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dissents from the general opinion, enlarging on the very few 

 faults or peculiarities which are to be found in the book. 

 Wheatley, or Whately (for so little is known of this eminent 

 man, that we have never been able to ascertain satisfactorily 

 the orthography of his name,) was proprietor of Nonsuch 

 Park, in Surrey; and was secretary to the Earl of Suffolk. 

 He published only this work, soon after which he died. 

 After his death, some remarks on Shakspeare, from his pen, 

 were published in a small 12mo." A second edition of this 

 elegant little work was published in 1808, by Parson, Oxford; 

 or Rivington, St. Paul's; in which, the advertisement to the 

 reader informs us, that " the respectable author intended to 

 have gone through eight or ten of the principal characters of 

 Shakspeare, but suspended his design, in order to finish hi* 

 Observations on Modern Gardening, first published in the 

 year 1770; immediately after which time, he was engaged in 

 such an active scene of public life, as left him but little leisure 

 to attend to the Belles Lettres; and in the year 1772 he died."* 



In Biographical Anecdotes, 3 vols. 8vo. appears a correspondence in 

 London, with Dr. Franklin, and William Whateley, and Joseph Whateley, 

 in 1774. This relates to a duel with Mr. Temple, by a brother of Thoma* 

 Whateley. In some of the Lives of Dr. Franklin, it appears, that inflam- 

 matory and ill-judged letters were written by George Hutchinson, and 

 others, to Thomas Whateley, Esq. private Secretary to Lord Grenville, re- 

 specting some disturbances in America, concerning Lord Grenville's Stamp 

 Act. On the death of Thomas, these letters were placed in the hands of 

 Dr. Franklin, whose duty, as agent to the colony, caused him to transmit 

 them to Boston. A quarrel arose between William Whateley and Mr. Tem- 

 ple, as to which of them gave up those letters, and a duel was fought. Dr. 

 Franklin immediately cleared both those gentlemen from all imputation. 

 Of the celebrated interview in the council chamber, between Mr. Wedder- 

 burn and Dr. Franklin, an account is given by Dr. Priestley, in vol. XT. 

 page 1. of the Monthly Magazine, and which candid account entirely acquits 

 Dr. Franklin from having deserved the rancorous political acrimony of Mr. 

 Wedderburn, whose intemperate language is fully related in some of the 

 Lives of Dr. Franklin, and in his Life, published and sold by G. Nicholson' 

 Stourport, 12mo. price 9d. and which also include* Dr. Priestley's account 



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