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and rendered totally averfe to any repetition 
of the fame fpecies of event, France, and its 
temporary government, appeared to reft fatis- 
fied that the, difcomiture juft experienced 
was an infurmounteble barrier to all future 
hopes. For want of the more potent anta- 
goniits, the Admiral was again compelled to 
confine his views to thofe whofe utmoft ef- 
forts might indeed irritate, and partially in- 
jure individuals, Mr. Kingfmill continued 
occupied en the fame ftation, induftrioufly 
employing the fame means which he had be- 
fore exerted, and with fo much effeét, againft 
the enemies of his country, till toward the 
conclufion of the year 1800, when he refigned 
his command to Sir Alan, now Lord Gard- 
ner, and has never accepted of any fubfequent 
naval employment. A recapitulation of the 
honours and compliments repeatedly paid ta 
this gentleman by the moft refpectable cor- 
porate bodies and the noble individuals, 
would far excved thofe limits which neceffity 
prefcribes to this fpecies of biography. Sut- 
fice it to fay, the frequent repetition of them, 
and the warmth exultingly difplayed by the 
parties in paying what was confidered as a bare 
tribute of juftice to the worth of their pro- 
tector, were fufficient to prove that few men 
could have been fortunate enough to equal 
him in their efteem, and none to exceed him. 
On the 4th of November; 1800, juft at the 
time he quitted the Irifh command, Mr. 
Kingmill was raifed to the dignity of a baro- 
net of Great Britain, and certain it is, that 
no man ever received an honour who had 
greater claims than the fubjet of the prefent 
memoir. } 
-[ Furtker notice of the\late Mr. Fobn Almon, 
wuhofe death was recorded in cur laft number.— 
This gentlemany who certainly had no rival 
in this country fince the days of. R. Dod- 
fley, in combining ative literary with com- 
mercial purfuits, was born at Liverpool in 
the year 1738, and received his education at 
Warrington in thefame county. 
about ten years of. age, he was apprenticed 
toa bookfeller in his native town by his un- 
cle, both his parents dying while he was 
very young, In £756, he vifited feveral 
parts of Holland, France, Italy, Spain and 
#ifrica: and returning in 1758 or 1759, 
came for the firlt time to London, where he 
became acquainted with Goldfmith, and fe. 
veral other of the wits of that time; and af- 
terwards with Churchill the poet, his friend 
Robert Lioyd, the celebrated John Wilkes, 
and many more. He fcems to have now 
adopted literature as a profeffion, and means 
of fubfiftence ; for he produced fucceffively 
and rapidly feveral works, moftly adapted to 
the tatte and circumétances of the day. The 
firft of thefe (or at lealt, the firft acknow- 
ledged by him) was a pamphlet entitled *4the 
Conduét of a late Noble Lord examined,” on 
the affair of lord George Sackville’s behavi- 
Our at the hattle of Minden. This was re- 
ccived favourably enough te give him fome 
Account of the late Mr. Almin. . 
Whien only. 
SG 
confidence in his new career,’ for it went 
through two editigns ; and accordingly, after 
only a very fhort interval, was fucceeded by 
a Military Diétionary, publifhed in weekly. 
numbers, being an account of remarkable bat- 
tles and fieges fiom the reign of Charlemagne, 
In the year 1760, only three daily newf- 
papers (the Daily. Advertifer, the Gazetteer, 
and the Public Advertifer) exifted in Lon- 
don; and fome bookfellers joining in the plan 
of eftablifhing a fourth (the Pubi:e Ledger), 
in particular rivalry to the Gazetteer, the 
proprietor of this laft-mentioned paper en- 
gaged Mr. Almon to affit him. He accord- 
ingly wrote much in it, under various fig- 
natures, particularly uoder that of ‘* an Ine 
dependent Whig.” Many of his produtions 
on this occafion, with fome others connected 
with them, were colleéted and reprinted 
twice, under the title of “* a Collection of 
lnterefting Letters from the Public’ Papers.”? 
But his labour was not devoted exclufively to 
this engagement ; for on the death of King 
George the Second he wrote ‘¢ a Review cf 
his Majefly’s Reign,” in one volume oftavo, 
which went through two editions. A few 
days after it appeared, the duke of Bedford, 
being defirous -to difcover the author of it, 
{ent one of his ftewards for this purpofe to the 
publifher; who declined naming him, but 
promifed that he fhould be made acquainted 
with the meflage. Mr. Almon, however, 
did not attend upon his grace; who had re= 
cently attached himfelf to Jord Bute, while 
he himfelf had joined the other fide. Mr. 
Home having produced in the fame year his 
tragedy entitled the Siege of Aquileia; Mr. 
Almon, who difcovered that the ftory of this 
play was no other than that of the fiege of 
Berwick (by our Edward £115 difguifed un- 
der Roman charaétets, attacked it with great 
feverity as an impofition en the public, ja a 
pamphlet which, contributed not a little to 
its ill: fuccefs. © When Mir. Pitt, in Otober 
1761, refigned the office of fecretary of tate, 
Mr. Almon wrote ** a Review of his Admi- 
nittration,” which reached a fourth edition 
This volume he dedicated to earl Temple ; 
who was fo well pleafed with it that he fent 
for the author, received him in the moft 
pelite and gracious manner, and through lite 
honoured him with his friendfhip and conf- 
dence. ‘This laid the foundation of Mr. Al- 
mon’s popularity an: fortune. Lord Temple 
happening to differ with his brother, Mr. 
Geo:ge Grenville, foon after the-acceflion of , 
his prefent majeity ; and this gentleman join- 
ing with lord Buie 5 the latter circumfance 
embittered the variance greatly. On this 
occafion Mr. Almon, ever warm in his pa- 
tron’s caute, wrote ‘‘a Letter to the, Right 
Honourable George Grenville,” in a pamphlet 
which paffed through fix editions. It) was 
anf{wered, with the concurrence of Mr. Grez- 
ville, by his private fecretary, Mr. Charies 
loyd; who retaliated Mr. Almon’s feverity 
with equal acrimony. wpon lord» Chatham, 
a meth 
