from the elegant pen of my excellent Friend William Hayley, Esq.] 4 vols. small 8vo.

Thoughts on the early Ages of the Irish Nation and History, and on the ancient Establishment of the Milesian Families in that Kingdom; with a particular Reference to the Descendants of Heber, the eldest son of Milesius *;" 4to. pp. 50; with a copious Genealogical Plate, very accurately engraved by Mr. Longmate, and intituled, "A Genealogical History of the Family of O'Sullivan More, from Duach Donn, Monarch of Ireland Anno Mundi 3912."

tend to debauch and deprave the tender mind, by throwing hues of false gloom or luxuriance over life, it gives us great pleasure to find, now and then, a work of moral tendency. Such is the one now before us." Gent. Mag. vol. LIX. p. 547.

*Of this curious work, never intended for sale, two Editions, of 100 copies each, were printed, under the superintendance of Richard-Joseph Sullivan, Esq. assisted by Mr. Barak Longmate.

It appears, by this genuine Memoir, that the estates and property of John O'Sullivan, in Duhallow, which were forfeited in the reign of James II. consisted of 7645 acres, the rental of which in 1789 amounted to 31971.-Sir Benjamin Sullivan, Knt. eldest son of the late Benjamin O'Sullivan More, and now (1814) the principal representative of that antient and illustrious Family, was born at Cork, April 23, 1747. He was knighted by letters patent under the great seal, bearing date in June 1801; and is one of the Puisne Judges of the Supreme Court of Judicature at Madras. The Right Honourable John Sullivan, of Ritchin's Park, Bucks (M. P. for Ashburton, a Commissioner for the affairs of India, and brother-in-law by marriage to the Earl of Buckinghamshire), is brother to Sir Benjamin. A third brother was Richard-Joseph, who, early in life, was sent to Asia, with his brother John, under the auspices of Laurence Sullivan, esq. F. S. A. Chairman of the East India Company, and M. P. first for Taunton, and afterwards for Ashburton. On his return to Europe, he made a tour through various parts of England, Scotland, and Wales, which he published, in a series of Letters, in two octavo volumes, 1780. Not long afterwards he printed "A Letter to the East India Directors;" which was followed by "An Analysis of the Political History of India," in an octavo volume ; "Thoughts on Martial Law," a pamphlet; and " Philosophical Rhapsodies;" "Fragments of Akbur of Bettis," containing Reflections on the Laws, Manners, Customs, and Religion, of certain Asiatic, Afric, and European Nations," in three voJumes, 8vo. The last of these works, though said to be written by a native of Assyria, was soon found to be more

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Britannia; or, A Chorographical Description of the flourishing Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the Islands adjacent; from the earliest Antiquity. By William Camden *. Translated from the Edition published by the Author in MDCVII. Enlarged by the latest Discoveries, by Richard Gough, F. A. and R. SS. In Three Volumes. Illustrated with Maps, &c." Fol. deeply tinctured with European than with Oriental Philosophy. -Mr. Sullivan was elected F. R. S. and F. S. A. in 1785; and in 1794 he published "A View of Nature, in Letters to a Traveller among the Alps." The Author of the "Pursuits of Literature" thought proper to dignify this publication with the character of a work of labour and of general utility, digested from original writers with judgment, and with an upright, virtuous heart, in a pleasing and instructive manner.' To the goodness of the Writer's heart it is impossible to object; but the last volume alone is strictly worthy of a philosophic pen. In the Parliament convoked in 1790, Mr. Sullivan was elected for the borough of New Romney; and at the general election in 1802 he was returned for Seaford, after a sharp contest. May 22, 1804, he was created a Baronet of Great Britain; and on the 8th of June, in the same year, he divided with the then Exminister, Mr. Addington, against the first measure of Mr. Pitt's Administration, the Additional Force Bill. On the 8th of April, 1805, when the conduct of Lord Melville was the subject of discussion in the House, he was in the minority, in favour of the amendment of the Chancellor of the Exchequer to the motion of Mr. Whitbread. He died July 18, 1806. Richard, his eldest son, died young, at Paris, in 1789; and was succeeded in title by his second son, Sir Henry Sullivan, M. P. for the City of Lincoln, who fell gloriously, in his Country's service, in the glorious but melancholy affair at Thoulouse, April 14, 1814.

«The Publick are here in possession of the long-expected new Edition of Camden's Britannia, which has employed its Editor the larger part of man's allotted term of life, seven years in translating and enlarging, and nine more in printing, exclusive of twenty more in journeying; to which may be added a longer time in reading and enquiry. If we may be admitted as competent judges of such a work, we think Mr. Gough is entitled to the thanks of all lovers of their country and its antiquities, for the pains he has taken in setting both before them in such a comprehensive view. If a new translation, additions from the latest discoveries, discoveries not collected only from printed authorities, or addressed to the collector in his study,-a different distribution of those additions, a correct set of maps, and above

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"Two Discourses* preached in the Chapel of the Asylum for Female Orphans, March 8, 1789. By the Rev. Samuel Hopkinson†, A. M. late Fellow of Clare-Hall, Cambridge, Rector of Etton, and Curate of Christ Church, Surrey." 4to.

an hundred other copper plates, can insure the public approba tion, these are, it is presumed, the recominendations of the present Edition; which, as Mr. Gough observes in his Preface, 'as it courts no patronage, expects no praise beyond its intrinsic deserts." Gent. Mag. LIX. 546.

"The subjects of these Discourses are important, and well adapted to the occasion and place where they were delivered. They are composed with care and attention, and cannot fail to please those who read them with the same spirit with which they are written. The first contains very serious and just reflections on human life, and bespeaks a mind well informed with the knowledge of the Scriptures, and deeply impressed with a rational piety. It concludes with a warm, and at the same time a modest address to the Guardians of the Asylum.-The second Discourse shews the great advantage of good example in general, and recommends that of our Saviour in particular, whose principal design was the reformation and happiness of mankind. The Author concludes this Discourse with an affectionate, pious, and sensible address to the Orphans of the Asylum.-On the whole, these Discourses of Mr. Hopkinson justly merit our commendation, being written with what must ever please the judicious Reader, modesty, simplicity, and earnestness." M. R. LXXXI. 74.

+ Samuel Edmund Hopkinson, son of the Rev. William * and Elizabeth Hopkinson, B. A. 1777; M. A. 1780; B. D. 1793. This worthy man, whose time and talents have long been devoted to a conscientious discharge of the important duties of a Parish Priest and an active Magistrate, was early in life patronized by Earl Fitzwilliam, by whom he was presented to the Rectory of Etton in Northamptonshire. For the use of his parishioners, Mr. Hopkinson published, in 1793, an excellent little Volume of Religious and Moral Reflections;" which did not escape the penetrating judgment of Bp. Pretyman, his Diocesan, who collated him to the Vicarage of Morton cum Haccomby in Lincolnshire, as is gratefully acknowledged by Mr. Hopkinson in the Preface to a Second Edition of his " Reflections," published in 1814 for the use of his Lincolnshire parishioners; amongst whom he now resides, universally beloved and respected.

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* This gentleman, who was born at Upton in Northamptonshire, May 10, 1727, having rendered himself dear to his Friends and Family by the exercise of every Christian virtue, died, at Peterborough, in his 69th year, Aug. 31, 1788, and his widow, July 3, 1795. See their joint Epitaph in the "History of Castor," in Northamptonshire, p. 294. A General

"A General Index to the first Fifty-six Volumes of the Gentleman's Magazine, since its Commencement in the year 1731, to the End of 1786. Compiled by Samuel Ayscough *, Clerk, F. S. A. As

*This very useful contributor to the literary history of his country was the son of George Ayscough of Nottingham, a respectable tradesman, who unfortunately launched into speculations which impaired his fortune. His son Samuel, after a school education, assisted his father in the business of a farm for some time, and afterwards was reduced to work as a labouring miller for the maintenance of his father and sister. While at this humble occupation, which did not procure the very moderate advantage he expected, Mr. Eamer, an old school-fellow and friend (afterwards Sir John Eamer, an Alderman and Lord Mayor of London), hearing of his distress, about 1770, invited him to the Metropolis, and obtained for him at first the office of an overlooker of some paviours in the street. Soon after, however, he assisted in the shop of Mr. Rivington, Bookseller, of St. Paul's Church-yard; and then obtained an employment in the British Museum, at a small weekly stipend. Here he discovered a degree of knowledge, which, if not profound, was highly useful, in arranging and cataloguing Books and MSS.; and his services soon recommended him to an increase of salary, and to some extra employment in regulating the Libraries of private gentlemen, the profits of which he shared with his father, whom he sent for to town, and maintained comfortably till his death, Nov. 18, 1783. About 1785 he was appointed Assistant-Librarian to the British Museum, on the establishment; and soon after, entering into holy orders, was ordained to the curacy of Normanton upon Soar, in Nottinghamshire. He was also appointed assistant-curate of St. Giles in the Fields; and in all those situations conducted himself in such a manner as to gain the friendship of many distinguished characters. In 1790 he was appointed to preach the Fairchild Lecture †, on Whit-Tuesday, at Shoreditch church, before the Royal Society, which he comtinued to do till 1804, when he completed the series of the Discourses in fifteen sermons. His labours in Literature were of the most useful cast, and manifested a patience and assiduity seldom to be met with, and his laborious exertions in the vast and invaluable library of the British Museum form a striking instance of his zeal and indefatigable attention. He soon acquired that slight degree of knowledge in several languages, and that technical knowledge of old Books and of their Authors, and parti

+ In 1729, Thomas Fairchild, of Shoreditch Parish, gardener, bequeathed a sum of money for a Sermon on Whit-Tuesday, on " The wonderful works of God in the Creation," &c. It has been preached by some very eminent men, a list of whom may be seen in Mr. Henry Ellis's History of Shoreditch, p. 288.-See also vol. I. p. 652.

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sistant Librarian of the British Museum. Volumes. The First containing an Index to the Essays, Dissertations, and Historical Passages; the

cularly that skill in decyphering difficult writing, which amply answered the most useful purposes of the Librarian, as well as the Visiting Scholar. He assisted also in the adjustment of the Records in the Tower, and in the formation of many useful Indexes and Catalogues, some of which will be noticed hereafter, By these means his situation became very comfortable; and about a year before his death, it was rendered yet more so, by his being presented with the small Vicarage of Cudham in Kent, by Lord Chancellor Eldon. He wrote a very accurate account of that parish, for the Gentleman's Magazine, a few weeks before he died; and, by an affecting coincidence, it appeared in that excellent repository the same month in which his death was announced. This event happened Oct. 30, 1804, at his apartments in the British Museum, in the 59th year of his age. Mr. Ayscough was a man of a benevolent and charitable disposition, and frequently consulted how he might exercise these virtues, without reflecting that his means were circumscribed. Having experienced much distress himself with regard to pecuniary matters, he was ever ready to alleviate it in others, and became a Patron almost before he ceased to be a Dependant. In his office in the Museum he will long be remembered, for the pleasure he seemed to take in assisting the researches of the curious, and imparting the knowledge he had acquired of the vast resources in that national repository. With somewhat of roughness, or bluntness, in his manner, he delighted in volunteering his services in all cases where the Visitors wished for information; and there was a preciseness and regularity in all the arrangements he had made, which enabled him to do this with a facility which often cannot be acquired by veteran Bibliographers. In 1783, Mr. Ayscough published a small political pamphlet, "Remarks on the Letters of an American Farmer; or, a detection of the errors of Mr. J. Hector St. John; pointing out the pernicious tendency of those letters to Great Britain." But among his more useful labours must be particularly distinguished his Catalogue of the Manuscripts preserved in the British Museum, hitherto undescribed, consisting of five thousand volumes, including the collections of Sir Hans Sloane, Bart. and the Rev. Thomas Birch, D. D. and about five hundred volumes bequeathed, presented, or purchased at various times, 1782," 2 vols. 4to. This elaborate Catalogue is on a new plan, for the excellence of which an appeal may safely be made to every Visitor of the Museum since the date of its publication, Mr. Ayscough assisted afterwards in the Catalogue of Printed Books, 2 vols. folio, 1787, of which about two-thirds were compiled by Dr. Maty and Mr. Harper, and the remainder by Mr. Ayscough. He was also, at the time

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