the author, who also furnished, for twenty years, the vignettes to the Polite Repository. To these fruits of his taste and industry, may be added not less than three hundred MSS. collections on various subjects, accompanied by drawings to explain the improvements suggested by him at different places, with numerous Letters written on the Art of Landscape Gardening, to different persons. REYNARD, FRANCIS, master of the mathematical school at Reading, and the author of, Geometria Legitima, or an Elementary System of The. oretical Geometry, 8vo. 1813. REYNELL, WILLIAM HENRY, M.A. and Minister of Hornchurch in Essex. He was formerly of New College, Oxford, and has published these pieces: A Manual for the Unlearned in reading the Psalms, 12mo. 1804.-Parochial Discourses upon the Advent of Christ, 8vo. 1805. REYNOLDS, FREDERICK, is the son of a noted attorney in London, who figured as the professional friend of John Wilkes. Our author was born about 1760, and received his education at Westminster School, with a view to his father's line of business. But the muses had more charms for him than the desk and Lord Coke. He began his respects to the Nine by writing tragedy; but soon discovered that his talent lay more in the service of Thalia than that of her sister; and the public quickly sanctioned the change. The following is a correct list of his performances: Werter, trag. 8vo. 1786; 2nd edit. 1796.-The Dramatist, com. 8vo. 1789; 2nd edit. 1793.-Notoriety, com. 8vo. 1793.-How to Grow Rich, com. 8vo. 1793. -The Rage, com. 8vo. 1795.-Speculation, com. 8vo. 1795.-Fortune's Fool, com. 8vo. 1796.-The Will, com. 8vo. 1797.-Cheap Living, com. 8vo. 1797. Laugh when You Can, com. 8vo. 1799.-Management, com. 8vo. 1799.-Life, com. 8vo. 1801.-Folly as it Flies, com. 8vo. 1802.-Delays and Blunders, com. 8vo. 1803.-The Caravan, com. op. 8vo. 1803.-The Blind Bargain, com. 8vo. 1805.-The Delinquent, com. 8vo. 1805.-Out of Place, mus. farce, 8vo. 1805.-Be Gone, Dull Care, com. 8vo. 1808.-Free Knights, opera, 8vo. 1810. The Virgin of the Sun, an operatic drama, from Kotzebue, 8vo. 1812.-The Renegade, an historical drama, 8vo. 1812.—He has also produced several pieces which have not been published. REYNOLDS, GEORGE, master of the Lambeth Parochial School for boys, and writing master to the Asylum at Lambeth. He has published, Tricot Anglicised, or the Latin Syntax as used in the late University of Paris, adapted to the English Student, 12mo. 1804.-The Elements of Astronomy on the Newtonian Principle, 12mo. 1809.-The Simple Rules of Arithmetic, in Questions and Answers, 12mo. 1809.-The Teacher's Arithmetic, part 1. 12mo. 1812. -The Madras School Grammar, 12mo. 1813. REYNOLDS, HENRY REVEL, Esq. Barrister at Law of Gray's Inn, and Police Magistrate in Queen Square. He is the Practical and Philosophical Principles of making Malt, 8vo. 1807. RHODES, WILLIAM BARNES. The Satires of Juvenal translated into English verse, 12mo. 1801.-Epigrams, 12mo. 1803. RICARDO, DAVID, Esq. an eminent merchant in the city of London, who has published these tracts: The High Price of Bullion a Proof of the Depreciation of Bank Notes, 8vo. 1810.-A Reply to Mr. Bosanquet's Observations on the Report of the Bullion Committee, 8vo. 1810.-An Appendix to his Piece on the High Price of Bullion, 8vo. 1811.-Essay on the Influence of a Low Price of Corn on the Profits of Stock, 8vo. 1815. RICE, J. H. a schoolmaster who has printed, Paradise Lost, with Notes of Various Authors, 12mo. 1791.-The Academic Orator, 12mno. 1807. This last is a compilation from Ward's Gresham Lectures. RICE, MRS. Monteith, a nov. founded on Scottish History, 2 v. 12mo. 1805. RICHARDS, Rev. GEORGE, A.M. F.A.S. late Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, and Vicar of Bampton. He is a native of Devonshire, and received his education in Blundel's School at Tiverton, from whence he removed to Oriel College, Oxford, where he took his master's degree, in 1791, and obtained a fellowship. His beautiful poem on the Aboriginal Britons, which was publicly recited at Oxford, in consequence of the prize being adjudged to the author, had such a run, that the whole of the first edition was sold on the day of publication. His literary productions are, An Essay on the Characteristic Differences between Ancient and Modern Poems, and the several Causes from which they result, 8vo. 1789.-The Aboriginal Britons, a prize poem, 4to. 1791; 2nd edition, 1792. This has been reprinted in the author's Poetical Works, and also in a Collection of Oxford Prize Poems.-Songs of the Aboriginal Bards of Britain, 4to. 1792.-Modern France, a poem, 4to. 1793.Matilda, or the Dying Penitent, a poetical epistle, 4to. 1795.-The Divine Origin of Prophecy, in a Course of Sermons at the Bampton Lecture, 8vo. 1800.-Miscellaneous Poems, 2 v. cr. 8vo. 1803.-Emma, a drama, 12mo. 1804.--Odin, a drama, 12mo. 1804 Monody on the Death of Lord Viscount Nelson, 4to. 1806. RICHARDS, T. a schoolmaster at Worcester, and the author of a treatise on Practical Arithmetic, 12mo. 1804; 2d edit. in 1811. RICHARDS, WILLIAM, M.A. a clergyman who resides at Lynn, in Norfolk. He has published, An English and Welsh Dictionary, 8vo. 1799.-The RICHARDSON, CHARLOTTE, the widow of a shoe-maker at York, is a native of that city, being born in 1775, and brought up in a charity-school, after which she went to service, and married young. Amidst all her distresses, she delighted in reading, and though much afflicted by sickness, she wrote some poetical pieces, which brought her acquainted with Mrs. Newcome Cappe, a lady distinguished by her talents and her piety. By the means of this benevolent friend she was enabled to obtain a handsome subscription for the publication of Poems, 8vo. 1806. RICHARDSON, C. E. A Collection of Scripture Sentences for committing to Memory, 12mo. 1809. RICHARDSON, GEORGE, architect. The New Vitruvius Britannicus, or a Collection of RICHARDSON, JOHN, Esq. A Treatise on the Brunonian System of Medicine, translated from the German of H. C. Pfaff, 8vo. 1802. --The Hermit of the Alps, translated from the German, 12mo. 1802.-Thoughts on Education, 8vo. RICHARDSON, JOHN, of Hull, in York shire. Thoughts and Hints on an improved Practice of Brewing Malt Liquors, 8vo. 1777; 2nd edition, 1781. Estimates of the Materials of Brewing, 8vo. 1781. Remarks on Baverstock's Hydrometrical Observations and Experiments, 8vo. 1786.-The Philosophical Prin ciples of the Science of Brewing, 8vo. 1788; new edit. 1805. RICHARDSON, Mrs. widow of Joseph Richardson, Esq. author of the Rolliad, the Probationary Odes, and the comedy of the Fugitive. This lady, who was left in very embarrassed circumstances, owing to the involved state of Drury Lane Theatre, in which her husband had a share, has published by subscription, Original Poems, 8vo. 1808. RICHARDSON, WILLIAM, surgeon and F.A.S. Edinburgh. The Chemical Principles of the Metallic Arts, with an Account of the principal Diseases incidental te Artificers, 8vo. 1790. RICHARDSON, WILLIAM, D.D. of Clonfecle, in the county of Antrim. This ingenious clergyman has distinguished himself by his pursuits in natural history, on which he has made some valuable communications to the Royal Society, and separately he has published: Letter to the Right Hon. Isaac Corry on the Properties of Fiorin Grass, 12mo. 1809.-Essay on Fiorin Grass, 8vo. 1810.-Letter to the Marquis of Hertford on the same subject, 8vo. 1810.-A New Essay on the Fiorin Grass, 8vo. 1813. He has also written a very curious paper on the Giant's Causeway, inserted in the Philosophical Transactions. RICHMOND, Rev. LEGH, M.A. formerly of Trinity College, Cambridge, afterwards curate of Brading, in the Isle of Wight, and in 1805 presented to the rectory of Turvey, in Bedfordshire. This gentleman ranks among those who are denominated evangelical divines, and has published: A Sermon on the Sin of Cruelty to the Brute Creation, 8vo. 1802.-A Sermon preached before the Society for Supporting Missions to Africa and the East, before the Directors of the London Female Peniten8vo. 1809.-The First Anniversary Sermon preached tiary, 8vo. 1810.-Statement of Facts relative to the supposed Abstinence of Anne Moore, 8vo. 1813.Annals of the Poor, 2 v. 12mo. 1814. RICKARDS, ROBert, Esq. M.P. Speeches in the House of Commons in the Debate on the Renewal of the Charter of the East India Company, 8vo. 1814. RICKMAN, THOMAS CLIO, a bookseller in Upper Mary-le-bone Street, London. This eccentric character has avowed himself the complete disciple of his friend, Thomas Paine, both in his religious principles and his politics. He keeps the table, at which that worthy personage scribbled his libels, and took those draughts which inspired him with infidelity and republicanism. Mr. Rickman has been a liberal contributor of poetical trifles to various magazines, and in a separate form he has published: The Fallen Cottage, a Poem, 4to. 1787.-The Evening 8vo. 1796-Mr. Pitt's Democracy Manifested, 8vo. Walk, a Tale, 8vo. 1796.-A Collection of Epigrams, 1799-Poetical Scraps, 2 v. 8vo. 1803.-An Ode on the Emancipation of the Blacks of St. Domingo, 4to. 1804-Corruption, a Satire, 4to. 1806,-Elegy to the Memory of Thomas Paine, 8vo. 1810. RIDDELL, ROBERT, colonel in the army, who has made himself conspicuous in the character of an empiric, and the inventor of a new mode of curing diseases, which, according to his account, amounts to something little short of miraculous. The Gentleman's Magazine is disgraced RIDGEWAY, WILLIAM, Esq. barrister at law in Dublin. Reports of Cases in the King's Bench and Chancery, royal, 8vo. 1794.- Reports of Cases upon Appeal, and Writs of Error in the High Court of Parliament in Ireland, from 1784 to 1796, 3 v. 8vo. 1795, 1798.Term Reports of Cases in the King's Court in Dublin, royal 8vo. 1796. These were published in conjunction with William Lapp, and John Schoales, Esqrs. -A Report of the Proceedings in Cases of High Treason at a Special Commission of Oyer and Terminer held in Dublin, 8vo. 1798. RIGBY, EDWARD, surgeon at Norwich. Besides some papers in the Medical Journals he has published: On the Uterine Hæmorrhage, 8vo. 1775.-On the Use of the Red Peruvian Bark in the Cure of Intermittents, 8vo. 1783.-On the Theory of Animal Heat, 8vo. 1785.-Chemical Observations on Sugar, 8vo. 1788.-Reports of the Norwich Committee on the Workhouses, 8vo. 1788.-Farther Facts relative to the Care of the Poor and the Management of the Workhouse in the city of Norwich, 8vo. 1812. RIGBY, Rev. ROBERT, Vicar of St. Mary's church, in Beverley. A Sermon preached at Beverley, on occasion of the General Fast, 8vo. 1803.-Lectures on the Church Catechism, 12mo. 1813. RIPPINGHAM, JOHN, private tutor at Westminster School. Rules for English Composition, 12mo. 1812.-The Art of Extempore Public Speaking, 12mo. 1813.-The Ba lance held between the Catholics and Dissenters, 8vo. 1813.-A Visit to the London Museum, 2 v. 18mo. 1813. RIPPON, JOHN, D.D. a baptist minister in Tooley-street, Southwark, where he succeeded the learned Dr. John Gill. He is a native of Tiverton in Devonshire, and the editor of the Baptist's Annual Register, besides which he has published several single sermons, and A Discourse on the Origin and Progress of the Society for Promoting Religious Knowledge among the Poor, 8vo. 1802.-A Collection of Psalms and Hymns for Public Worship, from various Authors, 12mo. RITCHIE, JOHN, a captain in the EastIndia Marine service. Oriental Disquisitions, or a Retrospect of the Rise and Progress of the Hydrographical Surveys of Bengal, 4to. 1797. RITCHIE, THOMAS EDWARD, forinerly a bookseller at Edinburgh, where he failed, and has since obtained an appointment in the barrack department. He has published with his name the following works: The Campaign of Buonaparte in Italy, in 1796, transRIGGE, JOHN, deputy-register for the lated from the French, 8vo. 1799.-Political and Milicounty of Middlesex. Instruction for Registering Deeds, &c. 8vo. 1778.Observations on the Statutes for Registering Deeds, 8vo. 1798. RING, JOHN, Esq. of New-street, Hanover-square, member of the Royal College of Surgeons, and of the Medical Societies of London and Paris. This skilful practitioner and excellent man was, we believe, a pupil of the ingenious Percival Pott; and he has long resided in the house where he now dwells, with great and deserved reputation. He has been distinguished by his zeal in the improvement and extension of vaccination, the cause of which he has advocated with great ability and success. Mr. Ring has published numerous papers in the London Medical Journal, and also the following valuable works: Reflections on the Surgeons' Bill, 8vo. 1798.-A Trea. tise on the Cow-Pox, containing the History of Vaccine Inoculation, 2 Parts, 8vo. 1801-3.--Translations of Dr. Geddes's Ode to Peace, 8vo. 1802.-Transla tion of Mr. Anstey's Ode to Dr. Jenner, 4to. 1804. An Answer to Mr. Goldson, proving that Vaccination is a permanent Security against Small-Pox, 8vo. 180. -An Answer to Dr. Moseley, containing a Defence of Vaccination, 8vo. 1805.-An Answer to Mr. Birch on the subject of Vaccination, 8vo. 1806.-A Rowland for an Oliver, in Answer to Dr. Moseley, 8vo. 1807. -The Beauties of the Edinburgh Review, 8vo. 1807. -A Treatise on the Gout, 8vo. 1813. RIPON, JOHN SCOTT-See BYERLEY. tary Memoirs of Europe, 3 v. 8vo. 1803.-An Account of the Life and Writings of David Hume, 8vo. 1807. RITSO, F. Esq. barrister at law, of Lincoln's Inn. He was formerly of Christchurch, Oxford, where he took the degree of M.A. in 1795. Introduction to the Science of the Law, showing the Advantages of a Law Education, 8vo. 1815. 1 The Poetical Chain, consisting of Miscellaneous Picces, 8vo. 1812. and the author of RIVAZ, T. F. a Portuguese Merchant, A Proposal, by which two essential Objects would be simultaneously attained; Security of the British Territory in India, and a New Channel of Commerce opened, 8vo. 1813. RIVERS, CHARLES, of Basing-lane, soli citor. Appeal to the Nation on the Arbitrary Consequences of the Tax on Income, 8vo. 1808. ROBE, Rev. W. a divine of the episcopal church of Scotland at St. Andrews, and chaplain to Lord Elibank. He has written, Patriotic Wolves, 8vo.-Two Didactic Essays on Hu. man Happiness and the Government of the Passions, 8vo. 1793.-Poems on the Influence of Christianity, 8vo. 1810. ROBERSON, HAMMOND, M.A. late fellow of Magdalen College, Cambridge, and chaplain to the Birstall and Batley vo lunteers. He has printed, The Duty of Volunteers, a Sermon, 8vo. 1804. ROBERTON, JOHN, M.D. late a surgeon He is the younger son of the preceding at Edinburgh, and afterwards a practi- gentleman, and was educated at Corpus titioner in Cork-street, London. He has Christi College, Cambridge, of which sopublished several papers in the Medical ciety he became Fellow, being originally Journal, and the following works sepa- destined for the Church. His inclinarately: tions however took another turn and he engaged in the study of the law. While at the University he obtained a prize for an Essay on Refinement, of which only a few copies were printed for private circulation. He is also said to have been a A Treatise on the Power of Cantharides, 8vo. 1808. -A Popular Treatise on Medical Police, 2 v. 8vo. 1809.-A Treatise on the Natural and Artificial Causes of Diseases in general, 2 v. 8vo. 1811.-On the Diseases of the Generative System, 8vo. 1811. ROBERTS, DANIEL, an empirical practitioner at Painswick, in Gloucestershire, who has endeavoured to excite public curiosity by these performances: Remarks on the King's Evil or Scrofula, with an ac count of a specific medicine for the cure of it, 8vo. 1792.-Observations on the Divine Mission of Joanna Southcott, 8vo. 1807. ROBERTS, DANIEL, Esq. Colonel in the Guards. Military Instructions, 4to. 1798.-A Plan for increas. ing the Incomes of Officers in the Army, 12mo. 1810. ROBERTS, JOHN, A.M. F.A.S. Fellow of Eton College, Vicar of Burnham in Buckinghamshire, and Chaplain to the Earl of Carlisle. The Stability of the Reformed Christian Church, a sermon preached at Lambeth, on the Consecration of frequent writer in the English Review, and to have published anonymously a small tract on the Oxford marbles. After leaving college he travelled for a short time; and on his return commenced the publication of his periodical paper called the Looker-on; the first number of which made its appearance March 10, 1792, and the last, December 21, 1793. Of the few contributors to this work Mr. James Beresford was the principal. When the papers were completed in folio the whole collection was reprinted with the title of: The Looker-on, 3 v. 12mo. 1794. ROBERTS, WILLIAM, Esq. of Lincoln's the Right Rev. Dr. Luxmoore, Bishop of Bristol, Inn, Barrister at Law. This gentleman, 4to. 1807. ROBERTS, P. Essay on the Origin of the Constellations, 8vo. 1802. Observations on the Principles of Christian Morality, ROBERTS, THOMAS, Member of the Toxophilite Society. The Bowman's Glory, 8vo.-The English Bowman, or Tracts on Archery, 8vo. 1801. ROBERTS, THOMAS. Carmen Seculare, a Sacred Poem on the Commence ment of the present Century, 4to. 1801. army; ROBERTS, WILLIAM, Esq. brother of the late master of St. Paul's School. He was formerly an officer in the but quitted the service many years ago and applied himself with great success to the education of young gentlemen at Wandsworth. He has published, Thoughts upon Creation, 12mo. 1782.-Poetical At tempts, 8vo. 1784. ROBERTS, WILLIAM, Esq. A.M. and F.A.S. of Gray's Inn, Barrister at Law. who is no relation to the preceding, has long held a distinguished situation as magistrate at Manchester. He is the author of: A Charge to the Grand Jury of the Court Leet for the manor of Manchester, delivered at the Michaelmas Court, Oct. 15, 1788, 8vo.-The Fugitives, com. 8vo. 1791.-Supplementary facts and observations on the trial of Mr. Walker of Manchester, 8vo. 1791.A Treatise on the Construction of the Statutes, 13 Eliz. c. 5. and 27 Eliz. c. 4. relating to voluntary and fraudulent Conveyances, 8vo.-A Treatise on the Statute of Frauds as it regards Declarations in Trusts, Contracts, Surrenders, Conveyances, and the Execution and Proof of Wills and Codicils, 8vo. 1806.-A Treatise on Wills and Codicils, roy. 8vo. 1809. ROBERTSON, ABRAHAM, D.D. F.R.S. Savilian Professor of Geometry in the University of Oxford. He is a native of Scotland, but was educated at Westminshe became student. Ás a mathematician ter and Christ Church, of which College he ranks deservedly high; but he has experienced the envy which seldom fails to follow superior merit, and some very illiberal criticisms were published on his principal work, in a periodical journal, supposed to have been written by a mathematical tutor at Cambridge. Besides some communications in the Philosophical Transactions, Dr. Robertson has printed : Sectionum Conicarum, lib. vii, acoedit tractatus de sectionibus conicis et de Scriptoribus qui earum doc--The Dependence of Morals on Religion, a Fast sertrinam tradiderunt, 4to. 1793.-A Geometrical Treat- mon, 4to. 1794. ise of Conic Sections, 8vo. 1802.-A Reply to a Critical and Monthly Reviewer, in which is inserted Euler's Demonstration of the Binomial Theorem, 8vo. 1808. The Traveller's Guide through Ireland, 8vo. 1806. ROBERTSON, GEORGE, of Granton near Edinburgh. Besides some papers in the Tracts of the Highland Society, and Young's Annals, he has published: A General View of the Agriculture of the County of Mid Lothian, 8vo. 1795. ROBERTSON, HENRY, M.D. View of the Natural History of the Atmosphere, and its connexion with Medicine and Agriculture, 2 v. 8vo. 1808. ROBERTSON, Rev. H. ROBERTSON, WILLIAM, Esq. one of the Deputies of the Lord Clerk Register for keeping the records of Scotland. Proceedings relating to the Peerage of Scotland from 1707 to 1788, 4to. 1790.--An Index, drawn up about the year 1629, of many Records of Charters granted by the different Sovereigns of Scotland between the years 1309 and 1413, 4to. 1798. ROBINS, JOHN, of Exeter. Sensibility, a poem, sm. 8vo. 1806. ROBINSON, ANTHONY, formerly a Dissenting Minister, but at present a sugar baker in London. Since this change in his profession, he has been a zealous defender of Scepticism, and published several pieces anonymously; also, with his name, A short History of the Persecution of Christians, by Jews, Heathens, and Christians, 8vo. 1793.-View of the Causes and Consequences of English Wars, 8vo. 1798.-An Examination of a Sermon preached by the Rev. Robert Hall, on Modern Infidelity, 8vo. 1800. ROBINSON, CHRISTOPHER, LL. D. an eminent Civilian of Doctor's Commons; is the son of a clergyman who was for Account of the Ceremony of laying the First Stone of merly fellow of Magdalen College, OxChrist Church, at Leversedge near Leeds, 8vo. 1613. ford. The son also was a member of the ROBERTSON, JAMES, D.D. Minister at same society, and took his degree of Callander in the county of Perth. He M.A. May 6, 1789; and that of D.C.L. has some papers in Young's Annals, and July 4, 1796. He has published: has published separately, General View of the Agriculture in the county of Perth, 8vo. 1799. 2d edit. 1813.-General View of the Agriculture of Invernesshire, 8vo.-General View of the Agriculture of Kincardineshire, 8vo. 1811. ROBERTSON, J. D.D. Rise of the Reformation, containing the Grounds of Protestantism, 8vo. 1812. ROBERTSON, Rev. JOSEPH, Minister of Sleights, near Whitby, Yorkshire. Seven Sermons preached on particular occasions, and after being printed separately collected into one volume, 8vo. 1795. ROBERTSON, ROBERT, M.D. F.A.S. Member of the Royal College of Physicians, London, and Physician to Greenwich Hospital. He has some articles in Duncan's Annals of Medicine, and has also published: An Essay on Fever, 8vo. 1790.-Observations on the Jail, Hospital, or Ship Fever, made in various parts of -Europe and America, 8vo. 1792.-Synopsis Morborum, or Observations on the principal Diseases incidental to Seamen and Soldiers, 2 v. 8vo. 1810. ROBERTSON, Rev. THEODORE, LL.B. Sermons on the practical Obligations of a Christian Life, 2 v. 8vo. 1808. ROBERTSON, REV. THOMAS, D.D. F.R.S. Edinburgh, and Minister of Dalmeny, N. B. He is the author of, Inquiry into the Fine Arts, 4to. 1786.-Essay on the Edinburgh Society. The History of Mary, Queen of Scots, with an examination of her writings, 4to. 1793. Lit. Cal. Character of Hamlet, in the Transactions of the A Report of the Judgment of the High Court of Admiralty on the Swedish Convoy, 8vo. 1799.-Reports of Cases argued and determined in the High Court of Admiralty, 6 v. roy. 8vo. 1799-1808.-A Translation of the Consolato del Mare, relating to Prize Law, 8vo. 1800.-Collectanea Maritima, being a Collec tion of Public Instruments tending to illustrate the History and Practice of Prize Law, 8vo. 1801. ROBINSON, DANIEL, Esq. late a Captain in the Spanish army. The Political Constitution of the Spanish Monarchy, 8vo. 1813. ROBINSON, Colonel F. P. Inspecting Field Officer of the London recruiting district. A Letter to a General Officer on the Recruiting Ser vice, 4to. 1811. ROBINSON, Rev. JOHN, D.D. of Christ's College, Cambridge, and Master of the Free Grammar School at Ravenstonedale. This gentleman, who is a very respectable scholar, was educated in Archbishop Whitgift's school at St. Bees, and in consequence of some of his publications he was enabled to enter himself in the University of Cambridge. Having made a few valuable communications to the Old Monthly Magazine, the proprietor engaged him in writing the History of Greece, which was published in the Universal History, bearing the name of Dr. Mavor. Since 2 P |