1803.] 
during this arduous contention, and the 
probability of a fudden, reverfe in his 
fortune,. preyed fo ftrongly on his mind, 
that he was feized with_a delirious fever, 
which, in the courfe of two days, terminated 
his exiftence —There are few co be found, 
either in public or private life, whofe cha- 
rater and manners deferve our notice and 
admiration more than thofe of this worthy 
man. From tle whole, however, we have 
fo report, that, in his profefiun, Mr. Ran- 
dall was confidered as having attained toa 
profound knotvledge of the theoretic part, as 
well by a diligent ftudy of the higher 
branches of the mathematics, as by a tho- 
rough acquaintance with all the works of 
fcience publifhed on the fubjeét of his art, 
either in the Englith or foreign languages ; 
and that he had even proceeded farin a work 
on the fubje& of navigation, which, if com- 
pleted, would have ‘been of eminent utility 
to his country. Mr. Randall was not only 
uniformly fteady and attive in affairs of bu- 
finefs, but his mind was fenfibly awake to 
the refinements of tafte and literature. His 
early*education had rendered him an elegant 
{cholar; and he had his favourite authors, 
Horace and Cicero, almoft by heart. By 
Nature difpofed to focial intercourfe, his ac- 
quaintance was numerous; his friendthips 
were few and refpeétable. His private cha- 
rities were extenfive and well-direéted.— 
Promptitude to aflitt was the prevailing fea- 
ture of his difpofition ; and the influence of 
his benevolent temper, in the circle of his 
intimate family-relations, made life appear 
a fcene of ‘tonftant interchange of good 
offices. } 
[ Further particulars relative to the late Rev. 
C. Wildbore, of Broughton Sulneyy Nottingham- 
frire, whofe death was announced in our laft Num- 
Provineial Occurrences: 555 
ber—This gentleman, though an eminent 
mathematician and philofopher, did not fa- 
vour the warld with any feparate publication 
bearing his own name; but he poured much 
light upon the regions of fcience, through the 
medium of thofe periodical publications 
which aré chiefly devoted to mathematical 
refearches. He contributed a number of va- 
luable articles to Martin’s Mifcellaneous 
Correfpondence, between the years 1755 and 
1763, particularly an excellent paper, in 
which he made it his bufinefs to prove that 
the moon’s orbit was always concave, with res 
fpe& tothe fun. He began his contributions 
to the Gentleman’s Diary in the year 1759, 
when that performance was conducted by Mr. 
T. Peat. Inthe fame year, he commenced 
his communications to the Ladies Diary, 
which was edited by Profeffor Simpfon, of 
Woolwich. In.the years 1773 and 17-4, he 
carried on a fpirited but amicable controverfy 
in’ Dr. Hutton’s Mifcellanea Mathematica, 
with Mr. John Dawfon, of Sedbergh, a gen- 
tleman well-known at Cambridge, and who 
jaftly boafts of the number of his pupils who 
have been fenior-wranglers of that Univerfi- 
ty. The fubje of this controverfy was ‘* the 
Velocity of Water iffluing from a Vefiel 
when put in Motion.” In the year 1780, 
Mr, Wildbore’s friend, Dr. Hutton, procured 
for him the editorfhip of the Gentleman's Di- 
ary, an honour which he had long withed to 
attain, and he was highly gratified by the 
circumitance. From that period, his valu- 
able communications to the faid publication 
always appeared under the character of Eu- 
menes, and thofe in the Ladies Diary under 
that of Amicus. The prize-queftion in this 
laft Diary for 1803, is by Mr. Wildbore, and 
is a very curious asd intricate queftion in the 
Diophantine Algebra. ] 
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