Star.
London, England, 1801-01-09 00:00:00

MONODY ON THE DEATHVE DARL HOWE,

The following compliment is paid to the me-,
stsniy of the Naval Worthies of the tft of June, in
Dr. TIOTTEICS Monody on the Deuth of Earl
:lows:

Aczept, bleft Shade! *bile yet our tears conirlain, .
This left fad tribute, but no venal (train :
Hear arc the drops which Mem'ry loves to (bed,
Whore friendly vifions paint the hallow% dead.
How finely knit the kindred palßoits rife, •
Buoy up the foul, and bind us to the (ides;
How fondly Fancy ponders all the pet,
Reviews each feene, and lingers o'er the lait ;
Till ftruggling Scale, the pidtur'd grids impart,
And loft remembrance pouts forth all the heart.
• • To yonder pyre the moveh with willful eyes,
• And marks the turf where gallant Donclass lip :
Oh ! taught by theft to earn the Hetes Done ;
Like thine his lot, to (well the lifts of Fame :
Jolt ken, his rifing Star di(clos'd Its ray,
Blaz'tl in its orb, then (peed to Heav'nly day.
No more free glories check a Country's iglu,
His ripen 'd virtues early fought the Wes:
So the kind Genius of Imperial Rome,
For tongs of triumph itreted Masitecttue Ma.
Or haply bending to the Weitens wave,
Shc ettims each Warrior from his wat'ry grave I
'When ica-born Tribes their lov'd remains bedew,
And watch thy tomb, lamented Monr•aue,
Or elk where Fame on founding plaits borne,
Wakes with her Moots the radiant blitih of morn;
Bids round each brow the Vidor's garland twine,
And weaves frefh wreathes m HUTT'S and Haatrings
latrine.

ANECDOTES OF DR. HUGH BLAIR.

On Saturday, December 27, died at Edinburgh,
in the eighty-third of his age, HUGH BLAIR, Doc-
tor of Divinity, Profeffor of Rhetoric and Belles
Lettres in that Univerfity, Fellow of the Royal So-
ciety of Edinburgh, Honorary Member of the
Highland Society of London, &c. and author of
tome of the moil popular works on fubjeds of piety,
talk, and morals, which have appeared in Europe.
Dr. BLAIR was barn at Edinburgh, in April,
27:8. His father was a younger brother of the
• attient family of Blair, and a clergyman of the
church of Scotland. After a courfe of liberal edu-

cation at the khools, and in the Univerfity of his
native city, the fon,took the degree of Matter of
Arts, and entered into holy orders, in the years 745.
He was prefented, that fame year, to the ruralise-
nefiee of-Colleffie in the county of Fife. From Col.
• leffie, he was loon translated to the Canongate
church at Edinburgh. In the year t 758, he be.
came fira Minifier of that which is called the High
laturch of Edinburgh. The Univerfiry of it. An.
drew's about that time conferred on him the ho-
nour of Dodor in Divinity. In P 761, .the profef-
forihip of Rhetoric and Belles Letters was infiitat-
ed in the Univerfity of Edinburgh, for the purpofe
of being filled by Dr. Bum. He was one of thole
who promoted the collation' the translation, and
the Englith publication of the poems of Offian. His
own first publication was a critical difiertation oa
*bac poems, which aeoompezied the translation
lsr Idacpherfon. In the year x 777, he publiffied
the first rohune of thole Sermons which have been
fo generally read and admired. The late Dr. SA..
111UIL JOHNSON was one of the fira to praife them.
The fume& of his firft volume encouraged him to
add a fecood. A third and a fourth, after different
intervals, followed. They were all received with
the time ardent approbation. They have been re-
printed, we believe, almolt to a twentieth edition
by the London proprietors of the copy right. In
Ireland and America, they have .&d through
frveral editions. In the year ;78,, Dr. BLAU" was
permitted to retire from the official exercife of his
duties. as Profeffor of Rhetoric ; Mill continuing,
however, to enjoy the falary of that appointment,
and to retain the charader of Profeffor Emeritus.
His Le&ures were loon after made public from the
peas. Temperance. otercife, and tbeadvantages
sof a conkitutson of body naturally found and
healthful; preferred him—to within a few years of
his death, in full ability to difcharge the clerical
decks of his office. He had fureived his wife. who
died a few years fine ; and his only child, lovely
daughter, who was fuddeidy &ached away by a
fever, in the Rower of her age. To the la, he
remained equal to the duties, and the fober enjoy-
ments of domeßie life.
His emoluments at firft moderate, were gra-
dually increafed. As a minister of Edinburgh he
Baal a Ilipend of cool. a year : as Profelfor of Rhe-
toric he had an annual falary of yol. from about
the time of the publication of the fecend vulpine of
his Sermons, he had a peahen from her Majetty of
annually, which, when be ceaied to lahue
ea rhetoric, was augmented to vol. The copy.l
money of his works,- received at different times,
might amount in a',l to 4000. His kyle of living
was comfortable and refpedable ; he entertained
his friends with elegant hofpitality : divided his
year between the town and its rural environs, and I
kept his carriage. His cepenees were carefo!fr
regulated ; and he has it is fail, left a fortune M,l
between I 5.:,001. and ao,oool.
If the merits of an author may be eftimated by
the popularity and general ufefulnefs of his writ-
ings, it will be impodibk to deny Dr Bram as a
man of talk and judgment. alma the very firft
mink among his cotemprnartes. His Critical Dir.
fel cations on the Poems of °San, combines the:'
pisitofoplly of Ariftotle with the eloquence uf
Lourcinus : mingles the metapkylical criticifm ti
the Sens wish that criticifin of mere talk and eru-
dition which is preferred by the Englifh ; difplagte.
above all, a foundnefs of judgment. and a delicate
roue of propriety, which are fcarcely rivalled by
any other ci local produdion either in ancient or
modern time;. At the period when his Braman/
s.ver? bra offered to the world, this fpecies of writ-
log had 101 l aims& all its former power over the
Abilkti&Cif theriblic.—hiere elecance end propriety
el Ps* could 'cave had but (mall effelt to make
fertn‘us fe ladden/y popular and eminently fath-

killable. It was the (kW with which thit; were
adapted to the very tour of the public tafle,
moor, and judgment. It was the union which
they exhibited of mild religion, and of pure and
liberal philofophy, with difcriminating obfervation
on the mcifics of human eondaft, and the fortunes
of human life.—lt was, in conjunaion with fuck
qualities, that epic link), of compofition, that
luminous beauty and jullnefs of arrangement.
that fphit of propriety and diferetion pervading
them in every pan—to which his Sermons owed
that fudden but fill rilhig popularity which they
have, ever fine their WE publication, enjoyed.

. His eloquence is vigorous, lively, and fplendid,
always correa, but rarely riling to the highcl
pitch of vehemence or fublimity.

His Sermons have been trannated into the
French, Dutch, German, Sclavonic, and Italian
language+. His Letturei have been lately trariflat-
ed, among other languages, into the Sparta. He
has left tome pollhumous works ; and we hope
foon to announce them for the public. It fhould
be added, that his conduit es a Chrillian, and a
man, was worthy of every praife.

Laft week, a melancholy accident happened
upon the Quay, at Lancafter. A young man,
apprentice to Mr. Kelley, fail-maker, took a gun
out of the houfe u t. order to have it cleaned; but
meeting with a boy about twelve years of age,
and not knowing the piece was loaded, he (truck
it at him, when it difcharged, and the contents
went in at his back, and came out at his !boulder.
In confequence of which he died in half an hour.'
The following is an account of an extraordinary
charatter Met with in a little village in Provence
in France :—A Gentleman arrived there, he
fought the beg houfe of entertainment he could
find, where he might lodge that night. lie had
no fooner alighted than he stilted for a blackfmith.
The holt offered his Cervices. The Gentleman ac-
cepted them ; and whilft the boric Was !hoeing, a
''perfon came to have an ad (Updated. The black-
fmith, now the notary, figned the deed—at the
fame time informing his gucit that he was like-
wife a folicitor and an advocate. A moment after,
a perfon came to defire that he would immediate-
ly vifit a lick patient. The notary, now a pityfi-
cian, attended his patient ; and when he returned,
convinced the Gentleman that he was not only a
phyfician, but an apothecary and furgeon, and
offered to give a fpecimen of his talents, either in
prefcribing a dofe of phyfic, or in performing an
operation. " All my apartments (faid he) are
devoted to Come or other of my trades. Behold
my laboratory on the left—my furgery on the
right—my Rudy between both—my kitchen be-
low—my rooms for my guefts before—my cham•
bens to lodge them behind—and my forge at the
bottom of my court. But although I have fo
many employments, yet 1 find the times fo mile-
rably bad, that I can fcarce obtain a fabfiftence."
TRIO' 07 II Femmes '•Qpicce—A gentleman,
after having ruined his fortune by extravagance,
bethought bimfelf of turning quack., He attempt-
ed it at Paris without fixed:, and them directed bis
views to the Provinces. He arrived at Lyons and
announced himfclf as " the celebrated Do tor Man-
taccini, who can reftore the dead to life ;" and he
declared that in fifteen days he would go to the
public church-rard, and excite a lean al refirreille!
This declaration excited violent murmurs'
ageing the Dodor, who, not in the leaft difkon-
eerted, aplied to the Magilrate, and requelled
he might be put under a guard to prevent his
efcape. until he fhould performs his undertaking.
The propofition infpired the glutei confidence,
and the whole city came' o cotsfult Doddr Man-
tacenti, and purchafe his Boom de Vie.
As the period for the performance of this mira-
cle approached, the anxiety among the inhabi-
tants of Lruns enerea4d. At lenfth he received
the following letter from a rich cluten t.—

,‘ The great operation, Doaor, which you arc
going to perform, has broke my red. I have a
wife buried for fame time, who was a fury ; and
I am unhappy enough already without her refur-
rettitm. In the name of Heaven do not bake the
experiment. I will give you fifty Louis to keep
your fecret to yourfdr."

In an inflant after two (Jailing Marx arrived,
who, with the mof earneft applications, entreated
the Dodor not to revive their old finer, formerly
the greateft mifcr in the city, as in fuel; an event
they would be reduced to the mod deplorable ir-
disence. They offered him a fee or Sixty louis, but
the Dodor fhook his bead in a doubtful compli-
ance.

i Scarcely had they mired, when a otitaz
feet' widow, on the tee of matrimony, threw
at the of the Dolor, and withfoiss and figlis
implored his mercy; in Mort, from •morn till
night, the Doaor received letters. vifits, prcfents,
fee,. to an excels that aldolutely overwhelmed
him. The minds &the citizens were fo differ-
lently and viokutly agitated, rouse by fear, and
.otll en by curioaty, that the Chief Msgikrate of
4 the city waited upon the Doan!, and Laid, " Sir,
.11 I bare not the kill doubt, from my experience of
,1 sour rare talcnts, that you will be able to aecotn•
plih the rofurrection in our church-yard the day
if after to marrow, according to your pronife ; but,
II pray you to obferve, that our city is in the great-
. et uproar and coritufion, and to confider the
! drzadful revolutionthe fuccefs of your experiment
Imurl produce in every family. I entreat you,
1 therefore, not to attanpt it, but tor away. and
, thus rellore the tranquillity of the c..ty. In Jullioe
' however, to your rare and divine talents, I Alai
give you au atteilation in due farm. under our,
:cal, that you can revive the dead. -and 'this: it was
our own fault we were not eye witneas of your
power."
The curtiflcate was duly figned and dalivered,
and Doeur Mantaccini went to work oewsoiesailes
m loose other city. In a than time he retutawd
to Yetis loaded with gold, where he laughed at
1 popular credulity, and /pent immentansozio lax.,
my mid catrasTgance. A lady, minrawasa-skaistn-
,right Clark** en love, as in regtutiqgAiisi to
want ; but he fct out again on a prorassaal aserrr
A
..ad returned with a ucw totemic.