litating his acquirement both of the German and French languages. On the appearance of the troubles in France, and the prospect of a speedy rupture with England, his Lordship returned to his native country, and soon after married Miss Anne Courtenay, one of the daughters of the late Wm. Viscount Courtenay, by whom he has one son. Upon his marriage he quitted the army and settled at his estate of Arley, which was bequeathed to him by his uncle, Thomas Lord Lyttleton, in 1779. At this beautiful and picturesque spot Lord Valentia continued to reside until June, 1802, at which period he embarked for the East Indies, with the intention of putting in execution his long-formed and favorite project of visiting the principal districts of those celebrated and extensive regions, together with many other interesting and remote countries. He was attended on his travels by his draughtsman and secretary, Mr. Salt, the nephew of his Lordship's former tutor and friend, Dr. Butt. His Lordship returned to England at the close of the year 1806, and about two years afterwards was returned to Parliament for the borough of Yarmouth in the Isle of Wight. His Lordship has for many years been a member of the Royal, Antiquarian, and Linnæan, Societies. He was also one of the original proprietors of the Royal Institution. He has published, Voyages and Travels in India, the Red Sea, and Abyssinia, 3 v. 4to. 1809; 2nd edition, 6 v. 8vo. and 1 v. 4to. of plates, 1811. VALPY, RICHARD, D.D. F.A S. Rector of Stradishall, Suffolk, and Master of the Grammar School at Reading. He is a native of Jersey, and had his academical education at Pembroke College, Oxford; where he took the degree of M.A. June 25, 1784, and accumulated those of B. and D.D. January 21, 1792. Dr. Valpy has presided for a long period over Reading School, with the greatest reputation, and he has brought up many eminent scholars who now adorn the church and the world of letters by their virtues and their talents. In the Introduction to his Latin Grammar the Doctor says, that by the improved method which he has there laid down, his scholars made as great a progress in three months as they usually before had done in six. This excellent preceptor, besides Latin and Greek plays performed by his scholars, adapted some of Shakspeare's for their use, and two or three were, we understand, performed for the benefit of a public charity. One of these plays so altered, King John, was brought out, in 1803, at Covent Garden, for the benefit of Mrs. Litchfield, and with such effect that it was often repeated on several theatres. The various publications of Dr. Valpy are: Poetical Blossoms, or a Collection of Poems, Odes, and Translations, 4to. 1772.-Elements of the Latin Language, or an Introduction to the Latin Grammar, 12mo. 1782; 11th edit. 1814.-Two Assize Sermons, with Notes and an Appendix, 8vo. 1793.-Poetical Chronology of Ancient and English History, witir Notes, 12mo. 1794; 6th edit. 1812.-The Roses, or King Henry VI. of Shakspeare, an historical tragedy, tragedy, altered from Shakspeare, 8vo. 1801.—The Second Part of King Henry IV. altered from Shakspeare, 8vo. 1801.-The Merchant of Venice, altered from Shakspeare, 8vo.-Sermiou at the Anniversary Meeting of the Royal Humane Society, 8vo. 1802; 4th spoken at Reading School, 8vo. 1804.—Elements of edit. 1811-Poems, Odes, Prologues, and Epilogues, the Greek Grammar, 8vo. 1805; 4th edit. 1814.-Latin Dialogues, collected from the best Writers, 3rd edit. 12mo. 1813.-A New Latin Vocabulary, adapted to the best Latin Grammars, 4th edit. 12mo. 1811.Delectus Sententiarum et Historiarum, 15th edition, 8vo. 1795; 2nd edit. 1812.-King John, an historical with Explanations and Directions, 12mo. 1815 -Delectus Sententiarum Græcarum, 12mo. 2ud edit. 1814. -First Exercises, to be translated into Latin, with Familiar Explanations, 12mo. 4th edit. 1813.—Sermons on Public Occasions, with Historical, Critical, 1. The Law of the Twelve Tables respecting Debtors; and Political Notes: with an Appendix containing, 2. The Causes which must prevent the Establishment of a Republic in France; 3. The Catholic Question; 4. The Practice of Liberal Piety vindicated; 5. Rival ry of France; 6. The Prophecies relating to the Fall of Rome; 7. The Disposition of the French Government to Peace; 8. Deeds without a Name; 9. Defence of the Country; 10. Insensibility in Suspended Animation; 11. Interests of the Church of England; 2 v. 8vo. 1811.--An Address from a Clergymau to his l'aHistoria et Geographie, 2nd edit. 12mo. 1811rishioners, 3rd edit. 8vo. 1811.-Principia Officiorum, M. Acci Plauti Comedia Quatuor; Amphitruo, Aulalaria, Captivi, Rudens, ad usum scholarum, Notulis Anglicis et Glossario accommodatx, 12mo. 1815.-In the year 1788, Dr. V. visited France, and on his reParis, which he has since republished, with Alterations, turn published, a Short Sketch of a Short Trip to in the Pumphictcer. College, Cambridge, VALPY, Rev. EDWARD, B.D. of Trinity Grammar School at Norwich, and bromaster of the ther to Dr. Valpy of Reading, in whose school he was many years an assistant. He has published, Elegantia Latina, or Rules and Exercises illustrative of an Elegant Latin Style, 12mo. 1803; 4th edition, 1814.-A new edition of the Greek Testament, with Griesbach's Text, and Copious Notes from Hardy, miliar Latin, with Parallel Passages from the Classics, Raphel, Kypke, Schleusner, Rosenmuller, &c. in Faand References to Vigerus for Idioms, and Bos for Ellipses, 3 v. 8vo. 1815. VALPY, ABRAHAM JOHN, M.A. late Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford. is the son of Dr. Valpy of Reading, and at present the conductor of a respectable printing concern in London. He is now engaged, in conjunction with Mr. E. H. Barker, of Trinity College, Cambridge, in publishing a new and improved edition of Stephens's Greek Thesaurus: he has also edited, Brotier', Tacitus, which combines the advantages of the Paris and Edinburgh Editions, with a selection of Notes from all the Commentators on Tacitus subsequent to the Edinburgh Edition: the Literaria Noti tia and Politica are also added; the French Passages are translated, and the Roman Money turned into En. glish, 5 v. 8vo. 1812.-An edition of Virgil, collated with the best editions, for schools, 18mo. 1813.-A edition of Horace with the Objectionable Passages expunged, 18mo. 1814.-Epistola M. T. Ciceronis; in usum scholarum excerptæ, 12mo. 1804; 2nd edit. 1810. VANBRUGH, Rev. GEORGE, LL.B. Rector of Aughton in Lancashire. He has published, Thoughts on the Religious Observance of the Sabbath, and on Private Prayer, 2nd edit. 8vo. 1801.— Sermons on several Subjects and Occasions, 8vo. 1804. VANCOUVER, CHARLES, Esq. an agricultural writer who has displayed considerable skill and energy in his favorite pursuits both in England and America. Besides some papers in the Bath Agricultural Collections, Young's Annals, and other miscellaneous publications, he has printed, A General View of the Agriculture of the County of Devon, 8vo. 1807.--General View of the Agricul ture of Hainpshire, 8vo. 1811. VANCOUVER, JOHN. son of a merchant in London, who was descended from Dutch parents. The son received his education at Merchant Taylor's School, and next at Queen's College, Oxford, where he took his degree of M.A. July 17, 1790. On the death of the Rev. Mr. Griffiths, chaplain to the late Archbishop Moore, he was presented to the rectory of St. Mary le Bow, where he suffered a peculiar hardship in being sued by a qui tam attorney for non-residence; though, as there was no parsonage house in the parish, he could not well reside there. It was proved that he discharged the duties regularly, and that he lived within a convenient distance of the church, notwithstanding which, a verdict was given against him, and that proved the source of many vexations to other worthy clergymen, both in town and country, till an act was passed to put a stop to these iniquitous suits. In 1804, Mr. Van Mildert was appointed to preach the Boyle's Lecture Sermons, which he afterwards published, and these gave such satisfaction, that the Society of Lincoln's Inn chose him for their preacher, on the resignation of Archdeacon Nares; and the present Archbishop of Canterbury, besides giving him a living in Surrey, recommended him as a fit person for the divinity chair at Oxford, on the elevation of Dr. Howley to the see of London. The works of the professor are, The Causes of Poverty, and the Present State of the An Historical View of the Rise and Progress of InPoor, considered, 8vo. 1796. VANDELEUR, JOHN ORMSBY, Esq. Lieutenant Colonel of the 8th, or King's Royal Irish Dragoons. Duty of Officers commanding Detachments in the Field, 8vo. 1801. VANDERSTEGEN, WILLIAM, Esq. Observations on Frauds practised in the Collection of the Salt Duties, 8vo. 1793.-Reply to a Pamphlet entituled a Refutation of Charges respecting Frauds committed in the Collection of Salt Duties, 8vo. 1793 The Present State of the Thames considered, and a fidelity, in a series of Sermons preached at Boyle's Lecture, 2 v. 8vo. 1806; 2nd edition, with an Addi the Honorable Society of Lincoln's Inn, on the Occational Appendix, 1807.-A Sermon preached before sion of the Assassination of the Rt. Hon. Spencer Perceval, 8vo. 1812.-Sermons preached before the University of Oxford, at the Bampton Lecture, in 1814, 8vo. 1815. VANSITTART, Rt. Hon. NICHOLAS, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and M.P. for Harwich. He is the son of George Vansittart, Esq. of Bisham Abbey, in Berkshire, by Comparative View of Canal and River Navigation, his lady, who was the daughter of the 8vo. 1794. VAN ESS, W. L. late Rev. Sir James Stonhouse, Bart. Mr. Vansittart was educated at Westminster History of the Life, Battles, and Campaigns, of Buo- School, and removed from thence to Christ naparte, 7 v. 12mo. 1814. VAN HEYTHUYSEN, F. M. Esq. of the Honorable Society of Lincoln's Inn. Rudiments of the Laws of England, 8vo. 1812.. VAN HOVEN, JOSHUA. Letters on the Present State of the Jewish Poor in the Metropolis, 8vo. 1802. VAN MILDERT, WILLIAM, D.D. Regius Professor of Divinity in the University of Oxford, Rector of St. Mary le Bow, and Preacher to the Honorable Society of Lincoln's Inn. This learned divine is the Lit. Cul. Church, Oxford, where he went out grand compounder for his master's degree, Jan. 29, 1791. Having displayed great talents as a financier, and possessing also considerable interest, with the reputation of the highest integrity, he was chosen to fill the office of Chancellor of the Exchequer, on the lamented death of Mr. Perceval; and though he has been keenly attacked in his official capacity, all parties have concurred in bearing testimony to his solid 2 Z abilities, his unremitting application to business, and the urbanity of his temper. The publications of Mr. Vansittart are, Reflections on the Propriety of an Immediate Peace, 8vo. 1793.-Letter to Mr. Pitt, on the Conduct of the Bank Directors, with Ob ervations on Morgan's Pamphlet respecting the National Debt, 8vo. 1795.-An Inquiry into the State of the Finances of Great Britain, 8vo. 1796.-Substance of Two Speeches on the Report of the Bullion Committee. 8vo. 1811.-Three Letters on the British and Foreign Bible Society, 8vo. 1812, recorded in the Pamphhteer, No. 1.-Speech in the House of Commons, Feb. 20, 1815, ou the Com mittee of Ways and Means.-The Budget for 1815. These two Pamphlets were published in the Pamphleteer, No. XI. with revisions and corrections. VANSITTART, Rev. WILLIAM, M.A. of A New Translation of the 49th Psalm, with an Ap- An Address to the Proprietors of the intended Gas- the Powers of the Baltic, 8vo. 1810. VARDILL, ANNA JANE. The Pleasures of Human Life, a poem, 4to. 1812. Poems on several Occasions, 8vo. 1799-Copies of a ments, 8vo. VAUGHAN, WALTER, M.D. physician at An Exposition of the Principles of Anatomy and Phy- A Tract on Wet Docks, Quays, and Warehouses, for mons, on the Commerce of the Port of London, and VAUGHAN, CHARLES RICHARD, M.B. and one of Dr. Radcliffe's travelling Fel-Examination in a Committee of the House of Comlows of the University of Oxford. He was formerly of Merton College, where he took the degree of M.A. June 6, 1798, but on being elected to a fellowship at All Souls, he there took his degree of M.B. May 16, 1800. He has published an interesting piece, which has gone through six editions, entitled, Narrative of the Siege of Zaragoza, 8vo. 1809. VAUGHAN, Rev. EDWARD THOMAS, M.A. vicar of St. Martin's and All Saints, Leicester, chaplain to Lord St. John, and late Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. He is the son of a barrister at Leicester, and has obtained celebrity in the class of those who are called Evangelical divines. His performances are, Sermon preached at the Archdeaconal Visitation of our Times, a Sermon preached on the Thanksgiving VAUGHAN, THOMAS WRIGHT, Esq. View of the Present State of Sicily, 4to. 1811. the Accommodation of Shipping, &r. 8vo. 1796.— Reasons in favor of the London Docks, 8vo. 1797.Answer to Objections against the London Docks, 8vo. 1797-A Comparative Statement of the Advantages and Disadvantages of the Docks in Wapping, and the Docks in the Isle of Dogs, with General Remarks on the Advantage of making the Port of London a Great Depot, 8vo. 1799.-Narrative of the Sufferings of Cap tain Woodard and Four Seamen, who lost their Ship, while in a Boat at Sea, and surrendered themselves to the Malays in the Island of Celebes; with an Intro- VAUNBERGER, C. G. organist of St. VEITCH, JOHN, M.D. assistant surgeon to the 54th regiment of foot, and memher of the Medical Society at Edinburgh. He served with the army in Egypt, under General Abercrombie, and has published, besides some papers in the Medical and Physical Journal, an interesting work. entituled: An Account of the Ophthalmia which has appeared in VELLEY, THOMAS, Esq. F.L.S. Colored Figures of Marine Plants found on the Southern coast of England, illustrated with Descriptions and Observations, accompanied with a figure of the Arabis Stricta, from St. Vincent's Rock; to which is prefixed an Enquiry into the Mode of Propagation peculiar to Sea Plants, 1799. He has also some Pa. pers in the Bath Agricultural Society's Collections. VENABLES, ROBERT HINDE, of the Six Clerks' office in the Court of Chancery. Turner's Practice of Costs in the Court of Chancery improved, 2 v. 8vo. 1804; new ed. 1810. VENTUM, Mrs. HARRIET. Selina, nov. 5 v.-Amiable Tutoress, 12mo.-Justina Natural sequel to Mrs. Trimmer's Introduction, being a familiar description of some popular subjects in Philosophy, adapted to the capacities of Children, 12mo. 1802-Interesting Traits of Character in Youth of both Sexes, 1804.-The Dangers of Infidelity, 3 v. 12mo. 1812.-The Good Aunt, 12mo. 1813. VENNING, Miss. Simple Pleasures, 12mo. 1811. Fate, or Spong Castle, nov. 8vo. 1803. Guiscard, or the Mysterious Accusation, nov. 2 v. VERNON, the hon. EDWARD VENABLES, Lord Archbishop of York. This most reverend prelate is the younger son of George Venables, Lord Vernon, by his third wife, Martha, sister to Simon, first Earl of Harcourt. He was born in 1757, and educated first at Westminster School, from whence he removed to Christchurch, Oxford, where he took the degree of B.C.L. April 27, 1786, and that of D.C.L. May 4, following, both as grand compounder. In 1784 he married Lady Anne Leveson Gower, sister to the Marquis of Stafford, by whom he has several children. In 1791 Dr. Vernon, being then canon of Christchurch, was consecrated Bishop of Carlisle on the removal of Dr. Douglas to Salisbury, and in 1807 he succeeded Dr. Markham in the See of York. His Grace, in parliament, opposed the petition of the Roman Catholics, as being a claim to political power; and he has printed: A Sermon preached before the House of Lords, Jan. 30, 1794, 4to.-A Sermon before the Society for Propagating the Gospel in Foreign Parts, 4to. 1799. VERNON, G. W. barrister at law in Ireland, published, in conjunction with J. B. Scriven: Andrews' Reports of Cases in the Court of King's Beuch, in the 11th and 12th of Geo. II. with an Appendix, 8vo. 1792. VERRAL, CHARLES. The Pleasures of Possession, a Poem, 8vo. 1810. VESEY, FRANCIS, barrister at law, and one of the six clerks in the Court of Chancery. Reports of Cases argued and determined in the High Court of Chancery, 18 v. roy. 8vo. (Vol. 1. in association with J. Beame, esq.) Index to the same, 1 v. roy. 8vo.-Case upon the Will of the late Peter Thellusson, Esq. 1799, 4to.-Reports of Cases in Chancery, determined during the time of Lord Eldon, beginning with the Sittings before Easter Term, 1801, and ending Easter Term, 1802, 1803, fol. VEYSIE, DANIEL, B.D. Rector of Plymtree, Devon, and late fellow of Oriel Coll. Oxford, where he took his degree of M.A. June 17, 1778, and that of B.D. July 1, 1788. He is a native of the county where he is beneficed, and recently has had a protracted suit with his parishioners on the tithes, which ultimately came to a decision in his favor in the House of Lords. Mr. Veysie is an able divine, and an elegant classical scholar. His works are: The Doctrine of St. John, and the Faith of the first Christians, not Unitarian; a Sermon before the Univer sity of Oxford, 8vo. 1791.- The Doctrine of the Atonement illustrated and defended, in eight Sermons preached at the Bampton Lecture, 8vo. 1795.-Exa mination of Mr. Marsh's Hypothesis respecting the Origin of our three first Canonical Gospels, 8vo. 1808. -Preservative against Socinianismi, 8vo. 1809.-A Grammatical Dissertation on the Greek Prepositive Article, vo. 1810.-A Defence of the Preservative against Unitarianism, in Answer to Lant Carpenter, a preacher of that sect at Exeter, 8vo. 1811. VICKERS, T. Esq. Levinz's Reports of Cases in the Court of King's III. 3d ed. 3 v. 8vo. 1800. VIDAL, ROBERT STUDLEY, Esq. F.A.S. barrister at law of the Inner Temple. He is a native of Exeter, and resides on his paternal estate in the northern part of Devonshire. Besides some communications in the Archaologia, he has published: Commentaries on the Affairs of the Christians, from the time of Constantine the Great. Translated from the Latin of Mosheim, 2 v. 8vo. 1813. VIDLER, WILLIAM, originally a methedist preacher in Wesley's connexion, which he left to become the head of those called Universalists, with whom he is associated at a meeting in Artillery Court, Spital Fields. He is now also a Socinian, and for some time kept a bookseller's shop in High Holborn. He has printed some single sermons, and a posthumous piece of Mr. Winchester, in answer to Paine: also, Letters to Andrew Fuller on the Universal Restora- VIGIER, JOHN, teacher of the Spanish, Inquiry into the Nature and Extent of Poetic Licence, 1815. VILLEMER, P. master of an academy in and particularly adapted to Private Instruction, 8vo. Stanhope Street, Clare Market. Poeme de l'Astronome, 8vo. 1808. VILLIERS, Right Hon. JOHN CHARLES, brother to the Earl of Clarendon, and Chief Justice in Eyre. He has published: Chaubert, or the Misanthrope, a dramatic poem, 8vo. 1789.-A Tour through part of France, 8vo. 1789. VINCE, Rev. SAMUEL, M.A. F.R.S. Plumian professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy in Cambridge, and Archdeacon of Bedford. He was originally a member of Caius College, where, in 1775, he obtained one of Smith's prizes as a proficient in mathematics. The same year he was senior wrangler, and took his degree of B A. after which he became a fellow of Sidney College. In 1796 he was elected Plumian professor, and the lectures, which are wholly experimental, comprise mechanics, hydrostatics, optics, astronomy, magnetism, and electricity. Various machines are exhibited in the course of the lectures, and their construction and uses explained. Mr. Vince has several valuable papers in different volumes of the Philosophical Transactions, and separately he has published the following works: VINCENT, Rev. JOHN, B.A. curate of Constantine in Cornwall. Fowling, a poem, 12mo. 1808; 2d edit. 1812. VINCENT, Rev. JoHN, B.A. chaplain to the East India Company at Fort William, Bengal Sermons on Practical Subjects, 8vo. 1815. New Geographical Exercises, 12mo. 1808. Westminster. This very learned Divine VINCENT, WILLIAM, D. D. Dean of was born in London, where his father was a respectable dealer in a wholesale trade, Nov. 2, 1739. In 1753 he was admitted a King's scholar of Westminster School, and in 1757 elected to Trinity College, Cambridge, where, in 1761, he took the degree of B.A. and the year following he School. In 1764 he took the degree of was appointed Usher of Westminster M.A. and in 1776 that of Doctor in Diviunited rectories of Allhallows the Great nity. In 1778 he was presented to the and Less in Thames Street; and about the same time made Chaplain to the King. On the promotion of Dr. Markham to the Archbishopric of York, he appointed his friend, Dr. Vincent, Subalmoner. In 1788 he became head master of Westminster school, but was without any considerable preferment in the Church till the year 1801, when he received from Mr. Addington the acceptable situation of a prebend in the collegiate church of Westminster. On the translation of Bishop Horsley from Rochester to St. Asaph, Dr. Vincent succeeded the learned prelate in the deanery, and Use of Logarithms, 8vo. 1800.-A Confutation of Atheism from the Laws of the Heavenly Bodies, in which was the boundary of his ambition, four Discourses, preached before the University of and where he was content to set up his Cambridge, 8vo. 1806.-Observations on the Hypo- staff for the remainder of his days. theses which have been assumed to account for the Shortly after this the dean was engaged cause of Gravitation from Mechanical Principles, 8vo. in a controversy with some of his dignidelivered at his first Visitation of tire Archdeaconry Elements of the Conic Sections, 8vo. 1781.-A Treatise on Practical Astronomy, 4to. 1790.---Plan of a Course of Lectures on the Principles of Natural Philosophy, 8vo. 1793.-The Principles of Fluxions, 2 v. 8vo, 1795.-The Principles of Hydrostatics, 8vo. 1796; 2d ed. 1800.-A complete System of Astronomy, 2 v. 4to. 1797-1799; new ed. with additions, 3 v. 4to. 1814. -The Credibility of Christianity Vindicated, in Answer to two Objections of Mr. Hume; two Discourses preached before the University of Cambridge, 8vo. 1798; 2d ed. 1809.-The Principles of Astronomy, 8vo. 1799-A Treatise on Plane and Spherical Trigonometry, with an Introduction, explaining the Nature 1806.-On the Divisions among Christians, a Charge of Bedford, 8vo. 1811. VINCE, Rev. SAMUEL BERNEY, B.A. Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. He is the son of the professor, and has published The Propagation of Christianity not indebted to any Secondary Causes, a Hulsean Prize Essay, 8vo. 1807. VINCENT, A. private teacher of writing and accounts at Oxford, and the inventor of the British Abacus. He has published an ingenious and useful book on a common subject entitled, An Introduction to Arithmetic, in which the Method of teaching the Elements of the Science is simplified fied brethren, occasioned by a very indiscriminate charge which had been brought against our public schools in one or two public sermons. The dean naturally feeling himself affected by the reflections that had been thrown out in these discourses, entered into a warm defence of the seminary over which he had long presided, and he succeeded in convincing every liberal minded person that the accusation of neglecting religious instruction there, was sufficiently repelled. In the late published correspondence of Mr. Gibbon are some admirable letters of the dean, which show his candor and ability |