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world at the early age of 23, and a few days 
fubfequent to the birth of her firft child. 
At the fame place, Mr. Thomas Pike, bro- 
ther to the lady juft mentioned, and for- 
merly mafter of the fhip North Briton, of 
Poole. Great goodnefs of heart, united to 
many perfonal and mental accomplifhments, 
had juftly endeared him to an extenfive circle 
of friends in this country, and his departure 
from the world, in the meridian of lite, has 
Jeft on their minds an impreffion of deep and 
lafting regret. 
Lately, at New York, of that-horrible 
fcourge of humanity, the yellow fever, Dr. 
E. H. Smith, a moft refpectable pnyfician of 
that city, one of the editors ef the Medical 
A ate and the intelligent writer of the 
biographical articles which have lately ap- 
peared in the Monthly Magazine. We un- 
derftand this excellent man was cut off from 
a life of great ufefulnefs and a&tivity, by the 
following melancholy circumftance: An Ita- 
lian phyfician, whofe name we have not 
Jearnt, had made a veyage from Italy to 
America, undera notion that it mightbe in 
his power to ftop the ravages of the yellow 
Sever, if itagain made its appearance in Ame- 
rica. Soon after his arrival in New York, 
the difeafe began to thew itfelf in Philadel- 
phia, to which ci:y he inftantly direfted his 
courfe, and having made a great variety of 
unfuccefsful experiments, he returnrd in de- 
{pair to New York. Scarcely had he arrived, 
before fymptoms of the diforder began to 
make its appearance on his own perfon, and 
his friend, Dr. Smith, generoufly refolving 
to attend him during his illnefs, caught the 
difeafe of him alfo, and both the friends 
perifhed fhortly after, the victims of their 
humanity! We intreatfome of our American 
readers to enable us to pay a juft tribute of 
sefpect to the virtues ef both thefe gentle- 
men, aswell as to thofe of feveral other 
eminent characters, who have been carried 
off by the fame unfparing difeafe. 
In the courfe of laf year, in the ci- 
devant Poland, the meoft laborious Atera- 
teur in Europe, the poetical hiftorian Naru/- 
cewicx, ex-jefuit, appointed hiftoriographer by 
the king of Poland, of all the traniaétions' 
relating to the firft divifion of Poland; this 
work, however, hag never appeared. He 
-publithed in the Polish language, ‘* The Hif- 
tory of ibe Polif> Nation,” in fix volumes, 
parts of which have been tranflated into other 
languages; he has alfo left 360 volumes in 
mnanufcript, which he had compofed, or 
caufed to be compofed, by the order and at 
the expence of the king. Staniflaus had load- 
ed him with honours and favours. 
At Vienna, May 16, of a violent cholic, 
which fpeedily terminated in an inflammation 
of the bowel the Abbé Jofeph Hiiariuse 
aulic counfellor of fate, dire€tor of the. 
Deaths Abroad. eve. Yaa. 
_racter. 
DNov. 
Imperial cabinet of coins, and profeffor of 
antiquities and numifmatics in the Im- 
perial univerfity at Vienna. He was born 
on the 13th of january, 1737, at Enzesfeld, 
in Lower Auftria, where his father had the 
Management of the eftate of Count Siezen- 
dorf. He was early diftinguihed by his ap- 
plication to claffical ftudies, and moral cha- 
On the 17th of Oétober, 1751, he 
entered into the order of the jefuits, at Vi- 
enna. He then purfued his ftudy of the claf- © 
fics at Leoben, in Steyermark; and after- 
wards of philofophy, mathematics, Greek, 
and Hebrew, at Gretz. After he had taught 
the elements of the Latin language for atime | 
to the young nopility in the Imperial The- 
refian Academy at Vienna, and poetry and 
eloquence at Steyer, in Upper Auftria, he 
applied himfelf to the ftudy of theology. 
Having finifhed his laft probationary year at 
Judenburg, he taught grammar and rhetori¢ 
for four years in the univerfity of Vienna: 
but the weak {tate of his health obliged him 
to give up this office, and he was appointed 
prefecius rei numaria, in the college at Vien- 
na. That he might render himfelf perfect in 
the knowledge of coins, he was fent by the 
order to Rome, where he remained a twelve-. 
month. On his return he arranged the cabinet 
of coins at the court of Florence. The 2d of 
February, 1770, he renounced the vows of’ 
his order. When the order of jefuits was 
diflolved, he was appointed, by a decree of 
the court, profeifor, and afterwards director 
of the imperial cabinet of ancient coins. He 
was likewife dean of philofophy and the fine 
arts. The office of teacher of -numifmatics 
he held for four and twenty years. He pot- 
fefied a thorough knowledge both of ancient 
and modern languages, hiftery, and every 
thing that could promote the chief object of 
his ftudy. As teacher of poetry, he tormed 
many excellent {cholars, among whom the 
late John Baptift von Alxinger was diftin- 
guifhed, with whom he maintained a clofe 
intimacy till his death. Ali Europe has de- 
cided refpe€ting the extenfive knowledge of 
Eckhel in numilmatics. He had one of the 
cleareft heads in the Auftrian dominions, was 
aman of probity and irreproachable morals, 
a cheerful and pleafant companion, beloved 
and defervedly efteemed in every focial cir- 
cle. He died from home, at the houfe of a 
literary friend, the worthy Baron Locella, 
with whom he had been intimate many years, 
On account of their mutual love of claffical 
literature ; and whom he was accuftomed to 
vilit almoit every evening. His worthy and 
efteemed friend, the Abbé Michael Denis, 
aulic counfellor, and firft keeper of the Im- 
perial library at Vienna, has dedicated a 
monumental inicription to hismemory:; 
