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phyficians and the apothecaries. “Phey. 
pften fued one another in’ the courts of 
law, on account of their profeffional quar- 
rels. Patin, hearing that an apothecary 
of the name of Mozé had fpoken refpeét- 
- fuily of his character, expreffed great fur- 
prize to hear fo.much as that he had a 
friend in that craft; ‘* For,’’ faid he, “ I 
have done nothing to deferve their good 
will. I never prefcribed bezoar nor cordial 
waters, mithridate nor theriaca, nor-con- 
fe&tion of hyacinth, nor alkermes, nor 
viper-powder’, noremetic-wine, nor pearls; 
nor ‘precious ftones, and fuch like Ara- 
bian fooleries. ‘The medicines I prefcribe 
are neither rare nor dear.” 
. DUQUESNE. 
The following taét'is but imperfeSty 
known to the generality of Englifi readers. 
AbrahamDuquelne, one of the moft famous 
feamen of France, who was born in Nor- 
mandy, in the year 1610,- and died in 
Paris in 1688, with the title of general of 
the naval armies of France, and even with 
the rank of Marquis, was not, however, 
rewarded for his ufeful and glorious fer- 
vices as he ought to have been, on account 
of bis being a@ Protefiant. His anfwer to 
Louis XIV. who was one day touching 
him on this point with a fort of haughty 
‘gral addreffe, deferves to. be remembered : 
Memoirs of the late Rev. Mr. Fofeph Robertfon 
There were conftant wars between the 
133 
—** Sire, when T fought for your Majeity, 
I did not confider whether your religion 
was different from mine.” The fon of 
Duguefne being forced into exile, after 
the revocatian of the edict ot Nantes, re- 
tired into Switzerland, where he purchatfed 
of Tavernier, the traveller, the eftate of . 
Aubonne, whither he conveyed the body 
of his father, which he‘bad been obliged 
toi bury fecretly, and engraved on his 
tomb-ftone the following remarkable in- 
fcription :—-“ La Hollande a fait erizer un 
maufolée a De Ruyter, et la France a re- 
Sufé un peu de terre a fon vainqueur.”— 
‘¢ Holland has ereCted a maufoleum to De 
Ruyter, and France refufes a little earth 
to his conqueror.”” Thus Duquelne, who 
had ferved his country with fo much zeal 
and glory, was expatriated, and ina 
manner exiled, after his death. The in- 
fcription which has covered his afhes for 
now mere than a century, according toa 
modern hiftorian, is yet in. exiftence. 
Ought. not the prefent French. Govern- 
ment, anxious to efface the fhamefui in- 
gratitude of former times, to reciaim his 
athes of the Swifs, who have fo long given 
them an hofpitable afylum, to conftru& 
a monument worthy of Duquefne and of 
France, and to render them the fame ho- 
pours as have been lately paid to the alhes 
of Turenne? 
MEMOIRS OF EMINENT PERSONS, 
~— a ee 
A TRIBUTE to the MEMORY of the late 
REV. MR. JOSEPH ROBERTSON, dy 
MR. DAMIANI. Ge a 
OSEPH ROBERTSON was born at 
Knipe, in Wefimorland, on the 28th 
day of Auguft, 1726: his father was an 
_ eminent malfter, and his mother the only 
daughter of Mr. Edward Stevenfon, of the 
fame piace. 
turies paft, had poffeffed a confiderable 
eftate and a competent degree of refpecta- 
bility inthat county. Ata proper age, 
he was fent to the free-{chool at Appleby, 
under the tuition of Mr. Richard Yates, 
a man of djftinguifhed abilities in his pro- 
feffion. Having received the firf rudi- 
ments .of learning there, in 1746 he re.. 
moved to Queen’s college, Oxford, where 
he foon acquired a confiderable reputation 
for ingenuity and learning. After taking 
his degrees in arts in the Univerfity, about 
the year 1752, he took orders, and was 
almoft immediately, appointed a curate to 
es, at Rayleigh, in Effex, In 
His anceftors, for many cen- | 
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1758 he was promoted to the vicarage of 
Herriard, in Hamopfhire; and in the fame 
year he married Mils Rackes, the daugh-- 
ter of Mr. ‘Timothy: Rackes, a refpeGtable — 
apothecary,an. London. 
Although Mr. Robertfon’s literary las 
bours are Herculean, it is a matter of re- 
gret to his friends and to the republic 
of letters at large, that, on his firtt. en- 
trance into the field of learning, he did 
not give a proper direction to his genius ; 
and that, from an unaccountable modeity, 
or perhaps from indifference, he never 
conceived the idea of oné capital work, in 
which his powers might be difplayed to 
the beft advantage, and the whole trea- 
fure of his knowledge might appear un- 
impaired and colleGted. Owing to this 
unfavourable circumftance, he was docm~ 
ed to be the author of ‘numberlefs fmall 
publications, which, though very remark- 
able for ingenuity and utility, and be- 
{peaking a man of firft-rate abilities, do 
not command an immediate attenticn from | 
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