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was endeared to them by his fufferings, 
and his character was generally thought to 
have received a meliorating tinge of mild- 
nefs and moderation from the reflexions 
which had pafled through his mind. He 
formed exienfive plans tor future literary 
labours, and he feemed fully capable of 
enjoying and benefiting that world to which 
he was returned. 
man!—a fever, probably occafioned by 
his anxious exertions to fix himfelf in a 
new habitation, cut fhort all his profpects. 
From the firft attack he perfuaded himfelf 
that the termination would be fatal, and 
this conviction materially oppofed every 
attempt of medicine in his favour. He 
furveyed death without terror, and pre- 
pared for it by tender offices to the jur- 
ViIVOFS. 
Proceedings of Learned Societies, 
When—Oh what is’ 
[Odober 1, 
It is prefumed that the character of Mr. 
Wakefield is fufficiently developed in the 
preceding fketch of his lite. It may how- 
ever be added, that there was in him an 
opennels, a Gniplicity, a good faith, an af- 
feftionate ardour, a nobiles elevationot foul, 
which irrefiftibly made way to the hearts 
of all who nearly approached him, and 
rendered him the object of friendly at- 
tachment, to a degree almoit uncexampled. 
Let this be placed in balance to ali that 
might appear arrogant or feli-fufficient, © 
harfh, or irritable in his hterary conduct-? 
His talents were rare—his morals pure—= 
‘his views exalted—his courage invinci- 
ble—his integrity without a !pot. When 
will the place of fuch a man be fuppiied ! 
Stoke Newington, J. AikiIN, 
Sept. 18, 18016 
PROCEEDINGS OF LEARNED SOCIETIES, 
= ne 
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF 
FRANCE. 
HE Comte pe Livourne (fince 
King of Etruria) was prefent on 
the 1ft Meffidor (year 9) at the fitting 
of the Clafs of Mathematical and Phyfi- 
cal: Sciences of the Inftitute. He was ac- 
companied by Citizen CHapTaL, Minif- 
ter of the Interior, and a Member of the 
Clafs ; alfo, by the Chevalier Azara, 
the Spanith Minifter, and by two gentie- 
men of his fuite. He took his place 
among the Members of the Inftitute, clofe 
to the Prefident.. The choice and the va- 
riety of the readings rendered this fitting 
very interefting. 
Citizen HuzarpD gave an account of 
the prefent flate of “the flock of Ram- 
bouillet, and of the product of the laft 
thearing. 
Citizen CHAPTAL read a memoir on 
different procefies. recently employed in 
the bleaching of cloth. They appear 
to be equally important by their celerity, . 
their economy, and by the beauty of the 
refults. 
Citizen Cuvier read a memoir on 
the teeth of fifhes. He prefented fome 
curious faéts and important obfervations 
on this part of their organization; and 
detailed the motives which had obliged 
him to renounce the project of making 
ufe of them as a generical character, in 
the claffification of this great order of 
animals. 
Cit. LA Puace read a memoir on the 
refearches which have been hitherto made 
relative to the determination of the mo- 
tion of the moon, and on their refult. It 
was, doubtlefs, the province of the geo- 
meter who has fo much contributed ta 
perfect this important theory, to trace its 
hiftory. 
Citizen DoLomiev read a memoir on 
divers phenomena which accompanied the 
eruption of Mount Veluvius in the year 
2,-or which are the confequences of it. 
This naturalift produced feveral frag 
ments of iron utenfils, of copper, of lead, 
and of glafs, collected in the middle Br 
the lava, and which, in its ftate of fufion, 
it had altered or mineralized i in a very re- 
markable manner. 
- Citizen Sacz resd a memoir on feyeral 
new f{pecies of Lelezuites. 
Citizen LALANDE read a note on the 
precife determination of the longitude, 
and confequently the pofition, of the city > 
of Florence. 
Citizen Be RTHOLLET communicated 
‘a letter of the celebrated HERSCHEL, in 
which he intimates certain new opinions 
of his relative to the firuéture and the 
compofition of the folar globe. The In- 
ftitute feemed to think, like all the 
ether found European philofophers, that 
theobfervations of the learned Englifhman 
are more valuable than his hypothefes. 
The fitting was terminated by the , 
: reading of a memoir of Citizens Four- 
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