoted to the rank of rear-admiral of the white, and soon after appointed to the chief command on the Irish station. Here he had occasion for the exertion of all the vigilance and activity which he possessed; and the long list of his captures is sufficient proof that he did not slumber at his post. Scarce a month passed for a considerable time, without the capture of some vessels of consequence; but these successes were trivial compared with that which he had the good fortune to effect in the month of July 1796. A squadron of four frigates had been fitted out at Brest, with all imaginable care, for the express purpose of committing depredations on the British trade in that quarter. These vessels were considered the best sailors in the French navy; they were manned with picked men, and commanded by officers of the highest character in their profession. Yet with all these advantages, they had scarcely made their appearance, ere they were met, engaged, defeated, and captured. Passing over a variety of minor successes, we come now to an event of greater importance than any in which it had hitherto fallen to the lot of Admiral Kingsmill to be engaged. The French had long meditated the reduction of Ireland; in order to effect which, they fitted out a formidable armament, consisting of seventeen ships of the line, with twenty-seven frigates and smaller vessels, having on board a considerable number of troops, which sailed from Brest in the hope of effecting an immediate descent. It would be a needless waste of time to enter into a detail of the disasters which befel this ill-fated armament, the discomfiture of which naturally produced a cessation from any similar attempt for several months. The duties of Admiral Kingsmill did not, however, cease or relax in consequence of this danger being averted; repeated cap{357}tares still continued to add to his reputation, and to that of those who acted under his instructions.

For a period of more than twelve months, public affairs had continued to flow in the same regular channel, when the breaking out of the rebellion, and the expectation of succours from France, rendered it necessary for the admiral to exert redoubled vigilance. Emboldened by the posture of affairs in Ireland, France resumed her project; and the Hoche, a ship of the line, and eight frigates, having on board near five thousand troops, together with great quantities of arms and stores, destined for that country, found means to clear Brest harbour. No sooner, however, did they appear off the Irish coast, than they were met by Sir John Borlase Warren, and such as escaped from the general action, became a prey to Admiral Kingsmill and his cruisers. Thus devoid of these more potent antagonists, he continued on this station, industriously employing the same means which he had before exerted with so much effect against the enemies of his country, till towards the conclusion of the year 1800, when he resigned his command to Sir Alan Gardner; and, we believe, was never afterwards actively employed in the public service.