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care employed by Mr. Campbell in tip's important under¬ 
taking, did not prevent his engaging in another great 
work, the Biographia Britannica, which began to be pub- 
lithed in weekly numbers in 1745, and extended to l'even 
volumes folio. When the late Mr. Dodtley formed the 
delign of the Preceptor, which appeared in 1748, Mr. 
Campbell engaged to aflid in the undertaking; and the 
parts written by him were the Introduction to Chronology, 
and the Difcourfe on Trade and Commerce, both of which 
difplayed an extenfive fund of knowledge upon thefe fub- 
jects. In 17.50, he publilhed his Prefent State of Europe; 
and his next great undertaking was The Modern Univerlul 
Hidory. This extenfive work was publilhed in detached 
parts, till it amounted to lixteeh volumes folio ; and a 
fecond edition of it, in 8vo. began to make its appearance 
in 1759- The parts written by Mr. Campbell were, the 
Hiltories of the Portuguefe, Dutch, Spanifli, French, 
Swedifli, Danifh, and Odend, fettlements in the Ead-Indies; 
and the Hiftories of the kingdoms of Spain, Portugal, Al- 
grave, Navarre, and of France, from Clovis to 1656. 
After Mr. Campbell had thus diftinguidied himfelf in the 
literary world, the degree of LL.D. was conferred upon 
him, June 18, 17.54, by the univerdty of Glafgow. His 
principal and favourite work, A political Survey of Great 
Britain, 2 vols. 4to. was publilhed a fiiort time before his 
death ; in which the extent of his knowledge, and his pa¬ 
triotic fpirit, are equally confpicuous. Fie was, during 
the latter part of his life, agent for the province of Geor¬ 
gia in North America; which he held till the time of his 
deceafe, which happened at the clofe of 1775, in the fixty- 
ieventh year of his age. To all the accompliflinients of 
the underdanding, Dr. Campbell joined tiie more im¬ 
portant virtues of a moral and pious charafter. His dif- 
podtion was gentle and humane, and his manners kind 
and obliging. He was the tendered of luifbands, a mod 
indulgent parent, a kind mafter, a firm and lincere 
friend. 
CAMP'BELL (George, D. D.), judly admired for his 
meutphydcal acutenets and various erudition, was born at 
Aberdeen in 1719, where his father, the reverend Colin 
Campbell, was one of the miniders of the edablilhed 
church. He was educated in his native city; and, after 
palling through the ufual Courfe of academical learning, 
he dudied under the rev. J. Chalmers, profeffor of divi¬ 
nity in Marifchal college. In 1759 he was ehofen prin¬ 
cipal of Marifchal college, and fucceeded to the divinity 
chair in 1771, on Dr. Alexander Gerard being trandated 
to the profetforthip of divinity in King’s college. He had, 
all his life, a rooted averfion to medicine : he got the 
better of every ailment by a rigorous temperance and brief 
regimen; and it wa$ not till he was attacked by an alarm¬ 
ing illnefs, about two years before his death, that he was 
perfuaded by his friends to call in phydeal aid. Then, 
lor the fird time, he owned the utility of medical men, 
and declared his recantation of the very mean opinion he 
bad formerly entertained of them and their art. Dr. Camp¬ 
bell retained all his faculties entire to the lad, and died on 
the 6th of April, 1796, in the 77th year of his age. Placed 
at the head of a public fe mi nary, of learning, he felt all the 
importance of fuch a iituation, and uniformly directed his 
influence to public utility. His large and enlightened 
mind judly appreciated the extenfive confequence of the 
education of youth. He anticipated all the effects refult- 
ing to the great community of mankind, from numbers of 
young men ilfuing, in regular fuccedion, from the univer- 
fity over which he predded, and occupying the different 
departments of focial life. He publilhed the following 
works: A Diflertation on Miracles, againd Mr. Hume, in 
7761; a treatife well known to the learned world. It was 
fpeedily trandated into French, German, and Dutch. The 
Philofophy of Rhetoric, 2 vols. 8vo. 1776; and in 1793, 
his Magnum Opus, the Tranflation of the Gofpels, with pre¬ 
liminary Didertations, 2 vols. 4to, beddes feveral excel¬ 
lent lermons. 
CAMP'BELL, a county of United America, in Vir- 
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-ginia, eab of Bedford county, on Staunton river. It is 
forty-five miles long, and thirty broad. 
C AMP'BELLTOWN, a town of United America, in 
Dauphin county, Pennfvlvania, which bands near a water 
of Quittaphilla creek ; thirteen miles eab of Hat rilburgh, 
and ninety-fix north-wed of Philadelphia. 
C AMP'BELLTOWN, a town of United America, in 
North Carolina, 011a branch of Cape Fear river, too miles 
above Wilmington ; having many wealthy merchants, re- 
Ipeddable public buildings, a vab retort of inhabitants and 
travellers, and a britk commerce by waggons, from the 
back fettlements, with large trading boats. 
CAMP'BELTON, a feaport town of Scotland, in the 
county of Argyle, dtuated on the ead coad of the penin- 
lula of K-intyre, in a bay to which it gives name,.erected 
into a royal borough in the year 1701. It has a good har¬ 
bour, witb from fix to ten fathom water, flieltered by hills, 
and an i (1 and at its entrance, The principal trade is fifli- 
ing for herrings, next to which is diddling whifky; coals 
are dug within three miles, and conveyed to the'town by 
a canal, where they are Told for about eight drillings a ton. 
In the parith is found abundance of fuller’s earth and foap- 
rock, which it is fuppofed might be manufactured into 
fine China-ware. Thirty-two miles wed of Ayr. Lat. 
55. 27. N. Ion. 23. o. W. Edinburgh. 
CAMP'DEN, an ancient town in Gloucederdrire, fitu- 
ate near tire extremity of the county. All the Saxon kings 
are laid to have held a congrefs here in 689, to confult 
on war or peace with the Britons. It was incorporated 
by James I. and is governed by two bailiff’s, twelve bur- 
gelfes, and a deward. It has a court of record every 
fourth Friday, before the deward and bailiffs of the bo¬ 
rough, for all adtions not exceeding 61. 13s. 6d. and they 
have two ferjeants with diver maces. It has a market 
every Wednelday, and four annual fairs, viz. Adi-Wed- 
nefday, April 23, Augub 3, and December 10, this lad 
is a very large - fair for fat cattle. The church is a large 
Gothic edifice, the patron of which is the earl of Gainf- 
borough, who is proprietor of the greated part of the pa- 
rith, and to whom the town gives the title of vifeount. 
In the church is a fine marble monument, fupported by 
twelve pillars, for Sir Baptid Hicks, vifeount Catnpden, 
who gave io,oool. to charitable ufes, and was a great be¬ 
nefactor to the town by ere.Cfing an alms-hotife .for fix 
poor men, and lix women. He built a noble houfe near 
the church, the outfide of which cod 19,0001. but this 
was dedroyed in the civil wars. Here are two chariry- 
fchools, where thirty girls are clothed-and taught to read, 
knit, and fpin ; and another charity-fchool for teaching 
twenty-four poor children to read. It has a gramniar- 
fchool endowed witlt 60I. per arttnim for the mader and 
ufher. A fiik-mill and manufactory have been recently 
edablidied here, which promife great advantage to the 
neighbourhood, by the employment given to great num¬ 
bers of the poor. The didance of this town from Ship- 
don is 7 miles, Gloueeder 30, Tevvkfbury 20, and Lon¬ 
don 89. 
CAM'PE, famed in fabulous hidory, as having kept 
the hundred-handed monders confined in Tartarus. Ju¬ 
piter killed her becaufe die refufed to give them their li¬ 
berty, to come to his afliftance againd the Titans. Hefted. 
C A MPEA'CHY, or St.Francisco de Camfeachy, 
a feaport town of America, dtuated in a bay, to which it 
gives name, on the wed coad of the peninfula ot Yucatan, 
a long time the chief mart for log-wood. It is deiended 
by a caftle furniflied with cannon, and has feveral times 
been taken from the Spaniards,and plundered ; in 1659 by 
the Englilli, under the conduft of Sir Chrido[?hei’ Mims ; 
in 1678, by the Englidi and French adventurers : and by 
the freebooters of St. Domingo in 1685. All the eftablidi- 
ments for the purpofe of cutting log-wood are under the 
Spanith government; but, by the treaty of peace in 1783, 
the Englidi were allowed the privilege of cutting it umno- 
ledecl: ninety miles wed-fouth-well of Merida. Lat. 19. 
30. N. Ion. 73. 48. W. Ferro. 
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