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fubject of the prefent memoir; and as we 
have taken a fhort review of his feveral 
works, as the mere produétions of a phi- 
lofophic writer, our readers naturally ex- 
pect that we fhall give -them fome hiats 
how far the fame: perfon poffefled the art 
of writing, which is, perhaps, of a greater 
Importance than any natural difcovery. 
We iclu&tantly fay to this, that Mr. Ci- 
rillo was extremely defective, with refpec&t 
to elegance and accuracy, in all his com- 
pofitions. His Latin ftyle is replete with 
obfcurities and redundancies; and his Ita- 
Jian, although not uiterly deficient in 
propriety and perfpicuity, is uncouth, 
harth, unharmonious and very often un- 
grammatical. In the bulk of his compofi- 
tions, the want of a methodical arrange- 
ment, and of an eafy tranfition, is vifible 
almoft in every chapter. Nor was he able 
to preferve himfelt from that peculiar fort 
of negligence, that laughable acciabbat- 
tare which is generally deteéted in the 
Neapolitan writers: 
we fhall indulge our readers with two fiz- 
nal inftances. I. In 1789, on writing a 
letter to the editor of the Civic Gazette,. 
in Naples, relative to a method then dif- 
covered for reftoring drowned perfons to 
life, he faid that this had been practifed 
in the province of Quipufcoa, in Amerita.— 
Not ene informed perfon, in the Catholic 
countries, can be unacquainted with the 
name cf the above mentioned Spauaifh pro- 
vince, fo famous forhaving been the birth, 
place of S. Ignatius Loyola! IL. In 
one of his meditaziont, already noticed, 
meaning to imitate the fuperb imagery of 
Young, by which the Night is made to 
fit on an ebon throne, he uttered the enor- 
mous blunder—Ofcura eburnea notte ; evi- 
dently confounding, in one poetical word, 
the ebony and the ivory. 
Having already completed his fcientific 
career, and being aétually in an advanced 
period of life, happy would it have been 
for this ref{pectable man, if he had left the 
world with that tranquillity of mind and 
thofe comforts of life which fortune had 
Javifhed upon him. He was deomed to 
live two years too long—to fall a victim to 
that pernicious philofophy which has in- 
fii&ed fo many incurable wounds on 
Europe, and on mankind itfelf! It is 
known how he had the weaknefs to fide 
with the French, in their aggreffion on 
Naples; how he condefcended to fill an 
important place during their ufurpation ; 
and how he was afterwards executed, at 
the reftoration of the lawful government, 
towards the latter end of the year 1799, 
about the 7oth year of hisage. Unfortu- 
nate man, and deferving of a better fate! 
i 
Some Account of Dr. Garnett. 
Of this laf defect 
[ Aug. T> 
He will be fincerely reoretted by his nu 
merous friends, ana by all his countrymeny 
as long as they fhall have a fenfe of refpect . 
for talents and virtue; whilf, on the — 
other hand, they. will lament that he was 
guilty of that unjuftifiable error, the con= 
fequence of which was the lofs of his life. 
Juitice will be done to his heart: but 
his calamitous end will alfo be a new 
proof that the clafies of literary men are 
not competent to give a knowledge of the 
world, and of the complicated maze of 
the human paffions; and that philofophi- 
cal focteties, anatomical theatres, and bo- 
tamic gardens, very feldom are f{ehools for 
ftate{men and patriots | 
Dominic Cisiilo was of a middle fize, 
ftout and well-proportioned, and of a gentle 
and philanthropic mien. In.converfation; 
no one perhaps better than he ever un- 
derftood how to be polite without mean- 
nefs, free without offence, and fecret with- 
out myftery. He was remarkably neat 
and elegant in his drefs, in his furniture, 
in his library, and in his {mall botanic 
garden. His morals were excellent, efpe- 
cially towards his friends; and even 
during the fhort reign of that mimic and 
ridiculous eftablifhmént which, in tie 
Gipfy jargon of Jacobias was called the 
Parthenopean Republic, he was faid to have_ 
difplayed many important examples of 
public virtue. 
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Some ACCOUNT of the late DRa GARNETT 
6¢ The life of a fcholar feldom abounds with 
adventure: his fame is acquired in folitude : 
and the hiftorian, who only views him 
at a diftance, muft be content with a 
dry detail of actions ty which he is fcareely 
diftinguithed from the reft of mankind ; 
but we are fond of talking of thofe who 
have given us pleafure ; not that we have 
any thing important to fay, but becaufe 
the fubject is pleafing.” a= 
HE occurrences of Dr. Garnett’s life 
not being ftrongly marked with vicif- 
fitude, a fketch of it muft neceflarily be 
fhort. He was born ina village in Wett- 
moreland, and like moft men who have he* 
come eminent by their talents, he fprarg 
from the middle clafs of fociety. His fa- 
ther is the proprietor and cultivator of a 
{mall eftate near Kirkby-Lonfdale. Prompt- 
ed by his fon’s evident fuperiority over 
his little playmates, he refolved to {pare 
no expence in his education, and accord- 
ingly when he had pafled the ufual time. 
at a country grammar-fchool, he was 
placed under the care of Mr.- Dawfon, 
of Sedberg, in Yorkfhire, a gentleman of 
well-known mathematical abilities. Four 
uit = 
