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" Virgin of the Sun ;" " The Escape, a Narra- 

 " tive ;" and ' The Ring, or the Merry Wives of 

 " Madrid ;" and, in the following year, "The 

 " Tragedy of Inez de Castro," from the Portu- 

 guese. His translations from Kotzebue, Schiller, 

 Iffland, Goethe, Lessing, and others, which ap- 

 peared under the title of the German Theatre, 

 and extended to six volumes, 12mo., came out 

 in monthly numbers, the first of which appeared 

 in 1800. In 1810, he published a translation 

 from the French, of " An account of the intro- 

 " duction of Merino sheep into the different states 

 " of Europe, and at the Cape of Good Hope." 

 His original productions were not numerous, 

 consisting only of some Imitations of Gellert, 

 which first appeared in the Hull Advertiser in 

 1798, under the signature of " Hugo," and which 

 were afterwards collected, and printed in a small 

 pamphlet; a poem called "The Recall of Momus, 

 *' a Bagatelle ;" " Godolphin, or the Lion of the 

 " North, a drama," which was performed with- 

 out success, at Drury-Lane Theatre ; and " Obe- 

 " ron's Oath, or the Paladin and the Princess, 

 " a melo-dramatic romance," founded on a poem 

 by Wieland. The unfavourable reception of 

 this last piece, which was brought out at Drury- 

 Lane, on the 21st of May, 1816, is supposed to 

 have occasioned the death of its author ; his 

 feelings were highly excited by the disappoint- 



