1809 J 
gered in the hospital at Talavera, and 
then expired, with, I trust, ‘*4 sure and 
certain hope of a joytul resurrection.” 
The deceased was a man of sfrong 
passions, but of a sound judgment, an 
enlighiened mind, and a most excellent 
heart. Le was a general favourite with 
both sexes, and with all ranks. To the 
fair, his society was always acceptable; 
by the men it was eagerly sought. Many 
in perplexity have benefited by his ad- 
vice; many in difficulty by his purse, 
From the soldiers he exacted discipline 
and subordination; but to their wants he 
was scrupulously attentive, and to their 
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failings humanely considerate. In his 
isi he was greatly indebted to nature, 
veing in height about five feet nine, 
remarkably well made, capable of en- 
during excessive fatigue, and extremely 
active. 
Such was Captain Evans; and the 
early death of such a man may surely be 
luoked upon as a national loss. By a 
very extensive acquaintance, both mili- 
tary and civil, he will be long regretted, 
I need not, and cannot say, what is and 
will be felt by his more immediate asso- 
ciates and friends, 
T.C. 
ee ne 
SCARCE TRACTS, WITH EXTRACTS, AND ANALYSES OF 
SCARCE BOOKS. | 
It is proposed in future to devote a few 
Pages of the Monthly ‘Moguzne to the 
Insertion of such Scarce Tracts as are of an imteresting Nature, with the Use 
of which we may be favoured by aur Correspondents; and under the sume Head to 
antroduce also the Analyses of scorce and curious Books. 
IT i ra 
A Voyage to England, containing many 
things relating to the state of Learning, 
Religion, and other Curiosities of that 
Kingdom. By Monsieur Sorbiere. 
As also, Observations on the same Voy- 
age, by Dr. Thomas Sprat, Fellow of 
the Royal Society, and now Lord Bi- 
shop of, Rochester. With a Letter of 
Monsieur Sorhier’s, concerning the 
War between England and Holland. in 
1652. To all which is prefixed his Life, 
written by M. Graverol. Done into 
English, from the French Original.” 
Lond. 1709. 8v0. 
1AMUEL Sorbiere, it appears, from 
the Life prefixed to the-work, was 
born of Protestant parents, and an ho- 
nest family, in the town of St, Ambroix, 
September 17th, 1615. In 1639, he 
‘ went to Paris to study physic; and, in 
1642, travelled into Holland. 
~ «* Sorbiere, during his stay in Holland, 
helped to translate Cambden’s Butanma, 
which was to be put into one of the 
tomes uf the great Atlas, and which one 
Salabert, a priest, who had begunit, was 
not able to go through with, because of 
his being obiiged to return into France. 
Tt was not long after, that he also trans- 
Jated Sir Thomas More’s * Utopia’ into 
French, at the request of the Rhine- 
graye, who was then Governour _ of 
Sluice; and could sot otherwise read it 
in that language, save in an old transla- 
tion, of above an hundred years stand- 
from a French Gentleman 
ing, by Bartholomew Aneau, author of 
* Alector,’? who made so much noise in 
the world in his time, and by the Lord of 
Branville, in a Gaulich sule, which the 
Rhinegrave could hardly understand.” 
In 1645, Sorbiere returned to Vrance ; 
but again visiting Uolland the next year, 
he tharried at the Hague; and afterwards 
went to Leyden to practice. Here he 
printed a sceptical “ Discourse, on the 
Passage of the Chyle; and the Motion of 
the Heart,” a translation of; Hebbes’s 
Politicks; and, tw oblige his father-in- 
law, who had some interest in the East- 
India Company, a Merchant’s Letter 
from Brasil, to another of his Friends at 
Amsterdam, 4 
The inclination he had to rove from one 
province to another, brought him back 
again into France. In 1650, he became 
principal of the Coliege of Orange ; 
where, in compliance with the wishes of 
the governor of. the city, he printed a 
‘* Discourse on the true Cause of the 
Troubles in Engiand, with a Letter 
to one of 
his Friends at Amsterdaia, concerning 
Cromwel}l’s Designs.” 
About the end of 1653, he went to 
Vaison, and turned papist, publishing at 
Paris, the nezt year, in pursuance to the 
custom of the times, a Discourse con- 
cerning his Conversion. 
At Rome, he became known to Pope 
Alexander Vil. by a strong invective 
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