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OBITUARY .

LATELY , at Leyden , the learned advocate F . lia . Lusac , author of various performances in legUUttKra : Among these may be distinguished a French Translation of the Institutes of the Plights of Nature and Man , by Wolf , n-voi-ipanied by n"iner .. us notes , in 2 vi . ' s . 4 : 0 . A Treatise on the Riches of

HOIIVIIKI , in which our author exhibits the origin of the commerce and power of the Dutch ; the gradual growth of their commerce end navigation ; . the causes which * have contributed to their progress , and those which tend to destroy them ; and llie means which may serve fo im . i . Kain them , in 2 vols . Svo .

He is known also fur some writings , which show him to have been 3 zealous defender of the Stsihholderian government , which he must have grieved to have survived . Among his pleadings , i . s one in favour of the planters of the coiunv at Surinam , and another for the liberty of the press . He had been a printer himself , ami had made enemies by the publication of La Mcttie ' s atheistical treatise of VHomme Machine , Jor

which he acquired the nick-name of L'Homtne Machine . On the i- th Floreal 179 6 , aged 87 , the venerable Alexander Guy Pingre , ] . ibrarian of the French Pantheon . He devoted himself to science from his earliest youth . In O 27 , !> c entered into the ci-devant congregation of the canons

regular of France . Theology for a considerable time occupied his researches ; but he had the art of connecting it with the study of history , chronology , and the learned languages . A life wholly consecrated to study and retirement " , was disturbed even by those whose peculiar duty it was to respect and to imitolerantand the

tate it . Pingre was , bishops of France cherished the sentiments of the Papistical court . Our author was well known as the assertor of the Ii ! evtics of the Gallic-. n . church . In i 7 . fi , lie gav'e proofs of that zeal for freedom which illumined the twilight of his life . He was among those who were persecuted by the ecclesiastical party , because he preferred the exposition of

the Christian doctrine as given by the fathers , to that one more recently dictated by the Jesuit Molina . His enemies first attempted his degradation , by compelling him to descend from the chair of a professor to the form of a pedagogue . But Pingre felt no humiliation ; he ever considered himself in his proper place ,

when he found himself useful . Calumny aspersed his conduct , for teaching a more enlightened doctrine than was supposed to be necessary for youth . In the space of four years Pingre received five lettres de cachet . But philosophy , even in that day ., stood forth the friend and advocate of

this virtuous student . Pingre at the age of thirty-eight , applied himself to astronomy . His first production was a calculation of an eclipse of the moon on the 2 ; clof December , 1749 . Lacaille had calculated it at Paris ; but the

calculations differed by four minutes ; ' and the veteran Lacaille confessed his error , and received a pupil as a friend and rival . He now distinguished himself by a close attachment to the science of astronomy . In 1754 , he calculated his state of the heavens , where the situation of

the moon was determined by the tables of llalley for noon and midnight . But in the following year , he calculated its situations with the precision of seconds . Though perhaps no other man but himself could perform an equal experiment , he delivers his opinion with great modesty : " I doubted ( says he ) last year

, that a single person were sufficient to calculate with the most possible precision the . motions of the moon ; but now I have ceased to doubt , and I speak after my own experience . " He now opened a bolder and more extensive career—that of thecalcttlation

of comets . 10 determine . 011 comctary orbit ,, is-the-most difficult problem in astronomy ; that which exacts the greatest number of calculations , and the most , vigilant sagacity ; for here . arc involved great diversity of facts which embarrass every calculation . But the industry of Pingre could meet 11 b obstacles ;

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EXTRACT FROM THE RECORDS OF THE SWAN LODGE. Article 6
ACCOUNT OF THE PILGRIMAGE TO MECCA. Article 7
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CEREMONY OF OPENING WEARMOUTH BRIDGE; Article 10
HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE OF WILLIAM OF WYKEHAM. Article 21
ON THE CHARACTER AND VIRTUES OF THE FAIR SEX. Article 25
THE GENIUS OF LIBERTY. Article 28
SINGULAR ACCOUNT OF THE DEVIL's PEAK AND ELDEN HOLE, IN DERBYSHIRE. Article 30
CURIOUS ACCOUNT OF THE CHARACTERS, CUSTOMS, AND MANNERS, OF THE SAVAGES OF CAPE BRETON. Article 31
EXCERPTS ET COLLECTANEA. Article 34
REVIEW OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. Article 38
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THE FAREWEL TO SUMMER. Article 53
REPORT OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT. Article 54
HOUSE OF COMMONS. Article 57
MONTHLY CHRONICLE. Article 60
OBITUARY. Article 69
LIST OF BANKRUPTS. Article 73
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Obituary.

OBITUARY .

LATELY , at Leyden , the learned advocate F . lia . Lusac , author of various performances in legUUttKra : Among these may be distinguished a French Translation of the Institutes of the Plights of Nature and Man , by Wolf , n-voi-ipanied by n"iner .. us notes , in 2 vi . ' s . 4 : 0 . A Treatise on the Riches of

HOIIVIIKI , in which our author exhibits the origin of the commerce and power of the Dutch ; the gradual growth of their commerce end navigation ; . the causes which * have contributed to their progress , and those which tend to destroy them ; and llie means which may serve fo im . i . Kain them , in 2 vols . Svo .

He is known also fur some writings , which show him to have been 3 zealous defender of the Stsihholderian government , which he must have grieved to have survived . Among his pleadings , i . s one in favour of the planters of the coiunv at Surinam , and another for the liberty of the press . He had been a printer himself , ami had made enemies by the publication of La Mcttie ' s atheistical treatise of VHomme Machine , Jor

which he acquired the nick-name of L'Homtne Machine . On the i- th Floreal 179 6 , aged 87 , the venerable Alexander Guy Pingre , ] . ibrarian of the French Pantheon . He devoted himself to science from his earliest youth . In O 27 , !> c entered into the ci-devant congregation of the canons

regular of France . Theology for a considerable time occupied his researches ; but he had the art of connecting it with the study of history , chronology , and the learned languages . A life wholly consecrated to study and retirement " , was disturbed even by those whose peculiar duty it was to respect and to imitolerantand the

tate it . Pingre was , bishops of France cherished the sentiments of the Papistical court . Our author was well known as the assertor of the Ii ! evtics of the Gallic-. n . church . In i 7 . fi , lie gav'e proofs of that zeal for freedom which illumined the twilight of his life . He was among those who were persecuted by the ecclesiastical party , because he preferred the exposition of

the Christian doctrine as given by the fathers , to that one more recently dictated by the Jesuit Molina . His enemies first attempted his degradation , by compelling him to descend from the chair of a professor to the form of a pedagogue . But Pingre felt no humiliation ; he ever considered himself in his proper place ,

when he found himself useful . Calumny aspersed his conduct , for teaching a more enlightened doctrine than was supposed to be necessary for youth . In the space of four years Pingre received five lettres de cachet . But philosophy , even in that day ., stood forth the friend and advocate of

this virtuous student . Pingre at the age of thirty-eight , applied himself to astronomy . His first production was a calculation of an eclipse of the moon on the 2 ; clof December , 1749 . Lacaille had calculated it at Paris ; but the

calculations differed by four minutes ; ' and the veteran Lacaille confessed his error , and received a pupil as a friend and rival . He now distinguished himself by a close attachment to the science of astronomy . In 1754 , he calculated his state of the heavens , where the situation of

the moon was determined by the tables of llalley for noon and midnight . But in the following year , he calculated its situations with the precision of seconds . Though perhaps no other man but himself could perform an equal experiment , he delivers his opinion with great modesty : " I doubted ( says he ) last year

, that a single person were sufficient to calculate with the most possible precision the . motions of the moon ; but now I have ceased to doubt , and I speak after my own experience . " He now opened a bolder and more extensive career—that of thecalcttlation

of comets . 10 determine . 011 comctary orbit ,, is-the-most difficult problem in astronomy ; that which exacts the greatest number of calculations , and the most , vigilant sagacity ; for here . arc involved great diversity of facts which embarrass every calculation . But the industry of Pingre could meet 11 b obstacles ;

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