1803.] 
and ftored with anecdotes. There was no 
natrow-minded jealoufy in his nature to- 
wards others, who travelled with him in the 
fame road to affluence and fame; and he al- 
ways paid a liberal tribute to contemporary 
merit. His admiration of Handel was un- 
bounded 5 and, notwithftanding .all his pro- 
feifional employments, he brought forward 
a magnificent editionof the works of that un- 
rivalled compofer, liberally enriched with 
beautiful engravings. The Doétor has lefta 
widow, one fon, and two daughters. The 
fon has diftinguithed himfelf by talents in li- 
terature and painting. By the death of Dr. 
Arnold, there are two vacancies in the Cha- 
pel Royal, one in the office of organift, and 
the other in that of compofer, 
At his lodgings, in Norton-ftreet, aged 73, 
Mr. Samuel Paterfon, the well-known and 
juttly-celebrated auctioneer, whofe talent at 
cataloguizing was unrivalled; witnefs that 
famous colle€tion from the Continent, called 
Catalogus Univerfalis; that of Sir Julius Ce- 
far’s MSS. (which he refcued from deftruc- 
tion, after they had actually reached the 
cheefemonger’s fhop) ; the interefting Cata-. 
logues of the Libraries of Weft, Beauclerk, 
the Pinelli, Tyffen, &c. &c. after he had 
ceafed to exhibit from his own roftrum, in 
Effex-houfe, in Effex-ftreet, Strand, which 
gave place to a pulpit of a different complec- 
tion. He figured laft asan auctioneer inKing- 
treet, Covent Garden (where his own books 
are foon to be fold). He was not brought up 
to any profeffion; and before or foon after he 
came of age his guardian failed, and he loft his 
fortune. Marrying very young,and the love of 
reading leading him to deal in books, he opened 
a bookfeller’s hop in the Strand, where he 
publifhed ** A Differtation on the Original of 
the Equeftrian Figure of the George and of 
the Garter, by Dr, Pettingal, 1753,°" 4to. 
The bufinefs of a bookfeller not proving fuce 
cefsful, he entered upon Effex-houfe, and 
commenced general auctioneer ; and, amongft 
other articles, he here fold a valuable allot- 
ment of painted glafs, and a capital collec- 
tion of books, which he brought home after 
a tour through Holland and Flanders, He 
was alfo author of ** Coryat Junior, 1767,” 
in three volumes, 12mo. the refult of that 
tour; ‘* Joineriana; or, the Book of 
Scraps,”” two volumes, 12mo. ** The Tem- 
plar,” a weekly paper, publifhed by Brown, 
which was foon dropped; and ‘* Speculations 
on Law and Lawyers, applicable to the ma- 
nifeft_Hardthips, Uncertainties, and abufive 
Pra€tices of the Common Law, 1788,” 8vo. 
He was afterwards appointed librarian to the 
Marquis of Lanfdown. On November 25, 
1790, after an union of near forty-five years, 
he loft his wife, Hamilton, a grand-daughter 
of the noble houfes of Kennedy and Coch- 
ran, in North Britain, niece of the late Su- 
fannah, Countefs of Eglinton, coufin-german 
to the Earls of Caffilis and Eglinton, and in 
near confanguinity with feveral other of the 
Mr. Paterfon—Mr. Romney. 553 
moft noble families in Scotland. Few men 
of this country had more bibliographical 
knowledge; and perhaps we never had a 
bookfeller, who knew fo much of the con- 
tents of books generally ; and he was parti- 
culatrly well acquainted with our Englith 
poets. If, in his employment of taking ca- 
talogues, he met witha book he had not feen 
before, which excited his curiofity, or inte- 
refted’ his feelings, they muft be gratified, 
and his attendant might amufe himfelf as he 
chofe. The confequence was, that, on many 
occafions, catalogues could be procured only a 
few hours before the fale commenced. The 
immediate caufe of his death was a hurt in 
his leg, which happened from ftumbling in 
the dark over a fmall dog-kennel, abfurdly 
left by his landlady (as maid-fervants too 
eften leave pails) at the bottom of a ftaire 
cafe. The wound turned to a mortification, 
which fvon ended fatally. 
Lr. Romney.—A partial and unjuft charac- 
ter having appeared in the newfpapers of the 
late excellent painter, Mr. ttomney, I muft 
beg acorner in your obituary, for juftice to 
that excellent artift. I knew his merits, and 
as well I know his hiftory. He was the eld- 
eftof fix fons ; his father, a carpenter, of ex- 
tenfive bulinefs, ‘in that peninfula in the 
north of Lancafhire calied Furnefs. His fa- 
ther, a man of gerius, and excelient charac. 
ter, jntended him for his own bufineds, and 
he agtually worked at it till he was near fif- 
teen years of age. Before this time, he had 
betrayed a yenius for drawing : caricatures 
of odd neighbours appeared on the barn- 
doors, fo like in features and difpofition, as to 
afford laughter and wonderin the furrounding 
villages. This was not all his leifure amufe- 
ment—-the wild landfcape iflued from his 
chalk ; and, in foliage, he joined the tool 
with his pencil, and carved in a beautiful 
ftile the back of an excellent violin of his 
own making. Thefe effervefcences were ob- 
ferved by a gentleman of tafte in the neigh- 
bourhood, and, by his advice, he was put 
three years apprentice to an itinerant painter, 
then flourifhing away at Kendal. He accom- 
panied this genius to York, and was indefati- 
gable in copying every thing that he thought 
excellent; infomuch, that in lefs than twe 
years, he furpafled his mafter fo much, that 
his father purchafed out the reft of his time, 
and he returned to Kendal. Being now at 
liberty to indulge the exuberance of his own 
fancy, he let it run wild in hiftory, land~ 
{cape, portrait, humour, in all of which fpe- 
cimens are now remaining in that vicinity 
that would do no difcredit to the firft artifts ; 
for, in order totry the capital, thefe effulions, 
were difpofed of by lottery, and pieces from 
Triftram Shandy, King Lear, Drinking, and 
other pieces, are now collecting by cunnoil- 
feurs. Before he left Kendal, he painted the 
Death of General Wolfe, a recent and popu- 
lar fubjeét. With this he entered the capi« 
tal; but being afraid to enter the lift with 
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