£807] 
entered the births, marriages, and deaths of 
all his friends. .He played, at leaft 4852 
fimes, béfides walking in progeflion. An ac- 
cideutal fall dewn ftairs January 31, 1806, 
contributed te haiten his death, which took 
place Septembe r 16, inthe 70th year of his 
age. Thofe who faw Mr. P. perform in his 
dec line, will be furprifed to find, that forty 
vears ago, Churchill, in bis Rofciad, charac- 
€erized him thus, 
«¢ Who can, 
fprightly eafe : 
But whatever might have been his merits, 
his latter days were embittered. by inatten- 
tion! Unable to derive from his falar Ny by 
reafon of ftoppages, thofe comforts which his 
time of life required, he funk under grief, 
and added another to thofe fatal inftances of 
Giltre’s in their latter days, which are al- 
ready too humerous among the devetees of 
the ftage. 
The Bifhop of St. Pol de Leon, 80. This 
worlhy prelate was venerable not only from 
age, but from his public and private charac- 
ter. He was beru in the compté of Cor- 
like Packer, charm = with 
> 
nouailles, in Bas Bretagne, July, 1722, and: 
originally entered into the profeflion of 
arms; but lett that fervice to devote himfelt 
to the facred office. He was named in 1772, 
to the fee of St. Pol de Leon, and came into 
England in 1791 to thelter himfelf trem the 
phrenzy of the revolution. Never will his 
countrymea forget that he was the means of 
conveying to them the bounty of the Britith 
nation; and he had the fatistaction of feeing 
this bounty prolonged, and effectually ettab- 
lifhed. The pritons of England, the Lait. 
Indies, Botany-Bay itfelf, faved in his dil- 
tribution , and bis cempafiion was contpicu-' 
ous on the defolate thores ot Cayeiune, Sina- 
mary, ard uf Conamana. <A ftate of debi- 
dity gradually conducted him to the tomb, 
with little previous fuftering. 
Mr. Yaac Reed, ( waz death is mentionzd in the 
Jaft number), was the son of a tradelman near 
Temple-bar, avd lot his parents at an early 
age, He waseducated at Streatham, in Surry, 
and being intended foi the profeffion of the 
law, articled to an attorney of confiderable 
practice. Soon after the expiration of this en- 
gagement he took chambers in Grays-inn, 
and practifed for fome time asia convey- 
ancer, but the attra¢tions of the Mufes fe- 
ducing his mind from the ftudy of legal dif- 
tinctions, he gradually relinquithed the pro- 
tefion for purtuits more congenial to his 
tafte, and at [rnath wholly devoted his time 
to Nuylifh literatuce. He was chiefly known 
te the pablic inthe character of an editor, 
in which capacity he prepared and materi- 
ally altered an edition ef DodMey’s coilec- 
tion of Old Plays, 12 vols. {mall octavo, an 
improved edition of Prior’s works, 2 vols. 
finall octavo, and an edition of Goldimith’s 
Eifays, witina preface. . He made a collec- 
tion of Poems, in + vols., as a continuation 
of a collection publihed by Dodiley, and core 
Deaths in and near London. 
187 
le&ted the fugitive poems of Lady Mary 
Wortley Montague into a fmall velume. In 
478Y he edited the en: irged edition of the 
Hiographia Dramatica 5 abd avasa great con- 
tributor to the Biographical Di¢tionary in 
12 vols. o€tavo} publifted i ind784. In 1785 
i edited an edition of Shakelpear in 10 vols. 
octavo, a talk for which he was peculiarly 
qualified, from his thorough knowledge of 
old Raglith authors, from the poflefiion of 
Itbrary “abundantly ftored with the earlie#& 
dramatic productions, and from his being on 
terms of particular. intimacy with Dr. Fare 
mer, Mr. Stevens, and other eminent come ° 
mentators and admirers of the great drama 
tic bard. In 1793 he very materially affitte 
ed Mr. Stevens in his celebrated edition of 
Shakefpear, all the proof theets of which 
were corrected at has chambers: He was 
many years editor of the Kuropean Maga 
zine, of which he was alfo a proprietor with 
his trrends, Mr. D. Brathwaite, and the late 
John Sewell, im equal third fhares. On en- 
tering upon this undertaking, an agreement 
was made, that in cafe of the death of eith Cr 
of the parties, the other two fhould have the 
option of ee his fhare on payment of 
a certain fum:; accordingly on the death of 
Mr. Sewell, the accounts refpecting the Ma« 
gazine, were fettied with his executors, and 
the whole concern became the property of 
the furvivors, whe in 1806 fold i to J. Af- 
perne, the fucceffor of Mr. Sewell, 
Some account of tbe late Fames ie elFe 
one of the M.P.s for Canterbury in the prefent 
parliament. Mankind are. but too fond of 
eovtemplating heroes and launching their 
admiration ou exploits, which they can never 
hope, either to imitate, er excel. On’ the 
other hand, the biography of the middle 
ranks of lite, abownds with practical inftruc- 
tion. Mr. Sinmmons was born in that citys 
which he was alterwards deftined to repree 
fent, about the year 1740, in a little obfcure 
honfe, in the immediate vicini ity of the ca~ 
thedral ; his parents* were poor. but honett, 
and he was educated at the king’s {chool, ia 
Canterbury, orginally founded by Hen- 
ry Vill Havimg been fent to Londen, 
while a boy, he became’ an apprentice to 
the late Mr. Thomas Greenhill, an eminent 
tradeliman, nearly oppolite to the Mantione 
houfe ; whofe houfe has fince been convert- 
ed into a. banker’s fhop; thus ftill keeping 
a I Ti a 
* ‘The writer of this article has always un- 
deritood that his father was a barber, and he 
the more readily mentions this circumances 
in order to prevent the minds of induftrious 
young wel in that rauk of hfe, from relax- 
ing in their exertions, or detpairing of their 
futare elevation. The conftitution of this 
country, happily enables every man to at- 
pire to the firlt honours of the fiate, and it 
is only the low-born prejudices of rank and 
weeith, that can ridicule any {tate that does 
uot depend on the volition of an individual 
Aa2 up, 
