7 
1sti.] 
ttacles which had baffled the most celebra- 
ted scholars ; and his numerous manuscripts 
display in every page, proofs of original and 
luminous investigation. Itis to be lamented 
as an irreparsble loss to the learned world, 
that these writings, rich in new views and’ 
illustrations of many of the most intricate and 
obscuré pages of antiquity, sacred and profane, 
should have been left by his death, in the 
state rather of desultory notes, than of com- 
mientariés fit for publication. Fis extensive 
library is composed chiefly of the ‘scarcest 
and most valuable editions of the classics, 
and is supposed to contain a colléction of 
Greek Grammarians, perhaps unequalled by 
any otherin the kingdom. His. vast erudition 
Was not encumbered, as we often see it, with 
‘Pcdantic state and solemn ostentation ; on the 
contrary, he was characterized by a playful 
simplicity of manner, and a liberal disposition 
to communicate, in the planiest and most ex- 
Pressive, style, his stories of learning. His 
Jast illness was lingering and painful.—He 
bore it with the firmness of a philosopher, 
and eontemplated its issue with the pious re 
Gignation of a Christian. 
ete IRELAND. ‘ 
About ten o’clock on Saturday night the 
5d of November, an explosion was heard in 
the quarter of St. Barry’s, Cork, so Joud and 
_ wnexpected as to produce the greatest alarm. 
‘Tt was soon discovered that three-heuses in 
Brandy-lane had been blown up, apparently 
y gunpowder; thay the adjacent houses were 
in flames; and, from the sad testimony of 
facts, it was clear that many unfortunate 
‘creatures had been the victims of instanta~ 
neous destruction. The two. houses imme- 
diately adjoining the conflagration werealmost 
instantly. pulled down, and the rest were 
pir ahha destruction. The causes of. this 
¥ readful Circumstance are mot. perfectly 
Anown; but so far as could be collected from 
_ the melancholy survivors, it appeared that a 
man who lived in one of the ruined houses, 
had been employed in the powder- works at’ 
_ Ballincollig. It is suspected this man, con- 
trived to evade detection in bringing gut, 
‘from time to time, quantiles of gunpowder, 
for which he in geneyal tound customers 
among the quarry-men employed in the 
neighbouring quarries about Cork. Itissup-_ 
posed that his wife and others Of }is family, 
were employed in drying this powcr, and 
had while so engaged brought a candle too_ 
close to it, which caused the cerrible explo- 
sion that took place, and, as-a, great many 
Pier families lodged in chat and the neigh- 
ouring houses, occasioned the loss gf so many 
lives. Eighteen persons were literally almost 
“torn to pieces, and among chem ‘several wo- | 
men in a state of pregnancy. Tree others | 
Were carried to the infirmary. withont the _ 
Slightest hope of recovery. Three’ houses 
were blown to 1uins, and several extremely _ 
‘Gnjired by the explosion. 
* AMorried | At. 
_keongford, Sit Richard Levinge, bart. of High 
MontTuix Mas, No. 209, 
Treland. 
Castle. Forbes, county of | 
“Park, Westmeath, to the Hon. Elizabeth 
Anne Parkyns, eldest daughter of che late 
Lord Rancliffe. 
At Annandale, the Right Hon. Thomas 
Henry Foster, only son of the Right Hons 
John Foster, Chancellor of the Exchequer of 
Treland, to Miss Skeffington, the only ciiild 
of the Hon, Chichester S. 
At Turvéy House, néar Dublin, ‘the Hon. 
Robert Leeson, of Clermont, in the county of 
Wicklow, youngest son of the late Barl’ of 
Miltown, to Phillippa Julia, danghter of the 
late Dr. Neve, prebendary of Worcester, and 
Margaret professor of Divinity in the Uni- 
versity of Oxford. 
Died.] At Dublin, aged 64,’ Mr. J. Rick- 
man, a native of Lewes, and formerly one of 
the people called Quakers; but had for the 
last two or three years travelled as a street« 
preacher in most of the principal ‘towns in 
this kingdom, and particularly in the metro 
polis, He was by profession’ a Surgeon and 
“apothécary, and practised many yeats with 
considerable credit and reputation at Maidén- 
head, Berks, tf 
At Waterford, the Rev. Mr. Dickons.- 
Preaching from the text “We muét all 
appear before the judginent=séat’ of Christ ;* 
he ‘fell down in his pulpit, and Ynstaatiy 
expired. é‘ 
At Belfast, Mr. Hugh Kirk. ~The follow- 
ing is apart of his written directions to‘his 
executors; ¢*Ic is my particular request! that 
as little money as ‘possible be ekpénded’on 
the funeral; my fixed’ opinion‘ béing,*’that 
whatsoever is so spent more than common 
decency requires, is Worse than lost, itis a 
robbery on the surviving part of the family. 
Let my coffin be of plain del, "painted either 
black or oak colour, whicly you’ please,’ With 
no. éscutcheons, except the two? with? handles 
“at the. ends—neither age nof ‘ame? on it~. 
RO. ~hearse—no headst Re-—iiU' statfsotno 
gloves—no spirits, tobacto, of ‘pipéss “All 
these are utterly vain afd use!ess—not idan. 
ing hereby to restrict you froth’ exétcising 
your. iscretions with régard to stch Wetessary 
refreshment. as my nodse “will afford’ ty tay 
particular friends, and the beare¥s’of thé’ bier, 
The poor. 20ise grave yard beilig the Tearest, 
nd more expensive than the others, (T'stp- 
post) and. the money applied ‘to ‘charitable 
R rpoges, I wish you to give it the preférefite, 
especially for the, feason last, namizd? / 07 
In Dublin, ‘Sir Thomas JudRih °Fitz- 
erald, bart. of Lisheen, in the countyl of 
Tipperary, and high-sheriff of ‘that councy 
‘at the awful period of the rebeflion, . *On'the 
character of Se: Thomas it is needless to'ex- 
patiate ; such as it was, he was the'rchitece 
of it himself; and-he impritited its tharactérs 
Jong since on the bleeding bitcles bt his ‘edit = 
trymen 5. with what justice and distvithination 
may, be appreciated, by. stating, that itfe. 
quired a special act of iddemnity of ‘Che Tris), 
parliament, to save him from ainplepetuniar 
retribution ;. but it is only nekesdaiyito Watt), 
the fall of such men, and thé tepard'in wale, 
N it 
97 
