1 tember*, did not prevent his laying But the decree was iffued. On the rene. His latter days were tranquil and feA few infirmities excepted, which are the inevitable lot of an advanced age, he enjoyed a fhare of health, which allowed him to give to ftudy what other old men are obliged to give to repofe. Euler poffeffed to a great degree what is commonly called erudition; he had read all the Latin claffics; was perfect mafter of ancient mathematical literature, and had the hiftory of all ages, and all nations, even to the minuteft facts, ever prefent to his mind. Befides this, he knew much more of phyfic, botany, and chemistry, than could have been expected from a man who had not made these fciences his peculiar occupation. Strangers frequently left him with a kind of furprife mixed with admiration. They could not conceive how a man, who, for half a century, had feemed taken up in making and publishing difcoveries in natural philofophy and mathematics, could have found means to acquire fo much knowledge, that feemed ufclefs to himself, and foreign to the ftudies in which he was engaged. Th was the effect of a retentive memethat lofes nothing with which it h ever been entrusted‡. Nothing equals the eafe and ga humour with which he could quit! abftrufe meditations, and give hi up to the general amufements of ciety. The art of not appearing above one's fellows, of defcending the level of those with whom one is too rare in thefe days, not to it meritorious in Euler. A ever equal, a natural and cafy fulnefs, a fpecies of fatirical wit, pered with urbane humanity, th of telling a ftory archly, and with plicity, made his converfation rally coveted. The great fund of vicacity he had at all times poffeffed, and out which, indeed, the activity we have juft been admiring co have exifted, carried him fom away, and he was apt to grow but his anger left him as quickly came on, and there never has man against whom he bore malice poffeffed a noble fund of rectitud probity. The fworn enemy of inj whenever or by whomfoever co ted, he used to cenfure and atta without the least attention to or riches of the offender. As he was filled with refpect ligion, his piety was fincere, devotion full of fervour. He through all his Chriftian duties the greateft attention. Euler lo mankind, and if he ever felt a of indignation, it was againft mies of religion, particularly the declared apoftles of infidelity defended revelation against the tions of thefe men, in a work pa at Berlin, in 1747. He was hufband, a good father, a good a good citizen, a good member *See an account of Euler's death in our Magazine, Vol. I. p. 446. + This reminds us of the illuftrious Boerhaaye, who kept feeling his pulfe the morning death, to fee whether it would beat till a book he was eager to fee was published, read the and faid, Now the bufinefs of life is over.- -Such men feem not to die, but to be tranilate place where they refume their occupations. One proof of the strength of his memory and imagination deferves to be related. Being in teaching his grandchildren geometry and algebra, and obliged, in confequence, to initiate in the extraction of roots; he was obliged to give them numbers, which thould be the other numbers; thefe he used to make in his head; and one night, not being able to fleep sulated the fix firit powers of all the numbers above twenty, and repeated them feveral days e fociety!-Euler was twice mard, and had thirteen children, four Lom only have furvived him. The fon is well known as his father's ant and fucceffor; the fecond is can to the Emprefs; and the third Beutenant-colonel of artillery, and tor of the armory at Sefterbeckughter married Major Bell. From e children he had thirty-eight d-children, twenty-fix of whom ll alive. Never could there be delightful fight than that exhid by this venerable old man, furad, like a patriarch, by his nus offspring, all attentive to make dage agreeable, and enliven the ander of his days, by every fpe cies of filial care and kind folicitude. -The catalogue of his works would aftonish the reader. They make fifty pages at the end of his Eloge, by Fufs. Of thefe, fourteen contain the manufcript works. The printed ones confift of works printed feparately, which are to be found in the Peterburgh_atts, in thirty-eight volumes (from fix to ten papers in each volume)—in the Paris acts-in twenty-fix volumes of the Berlin acts (about five papers to each volume) in the 48ta Erditorum, in two volumes-in the Mifcellanea Taurinenfia-in vol. 9 of the Society of Ulingue-in the Ephemerides de Berlin, and in the Memoires de la Societe Oeconomique for 1766. ANECDOTES OF DR. RICHARD BENTLEY. FROM THE THIRD VOLUME OF THE BIOGRAPHIA BRITANNICA. THEN Dr. Bentley, who was of St. John's-College, beafter of Trinity the adjoining ge, he applied to himself a paffage Pfalms, by the help of my have fcap'd over the wall." Doctor was fufpended for conby the vice-chancellor, on the October, 1718; the vice-chanheld three courts after the fufon, to give him an opportunity ring. Thefe were on the 7th, gth of the fame month. 17th the grace of degradation The mandamus for reftoring Bentley was granted on the 7th of 1723-4, and not in 1728. following is a copy of the grace he reftitution of him to his degrees: cal abis, ut juxta Tenorem Mandati R. B. reftituatur ad omnes des Gradus Academicos à quibus de* fiat exclufus, una cum omnibus ris, privilegiis, & commaditatibus, Spectantibus & concernentibus. 13 concep. 26 Mart. 1724. is related, that Dr. Green, Bishop ly, being prefent in the court of 's-Bench when the extent of his orial power over the Mafter of ty-College was argued before Sir Raymond, and the counfel on art of the vifitor having contended LOND. MAG. June, 1784. for his power in fome extraordinary cafes, Sir Robert turned to the bishop, and said, "Would your lordship with to have fo great an extent of your vifatorial power confirmed?"-" I confefs, my lord, I fhould be unwilling to truft myfelf with fo unlimited a power in my hands in the like cafe." The It was not Mr. John Walker who was fatirized in the Dunciad by Mr. Pope, it was Dr. Richard Walker, who was vice-mafter of Trinity College, and who was called Dr. Bentley's zany. He was well known by the name of Frog Walker, and was not diftinguifhed for his learning. By his laft will, he was the founder of the phyfic garden at Cambridge. reafon why Dr. Bentley always took care to be on good terms with the vice-mafter is faid to have been, that the latter would never execute the procefs of the Bifhop of Ely, as vifitor, against Dr. Bentley: with regard to Mr. John Walker, who used to be called Clariffimus Walker, a name which was faid to have been given him by Dr. Bentley, he became afterwards chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterbury, and dean of Bocking, in Effex. Though Dr. Richard Walker was not remarkable for his literature, he was an amiable man, and much efteemed in the College. 32 He He was fifty, and Dr. Bentley feventy years of age, when they both began to fmoke, which they did in their own defence, all the rest of the feniors being fmokers. In time Dr. Walker became fo fond of the practice, that like Aldrich and Barrow, he was feldom feen without a pipe in his mouth. A foreign nobleman once vifiting the univerfity, Dr. Bentley received him in great ftate, and the vice-mafter fitting began his addrefs to the foreigner in thefe words, Ego fum Magifter hujus Collegii, et hic eft ViceMagifter meus. To this, among other things, the gueft replied, that he did not doubt but as that gentleman was fecond to him in ftation, he was alfo fecond to him only in learning. The Vice-mafter anfwered Spero quidem. It is faid that Thomas Bentley, the Doctor's nephew was fo offended at Mr. Pope's treatment of his uncle, that he fent the bard a challenge. This the poet communicated to fome of his mi LITERARY litary friends, two or three of whom his perfen pleading his excufe, took the gauntlet, and infifted upon Thom Bentley's fighting one of them, making a fubmiffion, the latter of whi he preferred. Dr. Bentley's youngest daughte afterwards Mrs. Cumberland, was Phebe, on which Dr. Byrom wrote celebrated paftoral ballad. Mr. Pope fays, Dr. Warton had bibed from Swift an unreafon averfion and contempt for Bent whofe admirable Boyle's Led Remarks on Collins, Emendation Menander and Callimachus, Tully's Tufculan difputations, w edition of Horace, and, above Differtations on the Epistles of laris, in which he gained the complete victory over a whole ar wits, all of them exhibit the ftriking marks of accurate and five erudition, and a vigorous anda understanding. ARTICLE REVIEW. LXIV. BIOGRAPHIA Britannica; or, the Lives of the most eminent Perfons els flourished in Great-Britain and Ireland, from the earlift Ages to the Times: Collected from the beft Authorities, printed and manufcript, and dige the Manner of Mr. Bayle's hiftorical and critical Dictionary. The fecond avith Corre&ions, Enlargements, and the Addition of now Lives. By Andra fis, D.D. F.R. S. and S. A. with the Affiftance of the Rev. Jofeph Towers, and other Gentlemen. Volume the Third. Folio. 1. 11s. 6d. Davis, win, &c. THE third volume of this extenfive and laborious work has been long and impatiently expected, but when it is confidered how many new lives it contains, and that confiderable additions have been made to almost all the old articles, we must confefs that Dr. Kippis fhould not be filed an indiligent editor. He informs us, in the preface to this volume, which is dedicated to the Duke of Richmond, "that there is good reafon to believe, from fome particular circumstances, that the publication of the future volumes will be more fpeedy, without any diminution of the attention: which they have hitherto been ducted." This is intelligence we are happy to communicate public, . The new lives are as f I. James Burgh, a moral and p writer, figned K. which we com to mean Dr, Kippis. II. John B editor of Pentalogia, K. Bentham, editor of the Greek Fu Eulogies, K. IV. Bishop Butler V. John Byrom, author of ' Oye Mujes! &c. K. VI. Cabot, navigator, T. probably Dr. To *If this be true, fhe muft then have been a child, as it was published in the Spectator, Bentley was not married ull after he became maiter of Trinity-College. ERIT. 1. and VIII. John and Archibald, fecond and third Dukes of Argyle, IX. Dr. John Campbell, the bioher, K. X. John Canton, natural fopher, K. XI. Richard Carew, ay, K. XII. Sir George Carew, lador, K. XIII. Carleton, Vifc. eter, ftate fman, K. XIV. Ca5, the political agent, K. XV. Carte, hiftorian, K. XVI. CarEarl Granville, K. XVII. The. twright, a Puritan divine, T. IL Calon, the letter-founder, K. 1 materials furnished by Mr. XIX. Edm. Caftell, a diK. XX. Ed. Cave, firft edit. of Gentleman's Magazine, Dr. JohnAXI. Margaret, Duchefs of K. XXII. Mrs. Centlivre, AL Ephraim Chambers, the of the dictionary, K. XXIV. Sam. Chandler, T. XXV. G. an, tranilator of Homer, &c. T. William Chefelden, the furgeon anatomist, K. from particulars unicated by Dr. W. Hunter. II. Dr. Cheyne, T. XXVIIL Chihull, the antiquary, K. Th. Chubb, the controverfial K. XXX. Charles Churchill, et, K. XXXI. Colley Cibber, XXXII. Will. Clarke, divine and ary. Dr. Kippis, with additions Hayley. XXXIII. Dr. Clay op of Clogher, K. XXXIV. Che, by Henry Beaufoy, Efq. V. Mrs. C. Cockburn, T. Edes thefe new lives, there are hed eighty-two articles from the er edition of the Biographia, the er part of which have received received affiftance in the profecution of his biographical toils, the following are added from the preface: Edmund Calamy, Efq. Dr. Johnstone, of Kidderminster, Jofhua Steevens, Efq. Mr. Cauton, the Rev. Dr. Thomas Campbell, and John Baynes, of Lincoln's-Inn. The life of Cleiveland the poet, was entirely the production of Dr. Percy, the Bishop of Dromore, who, as he is defcended from the fame family, was better able to draw up fuch a memorial than any other writer. Barble additions, principally from Labours of Dr. Kippis. At the ing are inferted Corrigenda and de to the two former volumes. life of Chatterton is referved for enclafion of the letter C, in order A time for collecting every parrelative to that extraordinary , as well as to digeft the mawhich fo many able writers we furnished for a candid examinaof the authenticity of Rowley's To the names of perfons already Sarated, from whom Dr. Kipp is Thefe new lives are rendered much more agreeable to the reader, by the finall part of them which is given in the annotation. In a work of this nature, on fome accounts, the plan followed by Bayle was properly adopted. To the notes we would commit extracts from books, fometimes memorials and public fpeeches, and fome other particulars, but not anecdotes, or critical remarks on the writings of authors. In the life of a literary man, the accounts of his works deferve a place, as much as the narratives of fieges, and marches, and countermarches do, in the memoirs of a general. We feel a wifh, that Dr. Kippis had incorporated his ufeful additions into the feveral lives, and diftinguifhed them by inverted commas. This method could not but have met with the approbation of the public. Eut it is with great deference that we propofe an alteration in fo jully celebrated a work, and fo able a biographer, as Dr. Kippis. From a work of this nature it is almoft imposible to give any extracts, fo we fhall conclude this fhort article with the following paff ge from the preface, as the fentiments it contains perfectly coincide with cur own on this fubject: "In the mind of fome perfons the extent of fresh matter, and the variety of new articles, may appear to be carried too far; on this point there will neceffarily be a diverfity of fentiments, according to the difference which fubfifts in the tafes and judgement of men. But confidering the prefent folicitude for biographical kowledge, it 312 feeme feems better to err on the fide of excefs than of defect. There is one thing which may be fuggefted to fuch as will be difpofed to think that certain articles might have been omitted. With refpect to ftate finen, warriors, and characters of the like kind, none fhould introduced that have not been very ting hed. Burt as a hiftory of British literature, the Biographia ought to contain as much information, and include as great a variety of objects, as the nature of th defign can admit. It is hence only that it can be fully known even to many of our own countrymen, and efpecially to foreigners, what a number of valuable writers, in every department of fcience and learning, the nation has produced. To extend in this respect the honour of GreatBritain as far as pofiible, both at home and abroad, is a defireable undertaking." From the life of Churchill, we pro pofe to present our readers with a account of that poet, in a future nem ber. It is drawn up with great judg ment and accuracy. The life of Lo Clive, by Mr. Beaufoy, is a lively fpirited piece of biography. The fa are ftated with precifion, although t ingenious writer has avoided a tedi minutenefs. Whatever flows from Hayley's fertile pen muft pleafe ft its elegance. His characters of Clark, the learned author of the nexion of the coins, and of Clark, are delicately drawn, and chi ingly written. Dr. Towers mu be deprived of his due share of mendation. With regard to Kippis, we have often had occafi praife his biographical talents, the large fhare which has been alk to him in this volume will juftify our decifion, while it but increafe his reputation. ART. LXV. The Sad Shepherd; or, a Tale of Robin Hood. A Fr Written by Ben Jonson. With a Continuation, Notes, and an Appendis. 3s. 6d. Nichols and Dilly. THIS book is dedicated to Mr. King, the comedian, who had the management of Drury-lane theatre under his direction when this publication appeared. The preface contains an apology for this performance, and an account and defence of fome circumitances in the original. The text of Jenfon's part of this work, and the notes, are taken from Whalley's edition. The author of the continuation has taken fome few liberties with is or ginal, which, we are informed, are faithfully enumerated in the fupplemental notes. This paftoral has long been admired by the lovers of the poetry of Queen Elizabeth's days. Jonfon left it incomplete. He wrote the two firft acts and the argument, and five fcenes of the third. Mr. Whalley informs us, in his notes on this fragment, that the reafon of its mutilated condition has not reached our time. Whether the remainder was burned, whether it was never finished, on account of the age or caprice of the author, cannot now be determined. “There is, indeed, one realon, fays the ingenious Mr. Whalley, w might lead us to believe that poet left it unfinished by defign." beheld with great indignation the generous treatment which Flete Faithful Shepherdefs met with from people at its firft appearance; an was witnefs alfo to the fmall encom ment that was fhewn to its re under the patronage of Charic Pofiibly, these circumftances det him from going through with the formance. As his compofition of a kindred nature to that of Fletc he might prefage the fame unfortu event, fhould he ever introduce t the ftage. So that pofterity can c bewail the perverfity of tafte int injudicious ancestors, whofe difco ment of the first contributed to de us of the fecond paftoral drama would do honour to the nation. we now have ferveth only to incre our regret; like the remains of 1 ancient mafter, which beget in t most inexpre.tible defire of a p flatue by the fame hand. work is not completed by its st or maimed by the hand of time, W |