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Deaths in and near London. 



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At his houfe in Great Titchfield-ftreet, late Lord Clive, wlio corrr:f ponded with Mr. 

 Mr. '■f'ilham Bynic, a diftinguifhed Undfcape- F., prove how highly that nobleman appre- 

 engraver, 62. Ke was educated und^r an chted his w.-irth and talents. He was a 

 uncle, who engraved heraldry 0,1 plate ; hut man of placid temper and unalTuming man- 

 havins fucceeded in a la.idl'cape atV-r Wll- ncrs, ef ftrung and comprehenfive mind, an* 

 fon, fo as to obtain a prenilum from the So- potTelled an ample ttore of valuable know- 

 ciet . for tSe tn-ouragcmeiit of Arts, it '.vas ledge. 



regarded as the precurfor of talent of a fupe- In St. George's Fields, Mr. Sanuiel Bc^, the 



rior order, and he was fent to Paris, at that famous prctenJei prophet. He died at the age 

 tm/e the chief fcrainary in Europe for the of 90 yeJrs, and had been for many (thirty 

 ftud ,' of engraving, for improvement. In or fortvj years well known in London by the 

 Par;s he ftudied lucceflively under Aliamet appellation of P :or Help. During the latter 

 andWille, from the former of whom he im- part of his life he had frequently ihiftcd his 

 bibed the leading traits of that ftyle of en- refidence, and had very confiderab'y decreafed 

 graving which he afterwards adopted as his in his fame as a prophet. About fifteen years 

 OA-n. Under the latter he engraved a large ago he was in ShoreJitch workhoufe, where 

 f'late of a *'orm, after Vernec ; but the ma- he occupied a v.Mvd, which was dedicated to 

 Bual .i^xtevity of Wille was alien to his micd, the exhibition of a great nun:iber of works 

 and probably contri.iutcd not much to his im- executed by himfelf in ftraw. Tlie fubjefts 

 provement, though he always fpoke of of thefe works were taken from different paf- 

 Willi-'s inftruiflions with refjicft. "When he fages of fcripture-hiftory. In the middle of 

 returned to England, tlfe fucccfs of Wool- the room there was a whimfical rcprefenta- 

 left, as a landicape engraver, had fet the tion of a broad and narrow way, &c. The 

 falhion in that department of the art ; but prophet had a bed in a corner of the ward, 

 Byrne, difdaining to copy what he did not furroundcd by afort of ftravv chccquered work, 

 feel, perhaps Icorning the influence of fafhion and he fat by his bedfide on a chair, from 

 in art, preferved the independence of his which he delivered his oracular difcourfes on 

 ftyle, and continued to ilady, and to rccom- the charafters and fortunes of numerous indi- 

 men.i to his pupils, nature, Vivakes, and viduals who at that time flocked to fee and 

 the befl: examples of the French fchool. — hear him. He had acquired a recoUeftion of 

 His 1-uger performances are after Zuccarelli a vaft number of pifi'ages from the Bible, 

 and Both , but his principal works {contain- which he repeated fuitably to the peifons 

 ing probably his heft en^jraving), are the An- who liftened to him, and few who attended 

 tiquides of Great Britain, a.ter Hearne .; a went away without perceiving fomething fu- 

 fet of Viens oi the Laxes, after Farinaton ; pernitural about him. He made no ufe of 

 and Smith's Scenery of Italy. His chief ex- hooks, and was highly offended at the produc- 

 cellence confiftl.-ig in his aerial perfpedlive, tion of any, aflerting that his faculty in quofr- 

 and the general eftetl of his cilan, ojuire, he ing was entirely tiie eft'cft of infpiration, or 

 was more agreeably and more beneficially em- of communication to him .from the Angel Ra- 

 ployed in finlfhing than in etching, and hence phael. The nu.nibcr of hts vifitors in the 

 he generally worked in conjunftion with his days of his fame was aftonifiiing ; and among 

 pupils, who .>tre latterly his own fon and them were fonjc perfons ot high diftiniftio.T of 

 daug'.ters. His manners were unafluming, both fexes. Money he aftiitted to fcorn j but 

 his profeiTlonal indullry unremitting, and Lis there was generally a very convenient matron 

 moral character exemplary. He feldom w^ent at the door for the purpofe of collection.— 

 from home, but lived in the bofom of a nu- His impofture of lunacy gained lo much on 

 merous and worthy family. the public, that fume clergymen vifited him 



At his apart. iicnts in South-ftrret, South frcr^uently, and took confiderable pains in 

 Audley-ftrect, of an apoplccU'-nt, in his pamphlets to endeavour to expofe the abfur- 

 73d )ear, Hugh Fnizer, efq. He had been dity of encouraging him. He is now, how- 

 tutor to the eldcit fons of feveral diftinguhhed ever, gone from tiiis mortal fcene, perhaps 

 perfons, with each of whom he refuted on "the laft of the prophets j" but on his grave 

 the Conti.ient during a confiderable time; fome of the children of credulity are placing 

 particularly the Ion of the latt- wortliy and in- a ftone, infcrifecd " H-:rc lies Poor Help .'" to 

 genious Dr. Roebuck, his early friend and pa- flicw that, »t lealt, it fhall not be faid of 

 tron ; the late Lord Folworth, fon of the England, " a prophet hath no hwnour in his 

 acconiplilhcd Earl of Maichmont, one of the own country." 



friends and executors of Pope ; and Lord Clive, [Farther particulars of Dr. De Valangh, 



now Earl PoAJs ; who individually evinced whafe death is mentioned in t'o/. 19, />. 279.— 

 that cordial eflcem and refpetl for Mr. Frazer Francis- jfofeph-Pahud Dc l^.ilangin, M. D. of 

 which an able and confcientiou'i difcharge of the College of Phyficians, London, &r., wa? 

 the various duties of his fituation fo juilly born at Berne, in Switzerland, about the year 

 meritcd. At the hofpitable manfion of Lord 1719 or 1720, and rtudied phyfic at Lcyden 

 Marchmont he was ai'vays received as a wel- under the celebrated Boerhaav*. Though 

 come vifitor ayd ijucft. The letters of the educated in this line of ll.'e, it was not origi- 



naJly 



