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differed from him, his kind treatment of persons who had 
endeavoured to injure his own reputation, and his conscien¬ 
tious, tender regard for that of others, were prominent fea¬ 
tures in his character. 
“ By his last will, besides liberal benefactions to numerous 
benevolent and charitable institutions in London and Dublin, 
he provided for the support of an itinerant preacher to the 
native Irish, of two persons to preach to the Indians in 
North America, and of several charity-schools in England 
and Wales. He directed that a certain fixed sum, from the 
income of his estates, should be appropriated to the assist¬ 
ance of poor ministers, the widows of poor ministers, stu¬ 
dents for the ministry, and to other benevolent purposes. 
He also left estates to the university of Glasgow’, which at 
present furnish handsome exhibitions to six students for the 
ministry among Protestant dissenters in South Britain, who 
are to be nominated by his trustees. The last grand bequest 
in his will was for the establishment of a library in London, 
for the benefit of the public. Having formed this design, he 
purchased Dr. Bates’s curious collection of books, which he 
added to his own, and directed his trustees to provide a 
proper building for their reception. Such an edifice was 
erected by them in Red-Cross Street, Cripplegate, where the 
library was opened in 1729, and admission to it is easily ob¬ 
tained by persons of every description, without any excep¬ 
tion, upon application to one of the trustees. Since it was 
first established, very considerable additions have been made 
to it by legacies, as well as gifts of money and books; and 
it now contains upwards of 16,000 volumes, many of which 
are very valuable and rare, in the various departments of 
literature and science. The founder’s works were collected 
together, and printed at different periods, in 6 vols. 8vo.; 
the last consisting of Latin versions of several of his tracts, 
which he directed to be published in that language for the 
use of foreigners .”—Memoir prefixed to his Works. 
WILLIAMSBOROUGH, a township of the United States, 
in Burlington county, New Jersey. Population 619. 
WILLIAMSBOROUGH, a post town of the United 
States, and capital of Granville county, North Carolina, on 
a creek which falls into the Roanoke; 36 miles north of 
Raleigh, 48 north-east of Hillsborough, and 56 north-west 
of Halifax. 
WILLIAMSBURG, a post township of the United States, 
in Hampshire county, Massachusetts; 100 miles west of 
Boston. Population 1122. 
WILLIAMSBURG, a post township of the United States, 
in Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania.—2. A post township 
of Talbot county, Maryland; 5 miles north-east of Easton. 
WILLIAMSBURG, a post town of the United States, and 
capital of Clermont county; 30 miles east-north-east of 
Cincinnati. 
WILLIAMSBURG, a borough of the United States, in 
James county, Virginia. It is situated between two rivulets, 
one of which flows into York, and the other into James 
river. It is regularly laid out, and was formerly the metro, 
polis of the state; 12 miles west of Yorktown, and 55 east- 
by-south of Richmond. Lat. 37. 16. N. long. 76. 55. W. 
Population 1500. 
WILLIAMSBURG, a post town of the United States, in 
Mason county, Kentucky. 
WILLIAMSBURG, a district of the United States, in the 
north-east part of South Carolina. Population 6871, be¬ 
sides 4518 slaves.—2. A post town and capital of Williams¬ 
burg district; 72 miles north-north-east of Charleston.—3. 
A village of Jackson county, Tennessee, on the north side of 
the Cumberland, about 15 miles east-north-east of Carthage. 
Six miles north-east of this village there is a valuable salt 
spring, where large quantities of salt are made. 
WILLIAMSBURG, or Jonestown, a post township of 
the United States, in Dauphin county, Pennsylvania, at the 
junction of the Swatara and Little Swatara; 23 miles east- 
north-east of Harrisburg. 
WILLIAMSCOT, or Willescot, a hamlet of England, 
in Oxfordshire ; 3j miles north-north-east of Banbury. 
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WILLIAMSFIELD, a post town of the United States, in 
Ashtabula county, Ohio. 
WILLIAMSON, a post township of the United States, in 
Ontario county. New York, on the south side of Lake 
Ontario; 20 miles north of Canandaigua. Population 1139. 
WILLIAMSON, a county of the United States, in West 
Tennessee. Population 13,153, besides 3985 slaves. 
WILLIAMSPORT, a borough of the United States, and 
capital of Lycoming county, Pennsylvania, on the west 
branch of the Susquehanna; 38 miles above Northumber¬ 
land. Population 344. 
WILLIAMSPORT, a post township of the United States, 
in Washington county, Maryland, on the Potomac; 6 miles 
west of Elizabeth town. 
WILLIAMSTADT, a town of the Netherlands, in North 
Brabant, on the arm of the sea called the Hollards-diep. It 
is strongly fortified, and has a good harbour. It was built in 
1584, by order of William I., prince of Orange. In 1793, 
it was besieged by the French, but without success; 12 miles 
south-west of Dort. Population 1300. 
WILLI AMS THORPE, a hamlet of England, in the parish 
of North Wingfield, Derbyshire. 
WILLIAMSTON, a post town of the United States, and 
capital of Martin county. North Carolina, on the Roanoke; 
50 miles south-east of Halifax. Population 300. 
WILLIAMSTOWN, a post township of the United States, 
in Orange county, Vermont. Population 1353. 
WILLIAMSTOWN, a post township of the United States, 
in Berkshire county, Massachusetts, in the north-west corner 
of the state. William’s college, which was founded in 1793, 
and is a respectable and flourishing seminary, is situated 
within this township; 135 miles west-by-north of Boston. 
Lat. 42. 38. N. long. 73. 15. W. Population 1843. 
WILLIAMSTOWN, a post township of the United States, 
in Oswego county, New York. Population 563.—2. A 
township of Montgomery county, Pennsylvania. Popular 
tion 1243.—3. A post township of Lancaster county, Penn¬ 
sylvania. 
WILLIAMSVILLE, a post village of the United States, 
in Buffaloe county, New York ; 11 miles north-east of Buf- 
faloe.—2. A post village of Person county. North Carolina. 
WILLICHIA [so named by Mutis, in honour of Christ. 
Lud. Wiltich, physician at Nordheim], in Botany, a genus 
of the class triandria, order monogynia.—Generic Character. 
Calyx: perianth one-leafed, four-cleft, permanent; segments 
ovate, acute, spreading. Corolla one-petalled, wheel-shaped, 
twice as long as the calyx ; tube scarcely any ; border four- 
cleft, flat; segments roundish, convex. Stamina: filaments 
three, inserted into the divisions of the border, except the 
lowest, and shorter than it. Anthers roundish, erect, two- 
celled. Pistil: germ superior, roundish, compressed. Style 
filiform, length of the stamens, declined at the lowest divi¬ 
sion of the border. Stigma blunt. Pericarp : capsule round¬ 
ish, compressed with a sharp edge, two-celled, two-valved ; 
partition opposite. Seeds many, roundish, minute. Recep¬ 
tacle globular of two hemispheres.— Essential Character. 
Calyx four-cleft. Corolla four-cleft. Capsule two-celled, 
many-seeded. 
Willichia repens.—Root annual, fibrous. Stem creep¬ 
ing, filiform, branched, herbaceous, hirsute, about two feet 
high. Leaves alternate, petioled, somewhat remote, orbi¬ 
cular, subpeltate, crenate, an inch long, hirsute, reddish 
beneath. Petioles very long, hirsute, thick. Peduncles ax¬ 
illary, in pairs, one-flowered, filiform, hirsute, length of the 
petioles. Flowers small, rose-coloured, with an hirsute 
calyx.-—Found in Mexico. 
WILLIEN, a parish of England, in Hertfordshire; 3 
miles east-by-north of Hitchin. 
WILLIG, a large village of the Prussian province of Cleves 
and Berg, near Crevelt. 
WI'LLING, adj. Inclined to any thing; consenting; 
not disposed to refuse. 
Some other able, and as willing, pays 
The rigid satisfaction. _ Milton. 
Pleased; 
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