cept the old castle, which is now used as a brewhouse. It is 28 miles N E. of Breslau. Lon. 17. 50 E. Lat. 51. 19 N.

WARTON (Joseph, D. D.), was born either towards the end of the year 1721, or in the beginning of the year 1722. He was the eldest son of Thomas Warton, B. D. who had been fellow of Magdalen college, Oxford; poetry professor from the year 1718 to 1728; and Vicar of Basingstoke in Hampshire, and of Cobham in Surrey. Where the subject of this memoir was born we have not learned, though, were we to hazard a conjecture, we would say that it was in Oxford, as his father probably resided in that city during his professorship.

ceived the first part of his education at Wine chester, and then went to Trinity college, Oxford. In 1745 he published five pastoral eclogues, in which he beautifully describes the miseries of war, to which the shepherds of Germany were exposed. But his Triumph of Isis, in answer to Mr. Mason's Isis, chiefly exalted his reputation. In 1751 he succeeded to a fellowship of his college, and in 1756 he was elected professor of poetry, which office he held for the usual term of ten years.-In 1771 he was was presented to the living of Kiddington in Oxfordshire. His History of English Poetry, the first volume of which appeared in 1774, evinces a singular combination of extraordinary talents and attainments. In Our knowledge of the private history of Dr. 1785, upon the death of Mr. Whitehead, the Warton is indeed extremely limited. We do appointment of poet-laureat was conferred on not even know at what school, or in what him, and at the same time he was elected college, he was educated; though it was pro- Camden professor of ancient history. His last bably at Winchester school, and certainly in publication consisted of notes on Milton's some of the colleges in the university of Ox- smaller poems. He died rather suddenly in ford. For many years, he was successively his college in May, 1790. under and upper master of Winchester college; but resigned the last of these officers when he found the infirmities of age coming upon him; and was succeeded by Dr. Goddard, the present excellent master. He was likewise prebendary of the cathedral church of Winchester, and rector of Wickham in Hampshire, where he died, aged 78.

His publications are few, but valuable. A small collection of poems, without a name, was the first of them, and contained the Ode to Fancy, which has been so much and so deservedly admired. They were all of them afterwards printed in Dodsley's collection. He was also a considerable contributor to the Adventurer, published by Dr. Hawkesworth; and all the papers which contain criticisms on Shakspeare were written by him and his brother, Thomas Warton, the subject of the next article.

The first volume of his Essay on the Life and Writings of Pope was published, and passed through several editions, and an interval of between twenty and thirty years had elapsed before he gave a second volume of that elegant and instructive work to the world. He had not only meditated, but had collected materials for a literary history of the age of Leo X; and proposals were actually in circulation for a work of that kind; but it is probable that the duties of his station did not leave him the necessary leisure for an undertaking which required years of seclusion and independence. His last and late work, which he undertook for the booksellers at a very advanced age, was an edition of Pope's Works, that has not altogether satisfied the public expectation. He retained, with great propriety indeed, many of the notes of Warburton, but is severely reprehended by the author of the Pursuits of Literature for suppressing the name of that prelate on his title page, or including it only, as subordinate to his own, in the general expression others. WARTON (Thomas), poet-laureat, brother of the preceding, was born in 1728. He re

WARTWORT, in botany. See EUPHOR

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WARTY. a. (from wart.) Grown over with warts.

WARWICK, a borough and the capital of Warwickshire, governed by a mayor, with a market on Saturday. It was fortified with a wall, now in ruins; but has still a fine castle of the ancient earls of Warwick, inhabited by the present possessor of that title. The town was nearly destroyed by fire in 1694, and now principally consists of one regular built street, at each end of which is an ancient gate. It had formerly six monasteries and six churches; of the latter two only remain: it has likewise a handsome shirehouse, a good free-school, and a noted hospital for twelve decayed gentlemen. In 1801 the number of inhabitants was 5592. It is situate on a rocky eminence, on the river Avon, 10 miles S.S.W. of Coventry, and 90 N.W. of London. Lon. 1. 35 W. Lat. 52. 17 N.

WARWICK, a town of Virginia, capital of a county; seated on the right bank of James river, 15 miles S.E. of Richmond.

WARWICK, a town of Maryland, in Cecil county, on the east shore of Chesapeak bay, 15 miles S.W. of Philadelphia.

WARWICK, a town of Rhode Island, chief of Kent county. It has a cotton manufacture, and is situate at the head of Narraganset bay, eight miles south of Providence.

WARWICKSHIRE, a county of England, 47 miles long and 30 broad; bounded at its N. extremity by a point of Derbyshire, on the N.W. by Staffordshire, on the N.E. by Leicestershire, on the west by Worcestershire, an the east by Northamptonshire, on the S.W. by Gloucestershire, and on the S.E. by Ox fordshire. It lies partly in the diocese of Lichfield and Coventry, and partly in that of Wor cester; contains four hundreds, and one liberty, one city, twelve market towns, 158 parishes, and sends six members to parliament. In 1811 the number of inhabitants was 218,893.

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bius, he shewed himself master of military surpassed them far in wisdom, in moderation,

stratagems, and while some blamed his precautions as cowardice, he proved that he could fight whenever he calculated upon the prospect of decisive advantages or certain victory. A more rash general might have endangered the safety of his country, by facing openly the disciplined troops of England, but the sagacious general knew that cautious operations would prove more decisive than the most brilliant victory over an enemy, whose resources were supplied with difficulty from distant Europe. After seeing the independence of his country established in 1783, the heroic chief resigned his high office of commander to the congress, and in the midst of the applauses, the admiration, and the tears of his fellow citizens, he retired to a private station. With firmness he declined the honours offered to him by the gratitude of America, he defrayed all his military expences during the eight years of the war, and modestly declared himself satisfied with the recollection of his services, and the good opinion of his fellow citizens. In 1789 he was named president, for which his wisdom and moderation so fully qualified him. It was a period of difficulty; the unsubdued spirit of liberty in America was again kindled into a flame by the revolution of France, and not a few of the Americans sighed at home for that equality which seemed to promise more extensive happiness to the renovated subjects of Lewis XVI. Washington anticipated the plans of the factious, the prudence of his administration checked insurrection, discontent was silenced, and the people, whom the intrigues of the French envoy roused to rebellion, were convinced of the wildness of their measures, and of the wisdom of their governor. The president completed in 1796 the business of his office by signing a commercial treaty with Great Britain, and then resigned at a moment when all hearts and all hands were united again to confer upon him the sovereignty of the country. Restored to Mount Vernon, he devoted himself to the cultivation of his lands, and though he accepted the command of the army in 1798, it was more to unite together his fellow citizens to one general point, the good of the country, than to gratify ambition or pride. He expired at his seat rather unexpectedly, after a few days illness, 14th Dec. 1799. He was buried with national honours. America, in a public mourning, deplored in him the loss of her father and her friend, and a new city was erected on the borders of the Potomac, which, in becoming the capital of the United States, records to distant times, by bearing his name, the patriotisin and the glories of her illustrious founder. Wisdom, says a contemporary writer, was the predominant feature in the character of Washington. His patience, his forbearance, his firmness, in adverse as well as in prosperous events, proved of more solid advantage to his country than his bravery and talents. Though, perhaps, inferior to other great characters in the extent of his ideas, and the boldness of his plans, he

in integrity. The history of his life is the his tory of American independence, and though there may be men who deery his services, while they forget his disinterested resignation of sovereign authority, it is much to be feared that many generations shall not elapse, before some equally fortunate but more ambitious chief may boldly seize the reins of absolute dominion, and establish an usurped power over the liberties of his enslaved country. A copious account of his life has been published by judge Marshall in five large vols. 8vo.; and an interesting collection of his official letters to con gress during the American war, by Dr. Carey, in 2 vols. 8vo.

WASHINGTON, the name of several coun. ties in the United States of America: namely, in Rhode Island, in New York, in Pennsyl vania, in Maryland, in Virginia, in Tenassee, in North Carolina, in South Carolina, and in Georgia. These, and several towns of the same name, take their denomination from the illustrious general Washington, who was elected the first president of the United States in 1788.

WASHINGTON, a commercial town of the United States, in North Carolina, seated on the river Tar, 38 miles N. by E. of Newbern. Lon. 77. 3 E. Lat. 34. 40 N.

WASHINGTON, a town in the state of Georgia, in the county of Wilkes. A mile and a half from this town is a medicinal spring which has been found very beneficial in rheumatic cases: it rises from a hollow tree, the inside of which is covered with a coat of nitre, an inch thick; and the leaves around the spring are incrusted with a substance as white as snow. It is 50 miles N.W. of Augusta. Lon. 82. 30 W. Lat. 33. 12 N.

WASHINGTON, a city of N. America, now the metropolis of the United States. It is seated at the junction of the rivers Potomac and the Eastern Branch, extending about four miles up each, including a tract of territory scarcely to be exceeded in point of convenience, salubrity, and beauty, by any in the world. This territory, called Columbia, lies partly in Virginia and partly in Maryland, and was ceded by these two states to the United States of America, and by them established to be the seat of government, after the year 1800. The plan combines convenience, regularity, elegance of prospect, a free circulation of air, and every thing grand and beautiful that can be introduced into a city. It is divided into squares or grand divisions, by streets running due N. and S., and E. and W.; which form the groundwork of the plan. But, from the capitol, the president's house, and some of the important areas in the city, run diagonal streets, from one material object to another, which not only produce a variety of charming prospects, but remove the insipid sameness which renders some great cities unpleasing. The great leading streets are all 160 feet wide, including a pavement of 10 feet, and a gravel walk of 30 feet planted with trees on each side,