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extended through the whole manufactory, 
as expeditiously as the apparatus could. 
be prepared. 
At first, some inconvenience was cx- 
perienced from the smell of the uncon- 
sumed, or imperfectly purified gas, which - 
may in a great measure be attributed 
to the introduction of successive im- 
provements in the construction of the ap- 
paratus, as the woik proceeded. but 
since its completion, and since the per- 
sons to whose care it is confided have be- 
come familiar with its management, this 
inconvenience has. been obviated, net 
only in the mil, but also in Mr. Lee’s 
Memoirs of Charles Grignon, Esq. 
[Jan. 1, 
house,which is most brilliantly Muminat- 
ed with it, to the exclusion of every other 
species of artificial light 
The peculiar softness and clearness of 
this light, with its almost unvarying 
intensity, have brought it into great fi- 
vour with the work people. And its be- 
ing free from the inconvenience and dan- 
ger, resulting from the sparks and fre- 
quent snufting of candles, is a circum- 
stance of -material importance, as tend- 
ing to diminish the hazard of fire, to 
wiich cotton mills are known to be much * 
exposed, 
SR > A RL RR ST LET TR PTY 
MEMOIRS AND REMAINS 
OF EMINENT PERSONS. 
sketcu of the BIOGRAPHY Of CHARLTS 
GRIGNON, ESQ. an eminent ARTIST, 
who died at Lecuonn in 1804, of a 
malignant FEVER, on his RETURN from 
ROME, after @ RESIDENCE Of many 
YEARS: accompanied wilh REMARKS On 
others, his CONTEMPORARIES, who never 
lived lo return. 
By GEORGE CUMBERLAND, esq. 
T has always appeared to me that the 
best use we can make of some of the 
leisure moments of life, is to dedicate 
then to the pleasing and no less useful 
employment of recording the merits of 
departed genius; for whilst it gratifies 
harmless curiosity, it is doing as we would 
be done by also, aind seems to-be a grate- 
ful and rational offering to the dead, at 
the saine. time that it presents a moral 
lesson of impartiality to our contempo- 
raries. 
Influenced, therefore, by such feelings, 
ermit me to offer your miscellany the 
abours of an evening at an inn at Rea- 
ding, which otherwise would, be passed 
in anxious longings after my peaceful 
home, on returning from an unusaal ab- 
sence; that thus, by. the harmless magic 
of thoughts and words, | may at once 
refresh the ashes of neglected talents, 
shorten my ow suspense, and perform 
the dary of a surviving friend. 
Many years are now gene by since I 
had thes happiness in the city of Rome, 
for several winters, to partake of the 
agreeable society of as annable a set of - 
artists as this istand ever produced, A 
few of them returned home, and are still 
living an honour to the country that raised 
them ; but others, cunscivus that the state 
of publit taste was, at that time, incapable 
of appreciating studies that had the res- 
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finements of the best ancients for their 
object, after secklag, in vain, that pa- 
tronage which alone could bave supporte ° 
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ed them in honeur in their native coun- 
try, lingered on the ‘plains of Latium 
until the customs and fascinating lan- 
guage of the natives made them a spe- 
cies of captives to the arts and elegancies 
of Italy; and tempred by the peaceful * 
abodes of the museums‘of venerable art, 
the charms of music, painting, and sculp- 
ture, the hilarity induced by a fine cli- 
mate, the iwdependence which plenty 
offers, the urbanity of the inbabitants, 
the suavity, the simplicity that invites 
and detains; they at length formed con- 
nections that could not easily be dis- 
solved, and at length perished on a fo- 
reign land, neglected, and almost for- 
gotten, 
Three of these active students, that 
are now no more, f knew particularly 
well, having often been grieved to think 
how little their nation knew them, and 
that it has been their unhappy fate to go 
to the grave without an eulogium; for 
Deare, Robinson, and Crignon, well de- 
served to be remembered by their coun- 
try. 
Of the first and second T am as yet 
unfurnished with materials to afford @ 
decent sketch of their biography, although 
possessed of abundance of proofs of their 
zéal for, and abilities in, the fine arts: for 
the present, thelefore, | must postpone 
what [ wish to say of them, and contine 
my lucubrations to the pleasing task of 
recording what I know of the worth and 
acquiremenis of the third; the melan- 
choly, sensible, and gentlemanly Grig- 
non! aman who united great prudence 
with great taste, respectable abilities 
with 
