The Librarian Don Pellicer has able or willing to carry it into execu published his Enquiries into the Ori- tion. It has at length been undergin of the City of Madrid, its popu- taken under favourable circumlation under the Moors, and since stances. M. M. Zozima, who posunder the Christians. Lon Juan Lopez has translated and commented on such parts of the Geography of Strabo as refer to Spain. GREEK LITERATURE. sess, at the same time, the necessary pecuniary resources, and the most ardent zeal for the honour of their country, have resolved to dedicate part of their fortune to the publication of a Bibliotheca Græca, consisting of the best classic authors. The Greeks have, for some years, They have committed the superinbeen making great and successful ef- tendence of the edition to Dr. Coray, forts in the cultivation of the sciences a Greek; who, by his profound eruand literature. Many schools have dition and pure and correct taste, been established for the purpose of would have done honour to the best teaching the ancient tongue. To im- ages of antiquity. Europe ranks him prove the modern language, and the among the most learned and ingenious national taste, the best productions of critics of the time; a reputation which foreign writers have been translated. his labours in Theophrastus, HippoBut the most certain method of reviv- crates, Athenæus, and Heliodorus, ing in this country good taste, and the have justly gained for him. love of sound literature, is to multiply To complete the value of their Bibcopies of the best productions of liotheca, M. M. Zozima have commitGreek antiquity. By the study of ted it to the press of M. Firmin Didot. these great models; by the remem- He has cast new characters for the purbrance of former glory, which they pose, which are very beautiful. will revive, and the emulation which The generosity of the projectors of they will naturally inspire, modern this edition, has proceeded further. Greece may be replaced in the rank For the benefit of their countrymen, of enlightened countries. who are in lower circumstances, they Numberless editions of Greek au- propose to present copies to young thors have been published in Europe, persons, to whom the purchase might But in general they are little adapted be inconvenient, and whose diligence to the use of modern Greeks. They and improvement shall be attested by are generally incumbered by Latin their teachers. They will also present versions, and by a long apparatus of them to such masters as shall exert critical and grammatical observations, themselves with activity and persewhich can be of no use in Greek verance for the instruction of their schools, where the masters and scho- pupils. lars are equally ignorant of Latin, and Dr. Coray has written a preface to where the object is not so much to the volume, in modern Greek, in form critics, and men of erudition, as which he announces the plan of the to give instruction in language, and edition, and from which the precedaids to the formation of good taste. ing observations have been taken. He To facilitate the progress of informa- proposes to publish, in succession, tion in Greece, it is desirable to col- with their scholiasts, Homer, and the lect, in as few volumes as possible, the Homerida, Hesiod, the tragic writers, best writers, both in prose and verse, Aristophanes,Thucydides, Plato, Calto print them with the utmost correct- limachus, Apollonius, &c. He will ness, to introduce only such remarks insert only those various readings as are absolutely necessary, to unite which possess some probability. them in Greek, and to sell the edi- Where the text is indubitably cortions at a moderate price. rupt, and no correction is afforded by This simple and natural project of the coltation of editions or manuprinting, for the use of modern scripts, Dr. Coray will print it accordGreeks, the best of their ancient writ- ing to his own conjectures, or those of ings, has perhaps occurred to the other critics, but will always faithfully minds of many persons, who, for want preserve the common reading in the of means and zeal, have not been margin. 1 These editions, though principally and which is of great utility by the intended for the use of » ödern Greeks, light which it throws on the ancient will probably be received with appro- tongue.. bation in the rest of Europe. There is annexed to the preface, a The corrections of so ingenious and piece of considerable length, written learned a scholar as Dr. Coray, will also in modern Greek, in which, ungive them great value in the eyes of derthe modest title of hasty and extemall who are engaged in the critical porary thoughts (στοχασμο αυτοσχείν) study of the Greek authors. They are found some curious details rewill be valuable also for their typogra- specting the defects of instruction in phical correctness. The notes, though Greece, and on Greek grammar conwritten in ancient Greek, will occa- sidered in a philosophical point of sion no obstruction to the reader, for view. Dr. Coray skilfully developes they who understand the text a little, the theory of the middle verb, which will understand the commentary with is well understood by European schoease. The preface, and accounts of lars, but is totally unknown to the moauthors, will be written in the vulgar dern Greeks. Some valuable gramidiom; and it wil be fortunate, if matical observations occur respecting curiosity to read them shall contribute the common dialect, adverbs, propoto spread the study of a modern Lansitions, pronouns, the number of conguage which is too much neglected, jugations, &c. H ENTERTAINMENTS AND EXHIBITIONS. AY-MARKET, June 22.-This Hamlet, without exposing himself to evening M. YOUNG, who has the charge of affected innovation. for son e years possessed a high repu- He displayed judgment and feeling, tation as an actor, on provincial and altogether manifested very strong boards, lastly at Manchester, made his claims to a distinguished situation on first appearance b before a London au- the London boards. He was received dience, in the character of Hamlet, with zealous applause throughout, not Mr. Young has a well-proportioned the mere effect of liberality which infigure of the middle size. His face is fluences an audience on the first apregular, and capable of strong expres- pearance of a performer before them, sion, but not of much variety. His but evidently from a high opinion of eye is intelligent, but he is too much his talents. in the habit of contracting the lids, which may give him an appearance OPERA-HOUSE, June 9.--This of shrewdness, but prevents his coun- evening Mr. Kelly revived the opera tenance from having due animation. of It Barbiere di Siciglia. It is one of His voice is powerful and extensive; the most pleasing of the comic operas, his tones never harsh and unmusical, and with the powerful assistance of and some of them soft and pathetic. MORELLI in the Barber, was exccedHe speaks distinctly, but at times with ingly well performed. The trio of Matoo much labour. His action is natu- dam Perini, and Signors Naldi and ral, and by no means redundant, and Siboni, in the first act, was delightbis performance was evidently the ef- fully sung and loudly encored. fect of an attentive consideration of the part. He did not appear to follow implicitly the track of others, but to act from the reflections and impulses of his own mind. Madame CATALANI has renewed her engagement for the next season, at an advanced rate. Five Thousand guineas, and two benefits, one of which is insured to produce 1000l. It would be difficult, if not impos- It is said, that after this season, sible, for Mr. Young to attempt to Madamoiselle PARISOT retires from throw new light on the character of the Opera. ADDITIONS TO, AND CORRECTIONS IN, FORMER OBITUARIES. Dr. WM. HAMILTON, whose Death distinct; that intuitive perception, was announced vol. v11. p. 467. which, amidst obscure prognostics, E was born of a very respectable amidst complicated and contradictory but had the misfortune to lose his fa- the disease, and suggest the most efther before his birth. The paternal fectua. means of counteracting it;estate, though not ample, was more this precisely was the distinctive feathan adequate to the expenses of a ture of Dr. Hamilton's mind. Other liberal education; and his mother, minds might appear more brilliant; who is yet living, sent him at a proper other tongues more eloquent; other age to one of the first grammar-schools physicians might display a more winin Dublin, then kept by Dr. Darby, ning address ;-but it may be affirmed to acquire the elements of classical with safety, that, in this essential qualearning. When properly qualified, he was entered at the University of Glasgow, where he passed through the regular course of general study. Having thus laid in a competent stock of preparatory knowledge, he commenced his medical studies at Edinburgh, under the professors of that school. He was too ambitious of excellence to neglect the advantages of a situation so favourable to improvement; and a mind like his could not rest satisfied with those elements of science which the routine of academical lectures, given by the ablest men, can furnish. He was early impressed with the dignity and importance of a profession in which the health and lives of men are so deeply concerned; and determined to neglect no means and spare no expense that might qualify him for the complete discharge of his professional duties. With this view, after taking his degree at Edinburgh, he visited the principal cities of Holland, France, Italy, and Germany; examined both the merits and defects of their public hospitais; and studiously observed the medical practice of Europe in all its variety. lification, no man of his time surpassed him. Yet, though thus educated, and thus endowed, and though at an early period of his life he was chosen one of the physicians to the London Hospital, where he enjoyed all the advantages for experience which such an establishment presents, his practice for many years was very limited. He could not stoop to those arts which succeed most surely with vulgar minds, and he neither affected that indifference which seeks the reputation of superiority by setting the world at defiance, nor the milky softness and pliancy of demeanor which cunning assumes for the ends of selfishness. The prominent feature in his character was simplicity; and his early determination was, that if he could not rise with dignity, he would fall without incurring contempt.Hence it was that no consideration could induce him to whine with the indolent rich over imaginary complaints, or to flatter their vanity by chiming in with their folly. There was in his manner, indeed, somewhat of the bluntness which is so frequently the concomitant of unbending rectitude, and which the undiscerning confound with pride or surliness. But those, who were acquainted with Dr. Hamilton, well know that his only pride was that which is the opposite of meanness; that, under this appearance of bluntness in his exterior deportment, he possessed a heart truly benevolent and humane; and thus no man had more the power of attaching and preserving the friendship of these who were capable of appreciating Such was Dr. Hamilton's preparation for settling as a physician in this metropolis; and it must be admitted that the most liberal education could go no farther. But there is an advantage which education, though it may improve, cannot bestow, and without which the mere acquisitions of science are more likely to mislead than to be useful. That sagacity which is the first and highest requisite in a medical practitioner; that power of discriminating readily and surely between real worth. cases apparently similar, yet really UNIVERSAL MAG. VOL. VIII. We have spoken of Dr. Hamilton an enthusiastic admirer of the politics, if not of the personal charms, of Mrs. Catherine Macauley; and so fond of conversation, that he almost literally talked himself to death. By this event, which happened May 11, 1779, Mr. Charles Dilly became the sole proprietor of a very valuable trading concern, which he continued to cuf tivate with that industry and application, which in this great commercial metropolis almost invariably leads to opulence. as a physician only, because in that his regular assiduity was considerably character he was the most generally extended. Mr. Edward Dilly was a known. But it cannot be supposed man of great pleasantry of manners, that a man of his enlarged mind would remain an unconcerned spectator of those wonde. ful events which have agitated the world for the last seventeen years. Independence, personal and national, was the object of his idolatry; and he wished it not for one kingdom, but for the great family of mankind. It was therefore natural for him to hail the dawn of independence in France, and to feel indignant at that interference in her domestic concerns in which he either saw, or thought he saw, a decided hostility to the cause In 1782, on a vacancy of an Alderof freedom. This dawn proved de- man for the ward of Cheap, Mr. Dilly ceitful; and he lamented the result was invited to accept the scarlet gown, of a revolution from which he had but declined that honourable office in fondly expected so much good to the favour of Mr. Boydell. That of Sheriff human race. But he was not to be he escaped on the plea of nonconalarmed into the approbation of formity. With the fortunes of Edslavery, by the unhappy failure of a ward, Charles also inherited his good great attempt. He could hate the in- qualities; and though neither of them cidental usurpation of a Cromwell, had many pretensions to literature, without apostatizing from the party of a Holles and a Hampden. they were zealous in cultivating the friendship of the literati. Their purWith so many claims to respect and chases of copy-right were in such a affection as Dr. Hamilton possessed, liberal style as had, before their time, it becomes unnecessary to add, that been wholly unknown. The hospitable his death is the cause of unfeigned table, which Edward was famed for regret to a numerous circle, who have spreading, was continued by Charles, lost in him both the skilful physician not with a prodigal but with an unand the faithful friend, for in both capacities he attached unbounded confidence. To his family his loss is irreparable; but they enjoy at least the melancholy satisfaction of knowing how much he was honoured when living, and how sincerely he is mourned by all who enjoyed his intimacy or were acquainted with his worth. CHARLES DILLY, Esq. whose Death was announced vol. v11. p. 467. sparing hand. His parties were not large, but they were frequent, and in general so judiciously grouped, as to create a pleasantry of intercourse not often to be found in mixed companies. Here Johnson and Wilkes forgot the animosities of whig and tory.-Here high church divines and pillars of the meeting-house relinquished their po lemics, and enjoyed uninterrupted conviviality.-Here Cumberland contributed his full portion to the general hilarity of conversation.-Here Knox Hfordshire, on the 22d of May, planned and matured not a few of his 1739, of which county his eldest bro- valuable essays.-Here Isaac Reed was ther, John Dilly, Esq. served the office sure to delight, whether in the mood of High Sheriff in 1788. Edward to be a patient hearer, with now and Dilly, the next brother, was a book- then a short oracular response, or ocseller of great eminence in the Poultry, casionally displaying those rich stores particularly in the line of American of erudition which he possessed.— exportation; and so extensive were Here Crakelt refined on the labours of his connexions, that he was happy to an Entick. If ever the strict rule of avail himself of the assistance of his decorum was by chance infringed on, brother Charles; who, after making it was on those occasional days when, a short tour in America, became a unavoidable business preventing the partner in Edward's trade, which by master of the house from sitting so long with his guests as he could wish, Coulson, of Bedford, 100%. a year; to the pleasure of entertaining them was deputed to his pleasant friend James Boswell; who sometimes, in that capacity, has tried the strength of the oldest binn. Miss Coulson, one of his residuary legatees, 2000/.; to the children of her sister, Mrs. Seilman, 1000.; to the Miss Davies's, 2000. each; to Mrs. Bodman and Mrs. May, all his shares After a life of uninterrupted labour in the Lancaster canal. And besides for more than forty years, Mr. Dilly other legacies, he has given rings of almost on a sudden relinquished busi- ten guineas each to Mr. Alderman ness, which he disposed of, on terms Domville, and to Messrs H. Baldwin, mutually beneficial, to Mr. Mawman J. Nicholls, Conant, Hughs, and Daof York. But the transition was too vies. The residue of his property, abrupt for Mr. Dilly; he found him- supposed to be about 60,000l. to Miss self a solitary being, without the re- Coulson, the two Miss Davie, Mrs. source of an affectionate family to cheer Bodman, and Mrs. May; who are all his vacant hours; and, in the midst of of hem maternally related, his own affluence, he soon began to regret the name being now extinct. By the death loss of the counting-house and very of his brothers and an only sister, all pleasant rooms in the Poultry, and of them unmarried, the fortunes of actually acquired such a dejection of the whole family became centered in spirits as to occasion no small alarm hin. to his friends. He was luckily, however, persuaded to adopt, in Brunswick-row, Queen-square, the sociability, if not the employment, of the Poultry; and, by the repeated visits of some intimates whom he highly esteemed, he was in a great measure roused from his melancholy, and continued to enjoy a few years of real comfort. In his life-time he gave 700%. consols to the company of stationers, of which he was master in 1800, for the purpose of securing perpetual annuities of ten guineas each to the widows of two liverymen of that company. A very few weeks, also, before his death he gave 100. to the seabathing infirmary at Margate; to which very excellent institution he has added 2001. more by his last will; with the like sum to the society for the relief of per sons confined for small debts. He has given 100% to the society for the relief of the indigent blind; 100%. to the society for relief of the deaf and dumb; and 100% to the dispensary in RedLion-street, He has also remembered some of his old friends To Daniel Braithwaite, Esq. J. O. Trotter, Esq. and Miss Cumberland, he has given 1000l. each; to Dr. Lettsom, Dr. Elliot, the Rev, J. H. Todd, and Mary Fowler, widow, 500l. each. Among the other legacies are, to Mrs. Crakelt, wife of Mr. Crakelt, 20%. a year; to her daughter, Mrs. Eyland, 20l. a year; to Mrs. Mary Greaves, the daughter of his half-sister, 521. a year; to Mrs. Mr. He had lately, for the benefit of his health, taken a journey to Ramsgate, on a visit to Mr. Cumbe laud, who happened to be at Tunbridge Wells with Sir James Bland Burges. Dilly arrived at Ramsgate on Saturday, the 2d of May; and was, on Sunday evening, attacked by an oppression of breathing, which took him off on the following morning. He was buried on the 12th, in the cemetery of St. George the Martyr, Queen-square, in a grave nearly adjoining that in which the famous Robert Nelson was deposited in 1715; the funeral being attended by some of his oldest and most valued friends. Dr. DOUGLAS, Bison of Salisbury, an Account of whose Life was given vol. VII. p. 537. IN 1796, he was entered a Com moner of t. Mary Hall, and remained there till 1788, when he removed to Baliol College, on being elected an exhibitioner on Bishop Warner's foundation. In 1741, he took his bachelor's degree; and in 1742, in order to acquire a facility of speaking French, he went abroad, and remained for some time at Montreal in Pica dv, and afterwards at Ghent in Flanders. Having been ordained dacon in 1744, he was appointed to officiate as chaplain to the third regi ment of foot guards, which he joined when serving with the combined army in Flanders. During the time he filled this situation, he employed him |