ART. XXIII. A List of Literary Persons of Great Britain, who have died in the last twelve years, with the dates of their deaths.

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1801.

Sir James Stonehouse, Bart. M. D. 8 Dec. æt. 80
Hugh Blair, D. D. 27 December, æt. 83

Sir George Leonard Staunton, Bart. circ. December
Robert Orme, Esq. the Historian, January
Robert Farren Cheetham, 12 January, æt. 24
Samuel Rudder, Gloucestershire Historian, 15 March
William Heberden, M. D. May 17, æt. 91

Rev. William Drake, M. A. F. A. S. 13 June, æt. 80
John Millar, Esq. Scotch Professor of Law, 30 April
Rev. William Hawkins, late Poetry Professor, Oxford,
12 July, æt. 79

Sir Grey Cooper, 30 July, æt. 76

Robert Bage, Novelist, 1 September, æt. 72
Rev. Owen Manning, 9 September, æt. 80

Gilbert Wakefield, 10 September, æt. 46

Benjamin Blayney, D. D. 20 October, æt. 74
Richard Pulteney, M. D. 16 Nov. æt. 72

David Levi, learned Jew

Bennet Langton, Esq. LL. D. 18 December, æt. 66

Rev. James Hurdis, 22 Dec. æt. 39

Mrs. Chapone, 25 Dec. æt. 75

John

1802.

John Moore, M. D. 18 February. æt. 72
Alexander Geddes, LL. D. 28 February. æt. 65
Erasmus Darwin, M. D. 17 April, æt.71
George Fordyce, M. D. 25 May, æt. 66
Lady Burrell, 20 June

Thomas Garnett, M. D. 28 June, æt. 37
R. Owen Cambridge, 17 September, æt. 86
Thomas Knowles, D. D. 6 October, æt. 78
Joseph Strutt, Engraver, 15 October. æt. 55
Thomas Dermody, Poet, October

Henry Hunter, D. D. 27 October, æt. 64
Rev. Stebbing Shaw, 28 October, æt. 40
Samuel Paterson, 29 October, æt. 78
Rev. Henry Moore, 2 February, æt. 71
John Butler, Bishop of Hereford, 10 Dec. æt. 85

1803.

John Throsby, Topographer, 5 February, æt. 66
William Boys, F.A.S. 15 March, æt. 68

Sir James Marriott, Knight, 21 March, æt. 73
Henry Skrine, Tourist

Sir William Hamilton, K. B. 6 April, æt. 74
Henry Swinburne, Traveller, April

Charles Peter Layard, DD.FRS. 10 April, æt. 55

Rev. Richard Hole, Poet, 28 May

Robert Jephson, Esq. Poet, 31 May
Joseph Richardson, Esq. 9 June, æt. 46

Joseph Galloway, 29 August

Alexander Thomson, Poet, 7 November, æt. 41

Rev.

Rev. Richard Amner, Dissenting Minister, 8 June,

æt. 67

William Woodfall, Printer, 1 August, æt. 58

John Hoole, Poet, 2 August, æt 76

John Topham, F. A. S. 19 August

James Beattie, LL.D. 18 August, æt. 68.

Ralph Griffith, LL.D. Founder of Monthly Review,

28 September, æt. 83

Joseph Ritson, Critic, September

Thomas Astle, F. A. S. December, æt. 69

1804.

Rev. John Fawcett, Dissenting Minister, 24 Jan.
Philip Yorke of Erthyg, F. A. S. 19 Feb. æt, 61
Rev. John Howlett, 29 February

Joseph Priestley, LL.D. 6 February, æt. 74
Rev. Wm. Gilpin, 5 April, æt. 80

Joseph Dacre Carlyle, B.D. 12 April, æt. 45
Rev. Robert Potter, August

Rev. Samuel Ayscough, November
Jacob Bryant, November, æt. 89

Rev. Richard Graves, 23 November, æt. 90
Mrs. Charlotte Lennox, 8 January, aged 84
Newton Ogle, D.D. 6 Jan. aged 78
Rev. Henry Cox Mason, A.M.
Mr. Thomas Malton, Tourist, 7 March
John Whitehead, M.D. 7 March

Powell Snell, Poet, 8 April, æt. 67

Rev. Jonathan Boucher, 27th April, æt. 67
W. Forsyth, F. A. S. 25 July

Robert Macfarlane, 8 August, aged 70

Rev. Thomas Twining, A. M. 6 August, aged 70
Sir Geo. A. W. Shuckburgh, 11 August, aged 53

Rev. Rob. Ingram, A. M. 3 August, aged 77
Thomas Percival, M. D. 30 August, æt. 64
Rev. W. Tyndal, A. M. F. A. S. 16 September
Rev. Thomas James, A. M. 24 September

Mr. Carter, Ballad Writer, 12 October
Francis Eyre, 7 November, aged 72

Rev. Dr. Archibald Maclaine, 25 November, æt. 82
James Bandinell, D.D. 25 Nov. æt 93

Mrs. Lefroy, Poetess, 16 December, aged 56
Charles Nalson Cole, 18 Decenber, æt. 82
Samuel Rose, Barrister, 20 December, 37

W. Cunningham, Poet, 27 December, æt. 24.

1805

Charles Townley, F. R. S. A. S. 3 January, æt. 67
Professor John Robison, A.M. of Edinburgh, 30 Jan. ·
William Buchan, M. D. 25 Feb. aged 76

Col. Philip De La Motte, Antiquary, 11 March
Wm. Butter, M. D. 23 March, æt. 79

Dr. Bisset, 21 May, æt. 48

Thomas Pownall, F. R. A. S. S. æt. 85, 25 Feb.
William Paley, D. D. 25 May

Sir William Pulteney, Bart. 28 May

ARTHUR MURPHY.

"On the 19th of June 1805, departed this life, at his apartments at Knightsbridge, in the 78th year of his age, Arthur Murphy, Esq. Barrister at Law and a Bencher of Lincoln's Inn. He lived in the closest friendship with the most polished authors and greatest lawyers of his time. His knowledge of the classics was profound. His translations of the Roman historians enlarged his fame. His dramatic productions were inferior to none of the time in which he flourished.

The

The fire of the poet was particularly adorned by the refined taste of the critic. The moderation of his ambition, and the modesty of his nature, inclined his genius to court the retirement of his study, in preference to the pursuits of an active life. As a man of high talents and a warm heart he lived honoured, and as a very devout Christian he was long resigned to the will of his Creator; in the words he was often heard to repeat from Pope

Half taught by reason, half by mere decay,
To welcome death and calmly pass away."

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

The Editor is much obliged to Mr. Brayley for the MS. regarding Richard the Third, which he has not yet had time to examine sufficiently.

The Editor has to lament that the very curious article regarding Puttenham's Art of Poetry, by his friend Mr. Gilchrist, has only reached him this day otherwise it would have supplied the place of much less valuable matter in this Number. It will of course appear in No. IV.

Mr. B. is particularly obliged to Mr. S. for his hint regarding "The Handeful of Plesant Delites.'

"

ERRATA in No. II.

A Correspondent has pointed out some errors of the press and of the transcriber, in the article of Dr. Frank Nichols, p. 195; he became M. D. 1729, and read the H. oration 1739. He died 7 Jan. 1778, not 1780.

P. 124. Mr. Johnes is M. P. for Cardiganshire, not Carmarthenshire.
P. 113. for "futile" read " fertile."

P. 114. for "Cantates" read "Cantantes."

ERRATA in No. III.

The 67th Poem in England's Helicon is entitled "Firmius the Sheepheard," and the 76th is "Montana" (not "Montano") the Sheepheard his love to Aminta.

June 24, 1805.

T. Bensley, Printer,

Bolt Court.