with great parade, took upon him to or- sic. The scientific skill of the present dain deacons and priests after the Metho- Baronet has been displayed in several distical rule, in England and America. valuable improvements, but perhaps in Dr. Coke died on his voyage to India, none more than the method of constructMay 3, 1814. ing locks for canals by which much labor is saved, as well as water. Sir William is representative in Parliament for the borough of Gatton, Comptroller of the Royal Laboratory, and superintendant of military machines. He has published, in addition to his volume on naval ordnance, COLLAND, JOHN, should be COLLARD, and his works were published with his name reversed in the title thus, Dralloc, He died some years ago, at Birmingham. where he carried on the drug business. COLLINS, JOSHUA, A.M. Rector of Newport. This is a fictitious personage, and the little volume that passes under his name was written, at least the original part of it, by a gentleman well known in the literary world. The real publisher, however, contrived to make this useful manual a vehicle for recommending his own compilations; and to do this more effectually he ascribed it to an author that never had an existence. In a late edition, by one Catlow, the Rev. Mr. Collins is said to be defunct!! COLLYER, WILLIAM BENGO, D.D. It is erroneously stated that this gentleman obtained a gratuitous degree from the University of Edinburgh; but the real fact is that the honour was obtained for him by the direct interest of the Duke of Kent. This doctor has also published, Fugitive Pieces, 2 v. 12mo.-The Rock of Israel, a Sermon at Salter's Hall, 8vo.-Presumption over thrown by the God of Battles, a volunteer sermon at Peckhamn, 8vo. 1804.-The Mysteries of Providence, a sermon on the death of Mrs. Brooksbank, 8vo. 1805. -The Voice of Years, delivered at Broad Street Meeting, for the benefit of the Friendly Female Society, 18vo.-Tears wiped away, a Funeral Sermon for Mrs. Hubbard, of Peckham, 8vo.-Sermon at Salter's Hall, Jan. 2, 1814. 8vo. COLMAN, GEORGE, Esq. To the works of this facetious writer, who was born in London, Oct. 21, 1762, should be added, Eccentric Tales, under the name of Cornelius Crain bo, 12mo. 1808. COLQUHOUN, PATRICK, LI.D. This excellent writer and magistrate has also published, 1815.. A Description of the Construction and Properties of the Hydro-Pneumatic Lock, 4to. 1815. COOKE, JOHN, Esq. of Gray's Inn. This name was inserted by an oversight arising from the reprint of a tract in favor of the republican form of government, written by John Cooke, the secretary to the infamous High Court of Justice of which the brutal Bradshaw was President. The book was printed in 1651, and in the year 1660 the author was executed as a traitor in company with Hugh Peters. COOKE, WILLIAM. A New Picture of the Isle of Wight, illustrated with Plates, and a Voyage round the Coast, 8vo. 1809. COOPER, JOHN. This person calls himself a professor of astrology, and an expounder of the mysteries of that sublime science to the understandings of the vulgar. His work is entitled: Primum Mobile; with Theses to the Theory and Ca. nons of Practice, wherein is demonstrated from Astronomical and Philosophical Principles, the Nature and Extent of Celestial Influx on Man, 8vo. 1814. Cooper, WilliAM, of Dublin. He was originally a pocket-book maker and a methodist preacher in Whitechapel, where, some years ago, he made a great noise by his labors to convert the Jews. At that time he printed a rhapsodical discourse entitled, The True Messiah, 8vo. 1796. COPLESTON, Rev. EDWARD, D.D. Provost of Oriel College. He is a native of Devonshire, where his ancestors were settled on their estate long before the A Tract upon the Abuse of Public Houses, 1800.A Treatise on the Wealth, Power, and Resources, of the British Empire in every quarter of the World, in eluding the East Indies, 4to. 2nd edition, improved, CONGREVE, Sir WILLIAM, Bart. was conquest. On the death of Dr. Eveleigh born May 20, 1772, and succeeded his he was elected to the government of his father, Lieut. General Sir William, April college, and admitted to his degree as 30, 1814. The title was created in the D.D. To the list of his works should be person of the last mentioned general in added the following: 1812; and to this honor the present Baronet adds the Order of St. Anne of Russia, which was conferred upon him by the Emperor Alexander, for the services rendered by his rockets at the battle of Leip A Reply to the Calumnies of the Edinburgh Review against Oxford, 8vo.-A Second Reply to the Edinwhich have been recorded in the Classical Journal. CORP, HARRIET. burgh Review, 8vo. 1810.-The Classical Parts of An Antidote to the Miseries of Human Life, or the LIVING AUTHORS. Widow Placid, and her daughter Rachel, 2 v. fc. 8vo. 1814. Cox, D. member of the Society of Water Color Painters, in Spring Garden. Treatise on Landscape Painting in Water Colors from the First Rudiments to the Finished Picture, fol. 1814. CoxE, EDWARD, Esq. of flampstead Heath, died May 26, 1814, aged sixty-six. COXE, WILLIAM, M.A. F.R.S. This excellent divine and elegant writer is the son of Dr. William Coxe, physician to St. Thomas's and Guy's Hospitals. He was born about 1750, and in 1764 was admitted a scholar of Eton, from whence he was elected to King's College, where of course he succeeded to a fellowship. B.A. 1769: and M.A. 1772. On his return from his travels he became chaplain to the Duke of Marlborough, and afterwards to Bishop Douglas, who gave him a prebend in his cathedral, and the living of Willey in Wiltshire, which he exchanged for the rectory of Bemerton. He afterwards obtained the Archdeaconry of Wilts. In addition to the list of his works should be added, ▲ Sermon at St. Paul's for the Sons of the Clergy, 4to. 1807-Letter to John Benett, Esq. showing the Impracticability of commuting Tythes, 8vo. 1815. COZENS, ALEXANDER, Esq. the elegant author of the "Principles of Beauty," and the "Treatise on drawing Landscape," died at his house in Duke Street, Piccadilly, in May 1786. 1 this time to 1807, Mr. Crabbe resigned Elements of Political Science, 3 v. 8vo. 1814. CRAVEN, WILLIAM, D.D. This venerable divine died at Cambridge early in related to the noble family of his name, 1814, aged cighty-four. He was nearly and as such was elected to one of the Craven scholarships on his entrance at B.A. in 1753, at which time he was fourth the University. He took his degree of wrangler and a chancellor's medallist. He proceeded M.A. in 1756, and D.D. in of St. John's. He was at that time Ara1789, on being elected to the mastership bic Professor, in which chair be succeeded Leonard Chappelow, but he resigned that situation in 1795. CREECH, WILLIAM, of Edinburgh, and the author of Fugitive Pieces, was a native of Newcastle, where his father was a respectable clergyman of the established church. After obtaining a good educa tion, the son went to the continent, and in 1771 succeeded his friend, Mr. Kinnaird, in that part of the printing business which was unconnected with the patent of King's printer for Scotland. Mr. Creech was concerned in all the respect. able publications of his time, by which he realized a hardsome fortune. In 1811 he discharged the office of Lord Provost, and died at the beginning of 1814, after carrying on the bookselling business forty-four years, in the course of which he enjoyed the friendship of the first literary characters, particularly Dr. Ferguson, Dr. Robertson, Dr. Blair, Dr. Adam Smith, Lord Kaimes, David Hume, and Dr. Beattie. CRABBE, Rev. GEORGE, LL.B. This ingenious writer has been lately presented, by the Duke of Rutland, to the living of Trowbridge, void by the resignation of Mr. Beresford. In a preface to a new edition of his poem called "The Library," he says, that while he was composing it, he was honored by the advice of Mr. Burke, in whose presence part of it was written, and the whole submitted to his judgment. Through Mr. Burke, he was introduced to Dr. Johnson, who expressed his approbation of the poem in warm terms. The reputation which he acquired by this piece procured hitn the patronage of the late Duke of Rutland, on whom he attended as chaplain to Ireland, and whose funeral sermon he preached in the CROFT, Sir HERBERT, Bart. He was chapel at Belvoir. In 1789, by the re- born November 1, 1751, and received his commendation of the Duchess Dowager, academical education at University Col Lord Thurlow presented him to the icc- lege, Oxford, where he took the degree tories of Muston in Leicestershire, and of B.C.L. April 6, 1785; at which time te West Allington in Lincolnshire. The was a student in the Middle Temple. year following he communicated "The After having been called to the bar he Natural History of the Vale of Belvoir" entered into holy orders, but has had no to Mr. Nichols, who has incorporated it preferment. Temporary embarrassments into his History of Leicestershire. From obliged him to go abroad several years ago, and he was one of the English detained in France by the tyranny of Buonaparte. On the restoration of Louis XVIII. Sir Herbert caused to be printed at Didot's press, two tracts with the following titles: Consolatory Verses, addressed to her Royal Highness Madame, Duchess, of Angouleme, and dedicated to his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, 4to. 1814.-Re. flexions Soumises à la Sagesse des Membres du Congrès de Vienne, et à tous ceux pour le bonheur desquels ils sont resembles, 8vo. 1814. CROWTHER, BRYAN, surgeon in Boswell Court, died April 17th, 1815. In the late investigation of the state of Bethlem Hospital, the apothecary to that institution gave a most disgusting and illiberal character of Mr. Crowther, out of resent ment, as it should seem, on account of the report of some cases which reflected upon the medical treatment of the pati ents in that house. CULLEN, MARGARET. This lady is the daughter of the celebrated Dr. Cullen of Edinburgh, and in addition to the novel mentioned under her name, she has published another entitled, Mornton, 3 v. 12mo. 1814. CUMMING, ALEXANDER, Esq. F.R.S. This very ingenious mathematician and mechanic, was a native of Edinburgh, and bred a watch maker, which business he carried on with great reputation many years in Bond Street. On retiring from trade be settled in Pentonville, where he had several houses. He was also appointed a magistrate for the county, and continued to pursue his mechanical studies with diligence to the time of his death, which happened in March, 1814. His son, James Cumming, Esq. .S.A. and editor of Feltham's Resolves, is one of the senior clerks to the India Board. CUNNINGHAM, Rev. J. W. M.A. Vicar of Harrow. To his works should be added the following: The Velvet Cushion, a tale, 8vo. 1814.-On Church of England Missions, 8vo. 1814.-De Rancé, a poem, BYD, 1815. CURRY, Dr. JAMES, of Guy's Hospital, is a native of Scotland, and received his education at Edinburgh. In 1787, he came to England, and settled at Kettering, from whence he removed to London, where he has gained deservedly great reputation and considerable practice. Besides the works in the line of his profes sion, he has published: D DACRE, CHARLOTTE. This, we under. stand, is also an assumed name, the real author of the productions mentioned, being Mrs. Byrne, the wife of N. B. Esqeditor of the Morning Post. DAKINS, Rev. WILLIAM WHItfield, D.D. precentor of Westminster, and chaplain to his Royal Highness the Duke of York. He is a native of Hampshire, and was educated first at Wykeham's school, and afterwards at St. Alban Hall, Oxford, where he took his degree of B.C.L. He was for some time curate of St. John's, Westminster, and was appointed minor canon of the Abbey by the late Bishop Horsley, who also made him his chaplain, and intended to have given him the valuable living of Chirk, but was disappointed by death. Dr. Dakins has edited the stereotyped Greek Testament, also the Latin Testament of Beza, and Young's Latin and English Dictionary, printed at Wilson's press. Besides these works he has published, A Translation of the History of Catherine, Empress of Russia, in 2 v. from the French, 8vo. 1798.-A Sermon on the Fast Day, before the Volunteers of St. John's and St. Margaret's, 4to. 1801.-A Sermon preached at the Anniversary Meeting of the Royal Humane Society, 8vo. 1810. DALRYMPLE, Rev. Dr. WILLIAM, Minister at Ayr, died at that place, in 1813, aged ninety, and in the sixty-eighth year of his ministry. A Familiar Treatise on Perspective, designed for LaDANIEL, WILLIAM. dies and those who are unacquainted with the Principles of Optics and Geometry, 12mo. 1807. DAUBENEY, Rev. CHARLES, LL.B. This respectable divine is the son of an eminent merchant at Bristol, of which city his brother, some years ago, was one of the representatives in parliament. The Archdeacon received his education at Winchester School, and New College, Oxford; after which he was elected Fellow of Winchester College. He was the principal instrument in erecting the Free Church at Bath, where he has continued to officiate regularly, and with so much reputation as to obtain from the late Bishop Douglas, first a prebend in his cathedral, and next the Archdeaconry of Sarum. To his works should be added the following: A Sermon preached at the Visitation of the Archdeaber of the Church, with a Supplement containing Two con of Wilts, 8vo. 1793.-A Letter to a Sound Mem Letters sent to the Christian Observer, 8vo. 1809.— A Brief Sketch of the Causes which gave rise to the A Sermon at Christ Church, Bath, on the Attempt Jate High Pries of Grain, 8vo. 1815. ninde on his Majesty's Life, 8vo. 1800.—Sermon on 3 H Lit. Col. DAVENPORT, SELINA. Threatened Invasion, 8vo. 1803.---A Second Volume of He afterwards obtained rank in our serSermons on Practical Subjects, 8vo. 1805.-Remarks vice, and was employed in the Peninsular on the Unitarian Method of interpreting Scripture, war. The observations of General Tar 8vo. 1815. leton upon his conduct drew from him a Narrative of Transactions in Spain, 8vo. 1810. He obtained permission of the Prince Regent to offer his services to Louis XVIII. but died at Ghent in June, 1815. The Sons of the Viscount and Daughters of the Earl, nov. 4 v. 1814.-The Hypocrite, or Modern Janus, nov. 5 v. 12mo. 1814.-Donald Monteith, the Handsomest Man of the Age, nov. 5 v. 12mo. 1815. DAVIES, GRIFFITH. A Key to Bonuycastle's Trigonometry, 8vo. 1814. DAVIES, Rev. HUGH, F.L.S. Rector of Aber, in Anglesea, and one of the best naturalists in Wales, as is testified by the late Mr. Pennant, and also by Messrs. Turner and Dillwyn, all of whom acknowledge the benefit they have derived from his communications. He has published, Welsh Botanology, containing a Systematic Catalogue of the Native Plants of the Isle of Anglesea, and an Alphabetical Catalogue of the Welsh Names of Vege -tables, rendered into Latin and English, 8vo. 1813. DAVIES, WILLIAM. Au Olio of Biographical and Literary Anecdotes and Memoranda, 12mo. 1814. DAWES, MATTHEW, Esq. The sermons and metaphysical tracts inentioned in his article, were the productions of the Rev. M. Dawes, formerly of John's College, Oxford, and Rector of St. Michael's, Cornhill. To the works of Mr. Matthew Dawes should be added, An Introduction to the Knowledge of the Law on Real Estates and of Remainders, 8vo. 1814. DAWSON, Dr. BENJAMIN, was an active writer in the controversy excited by the publication of the confessional, and in favor of the petitioners for the abolition of subscription to the thirty-nine articles. He died at his rectory, in July, 1814, aged eighty-five. The Doctor was one of the five sons of a dissenting minister at Halifax, and was bred, with three of his brothers, to the same profession. But afterwards he and two others, of whom one was Abraham, mentioned in the preceding article, conformed to the established church, and obtained ecclesiastical preferment through the interest of the respectable family of Barne, in the county of Suffolk. DEALTRY, Rev. WILLIAM, M.A. Rector of Clapham, Surry, and chaplain to the Bishop of Bristol. To the works already mentioned should be added the following: Missionary Society, 8vo. 1813.-A Review of the Rev. H. Norris's Attack on the Bible Society, 8vo. 1815. Sermon at St. Anne's Black Friars, before the Church DE CHARMILLY, PETER FRANCIS VENAULT. The asperity with which the late Bryan Edwards noticed this gentleman, in his History of St. Domingo, occasioned a reply from the Colonel, in 1797. DE COETLOGON, CHARLES EDWARD, M.A. This gentleman, on leaving the university, became a very popular preacher of the Calvinistic cast, and was appoint ed assistant to the late Mr. Madan, at the Lock Chapel. To his works should be added the following: The Divine Message, a Sermon, 8vo.-The Nature and Advantages of the Lord's Day, 8vo.-A Sermon the Chapel at Newgate, to several Condemned Per sons, 8vo. 1781.-The Justice of God in the Damnstion of Sinners, a Sermon, 8vo. 1788.-A True Esti Learning, written in answer to a Discourse by Bishop mate of the Light of Inspiration and Light of lured Horsley, 8vo. 1783. F.R.S. died in Parliament Place, WestDELAVAL, EDWARD HUSSEY, Esq. minster, August 14, 1814, aged 85. sions, died at Sturry in Kent, in Novem DELI, JOHN, author of the Poetical Effuber, 1810, aged fifty-three. From bodily infirmity, which rendered him a recluse at an early period, he contracted a love of literature, which was evinced in numerous pieces in several periodical publications, under the signature of Rusticus. died at his house in Arlington Street, DIBDIN, CHARLES. This ingenious man wife and a daughter to mourn his loss. Camden Town, July 25, 1814, leaving a At the age of sixteen he brought out an opera at Covent Garden, under the auspices of Dr. Arne. For some time after this he was principally engaged in composing music for the performances of others, among which were Love in the the Jubilee, and the Christmas Tale. L City, Lionel and Clarissa, the Padlock, original Mungo, in the Padlock, in which 1768, he appeared on the stage as the character, as also in that of Ralph in the Maid of the Mill, he gained considerable applause. In 1793, Mr. Dibdin obtained the publisher of the Observer newspaper, a verdict, with £200. damages against for a libel on his character. DOMEIER, Dr. WILLIAM, of Dover Street. He resided some time at Naples, where he contracted an intimacy with Sir William Hamilton, by whose recom. mendation he obtained considerable prac tice both in the Mediterranean and in DUNSFORD, MARTIN, the author of the history of Tiverton, died in his native town, in March 1807. He was engaged in the woollen trade, and published the history with a view to recover and ascertain the rights of many charities which were alienated from the poor of that piace. DUNSTER, Rev. CHARLES, M.A. He is the son of the Rev. Charles Dunster, the translator of Horace, and was educa ted at Trinity College, Oxford, where he proceeded to his master's degree June 27, 1775. To the list of his publications should be added, A Letter to Granville Sharp, Esq. respecting his Remarks on the two last Petitions in the Lord's Prayer, 12mo. 1807. DUPPA, RICHARD, LL.B. Barrister at Law of the Inner Temple. Besides the EATON, DANIEL ISAAC, after many vicissitudes died at Deptford in September 1814. He stood two or three times in the pillory for different offences, and to avoid a heavier punishment emigrated to America, from whence he returned when he fancied that no prosecution was to be tices he was pilloried opposite Newgate dreaded. Falling again into his old pracfor a blasphemous publication. During his confinement his business was carried on by a female, and a scandalous pamphlet again calling for the notice of the government he was brought up for judgment, but on delivering up the author he was released, and died soon afterwards in poverty and contempt. ELI IOTT, RICHARD, A.B. formerly of Bene't College, Cambridge. He died suddenly in the pulpit of the meeting house in Glass-house Yard, Aldersgate Street, Dec. 28, 1788. He was a native of Kingsbridge, Devon; and on entering into orders became a zealous Calvinist, but afterwards he turned Arian and seceded from the church. He was the author of many sermons and controversial pieces. Mr. ELLIS, GEORGE, Esq. F.R.S. F.S.A. This elegant scholar died in Connaught Place, April 10, 1815, aged 70. Ellis was one of the writers of the Rolliad, in which he drew a very severe and upjust character of Mr. Pitt, but this did him with his friendship. In 1797 he acnot hinder that great man from honoring, companied Lord Malmsbury to Lisle, and from that period he became a zealous admirer of administration, being convinced that their measures were calculated to save this country at least from that ruin which threatened the rest of Europe. He was an occasional writer in the Antijacobin, and at the time of his decease he was engaged in a life of the late Mr. Windham. ETHERINGTON, Rev. THOMAS, M. A. This clergyman died at Stockwell in August 1815. EUSTACE, Rev, JOHN CHEтwode. He died at Naples of a fever in the summer of 1815. A few months before his |