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At the Clarendon Hotel, Bond-street, Mrs. Jacquier.

In St. James's Place, Artbur Ormsby, esq. a lieutenant-general in the army, and lieutenant-colonel in the 6th dragoon guards.

At Kentish Town, Miss Jane Teed, aged 14, second daughter of Mr. Richard T. dress sword-maker to the Patriotic Fund. After being afflicted with a complication of disor ders which baffled all medical aid for three years, during which period, she bore the greatest pains without a murmur. Her amia. ble disposition and manners were eminently conspicuous to all who knew her. To her parents she was at all times dutiful, and to her sisters and friends affectionately kind: it is remarkable that she was never known to be out of temper, and her gratitude for every attention to her wants was unbounded. To her eldest sister she was attached by the strongest ties of love and esteem, which met a return that has been seldom equalled, for although there was a considerable disparity of years, there seemed but one heart and one soul. Miss Teed gave up every amusement to be useful to her beloved sister, and was in fact, her nurse by day and by night throughout the whole period of her illness, which reflects upon her, the highest credit, and should operate as an example to others who are similarly circumstanced. Her body is committed to the ground, and her pure spirit to God who gave it."

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Cbristiana, wife of Mr. Thomas Henkin, of Stensted Abbot, Herts, a woman who combined great intellectual powers, with the delicate sensibility of female excellence. She was superior to the studied forms of politeness, but charmed by the affability and gentleness of her manners, Possessing a fine taste, she was an enthusiastic admirer of the beauties of nature, and delighted in the retirement of rural life. Her time and talents were cheerfully devoted to forming the minds of a numerous family to virtue and Knowledge, who are left to deplore her loss and mingle their tears with those of the neighbouring poor, to whom she was an active, sympathising, benevolent mind.

[Further particulars of Mr. John Home, whose death is recorded at p. 395 in our last vo

association for the support of their sovereign, and the defence of their city. Mr. Home was one of about twenty students of the uni versity who offered their services as volunteers, to act against the common enemy. But intimidated by the number of their opponents, or adverse to the hardships of a military life, the college company soon disbanded. Mr. Home, however, retained his arms, and marched with a detachment of the royal army to Falkirk; where, in the battle fought in its neighbourhood, in which the rebels vane quished the king's troops, he was taken prisoner, and confined for some time in the castle of Doune. From this place of captivity he effected his escape, and the battle of Culloden having blasted all the hopes of the Pretender's adherents, tranquillity and order were soon restored. Mr. Home resumed his studies, and was licensed to preach the gospel in 1747. Not long after, Home visited England, for it appears that be was introduced to Collins, the poet, at Winchester, by a Mr. Barrow, who had been his fellow student at the uni. versity. Collins addressed to him his " Ode on the Superstition of the Highlanders," con sidered as the subject of poetry, composed in 1749, but not published till many years after his death. It is evident that Home at this period had exhibited some poetical powers. In the first stanza, Collins delivers a prediction, which was soon after fulfilled :"Home, thou return'st from Thames, whose Naiads long

.He was descended of a respectable, and formerly illustrious, family. He was born in the vicinity of Ancrum, in Roxburghshire, in 1724, and received the first rudiments of education at the parochial school, where Dr. Buchan, author of Domestic Medicine, was the companion of his studies. It was Mr. Home's inclination, and the desire of his parents, that he should enter the church. He, therefore attended the philosophical and theological classes of the university of Edinburgh for several years. But his studies were for a while suspended by the public commotions of the year 1745. On the approach of the insurgents, the citizens of EdinBurgh assembled, formed themselves into an

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Shall melt perhaps to hear thy tragicsong.▾ About the year 1750, he was settled minister of the parish of Athelstaneford, Lothian, and was the immediate successor of Robert Blair, author of The Grave." Accustomed to the bantle of a city, and the society of men of lette, Mr. Home found himself rather disagreeably Suated, in an obscure village, where he had no opportu mty of distinguishing himself. From Ne Vicinity of his residence to Edinburgh he was in the practice of frequently resorting to the capital, to enjoy the company of man of talents. Several of these had instituted a society for literary and philosophical disquisition, of which Mr. Home was an original and distinguished member. This institution comprehended several of the most eminent characters of the day. Among others, were enrolled the names of Mr. Alexander Wedderburn, afterwards Earl of Rosslyn, and Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain; Ferguson, the philosopher; Hume and Robertson, the historians; and Blair, the rhetorician and divine; men, whom it would be superfluous here to panegyrise. It was about this period that Mr. Home, in his retirement, began seriously to court the dra matic muse. The first tragedy he wrote wa

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Agis, founded on a portion of the Lacedæmonian history. He went to London with the manuscript, in hopes of getting it introduced on the stage, but in this he was disappointed, insurmountable objections having been made to the plot. Our poet, not at all discouraged by this failure, conceived the plan of another play, laid the plot in Scotland, and made his hero one of his own countrymen. In presenting this to the London manager, he had the mortification of a second refusal. Notwithstanding the abilities of Garrick, as a dramatist, his opinion of the merit of plays was not infallible. He rejected the tragedy of Douglas as being too simple in its fable, and destitute of stage effect. Whether Garrick ever examined at all into its merits, or delegated this office to another, on whose report he formed his deHe, be ascertained. cision, cannot now however, candidly confessed, through the remainder of his life, whenever the subject was agitated, that no circumstance, in the course of his management, gave him so much concern, as the rejection of this play. By such repeated discouragement, the ardour of Home was by no means suppressed. Being acquainted with the leading characters in Scotland, a ready reception of his play at At the first repreEdinburgh was secured. sentation of Douglas, in the theatre, in Canongate, on the 14th of December 1756, Mr. Home, and several of his clerical brethren were present. Of this circumstance the zea. lots of the day speedily got notice. That, a clergyman should write a play, and that ministers of the gospel should witness it's performance; were crimes unheard of in the annals of the church. The hue and cry of bigotry was immediately raised. All that ignorance could conceive, prejudice effect or malice igvent, was tried to suppress the play in its birth. It was violently decried as a production of immoral tendency, and furan encouragenishing, by its catastrophe, ment to suicide. The clergy ordered a pasbe delivered from their toral admonitio- to pulpits, on the sin and danger of attending the theatre. The author was summoned to amar before the bar of the presbytery; his frierasere peremptorily dragged before their tribunal, some of them dismissed with censure, and others suspended from their office, While such was the state of affairs in Scotland, Douglas having been performed to crowded houses during the greater part of the season, and fully gratifying the most sanguine hopes of the author, it was, through the interest of David Hume, brought forward on the London stage. Garrick having now discovered his mistake, made unusual exertions to introduce it to public notice and approbation. Hume had, shortly before its representation, published four cissertations, and inscribed them to our author. In his dedication he pronounced so flattering a pane. gyric upon Mr. Home, and bestowed such

unqualified approbation on his play, that the
public expectation was raised too high. The
consequence was, that the success of Doug-
las was at first doubtful in the metropolis.
It soon, however, became a standard tragedy,
and maintains its ground on the British stage
to the present day. The clamours of his
enemies having not yet subsided in Scotland,
Mr. Home, seeing no prospect of overcoming
their prejudices, preached his farewell ser-
mon to his congregation, on the 5th of June
1757. The discourse was so pathetic, that
it drew tears from most of his audience. Ta
prevent further proceedings in the church
courts against him, he gave in the resigna-
tion of his charge to the presbytery of Had-
dington two days after. This body conti-
nued to persecute with peculiar vehemence.
Mr. Carlyle, one of Mr. Home's most inti-
mate friends, as well for having accompanied
him to the theatre, as from its being gene-
rally understood that he assisted Home in the
composition of Douglas. Although our au-
thor himself did not appear at the presbytery,
he was not negligent in defence of his friend.
He attended the meeting of synod, and sup
ported his cause with great firmness. In re-
ply to the virulent railings of a bigot, he de-
clared, that if there was any fault, it lay
not at the door of his friend, but at his own,
with whom the cri onginated, and con-
cludes his observations in the words of the
unfortunate Nisus,

Adsum qui feci, in me convertite ferrum,
Tantum infelicem nimium dilexit amicum.
This appropriate quotation made a sensible
impression upon some of the judges, and, in
all

probability, mitigated the sentence against
Mi. Carlyle. Instead of receiving a severe
reprimand from the presbytery, he might
otherwise (to such a pitch had fanaticism ar-
rived) have been suspended, perhaps expel-
led from his office. Before the conclusion of
1757, Mr. Sheridan, then manager of the
Dublin theatre, sent over to Mr. Itowe a
gold medal, with a suitabic inscription, ac-
knowledging his singular merit in having
enriched the English stage with the tragedy
of Douglas. With his living, Mr. Home ap-
pears for a while to have abandoned his na-
tive land, for he now repaired to London,
where he produced several other tragedies,
under the patronage of Garrick, who wrote
prologues to some, epilogues to others, and
warmly interested himself in the fate of them
all. They are all indeed greatly inferior
to his Douglas. Agis, the first of his dra-
matic pieces, was finely acted, and assisted
by spectacle, otherwise, it is probable, that
it would not have been performed a second
night. His third tragedy was founded on the
cruel treatment which the two Setons, tors
of the governor of Berwick, had experienced
from the English. At Mr. Garrick's sugges
tion, the title was altered (and consequently
the characters, and several local passages)

frem

ance with the most celebrated literary charac-
ters of his time. Fidelity to his friends, and
generosity to his enemies, were conspicuous
If, in his declining
traits in his character.
years, his temper appeared to be soured and
morose, and his manners harsh and uninvi-
ting, we must attribute it to the infirmity of
old age, rather than to original disposition.
As a clergyman, he attached himself to that
party in the church, who, enlightened in
their views, and liberal in their sentiments,
present their hearers with a rational view of
the doctrines of Christianity. Divesting re-
ligion of unmeaning mystery, and checking
the spirit of superstitious bigotry, he appears
to have performed his ministerial duty with
that fidelity and attention which endeared
him to his people, and which their conduct
at his resignation abundantly testified.
man of Letters, he will be known to poste-
rity by his tragedies, and especially by his
"Douglas," which will probably retain a
place among the most approved compositions
of that class, and will long continue to de-
light and interest a British audience.

from the Siege of Berwick, to the Siege of Aquileia, for he very naturally conceived, that any national allusions might tend to foment the jealousy which then unfortunately subsisted between the Scots and English. It was acted in 1759. Some of the passages are very fine, but upon the whole, it is a tame performance. The Fatal Discovery was produced in 1769, and reluctantly permitted during nine nights. Though Alonzo had the advantage of Mrs. Barry's admirable acting, it shared the same fate; the author mentions in his preface, that she received applause Mr. greater than ever shook a theatre. Home's last production, Alfred, lived only three nights. In the year 1760, Mr. Home published a volume of plays, containing Agis, Douglas, and the Siege of Aquileia, which he dedicated to his present Majesty, then Prince of Wales. His other three tragedies appeared sonte time after. The whole were collected and edited in two volumes at Edinburgh, in 1798, under the inspection of the late Mr. Woods. Lord Bute having represented Mr. Home to his Majesty as a min of talents, his name was placed on the pension list, nearly at the saine time with that of Dr. Johnson. He lived in a state of retirement from this period to the time of his death. Nearly half a century after Douglas had been written, when the author had reBurged to, and was settled in his native country, Master Betty, better known by the name of the young Roscius, commenced his Theatrical labours at Edinburgh, in the character of young Norval. The author attended the representation, and declared that, that was the first time he had ever seen the part of Douglas played according to his ideas of the character when he conceived and wrote it. Mr. Home, at the advanced age of seventyeight, published his long meditated work, entitled, "The History of the Rebellion in Scotland, in 1745 6," in which he recorded the exploits and remarks of his youth. Of his work it is sufficient to observe, that the principles are just, and the opinions liberal. For a considerable time prior to his death, Mr Home's mind, as well as body, seemed to be much impaired. He lived in the must secluded manner, so much so, that the house he inhabited had all the marks of a deserted dwelling. So long as he continued to possess sufficient strengtli, he used to walk for a certain time every day; the most acute physiog numist, however, who met him, could scarcely have traced any remains of the author of Douglas. He seemed to pay no attention to what was passing, and to possess In this little more than mere existence. distressful state, he lingered for many years. He died at Merchiston house, on the 4th of September 1808, in the 85th year of his age. A Life su little varied by incident as that of Mr. Home, affords few materials for personal character, With a mind well stored with useful and ornamental knowledge, he appears at an early age to have cultivated an acquaint

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[Further particulars of Dr. James Anderson, of whom some account is given at p. 485, of our last volume.] James Anderson was born about the year 1739, at Hermiston, a village about six miles from Edinburgh, of parents who succeeded their forefathers for several generations in cultivating the same land. Nothing remarkable is known of them: they were a family of respectable farmers; and our author may be said to have inhaled with his first breath, that spirit of agricultural knowledge for which he became so distinguished. In his boyish years he formed an intimacy, which remained uninterrupted till his death, with his kinsman and namesake, the present James Anderson, M.D. physician General at Madras: born in the same village, they went to school together, learnt the same task, fought each others battles, and joined in the same amusements; this early association produced a similarity in their future pursuits, the one being no less eminent in India than the other has been in Europe, for a patriotic life and exertions for the benefit of mankind in general. They kept up a constant correspondence, and communicated to each other their various productions and discoveries. Having been deprived of both his parents while yet very young, it was the wish of his guardian that he should occupy the paternal farm when old enough to undertake such a charge; and as much learning was not thought necessary for a farmer, young Anderson was discouraged by his trends from prosecuting his studies beyond a common school education; but that decision and firmness which were throughout his life the most conspicuous features of his character, now began to appear, and he displayed a resolution to judge and act for himself. He informs us, that having read

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"Home's Essay on Agriculture," and find-
ing that he could not understand the reason-
ing for want of chemical knowledge, he im-
mediately resolved to attend Cullen's lectures
on that science. Being very young, and un-
aided by the countenance of any triend who
could give him advice or introduce him to
the world, he waited on Dr. Cullen, and ex-
plained his views and intentions The doc-
tor, considering it as a boyish whim, which
might lead him away from his necessary pur-
suits, at first endeavoured to dissuade him
from the undertaking; but finding that our
youth had fully reflected on the subject, and
adopted his resolution with a fixed determi-
nation to persevere in it, he assented to the
design; and as the penetration of that cele-
brated man soon discovered the capacity and
steadiness of his young pupil's mind, he not
only encouraged his present object but be-
came his sincere friend, careiully directed
his future studies, "listened with conde-
scension to the arguments that were dictated
by youth and inexperience, and patiently re-
moved those difficulties that perplexed him."
Thus began a friendship and intimacy between
them, which never ceased during the life of
that eminent professor. With the assistance
of such a patron, and with the natural ener-
gies of his own understanding, it is not to be
wondered at that he made rapid advances, not
only in chemistry but also in ather branches
of learning, which, as it were, grew out of
this his first academical study; for the va-
rious branches of science are so connected
with each other, that, to a mind constituted
like his, the attainment of information on
one constantly induce the desire of prosecu-
ting others: and this takes place in an emi-
nent degree at the university of Edinburgh,
where the great attention and abilities of the
professors, combined with the moderateness
of the expence, have for many years afforded
remarkable facilities and encouragement to
the student. At the same time he did not
neglect the duties of his farm, of which he
wook the management upon himself about
the age of fifteen, assisted by four older
sisters; and he employed himself in the ex-
ercise of his profession and bis studies with
so much assiduity for several years, that he
barely allowed sufficient time for the repose
required by nature. About this time Dr.
Cullen delivered a course of lectures on agri-
culture, in a private manner, to a few of his
friends and favourite students, of which An-
derson was the only one who took notes.
Many years afterwards a copy of these notes
was surreptitiously obtained from him, and,
much to his astonishment, advertised for
publication as Cullen's Lectures on Agricul-
ture. Dr. Anderson felt so much for his late
friend's reputation on the prospect of his boy
ish notes being published as a complete set of
lectures, that his friends never observed him
suffer more uneasiness or vexation on any
ether occasion; and he ex:rted himself so

strenuously in representing to the public the
unavoidable faultiness of the intended publi-
cation, and the fraudulent circumstances at-
tending it, that the mercenary promoters of
it were constrained to abandon the design.*
Among the first things he did upon his farm,
was to introduce for the first time the small
two-horse plough, now in universal use over
the greater part of Scotland, and particularly
in the neighbourhood of Edinburgh, where
the land is cultivated to a degree of perfec-
tion almost incredible. In effecting this im-
provement, he found considerable difficulty
in overcoming the prejudices of his servants.
His friends soon perceiving that his ardour in
the pursuit of literary knowledge was not to
be controuled, suggested a medical profession
as the most advisable for him to follow; but
to this he took a dislike, and could never be
reconciled to it: he therefore determined to
prosecute his original line of life. After
having occupied Hermiston for a few years,
he quitted it as a place that did not possess a
sufficient field for his enterprizing mind, and
took a long lease of a large farm in the wilds
of Aberdeenshire, consisting of about 1300
acres of land almost in a state of nature.
This vast undertaking was entered upon be-
fore he was of age, the execution of the lease
having been deferred till that period arrived.
In the midst of the difficulties he had to con
tend with in bringing this tract into cultiva
tion, which were very great, arising chiefly
from the badness or total want of roads, the
remote distance from markets, and the pre-
cariousness of the climate: he began his career
as an author with his Essays on Planting,
&c. first printed in the year 1771, in the
Edinburgh Weekly Magazine, under the
signature of Agricola, and again published
separately in 1771. The first edition of his
Essays on Agriculture, Observations on Na-
tional Industry, and several others of his
early writings were composed during a resi-
dence of more than twenty years at Monks-
hill, the name of the above-mentioned farm,
In 1768, at the age of twenty-nine, our ay-
thor married Miss Seton, of Mounie, a de-
scendant of the ancient and noble house of
Winton, who brought him thirteen children:
by this marriage the estate of Mounie, in
Aberdeenshire, came into his possession, and
still remains in the family. His merits as
an author having become generally known,
and his abilities as a practical farmer being
acknowledged, his acquaintance and corre-
spondence began to be courted by men of
letters throughout the kingdom, and his
society sought by persons of the first respec-
tability in his own neighbourhood. In the
year 1780 the honorary degrees of A.M. and
LL D. were conferred upon him by the Uni
versity of Aberdeen; not only without solici-
tation on his part, but before any commu-

See his opinions on this transaction in his Recreations, vol. ii. p. 252.

nication took place with him on the subject. In 1783, having previously arranged matters for the conducting of his farm, he removed to the neighbourhood of Edinburgh, princi. pally, we believe, with a view to the education of his encreasing family, and influenced, no doubt, by a desire to live where he could enjoy more of literary society than was to be had in so remote a part of the country; and to this end no place could be more conducive than the northern metropolis. Previous to his departure from Aberdeenshire, he was actively employed in promoting measures for alleviating the distresses of the poorer classes in that county, owing to the failure of the crop of grain in 1782; and by his great exertions in exciting the attention of the neighbouring gentlemen to the state of the county on that trying occasion; we have reason to think that he was the principal means of averting the calamities of severe famine from that part of the kingdom. About the same year he printed and circulated among his friends, a proposal for establishing the Northern British Fisheries. This tract was never published, but the attention of Government being excited to the subject by it, he was applied to by the treasury to undertake a survey of the Western Coast of Scotland, for the purpose of obtaining on this important subject. This public-spirited enquiry he undertook, and accomplished in 1784, having a revenue cutter appointed to convey him round the coast; thus devoting his time and abilities to the public, much to the detriment of his own private affairs; and we are well assured he never received one shilling of remuneration from Government for this meritorious service, although the ministers expressed themselves perfectly satisfied with his performance of it; and it was even with great difficulty, and after many applications, that he obtained the reimbursement of his actual necessary expences incurred in the service. In 1788 he was deprived of his wife, a woman endowed with most of the excellencies which exalt the female character, and render it the chief source of comfort and happiness to man: to elegance of person were added an excellent and well-cultivated understanding, and an affectionate and honourable disposition. To expatiate further on the virtues of this admirable woman, would be foreign to our purpose; those of our readers who knew her will allow that what we have said is far short of her real merits. It will readily be supposed that the loss of such a woman would inflict a severe and lasting wound on Dr. Anderson's spirits; and though he strove to bear it with manly fortitude, he never completely recovered its effects, but was ever afterwards occasionally subject to a melancholy recollection of past times having,

See Report of the Committee appointed enquire into the State of the British Fisheries 14th May, 1785.

the "eye big with the latent tear," About this time he was employed in his researches on the subject of sheep, and the improvement of wool, in concert with Sir John Sinclair; his opinions thereupon delivered to the Highland Society, are before the public. We next find him engaged in preparing for the publication of the Bee. This was a project he had long contemplated, namely, a weekly periodical work, designed for the dissemination of useful knowledge, which by its cheapness should be calculated for all ranks of people, while sufficient attention was paid to its various literary departments to render it respectable in the highest circles. His name was now so highly established, that the encoungement given by the public to this performance was wonderful, and nothing but great mismanagement, in conducting the commercial part of the work, for which, like most persons of similar habits, he was ill adapted, could have caused it to fail in being a very profitable concern to him. His own writings form a conspicuous part of this book; some of them will be seen under the name of Senex, Timothy Hairbrain, Alcibia des, and the greater part of the matter without signature. It is painful to observe how seldom the genius to conceive and instruct is united with sufficient perseverance to execute. the doctor takes an affecting leave of his readers at the end of the eighteenth volume,, finding it impossible for him to contend longer with the difficulties he experienced in conducting it; and principally those of getting in the subscription money. During the progress of this work, he opened a correspondence with many eminent persons who were distinguished as literary and public spirited characters abroad and at home: among these we may mention General Washington, with whom he carried on an interesting cor respondence, and Mr. Johnes, the elegant biographer of Froissart, &c. with whose intimate friendship he was honoured till the day of his death. In the course of this publication a circumstance happened that affords us an opportunity of admiring the steady independence of his spirit, and that firmness of conduct which conscious rectitude alone could inspire. At the time that the baneful ef fects of French revolutionary principles had perverted the senses of most classes of people, the Scottish metropolis was not the least conspicuous for its violence in the cause of mistaken freedom. At length Government considered it necessary to interfere in repres sing the dissemination of these destructive doctrines: prosecutions had already been commenced against several of the leading zealots, when our publisher received a sum mons to appear before the Sheriff, who demanded of him to give up the name of the author of the "Political Progress of Great Britain," a series of essays that had appeared in the Bee. This he peremptorily refu sed to do, requesting that he might be con

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