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In Taviftock Street, Bedford-fquare, Tho- 
mas Prior, efq. 
Mrs; Skinner, widow of the late Mr. Jo- 
feph Skinner, of Aldgate High Street. 
“Mrs. Palmer, wife of Mr. John Palmet, 
of Drury Lane theatre. 
At Ealing, aged 60, A: Favenc, efq., - 
In Warwick Street, Golden-fquare, T. 
Rood, efg. late of Richmond Green. 
Died. | At Putney, Jean Baptifta Muller, 
a native of Preffia. The fingularity of his 
chara¢ter may in fome meafure be colleéted 
from the following direétions refpecting his 
interment.---** I defire to be buried within 
the walls of the church, and interred in my 
buff embroidered waiftcoat, my blue coat 
with a black collar, a pair of clean nankeen 
breeches, white filk ftockings, my Pruffian. 
books, my hair neatly drefled and powdered, 
and I particularly requeft, that my coffin 
may be made long enough to admit of my 
huffar cap being placed on my head.---So 
dreffed and accoutred, lect me reft in peace.” 
In Salifbury- fquare, Mr. Bardins, the cele- 
brated globe-maker, in which bufinefs he is 
fucceeded by his only fon. 
At Tottenham, Mr. T. Coate, of New-. 
gate-{treet. 
' At his lodgings in Edgware-road, Mr. Ri- 
chard Griffith, formerly manager of the 
Theatre Royals Norwich. 
Deaths Abroad. 
Of BERTRAND PELLETIER, the celebrated 
French chymift, whofe death we noticed in a 
former number, we bave fince been favour ed 
with the Solloxving particulars. 
This illuftrious chymift and phyfician was 
born at Bayoane, 3 in 1761, and died in Paris 
the 2rf of July, 1797. His career was 
fhort, but glorious; and he has left behind 
him a reputation, which the flight of time 
will never obliterate. Many men of natural 
genius have been configned to hopelefs ob- 
icurity, for want of a proper field to exercife 
ane difplay their talents; whilft others have 
Failed in their noble ambition to excel, for 
want of an able director in their early years, 
who ceuld prefcribe to them the proper line 
_ to purfue, and direét the efforts of genius 
to theirdefinite obje€&t. Pelletier fortunate- 
ly pefieffed 2ll thefe advantages. He -im- 
bibed the firft elements of the fcience, jn 
which he afterwards fo eminently excelled, 
wander the tuition of his father; and fubfe- 
quently under the dire@tion of Darcet, who 
perceiving in him a furprizing portion of fa- 
gacity, Which may not unaptly be denomi- 
nated the inflinge of fei jencey admitted him 
among the number of his pupils, belonging 
to the chymical el: aboratory of the French 
college. Five years of intenfe ftudy and ap- 
plication, under the aufpices of a mafter, 
formed by nature to excel, and perfected by 
experience, could not fail - render Pelletier 
diflinguithed bya degree of Knowledge rare- 
ly to be met with in perfons of his age. Of 
this he foon gave convincing proofs, by pub- 
Biographical Notice of Pelletier. 
lithing, at the age of 24, fome very inges’ 
nious obfervations on the acid of arfenie? 
Macquer, by mixing nitre with the éxyde of 
arfenic, had difcovered a falt capable of foe 
lution in water, and cf cryftallizing in the’ 
form of prifms, to which he gave the name 
of neutral falt of arfenic. We was of pinion; 
that no acid could decompofe it; but Pelletier 
demonftrated, that this might be effected by 
a diftillation of fulphurous acid. He de- 
tected the true caufe, which rendered Mac- 
quer’s falt of arfenic incapable of decompofi- 
tion in veflels properly clofed and luted, and 
thewed by what procefs the falt itfelf was 
formed in the diftillation of nitrate of pot= 
ath, and white oxyde of aifenic'; and laftly 
he {pacified the diftin@tion between this new 
falt and Macquer’s foie d’ arfenic, (liver of ar- 
fenic.) Encouraged by the fuccefs of hi§ 
firft eflays, he publifhed his obfervations 
on the cryftallization of fulphur, cinnabar, 
and foluble falts. He undertook an ana- 
lyfis of xeolites, particularly the falfe zee- 
te of Fribourg in Brifgau, which he found 
to be nothing more than an ore of zinc. He 
publithed likewife fome equally folid and ins 
genious remarks concerning marine dephlo- 
gifticated acid, the abforption of oxygene,; 
_the formation of various kinds of ethers, 
and efpecially of the acid ether: and wrote 
feveral memoirs on the compofition of phofs 
porusy its transformation into phofporic acid, 
and its combination with fulphur, and the 
major part of metallic fubftances. Whilit 
he was engaged in making experiments on’ 
phofporus, one of the moft aftonifhing pro>. 
duétions of the art of chymiftry, he burned 
himfelf fo dangeroufly, that he narrowly ef= 
caped with his life. On his recovery from 
this unfortunate accident, which confined 
him to his bed for more than half a year, he 
accupied himfelf with the analyfis of various 
lead ores found in France, Germany, Spain, 
England, and America 3 and notwithftanding 
the fame fubjeét had been previoufly treated: 
and difcufled by Scheele, Pelletier found 
means to give his refearches a furprizing de- 
gree of intereft and novelty. His analyfis 
of the properties of barytes ted him to makes 
feries of experiments on animals, which fully 
eftablifhed the poifonous qualities of thie 
compofition, in whatever fhape it may be ad- 
miniftered. ‘The chymifts ‘have “given the, 
appellation of flrontian to a-certatn {pecies of 
earth recently difcovered, from the nate of 
the ‘place where it was "feundS © Pelletier 
carefully analyzed this earth, and found it 
to correfpond with fulphate of barytés. He’ 
was amongft the firft, who fubfantiated the 
practicability of refining and perfe@ting a beil- 
metal, by feparating the tin. ' His firft ex- 
periments of this kind were made at Paris,” 
from which place he removed in 1791, to. 
verify his difcoveries on a very extenfive fcale’ 
at the foundery of Romilly. The following’ 
year be was chofen a member of the ag 
of {ciences at Parisy foon after which he 
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