THE LITERARY GAZETTE, AND T. istory of legislation here ever was any election, it was only at very ancient period. The dress of the Citizen, indeed, was, if | sion of the style. less elegant, equally showy, and sometimes is in all countries so mimately connec fully as expensive as that of the man of with that of the government, that, in unfashion. The medium habit may, with great folding the origin, the establishment, and vinces; to him is also attributed the clasprobability, be considered as sketched in the the influence of the laws which prevailed in sification of the subjects into several tribes: Assyria was divided by Ninus into profollowing humourous tale, derived from a different nations, the author could not avoid the children followed the profession of their popular pamphlet,' printed in 1609: A Citizen, for recreation-sake, giving some details respecting the policy of fathers. The Chaldeans were one of these the princes who governed them; and, in re-tribes, and formed a separate and hereditary gard to the good or ill fortune which those caste consecrated to the service of the altar, analysis, which must limit itself to explaining the tribe of Levi. The kingdom was open princes and nations experienced. But in an like the priests of Egypt, and the children of the principal and essential object of the work, to foreigners, who even received encouragethese brilliant accessaries must be neg-ments to settle in it. Public tombs were lected. erected to the warriors who fell in battle. To see the Country would a journey take liver, I am a taker, thou must be a giver." Nor cuffes; as true as this good light doth shine. The sattin-doublet and rays'd velvet hose The boots are John the Grocer's at the Swan : "Why, (quoth the theeves) thou need'st not Since in thy loss so many beare a share. Go, tell, at London, thou did'st meete with foule TION. [FRENCH LITERATURE.] This work, which is only the commencement of the general history of Legislation, combines with profound erudition a happy arrangement of the materials, a judicious application of historical facts, and a style suitable to the dignity of the subject, the merit of constantly enforcing maxims worthy of that policy which aims at the stability of empires and the happiness of nations. Legislation of the Assyrians, Babylonians, Babylon, and Egypt, the government was were subdivided into Toparchies, below and Egyptians. In the kingdoms of Assyria, which the Greeks called Nomes, and which Egypt was also divided into provinces, monarchical. Modern writers, founding which there were various other subdivisions. their opinions on some particular circum- The King chose the persons who were to exstances, have advanced different systems on ercise his authority in them. The citizens Assyrians and the Babylonians. the nature of the government among the were divided into several classes, and proHardouin thought it Goguet and Bianchi afterwards maintained warriors, the priests, the labourers, the artiFather fessions were hereditary. The most general was democratical; opinion is, that there were five classes; the that it was limited; Goguet supposes the sans, the shepherds; thus every body neexistence of three councils; Bianchi admits cessarily had an occupation, and, as Bospeople; M. Pastoret contends that the royal to the state. Schools of instruction were the concurrence of the great men and the suet says, it was not permitted to be useless authority was unlimited, and that various established all over Egypt. It was one of tain a doubt on the subject. The kings, sided over the life of man, genius, fortune, incontestible facts do not allow us to enter- the maxims of Egypt, that four powers presays he, had the power of life and death love, and necessity. There was over their subjects; they themselves pro- which prohibited the burning of the dead. nounced sentence upon them without the a law intervention of any legal officer. Landed property depended on the crown; they were called Kings of Kings; they demanded and that women were not excluded from sucreceived adoration. It is to be observed ceeding to the throne. vileges were granted to foreigners who their commercial establishments, and per The same doubts have arisen upon the writers, among whom the authority of Bosnature of the government of Egypt. Some weight, have contended that the government The Kings of Assyria and Babylon, were suet and Montesquieu ought to have great Laws relative to property and to taxes.was limited. M. Pastoret maintains, and proprietors of all the lands in their kingdom, several facts, that it was absolute: he al- ployment of Inspectors General, who superendeavours to prove, by the comparison of and let them for an annual rent; the emleges the two months' mourning prescribed intended the progress of agriculture, was by the King to the whole nation on the considered as very honourable. There were and Lords of Lords, which they arrogated at the entrance of the towns. Condillac addeath of Jacob; the title of Kings of Kings, indirect taxes, which were levied on goods to themselves; the arbitrary manner in vanced that the imports were not regulated which they themselves inflicted penalties, by the will of the King alone, but that proand pronounced the condemnation of per- vincial assemblies in different parts of the These four volumes relate to the legisla- out the observance of legal formalities; the for each in particular; that it was a gratusons and the confiscation of property, with-empire fixed the amount of them, for all and tion of the Assyrians, the Babylonians, the total want of any guarantee for the civil li-itous gift, not an ordinary or forced contriEgyptians, the Syrians, and the Hebrews.berty of their subjects; the right (or at least bution. M. Pastoret, refuting this assertion, What the author has collected respecting the fact) of disposing at will of the public pretends that Condillac has not quoted a sinthe history and the legislation of these peo- possessions; the circumstance that the ju- gle authority precisely applicable to this ple, gives a more complete picture than we dicial power was not independent of the point. have hitherto possessed of their civil and re- throne; the operations of Sesostris, who enligious polity. The learned researches of the author are administration of Egypt; the burden im- cumstances rendered the revenue less, the tirely changed the division and the general paid a fifth of the revenue; so that, when cirAs to Egypt it is certain that the land preceded by an introduction, which is remark-posed on the people of erecting the pyra-payment was reduced in proportion. "The able for the nature and choice of the mids, &c. We cannot follow the author in thoughts, and for the elevation and preci Doctor Merrie-man: or Nothing but Mirth. Written by S. R. (supposed Samuel Rowland). At London, printed for John Deane, and are to be sold at his shoppe at Temple Barre, under the gate. the discussion of the different causes which re other four parts," says the author, to itself the cultivation and sale of the Pa- to consider of the arrangement, the di- | non centurias tantum, sed myriades | College, Oxford; to say nothing of some gestion, and circumstance of the work,- etiam vocabulorum. Yet is Stephens's, considerable contributions from numerto consult the opinions of learned men, incomplete as it is, and incomplete as all ous distinguished scholars of our own -to issue out notices of the progress Lexicons must be, the most perfect Lex-nation. are that was making,-and, above all, to can-icon of the Greek language that exists. We had almost omitted to remark, vass for the subscription, which they had It was well denominated by its author a that it is uniformly the practice of the to do throughout every part of the em- "Thesaurus Linguæ Græcæ;" its in- Editors to prefix an asterisk to such Ipire, and which was not effected under tent being evidently to form an entire words as are omitted in the old edition three years, and even then at an enorm-store-house of Grecian literature, so that, of Stephens; and this not merely in the ous expense. They who uuthinkingly in point of fact, the accounts that are instances under discussion, but in the accuse the Editors of dilatoriness and there given of the different Greek words adduced quotations as well. The advanprocrastination, are requested to call to may be considered in the light of as tage of this is obvious to every observer. mind that Stephens, who had embarked many distinct essays. Hence is seen at In the Index to the Two First Numbers all he had on the undertaking, was ru- a glance its decided superiority over a alone, TWO THOUSAND words are thus ined by the self-same work, which they Lexicon commonly so called. Great, marked: and by casting the eye over the now reprinting; and that, on this however, as is its merit (aud prodigious Index to the Third Number, it appears plea alone (granting that it had been pos- it is for one man, and at that early pe- to contain nearly as many new words. sible for the preparations to have been riod of literature too), it is nevertheless, With respect to the copy of Constanmade at a moment's warning), it would in the nature of such an undertaking, tine's Lexicon, mentioned in p. 7. of Mahave been imprudent,-nay, even mad- liable to censure on the score of its occa-terials for the improvement of Stephens' ness itself, to have sent to press so much sional incorrectness. But its chief fault Greek Thesaurus, we have some obscure as a single sheet, until the Editors should (we repeat) is its defectiveness,-its omis- recollection of having once learned that be ocularly convinced that the subscrip- sion of numberless words; some thou- it is deposited in the Bodleian Library at tion would warrant the undertaking, sands of which have been collected and Oxford. If this hint shall be the means should feel safe and sure that the work noted down by scholars subsequent to of its being discovered, we shall feel ourcould not miscarry. The unexpected the days of STEPHENS. These errors selves amply rewarded for being at the opening of the continent too was another and omissions it will be the business of pains to give it.' very advisable source of delay; as they the Editors to rectify; and from the spe- A curious fact has lately come to our then felt themselves in possession of the cimen of materials that they have pub knowledge, which we have from undeniameans of consulting foreign scholars as lished, we have no doubt that they will ble authority; that, during the residence well as our own. From these they have, acquit themselves creditably. To enter of Buonaparte at Elba, a Paris bookseller as was likely to be, derived a multitude into the minutia of these omissions, procured a list of about thirty subof resources. To have omitted this new-would be quite out of the sphere of a scribers to the new edition. On the reblown opportunity, would have been publication like THE LITERARY GA- turn, however, of the Ex-Emperor, the to have forfeited their characters as men ZETTE. We shall therefore content our- whole of these, with the exception of of judgment. In the eyes of the rational selves with referring our readers to the three or four, made bold to excuse and the learned they would have disqua- list of materials published by the Edi- themselves. We need not remind our lified themselves at one blow for what tors about two years ago, for gratuitous readers, that Buonaparte made no scruthey were professing to perform. distribution amongst the Subscribers. ple to seize, and appropriate to his own The state of the case thus fairly con- We shall only observe, that, besides the use, the funds that had been established sidered, no proposition in Euclid can be additions which will be supplied from at Leipsig, we believe, for the express plainer than, that the Editors, instead Lexicographers and other scholars that purpose of printing a new edition of Steof being dilatory, have, on the contrary, have flourished since the time of Ste-phens's Greek Thesaurus. So much for evinced extraordinary expedition. They phens,-to the amount of many thousands the Arch-Patron of Literature! have actually published FOUR NUMBERS of words, and besides what can be sup- If it be alledged that the editors are ALREADY,--and propose (according to plied by the learning and research of the young men, let it be answered, that, after circumstances, as they may regulate) Editors themselves, they have to rely on all, youth is the season for vigorous and publishing Five or Six Annually. This the papers and prompt assistance of effective exertion; and that, if they are is quite as fast, and even faster than we Professors SCHAEFER, BOISSONADE, young, they have at least had the good could wish them to proceed, SCHWEIGHEUSER, CORAY, and KALL sense to place themselves and their work It is worthy of remark, that a new edi- (of Copenhagen); and the MS. addi- under old and experienced direction. tion of Stephens's Greek Thesaurus had tions to Scapula's Epitome of Stepheus, They have, for their director and their long been secretly in preparation, in Eng- by RUHNKEN, VALCKNAER, BRUNCK, guide, the first and most accomplished land, France, Germany, Russia, and and D'ORVILLE, and to Hederic's Lex-scholar in the kingdom. Denmark. The subscribers will be glad icon by GILBERT WAKEFIELD, and to learn, that most of the materials are in DR. ROUTH, President of Magdalen of copies printed is confined to the numthe possession of the present Editors. They who are in the habit of referring to Stephens's Thesaurus, must have observed that there is in it a very great deficiency of words,-that (to use the language of a noted scholar) it wants sulting that portion of the papers of the celebrated Bast, which relates to Greek Lexicography. It is to be regretted, that the number ber of subscribers; for, to a scholar who is not a subscriber, the chance of gaining possession of a copy will soon be very That our readers may form something like an idea of the deficiencies that will be supplied, and of the infinite advantage which the new and forthcoming edition will have over its prototype, we shall merely assert (which we can do with a perfect conviction of the truth of what we say), in one great word and in one "R. Constantini Lexicon. Gr. et Lat. 1592. round sum, as it were, that the second edition olim fuit Is. Vossii, qui a capite ad calcem Adwill be better than the first by above TWENTY notatt. suas adscripsit, quibus et aliorum acces. serunt." THOUSAND WORDS. 'The running-title in the Verheykian Catalogue, Leyden, 1785, No. 336, is, 376 moderate: For I was always very careful of my health by using Exercise. I own that this Country does not entirely please me, particularly the climate. I sometimes entertain the notion of returning to France: but as I coud not now at my years bear the tumult of Paris, and all Provincial Towns are unknown to me, I shall never probably carry this idea into Execution. Edinburgh, 25 January 1772. possible, that I may previously adjust mat- President of the Linnæan Society of Boston. the Prince of Conti, and assure him, that ville. If Miss Becket be still with you I DAVID HUME. for Washington, to repair to my post, I am JOHN QUINCY ADAMS. John Quincy Adams, when he lately came here to visit his friends, spoke to us very Boston, 18th Oct. 1817. Sir, My respectable friend, the Honorable frequently of the Society of Agriculture and Botany at Ghent, and it is to be hoped that the inclosed letter may be the means of establishing an active correspondence, to their which has its seat at Boston. common advantage, between your society and the Linnæan Society of New England, I am truly ashamed, Dear Madam, of your having prevented me in breaking our long silence, but you have prevented me only by a few days. For I was resolved to have writ to you on this commencement of the year, and to have renewed my Professions of unfeigned and unalterable attachment to you; while I was at London I had continual Opportunities of hearing the News of Paris and particularly concerning you; and ever since I had settled here, I never saw any body who came from your part of the world, Edinburgh 20th August 1776. that I did not question concerning you. Tho' I am certainly within a few weeks, The last Person to whom I had the satis-days, of my own Death, I coud not forbear Dear Madam, and perhaps within a few faction of speaking of you was Mr. Dutens being struck with the Death of the Prince But there were many circumstances of your situation which moved my anxiety, and of of Conti, so great a loss in every particular. My Reflection carried me immediately to formation. You have been so good as to Plan of Life. Pray write me some particuwhich none but yourself coud give me in- your Situation, in this melancholy incident. enter into a detail of them much to my sa- lars but in such terms that you need not as it was called, and which had been seen What a difference to you in your whole tisfaction; and I heartily rejoice with you, both on the restoration of your Tranquillity care, in case of Decease, into whose hands of Mind which time and reflection have your Letter may fall. last summer for several days successively, happily effected and on the domestic satisfaction which the Friendship and Society of in my Bowels, which has been gradually which is supposed to be one of the young of My Distemper is a Diarrhæa, or Disorder near Cape Anne, in Massachusetts Bay. There has been found and killed, on the sea your Daughter in law afford you. These undermining me these two years; but within the great animal. The committee has not fast consolations go near to the Heart, and these six Months has been visibly hastening yet finished its report on this incident. As coast near Cape Anne, a young serpent, will make you ample Compensations for me to my end. I see Death approach gra- soon as the communication has been sent to your Disappointments in those views of bition, which you so naturally entertained, salute you with great Affection and Regard shall be communicated to you. This object dually without any anxiety or Regret. I ambut which the late Revolutions in France for the last time. might perhaps have rendered more full of us, this report will be printed, and a copy Inquietude than Satisfaction. For my part I have totally and finally retired from the world with a Resolution never more to appear on the scene in any shape. This purpose arose, not from Discontent but from a satiety. I have now no object but to sit down and think and die in peace. ever DAVID HUME. ARTS AND SCIENCES. THE SEA SERPENT. honourable branches of Natural History does not in fact belong to the class of those which generally occupy the attention of your society; but I imagine that the interesting nature of it may render this scientific communication agreeable to you. I believe that the result will be clearly to confirm the Of the two following letters, the first, in sea serpent, in his Natural History of NorWhat other project can a man of my Age French, recals, in a manner very truth of what Pontoppedon relates of the entertain? Happily, I found my taste for tany at Ghent, the remembrance of the es- in which it differs from every other known for the Royal Society of Agriculture and Bo- and its dorsal spine is of this form: reading return, even with greater avidity, favored by the Gentleman whose signature selves that its growth may increase to the way. The young serpent is three feet long, after a pretty long interruption. But I guard is affixed to this autograph letter. teem with which this useful institution was species of serpent; and if we figure to ourmyself carefully from the temptation of writing any more; and though I have had great encouragement to continue my History, The second, at the same time that it an-dimensions that people agree in giving to I am resolved never again to expose myself contains some curious notices, not yet known nounces new relations interesting to science, the large animal, all the phenomena relative length of fifty or sixty feet, which are the to the censure of such factious and passion-in this part of the world, respecting a pheate Readers, as this Country abounds with. There are some people here conversible enough: Their Society together with my books fills up my time sufficiently, so as not to leave any vacancy, and I have lately added the Amusement of Building, which has given me some occupation. I hearken attentively to the hopes you give me of see an absence of eighteen years, my first care rise; and we shall take care to give a faithBoston, 10th Sept. 1817. We have easily imagined to how many ing you once more before I die. I think it has been to revisit the place of my birth; ful and precise report, and which may be On my return to my native country, after must naturally and almost inevitably give errors and exaggerations such an apparition becomes me to meet you at London; and relations, no less beloved than revered; and entitled to the confidence of the learned though I have frequently declared, that I the friends of my youth, to whom my dis-world. In proportion to the exaggeration shoud never more see that place, such an in-tance from them had given me new reasons of the first accounts which have been circucident as your arrival there woud be suffi- of attachment. Among the most respecta-lated of this strange phenomenon, it is cient to break all my resolutions. I only ble of these friends, is Mr. John Davis, necessary to employ the most strict and desire to hear of your journey as soon as it Judge of the Court of Justice of the United scrupulous examination to satisfy the enis fixed, and as long before it is executed as States for the district of Massachusetts, and lightened public. nomenon, which exercised the minds of all of Botany and Agriculture at Ghent. to the latter will be easily explained; and the witnesses affirm that the figure of this marine animal, the appearance of which has excited so much attention among us, resemundulated lines on the surface of the sea. bles a string of buoys or casks floating in Signed, JOHN DAVIS. Now with his wings he plays with me, Now with his feet. Within mine eyes he makes his rest; Ah, Wanton, will ye? Pericles, Comedy of Errors, 1591; Love's speare the plot of his As You Like It. Labour Lost, same year; King Henry VI. The work which gives him precedence as a Parts I. and II. (the authenticity of the writer of professed satires, is entitled, "A Fig third part being denied) 1592; Midsum-included in Satyrs, Eclogues, and Epistles, for Momus; containing pleasant varietie, mer Night's Dream, and Romeo and Ju-by T.L. of Lincolnes Inne, Gent. 1595." It liet, 1593; Taming of the Shrew, 1594; is dedicated to William, Earle of Darbie, Two Gentlemen of Verona, and King Ri-and, though published two years before the In the portion of the work under review, dedicated to the costume and manchard III. 1595; King Richard II. and appearance of Hall's Satires, possesses a King Henry IV. Parts I. and II. 1596; spirit, ease, and harmony, which that more ners of Shakspeare's time, we find a The Merchant of Venice, and Hamlet, the following lines, selected from the first at once an illustration of the subject in celebrated poet has not surpassed. Than whimsical anecdote, with which, as it is 1597; King John, and All's Well that satire, we know few which, in the same hand, and an exemplar of the poetry of ends Well, 1598; King Henry V. and department, can establish a better claim to that day, and a few curious preliminaries Much Ado about Nothing, 1599; As You vigour, truth, and inelody :Like It, 1600; Merry Wives of Windsor, All men are willing with the world to haulte, on dress, we shall (for the present) conclude our remarks. and Troilus and Cressida, 1601; King But no man takes delight to knowe his faulteHenry VIII. and Timon of Athens, 1602; Tell bleer-eid Linus that his sight is cleere, Measure for Measure, 1603; King Lear, Heele pawne himselfe to buy thee bread and 1604; Cymbeline, 1605; Macbeth, 1606; Find me a niggard that doth want the shift Julius Cæsar, 1607; Antony and Cleo-To call his cursed avarice good thrift; patra, 1608; Coriolanus, 1609; The A rakehell sworne to prodigalitie Winter's Tale, 1610; The Tempest, 1611; That dares not term it liberalitie; Othello, 1612; and Twelfth Night, 1613: -in all, thirty-five plays in twenty-three years. beere ; : That holds not lecherie a pleasant game :— "It soon became the fashion to wear these rapiers, (swords which had just superseded the heavy or two-edged sword,) of such an enormous length, that government was obliged to interfere, and a sumptuary law was passed, to limit these weapons to three feet, which was published by proclamation, together with one for the curtailment of ruffs. "He," says Stowe, "was held the greatest gallant, that had the deepest ruffe and longest rapier: the offence to the eye During this brilliant period, and rather of the one, and the hurt unto the life of more than an equal number of years pre- The debt of Shakspeare to our author is to Majesty to make proclamation against them subject that came by the other, caused her ceding and following, namely, during the be found in a pamphlet entitled, "Rosa- both, and to place selected grave citizens at reign of Elizabeth, flourished with great lynde: Euphues Golden Legacie, found after every gate to cut the ruffes, and breake the celebrity as poets, Beaumont (Sir John), his Death in his Cell at Silexdra, by T. L. rapiers points of all passengers that exceedBreton, Browne, Chalkhill, Chapman, Gent." The poetical pieces interspersed ed a yard in length of their rapiers." This through this tract correspond with the cha-regulation occasioned a whimsical circumracter given of Lodge's composition by Phil-stance, related by Lord Talbot, in a letter lips; for they are truly pastoral, and are to the Earl of Shrewsbury, dated June 23, finished in a style of great sweetness, deli- 1580; cacy, and feeling. Not from the sinne, but from the seeing eie. is the sentiment, and how sweet the expres- Churchyard, Constable, Daniel, Davies, Of the chief of these writers, our author gives concise and interesting biographical sketches, together with specimens of their style; and, as our enumeration of names may be thought rather dry, we shall, with our readers' permission, digress into this part of his work, and ex tract a few of the Thomas Lodge, M. D." has the double honour of being the first who published in our language, a collection of Satires, so named; and of having suggested to Shak Little fear, and mickle solace ; Fear and craft do haunt the palace. Where the mind and store agreeth; Least he longs that little seeth. That the day consum'd returns not: When nor time nor life sojourns not! O shady vale, O fair enriched meads, O sacred bowers, sweet fields, and rising O painted flowers, green herbs where Flora "The French Imbasidore, Mounswer Mouiser, (Malvoisier,) ridinge to take the ayer, in his returne cam thowrowe Smithfild; and ther, at the bars, was steayed by thos offisers that sitteth to cut sourds, by reason his raper was longer than the statute: He was in a great feaurie, and dreawe his raper: in the meane season my Lord Henry Seamore cam, and so steayed the matt: Hir Matie is greatlie offended wth the ofisers, in that they wanted jugement." So This account of the male fashionable dress, during the days of Shakspeare, has sufficiently borne out the assertion which we made at its commencement,-that in extravagance and frivolity, it surpassed the expenditure and caprice of the other sex; a charge which is repeated by Burton at the close of this era; for, exclaiming against the luxury of fine clothes, he remarks,"Women are bad, and men worse. ridiculous we are in our attires, and for cost so excessive, that as Hierom said of old,— 'tis an ordinary thing to put a thousand oaks, and an hundred oxen into a suit of back. What with shoo-ties, hangers, points, apparel, to wear a whole mannor on his caps and feathers, scarfs, bands, cuffs, &c., in a short space their whole patrimonies are consumed. Heliogabulus is taxed by Lampridius, and admired in his age for wearing jewels in his shoos, a common thing in our times, not for Emperors and Princes, but almost for serving men and taylors: all the flowres, stars, constellations, gold and pretious stones do condescend to set out their shoos." When gath'ring clouds and tempests low'r, Death has not in his darkest hour Affliction so severe. Taste, genius, high attainments all, As plagues to fill the heart with gall? The careless world looks down with scorn And he indeed is most forlorn, Whom genius most inspires. Yet mourn not vainly, suff'ring man, And fondly hope, amidst thy woe, To make the balance even; G.D. BIOGRAPHICAL PORTRAITS. MEMOIR OF BARON VON JACQUIN. these works, and with a view to impress | self to the Secretary of State for the the same upon the attention of the House Home Department, with respect to the of Commons, then about to vote a sum Right of Petitioning"-which we believe for the completion of the intended plans, has never appeared. He was of a hardy he published a treatise respecting the and robust constitution, of abstemious inutility of those he deemed superfluous, habits, and enjoyed an uninterrupted which had the desired effect with the state of good health till his death, which members of the House of Commons; for happened suddenly on the 26th of Nothe motion was negatived. With this vember. So little did he apprehend his publication the Duke of Richmond felt approaching end, that a short time himself so much displeased, that Mr. since, when the indecent table of calcu Glennie soon after quitted the service, in lation respecting the probable length of which he attained the rank of Major.-life of the Royal Family was exhiFrom that time he devoted himself to bited, he said that he might hope to political and literary pursuits, and has see twenty years more roll over his written several very important works on head. Gunnery Universal Comparison and General Proportion - The antecedental Calculus, or geometrical method of ReaThe celebrated botanist, Baron Von Jacquin, lately deceased, was born at Leyden soning-Observations on Constructions, on the 16th of February, 1727. His father, &c. &c. To his indefatigable persever- the possessor of a great cloth and velvet ance one of the most knotty points in the manufactory, lost the greatest part of his JAMES GLENNIE, Esq. M.A. F. R. S. science of mathematics was for ever set at property by misfortunes in trade: Jacquin &c. &c. rest, that of the quadrature of the circle, found himself therefore obliged, on his preIt has ever been a fundamental prin- of the attainment of which, in a letter mature death, to choose for his profession ciple of this Journal to record the death addressed to the Royal Society, and read the carcer of the sciences, which, according of such persons only, whose names are before them, he clearly demonstrated the hitherto followed as an amusement. After to his father's plan of education, he had either already familiarly known to the pub-impossibility. In 1806, he was made having attended the Gymnasium of the Jelic, or whose rising reputation, grounded Professor of Fortification to the East-suits at Antwerp, he studied at Louvain, and upon a solid basis, ought to be perpe- India Company, and Examiner of their then at Paris. Through the means of the tuated as a stimulus to others. The sub- Cadets; and in 1807, was appointed by Imperial Physician, Von Swietenz, a friend ject of this memoir coming before us the Earl of Chatham (then Master-General of his father, he came to Vienna, whither he under both these heads, cannot be re- of the Ordnance,) Inspecting Engineer botanizing all the way. In order to enrich travelled from Paris by a circuitous route, garded as out of place, though he must in some of the West-India islands, which the garden and the menagerie of Schonbrun, be admitted to have been amongst the situation he did not long retain. In with rare plants and animals, Jacquin was number 1809, Mr. Glennie took a very active part sent to the West Indies and Spanish Southwith Colonel Wardle in preparing the in- America. In the year 1763, he was appointfamous charges which the latter brought ed by the Empress Maria Theresa, Counselforward against his Royal Highness the lor of the Department of Mines, and Professor of Chemistry and Mineralogy in the Duke of York; and accompanied the Colonel and Mrs. Clarke on their cele- think himself conversant enough with the academy at Schemnitz; but as he did not James Glennie was born at Kircud-brated tour round the coast to inspect German language, he wished to decline the bright, in Scotland, in the year 1750, the state of the Martello Towers and office that was offered him; that gracious Prinand at a very early period was sent as Forts. He was soon after this dismissed cess, however, replied in the most flattering Cadet to Woolwich. During the prose from his appointment under the East- manner" So intelligent a man as you are cution of the studies necessary to qualify India Company, and once again devoted described to me, may easily improve in the himself for the most scientific of all mili- his leisure to literary pursuits, from which able to lecture on a subject with which you German language in half a year, so as to be tary services, (the artillery,) he obtained it is much to be lamented that ever the are well acquainted; this time I will willingso familiar an acquaintance with the dirty work of faction diverted his natu-ly give you for your improvement."-Jacquin mathematics as to place him very high rally strong mind. In 1816 he super-justified the favourable opinion which Thein the estimation of the lovers of that intended the publication of those curious resa had formed of him. The present Emuseful department of learning. On the Travels in Africa, performed by his friend peror raised the venerable old man to the breaking out of the American war, he Colonel Maurice Keatinge; in which is rank of a Baron. Even in his last illness his mind was occupied with his latest work accompanied a detachment of the Royal given an account of the embassy to MoArtillery to Canada, where, from his su- rocco, under the late Geo. Payne, Esq. days silent and pensive, his first question on the Asclepiada. After he had been many perior attainments, his bold and enter- In the same year, still dabbling in poli-one fine day in August was-" Is not the prising mind, and officer-like conduct, he tics, with the exasperation of a disap- Stapelia yet in blossom?" After a ten weeks' was enabled to distinguish himself upon pointed man, he issued the following illness, this venerable man departed this many occasions. On his return to Eng-Prospectus : "Mr. Glennie is preparing land he was much noticed and consulted for the press, a Brief Statement of his by the Duke of Richmond, then Master-Case with the Prince Regent, and of the General of the Ordnance, respecting the truly reprehensible and unconstitutional fortifications going on at Portsmouth and doctrine that is now both held and acted Gosport; but perceiving, as he thought, upon, in consequence (it is asserted,) of an useless expenditure on some parts of commands from his Royal Highness him "Who for Freedom idly rave, And set no bounds to what they crave, And would but more enthral." life at the age of 90 years and 8 months.As a father, he had the happiness to see the year 1792 has been his successor in his himself revive in his worthy son, who since professorship, and afterwards the continuer of his classical works. (For some account of which see our 4th Number.) |