on which occasion he was knighted. He was advanced to the dignity of Baron Gwydir, County Caernarvon, May 28, 1796. He is succeeded in his titles and estates by his eldest son, Peter Robert Drummond, now Lord Gwydir, who was married, in November 1807, to Clementina, sole heiress to the late Lord Perth, in consequence of which he assumed the prefix of Drummond to the family name of Burrell. 30. At Redpath, Mrs Neill, aged 81. At Dunbar, in the 74th year of his age, Mr John Goudie, late manufacturer in Glasgow. At Edinburgh, Mr William Griffith, umbrella manufacturer, in his 56th year. July 2.At Barrock House, Caithness, John Sinclair, Esq. of Barrock. At Brechin, Mr James Morris, bookseller there. 3. In London, the Right Hon. John Earl of Strathmore. 4. At his seat at Fulham, the Right Hon. Thomas Lord Viscount Ranelagh. 13. At London, John Anderson, Esq. of Fermoy, in the County of Cork. At his Palace in Chelsea, after a long illness and general decay of nature, the Hon. 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Sun enters Scorpio 29 min past 11 morn. -ob sdt ai be 19ts (19V98 to BOR 1964 to 209m7sq A je od 19 21 BBW o * rods atidega Za su 282 911 Joshme 29% - 10 blido 500 1st to 19tainim ANGELIC isra SAY VI 42Put do teut aiH -Quilchior to c thebuloxe yoqmi Isut 10 noisomatai bus talet Torque 1 b5 St N The Correspondents of the EDINBURGH MAGAZINE AND LITERARY MISCELLANY are respectfully requested to transmit their Communications for the Editor to ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE and COMPANY, Edinburgh, or LONGMAN and COMPANY, London; to whom also orders for the Work should be particularly addressed, 18018118 m97071 11 90 10 919d ytiers BiTV 9ftil der sft ni borstus nous nived at 90 919H 9400 safar fajdar de 18 (.. 0 47 1 32 2 14 3 34 4 15 4 58 546 d Even. H. M. 6 7 WILLIAM RICHARDSON, Esq. of which in MS. which 114 °7 OBIR This sketch is taken, with little variation, from a periodical work which, under the name of The Student, was published in Glasgow a few years ago. The facts, we are assured by the author, are from the most authentic sources, and we have a satisfaction in inserting it in our Journal, as we do not find an account of Mr Richardson's life in any carlier Number of the Scots Magazine. His name is too considerable an one to be passed over, in a work that has more especially in view the literature of Scotland, and it cannot but be agreeably and grate fully associated with the early recollections of many of our readers, no less than with our own.-Editor. to 42 SEPTEMBER 1820. સે ર AN ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE, WRIT- Glasgow, he received a present of a The subject of this memoir was, structions 8 After, completing his initiatory inLatin ns in the English languages, and acquiring some knowledge of Greek, he was sent to Glasgow, and matriculated in the University there, on the 15th November 1757, having then entered in the fourteenth year of his age. Here his assiduous application to the study of Latin and Greek, under the care of Professors Muirhead and Moor, his rapid proficiency in classical learning, and the evidences which he gave of superior taste, soon attracted the nothose eminent men. tice, and procured the approbation, of Some poems, which he wrote at this time, and afterwards when he wa was studying philosophy, y, served to gain him additional reputation and applause. These 31.02 M ces, and, if we may judge from the following very elegant tribute to the -merits of Mr Richardson, held in no inconsiderable estimation his general proficiency and talents. effusions were on such subjects was to the charge of superintending the Spring and the First of May, a day education of the present Lord Cathon which the students gathered flowers cart and his brother, then about to go for the fire-places in the College, and, to England, his designs as to the though not prescribed by the Profes- church were given up for the time, assors, were occasionally read by them and never afterwards accomplished. to their pupils. Dr Moor was highly These young noblemen he accompapleased with one of those performan-nied to Eton, where he remained for two or three years, being distinguished at that place, in the capacity of private tutor, by classical erudition and elegant accomplishments. When in England, he had the honour of being frequently invited to the table of the illustrious Lord Chatham, who paid him much attention. fi 02 t 262 't et ingenuae verecundiae, GULIELMUS RICHARDSON, SNOW Filius unicus Reverendi viri Jacobi Pastoris Parochiae de Aberfoil, Annos natus quindecim, Academiae Tons Glasguensis, 90 696ng wit In classibus literarum Graec. et Lat. ille Altero anno alumniis; 1722 Ad musarum, interea, patrio sermone, Cultum, haud infeliciter aspirans, Post varia nascentis indolis specimina, Proemium hoc academicum, 9TOW 690 I Publice tulit ; bge Elegantioris ingenii N Pridie Calendas Junii, MDCCLIX. SOS. ME 199J. M. Litt. Gr. P. *E CINE, Jotolo 3.1 $ ois In this way Mr Richardson recomsamended himself to the notice of the Professors, and particularly to the late ytvenerable Principal Leechman, who became his early patron and friend, and who procured for him the situation of private tutor in the family of Cunningham of Craigends. The ceJebrated printers, Messrs Foulis, also Powere useful to him in various ways while he attended College; and their 1 acquaintance, accidentally acquired by Mr Richardson happening one evening in their sale-room to bid very To keenly for a copy of Marcus AntonMinus, was soon improved into a friendship which was cemented by similarity of pursuit, and which was terminated only by the death of one of -the parties. 12 When he had finished the usual becourse of languages and philosophy, roland had taken the degree of Master of Arts, Mr Richardson began the study of theology, intending to be a clergyIman. With this view, he attended the lectures of Dr Trail for nearly three sessions, and is said to have made considerable progress in divinity. But at the end of this period, being recommended by Dr Leechman In the year 1768, Lord Cathcart, father of the present nobleman of that name, was appointed ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to the Empress of Russia, and accordingly, in the August of that year, he went to St Petersburgh, accompanied by his family and their tutor. As they resided four years in that capital, Mr Richardson must have enjoyed admirable opportunities of enlarging his knowledge of the world, at the same time that he could prosecute, with eminent advantages, his private studies. Having easy and frequent access to the society of the learned, to the circles of fashion, and to the means of becoming acquainted with the customs and politics of the nation, he must have both added to his information, and cultivated his manners and taste; and that such were the effects of his stay in Russia, was sufficiently shewn by the improvement, observable at his return, both in his mind and in his deportment.zvoda 服务 J } Mr Richardson filled the important office of private secretary to Lord Cathcart, as well as that of tutor in his Lordship's family. But these situations not entitling him to admission into the court circles, he was under the necessity of procuring from the Empress a special appointment to the military rank of a Major in the Russian service. • soit.n While in Russia, he carried on a correspondence with his literary friends in Glasgow. That part of it which passed between his class-fellow, Professor Arthur, and himself, was afterwards published in the shape of Essays, in a small work to which they contributed, in order to promote certain designs of the publisher, Mr 3 |