been repaired, the errours of ignorant tranfcribers have been expofed, and the moft ancient writers have been reftored to their pristine integrity.

DR.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF R. JAMES CHICHESTER MACLAURIN was born in London, December 7, 1767, and was educated at St. Paul's School under Dr. Roberts, who had a high opinion of his abilities; and in the Latin Epitaph he is compofing, to be placed on his pupil's tomb at Exmouth, in Devonshire, Dr. R. has afferted, that he cannot do justice to the memory of his deceafed friend. He ftudied medicine under Dr. Saunders, who entertained the mot fanguine hopes of his future fame. In the year 1-94, he was with the British army in Holland; his unremitting attention to the duties of his profeffion, in a winter the most fevere in the memory of man, laid the foundation of the diforder which ultimately proved his death. On his return to England he went to Southampton, where he had the misfortune to break a blood-veffel, and was confined to his room feveral weeks: this fevere indisposition he never per fectly recovered. On the conclufion of the Peace of Amiens, Dr. Maclaurin was appointed Phylician to the Embally to France, and accompanied Lord Whitworth and fuite to Paris. His abilities and urbanity of manners will be long remembered by thofe who benefited by his skill, and who had the pleafure of his fociety, when releafed from the toils of his profeflional duty. Upon the return of Lord Whitworth to England, Dr. Maciaurin found his

Καὶ τὸν θεᾷ κλαυσθέντα Γαύαντος τάφον Σχοινίδι, μουσόφθαρτον, αρθέντα ξένη, Κραντῆρι λευκῷ τὸν ποτ ̓ ἔκτανε πλέλας.

R.

THE LATE DR. MACLAURIN. health fo impaired, that, by the advice of his medical friends, he removed to Exmouth, in Devonthire, but found little or no benefit; and, after lingering till the 18th of laft February, he expired in the 38th year of his age.

One prominent feature in his character was an ivincible modesty, and too great a diffidence in his own abili ties, accompanied with fo much fee!ing and gentleness of difpofition, that his patients at the fame time beheld the phyfician and the fympathifing friend. He was poffeffed of the greateft firmness and ftrength of mind, and it has been often obferved by thofe who knew him well, that few men had ever fo little reafon to retract their opinion, as he never formed one but upon the matureft reflection. His lots to the army is great; and the many lives he preferved on the continent, by his fkill while Phyfician to the Forces, will remain an incontestable monument of his fame. It is a remarkable circumftance, that three perfons, who were in the greatest habits of friendship, fhould be fnatched from this world at nearly the fame period; namely, his Grace the Duke of Roxburgh, James Hare, Elq. M. P. for Knaresborough, and Dr. Maclaurin: the Duke, who lived but a few weeks after his friend, entertained the higheft refpect for him, and much regretted his premature de

cease.

THE Author of the Memoirs of Dr. Darwin, fince they were publifhed, has difcovered, on the attestation of his family, and of the other perfons prefent at the juncture, that the statement given of his exclamation, page 406*, on the death of Mr. Erafmus Darwin, is entirely without foundation; and that the Doctor, on that melancholy event, gave, amongst his own family, proofs of ftrong fenfibility at the time, and of fucceeding regard to the memory of

his fon, which he seemed to have a pride in concealing from the world. In justice to his memory, the is defirous to correct the mifinformation she had received; and will therefore be obliged to the Editor of the European Magazine to notice the circumftance in the criticifm of the book; fince, unless a fecond edition fhould be called for, the has no means fo effectual of counteracting the mistake.

THIS pleafant village is in the county of Surrey, on the banks of the Thames, four miles from London; and is remarkable for having been the birth-place of Henry St. John, Vifcount Bolingbroke, who, after many political viciffitudes, here terminated, as he had often wished, his earthly career, on the 15th of Nov. 1751, in the 79th year of his age. The family feat was a venerable ftructure in the form of an H, and contained, it is faid, forty rooms on a floor. The greatest part of it was demolished a few years ago when the manor was fold to Earl Spencer. On the fcite of the demolished part of the house is erected the fine horizontal air-mill and capital malt-diftillery (called Bolingbroke Houfe Distillery) of Hodgson and Co. The fmall part of the old manfion that was left ftanding, forms a convenient dwelling-houfe for Mr. Hodgson, one of whofe parlours fronting the Thames is entirely lined with cedar, beautifully inlaid, and was the favourite ftudy of Pope, the fcene of many a literary converfation. The horizontal air-mill now ufed for grind. ing malt for the diftillery, was built a few years ago by Mr. Fowler, then a colourman in Piccadilly, for the purpofe of grinding linfeed. The defign of this mill was taken from that of another on a fmaller fcale, conftructed a few years ago at Margate by Captain Hooper. Its height from the foundation is 140 feet; the diameter of the conical part 54 at the bafe, and 45 at the top. The outer part confifts of 96 fhutters, 80 feet high and 9 inches broad, which by the pulling of a rope open and fhut in the manner of Venetian window-blinds. In the infide, the main haft of the mill, is the centre of a large circle formed by the fails, which confift of 96 double planks placed perpendicularly, and of the fame height as the planks that form the thutters. The wind rushing through the opening of the shutters, acts with great power upon the fails, and, when it blows fresh, turns the mill with prodigious rapidity; but this may be moderated in an initant by leffening the apertures between the fhutters; which is effected like the entire topping of the mill, as obferved before, by the pulling of a rope. In this mill is fix pair of stones, to which two pair more

may be added. On the fcite of the gar den and terrace Mefi. Hodgson and Co. have erected extensive bullock. houses, capable of holding 650 bullocks, fed with the grains from the dif tillery mixed with meal.

The church is a beautiful ftructure, but degraded by a mean copper fpire in the form of an extinguisher. At the eat end is a painted window, in which are three portraits; the first, that of Margaret Beauchamp, maternal ance tor (by her first husband Sir Oliver St. John) of the St. Johns, and (by her fecond husband John Beaufort, Duke of Somerfet) grandmother of Henry VII.; the fecond, the portrait of that monarch; and the third, the portrait of Queen Elizabeth, which is placed here because her grandfather Thomas Boleyn, Earl of Wiltshire, (father of Queen Anne Boleyn,) was great grandfather of Anne the daughter of Sir Tho. Leighton, and wife of Sir John St. John, the first baronet of the family.In this church is a mural monument by Roubilliac to the memory of the cele brated Viscount Bolingbroke, and his fecond wife, a niece of Madame de Maintenon. Here is alfo another mural monument to the memory of Sir Edward Winter, an Eaft India Captain in the reign of Charles II.; of whom it is related, that being attacked in the woods by a tyger, he placed himfelf by the fide of a pond, and when the tyger flew at him, he caught him in his arms, fell back with him into the water, got upon him and kept him down till he had drowned him. This adventure, as well as another wonderful exploit, is vouched for by the fol lowing lines infcribed on the monu