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philofophy, and learning, would be 
greatly benefited by this epiftolary 
commerce. 
Haller’s library, confifting of a- 
bout 4,000 volumes, was purchafed 
for £.2,000 by the emperor, for the 
public library of Milan, where I 
examined it in 1785. ‘The collec- 
tion is particularly rich in books of 
natural hiftory, and is rendered in- 
valuable from numerous annotations 
of Haller, written on the margins. 
Haller was three times married, 
firft to Marianne Wytifen, in 1731, 
.who died in 1736. 2. To Eliza- 
beth Buchers, in 1738, who died in 
childbed the fame or the following 
year; both natives of Berne. 3. 
In 1739, to Amelia. Frederica 
Teichmeyer, a German lady, who 
furvived him. He has written and 
pablifhed the lives of his two firtt. 
wives. He left eight children, four 
~ fons and four daughters, all of whom 
he lived to fee eftablifhed. His 
eldeit fon, Gotlieb Emanuel, who 
was born in 1735, followed his fa- 
ther’s example in dedicating himfelf 
to the fervice of his country, and to 
the purfuits of literature. He was 
elected member of the Great Coun- 
cil, and obtained various employ- 
ments under government, particu- 
larly the bailliage of Nyon, in which 
fituation he died in 1786. He dif 
tinguifhed himfelf as an author by 
various publications tending to u- 
Iuftrate the hiftory and literature of 
Switzerland, and particularly by 
his Schaveituer-bibliathek, or Swits 
Library, in 6 volumes $vo. of which 
he lived to publifh only the frit. 
In this work, defervedly efteemed 
for its method and accuracy, the in- 
defatigable © author enumerates all 
the books which treat of Switzer- 
land, in all languages, and all the 
; works publifhed by the Swifs on all 
.§ 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 
1790. 
fubje&s. He even defcends to the 
minuteft articles which have ap- 
peared in reviews and journals; and 
in moft inftances, where the publi- 
cation deferves detail, analyfes the 
contents, corrects the errors, and 
gives his opinion on the merits of 
the performance. 
I was perfonally acquainted with 
the learned author, and am indebted 
to him for fome curious information 
on Switzerland, and for feveral 
anecdotes relative to his illuftrious 
father, which I have introduced into 
thefe biographical memoirs. 
Account of the late Mr. *loward; 
Jrom the Gentleman's Magazine for 
March 17 790. 
BOUT the end of the month 
of February 1790, advice was 
received, by Mr. Whitbread, of the 
not unexpetted, yet certainly un- 
timely death of the eccentric, but 
truly worthy, Jouw Howarp, efq. 
—This extraordinary man was the 
fon of an upholiterer, or itn 
warehoufeman, in Long-lane, W 
Smithfield, and was put arprnibe 
to Mr. Nathaniel Newnham, “a 
wholefale grocer, grandfather to the 
prefent alderman,—His father died, 
leaving only this fon and a daugh- 
ter, to both of whom he bequeathed 
handfome fortunes ; and by his will 
dire&ted that his fon fhould not be 
confidered of age till he was five- 
and-twenty. His conflitution was 
thought very weak, and his health 
appeared to have been injured by 
the neceflary duties of his appren- 
ticefhip ; and therefore, at the ex- 
piration of it, he took an apartment 
in a lodging-houfe in Church Street, 
Stoke Newington, Middlefex; but 
not meeting with pe tendereft treat- 
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