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334 Account of Henry Cleark—Stephen PhilpA—Fubn Oakman. (Nov. 1; 
undaunted, likea man; held with uplifted - 
arms, in both hands, a huge folio (I be- 
lieve it was Norden’s Travels through 
Egypt) ready to be hurled at the foe, and 
{miled at our timidity. 
eye he obferved the motions of the animal, 
and, having watched an opportunity, 
marched, as ufual, with a firm ftep out at 
the door: but immediately returned with 
a fervant holding a drawn fword in his 
hand, and ordered him to kiil the furious 
animal. -Immediately one of the ftudents 
exclaimed: Hold! its a pity to kill the 
dog.—To whom does it belong? afked 
Michaelis.—To me!—Well then, take 
your favourite in your arms, carry bim 
out, and give him fome medicine. Excufes 
and repugnance were here of no-avail: the 
Baron was obliged to retire with his pa- 
zient. When he was gone, Michaelis 
faid with a fmile: ** That gentieman is a 
great genius indeed! he fhould be em- 
ployed in fecret expeditions, for he has 
his heart upon his tongue.”” He then 
made ufeful refle€tions and applications, 
fhewed us how with only his folio he 
would have been able to defend himfelf, 
and related to us the fellowing incident : 
s¢ During my travels, when I was one day 
walking by the fide of the Thames, near 
London, a.mad dog, whom they were pur- 
fuing, jumped towards me. On this fide 
of me was the Thames, on that another 
water; it was impoffible to efcape from 
the animal, except by jumpimg into the 
water, which I accordingly did without 
much hefitation.”” 
Some of the ftudents had one night 
broken his windows with ftones, for the 
purpofe of having fome fuz at the expence 
of the profeffor in the morning.* But 
Michaelis did not wait till morning, but 
had the windows mended in the night. 
What he had expeted happened. The 
perpetrators of the blackguard deed, who 
came early in the morning to divert them- 
felves, paffed by difappointed, chagrined, 
and afhamed. But Michaelis openrd his 
window, and in a frieidly manner faluted 
them. Fromthat time no one ever threw 
{tones at his windows, 
In the winter of 1781 there was fo lit. 
tle fhow, that the tudents could not enjoy 
the ufual diverfion of making excurfions 
on fledges. Some Englifhmen, however, 
would not leave unemployed the bells 
and decorations which tiey had pur- 
chafed atagreat expence. They accord- 

* This blackguard practice is {till fo com- 
mon at fome of the German univeriities, that 
‘© Broken-windows” area ftanding article in 
the treafurer’s accounts, ~ 
With unaverted 
ingly hired two-wheeled cabriolets, and 
had the tinkling apparatus put on the 
horfes. Thus they drove through the 
town in the midft of the rain. Michaelis 
was jult reading his lectures. and he, as 
well as his auditors, was aftonifhed at 
hearing the unexpected winter-mufic, as 
they drove paft his houfe. He rofe very 
calmly from his feat, loeked out at the 
window, and faid with a {mile: **”Tis 
the foreign birds of paflage. The ftorks 
are travelling afier the dog-days !” 

ARTICLES 0f NEGLECTED BIOGRAPHY. 
Account of Henry Clarke. 
ENRY €.LaRKE, an ingenious ma- 
thematician, was born at Salford, 
Manchefter, in 1732, and ferved his ap- 
prenticefhip to the bufinefs of a taylor: 
but being a proficient in the mathematics, 
and an admirer of fine writing, he fet up 
a {chool in his native village, and taught 
there for feveral years with reputation. 
At the conclufion of the American war, 
upon a difappointment he met with in his 
family, he went over to New York, where 
he eftablifhed a fchool, but left it though 
in a flourifhing ftate, fer a more advanta~ 
geous fettlement at Baltimore, where he 
died inr793. He had two brothers, tay- 
lors and mathematicians, likewife deceafed. 
His works, moft of which are f{carce, from 
the fmall number printed, are as follow : 
Practical Perfpe&tive, with 33 plates, vol- 
1, 8vo. - The Rationale ot Circulating 
Numbers, 8vo. A Synopfis of a Courfe 
of Lectures on Geography, Aftronomy, 
and Navigation, with Schemes, fromwhich 
B. Donne took the hint of his Planetarium. 
A Differtation on the Summation of the 
Infinite Converging Series, with Algebraic 
Divifors, from the Latin of Lorgna, qto. 
and feveral traéts, fome of which are fup- 
plements and appendixes to the above. 
N.B. For the charaéters of the above 
Treatifes, fee Critical Review, vol. 42, 1776, 
and vol. 45, 1778, aod the London Review, 
vol. 6..1777- 

Account of Stephen Philpot. 
STEPHEN PuiLpot, the author of a 
fmart little treatife entitled “* An Effay 
on the Advantages of a Polite Education, 
joined toa learned one,”’ was originally a 
Merry Andrew at country tairs, and tra- 
velled with a company of his own through 
molt parts of England. About the year 
1746, he fettled at Petworth, where he 
kept a dancing-{chooi, but removed fome 
years afterwards to Lewes, where he died 
in 1764. He was a mufician in the royal 
band to his late and prefent Majefty. 
Account 
