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$2 fretches of the life of Mr John Henderson. Nov. 4. 
very, as Pugatchef, in Rufsia, preceded them a dozen years 
at least ; and if unsuccefsful attempts might be wanted, 
Jack Cade and Wat Tylor in England, preached and 
‘practised the same doctrine before their great grandfathers 
were born. So much for unfounded claims to priority in 
discovery, so justly reprobated in Britain, and which it cer- 
tainly is every man’s duty to refute when it falls in his way. 
It may be necefsary to add to the fhort notice given a- 
bove, of the lefs destructive vomitings of the physical vol- 
cano on the coast of the sea of Ochotz, properly the sub- 
ject of this article, that it appears from experiment made 
on both the containing and contained matter, on the con- 
crete afhes and peebles, that they resemble the frothing 
stone of Iceland and Hungary, mentioned by Born,(equally 
suspected of volcanic origins,) in the singular property of 
frothing in the fire, pofsibly from all three containing a 
portion of zeolite. Axcticus. 
SLIGHT BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF THE LIFE OF THECELEBRATED 
MR JOHN HENDERSON OF PEMBROKE COLLEGE, OXFORD. 
Tuis was one of the most extraordinary characters which 
have appeared upon the stage inmodern times; and, like eve- 
ry other extraordinary person, his singularities attracted 
the notice of all who knewhim, and excited the warmest ap- 
probation, or the severest censure, according to the circum- 
stances in which the observers were placed with respect to 
him, and the peculiar fketch of theix talents, or bent of 
dispositions. 
This singular person was born at Bellegarance, near Li- 
merick, in Ireland, March 27.1757, where his parents at 
that time accidentally happened to be. His father, Mr Ri- 
chard Henderson, was thena preacher inconnection with Mr 
John Wesley, and his mother is said to have been related to 
