"Macbeth, a Tragedy." By William Shakspeare. Collated with the modern Editions. By the Editor of King Lear;" 8vo. British Magazine and Review. Some of these appeared in his own name, others under the fictitious signature of George Osborne, esq.' Mr. Wynne also wrote The History of England in Verse, which has not yet appeared in print. Though Mr. Wynne excelled as a Poet, his prose productions are likewise numerous. It was by the advice of Dr. Goldsmith, who was his contemporary, that he first began the History of Ireland,' which he afterwards dedicated to the Duke of Northumberland. The Doctor jocosely observed, that it would be better to relinquish the draggle-tail Muses; as, for his part, he found productions in prose were more sought after and better paid for. Mr. Wynne's reputation as an Author soon become established; and had his œconomy kept pace with his success, it is certain he might have passed through life, if not in affluence, at least above indigence. But want of œconomy was his prevailing fault. Possessing a sanguine imagination, and having the highest sense of honour and rectitude himself, he was easily imposed upon; and while he had money, he considered but little the value of it; yet, wanting it, perhaps none suffered more from the poignancy of poverty than he did. His acquaintances, knowing his failings, took advantage of his unsuspecting benevolent disposition, by soliciting him to become surety for a person, of the name of Stevenson, which he did, for goods to a considerable amount, which were to be disposed of in India, whence Stevenson was to remit the value at a stated period; but, through change of climate, and inebriety, Stevenson died, no remittances came from India, and his security, unable to pay the demand, was forced to prison; where he remained, in great distress, for a considerable time; until, by the assistance of his uncle Edward, the debt was paid, and he obtained his discharge. In the beginning of the year 1770' he married the daughter of an eminent mason of Lambeth, who had at his death bequeathed 1000l. to each of his daughters; but the Brother, being principal executor to the will of his Father, applied his Sister's fortune to his own use in trade; and, through his ill success, not a guinea of Mrs. Wynne's portion was ever paid. This lady, however, had received a good education, possessed an agreeable person, and was not more than seventeen when she was married. She was accomplished, and had an excellent understanding, which became afterwards materially improved by her connexion. Before she was eighteen the fruit of their union was the Writer of this Memoir. From the great number of acquaintances Mr. Wynne at this time had, some of whom were persons of wit and erudition, it was almost impossible for a man of his ardent imagination to avoid on every occasion sacrificing too freely at the shrine of Bacchus; and it frequently happened that it was one or two o'clock in the morning A Third Edition of Dr. Hurd's Warburtonian Lectures at Lincoln's Inn, 8vo. morning when he returned home. This occasioned an unquiet house; and his bride, being very abstemious herself, often admonished him in strong terms on the impropriety of his conduct; but, notwithstanding such remonstrances, he was too frequently led to err in the same way; and though gentle means would probably have brought him to reform, harsh treatment had a contrary effect. Had his wife's good sense led her to adopt those endearing methods of persuasion which some few women of discernment know how to employ with such great effect, she would have ultimately succeeded; but, alas! in this respect she only copied the generality of her sex. Repeated brawls at home not suiting her husband's irritable disposition, and tending to disturb his studies, constrained him at length to seek an asylum elsewhere, so that the remainder of his life passed more like a single than a married man. Nor can it occasion much surprize that a man of literary pursuits should, under such circumstances, abandon his home, especially when it is so well known that a Xantippe was never a friend to the students in Philosophy, or the suitors of the Muses. Mr. Wynne was for a considerable time Editor of the Gazetteer, and was a well-known speaker at the Robin Hood and Coachmakers Hall Debating Societies; but, being unhappily a staunch supporter of an Administration whose measures were extremely unpopular, he got little good by his political speculations. In those days such topics were freely discussed, and often agitated with much warmth. Mr. Wynne in, this respect acted the part of a champion, and undertook to defend the Mi nistry in their War with America, and other ruinous measures. This was done in the most disinterested and ingenuous man, ner possible, as he acted purely from the dictates of his own opinion. On his return from these heated debates, way-laid by some of the opposite party, many an unmerciful drubbing has he suffered, and once was so cruelly beaten that his life was endangered. It was in one of these rencounters that the lachrymal vessels of his right eye became contused, and occasioned him to undergo at times the most excruciating agonies, to alleviate which he frequently had recourse to large doses of opium.-But the most fatal accident happened at the time he was in the zenith of his fame, about the year 1778, when, crossing Snow-hill on a dark night, he was run-over by a hackneycoach, and his leg broken in three places. Surgeon Young reduced the fracture as well as he could, being loth to amputate the limb; but, owing to the terrible manner in which it was shattered, sixteen weeks elapsed ere it was judged proper to shift the leg from the cradle that encompassed it. The limb, from remaining so long in one posture, became constricted, and an instrument was obliged to be had to enable him to walk, and by degrees to reduce the contraction of the sinews, which in time "The Intent and Propriety of the Scripture Miracles considered and explained, in a Series of Ser it nearly effected. It was during this confinement (although obliged to remain nearly in a horizontal position) that he wrote the Elegy on the Death of Garrick, published by Mr. Harrison, This accident w severely felt by his family, and occasioned himself much pain and anxiety. After writing many Volumes, of which the Writer of this article can give no satisfactory account, an asthmatic complaint, with which he had long been afflicted, occasioned his death, Nov. 1788, in the 45th year of his age. His wife survived him but a few days, leaving three. children totally unprovided for, the eldest of whom alone survives, and has now a wife and six children of his own. — Mr. Thomas Wynne died at an advanced age, The Rev. Richard Wynne lived till the year 1793, being more than eighty years of age when he died. The whole of his fortune he left to an only daughter.-Mr. John Huddlestone Wynne was below the middle size (about five feet four inches in height), of a clear complexion, dark hair, a sanguine temperament, irritable and nervous. Previous to his lameness, though he always took short steps, yet he walked remarkably fast. In his youth he acquired a bad habit of stooping, which his subsequent infirmities tended to increase, His eyes were piercing; his brow remarkably fine, and had the appearance of being pencilled; his nose aquiline, which, as Lavater well observes, always indicates a good arrangement of features. He certainly had many peculiarities, was very absent and negligent in his external appearance, and the dress worn when himself a youth he seemed always to prefer, and would probably have done the same had he lived in affluence. He spoke and read with wonderful facility, yet with accuracy and taste. When speaking in public, which he was much in the habit of his delivery was flowing, animated, and eloquent, and almost forced conviction on his hearers. His reading must have been multifarious, and his memory very retentive; for, without the advantages of a classical education, or being taught any language than the Latin, he nevertheless by his own exertions attained a perfect knowledge of the French, and a cursory one of the Greek and Hebrew. Nor was he ignorant of the elements of physicks, astronomy, mathematicks, and navigation; and in theological and philosophical knowledge in general he stood high in repute. But his chief delight was poetry; and to his friends it is well known that he has sometimes composed a poem with as much facility as a merchant would write a letter on the ordinary concerns of business; so that many of his productions may be considered as mere extempore effusions. Yet, with these uncommon abilities he was modest and diflident; and far better would it have been for himself and his family had he duly appreciated his own merit, been less prodigal and abstracted in his ideas, and made men and manners more his study." He published, amongst other works, "A general History of the British mons, preached in the Parish Church of St. Maryle-Bow, in the Years 1769, 1770, and 1771; for the Lecture founded by the Hon. Robert Boyle, Esq. By the Rev. Dr. Henry Owen, Rector of St. Olave, Hart-Street, and Fellow of the Royal Society." Svo, "Fragmenta duo Plutarchi*, ublished by Thomas Tyrwhitt, esq. a single sheet, Svo. A new Edition of Hutchinson's "KYPOT IAIAEIA," 8vo. "The Antiquities of Herculaneum. Translated from the Italian, by Thomas Martyn and John British Empire in America; including all the Countries in North America and the West Indies, ceded by the Peace of Paris, 1770.” 2 vols. 8vo. "The Prostitute, a Poem, 1771;"" Choice Emblems, 1772;" "Fables of Flowers, 1773;" "A general History of Ireland; from the earliest Accounts to the present Time, 1772," 2 vols. 8vo; "Evelina, a Poem, 1773;" and "The Four Seasons, a Poem, 1774;" which was "a wretched fricassee in rhyme, of some passages in Thomson's charming work on that subject." * "Fragmenta hæc Plutarchi huc usque, ut opinor, inedita, ex Codice manuscripto, qui inter Harleianos in Museo Britannico asservatur, N. 5612, visum est typis describere, non quod ipse de illis magnificè nimis sentirem, sed ut, proposito hujus iguais exemplo, homines otiosos, et eos præsertim quibus Bibliothecarum cura demandata est, ad codices manuscriptos diligentius excutiendos stimularem." Editor's Advertisement.-See p. 148. + In the course of printing this Volume Mr. Bowyer made an accurate "Index to the places of the N. T." which is inserted in a later Edition of the Volume, 1781. Mr. Thomas Martyn is one of the three sons of Mr. John Martyn, the very eminent Professor of Botany at Cambridge (see vol. I. p. 482), by Eulalia, youngest daughter of the Rev. John King, D. D. rector of Chelsea, and prebendary of York. Mr. T. Martyn was admitted first at Emanuel College, Cambridge; where he took his degree of B. A. 1756; he was elected thence to a Fellowship in Sidney college; proceeded A. M. 1759; and B. D. 1766.—In 1761 he was elected Professor of Botany in the University of Cambridge, in the room of his father; who had resigned that office, after having filled it most ably for nearly thirty years.-Mr. T. Martyn was one of those patriotic gentle men who established the Society for the Improvement of Naval Architecture. He has published, "A Sermon for Addenbrooke's Hospital." "Plante Cantabrigienses: or, a Catalogue of the Plants which grow wild in the County of Cambridge, disposed according to the System of Linnæus. Herbationes Cantabrigienses; or, Directions to the Places where they may be found, compre hended Lettice, Bachelors of Divinity and Fellows of Sidney College, Cambridge. Vol. I. Containing the Pictures;" 4to. This Translation was not continued., hended in thirteen botanical Excursions. To which are added, Lists of the more rare Plants growing in many Parts of England and Wales, 1763," 8vo. "A short Account of the late Donation of a Botanic Garden to the University of Cambridge, by the Rev. Dr. Walker, Vice-master of Trinity College; with Rules and Orders for the Government of it. Camb. 1763," 4to· In 1770 he favoured the publick with his Father's very learned "Dissertations and Critical Remarks upon the Eneids of Virgil, containing, among other interesting Particulars, a full Vindication of the Poet from the Charge of an Anachronism with regard to the Foundation of Carthage;" to which is prefixed an excellent and copious Account of his Father and his Writings; comprizing also many interesting particulars of the earlier branches of the family; also of their near relation (by marriage), Dr. Thomas Hodges, Vicar of Kensington, one of the Assembly of Divines, and, after the Restoration, Dean of Hereford, and Rector of St. Peter's Cornhill; whose second son, Nathanael Hodges, M.D. stayed in London, and attended patients unhurt during the great Plague. Memoirs likewise are given of Patrick Blair, M. D. F. R. S.; William Sherard, LL. D. F. R.S.; John James Dillenius, M. D.; Mr. Vincent Bacon, F. R. S. a surgeon and apothecary; Charles Deering, M. D. (who came over to England first in the train of a Foreign Ambassador, and afterwards practised physick at Nottingham); and Walter Tullideph (amanuensis to Dr. Douglas, who afterwards settled at Antigua); Mr. Richard Bradley, F.R. S.; the Rev. Dr. John King, rector of Chelsea, and his son, Mr. John King, of Stamford; with extracts of Letters to and from Dr. Patrick Blair, Mr. Miller the celebrated Botanist, Mr. Houston, the Rev. Mr. Arnald of Emanuel College, Dr. Mead, Mr. Knapton, &c. Mr. Martyn published also "The English Connoisseur," in two small volumes, 12mo. "Catalogus Horti Botanici Cantabrigiensis, 1771," 8vo, with his botanical Lectures, and a Plan of the Gardens, prefixed to a second Edition, 1772. A Translation, from the Italian, of the First Volume of the Antiquities of Herculaneum, 1773 (as noticed above). Elements of Natural History. Letters on the Elements of Botany, from the French of J. J. Rousseau, with additional Letters. Botanical Plates illustrative of Linnæus's System of Vegetables. "Sketch of a Tour through Swisserland, with an accurate Map, 1787." Mr. Martyn also made considerable Additions and Improvements to the ninth Edition of "The Gentleman's Guide in his Tour through France, &c." 1787. "A. Tour through Italy: containing full Directions for travelling in that interesting Country; with ample Catalogues of every Thing that is curious in Architecture, Painting, Sculpture, &c. Some Observations on the Natural History, and very particular Descriptions of the four principal Cities, Rome, Florence, Naples, and |