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admitted the great ‘upe ioriy of his miad, 
dwelt on He violence of his temper, he 
eoarene's of his manners, and the over. 
Bearing dz orial tone which he fre. 
quentiy affimed, when oppofed on a fa- 
vourite pon’, efpecially if the party was 
not diftingu.fhed by rank or opuience, 
- and hai litle pre enfions to literary fame. 
Our author, who, as.we have feen, had 
ateack-d him with firit and fome degree 
ef feverity, while living, knew well his 
worth, and touched his charaéter with a 
Tenient hand, when dead. ‘Fhough, on 
many important points, he and Dr. Tow- 
ers widely differed, the latter has, in this 
work, without any acrimony, done him 
ample juftice: with great judgment he 
has br uzht togetier the molt charaSter- 
Htic traits in his difpofition, habits, and 
manners, from the publications of Bof- 
well, Hawkins, Pizzi, and others; and 
Eas-exnibited te the reader au exact and 
frikne portrait of the man; making 
the leatt exceptionable part of :he features 
the moft prominent and con!picuous.— 
‘Fhis pamphiet came out w:'hout our au- 
‘ thor’s name ; but it befpoke the hand of 
a matter, and was a'tribuied to different 
perfons: for a confiderable time it was 
not known even to Doctor s cou- 
“fidential friends, tha: he was the writer; 
mor did he difcover it, unt!) being preffed 
. e-mpany, he acknowledged it to be nis 
» production. 
TH this year, aifo, Dr. Towers publithed 
2 tranflation from the French, ef ‘* Two 
Di courfes, by Baron Hertfberg, deliver- 
ed at Pubic Meetings of the Roy: al Aca. 
demy of Sciences and Bells Lettres at 
Berlin, in the Years 1785 and 1786, on 
the Population of States in general, and 
that of the Pruffian Dominions in parti- 
eular 5’ and © On the true Riches of 
States and Nations, the Balance of Com- 
merce, and that of Power.’? We have 
had no opportunity ot referriag to the 
original, and therefore cannot fay how 
far this teteiiation has the merit of pre- 
ferving the fenfe and {pirit of the author ; 
but the work appears to advantage in an 
Englith dre!s. 
We do not find that our author tious 
out any literary work wih his name, or 
which he acknowledged, during the year 
4787. On the tourth volume of the Bzo- 
grapiia he was itill at work; and we are 
well periuaded he, about this time, was 
alfo employed in affiiing fome of his 
friends, to enable them to appear before 
the public as authors to greater advan- 
my 
zowers 
Memoir of the late Dr. Fofeph Towers. 
pointing out his fingularities, Mary who - 
{ Jan. ¥, 
tage. He alfo wrote fome light pieces, 
‘that were anonymoully pobiithed, which 
he thought might tuit the general tafte, 
but which he did pot chufe publicly te 
acknowledge, alt rough they could not on 
any account have g ven offence, or been 
injurious to his reputation. 
Oo the 4th of November, 1788, being 
the completion of a century from the Re- 
volution, it was celebrated by numerous 
refpectable friends of civil and religious 
liberty, who aflembled for the commemo- 
ration of that greateveat at the London 
Tavern, Bithop{zate. ftreet. The Com- 
mittee chat conducted the en‘ertainment, 
ein aware hoth of his zeal and his 
talents, applied to Di. Towers to prepare 
an oration uvon the occafon. He was 
no way backwiid in complying w.ta this 
requet : pe) ly he wrote, and with 
much animation delivered, what might 
be called a civic fermon, witich was ie 
tened to with great attention. It con- 
tained a rly “methodical, and {pirned 
outline of the varicus events which led 
to the calling in aid fixing King William 
on the throne, and a juit eulogium on 
thofe great mea who planned the under- - 
taxing, and whole exertions in fo good a 
caute were crowned with comolete fuc- 
ceils. At the initance of tne ftewar/s, and 
a greit pact of the audience, this oration 
was foon after publithed. 
Iu the courfe of the fame year, the 
Doctor aifo produced a very excellent 
tranflation of ** An Hiftorical Memoir of 
the Firft Year of the Reign of Frederick 
William If. King of Pruffia,” read in 
U7 SF by the Nobleman who delivered 
the two former difcourles, at amiceting of 
the fame Academy. 
About the fame time, alfo, he publifh- 
ed, in two volumes octavo, * Memoirs of 
the Lie and Reign of Frederick the 
hird, King of Prutla 5° “a fecond 
edition of which has been nearly, if not 
wholly, diipoied of. In compofing this 
werk, the Doctor was certainly employed 
ina line well fuited to his tatte and ge- 
nius, andin which he eminently excelled. 
Ii is no way inferior to any of his biogra. 
phical produétions, as it contams a {pi- 
rited and accurate detail of the various 
events which diltinguifhed the reign of the 
Great Frederick, trom 1740 to 1786, in- 
terfperfed with the foundelt political re- 
fieciions. ‘The notes, alfo, are numereus, 
and contain fketches of the lives of feveral 
learned foreigners, which are amufing as 
well as inftruGtive. 
( Te be continued.) 
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