r800.} 
Jo the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR 
ITH thanks to your correfpond- 
ents M. H. and W. K. for their 
communications of fome additienal in- ~ 
{tances of great longevity, I beg leave to 
obferve, that I wa's well aware the lift fent 
you did not comprehend all the accounts 
of the kind that are recorded ; it might 
eafily have been enlarged, but it appeared 
fufficiently extenfive to fhew, that inftances 
of this nature have been much more nu- 
merous than is generally fuppofed. 
Mr. James Eafton’s publication en 
* Human Longevity,’ though far froma 
complete collection of accounts of this 
kind, is faid to contain the names of 1712 
perfons who lived to the age of one hun- 
dred years and upwards. There are, 
however, in this volume, inaccuracies which 
fhould not have appeared in a compilation 
of which the principal part is little more 
than a mere catalogue. The following 
were obferved on a very flight perufal 
of it: 
John Newell, Efg. page 59, is recorded 
again as John Michaelitone, p. 75: it 
fhould be J. Newel of Michaeliftown, 
Catherine Brebner, inferted twice, p. 63 
and 65. 
Mr. Hill of Banbury, inferted twice, 
_ Pp. 67 and 75. 
Memoirs of the late Due de Biron. 
43, 
Solomon Emmanuel, p. 91; the fame 
perfon as Solomon Emanuel, p. 124. 
John King of Noke, Cambridgehhire, 
P- 91, inferted again p. 1023 and was 
probably the fame perfon recorded as 
Thomas King of Noke, Oxfordfhire, 
ar gy . 
Robert Ogleby, p. 110, feems to have 
been the Robert Oglebie noticed p. 67. 
Mr. Price and his wife, of. Ledbury, 
Herts, after being recorded, p. 101, \as 
having died within a few months of each 
other, in 1767, are inferted again, p. 1205 
as {two years older and haying’ both died 
in 1770. 
Mrs. Carman of Fethard, in Ireland, 
inferted twice, p- 120, and p. 134. 
Margaret M’Kay of Ribigil, near Thir- 
fo, p. 125, and Marearet Mackey of Ribi- 
gill, in Scotland; p.131, the fame perfon. 
Mr. Cordelon, p. 128, and James Cor- 
delen, p. 141, feem to have been the fame 
perfon. 
Shelagh M’Alefter of Londonderry p, 
340, inferted again, p. 147, 
Mary Pritchard, p. 188, and Jane - 
piesa P- 195, probably the fame per- _ 
on. 
-Mrs. M’Carthy, p. 210, and Margaret 
M’Carthy, p. 230, probably the fame 
perfon. Fee Gee 
Faun. 8. 1800. 

ANECDOTES OF EMINENT PERSONS. 
MEMOIRS OF THE LATE DUCDE 
BIRON. 
T)ERHAPS in the pages of biogra- 
phy there never has yet appeared a 
more romantic or amiable character than 
that which was exhibited by this unfortu- 
mate nobleman. Born to the poffeffion of 
illuftrious rank, and educated in the moft 
polifhed court of Europe; the idol of its 
women, theexample for its men ; it is not: 
fingular that his mind fhould have been 
ftrongly tinétured with a tafte for chivalry. 
Early in life the Duc de Biron conceived 
a marked predilection in favour of the Eng- 
lifh nation ; every fubordinate fenfation, 
originating in feif-love, or ¢pringing from 
. the contracted fource of national prejudice, 
was beneath the dignity and ingenuout- 
nes of his mind. He was anobferver of na- 
ture; he traced the progre(s of her influence 
_on the human heart, and he difcovered, 
that its expanfion is always proportionate 
to the liberty it poffeffes of exercifing its 
nobleit energies. France was then in a 
Rate of degrading fubjection; England was 
the favoured feat of freedom. ‘The Duke, 
being, at that period, lefs affluent than 
noble, lefs economical than generous, 
about five-and-twenty years ago eftablith- 
ed his refidence in this country. 
He chofe his abode in St. Alban’s-ftreet, 
Pall-mall; where he very {fpeedily adopted 
both private manners and public opi- 
nions completely Englith. He confe- 
quently enlarged the {cale of his acquaint- 
ance, and became fo popular, that his fo- 
ciety was courted, not only in the moft 11- 
luftrious, but in the moft enlightened cir- 
cles. 
This nobleman then bore the title of 
Dukede Lauzun. His perfon was man- 
ly and prepoffeffing; his countenance 
pleafing and benignant; his converfation 
lively, interefting, and well informed ; 
‘and his temper fo irrefiftibly fafcinating, 
that he feldom was known to lofe the af- 
fections of thofe with whom he had once 
lived on terms of fociability. 
Lauzun was an admirer of literature and 
the fine arts ; he wrote with elegance and 
F2 fecling 
