European Magazine,

For NOVEMBER, 1807.

[Einbellished with, 1, A Portrait of the late SIR William Staines, KNT. And, 2, A View of Ersoм CHURCH.]

· Description of Epsom Church
Vestiges, collected and recollected,
by Joseph Moser, Esq. No. LXIII. 337
Zemira; or, the Fisherman of Delhi:

An Oriental Tale. By Joseph Mo-
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Essays, Historical, Literary, and Mo-
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Anecdote of Grimaldi's Grandfather 367

Aacedote of Francis Moore

The Comet; or, Dramatic Dulness, for 1807, By Joseph Moser, Esq. Observations on the Journal of a Voyage from the West Indies Remarks on a Review of Collyer's Lectures on Scripture Facts Recent Case of Hydrophobia

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Fable and Character of Time's a
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by Mrs. Barbauld, for Mrs. Mat-
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the new Theatre, Liverpool, &c. 388
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Portus The Fair defended-The
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1801.

MEMOIR OF THE LATE SIR WILLIAM STAINES, KNT. &c. &c. &c.

T great

ble; yet, while we to lament that

It has been said, that the storms of we can only very slightly allude to this

important part of our subject, we are still more concerned to find, that a very considerable difference of opinion prevails in those accounts of it which, circulated in the local atmosphere, have come to our knowledge.

However, exercising our judgment upon the different and, very frequently, contradictory reports that we have heard respecting his birth and early adventures, we shall select those parts which we have reasons to think are most to be relied on, in the hope of being corrected by a gentleman of the greatest legal eminence, who, we have been informed, has an idea of giving to the public an account of the life of that truly excellent man, respecting which, from his knowledge of the subject, and the elegance of his diction, we entertain the highest expectations.

fate," is an object upon which the gods
might look down with envy. This ob-
servation has generally been applied to
philosophers and heroes; a race of be-
ings with whom we have, thank hea-
ven! nothing further to do, at present,
than to oppose to this opinion respect
ing them another, comprising a much
more useful species of persons, and, as
an instance, to observe, that a man
who derived his birth from parents in
humble life, surmounting all the obsta-
cles which a low situation and a want of
fortune opposed to his exertions, and,
by a firm reliance on Providence, se
conded by the unremitted efforts of his
own industry, and supported by the
most undeviating integrity, is, upon
Christian principles, a much greater
object of envy, or, rather, a much
brighter example of the influence of
religious impressions operating upon
a mind of uncommon strength and in-
nate dignity, and producing that recti-
tude of conduct, and that pure, that
unostentatious benevolence, of which
our august CITY of LONDON has, both
in the former and in the present times,
afforded so many conspicuous patterns.
The late SIR WILLIAM STAIN ES, Whose
memory it is, by the portrait which
embellishes this number of our Maga-
zine, and by this short biographical
sketch, our ardent wish to transmit
to posterity, was a character of this,
description. Born in an rumble situa-
tion, he was the founder of his own
fortune, and, literally from the earth,
raised himself to the height of civic
honour. But, although correctly to
trace the early part of his life is, from
the paucity of our materials, impossi-period of his life.

The birth-place of SR WILLIAM STAINES has, it is said, been traced to the parish of ST. GEORGE, SOUTHWARK.* He was born in the year 1725. His father was a mason, and, early in his life, he was apprenticed to a person of the same business, in Cannon-street, Loudon. He served five years of his time with great fidelity; but, owing to one of those sudden emotions of mind, too common, alas! to young persons, he left his master, resolved, as he said, to try his fortune at sea; an adventurous course, to which, from infancy, he appears to have had a strong pre

This is by no means certain: we have some reason to think that he was born in

Yorkshire, and brought to town at an early