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" statistic details of various Countries ;" but it 

 appears from the statement of the editor, that 

 the author did not wish his name to be affixed 

 to it. His last avowed production, was a poem 

 of little merit, intitled " the death of Prince 

 " Bagration, or the French defeated in Russia and 

 ' Poland, in 1812 and 1813." His MSS,, which 

 were extremely numerous, consisted chiefly of 

 miscellaneous notes and extracts, inserted in folio 

 volumes, without any apparent system or arrange- 

 ment. Towards the close of life, circumstances 

 beyond human controul prevented him from 

 making their contents profitable to the public ; 

 his mind became subject to occasional serious 

 aberrations, brought on, probably, by excess of 

 study, and he died at the age of forty-seven 

 years, on the 9th day of February, 1815. 



The late BENJAMIN THOMPSON, Esq., well known 

 as the translator of the " Stranger," was the eldest 

 son of the late Benjamin Blaydes Thompson, 

 Esq., an alderman, and twice mayor of this 

 town. Mr. Thompson was born at Hull, on the 

 10th day of March, 1774, and was sent, when 

 about fifteen years of age, to finish his education 

 in Germany, where he acquired a critical know- 

 ledge of the language of that country, and 

 became familiarly acquainted with the beauties of 

 Kotzebue. For some time after his return to 



