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time the dreary hours of his confinement were principally devoted to reading. His conduct to his fellow-prisoners was beneficent, and his heart alive to the impressions of sensibility. Remembering the riots of 1780, and the eccentricity of Lord George's character, candour must admit that such a person could not be at large, without some degree of hazard to the good order of society. Lord George died in Newgate, Nov. 1, 1793. His last moments were embittered by the knowledge that he could not be buried among the Jews, whose religion he some time since had embraced, and to which he was warmly attached, rigidly adopting all their ceremonies and customs, as wearing a long beard, &c. He had been confined two years for his libel on the moral and political conduct of the queen of France; three years more for a libel on the empress of Russia; and ten months longer for not procuring the necessary security for his enlargement. GROSE, (FRANCIS) an eminent English antiquary, a fellow of the Royal Society, and a captain in the Surry militia. He illustrated the Antiquities of England and Wales, in four volumes; and of Scotland, in two volumes. was executing a work of the same kind relative to Ireland, where he had been employed about a month before his death, which happened in Dublin, May 12, 1791, in the 52d year of his age. He was a very ingenious and pleasant writer; and, besides his much-admired " Antiquities and Views," published a treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons;" "a Provincial Glossary, with a Collection of local Proverbs and

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popular Superstitions. But his most eccentric. performance is, "A Classical History of the Vulgar Tongue," in 8vo. 6s. He was a man of much humour, and remarkably familiar with his domestics. Though a military officer, his figure was so remarkably thick and short that he was supposed, by many, a kind of burlesque upon the military character. He delighted much in punning upon his own figure, of which we shall mention an instance, as a proof of his familiarity and good nature. In a culinary tête-à-tête with his house-keeper, she thus expostulated with him: Sir, as you are inclinable to be fat, you should not eat food of a nourishing kind; you should -"You jade, (replied he) I am not inclinable to be fat; that I am fat is wholly against my inclination; I consider it as a misfortune to be fat. For the future, therefore, remember that I am disinclined to be fat." Mr. Grose also published "Rules for Drawing Caricatures, the subjects illustrated with four cop. per-plates; with an Essay on Comic Painting. HACKET, (WILLIAM) an extraordinary English fanatic in the reign of Elizabeth. After leading a very licentious life, he suddenly pretended to be a prophet, and associated with two others, named Coppinger and Arkington. Hacket said he was the sole monarch, of Europe, and the son of God. He was executed for blasphemy, July 28, 1592. This gen

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HAGEMORE, (the Reverend Mr.) tleman, who lived at Calthorn, Leicestershire, died the first of January 1746, possessed of seven hundred pounds per annum, and 1000 in

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money; which, he dying intestate, devolved to a ticket-porter in London. He kept one servant of each sex, whom he locked up every night. His last employment in an evening was to go round his premises, let loose his dogs, and fire his gun. He lost his life in the following extraordinary manner:-Going one morning to let out his servants,' the dogs fawned upon him suddenly, and threw him into a pond, where he was breast-high.-The servants heard him call out for assistance, but, being locked up, could not afford him any. In consequence of which he was drowned. He had thirty gowns and cassocks. fifty-eight dogs, one hun dred pair of breeches, one hundred pair of boots, four hundred pair of shoes, eighty wigs (though he always wore his own hair) eighty waggons and carts, eighty ploughs, (and used none) fifty saddles and furniture for the menage. thirty wheel-barrows, and so many walking sticks, that a toyman in Leicester-fields, offered his successor eight pounds for them. He had also sixty horses and mares, three hundred pick-axes, two hundred spades and shovels, twenty-five ladders, and two hundred and forty

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HAMPDEN, (JOHN) a celebrated English patriot,

was descended of an ancient family in Buckinghamshire, and born in London. He was cousin to Oliver Cromwell, and educated at Magdalen College, Oxford; he afterwards entered himself of one of the inns of court, but never followed the law as a profession. He rendered

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himself famous, for sustaining, singly, the weight of a royal prosecution, on his refusing to pay the ship-money, in the reign of Charles I. Having, in 1625-6, obtained a seat in the House of Commons, he soon acquired great popularity, and became a leading man in that house. After taking upon him the chief di rection of his party against the king, he took up arms in the same cause, and was one of the first who engaged in the civil war; but at a place called Brill, about five miles from Oxford, he received a mortal wound by a pistol shot, in a skirmish with prince Rupert, June 18, 1643, of which he died on the 24th of the same month. Gray, in an elegant poem, entitled, "An Elegy in a Country Church Yard," has painted Hampden in the glorious colours of a warm and active patriot, though he was considered by Lord Clarendon, as a great, rather than a good, man: after drawing his character at great length, he concludes in these remarkable terms: "In a word, what was said of Cinna, might well be applied to him; he had a head to contrive, a tongue to persuade, and a heart to execute any mischief." The grandson of the great Hampden, and knight of the shire for the county of Bucks, was fined 40,0001. in 1684, for a real or pretended conspiracy. He was also tried and condemned for high-treason in 1688, but rescued from execution by the Revolution. This grandson of the patriot, a short time before his death, wrote a solemn address to his friends, from which the following passages are taken." I freely confess, that among

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many heinous sins, there is one, which more especially causes me great trouble; to which I was prompted by pride and vanity, so natural to the levity of youth, and the corrupted heart of man. Notwithstanding my education was pious and religious, and that a firm conviction of the truth of the Christian revelation was deeply implanted in my mind; yet, to obtain the reputation of a wit, I assumed the character of an unbeliever, and maintained the doctrine of infidelity. My arguments, I confess, were weak, and as such, I considered them at the moment; yet I had the folly and presumption to assert among my acquaintance, that they were unanswerable; by which unwarrantable conduct, I am fearful, that I have unhappily contributed to lead others into opinions and practices, equally contrary to true religion and morality. I therefore think it my duty to make this confession with all possible sincerity, and with much grief of heart; for I solemnly protest, that the opinions I used to be so forward in maintaining, were wholly and solely the off spring of my vanity, and an affectation of knowledge superior to my neighbours."-This singular address will fully apologize for its insertion

here. HANDEL, (GEORGE FREDERIC) an illustrious musician, was born at Hall, a city of Upper-Saxony, Feb. 24, 1684. His compositions, particularly his oratorios, have been repeatedly performed to the present day, with uninterrupted success and unrivalled glory. To those who have not the opportunity of being acquainted with his aston

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