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pient capacity of children, he foon aregteres 
xhat the game at Taw requires as much appli- 
<ation of mind as would develope the firit 
‘books of Euclid; and that-a child, when pri- 
marily and gently initiated into Science, will 
acquire as great a fondnefs for geometrical 
diagrams, as for raifing dirt-pyes, or drawing 
Scotth-bops. A correct Englith fcholar, and 
amazingly exact in all the pun@ilios of pro 
fody, his language was generally fuch as be- 
came the dignity of the preceptor. He was 
andifputably one of the beft mathematicians 
in Yorkfhire ; and his mathematical perform- 
ances, in the different periodical publications, 
cannot be furpafied for elegance of f{cientific 
difpofition. He was too, as it may be hence 
fuppofed, a good natural philofopher, and 
nicely acquainted with every mathematical 
preperty of phyfics. Latin; Greek and 
‘French were in the ftore of his knowledge- 
attainments, yet attaching to them their /o/e 
merit, he often wondered how people (having 
only_acquired the mere vehicles of know- 
dedge) could come to ft down with the con- 
fequence of literati. Even as a writing-ma- 
fter his abilities were allowed to be beyond 
competition, and his penmanfhip was univer- 
dally efteemed of the firft-rate excellence, 
In fhort, fo various were his acquirements, 
and fuch was the verfality of his genius, that 
every thing feemed within the reach of his 
Capacity. His religious opinions were ftri@ly 
Chriftian, and we believe that he poflefied 
more primitive virtues, than many who are 
apt te reckon upon unerring fan@ity.* His 
morals were far from all de{picablenefs, and 
his general condu@ was fo amiable, fo tran- 
quilly peaceable and upright, that he obtained 
univerfal refpect; and, but for one departure 
from rectitude (as in the moft eminent men 
fome inconfiftencies appear), cenfure might 
ave held her peace:—In the warmth of 
youth, early becoming a follower of that 
Ignis-fatuus, commonly "known by the glitter- 
ing name of jocial intercsurfe, he tell a lament- 
able facrifice to its deceitful allurements. 
However, as we perceive feveral traits in the 
worthy charaéter before us beckoning for 
our admiration, it perhaps is our duty to 
throw a veil over cze-imperfeétion of fuch fre- 
quent contingence, and to regard it merely 
that we may avoid the vortex of its influence. 
It is certainly a weil-founded obfervation, 
TS 
* In the moft excruciating moments of his 
Jaft illnefs, not a murmur efcaped his lips, 
and {fo completely mafter was he of ftoical 
firmnefs, that only a few days before his 
death he fuftained the amputation of a tce, 
and a confiderable part of one of his feet. On 
the fame day, being tenderly interrogated 
how he felt himfelf—with a imile upon his 
countenance, he emphatically replied —*¢ Cer- 
tainly much better; inafmuch as J have loft 
a difeafed part of this worthlefs bocy; and. 
Government fhculd fend fuch as I am to 
fight the defperate French, men that could 
titerally bear cutting into inch-pieces.” 
Yorkfhire. 
753 
that where our defires prompt us the moft, 
there we are the Jeaft guarded 5 and fo it un- 
fortunately happens, that j in the fociety of our 
gay and light-hearted companions we think 
not of Hereeiee but abforbed in the ardent 
purfuit of immediate pleafure, our forefight 
and refleétion forfake us; and thus imper- 
ceptibly, time after seer are the admoni- 
tions of prudence thamefully vanquithed by 
the fottith § mis, 4 aos: of the friends and 
aflociates of our care-killing hours—till at laft 
completely unnerved, wé are left, defpoiled, 
and deftitute of every fober refolution. «*T 
only refort thither for the fake of company.’ 
Ah! curfed bait, which has charmed thou- 
fands of virtuous bhufbands and fathers into 
the oblivious pool which has ruined the hap- 
pinefs of fo many joyful families, and wrefled 
from innocent little ones their fufficiency of 
raiment and food! Ah banefulfource! from 
whence proceeded a difeafe that fapped the 
vigour of a robuft conftitution, and which 
{natched inglorioufly from the world and his 
friends this valuable man. 
W.H. Hurzs AcapEmyY. 
At Leeds, aged 76, Mr. Jofeph Leach; he 
was more than 20 years head mafter of the 
Free Grammar School at Keighly, and lately 
a private teacher of the learned languages at 
Leeds. 
Mr. Dunderdale, merchant, and one of 
the common-council of that place. Mr. 
Denton, liquor-merchant. Mr. Arnold, 
cloth-worker. Mifs Kitthingman. Mrs. 
Brooke, wife of Mr. Brooke, merchant. _ 
At Whitby, Mrs. Hunter, wife of Mr. C. 
Hunter, attorney. 
_ At Wakefield, aged 64, Mr. John Earn- 
fhaw. 
At Lofcoe Gratiae, the Rev. Mr. Holdf 
worth, vicarof Norminton, near Pontefract. 
At Scarborough, aged 79, Ed. Lodge, efq. 
fF Willow Hall, near Halifax. 
At Pontefract, Mr. Burton; he was killed 
by a fall from his horfe. Mrs. Baroclifte. 
Mr.’J. Simpfon, brandy-merchant. 
At Hull, Mr. Hallowell, ironmonger. 
At Doncafter, Mrs. Heaton, wife of H. 
Heaton, efq. Mr. Ainley, formerly of 
Cantley. 
At Swinton, 
Mr. M. Wilfon. 
At Richmond, aged 86, Mrs. Blackburne, 
reli€t of the tees Rev. F. Blackburne, arch- 
deacon of Cleveland. 
At Coniftone, near Hull, Mrs. Wright, 
wife of Mr. Wright, of Ganftead; the was 
accidentally fhot in the leg by her hufband, 
which occafioned her death m a few hours. 
At Cawood, at anadvanced age, Mr. James 
Weightman; he had been long eminent for 
his great skill and fuccefs in treating fractures 
and Wiadearions of the bones, 
At Melfonby, near Richmond, the Rey. 
S. Squire, jun. M. A. and Fellow of Univer- 
fity College, Oxford 5 
R. Squire, efy. of Cononley, in Crayen, 
near Rotherham, aged 93, 
At 
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