CLASAPR AC TE RS. 
the piefent State of thofe in Great 
Britain and Ireland,”” with a great 
number of curious plates. Befides 
thefe, he publifhed, in 1780, “ Hif- 
torical Remarks and Anecdotes on 
the Caftle of the Batftile, tranflated 
‘from the French;” and lait year 
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the Grand Duke of Tufcany’s 
«< new Code of Criminal Law, with 
an Englith Tranflation.” 
Not fatisfied, however, with what 
he had already’ done, he concludes 
his « Account of Lazarettos,’’ with 
anrouncing his “ intention again 
to quit his country, for the purpofe 
of re-vifiting Ruilia, Turkey, and 
fome other countries, and extending 
his tour in the Eaft. [I am net in- 
fenfib'e, fays he, of the dangers that 
mutt attend Tuch a journey. Trutt- 
ing, however, in the proteClion of 
that kind Providence which has 
hitherto preferved me, I calmly and 
chearfully commit myfelf to the 
difpofal of unerring Wildom. Should 
it pleafe God to cut off my life in 
the profecution of this defign, let 
not my conduc be uncandidly im- 
puted to rafhnefs or enthufiafm, but 
to a ferious, deliberate conviction 
that I am purfuing the path of duty, 
and to a fincere defire of being 
made an inftrument of more exten- 
five ufefulnefs to my fellow-creatures 
than could be expected in the nar- 
rower circle of a retired life.” ‘To 
a man who holds fuch language, 
what elfe can be faid, but that the 
piety and benevolence of his heart 
deferve univerfal honour? What 
permanent good may arife from his 
unwearied, well-intended labours, 
both in thefe kingdoms and the reft 
of Europe, time only can fhew. 
Certain it is, that his plan has been 
adopted in many of our new-built 
gaols, and will gradually extend to 
more. Although the advice of his 
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friends could not poffefs that in- 
fluence to reverfe his determination 
to encounter once more the conta- 
gion of the plague, with all its dif 
mal concomitants; yet furely that 
incorrupla fides, that nuda veritas, 
which actaated his undertaking, fo 
elegantly difplayed by himfelf in 
his laft publication, will aequit him 
of temerity in the progrefs of his 
benevolent migration. His great 
abitemioufnefs was probably a mean 
of prolonging his life in .the midit 
of his dangers: for a long time po- 
tatoes were almoft his whole {up- 
port; at another time they were 
fucceeded by tea, and bread and 
butter ; confequently it will not be 
thought wonderful that he never 
partook, of the public or private 
repafts to which he was fo frequent- 
ly invited. All that remains to be 
faid upon the fubjeé is, that in his 
fecond « Tour in the Eaft, it did 
pleafe God to cut off his life :”’ for, 
having {pent fome time at Cherfon, 
a new fettlement of the emprefs of 
Ruffia, in the mouth of the Dnieper 
or Boryithenes, toward thenorthern 
extremity of the Black Sea, near 
Oczakow, he caught in vifiting the 
Ruffian hofpital of that place, or as 
fome fay a young lady who was ill 
of the fame complaint, a malignant 
fever, which carried him off on the 
zoth of January; N.S, after an 
illnefs of about twelve days: and 
after having been kept, according 
to his exprefs dire¢tions to his fer- 
vant, five days, he was buried, by 
his own defire, in the garden of a 
villa in the neighbourhood belong- 
ing to a French gentleman, from 
whom he had received great civili- 
ties, by his faithful fervant who 
had attended him on his former 
journeyings, and whom he exprefly 
enjoined not to return home till five 
weeks 
