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Stanhope perfifled in endeavouring to get into the houfe, 

 wjthoiit (topping to explain who he was : and the door- 

 keeper, determined alfo on his part, made ufe of thefe 



words : " Hvnejt man, you have no bufinefs here : 



Honejl man, you can have no bufinefs in this place." 



in 1774, carl Stanhope took his leave of Geneva, where 

 he had fpent about ten years, greatly refpefted and beloved 

 by all the refpeftsble people of that city. His lordfhip's 

 extenfive holpitalitv and beneticence are ftill remembered 

 with alfeftion and gratitude by many of the inhabitants of 

 that fmall republic. From this period his lordlhip took 

 but a very (mall (hare in the public tranfaflions of the 

 country. He divided his time between his town refidence 

 and his feat at Chevening, in Kent, devoting himfelf clofely 

 for feveral hours in the day to claffical and mathematical 

 ftudies, which had long become his habitual amufemcnt. 



It is to be deeply regretted, that learning fo profound 

 and talents fo rare fliould have been apphed almoft entirely 

 to his own gratification, and that he had not confecrated 

 part of his time to the publication of the refult of thofe 

 refearches, which engaged his attention for more than half 

 a century. To his lordihip's munificence, however, the 

 public are indebted for the pofthiimous works of Dr. Ro- 

 bert Simfon ( fee his article) ; which were printed at his 

 own expence, and a copy or copies of which were fent to 

 every learned fociety in Europe, and alfo to many of the 

 mod didinguifhed mathematicians both of his own and 

 foreign countries. It appears, likewife, that Dr. Simfon 

 was indebted to this nobleman for the ninety-eiijhth propo- 

 fition of Euchd's data. To him alfo the pubhc are under 

 confiderable obligations for the moft complete and magni- 

 ficent edition of the works of the illuftrious Archimedes, 

 which was prepared for the prefs by the learned Jofeph 

 Torelli of Verana, and which was printed in 1792, at the 

 Clarendon prefs, Oxford. 



From the circumftance of many valuable works of fcience 

 being dedicated to earl Stanhope, the (ubjeft of this article, 

 among which were Dodfon's Logarithms, and the third 

 volume of Dr. Prieitley's Experiments on Air, and other 

 branches of Natural Philofophy, we may infer that he was 

 the patron of feveral learned men. His lordfhip died the 

 7th of March, 1786, leaving behind him a fon, the prelent 

 earl, well known in the political as well as the fcientific world, 

 and a widow, with whom he had lived forty-one years. This 

 lady, who furvived the earl twenty-three years, was Grizel, 

 the daughter of vifcount Binning, filler of the late, and 

 aunt to the prefent earl of Haddington. She was endowed 

 with a fine underitanding, which Ihe had cultivated and im- 

 proved by the conltant perulal of the bell authors in the 

 Engli(h and French languages. She died, in the full pof- 

 feffion of her faculties, at the advanced age of ninety-fix. 

 It is a remarkable faft, that a year or two previous to 

 her deceafe, (he cut a fet of new teeth, and had her hair 

 renewed. She devoted much of her long life to afts of 

 benevolence. The writer of this article was honoured with 

 her acquaintance, and he hopes he may add with her friend- 

 (hip, during ten years of his life, and he will never ceafe, 

 while in poflelTion of his mental faculties, to reverence 

 her memory, and to hold in high eilimation her talents 

 and virtue'. 



Stakhope, in Geography, a market-town and extenfive 

 parilh in the N.W. divifion of Darhngton ward, in the 

 county palatine of Durham, England, is fituated on the 

 northern banks of the river Wear, 21 miles W. from Dur- 

 ham, and 264 N.N.W. from London. The privilege of a 

 market was granted by cardinal Langley in the year 1421, 

 and having fallen into difufe, was revived by letters patent 



in 1669, through the influence of Dr. Bafire, the then reC" 

 tor, and is now held on Fridays. Here were two annual fairs, 

 but they are difcontinued. The church is an ancient, plain 

 ftrufture, (landing on a rifing ground to the north of the 

 town. The reftory is worth about loool. per annum. On 

 the weft fide of the town is an eminence, called Callle-Hill, 

 which rifes from the Wear to the height of 108 feet. The 

 fummit is of an oblong figure, thirty paces in width, divided 

 by a ditch : another ditch defends the acclivity to the north 

 andeart, where the afcent is eafiell. It is traditionally faid 

 to have been a fortrefs of remote origin, demolifhed during 

 the incurfions of the Scots. The parilh of Stanhope, be- 

 fides the town, includes the di'.lrifts of Stanhope-Foretl 

 Quarter, and Stanhope-Park Quarter, as alfo the townfhip 

 of Newlandfide. The whole, according to the population 

 returns of the year 181 1, contained 101 1 houfes, occu- 

 pied by 6376 perfons, moll of whom are employed in the 

 neighbouring lead-mines. Near the town, on the lorth, is 

 a cavern, extending under ground nearly a mile, and faid to 

 abound with italattites. 



At a (hort diflance weft of the town is a fpacious old 

 fabric, called Stanhope Hall, formerly the manor-houfeof the 

 ancient family of Featherftonehaiigh, the laft of whom was 

 flain at the battle of Hockltet. 



Stanhope park, a large traA of elevated land, about twelve 

 miles in circumference, is an appendage to the fee of Dur- 

 ham, where the bilhop anciently held his great foreft-hunts, 

 and had his mafter of the foreft, hi-; bow bearer, and other 

 fubordinate officers. Leland mentions this park as beinj 

 " rudely inclofed with ilone." 



St. John's Weardale is only a chapelry to Stanhope, but 

 has the privilege of a market, ellablilhed for the benefit of 

 the workmen employed in the lead-mines. It is feated in a 

 narrow part of the rale, on the fouth of the Wear. Beauties 

 of England and Wales, vol. v. by John Britton, F.S.A. 

 and E. W. Bravley. 



Stanhopk Prefs. See Printing. 

 STaNIHURST, Richard, in Biography, a divine and 

 hiftorian, was born at Dublin about the year 154J, of which 

 city his father was recorder. He was educated at the Uni- 

 verfity college, Oxford, after which he came to London, and 

 ftudied the law in Furnival's Inn, and then at Lincoln's Inn. 

 Returning to Ireland, he praClifed fome time at the bar; 

 but having abandoned the Proieilant for the Roman Ca- 

 tholic religion, he thought it neceifary to remove to the con- 

 tinent, for the purpofe of obtaining a freer exercife of the 

 duties which he owed to his Maker. After this he entered 

 into orders, and became chaplain at Brudels to Albert, arch- 

 duke of Aullria. He died in 1618, having obtained a very 

 high reputation for learning. His writings are enumerated 

 as follow : " Harmonia, ieu Catena dialeftica in Porphy- 

 rium ;" " Defcriptio Hibernic£e," inferted in Holingthed's 

 Chronicle ; " De Rebus in Hibernia geftis. Lib. IV." In 

 this work we are told he took Giraldus Cambrenfis for his 

 guide, and he is faid to have adopted freely the erroneous 

 (latements of that writer, though in fome places he has cor- 

 refted him from other writers. He publifhed likewife " A 

 Life of St. Patrick," and feveral Catholic works: of thefe, 

 one was entitled " Brevis Praemonitio pro futura Concertatione 

 cum Jacobo Ufferio." This was occafioned by a work of 

 Dr. Ufher, afterwards the celebrated primate of Ireland, who 

 was a nephew of Stanihurll : our author did not, however, 

 live to finith the reply thus announced. Mr. Stanihurft tried 

 his powers as a poet, by a verfion of the four firll books of 

 Virgil's jEneid in Enghfti hexameters. It is remarkable 

 for the uncouthnefs of its diftion and verfion. It is men- 

 tioned by Warton, who acknowledges that Mr. Stanihurft, 



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