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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES 
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EMINENT CHARACTERS 
DECEASED ABROAD. 
AS St. Domingo, Lieut. C. Clarke, of the 
21 regiment of dragoons, fon of Dr. C. of 
Louth, -Lincolnfhire. Lieut. A. Mackenzie, 
of the 21ft reg. of light dragoons. Lieut.-Col. 
G.Lezard, of the 6th reg, of foot. Aged 26, 
Gpt. T. Steade, of the 21ft reg. of. light dra- 
goons. Lieut. C. Pennymaty of the 56th reg. 
of foot, fon of Sir J. P.-bart. 16, Mr. J. de 
aymond, fu geon, of the 82d reg. of foot, foa 
of Mr. de R. of Whitehaven, who befides being 
eptived of large property in France, has re- 
cently loft two fons in the fervice of this coun- 
try; Mr. W. de R. aged 21, his eldeft fon, 
having been killed on board the Stag, in which 
he was a midthipman, in an engagement with 
the Alliance Dutch trigate. 
At St. Pierre, Martinique, Lieut. P. Anftru- 
ther, of the navy, fon of Sir R.A. bart. of 
Balcafkie. . 
On his paflage home from the Weft-Incies, 
€ol. Howe, M.'*. for Yarrnouth, aid-de-carnp 
to his M jefty, Col. of the 63d reg. of foot, and 
nephew to Sir -. Stevens, bart. 
On his paffage from New York, E. Butler, 
efg. of Bath, brother to Sir R. B. of the king- 
dom of Irejand. 
Tn. ths Weft-Indies, 22, Lieut. H. Day, of 
the O.d Buffs, fon of B.D. efq. Alderman of 
No:wich. 
in the Ifland of St.° Vincent, Lieut. John 
Grafhek, of the 2d Weft India regiment. 
At Gibraltar, Capt. W. Biifbane, of the Au- 
yora, ftotioned there, fon of Admiral! B. From 
forne appearances after his death, it is fuppofed 
that he was poitoned by the prifoners under his 
charge on board. 
On his paffage from the Weft Indies, Major 
R. H. Malcolme, of the 27th regiment. 
On Sunday morning, Fuly ioth, after a 
very fevere illnefs of a few days, aged 64, 
Dr. Rittenhoufe, Prefident /of the American 
Philofophical Society. Dr. Rittenhoufe was a na- 
tive of America, and born at a time when the 
aavantages' of a liberal education were far from 
being free toall. He feems to have purfued alone 
the energetic impulfe of his own mind in def- 
tining himfelf, at an early period of his life, to 
{cientific purfuits. As his circumftances were 
narrow, he was not liberated from the labours 
of active life, he united the proefiions ofa farmer 
and a watch-maker, the lait of which he filled 
with unrivalled eminence. Some of its nicer 
operations continued to be his favourite mode of 
relaxation during all the fubfequent periods of 
his life, of which many friends poffefs invalu- 
able teitimonials. In 1769, he was calied by 
the American Philofophical Society, in affoci- 
ation with cther gentlemen, to cbferve the tran- 
fit of Venus ; and the accuracy which charac- 
terifed the gbfervations and calculations he 
made, was the refult of great powers of me- 
chanifm, aided by comprehenfive and corect 
LATELY 
Biographical Notices Dr. Rittenhoufe, fepic, 
powers of the mind. ‘Fhe philofophers of Kita 
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rope were, on this occafion, as liberal_in thé 
fentiments of applaufe as thofe of furprife. - 
During the Amerxican war, which produced « 
the firmeft alliance between freedom and feis" 
ence, from a fenfe of common danger, the phi- 
lofopher did not claim an exemption from tise 
duties of patriotifm. Accuftomed to kindle 
with enthusafm in contemplating the fubli- 
rities of fcience, he could not behold the 
magnificent fpectacle of a nation» afferting: its 
rights without blending the feelings of 2 hu- 
mane heart, and the thoughrs of an enlightened 
head, with the feelings and thoughts. of the pa- 
trict and the fiate{man. During the arduous: 
conteft, as well as during the whole progres of 
the French Revolution, he thought.like 4 free- 
man, he {poke like a freeman, he acted like a 
freeman. Since the American war, he fuc- 
ceffively filled the offices of treafurer of the 
State of Pennfylvania, and director of the na- 
tional mint: in the frft of which he manifefted 
inflexible integrity, and im the “left, the rare 
talent of combining theo. ies in fuch/a way as to 
preduce corre&t practical effects. Thofe who 
have minds to eftimate the .great difficulties at- 
tending the performance of {uch duties, will do 
juftice to the talents which difcharged them, 
and as to thofe who haye not the capacity re- 
quifite, thelr cenfure is praife.. > Rittenhoufe 
was the fecond prefident, the fucceffor of the 
illuftrious Franklin, whofe greatnefs he de= 
lighted to acknowledge, and whofe fame he 
contributed to enlarge, by corre&t and frequent 
ewogium. After being carefied by a grateful 
country in the bofom of honour, Rittenhovfe 
vielded to the folicitations of a private life, and 
{pent his laft days in philofophic retirement. 
There we behold him the object of love, ad- 
miration, and reverence. The amiable graces of 
domeftic virtue .fhed, perhaps, a milder anda 
more conftant lu‘tre over his character than the 
vivid flafhes of fcience and the dead energies of 
intelleét. Here-he felt content, nor feemed to 
with for more. In his intercourfes of friend- 
fhip, fincerity and fimplicity went hand in 
hand. A ftranger to the too common airogance 
of high pretenfions, he met every man on the 
ground of friendly reciprocity. Feeling a fu- 
perior attachment to thofe who propagated 
{cience, he did not conceal the eftimat-on in 
which he held them. He was among the firk 
to welcome to America the perfecuted philofo- 
pher of England, and formed with himoan in- 
timacy which only required time to be cement- 
ed into a lafting friendthip. Since his death, 
Dr. Prieftley has been chofen his fucceffor as 
Prefident of the American Philo‘uphical Society. 
At Cold-Spring, Wefthaven, in Neith- 
America, in the 76th year of his age, the Green 
Mountain patriarch, patriot, and poet, Thomas 
Rowley, efg. He moved into Vermont, then 
called the New Hampfhire Grunts, ina very 
early day, with a young growing family, who 
have fince {pread themfelves very extenfively. 
He took a decided part with Allen and Warner, 
not only in the field, but in council, in the op- 
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