Spenfer, Viscount Althorpe, high fteward of St. Alban's, and prefident of the British Lyingin Hofpital. His lordship was born December 18, 1734; and on December 27, 1755, married Georgiana, eldest daughter of the late Right Honourable Stephen Poyntz, and by her ladyship had iffue George John, Viscount Althorpe, (to whom the title and eftate devolve) born Sept. 1, 1758; Lady Georgiana, born June 7, 1757, married to the Duke of Devonshire; Lady Henrietta Frances, born July 16, 1761, and married to the Right Honourable William Ponfonby, Viscount Duncannon in Ireland, only fon of the Earl of Befborough, cne of the lords of the admiralty, and member of parliament for the borough of Knaresborough, in Yorkshire; and Lady Charlotte, born August 25, 1765. His lordship was created Viscount Spenfer, and Baron of Althorpe, April 3, 1761; and advanced to the dignities of Viscount Althorpe, and Earl Spenfer, Oct. 5, 1765. In Howard Street, aged 75, Richard Palmer, Efq. the laft furviving brother of the late Sir Thomas Palmer, Bart. and uncle of Sir John Palmer, Bart. of Carlton, in Northamptonshire. At Bath, Mrs. Mary Raleigh, only furviving defcendant in a direct line from Sir Walter Raleigh. At Sudbury, in Middlesex, the Honourable Mifs Howe, fifter of the late and aunt of the prefent Lord Chedworth. At Petersburg, Monfieur Euler, who was reckoned the greatest mathematician fince the days of Newton and Leibnitz. He acquired his high fame under the patronage of the King of Pruffia, who made him prefident of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Berlin; but having had fome difference with that monarch, he applied to the Emprefs of Ruffia, who gave him the fame honourable charge in the Imperial Academy of Peterfburgh, with a princely provifion. When he left Berlin, he was fucceeded by a gentleman from Turin, in Piedmont, called Signor La Grangia, who ftill holds the place of prefident in the faid Academy of Berlin, and has given repeated proofs of the moft tranfcendent abilities, in every branch of the mathematics. The first prefident of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Berlin was Maupertuis, the great antagonist of Voltaire. Euler was made prefident after the decease of Maupertuis. At Paris, on the 27th inftant, Monfieur D'Alembert, fecretary to the French Academy, &c. who was one of the ableft mathematicians of the age; and, what is rather extraordinary, he joined to his profound and truly astonishing skill in the abstract sciences, all the accomplishments of an elegant, vivacious, and entertaining writer. He was one of the principal editors of the Encyclopædia; and, befides his numerous mathematical works, which will tranfmit his name to the remoteft pofterity, though within the reach of very few readers, he has produced feven volumes of Melanges Literaires, containing various tracts on different topics. In thefe productions, learning, genius, and wit, feem to go hand in hand, like the graces, forming an immortal wreath for the author. It is impoffible to bestow a fufficient encomium on his tranflation of Excerpta from Ta citus: he has equalled the arduous precision of the original, and attained what a prodigious number of literati before him attempted in different languages, without any fort of fuccefs. He was honoured with the patronage and friendship of several monarchs, a circumstance that could never awake the leaft fymptom of vanity in his untainted heart. The Emprefs of Ruffia wishing to entrust him with the education of the Grand Duke her fon, propofed to settle on him four thousand pounds fterling per annum for life, befides the rank of an ambaffador-extraordinary, while ha fhould refide at her court. D'Alembert thanked her Imperial Majefty, and declined her intended favour in modeft and fubmiffive terms. This fa& is well known, and will ever be recorded as a fingular inftance of philofophical fortitude, against the powerful incentives of gold and ambition. Monfieur D'Alembert had not the pedantic parade of virtue, but poffeffed the actual fubftance; and while, in his intellectual faculties, he ap peared a fuperior being, in all his worldly concerns he difcovered the meekness of a lamb, and the fimplicity of a dove. CIVIL PROMOTIONS. William Lucas, Efq. to be his Majesty's chief juftice of the Islands of Grenada and the Grenadines, in America. Ashton Warner Byam, Efq. to be his Majesty's attorney-general, and Kenneth Francis Mackenzie, Efq. to be his Majesty's folicitor-general, in the faid iflands. George Phillips Towry, Efq. to be one of the commiflioners for victualling his Majesty's navy, in the room of Jonas Hanway, Efq. who retires. The Right Honourable Lord William Cavendifh Bentincke, to the office of clerk of the Pipe, in the room of Sir John Shelley, Bart. deceased. Henry Murray, Efq. to be enfign of his Majefty's guard of the yeomen of the guard, in the room of John Benjafield, Efq. who has refigned. Charles Hawkins, Efq. to be furgeon of his Majefty's houfhold, in the room of George Hawkins, Efq. deceased. Mr. Needham, late furgeon of the fecond troop of horse-guards, to be furgeon to the houshold of the Bishop of Ofnaburgh, in Hanover. Rogers, Efq. fecretary to Lord Keppel, to be one of the commiffioners of the navy. The Right Honourable Lord George Auguftus Henry Cavendish, to be colonel of the Derbyshire militia, in the room of his Grace the Duke of De vonshire, who has refigned. MILITARY PROMOTIONS. War Office, October 7, 1783. 2d Regiment of Foot. Love Parry Jones, from half-pay of Major Waller's late corps of foot, to be captain of a company. War-Office, October 11, 1783. ift Troop of Horfe Guards. George Mercer, to be exempt and captain. Newdigate Poyntz, clerk, to be chaplain. War-Office, October 18, 1783. 60th Regiment of Foot, 3d Battalion. Bla den ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS. The Rev. Thomas Heardfon Wayett, to the rectory of Sutterby, in the county and diocese of Lincoln. The Rev. Thomas Lloyd, to the rectory of Langoedmawr, in Cardiganshire. The Rev. John Ramfay, to the rectory of Barton St. Andrew, in Norfolk. The Rev. Dr. Kaye, sub-almoner to his Majefty, to the deanery of Lincoln, in the room of Dr. Cuft, deceated. The Rev. Erafmus Druery, to the rectory of Mundefley, in Norfolk. The Rev. Mr. James Bannerman, to the church of Cargill, in the prefbytery of Perth, vacant by the death of the Rev. Mr. James Gow. The Rev. William Lowther, M. A. to hold the rectory of Lowther, in the county of Weftmoreland and diocefe of Carlifle,together with that of Diflington, in the county of Cumberland and diocefe of Chester. The Rev. Edward Wilfon, D. D. to hold the rectory of Hartfield, together with that of Afhburft, in the county of Suffex and diocefe of Chichester. The Rev. Jofeph Hudfon, D. D. to hold the vicarage of Warkworth, together with that of Newburne, in Northumberland. The Rev. Henry Woodcock, LL. B. to hold the rectory of Coffington, together with the vicarage of Bothley, both in the county of Leicester and diocese of Lincoln. The Rev. John Hewit, M. A. to hold the vicarage of Royston, Herts; together with that of Feltham, Middlesex. The Rev. Nathaniel Bridges, B. D. to hold the rectory of Waddenhoe, with that of Orlingbury, in the county of Northampton. BANKRUPTS. Matthew Hibberd, late of Andover, Hants, dealer and chapman. Edward Merfon, of Ilminster, Somersetshire, shopkeeper. Benjamin Bateman, late of Woodstock Street, Hanover Square, wine- merchant. Richard Edwards, late of Chefter, linen-draper. John Nash, formerly of Lambeth, Surrey, and late of Great Ruffel Street, Bloomsbury, carpenter. Daniel Bamford, late of Ipfwich, Suffolk, coffee-house keeper. William Gould, late of Alport, Derbyshire, wool-ftapler, but now a prisoner in the cuftody of the sheriff for the county of Derby. William Burlton, late of Donhead St. Mary, Wiltshire, merchant and falter. William Underwood Wilfon, of Green Walk, Christ Church, Surrey, coal-merchant. William Gafkill, of Bread Street, Cheapfide, London, ironmonger. Charles Lindegren, Andrew Lindegren the younger, and Claes Grill, of Dunster's Court, Mincing Lane, London, merchants. Richard Ledger, of Ropemaker's Alley, Little Moorfields, cabinet-maker. James Cole, of Bath, innholder. Edward Lucas, of High Holborn, St. Giles in the Fields, dealer and chapman. Henry Gooch and Thomas Cotton, of Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, merchants. Andrew Lindegren the younger, of Portsmouth, Hampshire, merchant. Thomas Parfons, of Cirencefter, Gloucesterfhire, tanner. John Brown, late of Oxford, dealer in fpirituous liquors. George Attley, of Jermyn Street, St. James, Weftminster, linen-draper. Benjamin Marshall, of Goodman's Fields, cornfactor. Alexander Graham, of Watling Street, London, merchant. William Gooch, of Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, beer-brewer. Samuel Butler, of St. Clement Danes, Middlefex, dealer and chapman. William Hartley, of Newgate Street, London, cabinet-maker. Samuel Beale, of Wribbenhall, Kidderminfter, Worcester, trow and barge owner. Thomas Miller, of Kirby Kendal, Weftmoreland, ironmonger. James Gowen, of Sunderland, near the fea, grocer. John Lane, of Sittingbourne, Kent, apothe cary. Robert Taylor, of Southwark, dealer in horfes. Lawrence Lee, of the Minories, London, pinmaker. Daniel Fitch, late of Kilburn, Middlesex, jeweller. Robert Mather and Anthony Mather, of Wooler, Northumberland, linen-drapers and haberdafhers. James Tozer the younger, of Kentisbear, Devonshire, dealer and chapman. Robert Andrews, of Bristol, innholder. Thomas Skey, of Bristol, cyder merchant. William Argent, of Great Warley, Effex, farmer. John Hawkins, of Friday Street, London, mer chant. Francis Holmes, of Warwick, grocer. 3 BRITISH MAGAZINE AND REVIEW; OR, UNIVERSAL MISCELLANY. NOVEMBER 1783. Enriched with the following truly elegant ENGRAVINGS: 1. A moft delightful VIEW of LUXBOROUGH, in Effex, the Seat of Rear Admiral SIR EDWARD HUGHES, K.B. 2, An interefting Scene in ELIZA; or, The FAIR FUGITIVE: a Moral Tale. Printed for HARRISON and Co. No. 18, Paternofter-Row; by whom Letters to the EDITORS are received, M ASTER Lenox has begged us to apologize for delaying the Conclufion of his Fairy Tale, which he promises to compleat in the first Week of his enfuing Holidays. Amintor's elegant Verfes to the Rev. Mr. Mavor, on not lately feeing any Production from the Pen of that Gentleman, cannot be inferted, the Propriety of their Appearance being precluded by a very beautiful little Piece, which appears in the prefent Number. The Lines, however, will with Pleasure be tranfmitted by the Editors to the Perfon to whom they are inscribed, and who well merits the handfome Eulogiums with which he has been complimented by kindred Genius. Amintor will foon receive a private Letter refpecting the Production about which he enquired. The Editors of the British Magazine and Review cannot condefcend to reprint a Paper which has been published in another Mifcellany, however interefting originally, and how greatly foever it may have fince been improved by the ingenious Author. O. S. will readily discover for whom this Obfervation is intended. The Elegy written in Auburn Church Yard contains little or no Novelty: indeed, though we doubt not that the Author is a Man of Senfe, from the feveral Specimens of his Poetry he has occafionally tranfmitted us, we are of Opinion that he is not likely ever to become any confiderable Favourite of the Mufes, The Married Man's Soliloquy,' inferted in our Poetical Department for October, and which was tranfmitted by the Gentleman who favours the Editors with the elegant Productions of Matilda of New York, fhould not have been printed with that Lady's Signature. TO THE EDITORS OF THE BRITISH MAGAZINE AND REVIEW. I OBSERVE in your laft Number for October, a Poem, or Ode to Senfibility, under the Name of J-W-d, Namptwich; which is really the Production of your old Correfpondent ORDOVIX PHILOPATRIS. "Hos ego "Verficulos feci, &c."-This Ode appeared about a Year ago in one of the • Chester Papers, under the Signature PHILANTHROPOS;" and I beg the Favour of you to undeceive the Public in this Refpect.' The elegant and well-authenticated Memoirs of her Royal Highnefs the DUTCHESS of GLOUCESTER, with which the Editors have just been honoured, will certainly appear in our next, accompanied by a fine Portrait of the Dutchess. DR. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. HIS renowned printer, philo Tropher, and politician, who has fo largely contributed to the difunion of the British empire, is the fon of a tallow-chandler at Bofton in New England, where he was born in January 1706. BIOGRAPHY. After receiving a very tolerable education, he was apprenticed to a printer at Boston, by fome faid to have been his uncle; and foon began to manifeft that difdain of the established government which has fince procured him a name, by fcribbling in flammatory effays on the conduct of the General Court, for which he was obliged to quit the province. Having for fome time wandered about the continent, he at length procured a paffage to England, and worked in London as a journeyman; particularly at Mr. Watts's, a celebrated printer, in Wild Court, Wild Street, where it is well remembered that he by no means difcovered the fmalleft trait of any extraordinary abilities. It was not for a man of his ambitious turn of mind to remain long in a fituation where he was incapable of btaining any pre-eminence: and, as he foon discovered that many hundred men of more brilliant talents than thofe with which Nature had endued him, were in London deftined to re main in inferior conditions, he took an early opportunity of recroffing the Atlantic. On his arrival in America, he contrived to establish himself in a fmall printing-office, and began to publish a newspaper, which he for fome years conducted. As the Doctor was always a most rigid œconomist, he by degrees acquired a confiderable property; and the nature of his profeffion gaining him credit for scientific abilities, he became a confpicuous member in the Philofophical Society at Philadelphia, which was honoured with the correfpondence of the late Peter Collinfon, Efq. and a few other members of the Royal Society in London. By means of thefe gentlemen, every European difcovery in the Arts and Sciences, as well as every new literary performance of eminence, was conftantly tranfmitted to America; and, as the Doctor first took up his idea of electricity from productions fent in this way by Mr. Collinfon, who had procured them from Germany, where the fubject was firft handled with fuccefs, 2 T 2 he |