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exception are a ftanding refutation of Doétor 
Johnfon’s remark, that ¢¢ no one ever loved 
the man who taught him Latin.” He was 
the avowed enemy of public fchools, and he 
confidered the ftate of the grammar fchools in 
this country as wretched and contemptible to 
the laft degree. Led to reflect deeply on the 
Zubjett, by being conftantly occupied with 
the labour of education, Mr. Morgan about 
two years ago, printed in one volume 12mo. 
the outline of a work on this interefting, and 
above all others, important concern. In its 
prefent ftate it was put into the hands of his 
pupils, but he meant to have matured it by 
many additional years of obfervation and ftudy, 
and judged it not yet proper for general pub- 
lication. It has two chareéteriftic excellen- 
cies, the one we recommend to the attention 
of the ftudent, the other to the tutor. It, 
both in manner and matter is calculated to 
roufe and produce thought, and to lead the 
mind to view the fubject of its contempla- 
tion on all fides, and in allits conneéiions. It is 
accompanied by a kind of chart of thought, in- 
tended to aflift in producing this effeG. ~ Its 
other excellence confifts in the recommen- 
‘€ation it contains toall tutors, to infpire their 
pupils with a love of letters by connecting 
with the unavoidable difficulties of application 
and labour, pleafing affociations. ‘The rules 
of conduct in this refpect are laid down ina 
‘manner truly philofophical, and bottomed on 
the beft theory of the human mind. Mr. 
“Morgan, and the celebrated Bufby, appear 
o have adopted directly oppofite fytems on 
the fubjeét of education. It is, however, 
no {mall proof of the folidity of Mr. Morgan’s 
‘udgment in this particular,that it is confirmed 
y the experience of a lady and a gentleman, 
who have lately favoured’ the public witha 
oint production, which will carry their names 
down to pofterit y as the ornaments and be- 
nefaCtors of the human race *. 
Thefe works which we fine moticed, are 
mot the only intereiting productions oe this 
extraordinary man. During the latter part 
of his refidence at Norwich, when his atten- 
tion was chiefy direéted to the purfuits of 
natural philofophy, he communicated in the 
year 3785, a very smportant paper to the 
Royal Society, containing ‘¢ Odjervations 
and Experiments onthe Light of Bodies in a State 
of Combuftion,’ > which were afterwards pub- 
djithed in the 7¢sth volume of the Phi lofophi- 
eal TranfaGtiogs. ae after the death 
of Dr. Price, he likewife began to write the 
Life of his uncle; but he found the work 
{well under his hands to an unexpected bulk, 
by Dr. Price’s connection with the principal 
perfons and events of the American revolution. 
Mr, Morgan: then determined to feparate the 
Life of his Uncle from the hiftory of the Ameri- 
ean Revolution, and as he had materials for 
both, to pubdlith themfeparately. Thefe two 

Edgw orth, Johnfon.” 
Account of the late Mr. George Cadogan Morgan. 
* 
, [Dee. 
elaborate works remain, but we fear in an unfi-. 
nifhed ftate, with his family. To exprefs a 
with that they may foon be completed and 
publifhed, isno more than what every friend 
of mankind muft feel; for all the feelings, 
the principles, the habits, the ftudies of Mr. 
Morgan, qualified him above all things to re- 
cord the events, and to develope the princi- 
ples of the American Revolution, and the Life 
of Dr. Price, and we have no doubt that he 
has done fo much towards the completion of 
thefe great works, as that they may fairly 
claim the public attention as his produéions.. 
In tracing the progrefs of the American re- 
volution, we have heard him fay, that he had 
difcoyered fuch neits of political corruption 
as no honeft man could contemplate without 
indignation and horror Indeed, no man more 
_eagerly hunted down the Paes of intrigue, 
or had a more cordial deteftation of corruption 
of every kind, under whatever mafk it ap- 
peared, than Mr. Morgan. Neither is it ime 
proper here to notice, what could not be un- 
neticed by any who knew him, that he was 
entirely free from any bias in favour of men 
poflefling power or riches; fo that he was 
fitted to record things as they actually hap- 
pened, unperverted by views of party, and 
uninfluenced by names, diftinétions, and what- 
ever betrays into error, weak, vulgar, or cor~- 
rupt minds. The man never exifted whe 
paid lefs regard to the conditions of men than 
Mr. Morgan , the principles and char aers alone 
of individuals, determined all his conduet, 
fixed all his friendfhips and averfions; an 
this ought to be recorded of him to his ever- 
lafting ae as a proof of greatne/s ef mind 
beyond, perhaps, any thing elfe that could 
be found even in his ewan character. 
His laft refidence was at Southgate, a vil- 
lage about ten miles from London, where, 
befides attending to his pupils, he purfued 
philofophica] enquiries with unabated ardour *. 
Many valuable papers remain with his family 
on chemical fubjeéts, on which he is known 
to have meditated a large work, and which 
he believed that he could have enriched with 
ae important difcoveries. He was a ftre- 
uous advocate for the opinions of Stahl, in 
écnoRCGR to the new fyftem of Lavoifier, and 
to the barbarous vocabulary which it has en- 
gendered. His lat thoughts were employed 
on the fubje& of phlogiftion, and he con- 
ceived himfelf able to demonftrate its exift- 
ence to the world ; at leaft as fatisfactorily as 
the extftence of heat or light , has hitherte 
been demonftrated. 
~ About Gx months before his death he was 
obferved to look ill, but none ‘of his friends 
dreaded the approach of a mortal difeafe. 
‘About the' middle of Odtober laft, however, 
he was feized with a rigor, naufea, and other 

“* The readers of the MontTury Mas 
GAZINE were indebted to him for the me- 
teorological journal which appeene in its 
furtt twelve nymbsrs. ais 
fymptoms 
