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Esq. a Member of the Royal Irish Academy, a respected antiquary, and author of many different works. He published, " An Account of the Nature and Conditions of a Charter to be granted for the working and manufacturing Mines and Minerals in Ireland," 1754" Dissertations on the History of Ireland," 1766. In the "Collectanea Hibernica," are his "Reflections on the History of Ireland." Dr. Campbell, in Gough's Camden, III. 482,* calls him "the fond advocate for the Pagan antiquities of Ireland." 1791. July 30. Sir William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, in Derbyshire, Bart. æt. 43, a very amiable man, who was author of "A Book of Maxims," &c. which are said to bear record of his knowledge of the human mind. He had been a Gentleman Usher at St. James's, and was elder brother to the present Lord St. Helens.

July. John Seymour, author of a "Collec

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tion of Poems," consisting of Spring, &c. dedicated to the Duchess of Devonshire. likewise translated "The Correspondence of Two Lovers, inhabitants of Lyons." He was well known among the booksellers of the metropolis; who often relieved his necessities, which are said to have been as severe as those of Otway, Savage, and Chatterton. He dropped down dead, as he was coming from Highgate to Kentish Town.

Nov. 13. At Shaftesbury, æt. 26. Samuel Marsh

Oram,

Oram, Attorney at Law, a young man of promising talents both in poetry and topography. 1791. Nov. 27. At Liverpool,Robert Norris, Esq. author of "The Memoirs of the King of Dahomey," and brother to a late Secretary to the Society of Antiquaries.

Dec. 25. At his house at St. Giles's, Norwich,

æt. 37, the Rev. Henry Harington, Prebendary of Bath and Wells, Rector of North Cove with Willingham in Suffolk, and of Haynford in Norfolk, and Assistant Minister of St. Peter's, Mancroft, in Norwich. He was admitted of Queen's College, Oxford, where he proceeded M. A. 1777. He was son of Dr. Harington of Bath, and was the original edi- . tor of the NUGE ANTIQUE, from the papers of his ancestor, Sir John Harington of Kelston, the poet. He married Lucy, sister of the present Lord Fortescue.

1792. April 6. At Bath, the Rev. A C. Schomberg, A. M. æt. 35.

At Keynsham, near Bristol, C. Jones, called "The Crediton Poet," who published a little volume of "Poems," by subscription.

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ART. XXII. Literary Obituary.

1806. July

In the East Indies, aged 23, Lieut. William Rowland Wake, of the 7th Regt. of Native Infantry. He was son of the late William Wake, · Esq. of Worksop Manor, Notts. His classical attain

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ments, and literary talents, are said to have been very considerable. He published a juvenile volume of poems at London in 180; and was author of many poetical effusions, and essays in prose, in the Gleaner, a periodical paper, published at Bombay, under the signatures of "Juvenis;" "Vigilax;" "Antibargainist;""Rowland Ramble;" and "W. R. W."

1807. March 18. In London, aged 54, Sir Edward Harington, Kt. only surviving son of Dr. Harington, of Bath, and direct male descendant of Sir John Harrington, of Kelston, the poet. He was one of Peg Nicholson's Knights. He was author of several publications; particularly Travels through parts of France; A Skezzio on the genius of Man; and a small volume of ludicrous compositions. He was twice married, and has left issue by his first wife.

March 28. In the Charterhouse, London, aged 75, Nathaniel Hulme, M. D. F. R. and A. S. S. author of an inaugural dissertation, De Scorbuto, Edinb. 1765, 8vo. of A Treatise on the Puerperal Fever. London, 1772, 8vo. &c. He was a native of Yorkshire.

April 21. The Rev. George Walker, F. R. S. aged 73, a native of Newcastle upon Tyne; and formerly Mathematical Tutor to the Academy at Warrington. He was very eminent for his mathematical genius, and printed at Warrington a Treatise on The Doctrine of the Sphere, 775, 4to. and afterwards the first part of A Treatise on Conic Sections. also printed two volumes of Sermons, 1790; and An Appeal to the people of England, on the subject of the Test Laws. From Warrington he re

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moved to Nottingham, where he resided twenty-four years; and thence became Theological Tutor and Superintendant of the Dissenting Academy at Manchester. During his residence here, he was an active member of the Literary and Philosophical Society of the place, of which he was, Perceval, chosen President. office at the Academy, and Wavertree, near Liverpool. self in revising his various compositions, printed and manuscript, for publication. For this purpose he visited London in the Spring of the present year; and

there died after a short illness.

upon the decease of Dr. At length he resigned his retired to the village of Here he employed him

Lately, in Switzerland, John Lewis De Lolme, LL D. born at Geneva, and brought up an Advocate. He resided many years in England; and published here in 1772 A Parallel between the English Constitution and the former Government of Sweden; and in 1775, A Treatise on the Constitution of England, a work which established his literary reputation. It was originally published in French. In 1787, he was author of An Essay containing a few strictures on the Union of Scotland and England, designed as an Introduction to De Foe's History of the Union. He also wrote The History of the Flagellants; and several temporary pamphlets; of which one, if I recollect, was on the subject of Thelusson's Will. He was a man of many eccentricities; and his pride, which would not suffer him to bend to the world, often exposed him to the hardships and oppressions of poverty.

T. Bensley, Printer, Bolt Court,

Fleet Street, London.

CENSURA LITERARIA.

NUMBER XIX.

[Being Number VII. of the New Series.]

ART. I. A new Survey of the West-Indias: or the English American his Travail by sea and land: containing à Journal of three thousand and three hundred miles within the main land of America. Wherein is set forth his Voyage from Spain to St. John de Ulhua; and from thence to Kalappa, to Tlaxcalla, the city of Angels, and forward to Mexico; with the description of that great city, as it was in former times, and also at this present. Likewise, his Journey from Mexico, through the Provinces of Guaxala, Chiapa, Guatemala, Vera Paz, Truxillo, Comayagua; with his abode twelve years about Guatemala, and especially in the Indian Towns of Mixco, Pinola, Petapa, Amatitlan. As also his strange and wonderful conversion and calling from those remote parts, to his native countrey. With his return through the Province of Necaragua, and Costa Rica, to Nicoya, Panama, Portobelo, Cartagena, and Havana, with divers occurrents and dangers, that did befal in the said Journey. Also a new and exact Discovery of the Spanish Navigation to those parts. And of

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