you A Philosophical Dissertation on hereditary peculiari ties of the Human Constitution, 8vo. 1814.-An Illus tration of Mr. Hunter's Doctrine concerning the Life of the Blood in auswer to the Edinburgh Reviewers, 8vo. 1814. Euphonologia Linguæ Anglicanæ, 8vo. 1795. the metropolis he obtained a diploma ADAMS, JOHN, late President of the from Scotland, and went to Madeira, United States of North America, in which where he officiated as a physician, and situation he succeeded Washington, died by marriage increased his fortune. He at New York, Oct. 2, 1803. Of this mode- then returned to England and on the rate republican, who strenuously endea- death of Dr. Woodville succeeded to his voured to prevent the introduction of appointment at the Small Pox Hospital. French politics into his country, the fol- Latterly he became candidate at Middlelowing anecdote is related. He was the sex Hospital but was obliged to give way first ambassador to the English court to the superior interest of Dr. Southey. from the United States in 1783, and on For some time Dr. Adams was joint edithat occasion was as usual introduced to tor with Dr. Bradley of the Medical and his Majesty in his closet, where in mak- Physical Journal, which publication coning his speech he was very much em- tains many of his essays and cases. He barrassed. The King perceiving his con- has lately printed, fusion, said, "Sir, the whole of this business is so extraordinary, that the feelings you discover upon the occasion appear to me to be very just and proper. I wish, Sir, to be clearly understood before I reply to the very obliging sentiments have expressed in behalf of the United States of America. I am, you may well suppose, the last person in England that consented to the dismemberment of the empire by the independence of the United States; and while the war was continued, I thought it due to my subjects to prosecute that war to the utmost: but, Sir, I have consented to their independence, and it is ratified by treaty; and I now receive you as their minister plenipotentiary, and every attention, respect, and protection granted to other plenipotentiaries, you shall receive at this court. And, Sir, as I was the last person that consented to the independence of the United States, so I shall be the last person to disturb or in any manner to infringe upon their sovereign independent rights; and I hope and trust that from blood, religion, manners, habits of intercourse, and almost every other consideration, the two nations will continue for ages in friendship and confidence with each other." This speech which was unpremeditated made a great impression on the mind of Mr. Adams, who, after his return to America, always spoke of his Majesty in the highest terms of admiration. ADAMS, JOSEPH, M.D. F.L.S. is a native of London, and descended, by his own account, from Sir Thomas Adams, bart. the patriotic Lord Mayor of London in the reign of Charles the Second. The father of the doctor was an apothecary, and brought his son up to the same profession. After practising some time in ADAMS, WILLIAM, Oculist to the Prince Regent. He is a native of Cornwall and was brought up under an eminent surgeon at Barnstaple, after which he came to London and became a pupil of the late celebrated Mr. John Cuningham Saunders, who imparted to him his mode of practice on disorders of the eyes, particu larly confirmed cataract. The death of that excellent and accomplished young man opened a wide field to Mr. Adams, of which he did not fail to avail himself. He established an institution in Devon shire and another at Bath for diseases of the eye; where he performed many extraordinary cures, which led to his operating on some pensioners in Greenwich Hospi tal. His success in restoring sight to several persons who were totally blind was made the subject of an official report, and he also received the honor of knighthood, since which an attempt has been made to procure for him a parliamentary grant; but as his mode of treatment cannot be considered as his own, the design has been prudently relinquished. ADDINGTON, JOHN, surgeon in Spital Square; and one of the earliest practitioners who adopted the Jennerian mode of inoculation, is the son of Dr. Stephen Addington, a dissenting minister who conducted a school for many years, first at Market Harborough, and afterwards at Stepney. He was also pastor of the Independent Congregation in Miles's Lane, and died in 1796 at an advanced age. Dr. Addington was the author of an excellent Greek and English Grammar, a practical Treatise on Arithmetic, and se veral other publications in science and theology. ADKIN, LANCASTER, D. D. Rector of Belaugh and Scotto, Norfolk, and perpetual Curate of St. Peter's, Norwich, died at Windsor in October 1806. In 1792 he accompanied Lord Macartney in his embassy to the court of China, and, on his return, various drawings selected from his numerous sketches were engraved to illustrate Sir George Staunton's narrative of that voyage. Not long after AGG, JOHN. This person was not a his return to England, Mr. Alexander linen draper, as erroneously stated in the published a work entitled "The Cos account of him, but bred a printer and tume of China," containing forty-eight bookseller, at Evesham, after which he colored engravings with descriptions; established himself in the same capacity which was so well received by the public, at Bristol, where he published a news- as to encourage the author to bring out paper under the name of the Mercury. another fasciculus on the same subject, He also proposed to print by subscription comprising a similar quantity of plates a history of that great commercial city, in numbers, but the design failed, and the author also. He then repaired to London, where he has continued to live by compiling various books, some of which possess ingenuity. AIKIN, ARTHUR. This gentleman is now secretary to the Geological Society, and has published, A Manual of Mineralogy, 8vo. 1814.-Also in conjunction with his brother Charles, an Account of the most important recent Discoveries and Improvements in Chemistry and Mineralogy, 4to. 1814. AIKIN, MISS LUCY. Besides the several publications already mentioned, she has written a very charming tale entitled Lorimer, 12mo. 1814. AITKEN, JOHN, M.D. He was originally a surgeon, and lecturer on chirurgical anatomy and pharmaceutic chemistry at Edinburgh. Besides the work already noticed he has written, Essays on Chirurgical Subjects, 8vo.-Systematic Elements of the Theory and Practice of Surgery, 8vo. 1779. AITON, WILLIAM TOWNSEND. He has lately published An Epitome of the second edition of Hortus Kewensis, to which is added a selection of Esculent Vegetables and Fruits, cultivated in the Royal Gardens at Kew, 8vo. 1814. ALDERSON, JOHN, M.D. He is the father of Mrs. Opie, and in the course of last year formed an establishment for the reception of lunatics at Hull, being the first institution of the kind in that place or the neighbourhood. ALEXANDER, WILLIAM, F.S.A. and L.S. is the eldest son of Henry Alexander, coachmaker of Maidstone in Kent, where and letter press, though the engravings are of a different character. On the formation of the Royal Military College at Great Marlow, Mr. Alexander was appointed Professor of Drawing in that institution, which situation he resigned on being chosen by the Trustees of the British Museum, to the second place in the department of antiquities. Three volumes of engravings from the ancient marbles and terra cottas deposited in the Museum, have been published by the executed by Mr. Alexander, and the deTrustees, the drawings of which were Scriptive part written by Mr. Taylor Combe of that Institution. ALEXANDER, WILLIAM, M. D. This person died at Edinburgh in 1788. ALISON, ARCHIBALB, LL.B. This accomplished divine is a native of Scotland, and took his degree at Balliol College, Oxford, March 23, 1784. Being related to the late Bishop Douglas, that prelate gave him a prebend in his cathedral, and procured for him the vicarage of High Ercal in Shropshire, to which was afterwards added the rectory of Rodington in the same county. Mr. Alison has recently published a volume of excellent Sermons on practical subjects, 8vo. 1814; the success of which has induced him to favor the world with another volume now in the press. ALLAN, THOMAS. Mineralogical Nomenclature, 8vo. 1815. ed, ALLOTT, RICHARD, M. A. Dean of Raphoe in Ireland. He is the son of a he was born in 1768. He received his clergyman in Yorkshire and has publisheducation there under the Rev. Thomas A Sermon before the House of Commons on the Fast Cherry, the present master of Merchant day, 4to. 1806. Taylor's School; but at the age of fifteen he left his native town to study the arts in London, where at first he received in struction from Mr. Parr in the Strand and afterwards at the Royal Academy. Lit. Cal. ALLWOOD, Rev. PHILIP, A.M.curate of 3 F Ian at the lecture founded by Bishop Warburton, 2 of Young Ladies with an Address to Parents, Private v. Svo. 1815. AMBROSE, BERTIE. Opoleyta, or a tale of Ind; in four cantos, fc. 8vo. 1815. ANDERSON, Rev. CHRISTOPHER, of Edinburgh. A Memorial on the behalf of the Native Irish, with a view to their improvement in moral and religious knowledge through the medium of their own language, 8vo. 1815. ANDERSON, Rev. WILLIAM. Sketches of the History and Present State of the Russian Empire, 8vo. 1815. ANDREWS, MILES PETER, Esq. died at his house in Cleveland row, July 18, 1814. His father was intimately acquainted with the principal dramatic writers and performers of his time; particularly Garrick and Foote, whose conversation it is supposed gave the scn a turn for theatrical composition. He was the bosom friend of Thomas Lord Lyttleton who died in 1779, and it is said that as that nobleman had a presage of his dissolution, so Mr. Andrews obtained an intimation of that event in a way equally supernatural. Being in bed at Dartford with a candle in the room, he saw, as it is supposed in a dream, the appearance of his Lordship dressed in a damask night gown, such as he usually wore in a morning, and the spectre said, “ Andrews, 'tis all over with me." On returning to town Mr. Andrews received a letter informing him of the death of his friend at the very time that he had seen this appearance of him. The death of Mr. Andrews was also sudden, for he had just before sent out two hundred cards of invitation to his acquaintance to see the fireworks in the park from his house. ANSPACH, the MARGRAVINE OF. This lady was cruelly treated by her first husband, whose brutality was so great that her friends were obliged to interpose and effect a separation. Her letters, descriptive of the countries which she passed through in her travels, were printed at first for the benefit of M. Mercier, and having become exceedingly scarce, a new edition with additions was published in one volume quarto 1814. Since that her ladyship has given to the world A cursory Account of Bourdeaux, translated from the French, 8vo. 1815. APPLETON, Miss ELIZABETH, formerly preceptress in the family of the Earl of Leven and Melville. This ingenious and accomplished female has published an admirable little work entitled Private Education, or a practical plan for the Studies Governesses, and Young Ladies, 12mo. 1815. ASPLAND, ROBERT, Unitarian or Socinian Preacher at the Gravel Pit meeting, was originally a mechanic, but having a turn for speaking and some ingenuity he became a dissenting minister. Besides the tracts already enumerated, he has printed, A Plea for Unitarian Dissenters, 8vo. 1814. ASTLEY, PHILIP. This singular man was a private in Elliott's regiment of light horse, on quitting which service he collected some performers and established an equestrian theatre in St. George's Fields, which succeeded so well in England that the manager went to France and formed a similar concern at Paris, but was obliged to relinquish it on the breaking out of the Revolution. He then served as a volunteer under the Duke of York in Flanders, which procured him the patronage of his Royal Highness. After conducting several minor theatres with great spirit, by which he realized a considerable property, he resigned his concerns to his son and retired to private life. He died of the gout in his stomach at Paris in November 1814. Sir AUCKLAND, WILLIAM EDEN, LORD. The family of Eden was settled in the county of Durham in the 14th century, for by an episcopal inquisition made in 1413, it appears that Robert de Eden died possessed of three messuages and ten oxgangs of land with their appendages held in capite of the bishop. Sir Robert Eden, the first baronet, died in 1720, having enjoyed the title which was created in him forty-eight years. Robert Eden, the third baronet, had a large family of whom the late lord was the fourth child, educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, where he took the degree of M.A. June 2, 1768. About the same time he was called to the bar by the hon. society of the Middle Temple, and for a few years he went the Northern circuit with his friend Wedderbourne afterwards Lord Chancellor. His publication on the penal laws brought him into notice with the minister, by whom he was made Under Secretary of State for the Northern Department, in which situation he gave such satisfaction as to be appointed one of the directors of Greenwich Hospital. He also obtained the patronage of the Duke of Marlborough, by whose interest he was elected into parliament for Woodstock. In 1776 he was nominated one of the Lords of Trade and Plantations, and two years after appointed a commissioner with Lord Carlisle and Governor Johnstone, to effect a reconciliation with the revolted Americans. BANDINELL, Rev. BULKELEY, M.A. is the son of the late Dr. James Bandinell, of Jesus College, Oxford, and in June 1815, he married the eldest daughter of the late J. Phillips, Esq. of Culham, in Oxfordshire. Mr. Bandinell is at present engaged upon a new edition enlarged from Mr. Gough's Copy of Kennet's Parochial Antiquities, and he has published A Catalogue of the Books relating to British Topography, and Saxon and Northern Literature, bequeathed to the Bodleian Library, by Richard Gough, Esq. 4to. 1814. In 1780 he accompanied Lord Carlisle to Ireland as his private secretary, but on the change of ministers he retired with his noble friend, whose cause he defended with great spirit in a letter to Earl Shelburne. His subsequent appointments and honors have already been noticed, but it should be observed in justice to his memory, that even the virulence of party in the most effervescent times, never attempted to question his integrity or to fasten an imBANKES, Rev. W. H. mentioned in col. putation of slander upon his abilities. 1. p. 13, should be William Higgs Barker, On one occasion indeed when Mr. M.A. vicar of Caermarthen, and formerly Eden, he drew upon himself a pleasant master of the grammar school in that jeu d'esprit from his old friend Charles town. His Hebrew Grammar was printFox, who being asked what was the mat- ed in 1773; and his Hebrew and English ter when the house was in a roar of laughter at some slip of the tongue which the subject of this article had committed, replied, "O nothing, only the devil has once more got into EDEN." His Lordship had the misfortune to lose his eldest sun, the Hon. William Frederic Eden, in a very melancholy manner, the body being found in the Thames near Millbank, Feb. 25, 1810, after having been missed above a month. He was a fine young man only twenty-six years of age, and commanded the St. John's and St. Margaret's Volunteers as their Colonel. Lord Auckland died, May 28, 1814 at Eden Farm, near Bromley, suddenly, while he sat at breakfast with his family. BAILLIE, MATTHEW, M. D. F.R.S. His father Dr. Jaines Baillie was professor of divinity at Glasgow, where he died in 1778. The son after receiving a liberal education at his native city, removed to Balliol College, Oxford, where he proceeded M.A. June 14, 1786; B.M. July 15, 1786; and D.M. July 7, 1789. He studied under his uncle Dr. William Hunter, and afterwards became an associate with Mr. Cruickshanks in the anatomical theatre, Windmill Street. BALFOUR, WILLIAM, M.D. Edinburgh. Observations on Adhesion, with two Cases demon Lexicon without points, at Caermarthen by Ross, in 1775. This last is particularly valuable. on account of the analogies noted in it between the Welsh and the Hebrew languages. BANKES, Sir JOSEPH, Bart. is the son of William Bankes Hodgkinson, Esq. of Revesby Abbey, Lincolnshire, aud was born there, Dec. 13, 1743. He succeeded to the family estates on the death of his father in 1761, and in 1763 he went to Hudson's Bay, after which his thirst of knowledge led him to embark with the immortal Cook, in his voyage of discovery. Mr. Bankes was accompanied by his friend Dr. Solander, and both these es eminent naturalists had a narrow out titles, was matter of considerable complaint to the rest of the episcopal order. Dr. Barry has printed several tracts, but he was not the compiler of the Justice of Peace, which bears his name. wonted violence, and the reputation of ders from the late Bishop of Man, whose that specific has consequently abated. Sir irregularity in admitting candidates with Joseph married, March 29, 1779, Dorothea, daughter and co-heiress of William Weston Hugessen of Provender, in the county of Kent, Esq. but has no issue. BARING, CHARLES, Esq. He is the second son of Charles Baring, the younger brother of the late Sir Francis Baring, an eminent merchant and banker of the city of London. The mother of the present Mr. Charles Baring was Margaret, daughter and heiress of William Gould, Esq. of East Looe in Cornwall. BARNARD, Hon. RICHARD BOYLE, M.P. for Bandon Bridge, in Ireland, and brother of Lord Viscount Barnard, was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, where he obtained the honorary degree of M.A. in 1807. He has published, A Tour through some parts of France, Switzerland, BARNES, J. col. 2. p. 14. In this article the new edition of Euripides is erroneously ascribed to him, when in fact it is only a reprint of the text, originally published in 1690, by the learned Joshua Barnes, who died in 17 12. who BARRETT, FRANCIS. This person, styles himself F.R.C. which denotes that he is a Fellow of the Rosicrusian fraternity, has lately published, Lives of Alchemetistical Philosophers, with a critical Catalogue of Books in Occult Chemistry, and a Selection of the most celebrated Treatises on the Theory and Practice of the Hermetic Art, 8vo. 1815. BARROW, Rev. J. vicar of Newton. This is a fictitious name, fabricated to give some degree of credit to three very indifferent, though inoffensive compila tions. BARROW, JOHN, Esq. under-secretary to the board of admiralty. He was formerly an assistant in Dr. James's academy at Greenwich, and his mathematical talents recommended. him to the government as a proper person to accompany Lord Macartney in his embassy to China. Many of Mr. Barrow's observations are contained in the narrative of that interesting mission, published by Sir George Staunton. BARRY, Rev. EDWARD, M.D. vicar of Wallingford, is the son of Dr. Samuel Barry, an eminent apothecary at Bristol, who died in the present year, in his 85th year. The son was educated at Trevecka College, South Wales, in Lady Hunting don's connexion, which he forsook, and after officiating in his father's business and other employments, he obtained or BARTLEY, O. W. formerly a surgeon at Nailsworth, in Gloucestershire, but now acting as a physician at Bristol, where he has recently published, A Treatise on Forensic Medicine, or Medical Jurisprudence, 8vo. 1815. BARWICK, EDWARD, Esq. and M.A. of Trinity College, Dublin. This gentleman is the author of a volume which has been erroneously ascribed to his uncle Mr. Edward Barwick, author of the Life of Apollonius Tyanæa, and other works; A Treatise on the Church, chiefly in Relation to its BATEMAN, THOMAS, M.D. This gentleman was the pupil and friend of the late Dr. Willan, whose family have been for an injunction upon his work on Cutaobliged to apply to the Court of Chancery been unfairly taken, for the most part, neous Diseases, which is alleged to have from that ingenious physician's very elaborate but unfinished work on the same subject. Dr. Bateman has printed Two Fasciculuses of Cutaneous Diseases, 4to. 1815. BATES, ELY, Esq. a gentleman of fortune who has distinguished himself by defending civil government and religious order, in several respectable publications, the principal of which are these: Chinese Fragments, 8vo. Observations on some Inportant Points in Divinity, 12mo. 1791-A Cursory view of Civil Government, chiefly in Relation to Vir tue and Happiness, 8vo. 1797.-Christian Politics, 8vo. 1802. archdeacon of Norwich, and a near rela- served his apprenticeship there to Mr. Account of a Successful method of treating Diseases of the Spine, 8vo. 1814. Bath and Wells. He is a native of SomerBEADON, Dr. RICHARD, lord bishop of setshire, and was educated at Tiverton |