DEATHS.-MARCH. with Rollin's Ancient History, and observing references to the original authors, he bought the History of Justinus, &c. and soon recovered his Latin, so as to write, when he was about thirteen years of age, with tolerable accuracy in that language. He afterwards studied mathematics two or three years, under Mr. Ewing, an able teacher at Edinburgh, and proceeded as far as the doctrine of infinites. Intended for the profession of the law, young Pinkerton was articled to Mr. William Aytoun, an eminent writer to the signet, with whom he served a clerkship of five years. He did not, however, neglect the cultivation of his mind, and having felt the witchery of verse by reading Beattie's Minstrel, and other poems, he wrote an elegy, called "Craigmillar Castle," which he dedicated to Dr. Beattie. This production, which was published in 1776, was followed by the composition of one or two tragedies, which were never printed. In 1780, soon after the expiration of his clerkship (his father being then dead), he visited London, where the size and extent of the booksellers' catalogues are said to have formed his sole motive for wishing to fix his residence. This determination was confirmed by the bankruptcy of some merchants in Glasgow, who held about 1,000. of his father's money, all which was lost. He accordingly went to Scotland in the spring of 1781, took up the remaining sums lying in mercantile hands, and, returning to England, settled in the neighbourhood of London in the winter of that year. In 1781, Mr. Pinkerton published, "Rimes," as he peculiarly chose to designate some minor poems; and "Hardyknute, an Heroic Ballad, now first published complete [a Second Part being added]; with the other more approved Scottish Ballads, and some not hitherto made public, in the Tragic style. To which are prefixed, Two Dissertations: 1. On the Oral Tradition of Poetry. 2. On the Tragic Ballad, small 8vo." From his boyish days, Mr. Pinkerton had been fond of collecting medals, minerals, and other curiosities; and having received from a lady in Scotland a rare coin of Constantine, on his Sarmatian Victory, he soon laid the foundation of a little collection, and used to read Addison's Dialogues on Medals with infinite delight. These pursuits led him to see the defects of common books on the 66 subject, and he drew up a manual and In In DEATHS, MARCH. Bennet, M. A., "The Treasury of Wit; being a methodical Selection of about Twelve Hundred of the best Apothegms and Jests; from books in several Languages," a compilation pronounced to be much superior to most of the kind. It was accompanied by many just and pertinent observations, in a discourse on wit and humour, considered under the four different heads ;-Serious Wit, Comic Wit, Serious Humour, and Comic Humour. The same year produced in one volume, 8vo. his well-known "Dissertation on the Origin and Progress of the Scythians or Goths, being an Introduction to the Ancient and Modern History of Europe." He seriously believed that the Irish, the Scotch Highlanders, and the Welsh, the Bretons, and the Spanish Biscayans, are the only surviving descendants of the original population of Europe, and that in them, their features, their manners, their history, every philosophic eye may trace the unimproved and unimprovable savage, the Celt. He maintained in every company that he was ready to drop his theory altogether the moment any one could point out to him a single person of intellectual eminence sprung from an unadulterated line of Celtic ancestry. If you mentioned Burke, "What," said he, " a descendant of De Bourg? class that high Norman chivalry with the ritf-raff of O's and Mac's? Show me a great O, and I am done." He delighted to prove that the Scotch Highlanders had never had but a few great captains such as Montrose, Dundee, the first duke of Argyle-and these were all Goths;-the two first, Lowlanders; the last a Norman, a de Campo bello! The aversion he had for the Celtic name extended itself to every person and every thing that had any connection with the Celtic countries. 1789 he published in 8vo. a collection of ancient Latin Lives of the Scottish Saints, a work which greatly tended to illustrate the early history of his native country. This was soon after followed by a new and greatly enlarged edition of his "Essay on Medals," which has become the standard work for information on that interesting and useful subject. In the same fruitful year he published an edition of "The Bruce, or the History of Robert, King of Scotland, written in Scottish verse, by John Barbour," 3 vols. 8vo. In 1790 this prolific writer again put forth some of his nu In mismatic researches, in "The Medallic History of England to the Revolution," 4to.; and published "An Inquiry into the History of Scotland, preceding the reign of Malcolm III. or 1056; including the authentic History of that Period," 2 vols. 8vo. (republished in 1795) with some additional observations, containing replies to the various reviews, &c. In 1792 he edited three octavo volumes of "Scottish Poems, reprinted from scarce editions." In 1793 Mr. Pinkerton married Miss Burgess, of Odiham, Hants, sister to the present bishop of Salisbury; but the union was not happy, and the parties separated. The lady has been dead some years. His next important literary labours were in biography, he contributing the lives to "Iconographia Scotica, or Portraits of Illustrious Persons of Scotland, with biographical notes," 2 vols. 8vo. 17951797; and to the "Scottish Gallery, or Portraits of Eminent Persons of Scotland, with their Characters," 8vo. 1799. His talents were then directed to geography, and they produced a standard work in this branch of science. The "Modern Geography, digested on a new plan," appeared first in two quarto volumes, in 1802; a second edition published in 1807, consists of three; and there is an Abridgement in a single octavo. In 1802 Mr. Pinkerton travelled to the French capital, and on his return published his observations, under the title of "Recollections of Paris," 2 vols. 8vo. Subsequently he was employed in editing a "General Collection of Voyages and Travels," which was extended to nineteen volumes, quarto; and a "New Modern Atlas," in parts, both which works commenced in 1809. Mr. Pinkerton's last original work was "Petralogy, or a Treatise on Rocks," 2 vols. 8vo. 1811; but in 1814, still pursuing his attacks on the Celts, he republished in two octavo volumes, his "Inquiry into the History of Scotland," together with his "Dissertation on the Origin and Progress of the Scythians or Goths.” Mr. Pinkerton had of late years resided almost entirely in Paris. His appearance was that of "a very little and very thin old man, with a very small, sharp, yellow face, thickly pitted by the small pox, and decked with a pair of green spectacles." Mr. Pinkerton was eccentric, but highly industrious, literary workman; and his talents, though in some instances ill-directed, were com an DEATHS.-MARCH, mensurate with undertakings of no ordinary rank in literature. 10. At Shrewsbury, in his 61st year, the rev. John Brickdale Blakeway, M. A. and F. S. A. minister and official principal of the peculiar jurisdiction of St. Mary's in that town, and Vicar of Neen Savage near Bewdley. He was the eldest son of the late Joshua Blakeway, esq. of Shrewsbury, by Elizabeth, sister of Matthew Brickdale, esq. M. P. in several parliaments for the city of Bristol; and was born in June 1765. He was educated at Westminster school, whence he removed in 1782 to Oriel College, Oxford; in Lent term, 1786, he took the degree of B. A.; and in 1789 he was called to the Bar. He went the Oxford circuit for several years. In the year 1793, in consequence of an unexpected change in the circumstances of his family, he was induced to take orders. 14. At his apartments in the British Museum, aged 56, George-Henry Noehden Ph.D.; LL. D.; F. R. S.; F. A. S. ; M. A. S.; F. L. S.; H. S.; Cor. Soc. Scient. Goettingen; Latin, Jena; Min. Jen. Nat. Lips. Berol. &c.; assistant keeper of the antiquities and coins at the British Museum. Dr. Noehden was born at Goettingen, in the kingdom of Hanover, Jan. 23, 1770. Mr. Suchfort, the then head master of the Grammar-school of that town, a man eminent for classical learning, and to whom Michaelis and Heyne intrusted their sons, instructed him in the classics, and professed a great partiality for him. Not contented with the acquisition of the ancient, Noehden cultivated the modern_languages, and his proficiency in Italian, French, and English, was rapid. In 1788 he entered the University of his native place, and applied particularly to classical literature and antiquities under Heyne, who, becoming his chief master and patron, employed him in collating several Greek MSS. particularly that of the Iliad, in the possession of the late Mr. Townley, for his edition of Homer. In 1791 Mr. Richard-James Lawrence, a gentleman who had acquired considerable property in the West Indies, repaired with his lady, and two of his sons, to Goettingen, for the education of the latter. Having himself been brought up at Eton, he had a high value for classical studies, and applied to Heyne for a proper tutor in that branch of learning. Heyne re commended Noehden, who conveyed his instructions first in French, and after some practice, in the English language. While instructing the sons of Mr. Lawrence in the principles of the German language, Noehden discovered, that Wendeborn's Grammar was insufficient for his purpose; he accordingly began to compose one of his own, being the outlines of the German Grammar for the use of Englishmen, which, in the sequel, he improved to such a degree as to raise it to the rank of his best literary performance. He lived to see a fifth edition of it published. Conceiving an attachment to Englishmen, and English manners, he would willingly have accompanied Mr. Lawrence on a tour through Italy, but for his patron, Heyne, who wished rather to see him settled in the University. Mr. Lawrence and his lady returned to England, leaving two of their sons under Noehden's care, who, at the same time, had the tuition of some other English gentle men. Mr. Lawrence happened to form an acquaintance at Bognor with the late sir William Milner, when that gentleman was looking out for a private tutor to send to Eton, with his eldest son, the present baronet of the name, and Mr. Lawrence gladly seized this opportunity of recommending Noehden for this situation, upon which he entered in 1793. In December of that year, he reached Nun-Appleton, sir William Milner's estate in Yorkshire. In 1794 he attended his pupil to Eton College. What contributed to render his residence at Eton the more agreeable, was the introduction, by letter from Heyne, to the learned Jacob Bryant. Noehden ever after cherished the highest respect and affection for the worth and profound erudition of Bryant, delighted to speak of him, and had a shade of the eccentric sage, drawn with his cocked hat and walking cane, hanging over his mantlepiece. Noehden also paid several visits to his distinguished countryman Dr. Herschel, at Slough. At Eton he spent with his pupil two years and a half, and when the education of this young gentleman was completed, Noehden alluded to his hopes of some permanent provision in his native town, but lady Milner pressed him to undertake likewise the education of her second son, which Noehden, bound as he was in gratitude to so excellent a family, and DEATHS.-MARCH. Bennet, M. A., "The Treasury of Wit; being a methodical Selection of about Twelve Hundred of the best Apothegms and Jests; from books in several Languages," a compilation pronounced to be much superior to most of the kind. It was accompanied by many just and pertinent observations, in a discourse on wit and humour, considered under the four different heads;-Serious Wit, Comic Wit, Serious Humour, and Comic Humour. The same year produced in one volume, 8vo. his well-known "Dissertation on the Origin and Progress of the Scythians or Goths, being an Introduction to the Ancient and Modern History of Europe." He seriously believed that the Irish, the Scotch Highlanders, and the Welsh, the Bretons, and the Spanish Biscayans, are the only surviving descendants of the original population of Europe, and that in them, their features, their manners, their history, every philosophie eye may trace the unimproved and unimprovable savage, the Celt. He maintained in every company that he was ready to drop his theory altogether the moment any one could point out to him a single person of intellectual eminence sprung from an unadulterated line of Celtic ancestry. If you mentioned Burke, "What," said he, a descendant of De Bourg? class that high Norman chivalry with the ritf-raff of O's and Mac's? Show me a great O, and I am done." He delighted to prove that the Scotch Highlanders had never had but a few great captains such as Montrose, Dundee, the first duke of Argyle-and these were all Goths; the two first, Lowlanders; the last a Norman, a de Campo bello! The aversion he had for the Celtic name extended itself to every person and every thing that had any connection with the Celtic countries. 1789 he published in 8vo. a collection of ancient Latin Lives of the Scottish Saints, a work which greatly tended to illustrate the early history of his native country. This was soon after followed by a new and greatly enlarged edition of his "Essay on Medals," which has become the standard work for information on that interesting and useful subject. In the same fruitful year he published an edition of "The Bruce, or the History of Robert, King of Scotland, written in Scottish verse, by John Barbour," 3 vols. 8vo. In 1790 this prolific writer again put forth some of his nu In mismatic researches, in "The Medallic History of England to the Revolution,” 4to.; and published "An Inquiry into the History of Scotland, preceding the reign of Malcolm III. or 1056; including the authentic History of that Period," 2 vols. 8vo. (republished in 1795) with some additional observations, containing replies to the various reviews, &c. In 1792 he edited three octavo volumes of "Scottish Poems, reprinted from scarce editions." In 1793 Mr. Pinkerton married Miss Burgess, of Odiham, Hants, sister to the present bishop of Salisbury; but the union was not happy, and the parties separated. The lady has been dead some years. His next important literary labours were in biography, he contributing the lives to "Iconographia Scotica, or Portraits of Illustrious Persons of Scotland, with biographical notes," 2 vols. 8vo. 17951797; and to the "Scottish Gallery, or Portraits of Eminent Persons of Scotland, with their Characters," 8vo. 1799. His talents were then directed to geography, and they produced a standard work in this branch of science. The "Modern Geography, digested on a new plan," appeared first in two quarto volumes, in 1802; a second edition published in 1807, consists of three; and there is an Abridgement in a single octavo. In 1802 Mr. Pinkerton travelled to the French capital, and on his return published his observations, under the title of "Recollections of Paris," 2 vols. 8vo. Subsequently he was employed in editing a "General Collection of Voyages and Travels," which was extended to nineteen volumes, quarto; and a "New Modern Atlas," in parts, both which works commenced in 1809. Mr. Pinkerton's last original work was "Petralogy, or a Treatise on Rocks," 2 vols. 8vo. 1811; but in 1814, still pursuing his attacks on the Celts, he republished in two octavo volumes, his "Inquiry into the History of Scotland," together with his "Dissertation on the Origin and Progress of the Scythians or Goths." Mr. Pinkerton had of late years resided almost entirely in Paris. His appearance was that of "a very little and very thin old man, with a very small, sharp, yellow face, thickly pitted by the small pox, and decked with a pair of green spectacles." Mr. Pinkerton was eccentric, but highly industrious, literary workman; and his talents, though in some instances ill-directed, were com an DEATHS.-MARCH, mensurate with undertakings of no or dinary rank in literature. 10. At Shrewsbury, in his 61st year, the rev. John Brickdale Blakeway, M. A. and F. S. A. minister and official principal of the peculiar jurisdiction of St. Mary's in that town, and Vicar of Neen Savage near Bewdley. He was the eldest son of the late Joshua Blakeway, esq. of Shrewsbury, by Elizabeth, sister of Matthew Brickdale, esq. M. P. in several parliaments for the city of Bristol; and was born in June 1765. He was educated at Westminster school, whence he removed in 1782 to Oriel College, Oxford; in Lent term, 1786, he took the degree of B. A.; and in 1789 he was called to the Bar. He went the Oxford circuit for several years. In the year 1793, in consequence of an unexpected change in the circumstances of his family, he was induced to take orders. 14. At his apartments in the British Museum, aged 56, George-Henry Noehden Ph. D.; LL. D.; F. R. S. ; F. A. S.; M. A. S.; F. L. S.; H. S.; Cor. Soc. Scient. Goettingen; Latin, Jena; Min. Jen. Nat. Lips. Berol. &c.; assistant keeper of the antiquities and coins at the British Museum. Dr. Noehden was born at Goettingen, in the kingdom of Hanover, Jan. 23, 1770. Mr. Suchfort, the then head master of the Grammar-school of that town, a man eminent for classical learning, and to whom Michaelis and Heyne intrusted their sons, instructed him in the classics, and professed a great partiality for him. Not contented with the acquisition of the ancient, Noehden cultivated the modern_languages, and his proficiency in Italian, French, and English, was rapid. In 1788 he entered the University of his native place, and applied particularly to classical literature and antiquities under Heyne, who, becoming his chief master and patron, employed him in collating several Greek MSS. particularly that of the Iliad, in the possession of the late Mr. Townley, for his edition of Homer. In 1791 Mr. Richard-James Lawrence, a gentleman who had acquired considerable property in the West Indies, repaired with his lady, and two of his sons, to Goettingen, for the education of the latter. Having himself been brought up at Eton, he had a high value for classical studies, and applied to Heyne for a proper tutor in that branch of learning. Heyne re commended Noehden, who conveyed his instructions first in French, and after some practice, in the English language. While instructing the sons of Mr. Lawrence in the principles of the German language, Noehden discovered, that Wendeborn's Grammar was insufficient for his purpose; he accordingly began to compose one of his own, being the outlines of the German Grammar for the use of Englishmen, which, in the sequel, he improved to such a degree as to raise it to the rank of his best literary performance. He lived to see a fifth edition of it published. Conceiving an attachment to Englishmen, and English manners, he would willingly have accompanied Mr. Lawrence on a tour through Italy, but for his patron, Heyne, who wished rather to see him settled in the University. Mr. Lawrence and his lady returned to England, leaving two of their sons under Noehden's care, who, at the same time, had the tuition of some other English gentlemen. Mr. Lawrence happened to form an acquaintance at Bognor with the late sir William Milner, when that gentleman was looking out for a private tutor to send to Eton, with his eldest son, the present baronet of the name, and Mr. Lawrence gladly seized this opportunity of recommending Noehden for this situation, upon which he entered in 1793. In December of that year, he reached Nun-Appleton, sir William Milner's estate in Yorkshire. In 1794 he attended his pupil to Eton College. What contributed to render his residence at Eton the more agreeable, was the introduction, by letter from Heyne, to the learned Jacob Bryant. Nochden ever after cherished the highest respect and affection for the worth and profound erudition of Bryant, delighted to speak of him, and had a shade of the eccentric sage, drawn with his cocked hat and walking cane, hanging over his mantlepiece. Noehden also paid several visits to his distinguished countryman Dr. Herschel, at Slough. At Eton he spent with his pupil two years and a half, and when the education of this young gentleman was completed, Noehden alluded to his hopes of some permanent provision in his native town, but lady Milner pressed him to undertake likewise the education of her second son, which Noehden, bound as he was in gratitude to so excellent a family, and |