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appears, that, belides fome fymptoms of infurrection in the northern parts of the filter kingdom, feveral depredations have lately been committed in the vicinage of the metropolis, accompanied with horrid cruelty: the Lord Lieutenant held a council on the 24th of October, when a proclamation was ordered to be iffued, offering zool. for each of the barbarians who had

murdered Mr. Allen, the fteward of the Lord Chancellor, in his bed at his Lordfhip's houfe, at Mount Shannon, near Limerick. A proclamation was also ordered at the fame time, directing veffels from Philadelphia and New York, or any part of the state Pennsylvania, to perform quarantine, on account of the epidemic fever prevailing there.

GREAT BRITAIN.

From what was ftated in our laft refpecting the fituation of the British army in Holland, it was by no means difficult to anticipate the total failure, and confequently the relinquishment of that unfortunate expedition; but the most painful anxiety arufe from the apparent difficulties which would attend the embarkation of the troops in the face of a powerful and conquering enemy. Happily the public mind was foon relieved from this anxiety by official difpatches from the Duke of York, dated Schagen Brug, October 20th, announcing a ceffation of hostilities, and that articles of capitulation had been en tered into by the English and Ruffians, by which they had fecured their peaceable and unmolested embarkation.

By the principal articles of this capitu. lation it was ftipulated, that the mounted batteries taken poffeffion of at the Helder, or at any other pofitions within the line occupied at the time of the agreement, by the combined English and Ruffian army, fhould be restored in the ftate in which they were taken (or, in case of improvement, in their present state), and all the Dutch artillery taken therein be preserved. That the combined English and Ruffian army fhould evacuate all the territories of the Dutch Republic by the 30th of November, 1799, without committing any devastation. That 8000 prifoners of war, French and Batavian, taken before the prefent campaign, and detained in England, fhould be restored without conditions

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to their respective countries. The choice of prisoners to be determined between the two Republics.

of the English and Ruffian army who had Agreeably to this convention that part furvived the battles and difficulties which they had encountered during their fhort abode in Holland were embarked for England as fpeedily as poffible. The remains of one regiment in particular which arrived at Margate, confifted of 400 men, which on its embarkation from that place for Holland confifted of 900 men. Several other regiments fuftained a much feverer lofs; which, in the whole, was not less in the English and Ruffian army than 15,000 officers of his staff, arrived in Westminster The Duke of York, and feveral early in the morning of the 4th of No

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Thus ended an expedition prepared at an enormous expence, and of which fuch fanguine expectations were entertained by his Majefty's Minifters.

Captain Young, of his Majefty's fhip Ethalion, states, in a letter to the Admiralty, that on the 16th of October, in latitude 44 deg. 53 min. longitude 9 deg. 53 min. he discovered three fail, evidently men of war, steering S. E. the fternmost of which proved to be his Majefty's ship Naiad, with two frigates of the enemy ahead, after which he made all poffible fail in chace; the next morning he came up with the headmoft, and, after firing two broadfides, and a running fight of an hour, she struck to the Ethalion; and proved to be the Thetis Spanish frigate, of 36 guns, and 250 men, from Vera Cruz, bound to Spain, with 1,411,526 dollars, and a quantity of cocoa on board. The Ethalion in this action had neither killed nor wounded; the Thetis had one man killed, and nine wounded.

Captain Pierrepont, of the Naiad, chaced and took the other frigate on the 18th, after fhe had rounded Cape Finisterre, and fhoved very close to the rocks of Monte Lora. The British frigates, the Triton and Alcmene, were in company with the Naiad, and all three clofed with the enemy amidst the rocks of Commanurto, at the entrance of Maros, when the Spanish colours were hauled down. She proved to be the Santa Brigada, and had on board 1,400,000 dollars, independent of a cargo of equal eftimation. In this fortunate action the English had one man killed, and ten wounded.

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ALPHABETICAL LIST of BANKRUPTCIES and DIVIDENDS announced between the 20th of October and the 20th of November, extracted from the London Gazettes.

BANKRUPTCIES.

(The Solicitors' Names are between Parentheses)

ALMOND, Thomas, Dowgate-hill, merchant. (Walton & Son, Girdler's-hall, Bafinghall-fireet) Andre, Philip, John-rect, Minories, merchant. (Palmer and Tomilufons, Throgmorton-street) Buckland, Chrift. Bethnal-green, money-ferivener. (Mr. Watkins, Featherstone-buildings)

Burdon, Wm. Chatham-place, money-fcrivener. (Mr. Kay, Great St. Helens)

Blane, Thomas, Walbrook, merchant. (Walton and Son,
Banghall-treet)

Battye, John, Wilfon-street, Moorfields, auctioneer. (Mr.
Wylde, Warwick-fquare)
Bainbridge, Matthew,

Gofwell-treet, taylor. (Mr.
Sherwin, Great James-ftreet, Bedford-row)
Bleafe, Jofeph, Liverpool, merchant. Mr. Battye,
Chancery-lane)

Baker, Edward, St. James's market, butcher. (Mr. Matthews, Caftie-freet, Holborn)

Bleafe, Jofeph, Liverpool, and John Wifeman, Ifle of St. Vincent, merchants. (Mr. Battye, Chancery-lane) Barrier, J. R. and J. J. Zornlin, Devonfire-fquare, merchants. (Mr. Eaton, Birchin lane)

Bush, Richard, Portfea, victualler. (Charles Betterworth, Portfea)

Bentall, William, Wilmflow, grocer. (Cooper and Lowe, Southampton-buildings)

Collier, John, Stockport, and Samuel Collier, Manchefter, cotton fpinner. (Mefirs. Edge, Manchester)

Chapman, William, Great Surry-freet, Black friars road, butcher. (H. Cheiter, Melina-place. St. George's-fields) Coombs, Ebenezer, St. James's, ftatiouer. (R Patton, Crossftreet, Hatton-garden)

Chubb, James, Bristol, dealer. (Mr. Elderton, Bristol) Dunne, William, Gloucefter-place, Pancrafs, furgeon and apothecary. (Mr. Bolton, No. 16, Great Ryder-street, St. James's)

Dalton, William, Brafted, haberdasher. (George Poole, Palgrave-place, Temple)

Fisher, William, Swine, and Francis Fisher, Wyton. (H Roffer, Kirby-street),

Fentham, H. H. Greville-freet, merchant. (Maddock & Co. Lincoln's-inn New-fquare)

Figgins, Robert, Devizes, feedfman. (Mr. Wood, St. Bartholomew's hofpital)

Farmer, William, Walfall, grocer.
Lincoln's-inn)

(Price & Williams,

Fisher, John William, Manchefter, and John Mangnall, Bolton, merchants. (Mr. Ellis, Curfitor-street)

Gruncifon, Charles, Abchurch-lane, merchant. (Gregg and Corfield, Skinners'-hall, Dowgate-hill)

Gyblett, Thomas, New Compton-street, Soho, guld-beater. (Thomas Williamfon, Clifford's-inn),

Howgreave, John, Leeds, victualler. (Mr. Battye, Chancery-lane)

Hufey, Hubert, Pall-Mail, taylor. (Mr. Dawson, Warwick-freet, Golden-fquare)

Henderson, John, St. Michael's-alley, Cornhill, merchant. (Crowder and Lavie, Old Jewry)

Hughes, John. St. Catharine's, provifion merchant. (Mr. Vowell, Crefcent. Lambeth-road)

Hall, Peter, Cateaton-itreet, factor. (Thomas Timbrell, Trowbridge, Wilts)

Hayward, John, Borough-road, Southwark, corn-chandler. (Mr. Smith, Villier's-treet)

Imms, Richard, Clare-market, oilman. (Thomas Williamfon, Clifford's-inn)

Johnfon, Thomas, Norton Falgate, chemift and druggift. (Wordefon, Hardy and Barton, Auftin Friars)

Jacob, Abraham, Radcliffe Highway, flop-feller. (George Fory, Leadenhall-street)

Kent, Adolphus and Matthew Pemberton, Lime-treetfquare, merchants. (Ward, Dennetts, and Greaves, Henrietta-fireet)

Kirkpatrick, Thomas, Cateaton-street, merchant. (Mr. Loxley, Cheapfide)

Kirk, Matthias, and John Fisher, Manchester, merchants. (Mr. Ellis, Curfitor-treet)

Lewis, Thomas, Liverpool, joiner and builder. (Mr. Windie, Bartlett's-buildings)

Lowe, Jofiah, and Daniel, New-ftreet, St. Martin's, jewellers. (Mr. Kibblewhite, Gray's-inn-place)

Lowe, William, Standish-with-Langtree, miller. (Richard Fox, Chorley)

Luning, J. W. Laurence Pountney-lane, merchant. (A. and J. Wefton, Fenchurch-street)

M Alliter, Edward, St. Andrew's, Holborn, victualler. (Thomas Holloway, Chancery lane)

Mullett, Thomas, St. Pancras, vintner. (Mr. Welchon,
Furnival's-inn)

Pinkney, R. and J. C. Demay, Rider-ftrect, St. James's,
Flower-makers. (Mr. Dixon, Nafiau-treet, Soho)
Prior, Richard, Sutton Benger, linen draper. (Mr. Bigg.
Bristol)

Partlett, James, Weft Smithfield, grocer. (Mers. Phil-
lips, Warnford-court, Throgmorton-ftreet)
Reichard, J. J. P. Dahmir and Jacob Brune, Throgmorton-
ftreet, inerchants. (Mr. Collins, Spital-fuare)
Robfon, John, Berwick-upon-Tweed, grocer. (Bromley
and Bell, Gray's-inn, London)

Ruddertorth, Thomas, St. Paul's Church-yard, stay-maker.
(Mr. Burroughs, Cade-ftreet, Falcoin-iquare)
Roberts, William, Rochefter, grocer. (Mr. Brown, Little
Friday-street)

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Saunderson, Robert, jun, and John Rumney, Whitehaven, merchants. (J. F. Scott, Warwick-court, Helborny Smith, John, Mansfield, inn-keeper, Rots and Hall, Bofwell-court)

Smelley, Richard, jun. Manchester. (Kay and Renshaw,
Manchester)

Smith, James, Gofport, victualler.
Inner Temple)

(Diull and Matthews,

Sanford, William, Colchester, inn-keeper, (Mr. Forbes, Ely-place, Holborn)

Thomafon, Thomas, and George Nicholson, Liverpool, merchants. (Thomas Windle, Bartlett's buildings Turner, H. L. Mirfield, mouey-fcrivener. (John Crofland, Deadmanstone)

Taylor, Abraham, Wenlock-freet, Old-street, thimblemaker. (Mr. Clulow, Chancery-lane)

Webiter, William, Fore-ftreet, linen-draper., (Gregfon
and Smart, Angel-court, Throgmorton-street)
Watson, Horace, St. Mary Axe. (Mr. Haynes, Bury-court,
St. Mary Axe)

Whalley, Thomas and William, Friday-ftreet, warehouse-
men. (Barry and Forbes, Rafnghall-reet)
Walker, Francis, and John Thompton, Sherñeld, brewers.
(Adamfon Parker, Sheffield)

Wild, James, Manchester, brewer. (Kay and Ronshaw, Manchester)

Woolfe, Henry, Little Somerfet-freet, Aldgate, merchant. (Mr. Bexwell, Aldgate)

Walford, John, Pall-mall, haberdasher. (Mr. Owen, Staples-in)

Wigzell, Thomas, Jewry-freet, Aldgate, wine merchant. (Mr. Leigh, Bartlett's-buildings)

Wright, William, Bolton in the Moors, wine merchant. (James Carden, Adelphi, London)

Yates, Thomas, Cook's-court, Cary-ftreet, money-fcrivener. (Mr. Fawcett, Gracechurch-treet)

York, Jofeph, Scarborough, vintner. (Mr, French, Caftleftreet, Holborn)

DIVIDENDS ANNOUNCED.

Andrews, Wm. Chichester, contractor, Dec. 2.
Bellamy, Tho. Stubton, horfe-dealer, Dec. 6.
Beetham, Nathan, Sloane-treet, dealer, &c. Dec. 7.
Bloxham, Wm. Gloucefter, mercer, Nov. 26.
Banton, Edward, Lancaster, merchant, Nov. 26.

Burton, Samuel, Leadenhall-ftreet, ironmonger, Dec. 17.
Ballard, John, Evesham, victualler, Dec. 20.

Blanchard, Caleb, and Thomaa Lowis, Coleman-treet, merchants, Dec. 12.

Champman, Richard, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, ironmonger,

Nov. 13.

Cullurac, Jofeph, Bifley, furgeon, &c. Dec. 3.

Carne, Samuel, Danburoy, merchant, Nov. 30.

Dumorefq, Philip, Birmingham, button-maker, Nov. 29. Dakin, Eliz. and Tho. Liverpool, fail-cloth manufactur ers, Nov. 27.

Doxon, James, Manchefter, merchant, Nov. 23.
Daniel, William, York, coach-inaker, Nov. 26.
Ellifon, John, Birstall, Au-maker, Nov. 25.

Edwards, Miles and Thomas, Kent-ftreet, cotton-manufacturers, Nov. 23.

Elliott, David, Old Broad-treet, merchant, Nov. 26.
Edwards, Howfon, Gravel-lane, and Granville Duplex,
Leeds, Dec. 9.

Evans, John, Birt's Morton, hopkeeper, Dec. 4.
Fenning, Samuel, Colchester, butcher, Dec. 4.

Fidell, John, James Morton, and Jofeph Barton, Liverpool, foap-boilers, Dec. 14.

Glasbrook, T. G. & B. of Wigan, grocers, Nov. 12,
Grimstone, John, Dudley, draper and taylor, Dec. 6.
Garratt and Hathway, Oxford-ftreet, glais-fellers, Dec. 17.
Hudion. Tho. New Bond-ftreet, tavern-keeper, Dec 17.
Harris, John Owen, Cardigan, fhop-keeper, Nov. 30.
Heynes, Thomas, Chipping Norton, mercer, Nov. 18.
Holder, Wm. Painfwick, clothier, Nov. 20
Hedgeland, Jofeph, Exeter, linen-draper, Nov. 21.
Hawker, Win. birmingham, victualler, Nov. 28.
Hartley, John, Salford, Lancashire, victualler, Dec. 5.
Howard, James, Huntingdon, waggoner, Dec. 18.
Hefketh, Jofeph, Manchefter, check manufa turer, Dec. 14
Jones, Wm. Cheltenham, dealer, &c. Nov. 26.
Jenkins, Edward, Hanworth, corn and hay dealer, Nov. 30.
Jones, Wm. Swanfea, merchant, Dec. 16.
Knipe, Thomas, and Richard Starey, York-ftreet, Welt.
minster, brewers, Dec. 14.

Le Mefurier, Abraham, Tokenhoufe-yard, merchant,
Nov. 26.

Langdale, John, Mancheter, merchant, Nov. 12. Lawrence, John, Thomas Yates, and David Holt, Manchefter, cotton fpinners, Dec. iz.

Lewis, John, and James Wyate, Cornhill, feedimen,

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Notley, Geo. Dartford, innholder, Dec. 3.

O'Connor, Hugh, Leadenhall-ftreet, merchant, Dec. 3.
Peacock, John, Montague-clofe, Southwark, mealman,
Nov. 16.

Price, James, Red-lion-court, Charter-house-lane, iron
monger, Dec. 7

Price, Richard, Mile-end Old-town, corn-dealer, Nov. 26.
Priddle, Thomas, and John Osborne, Snow-hill, cheese-
mongers, Nov. 26.

Partridge, A. and W. Iliffe, Friday-ftreet, carriers,
Jan. 4.

Ponting, Elijah, Wigmore-ftret, painter, &c. Jan. 22.
Rutt, Edward, Bermondfey-frect, woolftapler, Nov. 16.
Richardton, William, Newcastle-ftreet, Strand, upholder,
Nov. 35.

Rideout, Wm. Manchester, fufian manufacturer, Dec. 3.
Reid, Stephen, Bungay, draper, Dec. 17.

Smith, Gorge and Thomas, Witney, innholders, Nov. 18.
Seaton, George, Crowle, cornfactor, Nov. 29.
Souddick, Richard, Waupley, inn-keeper, Nov. 19.

Senior, Wm. Berkeley-fquare, haberdasher, Nov. 26.
Stuckey, Joel, Britol, fadler, Dec. 3.

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Stock, Wm. Bishopfgate-treet, linen-draper, Dec. 17.
Smith, Robert, Streatham, and Charies Smith, Croydon,
brewers, Dec. 28.

Sadler, Francis, Kenfington, victualler, Deg. 17.
Segary, John, Northampton, guninaker, Dec. 12.
Tomalin, John, Park-itreet, Illington, cual-merchant,
Dec. 14.

Thompfon, Wm. Wellingborough, draper, Nov. 14.
Temperly, Geo. Boothby and John Fleming, Brampton,
check manufacturer, Nov. 21.

Tratheru, Win. Penryn, fhopkeeper. Dec. 3.

Wetherhead, Christopher, Liverpool, merchant, Nov. 26.
Wright, David, St. George's Fields, wine merchant,
Νον. 26.

Wigan, Thomas, Bristol, goldfmith, Dec.II.
Ward, Wm..Birminghain, grocer, Dec. 2.

Ward, Christopher, Hart-freet, Bloomsbury, Nov. 25.
Westerman, W. Bermondfey-treet, plumber, Dec. 14.

LIST OF DISEASES IN LONDON.

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That this symptom did not form a part of the difeafe to which he refers may be taken for granted, when we recollect how acute his obfervation, and how accurate his defcription of difeafe; but, it is equally certain, that, fince his time, this fymptom, in a more or lefs evident degree, has generally accompanied the complaint.

When children have been the fubjects of this difeafe, it has more frequently appeared in its fimple form, than when adults have been the fubjects of it; and this circumstance ferves to reconcile the obfervation of Sydenham with what takes place at prefent, that, though it feizes whole families, children are more particularly liable to it.

This difeafe, as was before remarked, appeared in a mild form, in most of the inftances referred to in the lift. In one patient, however, a child of four years of age, the fymptoms were more aggravated: the tonfils were confiderably enlarged and inflamed; degluti tion was difficult; a large fecretion of tough mucus throughout the fauces occafioned a dif ficulty of breathing, and a material change in the voice. All these fymptoms were relieved by external fuppuration taking place, and the patient foon recovered. MARRIAGES

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Married.] John Newman, efq. of Manfion-house-street, to Mifs Fourdrinier, daughter of the late H. Fourdrinier, efq. of Lombard-street.

Mr. Henry Perigal, of the Victuallingoffice, to Mifs Louifa Brady.

Mr. Thomas Lott, of Bow-lane, Cheapfide, to Mifs Catherine Riley, of Thames-street. At Hampstead, Mr. Samuel Brawne, of Weft-end, to Mifs Ricketts, of Surrey-place, Kent-road.

Peter Kingston, efq. Captain of the 6th Regiment of Dragoon-Guards, to the Marchioness of Clanricarde.

Mr. Dyfon, junior, of Ivy Buck, to Mifs Armstrong, Turnham-green.

Sir William Leurine, to Miss Campart, of Kensington-Gore.

At Newington Butts, Mr. R. Hopkins, of Newington, to Mrs. Cooper, of Shooter's

Hill.

At St. Paul's, Covent-garden, J. T. Hone, efq. to Mrs. Sinclair.

MARRIAGES AND DEATHS IN AND NEAR LONDON. With Biographical Sketches of Dr. Ingenboufz, Dean Tucker, Lord Charlemont, and Dr. Withering. ' of his works in French and German editions, which include his papers in the Philofophical Tranfactions." Prefixed to thefe editions is a portrait of the author. He was a native of Breda, and for fome time practifed phyfic in his native country. He came to England about the year 1767, to acquire information concerning the Suttonian method of inoculating the fmall-pox; and in 1768 (on the recommendation of the late Sir John Pringle, who very highly efteemed him) he was engaged to go to Vienna to inoculate the Archduchefs Therefa-Elizabeth (the only daughter of the Emperor Jofeph II.), and the Archdukes Ferdinand and Maximilian, brothers of the Emperor. In the spring of the following year he went to Italy, and inoculated the Grand Duke of Tufcany. The rewards of thefe fervices were the rank of body phyfician and counsellor of ftate to their Imperial Majefties, with a penfion for life of about 600l. tterling per annum. For feveral years past he has refided in this country, to which, from his first acquaintance with it, he has always been much attached, and where he pafled his time almoft unceasingly in fcientific purfuits. In Philofophical Tranf actions," vol. LXV. p. 1, are his experiments on the torpedo; LXVI. 257, eafy methods of measuring the diminution of bulk taking place on the mixture of common and nitrous air, with experiments on platina; LXVIII. 1e22, a ready way of lighting a candle by a very small electrical spark; ibid. 1027, electrical experiments to explain how far the phænomena of the electrophorus may be accounted for by Dr. Franklin's theory of pofitive and negative electricity; LXIX. 376, account of a new kind of inflammable air or gas; ibid. 537, fome new methods of fufpending magnetical needles; ibid. 661, improvements in electricity; LXX. 354, on the degree of falubrity of the common air at fea, comparedwith that of the fea-fhore, and that of places removed from the fea; LXXII. 426, fome farther confiderations on the influence of the vegetable kingdom on the animal creation.

Died.] At Turnham-green, aged 79, Mr. William Mackay.

In Portland-place, Tomkyns Dew, efq. of Whitney-court, Herefordshire.

In Paradife-row, Iflington, aged 65, J. M. Furtado, efq.

In Spa-fields, aged 34, Lieutenant Richard
Caley, of the Navy.

At Turnham-green, Mrs. Higginson.
At his apartments in St. James's-palace,
James Harris, efq. more than thirty years
mafter-cook in the King's kitchen.

At Dulwich, Surrey, aged 78, Robert
Woodmap, efq.

At Croydon, Surrey, Mifs Beachcroft.. At Islington, Mr. Long, of Christ's Hofpital, carpenter and builder.

In Aldgate High-street, Mr. Jofeph Boone. At Stockwell, Mifs H. Folgham, daughter of Mr. Folgham, of Fleet-ftreet.

At Newington Butts, Surrey, aged 70, Mr. Dickfon.

In Gutter-lane, Cheap fide, Mr. J. Hyde, working-filversmith.

In Nottingham-place, T. L. Frederick, efq. Rear Admiral of the Red.

At Bowood park (the feat of the Marquis of Lanfdowne), John Ingenhoufz, M. D. phyfician to his Imperial Majefty, fellow of the Royal Society of London, and of feveral other learned focieties; a man of great fimplicity of manners and benevolence of difpofition; to whom the public are indebted for feveral curious and ufeful difcoveries, particularly in the application of pneumatic chemistry and natural philofophy to the purposes of medical and agricultural improvements. His "Experiments upon Vegetables, difcovering their great Power of purifying the common Air in Sunshine, and of injuring it in the Shade and at Night," first published in 8vo. 1779, have fince been extended and improved, and republifhed lately on the Continent, in collections

At Gloucester, Jofiah Tucker, D. D. Dean of Gloucester. This venerable divine, fo long and fo juftly celebrated for his commercial fagacity, was born at Laugharn, in Caermarthenshire, in the year 1712. His father was a farmer, and having a small eftate left him at or near Aberystwith, in Cardiganshire, he removed thither; and perceiving that his fon had a turn for learning, he fent him to Ruthin fchool in Denbigh fhire, where he made fo refpectable a progrefs in the claffics, that he obtained an exhibition at Jefus College, Oxford. It is generally understood that feveral of his journies to and from Oxford were performed on foot, with a flick on his fhoulder, and bundle at the end of it. Thus it might be said by him, as by Simonides, “Omnia mea mecum porto.” At the age of 23 he entered into holy orders,

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and ferved a curacy for fome time in Gloucestershire. About 1737 he became curate of St. Stephen's church in Bristol, and was appointed minor-canon in the cathedral of that city. Here he attracted the notice of Dr. Jofeph Butler, then Bishop of Bristol, and afterwards of Durham, who appointed Mr. Tucker his domeftic chaplain. By the intereft of this prelate Mr. Tucker obtained a prebendal ftall in the cathedral of Briftol; and on the death of Mr. Catcott, well known by his treatife on the Deluge, and a volume of excellent fermons, he became rector of St. Stephen. The inhabitants of that parish confit chiefly of merchants and tradefmen, a circumftance which greatly aided his natural inclination for commercial and political tudies, When the famous bill was brought into the House of Commons for the naturalization of the Jews, Mr. Tucker, confidering the fubject with an enlarged mind, took a decided. part in favour of the measure, and was, indeed, its most able advocate. The opponents of the bill, tranfported with an extraordinary zeal for the Chriftian Religion, which they affected to think was in danger by this ftep, treated the divine with great rudeness and virulence on the occafion. He was not only feverely attacked in pamphlets, newspapers, and magazines; but the pious people of Brif tol, who had, perhaps, hardened their hearts into intolerance by a traffic in human flesh, burnt his effigy dreffed in canonicals, toge ther with his letters on behalf of naturalization. In 1753 he published an able pamphlet on the "Turkey Trade," in which he demonftrates the evils that refult to trade in general from chartered companies. At this period Lord Clare (afterward Earl Nugent) was returned to Parliament for Bristol, which. honour he obtained chiefly through the ftrenuous exertions of Mr. Tucker, whofe influence in his large and wealthy parish was. almoft decifive on such an occafion. In return for this favour the Earl procured for him the deanery, of Gloucefter, in 1758, at which time he took his degree of Doctor in Divinity. So great was his reputation for commercial knowledge, that Dr. Thomas Hayter, afterwards Bishop of London, who was then tutor to his prefent Majefty, applied to Dr. Tucker to draw up a differtation. on this fubject for the perufal of his royal pupil. It was accordingly done, and gave great fatisfaction. This work, under the title of "The Elements of Commerce," was printed in quarto, but never published. Dr. Warburton, however, who, after having been member of the fame chapter with the Dean, at Bristol, became Bishop of Gloucefter, thought very differently from the reft of mankind, in refpect to his talents and favourite purfuits; and faid once, in his coarfe manner, that his Dean's trade was religion, and religion his trade." But in refutation of this charge we might produce the Dean's various publications on moral and religious fubjects, which fhew him to be not only deeply verfed in theology, but alfo,

what is far better, a man of genuine philanthropy. In the year 1771, when a strong attempt was made to procure an abolition of fubfcription to the thirty-nine articles, Dr. Tucker came forward as an able and moderate advocate of the church of England. About this time he published Directions for Travellers," in which he lays down excellent rules, by which gentlemen who vifit foreign countries may not only improve their own minds, but turn their obfervations to the benefit of their native country. The Dean was an attentive obferver of the American conteft. He examined the affair with a very different eye from that of a party-man, or an interested merchant; and he difcovered, as he conceived, that both fides would be better off by an abfolute feparation. Mr. Burke's language in the Houfe of Commons refpecting the Dean's propofal was, indeed, exceeding harth and illiberal. In his famous fpeech on American taxation, April 13th, 1774, this famous orator called him the advocate of the court faction; and I fuppofe," he adds,

that his earneft labours in this vineyard will raife him to a bishopric." The Dean was actually roufed into refentment on this occafion, and he accordingly published a let-,' ter to Mr. Burke, in which he not only vindicates the purity of his own principles, but retorts upon his adverfary in very forcible and manly terms. The ground of Mr. Burke's enmity to the Dean, was the latter's ftrenuous oppofition to his being admitted to reprefent Briftol in Parliament. Dr. Tucker had

a high opinion of Lord Nugent's Parliamentary conduct and abilities; added to which, he owed him much on the fcore of gratitude. He therefore confidered himself as bound to fupport his intereft in Bristol with all the power he poffeffed. This excited Mr. Burke's diflike to the Dean of Gloucester, and sharpened his wit on the fubject of his political opinions. When the terrors of an invasion were very prevalent, in 1779, the Dean circulated, in a variety of periodical publications, fome of the most fenfible obfervations that were ever made on the fubject, in order to quiet the fears of the people. In 1781 the Dean published, what he had printed long, before," A Treatife on Civil Government," in which his principal defign is to counteract the doctrines of the celebrated Mr. Locke and. his followers. The book made a confiderable noife, and was very sharply attacked by feveral able writers on the democratic fide of the question, particularly by Dr. Towers. The year following he clofed his political career with a pamphlet intitled “Cui Bono ?" in which he balances the profit and lofs of each of the belligerent powers, and recapitulates all his former pofitions on the fubject of war and colonial pofferions. His publications fince that period have confifted of fome traces on the commercial regulations of Ireland, on the exportation of woollens, and on the iron trade. In 1777 he published feventeen prac tical fermons, in one volume, octavo.

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