Cit Bio CAR. 
‘yho was at work in an upper-room, 
hearing a loud crath, gave notice 
-of the danger to the other inmates; 
and they were all! fortunate enciigh 
to efcape about two minnies be- 
fore the whole fabric fuddenly fell. 
‘Drepd. At his palace at Chichef- 
ter, the Right Rev. Sir William 
Athburnham, Bart. D. D. the vene- 
rable bifhop of that fee, and rector 
of Geftling, in Suffex. He was the 
father of the Englifh bench, and 
the only bifhop not appointed by 
his prefent Majefty. 
At Cambride, after a longillnefs, 
in his fixty-third year, the Rev. 
Richard Farmer, D. D. F..R. and 
A. SS. matter of Emanuel-colleze, 
ao librarian of the public li- 
tary in that univerfity; one of 
the canons-réfidentiary of St. Paul, 
ondon ; chancellor of the diocefe 
of Litchfield and Coventry, and 
prebendary of Worcefter. He 
was born at Leicefter in 1735. 
‘He ferved the office of vice-chan- 
_cellor in the year 1775 and 1787 ; 
and was much refpetted for his li- 
’ berality to the poor, and the various 
plans figucited by him for the im- 
‘provement of the town of Cam- 
ridge. He was well known in 
the literary world for his “ Ef- 
fay on the Learning of Shake- 
fpeare, addreffed to Jofeph Cra- 
dock, Efg. 1766,” which has been 
four times printed, viz. 1766, 1767, 
1789, and 1793. 
10th. In childbed, Mrs. Godwin, 
wife of Mr. William Godwin, of 
-Somer’s Town; a woman_of wn- 
common talents and confiderable 
-knowledge: well known through- 
out Europe by her literary works, 
Bvo. 
49. 
publication was “ Thoughts on the 
Education of Daughters, with Re- 
flecéhons on Female Conduct in the 
more important Duties of Life, 
1787,” t2émo. «2. * The Rights of 
Man, 01791,?? ) 8vo, againft Mr. 
Burke on the French Revolution: 
of the rife and progrefs of) which 
fhe gave an “ Hiftorical and Moral 
View” in 1794, only one vohime 
being publifhed.. 3. ‘ Elements 
of Morality forthe Ufe of Chil. 
dren: tranflated from the German 
of Sultzman, 1791,’? 3 vols. 12m. 
4. “A Vindication of the Rights 
of Women, with Strictures on Mo- 
ral and Political Subjects, 1792.” 
5. “ Letters written during a 
fhortrefidence in Sweden, Norway, 
and Denmark, 1796)” 8vo. Her 
manners were gentle, eafy, and 
elegant; her converfation: intelli- 
gent and amufing, without the 
leaft trait of literary pride, or the 
apparent confcioufnels of powers 
above the level of her fex; and for 
foundnefs of underftanding; and 
fenfibility of heart, fhe was, per- 
haps, rarely equalled. Her praéti- 
cal fkill in education was even fu- 
perior to her fpeculations upon 
that fubject; nor is it poffible to 
exprefs the misfortune fuftained, 
in that refpeét, by her children. 
a 
O.CrT’. 0. B Eek. 
1ft. As fome mafons were dig- 
ging in the Caftle of Stirling, ina 
garden adjacent to the magazine, 
they ftruck upon a human fkeleton, 
about eight yards diftance from the 
window where the Earl of Douglas 
‘under her original name of Woll- 
“ftonecraft, and particularly by her 
+ Vindication of the Rights of 
“Women, 1792,” 8vo. Her firft 
f° Vor. XXXIX. 
was thrown over after he was ftab- 
bed by King James II. It is thought, 
and there is little doubt but that it 
is his remains, as it is certain he 
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