Being no choly feelings, he removed to the vicinity of London about the year 1797. stranger here among literary men, he found great satisfaction in their society. Prevailed on by his friends, he once more engaged in the service of the public, and produced in April 1799, the first number of his Recieations, a miscellaneous monthly publication, having for its principal objects agriculture and natural history. Although the work contains a number of communications from others, yet the greater part of it is written by It met with the greatest encouhimself. ragement from the public; but complaining of the irregularity of his printers and booksellers as being intolerable, he dropt it at the He now began to end of the sixth volume." relish ease and quiet. Having been always fond of horticulture, his garden now more than ever became a source of amusement, and employed a large portion of his time: yet still unwilling to withdraw from the service of mankind, he had it in contemplation to go to the continent to obtain facts relating to agriculture and civil polity, particularly in the low countries; having in view a digest of the system of legislation, and of the causes of the highly flourishing state of agriculture in that part of Europe; but this was prevented by the relentless dominion and tyranny of France. During the publication of his Recreations, he wrote and printed separately his correspondence with General Washington, and a calm investigation on the scarcity of grain. sidered as the author himself. No one, how-mained in it to excite any other than melanever, could suspect him to be the writer of these papers, as his opinions were well known to be of an opposite tendency to those inculcated therein. The Sheriff desired him to consider of the matter, and cautioned him against the evil consequence of persisting in He was a refusal to disclose the real author. summoned a second and a third time; but steadily adhered to his first answer, and was permitted to withdraw. At length all his people in the printing and Bee offices were called upon; he accompanied them to the Court, and, in the presence of the magistrates, addressed them, saying, "My lads, you are my servants, and bound to keep your master's secrets; I therefore enjoin you, on no account to discover who is the author of the Political Progress of Great Britain, and I will hold you harmless for so doing." They all adhered to his directions, and so great was the respect in which he was held, that the magistrates, though frustrated in this cavalier manner, refrained from taking any step against him. In the mean while Mr. C. the real author of these essays, thought it most prudent to retire from the risk of prosecution to America; but before his departure, for what reason was best known to himself, he waited on the magistrates and deposed, that he himself was not the author; that he knew who was; but that motives of delicacy and gratitude prevented him from This insiduous declara. divulging his name. tion produced the effect for which it was intended; for it being well known that Lord Gardenstone, from whose country residence the papers were dated, had lavished many kindnesses on this unworthy man, under the mistaken opinion of his being a literary character of great merit, and also that his lordship was a warm friend of Dr. Anderson, and a great patronizer of the Bee, it was concluded that the allusion could be intended for none other than him. Immediately on hear ing of this base proceeding, Dr. Anderson, determining that his friend's reputation should not suffer by the impression of such a falsehood going abroad, went and declared that Mr. C. was the sole author of the papers in question, and that he was certain Lord Gardenstone, so far from having any concern in writing them, never had so much as seen them till published in the Bee. It is but justice to the deceased to say, that the only part of these papers of a seditious cast had been struck out by him, and Mr. C. went to the printer's in his absence and prevailed on them to inert the passage, contrary to Dr. Anderson's directions, whose opinions of the value of our government as it exists, and of the danger of the then prevailing revolutionary doctrines were such, that he never would have consented to admit them into his publication if he had considered them at all of a dangerous tendency. The greater number of his seas having lett Scotland and as little re He The thirty-seventh number of his Recreations is his last publication, in March, 1802, after which he consigned himself to quiet retirement, at a time when he foresaw the decline of his own powers approaching; these were hastened to decay by being overworked. He died on the 15th October last, aged 69, ond-half of which time was devoted to the benefit of his fellow creatures. had engaged a second time in matrimony with a worthy lady in 1801. Both parties being in the autumn of life, this contract seemed intended solely for the purp se it fully served namely, that of promoting their mutual comforts. In the decline of life, those services and attentions are requisite which are not to be obtained from menial hands: it came to his lot to stand in the need of such assist ance; and for its faithful administration his friends will doubtless be ever grateful to his surviving widow. As a practical farmer, it is acknowledged by all who knew him, that he not only understood how to turn the modes of culture usually followed by others to the greatest advantage, by judiciously selecting them and applying them according to the cir cumstances of the case, but also that he had powerful resources within his own mind is the invention of new practices, many of which, and of those followed in distant countries, he introduced with the greatest succes. Of the benefits arising from his example, the people is in the neighbourhood of his farm are still highly sensible; and many of them own, that a great proportion of the agricultural improvements, so conspicuous in that part of the country, originated in him. Failings of a nature which too often accompany genius, however, deprived him of most of the benefits of his labours. He was deficient in that plodding perseverance which was necessary to mature the works he had begun; and he often neglected one object to adopt another. But above all, his utter negligence of pecuniary matters brought him into difficulties which embittered the best of his days; for to those affairs he could never be induced by any present necessity, or prospect of future gain, to pay common attention; and he was consequently always suffering great losses through his own inattention and the imposition of others. Of his industry and abilities, the best account we can give is, to refer to his own writings, a list of which we subjoin, Various as the subjects are, their tendency seems only one, that of making mankind better and happier. In his political tracts he pays less attention to the object of power for which governments usually contend, than to the improvement of society; and he deprecates the aggrandisement of the state at the expence of justice and morality. In his style, it will be observed, he attends more to perspicuity and force than to elegance or grammatical correctness. His language flows with natural ease, and never fails to convey his meaning without the least obscurity or ambiguity, though it frequently abounds with provincial idioms, prolix sentences, over charged with relatives and tautology; yet the clearness of the sense, and the unconstrained simplicity of the diction, beguile the reader and lead him to pass over the faults without noticing them. That these faults proceeded more from carelessness than from any deficiency in grammatical knowledge, is evident from his writings on language and grammar. Impatient of interierence, he rarely admitted of advice, but prosecuted his labours by himself Of a lively fancy, he was warm in his friendships, and warm, sometimes bitter, in his resentments; but, if the ardour of his sentiments occasionally led him into error, his own candout soon confected it; and when he thought he had received an injury, he made a maxim of avoiding to mention the author of it, lest his resentment should lead him to unjust accusations. The sense he entertained of the general meanness of avaricious characters, cased him to hold in rather too great contempt those who devote the whole of their attention to the improvement of their fortunes. In his younger days he was handsome in his pros, of middle stature, and tasust constitution. Extremely moderate in his living, the country exercise animated his countenance with the glow of health; but the overstrainel exertion of his mental powers afterwards - Monthly Mag. No. 183. impaired his health, ultimately wasted his faculties, and brought on the premature effects of old age. Many instances of inventive powers appear in his works: we shall here only notice a mode of draining swampy grounds by tapping, first invented by him, and published in 1776 in his Essays on Agriculture. Mr. Elkington having discovered the same method twenty years afterwards, a reward of 10001. was voted to him by Parliament for that invention. In the knowledge of the fine arts he bore a respectable rank, as also appears by his writings, one of the most remarkable of which, is an Essay on Grecian and Gothic Architecture, &c. He had a fine taste for gardening and rural scenery. An early example of this appeared in the laying out of the grounds about his residence, wherein he combined elegance with utility; a thing till of late seldom thought of in the contrivance of farm homesteads, especially in the north of Scotland. He had, as might be supposed from the general tenor of his pursuits, a particular turn or natural philosophy, or the investigation of physical causes and effects. As an example of his reasoning on this head, we may point out a paper in the first edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, published in July 1773, before the return of Cook from his first voyage, wherein he predicts the result of one of that navigator's enquiries, by pointing out from what was known of the trade winds and monsoons, that there could not exist an extensive tract of land besides those already known in any other part of the southern hemisphere than that wherein New Holland was afterwards found to be situated. Of Dr. Anderson's numerous family only five sons have survived him, three of whom are settled in this metropolis, and two in India, and one daughter, already a widow, with five childrn. She was married in 1800 to the late Mr. Benjamin Outram, of Derbyshire, who died in 1805, in the prime of his life-a man of uncommon worth and talents, whose works as an engineer will remain lasting testimonies of his great and inventive genius. Dr. Anderson published a great number of eminent works. He was also the author of several articles for the Encyclop. Brit. 1st vol. Edin. among which are, under the heads Dictionary. winds and monsoons, language, sound. He contributed numerous essays, under a variety of signatures, in the early part of the Edin. Weekly Mag. the principal of which were, Agricola, Timoleon, Germanicus, Cimon, Scoto Britannus, E. Aberdeen, Henry Plain, Impartial, a Scot. He reviewed the subject of agriculture for the Monthly Review for several years. We understand he has left behind him several unpublished manuscripts, one in particular, An Address to the People of Scotland: this was intended to be the last thing he should ever publish: there are only 17 pages of this work written, which are on the subject of the pour laws. PROVINCIAL Rr PROVINCIAL OCCURRENCES, Arranged geographically, or in the Order of the Counties, from North to South. Communications for this Department of the Monthly Magazine, properly authenticated, and sent free of Postage, are always thankfully received. Those ure more particularly acceptable which describe the Progress of Local Improvements of any kind, or which contain Biographical Anecdotes or Facts relative to eminent or remarkable Characters recently deceased. NORTHUMBERLAND AND DURHAM. MARRIED.] At Newcastle, Captain Rickenburgh, of the Cornwall militia, to Miss Irvin. At Stockton, Jonathan Hutchinson, esq. to Miss Mary Sarah Stewart. At Durham, Mr. John Bendele, to Miss Charlotte Fielding. At Houghton-le-Spring, William Maude, esq, eldest son of Jacob M. esq. of Sunniside-house, to Miss Hannah Isabella Wilkinson, daughter of Thomas W. esq. At Newcastle, Mr. Benjamin Atkinson, of Stockton, to Miss Margaret Clapham.Mr. George Wardle, to Miss Reed, only daughter of Mr. Alexander R. of the Leazes. Died.] At Wickham, Miss Anne White, 29. At New Greenwich, near Gateshead, Miss Hawks, daughter of William H. esq. At Bishopwearmouth, Robert Hayton, esq. ship-owner, 44-Mrs. Martha Read, of Brookland, Kent, 56. At Morpeth, Mrs, Laidman, 21. At Alnwick, Nathaniel Davison, esq. formerly his Majesty's Consul at Nice and Al. giers In early life, he was a companion in his travels of the celebrated Wortley Montague. At Sunderland, Edward Wylam. esq. 41. -Mrs. Frost, wife of Mr. Richard F. 42. At Durham, Mr. Robert Thomas, mason. -Mr. James Gilroy, 72. At Newcastle, Mrs. Dixon, 86-Miss J. S. Mc Murdo, only daughter of Colonel Mc Murdo.-Mr. Matthew Hall.-Mr. William Graham, 82. At Berwick, Mr Samuel Laws, $6. At Buck-heads, near Barnard-castle, Mrs. Anthony Hutton, 90. At North Shields, Mr. William Graham, ship-owner, 82. At Little Benton, Miss Jemima Begge, 21. CUMBERLAND AND WESTMORELAND. A very praiseworthy and philantropic institution has been just commenced by the ladies of Kendal, for the relief or the sick poor in that town, where they undertake to visit the families in each ward, personally, and grant them such relief as they most stand in need of. The visitors are determined to pay particular attention, and make riports of the domestic, moral, and religious conduct of the applicants. Married] At Penrith, Mt. Cuthbert Laws, of the Black Lion Inn, to Miss Mary Graham. At St. Bees, C. Williamson, esq. of Ashley Grove, near Egremont, to Elizabeth, unly daughter of the late John Frissel, esq. of the Isle of Man. Died.] At Carlisle, Joseph Hodgson, esq. formerly deputy-clerk of the peace for the county, 42-Miss Elizabeth Jackson.—Mr. John Hetherington, 28-Miss Mary Armstrong, 24.-Mr. James Harkness, 58-Mr. Thomas Lawson, 73. At Houghton, Mr. Peter Héslop, 85. At Maryport, Mrs. Watson, wife of Mr. Timothy W. 70. At Humphrey Close, near Armathwaite, Mrs. Slack, 84. At Cawthwaite, Mrs. Hope. At Whitehaven, Miss Hodgson, daughter of Capt. H.-Mrs Fisher. Mr. George Johnson. -Mr. John Richardson, 32.-Mr. Ell's Nutter, 62. At Penrith, Mrs. Simpson, 67. At Eskatt, in Ennerdale, Mr. Henry Westray, junior, 30. At Preston Patrick, near Kendal, Mrs. Isabella Smithson, 68. At Brickhowbank, Mr Thomas Palmer. At Wigton, Miss Stockdale.-Mr. Joha Monkhouse. At Shap, Westmoreland, Mr. Kilvington, of the King's Arms Inn. At Fuldean, Mrs. Yule, 84. YORKSHIRE. Workmen have commenced pulling down the theatre at Huil, and a new one is to be erected on the same place. It is to be built in a circular form, with three tier of boxes on each side, and two in front; with lobbies, &c. upon the plan of the London theatres. It is supposed the pit will accommodate three times as many perions as that of the present: and the other parts of the theatre will be proportionably enlarged. A spirit of improvement prevails to a considerable extent, both in York, the ancient metropolis of the county, and in many of the principal towns, particularly in the West Riding. At Wakefield and Pontefact some very handsome erections for the transaction of public business, are at present in a state of considerable progress. In Lieds, much has been done within a few years, and much more is intended to be done, with all convenient dispatch. dispatch. In the city of York it has been determined to obtain an act, to widen and render more commodious Ouse and Foss bridges, and the avenues leading thereto; and in order to prevent the necessity of a foot toil being imposed to defray the expence of the projected improvement, a voluntary subscription has been entered into, from the published list of which we select the following munificent subscriptions. The corporation, 20001. Sir M. M. Sykes, 10001. Earl Fitzwilliam, 5001. Messrs Raper, Swan, and Co. 5001. Married.] At Sheffield, Henry Garrett Key, esq of London, to Miss Tudor, third daughter of the late Henry T. esq. At Cottingham, Ellis Owen unliffe, esq. of Addingham, near Otley, to Miss Ewbank, only daughter of William Kay, esq. At Aldborough, John Tindall, esq. of Scarborough, to Miss Alice Terry, daughter of the late Mr. Leonard T. of York. At Doncaster, the Rev. S Hodson, rector of Thrapston, Northamptonshire, to Mrs. Fenwick, of Bywell, Northumberland. At Hemsworth, James William Morrison, esq. of his Majesty's mint, to Miss Simpson, only daughter of the Rev. John S. At Wakefield, William Turner, esq. of Kilnhurst, to Sophia, third daughter of the late John Foljambe, esq of Rotherham. Died.] At Buildon, near Bradford, William Holden, esq. 71. At Sheffield, John Kenyon, esq.-Mrs. Mary Needham, 81. At Busby Hall, William Marwood, one of his Majesty's justices of the peace for the North Riding, 66. At Otley, aged 71, Mrs. Wilson, relict of the late Henry Wilson, M A. vicar of Otley, and rector of Slaidburn -Francis Winn, esq. of Richmond, banker; he was thrown from his horse when hunting, and killed on the spot. At Horsforth, Mary Airton, 105.-Same day, Sarah Dean, ot the same place, aged Sadler, 25 28. At Manton, Mr. John Acomb, of Leeds, At Fulford, Thomas Harrison, esq. Ar Hessle, in the workhouse, Mary Ow. thorp, 106. At Scarborough, Mrs. Reed, wife of Mr. Williams R. ship-owner, and daughter of the late John Hugall, eq 24. At Hull, Mrs. Martha Atkinson, wife of Captain A. 49. Mrs. Overend, 77.-Miss Caroline King-Mr. William Simpson, jun. 23-Mr. Jushua Overend, merchant, son of Mrs. O. mentioned above, 49.-Mrs. Snowdeng 23.—Mix. Bell, 75. · At Sheriff Hulton, Mr. James Sowerby, schoolmaster, 75 At Calico Hall, Halifax, the Rev. Edward Prescott, vicar of Long Preston. At Bradford, Mr. John Fawthorp, 101. At Escrick, Mr. Clark, agent to Richard Thompson, esq 76. He was a man of strict integrity and indefatigable industry: a character throughout his whole life totally unimpeachable, universally acknowledged an inestimable friend to the industrious raimer, whose interest, as well as that of his employers, was the principle which led him to the popular esteem he always enjoyed. At York, Mrs Dorothy Daile.-Mr John Severs. Mrs. Whip, 70.-Mrs. Anderson.Mr. John Terry, surgeon and apothecary, and a member of the common-council, 62. At Leeds, Mr. Charles Boynton -Miss Wainwright Mr. Thomas Hargreave, 23. -Mrs. Turner.-Mr. Samuel Constantine.. Miss Rayner, elcest daughter of Mr. John R. merchant, 16. At Cherry-tree Hill, near Sheffield, Mr. John Wainwright, 96 At Hemworth, near Pontefract, Mrs. Vallans, relict of W. V. esq. At Leavy Greave, Alexander Goodman, esq. of Sheffield. At Ripon, aged 87, Samuel Coates, esq. senior alderman and father of that corporation, and a partner in the Ripon and Nederdale bank He was in business for more than half a century, and whose industry and integrity through life, have seldom been exce led; yielding to himself prosperity and happiness, and affording to mankind an example the most worthy of imitation He was a good townsman, being ever ready to contribute liberally towards whatever was considered for the public good, or benefit of his neighbours, and to assist the industrious poor whenever they applied to him for aid. He lived useful to mankind, and has died a credit to his family and name. Overton, near Lancaster. Returning home he was drowned in the river Lune, opposite St. George's Quay. Owing to the darkness of the night, he mistook the road from the end of Butt's-lane, leading from Sketon, and walked into the river (the tide being flowing) and was distinctly heard by several persons upon the quay, calling out for help; but from the extreme darkness of the evening, and no person being near with a boat, no assistance could be given. At Manchester, Mrs. Vigor, relict of Allen V. esq.-Mrs. Holland. At Rochdale, George Thomas Balguy Drake, esq. an officer in the Hereford militia, and son of Thomas Drake, D.D. vicar of that parish. At Liverpool, Jane, eldest daughter of Mr. Thomas Billings, printer of the Liverpool Advertiser, 29.-Margaret, eldest daughter of Mr. John Copple.-Mrs. Bowden-John, the youngest son of the late Thomas Hardy, esq.-Mary, only daughter of Mr. Thomas Dean, 18.-Mrs. Ridiough, of the Royal Hot Miss Mattingley, daughter of the late Dr. M.-Mr. Day, schoolmaster, 23. -Mr. Thomas Kirk, 25.-Mrs. Eccles, 70. Mrs. Cofton, 27.-Jane, youngest daughter of Mr. Henry Hope. At Ulverston, Mrs Woodsworth, relict of Richard W. esq. collector of the customs, Whitehaven, 72. At Lancaster, Roger Parkinson, M.D. 35. Mr. George Remington. At Street Gate, Little Hulton, Mr. Richard Jones, 72. A man of unaffected simplicity of manners, hospitable, humane, and friendly; he was a great lover of agricultu ral improvements, and though almost without the first elements of science, he brought the practice of artificially flooding land to a state of the greatest perfection. He has left behind him several valuable premiums conferred upon him by the Agricultural Society, of which he was a member: and, what is of still greater value in the estimation of his friends and relations, he has left behind him the character of an honest man. CHESHIRE, Married.] At Sandbach, Thomas Wattleworth, esq. of Liverpool, to Miss Lowndes. At Brereton, Mr. William Jepson, to Miss Bailey. Died.] At the Moor, Mrs. Byrom, relict of Mr. Henry B. 78. At Nantwich, Mr. James Pass. At Bank-hall, near Stockport, Sarah, wife of John Philips, es, only surviving daughter of the late John Leh, esq. of Oughtring onball, 66. DERBYSHIRE. Married] At Ashover, Mr. Thomas Taylor, of London, to Miss Saxton, of Leawood. At Derby, Mr Samuel Storer, of Westonapon-Trent, to Miss Ann Harpham, of Darley, Mr.Robert Adams, to Miss Mary Dixon, of the Royal Oak Inn.-At the same time, Mr. Thomas Adams, (brother to the above) to Miss Charlotte Dixon, younger sister of the above lady. At Pen ridge, Mr. John Lowe, of Lee, to Miss Mary Norman, of White Lees. Died. The Rev Edward Sacheverell Wilmot, rector of Kirk Langley, 42. At Hall Fields, near Ashborne, Mr. John Latham, many years high constable of the Hundred of Wicksworth, 82. At Boylston, Mr. John Adams. At Etwall, aged 56, the Rev. Joseph Turner, who had been master of the corporation of Etwall and Repton, 23 years. At Doveridge, Mr. Samuel Turner, school master. At Derby, Mr. Edward Beardsley, 55. At Drakelow, Elizabeth Augusta, third daughter of the late Sir N. B. Gresley, bart. At Whitwell, Mary, the wife of the Rev. David Holt, rector of Kilvington, Nottinghamshire. NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. Married At Workfop, Mr. John Hewson, of Tickhill, to Miss Hydes. At Mansfield, Mr. W. Smith, of Newark, to Miss Susan Glazier. Died.] At Southwell, Mr. Jones, of the Saracen's Head Inn. At Nottingham, Mrs. Barrow, wife of Richard Sutton B. gent.-Mrs. Martha Pearson,80. At Newark, Mrs. Mary Pocklington. In her the poor have lost a valuable friend, and the various benevolent institutions in the neighbourhood a liberal contributor. LINCOLNSHIRE. During a violent gale of wind, the rookery on the lawn, near the houfe of M. N. Graburn, esq. in the town of Barton-upon-Humber, was lately blown down with a tremend. ous crash, to the great regret of numerous admirers.-The rookery was rendered extraor dinary by being confined within the limits of a single ah, which is supposed to have stood for a couple centuries, and has been the birthplace of thousands of its feathered inhabitants. The number of nests within the branches of the tree, has for the last fifty years averaged about a hundred. Since its fall, the tree has been measured, and is found to contain upwards of three hundred cubic feet of lound timber; the bole alone measuring twenty-two feet and a half in length by ten feet in girth. It is now about thaty years since it was first observed to begin to decay at the top, and a covering of lead, which was applied to keep off the wet from the bole of the tree, is sup pofed to have contributed greatly to its preservation ence that period." Marrad.] At Louth, Mr. Tyson, oldest surgeon to the dispensary at that place, to Miss Diana Uvedale, daughter of the late Rev. Dr. U. rector of Langton. At Buston, Mr. Henry Clark, only fon of |