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who is faid to have been affifted therein 
by Archbifhop Sccker. 
aifected to be alarmed at the progrefs of 
popery inthis kingdom, and echoed the 
puritanical complaint, that this was 
owing to the bifhops. He alfo publifhed 
an ociavo volume on the fudjeét, mm which 
he heaped up a number of anecdotes on 
the abfurdities and cruelties of the Ro- 
man Catholics. By a letter printed in 
the 2d vol. of the Montily Magazine, 
page 388, it appears that Mr. Black- 
burn obtamed his liberal principles, by 
perufing fome old books which had been 
the property of his great grandfather, (an 
eliverian juftice). 
It fhould feem, however, that if our 
archdeacon was a puritan on politics and 
church government, he was either an 
arian, or a focinian in religion. How 
Yuch a man could retain his dignity and 
preferment in a church, the conititution 
and principles ‘of which he diiapproved, 
reconcileably with con{cience and honour, 
TF cannot imagine. Let this, however, be 
as it may, the archdeacon undoubtedly 
was a man of parts, and it is, therefore, a 
pity that a memoir of him fhould be yet 
a défderatum. 
6. joHN ParkuyurstT, Divine. 
T¥ indufiry, learning, and piety, en- 
title 2 man to the refpect of poiterity, the 
name cf Mr. John Parkhurit ought to be 
recorded. Students, for years to come, 
will have realon to be gratetul to his me- 
mory for the help he has afforded them in 
Fiz eo! 
his Hebrew and Greex Lexicons. 
Anecdotes of Eminent Perfons. 
Mr. Blackburn 
[July 
He was educated at Cambridge, where 
he took his degree of M. A. His frft 
publication was a traét againit the reve- 
ries of John Weiley, and his laft a threwd 
reply to Dr. Prieftley on the pre-exiftence 
of Chriit. Mr. Parkhurit was connected 
with that very refpectable body of men, ~ 
known by the denomination of the 
Hutchinfonians. Bifhop Horne, and Mr. 
Wiliiam Jones were his intimate friends, 
and it is to be hoped that the latter gen- 
tleman, who has done fo much juftice to 
the venerable bifhop, will do a like fervice 
for his humble friend, the lexicographer. 
7. JAMES UPTON, Critic. 
Ir is furprifing that men ‘who have Ia- 
boured in refcuing the names and works 
of others from oblivion, fhould yet be 
futfered to pafs away without any fort of 
biographical record to atteit their private 
worth, and the value of their public la- 
bours.. The refpectable critic above- 
mentioned, is entitled to gratetul remem- 
brance for many very valuable performs 
ances. His firft publication was an edi- 
tion of ‘© Afcham’s Schelemafter,” en- 
riched with learned notes, and a curious 
appendix, im 8vo. 1711. At that time he 
was fettled at Taunton in Someri{efhire, 
and was alfo fellow of King’s College, 
Cambridge. He afterwards publifhed an 
excellent edition ot “* Epic7eius, in 2 vols. 
4to. 1735. ‘© Obferwations on Shak- 
Jpeare, in 1 vol. 8vo,”” and ‘* Speufer*s 
Fairie Queen, in 2 Vols. 4to.” 
JouN WarTxKIs. 

ANECDOTES OF EMINENT PERSONS. 
g & OF CHARLES 
BERNS WADSTROM, BY HELEN MA- 
RIA WILLIAMS. 
(From ihe Decade Philojophique.) 
UNRERTAKE with pleafure the 
i taik you have enjoined me of giving 
you a fketch of the life of our triend, 
Charles Berns Waditrom. It is foothing 
to recount the virtues of thofe from whom 
we are feparated by death; while thus 
employed, imagination, a few fhort mo- 
ment, renews for us their exiftence, and 
the heart cherifhes an illufion which it 
loves. : 
The tribute of regret for the lofs of 
this eftimable citizen, and of refpeét for 
his memory, ought not to be confined to 
the bofom of friendfhip. The man who 
devotes his life to the public fervice, has 
a claim to public regret; and perhaps no 
individual ever made more zealous efforts 
to promote the happinefs of his fellow 
creatures, to the emuire facrifice of all fel- 
fith views ; perhaps there never exifted a 
truer patriot in the moft enlarged defini- 
tion of the term ; perhaps no man ever de- 
ferved more of humanity than the perfon 
whofe death we lament. 
Charles Berns. Wadftrom was born at 
Stockholm, in the year 1746. Having 
finifhed his academical ftudies, he~ was 
employed in the quality of engineer in the 
fervice of his Swedifh majefty. From the 
knowledge he had acquired in mechanics, 
and mineralogy, the ftates of Sweden in 
1767, and 1768, confided to his care the 
direction of a part of the works which they 
were then erecting in order to render na- 
vigable the famous catara&t of Trol- 
haétta ; 


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