Dr. Forbes, Dr. Alderson, the Rev. Miles Popple, 

 Mr. Wray, the Rev. John Healey Bromby, Mr. 

 Young, Mr. Frost,* and Mr, Bolton, met at the 

 house of the late Mr. Browne, in Lowgate, and 

 constituted themselves into a Society for the 

 purpose of Literary Information." An accession 

 of members soon gave additional importance to 

 the Society, whose meetings for the discussion of 

 literary and philosophical subjects were con* 

 tinued, with tolerable regularity, until the year 

 1797; beyond which period there is no existing 

 record of its proceedings. That its labours were 

 creditable to its members may be inferred from 

 the fact of a proposition having been submitted 

 to the Society in April, 1795, by the late Mr. 

 John Richardson, for the appointment of a com- 

 mittee of seven of its members, to examine the 

 papers which had been read at its meetings, and 

 to select for publication such of them as might 

 be thought proper for that purpose. This pro-, 

 position- suggested, probably, by the example 

 of the Literary and Philosophical Society of 

 Manchester was carried into effect by the selec-r 

 tion of papers, filling two quarto volumes in 

 MS. ; but their publication, which required the 

 assent of the authors of the essays, never took 



The Author's late Father. 



f The second Volume of this Collection is now in the possession of 

 the Author. 



