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communicated ly his Son. 



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would liave ultimately fucceedcd ; but 

 alas ! ill this lelpect (he only copied the 

 generality of her fex. llepeatcd brawls 

 at home not fuitine; her hulbanri's irritable 

 dilpoiition, and tenduia; to diiiurb his llu- 

 «lics, conlhaiued him at length to leek an 

 alylum ell'evvhere, lb that the renminder 

 of his life was paffcd more like a iinglc 

 tlian a married man. Nor cim its 

 occafion much i'uri)ri7,e that a man of h- 

 tcrary pnrfuits Ihoukl, under fuch circum- 

 iiances, abandon his home, efpecially 

 when it is fo well known that a Xantippe 

 was never a friend to the Undents in plii- 

 Jofophy or the fuitors of the Muics. 

 Hence he was perhaps induced to deviate 

 from the ftraight path, by preferring the 

 fmiling gaiety of forae buxoiTi dame (mif- 

 trefs perhaps of a tavern,) to the more 

 praifeworthy intercourfe of hiwful connu- 

 bial love. Tliefe frequent feparations 

 from his family renders it impoffible for 

 any biographer to furnilli a complete hif- 

 toi-y of his life. Mr. Wynne was editor 

 of the Gazetteer a confiderable time, and 

 was a well-known fpeaker at the Robin 

 Hood and Coachmakers Hall debating 

 focieties ; but being unhappily a rtaunch 

 fupporter of an Adminillration wholes 

 meafui-es were extremely unpopular, he 

 got little good by his political fpecula- 

 tions. In thofe days fuch topics were 

 freely dii'cuffed, and often agitated with 

 much warmth. Mr. Wynne in this refpe6t 

 afted the part of a champion, and under- 

 took to defend the Miniftry in their war 

 with America, and other ruinous mea- 

 fures. This was done in the moll difm- 

 terefted and ingenuous manner poifible, 

 as lie acted purely from the dictates of 

 his own opinion. On his return from 

 thefe heated debates, way-laid by fome 

 of the oppohte party, many an unmerci- 

 ful drubbing has he fufftred, and once 

 was fo cruelly beaten that iiis life was 

 endangered. It was in one of thefe 

 rencounters that the lachrymal veffels of 

 his right eye became contufed, and occa- 

 fioned him to undergo at times the moll 

 excruciating agonies, to alleviate which 

 he frequently liad rccourfc to large dofes 

 ol' opium. 



But the moft fatal accident happened 

 at the time he was in the 7.enith of his 

 fame, about the year 1778, v licn crolfnig 

 Snow-hill on a dark night, he was run 

 over by a hackney-coach, and his leg 

 broken in three places. Surgeon Young 

 reduced the fracture as well as he could, 

 being loth to amputate the limb ; but, 

 owing to the terrible manner in which it 

 Wits Ihattered, iixtecn wqeks clapfed ere 



it was judged proper to fliift the leg from 

 the cradle lliat encompafi'ed it. The 

 limb, from remaining fo long in one pof- 

 turc, became conlhicted, and an inftni- 

 ment was obliged to be had to enable 

 him to walk, and by degrees to reduce 

 the contraction of the iiiiews, which in 

 time it nearly eftefted. It was during 

 this confinement (although obliged to re- 

 main nearly in a horizontal pofition,) that 

 he wrote the Elegy on the Death of Gar- 

 rick, publiilied by Mr. Harrifon. This 

 accident was feverely felt by his family, 

 and occalioned hiinfelf much pain and 

 anxiety. After writing many volumes, 

 of which the writer of this article can 

 give no fatisfaftory account, an afthmatic 

 complaint, with which he had long been 

 afflicted, occafioned his death, November 

 1788, in the 45th year of his age. His 

 wife furvived him but a few days, leaving 

 three children totally unprovided for, the 

 eldeft of whom alone furvives, and has 

 now a wife and fix children of his own. 



Mr. Thomas Wynne died at an advan- 

 ced age. The Rev. Richard Wynne lived 

 till ths year 1793, being more than eighty 

 years of age when he died. The whole 

 of his fortune he left to an only daughter. 



Mr. .Folin Huddleftone Wynne was be- 

 low the middle fize, (about five feet f )ur 

 inches in height,) of a clear complexion, 

 dark hair, a fanguine temperament, irri- 

 table and nervous. Previous to his lame- 

 nefs, though he always took lliort leps, 

 yet he walked remarkably faft. In his 

 youth he acquired a bad habit of Hooping, 

 which liis fubfequent infirmities tended 

 to increaie. His eyes were piercing ; his 

 brow remarkably fine, and liad the ap- 

 pearance of being pencilled ; his nofe 

 aquilhie, which, as Lavater w ell obferves, 

 always indicates a good arrangement of 

 features. He certainly had many pecu- 

 liarities, was very abfent and negligent in 

 his external appearance, and the drefs 

 worn when himfelf a youth he feemed al- 

 ways to prefer, and would probably have 

 done the fame had he lived in affluence. 



He fpoke and read with wonderful fft- 

 cility, yet with accuracy and tafte. \Mien 

 fpeaking in public, which he was mueli in 

 the habit of, his delivery was flowing, ani- 

 mated, and eloquent, and almoft Ibrced 

 convicti(jn on his liearers. His readijig 

 mud ha\e been multifarious, and his me- 

 mory very retentive, for, without the ad- 

 vantages of a clalfical education, or being 

 taught any language than the Latin, 

 he neverthelefs by his own exertions at- 

 tained a perfect knowledge of the French, 

 and a cnrfory one of tl»e Greek aiui 1 le- 

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