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ture. During feveral fucceffive years he tools 
@ part, as editor, in the Journal of Agricul- 
ture, as well as the Gazette of Agriculture, 
Commerce, and Finances. He cultivated 
letters with honour: but his death is princi- 
pally to be regretted by youth, whofe triend 
he eminently proved himfelf. De Grace was 
of Irifh extraétion, and the fon of a captain 
in Clare’s regiment, ia which he himfelt. alfo 
feryed for fome time. But, the military 
profeflion having no charms for him, he re- 
nounced it, with the view of addifting him- 
feif tu literary purfuits and to the initruction 
of youth, of whom he was remarkably fond, 
ai" 
During a period of fifty years, and until the 
jait moment of ‘his life, his atténtion was de- 
voted to their interefts: we need not there- 
fore be furprifed that, on his death-bed, he 
was furrounded by his pupils, and that the 
affectionate hand of youth clofed the eyes of 
the venerable fenior. Fréret, of the Aca- 
demy of Infcriptions and Belles Letters, had 
procured for him) the office of fectetary to 
that. fociety ; which pof he filled during 
forty-four years, and of which he was dif- 
pollefied by the revolution, at the moment 
when the academy had juit granted him per- 
miflion to retire gna penfion. Never was the 
eale of -retirement better earned: but he wag 
Not allowed to enjoy it.. One of his princi- 
pal works was an edition, in eight quarto 
volumes, of a Univerfal Hiftory, onthe plan 
of Putiendorf, containing the ancient and mo- 
dern hiftory of each country and nation, and 
coming down to the year r750.. While De 
Grace merited the public efteem by the utili- 
ty of his labors, he alfo had*claims to vene- 
ration for his private virtues, and for the fer- 
titude which he difplayed under the preffure 
of adverfity : for the revolutionary ftorm in- 
volved him in misfortunes, under which he 
muft have funk, had he not been-aided by 
the afliftance of friendihip, the gratitude of 
fome.of his former pupils, and the benevo- 
Jence of Bénézech and, Francois_of Neuf- 
chateau. Thefe latter procyred for him, 
during the laft two years of his life, the pay-+ 
ment of his penfion as royal- cenfor; an 
office of which he had long performed the 
functions. He died on the 28th of Decem- 
ber, 1798. 
Kastwer.—The celebrated Kaftner, the 
Patriarch of European Mathematicians, late- 
ly died at Gottingen, in the eightieth year of 
his age. He is one of thofe who have the 
moft materially contributed to introduce a 
found method into the ftudy of the mathe- 
matics. His epigrams are repeated through 
all Germany.. A tew months antecedent to 
his death, he was afflicted with a paralytic 
ftroke in his right hand: but fo aifiduous 
and indefatigable was he in the profecution 
of his ftudies, that he began to write with 
his left. . Previous to the misfartune above 
related, he had finifhed the fourth volume 
of his ¢xcellent Hiftory of the Mathematics, 
yuich my be confideced as a defcriptive: 
Deaths Abroad: 
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catalogue of his own library :. for he poffeffed 
a precious collection of alt the meft rare and 
valuable works in the mathematical depart. 
ment. His mode of life was fomewhat fin- 
gular. During the latter years of his lite, 
he never, went, abroad except on Sundays, 
when he regularly attended, the fermons at 
his parifh-cfurch, and on the days when.the 
Royal, Literary Society of Gottingen held 
their fittings. Kaltner occupied the chair of- 
Ordinary Profeifior of Mathematics and Natus 
ral Pholofophy in the University of Gottin. 
gen fince the year 1756. The catalogue of his 
different works fills above nine pages in the 
laf edition of Meufel’s German Literature. 
Among the number are the tranflations of 
feveral important woiks from the French, 
the Englith, and the Low-Dutch Several 
interefting differtations, fome printed {e- 
parately, others inferted in various periodical 
publications, He compefed many euloegies, 
among others thofe of Leibnitz, of T. Mayer, 
of J. G. Roéderer, of J. P. Murray, of 
J.C. P. Erxleben, and-of Meifter. From 
his pea we have feveral elementary works on 
different branches of the mathematics, 
which have all met with very great fuccefs. 
His Elements of Arithmetic, of Plane and 
Spheric Trigonometry, and of Perfpettive, 
have pafled through five editions between 
the years 1758 and 1794,-—His portrait ftands 
in front of the feventeenth volume of the 
‘* Bibliothégue Germanique Univerfelle” publithed 
at Berlin, and at the headof the firt volume 
of his ownmifcellaneous works. 
On the 6th of O&ober ultimo, atSpieght’s- 
Town, Barbadoes, aged 23, Mr. Jofeph Wil- 
liams Malpas, a native of Stony Stratford, 
Bucks, and latterly refident in the ifland of 
Grenada. 
On the 26th of O&ober laf, at Marti+ 
nico, Richard Mafter efq. who was Governor 
of Tobago. 
At Kington, Jamaica, aged 61, J. Foot 
efq. fenior captain in the Jamaica Trade, 
having performed forty-four voyages to that 
Ifland ! eis) 4 
- At New York, of a malignant fever, Sept. 
25, Mr. James Lewis, merchant—1nd on the 
27th, his nephew, Mr. Thomas Cooper, mer- 
chant, aged 21, Although this difeafe. was 
fo fatal as to cut off two: of the fame family 
and conneftion, yet it appears that, previous 
to their death, not more than tifty perfons had. 
died of any fever in the fame place, which 
contains a population of fifty thoufand fouls. + 
On the rith of Auguft, at Charieftown, 
South Carolina, of the YellowFever, after only 
four days illnefs, Mr. Robert Urquhart a na-- 
tive of Cadboll, in Rofsfhire, North Britain, 
he was a promifing young many; and carried 
off in his prime, . 
- On the r3ta of July died at Paris the ma- 
thematician, Lor. Viafcheroniy who had come 
to that city as deputy from the Cifalpine Re- 
public to affift at the deliberations of the Com- 
buittee appointed to fettle the new weights 
and 
