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Biographical Memoirs of EtninetU Persons. 



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will of Macklln, that the latter patronized 

 him very warmly, presented him with some 

 valuable trinkets, and obtained for him an 

 engagement at Covent Garden Theatre. 

 There he made liis debut as Flutter, in The 

 Belle's Stratagem, in 178C; and, for seve- 

 ral seasons, he represented what are techni- 

 cally termed walking gentleman with all 

 the eclat that can be derived from the per- 

 sonation of such characters. 



Mr. Ulacieady afterwards became mana- 

 ger at Birmingham ; and, having left Co- 

 vent Garden in consequence of a disagree- 

 ment about salary, he opened the Royalty 

 Theatre (on the site of which the unfor- 

 tunate Brunswick was recently erected) on 

 the plan of Sadler's WeUs, for the winter. 

 This scheme proving unsuccessful, he next 

 obtained the management of the Sheffield 

 company. He afterwards undertook the 

 Manchester Theatre ; in wliich concern he 

 failed, and became a bankrupt in the year 

 1 809. He has since been occasionally in 

 the management of the Leicester, Bristol, 

 and other theatres. He was the author of 

 The Bank Note, a Comedy, and of The 

 Irishman in London, a Farce. Tlie Vil- 

 lage Lawyer was also ascribed to his pen, 

 though, we apprehend, erroneously. Mr. 

 Macready died at Bristol, in the month of 

 April last. 



THE REV, AUCHDEACOK NARES. 



The Rev. Robert Nares, D.D., was the 

 son of Dr. Nares, an eminent composer, and 

 Mus. Doc, and first cousin of the Rev. 

 Edmund Nares, Rector of Bidendea in 

 Kent, and Professor of History in the Uni- 

 versity of Oxford ; whose father was Sir 

 George Nares, one of the Justices of the 

 Court of Common Pleas. He was born 

 about the year 1743; the early part of his 

 education was received at Westminster 

 School; and thence he was sent to Christ 

 Church, Oxford, where he proceeded A. M. 

 in 1778. On entering into holy orders, he 

 obtained the Rectory of Sharnford, was 

 chosen preacher at Lincoln's Inn, and Assist- 

 ant Librarian at the British Museum. In 

 1799 he was made Archdeacon of Stafford, 

 when he resigned his first preferment. He 

 was also a prebendary of Lincoln, and, for 

 some time, rector of St. Blary's, Reading, 

 where he at the time resided. At his death, 

 which ocdorred on the 23d of Blarch, he 

 was Archdeacon of Stafford, Canon of Lichi. 

 field, and rector of All Hallows, London 

 M^all. His health had been for some 

 months visibly declining ; but he was co|i- 

 fined only about a week to his chamber. 



The life of Dr. Nares, distinguislied by 

 industry and talent, by learning, usefulness, 

 and virtue, was pre-eminently literary in its 

 character. His writings were cliiefiy in 

 divinity, criticism, classics, and philosophy. 

 Amongst them we find the following : 

 Essay on the Demon of Socrates, 1783 ; 

 Elements of Orthoepy, 1784 ; On the 

 Ballad of Cupid and Psyche, 1788 ; Princi- 



ples of Goverrmient, 1792; Man's Best 

 Rights, 1793 ; with a number of Sermons ; 

 among which are, a Connected Chronologi- 

 cal View of the Prophecies relating to the 

 Christian Church, in Twelve Sermons, 

 preached at the Warburton Lecture, 1 805 ; 

 and we believe an admirable Glossary of Pro- 

 vincial Terms, published about the year 1824. 

 Many years since, Dr. Nares, conjointly 

 with the late Mr. Beloe, established and 

 conducted the British Critic, a literary peri- 

 odical of some celebrity in its day, and emi- 

 nently devoted to the interests of the Church 

 establishment. He was also a contributor 

 to tlie Classical Journal, &c. 



FREDERICK SCHLEGEL. 



In Germany, the name of Schlegel has 

 long been eminent in critical and polite 

 literature. Augustus William, the elder of 

 two brotliers, is well known in this country, 

 and all over the Continent, by a celebrated 

 course of lectures on dramatic literature, 

 which he delivered at Vienna in the year 

 1808. In these lectures, as well as in his 

 eminently meritorious translation of Shak- 

 speare, it is barely justice to say that he has 

 thrown much new and extraordinary light 

 upon the inspired writings of the bard of 

 Avon. 



Frederick, the younger of the two 

 brothers, and the subject of this brief notice, 

 was born at Hanover in the year 1772 ; his 

 father occupying the place of Superintendant 

 General of the Principality of Luneburg. 

 He was sent to Leipsic, with a view to his 

 education for a life of commercial pursuits ; 

 but his genius soon took an opposite direc- 

 tion, and it was with Tio slight degree of 

 ardour that he embraced literature as a pro- 

 fession. His earliest efforts appear to have 

 been various critical articles, which were in- 

 serted in the different journals of the time. 

 His first production of magnitude was enti- 

 tled " The Greeks and Romans." This 

 was warmly applauded by the celebrated 

 Christian Gottlob Heyne, wlio, about that 

 time, presided over a philosoplucal seminary 

 of which Augustus William Schlegel was a 

 member. Frederic Schlegel then joined his 

 brother in conducting " The Atheneum ;" 

 and he next produced his philosophical 

 romance of " Lucinda," which became a 

 general theme of conversation throughout 

 Germany. 



Turning his attention to poetry and the 

 drama, Frederick Schlegel soon afterwards 

 published the poem of " Hercules Blusa- 

 getes," and the tragedy of " Alarcon." 

 Many years had not elapsed before the 

 reputation of the two brothers had so ad- 

 vanced tliat their enthusiastic followers 

 became sufficiently numerous to form a lite- 

 rary sect, known by the denomination of the 

 Schlegehans. 



At the age of thirty, Frederick Schlegel 

 visited Paris, gave a course of philosophical 

 lectures in that city, and made extensive 

 researches into the romances of chivalry, and 



