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cal publications of the time, and will at once inform, in- 

 llrud, and deeply affeft the feilings of the reader. It is, 

 however, too lon;^ for infcrtioii in this place; and, indeed, 

 the facility of rdererice to the Gentleman's, the European, 

 the Monthly Magazines, &c. render it httle ncceffary. 



£A ccincidenct that may be jviil worth mentioning here is, 

 that by mere cliance this article came undrr the writer's 

 hand on tlie veiy day which, by the refiilt of the lottery, 

 transferred the property of this valuable colledtion to Mr. 

 Taffie, an aitiil of Leicefter Square, the nephew of a late 

 well known imitator of ancient cameos and intaglios. J 



Mr. Boydell's deatli was occafioned at lall by a too fcrupu- 

 lous attention to his olTieial duties. Ahvays early in his at- 

 tendance on public bufmefs, he arrived at the Sctrions-houfe in 

 the Old Bailey, on I'riday the 7th December 1804, before 

 any of the other magillr^tcs, and before the fires were 

 lighted. Standing near a prate while this was done, the 

 damps were drawn out, and he took, a cold ; this produced 

 an inflammation of the lungs, which terminated his life on 

 the I'nefday following. He was interred, witli great civic 

 pomp (the fpontaneous refult of private fricndfliip and pub- 

 lic relpicl), on the 19th of the fame month, in tlie church 

 of St. Olavf, Jewry ; leaving behind him, for the inltruiflion 

 of mankind, a llrdcinir c.xample to what heights of fiimc and 

 fortune men may attain by the united efforts ot perfevtring 

 indulh-y, prudent entcrpri/,e, and honourable dealing. We 

 havf fhcwu liow Mr. Boydell's 152 placts, engraved by him- 

 felf. laid the foundation of his fortune. We underlfaiid, how- 

 ever, that he was alfo the means of making Mr. Woollet's 

 genius known to the pubhc, by employing him to engrave 

 the Niobe and the Pliaeton, from pittures by Wilfoii. For 

 the firll of thcfe he agreed to give WooUet 50 guineas, and 

 when it was completed, paid him 100. The lecond the 

 artill agreed to engrave for 50 alfo ; but Mr. Boy dell paid 

 him 120. The two prints were publillied by fubfcription at 

 5s. each ; and proof impreffions have fiiice been fold at pub- 

 lic audion? for ten and fometimes eleven guineas each ! ! 



BOYER, Abel, was born at Callrcs in 1664, and on 

 occafion of the revocation of the edlft of Nantes, lie became 

 a refugee, and finally fettled in England, where he became 

 a confiderable writer. His " French and Englilli Ditlionary," 

 4to. has been often publiihed, and is well known ; and fo is 

 his " French and EngliOi Grammar." His " Political State" 

 was a moutlily pnblieation> commenced in January 1710, and 

 continued to November 17:^9. He alfo wrote the " Hillory 

 of king William," 3 vols. 8vo. ;" " Annals of queen Anne," 

 II vols. Svo. ; a French trarilation of " Addifun's Cato ;" 

 " Letlei'S French and En^lifh ;" an Englllh tranOation of 

 " Telemac!:us ; " State Trials to that of the Earl of Ox- 

 ford," and fevetal other works. He died at Chelfea, in 

 1729. Moreri. Geii. Biog 



BoYER, JoHM Baptist Nicholas, was born at Mar- 

 feilles, Augufl the 5th, 169J. His father, intending to 

 bring him up to bufinefs, gave him a fuitable education, and, 

 at a proper a/e, fent him to Conllantinople, to his uncle, 

 who was conful there ; but finding him inclined to literature, 

 and to tiie iludy of medicine, he fent him, on his return from, 

 the Levant, to the univerfity at Montpelliet. In the year 

 17 17, he took the degree of dodlor, and gave for his inau- 

 gural thcfis, " A DilTertation on Inoculation of the Small 

 Pox," which he had feen prafufed at Conllantinople. On 

 the plague breaking out at Marftilles, in 1720, he was fent 

 there with five other phyfieians ; and his praftice, or his 

 condufl on that occafion, having been approved, he was re- 

 warded by the king with a peniion, and was made phyllcian 

 to a regiment of guards. He was fome years after invited 

 to Hunlpruche, a town in the bifliopric of Treves, where an 



infetlious fever was making great ravages, and, in 1742» 

 to Paris, on a fimilar occafion. Hia fucccfs at theie places 

 occafioned him to be fent tor to Bcauvais, in 1750, where 

 by his judicious miinagement lie prevented the fpreading of 

 an infectious fever, infelliug that country. For thife fer- 

 vices he was honoured by the king with letters of nobility, 

 and invelled with the order of St. Michael. He died Jan. 

 J768. His works are " Methode indiquee contrc la mahidic 

 epidemiquc qui vient de regncr ii Beanvais," Paris, 17'0, 

 4to. It conlills of only ten pages. " Mctliode a fuivrc 

 dans le traitement de difierentes maladies epidemiqnes qui 

 regnent le plus ordinairement dans la generalite de Paris," 

 1761, l2mo. He wrote, in 1745, a " Memoir" on the dif- 

 eafe infeiling the cattle at tliat time. It was fent to the 

 Royal Society in London, and procured him a place in the 

 lilt of their foreign members. He alfo gave a new edition 

 of the Codex medicamentarlus," feu " Pharmacopxia Pari- 

 ficnfis," 4to. a very ufeful and well digelted work. Eloy, 

 Dia. Hill. 



Boyer's Bay, in Geography, lies at the N.W. end of the 

 ifland of St. Kitts, in the Well Indies. 



BoYER, in Navigalion, a kind of Flemiflr floop, or fmall 

 vefTel of burden, having a boltfprlt, a callle at each end, and 

 a tall mall ; cliiefly fit for the iiavigatiq,n of rivers, and, in 

 many of its parts, refembling a fmack. 



The boyer has a doable bottom, and a forked mad, that 

 it may run better with the bowling-line, without driving. 



BOYEIIA, in Geography, a village of Africa, in the 

 kingdom of Anta, on the Gold coaft, fituate between 

 Bourtry and Tokorari, and wholly inhabited by fifhermen 

 and labourers, who carry on a confiderable trade with their 

 neighbours by exchanging the fruits of the earth and fi(h foe 

 the produce of other countries. This village, and an adjoining 

 one, called " Pandos," of the fame defcription, are known at 

 fea by a large pointed rock that lies before the coall. 



BOYES, an order of American priefts or magicians, ufed 

 by the favages for calling up their gods, either to be re- 

 venged on thofe who have done them any injury, or to be 

 cured of fome difeafe, wherewith they are infefted, or to 

 drive out fome devil. They are alfo confulttd with regard 

 to the event of their wars. Each boye has his peculiar duty ; 

 who is invoked by certain forms of words, fung in a quaint 

 tone, accompanied with the fumes of tobacco. 



BOYEUPECANGA, in Zoology, the name of a very- 

 large ferpent, dillinguiihed by this name on account of cer- 

 tain prominences on its back. It is a very large and remark- 

 ably thick ferpent, and of very fatal poifon. Ray. 



BOYLE, Richard, in Biography, an accomplilhed l\atef- 

 man, generally llyled the " Great earl of Cork," was the 

 defeendant of an eminent and honourable faniily in Hereford- 

 tliire, and the fecond fon of Roger Boyle, a younger bro- 

 ther, who fettled at Canterbury, where he was born in 1565. 

 Having purfued his Ihidles for fome tune at Bennet college 

 in the univerfity of Cambridge, he removed to ihe Middle 

 Temple with a view to the profeflion of the lav/ ; but he 

 foon changed his dedinatiou, and entered into the fervice of 

 fir Richard Manwood, chief baron of the exchequer. This 

 fituation preleiiting to him no profpctlof fpeedy advancement, 

 he went to Dublin in l_';SS ; and, though his whole wealth 

 amounted only to 27I. js. he had good recommendations, 

 which, together with his own talents, introduced him into 

 connexion with the principal pcrfons employed in the go- 

 vernment, to whom lie rendered himfelf eminently ufeful. 

 The bufinefs in which he was engaged afforded opportuni- 

 ties ot acquiring a comprehenfive and accurate knowledge of 

 the kingdom, and of the ftate of public aftairs, which he 

 did not negledt duly to improve. His marriage alfo, in 1 59^^, 



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