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&c. London, 1778. He was the author of a great many 

 productions in Englifh, Latin, or German, and of feveraf 

 papers in the Philofophical Tranfa&ions. He tranflated into 

 Englifh, Bougainville's Voyage round the World, and Kalm's, 

 Boflu's, and Reidfel's Travels. He was employed likewife, 

 when in England, in the Critical Review ; and he wrote 

 various detached papers on different fubjects, which have 

 been inferted in foreign Journals and the Transactions of 

 learned academies. His fori, George Forfter, who alfowent 

 round the world with Capt. Cook, and was afterwards profeffor 

 of natural hiftory at Caflel, died at Paris, at the age of 39, on 

 the 13th of February 1792. 



Not long ago, at Hamburgh, the celebrated portrait and hif- 

 torical painter Hickel. He diftinguifhed himfelf particularly 

 by his happy talent of giving good representations of family 

 fcenes and children. He ftudied at Vienna, and enjoyed 

 there for a long time a confiderable pennon, which Jofeph II. 

 however at length withdrew. He refided after this fome- 

 times in Swiflerland, and fometimes in London and Paris, 

 The late queen of France often fat to him, as did alfo the 

 princefs of Lamballe, who caufed herfelf be painted fome- 

 times as a nofegay girl, and fometimes as a fortune-teller or 

 nun. In the year 1793 he began to paint a fitting of the 

 Britifh honfe of commons, and mod of the portraits were 

 linking likeneflfes. From this painting, which was 15 feet 

 in breadth and 11 in height, he propofed publifhing a print 

 by Cheefeman ; but, owing to fome difappointment in re- 

 gard to the fubfeription, the undertaking was abandoned. 

 During the lall days of his life he made a painting of Klop- 

 ftock, and exceedingly like. The poet is represented fitting 

 and reading one of his favourite odes. Hickel, at the time 

 of his death, propofed to have a print from this painting, 19 

 inches by 16, engraved by Huck. 



At Geneva, on the l%& of .January, Horace Benedict de 

 Sauffurc, well known as a naturalift, chemift, and minera- 

 logift. He was born in 1740, ftood candidate for the nntthe- 



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