THE European Magazine, For AUGUST 1803. [Embellished with, 1. A PORTRAIT of JOSEPH MOSER, ESQ. And, 2. A VIEW of RAGLAND CASTLE, MONMOUTHSHIRE.] Printed by 1. Gold, Shoe-Lane, Fleet-freet, FOR THE PROPRIETORS, AND PUBLISHED BY JAMES ASPERNE, {Succeffor to Mr. SEWELL,) UTION, At the BIBLE, CROWN, and CONSTITUTION, No. 32, CORNHILL. Perfons who refide abroad, and who wish to be supplied with this Work every Month as pubfeed, may bave it fent to them, FREE OF POSTAGE, to New York, Halifax, Quebec, and estry Part of the Weft Indies, at Trvo Guineas per Annum, by Mr. THORNHILL, of the General Poft Office, at No. 21, Sherborne Lane; to Hamburg, Lifon, Gibraltar, or any Furt of the Mediterranean, at Two Guineas per Annum, by Mr. BISHOP, of the General Poft Office, at No. 22, Sherborne Lane; to any Part of Ireland, at One Guinea and a Half per Annum, by Mr. SUITS, of the General Poft Office, at No. 3, Sherborne Lane; and to the Cape of Good Hope; or any Part of the Eaft Indies, at Thirty Shillings per Annum, by Mr. Gux, at the Eaft India House; VOL, XLIV, AUG. 1803. M ERRATA. Vol. XLIII. page 462, line 11, for "fang" read "fung;" line 31, for "call" read "cell;" column 2, ftanza 4, for "moor" read "Moon;" page 464, column 1, line 11, after "paffion" read " Suffered;" line 15, for "reckonings" read "reckoning ;" column 2, line 25, for "franke" read “frantic." ACKNOWLEDGMENTS TO CORRESPONDENTS. Unless 7. L. is in circumstances to make him indifferent to pecuniary loffes, we cannot recommend him to encounter the risk he meditates. Such a publication feldom answers the expence, however meritorious it may be. The Piece of Neglected Biography is received, and will be inserted. AVERAGE PRICES of CORN from August 6, to August 13. 58 1000 022 023 437 8 Hants Oxford 024 10/24 9/34 3 WALES. 52 1100 O22 222 133 10 N. Wales 62 000 025 015 6.00 Bucks 56 800 025 224 836 O VARIATIONS OF BAROMETER, THERMOMETER, &c. BY THOMAS BLUNT, No. 22, CORNHILL, Mathematical Inftrument Maker to bis Majefly, 54 THE EUROPEAN MAGAZINE, AND LONDON REVIEW, FOR AUGUST 1803. MEMOIR OF JOSEPH MOSER, ESQ. ONE OF HIS MAJESTY'S JUSTICES OF THE PEACE FOR THE COUNTIES OF MIDDLESEX, ESSEX, SURRY, AND KENT, D.L.M. &c. [WITH A PORTRAIT.] HERE have been, perhaps, few TH modern inftances of genius fruggling to emancipate itself from profef fional difguft, ftronger than is to be recollected in the life of the Gentleman whofe portrait (a most accurate likeness) we have the pleasure this month to exhibit. The family of Mr. M., originally from Rotweil, in Swabia, has been more than three hundred years fettled at Schaffhaufen, Switzerland; though its defcendants have, according to the cuf tom of the Swifs, fpread to feveral parts of Germany and France. Many of them have become eminent in the army, and, as their works testify, in literature and the arts. The maternal greatgrandfather of Mr. M. was the Rev. George Schalch, paftor of Schaffhaufen, of whom, and his defcendant, Andrew Schalch, Efq. fome anecdotes were given in this Magazine. His grandfather, Michael Mofer, who held a commillion in the Burgers' corps of his native city, was a fculptor in metal and engineer; of whofe genius proofs may ftill, or might a very few years fince have been feen, in the beautiful and fingularly-constructed dome, and the magnificent fcreen, of the Chapel of the Abbey of St. Gall; in the curious aqueducts and engines for conveying water to Schaffhaufen; and in many other public works in the different Cantons, &c. His father, Hans Jacob Mofer, who arrived in England at the age of nine years, was also an artist of confiderable genius. Mr. M., the fubject of this sketch, was born in Greek-street, Soho, in June 1748. He was, at a very early age, taken from fchool, and placed under the care of his uncle, G. M. Mofer, Efq. late Keeper of the Royal Academy; a man whofe genius, learning, and exertions, have not only rendered his memory dear to every artist, to every lover of the polite arts, but have taken a much wider range, and by the introduction and application of Attic taste and claffical compofition to articles where, before his time, they were unknown, but which now pervades every fpecies of elegant manufacture, has, through his means, given fuch a decided fuperiority to thefe productions of England over thofe of other countries. G. M. Mofer, as painter of hiftorical compofitions in enamel, was much employed and patronized by their prefent * For OЯtober 1802, page 249. Majefties, |