i 804. | 
very early period of life. The firft volume 
of his Hiftory of George III. was publifhed 
in 1770, and the fourth in 1796. Though 
this work cannot be denied to pofiefs the merit 
of utility, yet it cannot be faid to entitle its 
author to the charaéter of a firft-rate hiftorian. 
In 1796 he publithed, by way of {pecimen, 
the firft book of his Temora. Mr. Macfar- 
lane poffefied a very retentive memory, which 
enabled him to give to the world, with fide- 
lity, fome of the fineft fpeeches in Parliae 
ment during Lord North’s adminiftration, and 
the American war; in which laborious duty, 
he was fuccéeded by his friend, the late Mr. 
William Woodfall, Until within thefe few 
years, he kept an excellent feminary at Wal- 
thamftow, at which fome of the ableft men 
now in the vartous profeffions of the law, the 
church, the navy, and the mercantile world, 
received their education. For the laft two 
years he was engaged in tranflating into Latin 
the Poems of Offian; and his performance is 
now printing by Mr. Bulmer. To his friend 
Mr. Macpherfon, the editor of thofe celebrat- 
ed Poems, he rendered confiderable affiftance 
in that undertaking. His laft work, of which 
he received the firft proof-fheet only a few 
hours before he died, is entitled *¢ An Effay 
proving the Authenticity of Offian and his 
Poems,’’ which, it is hoped, will not be loft 
to the public, as, it is underftood, the manu- 
Zexivpris finithed. ] 
[ <arsher particulars of Mr. Way, whofe death 
mwas mentioned at page 167.—Mr. Way was 
born of very humble parents, at the town of 
Bridport, in Dorfetfhire ; and his education, 
which was at a little day-fchool at that place, 
was more fuited to the condition of his pa- 
rents than the part he was deftined to futtain 
in future life. His firft introduction to fo- 
ciety in London, was in the character of a do- 
meftic to Mr. Murray, afterwards Earl of 
Mansfield. It will be recollected, that when 
this illuftrious character was elevated to the 
fituation of chief-juftice of the Court of 
King’s-bench, Mr. Way held the humble poft 
of cryer of the court. In the year 1764, he 
married Mifs Poole, a very amiable and ac- 
complifhed woman, the daughter of an attor- 
ney, at Kenfington. Refore his promotion, 
under the aufpices of his illuftrious patros, 
Lord Mansfield, to the fituation of chief clerk 
of the Court of King’s-bench, he had project- 
¢d a commercial engagemest in the coal- 
trade: his talents, however, were but little 
fuited to the bufy fcenes of life, 2nd were 
more beneficially directed to the department 
his patron provided for him. His only pro- 
ject of ambition in public life, was to become 
the reprefentative in Parliament of the bo- 
rough of which he was a native. On this 
fubject, he confulteda gentleman from whom 
we are favoured with thefe particulars ; and 
we are-told, he abandoned the experiment 
from a conviction that the pecuniary facrifice 
would overbalance the gratification. He had 
been a valetudinarian during the greateft part 
Monrury Mag. No, 120. 
Marriages and Deaths in and near London. 
£65 
of his life; and finding the climate of th’ 
country too fevere for him, he took uphs 
refidence for two winters at Nice. His death 
was occafioned by the united attacks of the 
gout-fever, and water in-his cheft. The pro- 
perty he has lefr, is little fhort of z0c,0001. 
A fingular circumftarice in the difpoftion of 
this property was a legacy of 50,000]. toa 
gentleman of the fame name, but who is’no 
relation, and refides at Denham, near Ux- 
bridge. With the view to fome apology for 
this appropriation of fo large a fum, he had 
long endeavoured to difcover fome evidence 
Of confanguinity, but his enquiries were 
wholly unfuccefsful. To his widow, after a 
union of forty years, he has left only 31,5001, 
perannum. Mr. Way’s religious habits were 
powerfully influenced by Methodifmi, In the 
winter feafon, when he refided at his houfe in 
Lincoln’s-inn-fields, he was punctual in his 
attendance at the chapei of the Lock-hofpital, 
to which inftitution he has bequeathed a le+ 
gacy of 10,000]. In what manner he has dif= 
pofed of the remainder of his property we are 
not informed, | . 
[ Charafer of the late Sir George Shuckburgh 
Evelyn, bart. M.P. whofe death was noticed 
at page 167.—-lf he had fome defeéts, he was 
not without many excellencies 3; and, in the 
confideration of chara&ter, it is always right 
to place the one againft the other ; for a man’s 
real worth may be termed all that remains 
over, after dedu€&ting the fum of his vices 
from that of his virtues. Perhaps, after mak- 
ing this dedu€tion, enough will remain to Sir 
George Shuckburgh Evelyn to attach us to his 
charaéter, and to make us lament his lofs« 
The good which he did with his fortuze, was 
not certainly proportioned to its extent: his 
charities were few, but thofe few were not 
fallied by any oftentation, Pecuniary diftrefs 
he had never felt himfelf, and he hardly knew 
how to compaflionate that diftrefs in others. 
Poverty, indced, in his mind, often partook 
of the nature of crime, as he thought, thouzh 
very unjuftly, that it could never be affociat- 
ed with ftrength of principle, or probity of 
conduct. Had his obfervation been as uni- 
verfally juft, and as generally conclufive, as 
he feemed to imagine, he did not confider 
what a refleGtion it conveyed upon himfelf 5 
for, in this cafe, his own probity, on which he 
valued himfelf fo highly, was not owing to 
his principles, but to his circumftances 5 not 
to his moral capacity to refit the tempra:ion 
to private and political difhonefty, but to the 
extrinfic advantages of his fortune, which ren- 
dered him infenfible tothe lure. Of bodily 
fuffering, he had for the laft fix years of his 
life experienced a confiderable fhare; and I 
believe that he could, with unfeigned con- 
cern, paflively fympathize with thofe fuffer- 
ings in his fellow-creatures. I have often ob- 
ferved, that when any tale of peculiar difirefs 
bas been related in his heating, a tear would 
ftand in his eyes, a fure indication of humane 
feeling and celicate fenfibility. But if, note 
Na * withflanding 
