At the Clarendon Hotel, Bond-street, Mrs. Jacquier. In St. James's Place, Artbur Ormsby, esq. a lieutenant-general in the army, and lieutenant-colonel in the 6th dragoon guards. At Kentish Town, Miss Jane Teed, aged 14, second daughter of Mr. Richard T. dress sword-maker to the Patriotic Fund. After being afflicted with a complication of disor ders which baffled all medical aid for three years, during which period, she bore the greatest pains without a murmur. Her amia. ble disposition and manners were eminently conspicuous to all who knew her. To her parents she was at all times dutiful, and to her sisters and friends affectionately kind: it is remarkable that she was never known to be out of temper, and her gratitude for every attention to her wants was unbounded. To her eldest sister she was attached by the strongest ties of love and esteem, which met a return that has been seldom equalled, for although there was a considerable disparity of years, there seemed but one heart and one soul. Miss Teed gave up every amusement to be useful to her beloved sister, and was in fact, her nurse by day and by night throughout the whole period of her illness, which reflects upon her, the highest credit, and should operate as an example to others who are similarly circumstanced. Her body is committed to the ground, and her pure spirit to God who gave it." Cbristiana, wife of Mr. Thomas Henkin, of Stensted Abbot, Herts, a woman who combined great intellectual powers, with the delicate sensibility of female excellence. She was superior to the studied forms of politeness, but charmed by the affability and gentleness of her manners, Possessing a fine taste, she was an enthusiastic admirer of the beauties of nature, and delighted in the retirement of rural life. Her time and talents were cheerfully devoted to forming the minds of a numerous family to virtue and Knowledge, who are left to deplore her loss and mingle their tears with those of the neighbouring poor, to whom she was an active, sympathising, benevolent mind. [Further particulars of Mr. John Home, whose death is recorded at p. 395 in our last vo association for the support of their sovereign, and the defence of their city. Mr. Home was one of about twenty students of the uni versity who offered their services as volunteers, to act against the common enemy. But intimidated by the number of their opponents, or adverse to the hardships of a military life, the college company soon disbanded. Mr. Home, however, retained his arms, and marched with a detachment of the royal army to Falkirk; where, in the battle fought in its neighbourhood, in which the rebels vane quished the king's troops, he was taken prisoner, and confined for some time in the castle of Doune. From this place of captivity he effected his escape, and the battle of Culloden having blasted all the hopes of the Pretender's adherents, tranquillity and order were soon restored. Mr. Home resumed his studies, and was licensed to preach the gospel in 1747. Not long after, Home visited England, for it appears that be was introduced to Collins, the poet, at Winchester, by a Mr. Barrow, who had been his fellow student at the uni. versity. Collins addressed to him his " Ode on the Superstition of the Highlanders," con sidered as the subject of poetry, composed in 1749, but not published till many years after his death. It is evident that Home at this period had exhibited some poetical powers. In the first stanza, Collins delivers a prediction, which was soon after fulfilled :"Home, thou return'st from Thames, whose Naiads long .He was descended of a respectable, and formerly illustrious, family. He was born in the vicinity of Ancrum, in Roxburghshire, in 1724, and received the first rudiments of education at the parochial school, where Dr. Buchan, author of Domestic Medicine, was the companion of his studies. It was Mr. Home's inclination, and the desire of his parents, that he should enter the church. He, therefore attended the philosophical and theological classes of the university of Edinburgh for several years. But his studies were for a while suspended by the public commotions of the year 1745. On the approach of the insurgents, the citizens of EdinBurgh assembled, formed themselves into an Midst those soft friends, whose hearts some Have seen thee lingering with a fond delay future day East Shall melt perhaps to hear thy tragicsong.▾ About the year 1750, he was settled minister of the parish of Athelstaneford, Lothian, and was the immediate successor of Robert Blair, author of The Grave." Accustomed to the bantle of a city, and the society of men of lette, Mr. Home found himself rather disagreeably Suated, in an obscure village, where he had no opportu mty of distinguishing himself. From Ne Vicinity of his residence to Edinburgh he was in the practice of frequently resorting to the capital, to enjoy the company of man of talents. Several of these had instituted a society for literary and philosophical disquisition, of which Mr. Home was an original and distinguished member. This institution comprehended several of the most eminent characters of the day. Among others, were enrolled the names of Mr. Alexander Wedderburn, afterwards Earl of Rosslyn, and Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain; Ferguson, the philosopher; Hume and Robertson, the historians; and Blair, the rhetorician and divine; men, whom it would be superfluous here to panegyrise. It was about this period that Mr. Home, in his retirement, began seriously to court the dra matic muse. The first tragedy he wrote wa Agis Agis, founded on a portion of the Lacedæmonian history. He went to London with the manuscript, in hopes of getting it introduced on the stage, but in this he was disappointed, insurmountable objections having been made to the plot. Our poet, not at all discouraged by this failure, conceived the plan of another play, laid the plot in Scotland, and made his hero one of his own countrymen. In presenting this to the London manager, he had the mortification of a second refusal. Notwithstanding the abilities of Garrick, as a dramatist, his opinion of the merit of plays was not infallible. He rejected the tragedy of Douglas as being too simple in its fable, and destitute of stage effect. Whether Garrick ever examined at all into its merits, or delegated this office to another, on whose report he formed his deHe, be ascertained. cision, cannot now however, candidly confessed, through the remainder of his life, whenever the subject was agitated, that no circumstance, in the course of his management, gave him so much concern, as the rejection of this play. By such repeated discouragement, the ardour of Home was by no means suppressed. Being acquainted with the leading characters in Scotland, a ready reception of his play at At the first repreEdinburgh was secured. sentation of Douglas, in the theatre, in Canongate, on the 14th of December 1756, Mr. Home, and several of his clerical brethren were present. Of this circumstance the zea. lots of the day speedily got notice. That, a clergyman should write a play, and that ministers of the gospel should witness it's performance; were crimes unheard of in the annals of the church. The hue and cry of bigotry was immediately raised. All that ignorance could conceive, prejudice effect or malice igvent, was tried to suppress the play in its birth. It was violently decried as a production of immoral tendency, and furan encouragenishing, by its catastrophe, ment to suicide. The clergy ordered a pasbe delivered from their toral admonitio- to pulpits, on the sin and danger of attending the theatre. The author was summoned to amar before the bar of the presbytery; his frierasere peremptorily dragged before their tribunal, some of them dismissed with censure, and others suspended from their office, While such was the state of affairs in Scotland, Douglas having been performed to crowded houses during the greater part of the season, and fully gratifying the most sanguine hopes of the author, it was, through the interest of David Hume, brought forward on the London stage. Garrick having now discovered his mistake, made unusual exertions to introduce it to public notice and approbation. Hume had, shortly before its representation, published four cissertations, and inscribed them to our author. In his dedication he pronounced so flattering a pane. gyric upon Mr. Home, and bestowed such unqualified approbation on his play, that the Adsum qui feci, in me convertite ferrum, probability, mitigated the sentence against frem ance with the most celebrated literary charac- from the Siege of Berwick, to the Siege of Aquileia, for he very naturally conceived, that any national allusions might tend to foment the jealousy which then unfortunately subsisted between the Scots and English. It was acted in 1759. Some of the passages are very fine, but upon the whole, it is a tame performance. The Fatal Discovery was produced in 1769, and reluctantly permitted during nine nights. Though Alonzo had the advantage of Mrs. Barry's admirable acting, it shared the same fate; the author mentions in his preface, that she received applause Mr. greater than ever shook a theatre. Home's last production, Alfred, lived only three nights. In the year 1760, Mr. Home published a volume of plays, containing Agis, Douglas, and the Siege of Aquileia, which he dedicated to his present Majesty, then Prince of Wales. His other three tragedies appeared sonte time after. The whole were collected and edited in two volumes at Edinburgh, in 1798, under the inspection of the late Mr. Woods. Lord Bute having represented Mr. Home to his Majesty as a min of talents, his name was placed on the pension list, nearly at the saine time with that of Dr. Johnson. He lived in a state of retirement from this period to the time of his death. Nearly half a century after Douglas had been written, when the author had reBurged to, and was settled in his native country, Master Betty, better known by the name of the young Roscius, commenced his Theatrical labours at Edinburgh, in the character of young Norval. The author attended the representation, and declared that, that was the first time he had ever seen the part of Douglas played according to his ideas of the character when he conceived and wrote it. Mr. Home, at the advanced age of seventyeight, published his long meditated work, entitled, "The History of the Rebellion in Scotland, in 1745 6," in which he recorded the exploits and remarks of his youth. Of his work it is sufficient to observe, that the principles are just, and the opinions liberal. For a considerable time prior to his death, Mr Home's mind, as well as body, seemed to be much impaired. He lived in the must secluded manner, so much so, that the house he inhabited had all the marks of a deserted dwelling. So long as he continued to possess sufficient strengtli, he used to walk for a certain time every day; the most acute physiog numist, however, who met him, could scarcely have traced any remains of the author of Douglas. He seemed to pay no attention to what was passing, and to possess In this little more than mere existence. distressful state, he lingered for many years. He died at Merchiston house, on the 4th of September 1808, in the 85th year of his age. A Life su little varied by incident as that of Mr. Home, affords few materials for personal character, With a mind well stored with useful and ornamental knowledge, he appears at an early age to have cultivated an acquaint As a [Further particulars of Dr. James Anderson, of whom some account is given at p. 485, of our last volume.] James Anderson was born about the year 1739, at Hermiston, a village about six miles from Edinburgh, of parents who succeeded their forefathers for several generations in cultivating the same land. Nothing remarkable is known of them: they were a family of respectable farmers; and our author may be said to have inhaled with his first breath, that spirit of agricultural knowledge for which he became so distinguished. In his boyish years he formed an intimacy, which remained uninterrupted till his death, with his kinsman and namesake, the present James Anderson, M.D. physician General at Madras: born in the same village, they went to school together, learnt the same task, fought each others battles, and joined in the same amusements; this early association produced a similarity in their future pursuits, the one being no less eminent in India than the other has been in Europe, for a patriotic life and exertions for the benefit of mankind in general. They kept up a constant correspondence, and communicated to each other their various productions and discoveries. Having been deprived of both his parents while yet very young, it was the wish of his guardian that he should occupy the paternal farm when old enough to undertake such a charge; and as much learning was not thought necessary for a farmer, young Anderson was discouraged by his trends from prosecuting his studies beyond a common school education; but that decision and firmness which were throughout his life the most conspicuous features of his character, now began to appear, and he displayed a resolution to judge and act for himself. He informs us, that having read "Home's Essay on Agriculture," and find- strenuously in representing to the public the See his opinions on this transaction in his Recreations, vol. ii. p. 252. nication took place with him on the subject. In 1783, having previously arranged matters for the conducting of his farm, he removed to the neighbourhood of Edinburgh, princi. pally, we believe, with a view to the education of his encreasing family, and influenced, no doubt, by a desire to live where he could enjoy more of literary society than was to be had in so remote a part of the country; and to this end no place could be more conducive than the northern metropolis. Previous to his departure from Aberdeenshire, he was actively employed in promoting measures for alleviating the distresses of the poorer classes in that county, owing to the failure of the crop of grain in 1782; and by his great exertions in exciting the attention of the neighbouring gentlemen to the state of the county on that trying occasion; we have reason to think that he was the principal means of averting the calamities of severe famine from that part of the kingdom. About the same year he printed and circulated among his friends, a proposal for establishing the Northern British Fisheries. This tract was never published, but the attention of Government being excited to the subject by it, he was applied to by the treasury to undertake a survey of the Western Coast of Scotland, for the purpose of obtaining on this important subject. This public-spirited enquiry he undertook, and accomplished in 1784, having a revenue cutter appointed to convey him round the coast; thus devoting his time and abilities to the public, much to the detriment of his own private affairs; and we are well assured he never received one shilling of remuneration from Government for this meritorious service, although the ministers expressed themselves perfectly satisfied with his performance of it; and it was even with great difficulty, and after many applications, that he obtained the reimbursement of his actual necessary expences incurred in the service. In 1788 he was deprived of his wife, a woman endowed with most of the excellencies which exalt the female character, and render it the chief source of comfort and happiness to man: to elegance of person were added an excellent and well-cultivated understanding, and an affectionate and honourable disposition. To expatiate further on the virtues of this admirable woman, would be foreign to our purpose; those of our readers who knew her will allow that what we have said is far short of her real merits. It will readily be supposed that the loss of such a woman would inflict a severe and lasting wound on Dr. Anderson's spirits; and though he strove to bear it with manly fortitude, he never completely recovered its effects, but was ever afterwards occasionally subject to a melancholy recollection of past times having, See Report of the Committee appointed enquire into the State of the British Fisheries 14th May, 1785. the "eye big with the latent tear," About this time he was employed in his researches on the subject of sheep, and the improvement of wool, in concert with Sir John Sinclair; his opinions thereupon delivered to the Highland Society, are before the public. We next find him engaged in preparing for the publication of the Bee. This was a project he had long contemplated, namely, a weekly periodical work, designed for the dissemination of useful knowledge, which by its cheapness should be calculated for all ranks of people, while sufficient attention was paid to its various literary departments to render it respectable in the highest circles. His name was now so highly established, that the encoungement given by the public to this performance was wonderful, and nothing but great mismanagement, in conducting the commercial part of the work, for which, like most persons of similar habits, he was ill adapted, could have caused it to fail in being a very profitable concern to him. His own writings form a conspicuous part of this book; some of them will be seen under the name of Senex, Timothy Hairbrain, Alcibia des, and the greater part of the matter without signature. It is painful to observe how seldom the genius to conceive and instruct is united with sufficient perseverance to execute. the doctor takes an affecting leave of his readers at the end of the eighteenth volume,, finding it impossible for him to contend longer with the difficulties he experienced in conducting it; and principally those of getting in the subscription money. During the progress of this work, he opened a correspondence with many eminent persons who were distinguished as literary and public spirited characters abroad and at home: among these we may mention General Washington, with whom he carried on an interesting cor respondence, and Mr. Johnes, the elegant biographer of Froissart, &c. with whose intimate friendship he was honoured till the day of his death. In the course of this publication a circumstance happened that affords us an opportunity of admiring the steady independence of his spirit, and that firmness of conduct which conscious rectitude alone could inspire. At the time that the baneful ef fects of French revolutionary principles had perverted the senses of most classes of people, the Scottish metropolis was not the least conspicuous for its violence in the cause of mistaken freedom. At length Government considered it necessary to interfere in repres sing the dissemination of these destructive doctrines: prosecutions had already been commenced against several of the leading zealots, when our publisher received a sum mons to appear before the Sheriff, who demanded of him to give up the name of the author of the "Political Progress of Great Britain," a series of essays that had appeared in the Bee. This he peremptorily refu sed to do, requesting that he might be con sidered |