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fasfe, sound ji dgmcnt, and general 

 reading man ife^ ted in his dissertations. 

 Mr.T. wasthconlysonoftiieeniinent 

 fea-mcrcliant of thatnamc. by Iiis fii"''t 

 marriage, and intended by 'his fa- 

 ther to succeed him in that house, 

 which he had so well established ; 

 but the son, feeling an impulse to- 

 Avards literature and science, en- 

 treated his father to let him devote 

 Jiimsclf to study and a classical edu- 

 cation ; and, being indulged in his 

 ivish, he m ;is miitricuiated at Cam- 

 bridge. jVIr. T. was contemporary 

 in that university vvitii Grav, M^.- 

 son, and I3ate : and so able a mu- 

 ^icia^, thr>t, besides playing (iic 

 harpsichord and organ in a masterly 

 manner, he was so excellent a per- 

 former on the violitt as 'to lead all 

 the concerts, and even oratorios, 

 that were performed in the univer- 

 sity during term time, in which Bate 

 played the organ and harpsichord. 

 His taste in music was enlarged and 

 confirmed by study as well as prac- 

 tice, as few professors knew more 

 of composition, harmonics, and the 

 history of the art and science of 

 nusic, than (liis infellinent and po- 

 lished amateur. Besides his fami- 

 liar ae(|uaiiir;Hice with the Greek 

 and Iloniaii clavsics, his knouli'dne 

 of modern lati^uages particularly 

 French and Italian, was such as not 

 only to enable Iiini to read but to 

 write those lanijuages with fa(ilit\' 

 and idiomatic accuracy- His friends 

 :ind correspondenls will deplore his 

 Joss with no common grief. His 

 conversation and letters, when sci- 

 ence and serious subjects were out 

 of the question, were rejilete Avitli 

 wit, humour, ami j)l:iyfulness. In 

 the performance of his ecclesiastical 

 duties, Mr.T. was exemplary, scarcely 

 a<lowing himself to be absent from 



his parishioners more than a fort- 

 night in a year, during the last 40 

 years of his life, though, from his 

 learning, accomplishments, pleasing 

 character, and conversation, no man's 

 company was so much sought. Dur- 

 ing the last 12 or 14 years of his 

 life he was a a\ idower, and has left 

 no progeny. His preferment in the 

 church was inadequate to his learn- 

 ing, piety, and talents. But such 

 was tlie moderation of his desires, 

 that he neither solicited nor com- 

 plained. The Colchester living was 

 rntiferred upon him by the present 

 bi-liop of London, very n,;irh to 

 his honour, Avitbout personal ac- 

 quaintance or powerful recom,.'en- 

 dation : but, from the modesty of 

 his character, and love of a private 

 life, his profound learning and lite- 

 rary abilities were little known till 

 the publication of his Aristotle. 



At Paris, general lleubell. 



7th. At his house at llomerton, 

 near Hackney, Timothy Curtis, esq. 

 eldest brother to aUUrman sir Wm. 

 Curtis, bart. one of the largest men 

 in the kingdom, his weight, some 

 years ago, exceeding 34 stone. Un- 

 der the medical superiivtendance of 

 his friends, he reduced himself 10 

 stone within the l.ist 15 vears. 



K(h. At his house in Hanmicr- 

 smilh, aiced 70, Robert Macfarlanc, 

 esq. His death Mas occasioned by 

 the bruises he received from a car- 

 riage which ran over him,. and which 

 he survived only half an hour. He 

 Mas educated in the university of 

 Edinburgh, and came to I^ondon at 

 a very early period of life ; and 

 Ma^ well known in the literary world 

 as the author of many celebrated 

 productions. The first volume of 

 his History of George III. was pub- 

 lished in 1770. the fourth in 1796. 



He 



