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{afety to their perfons and property. He 
promifes them the enjoyment of their 
religious worfhip, their priefts, and their 
Jaws. He exhorts them to arm againf 
the new mafiers of their territory, and 
on the firft fignal of their determination 
to do fo, he will fly to their affiftance, 
and unite his whole force to their’s, to 
repel and- exterminate the common 
enemy.” 
I 
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES 
OF 
EMINENT ‘CHARACTERS LATELY 
DECEASED ABROAD. 
Feb. 22, at Amfterdam, Wiltet Bernard 
Segerfema, Doctor of Divinity, at the prema- 
ture age of 4o. The learned of Holland will 
lament his lofs. He was a member of the 
Hzerlem Society, and lately fecretary to the 
Reprefentatives of the people of Friezland. He 
appears among the author's of Memoirs relative 
to Natural and Revealed Religion, publifhed by 
the Teylerian Society of Haerlem. 
March 7. At Groningen, Paul Chewalier, 
Profeffor of Theology and Ecclefiaftical Hiftory 
at its univerfity. Of the Batavian theologitts, 
he was efleemed the moft rational. His fix 
Ecclefiaflical Difcourfes, or Sermons,:on fome 
fundamental moral truths, wer- privted at Gro- 
ningen, in 1770. They are valuable ; and 
this popular fpecies of divinity was almoft un- 
touched by the Dutch theologifts. We have to 
Jarnent, that. fince our author’s publication, it 
js not more frequently attempted. 
March 14, at Rotterdam, aged 47, Francis 
de Monchy, Dogtor in Phyfic, one of the direc- 
tors of the Batavian Society of Experimental 
Philofophy, eftablifhed in that city. 
April 9, at Berlin, aged 76, oan Ulric Von 
Biliguer, Profeffor of Surgery. After having 
purfued:his fiudies at Bafle, and in the hofpi- 
tals at Paris, he gained great experience in the 
Pruffian armies. His favourite fcience is in- 
debted to him fur many valuable difcoveries, 
particularly for his mode of treating wounded 
members, which before his time were too fre- 
quently amputated. His work on this inte- 
refting top'c has been tranflated into moft of the 
European languages. Tiffot honoured him with 
his efteem, as well as moft fcientific men, The 
Emperor ennobled him ; but he derived a purer 
nobility, and fairer titles, from the exercife of 
his talents, and from the learned focieties of 
which he was a member. 
Lately, at Leyden, the learned advocate 
Elias Lufzc, author of various performances in 
Jegiflation. Among thefe may be diftinguifhed 
2 French Tranflation of the Inftitutes of the 
Rights of Nature and Man, by Wolf, accompa- 
nied by numerous notes, in 2 vols. 4to. A 
Treatife on the Riches of Holland, in which 
eur author exhibits the origin of the commerce 
and power of the Dutch; the gradual growth 
Biographical Notices.—Pingré, Ge. Geo 
[Sept. . 
of their commerce and navigation; the caufcs 
which have. contributed to their progrefs, and ~ 
thofe which tend to deftroy them; and the 
means which may ferve to maintain them, m 
2 vols. 8vo. He is known alfo for fome writ- 
ings, which fhow him to have been a zealous 
defender of the Stadtholderizn government, 
which he mut have grieved to have farvived. 
Among thefe pleadings, is one in favour of the 
planters of the colony at Surinam, and another 
for the liberty of the prefs. He had been a 
printer himfelf, and had made enemies by the 
publication of La Mettie’s atheiftical treatife  - 
of .L’Homme Moachne; the nick-name of 
L*Homme ‘Machine was given to him by his 
fellow citizens. 
Nov.21, at Bankpore, near Patna, the Rev. 
Reshartes Carr. Mr. Carr was fnatched from a 
fociety which he had long continued to adorn, 
and frdm his friends and his family, to whom 
all his withes, all his endeavours, and his hap- 
pinefs particularly tended, many years before the 
natural life of man attains the ufual meafure of 
its completion. The dignity of his virtue, the 
purity of his morals, and the fervour of his re~ 
ligion, with all the focial fympathies of the 
foul, had formed his mind for the exercife of 
his holy funétions with awful folemnity. He 
paffed through life loved and honoured, and he 
funk into eternity with the lamentation of the 
good, and the prayers of the pious. : 
Col. Gordon, who commanded the Dutch 
forces at the Cape of Good Hope; having 
laboured under a fit of defpondency, he put an 
end to his exiftence. 
At Barbadoes, Major R. P. Chryfie, of the 
42d or Royal Highiand regiment; his death 
was occafioned by a fever arifing from his exer- 
tions at the fiege of St. Lucia. 
Inthe Weft-Indies. W. Lindfay, efq. governor 
of the ifland of ‘Tobazo. 
At Kingfton, in jamaica, Dr. A. Broughton, 
fome years fince one cf the phyficians to the 
Briftol Infirmary, and fon.of the Rev. T. B. of 
Briftol. , 
On the 12th Floreal, 1796, aged 87, the 
venerable Alexander Guy Pingre, Librarian of 
the French Pantheon. He devoted himfelf to 
{cience from his earlieft youth. In 1727, he 
entered into the ci-devant congregation of the 
canons regular of France. Theology for a con- 
fiderable time occupied his refearches, but he 
had the art of conneéting it with the ftudy of 
hiftory, chronology, and the learned languages. 
A life wholly contecrated to ftudy and retire- 
ment, was difturbed even by thofe whofe pe- 
culiar duty it was to refpect and to imitate if. 
Pingré was tolerant, and the bifhops of France 
cherifhed the fentiments of the Papiftical court. 
Our author was well known as the affertor of 
the liberties of the Gallican church. In 1745, 
he gave proofs of that zeal for freedom which il+ 
lumined the twilight of his life. He was among 
thofe who were perfecuted by the ecclefiaftical 
party, becaufe he preferred the expofition of 
the Chriftian doétrine as given by the fathers, to 
that one more recently dictated by the Jefuit 
Molina. 
