Second Volume of these valuable joint labours of culated to suit his talents and pursuits: it was by his Lordship's appointment that Mr. Stuart became Surveyor to Greenwich Hospital, which he held till the day of his death with universal approbation. He constantly received the notice and esteem of Lord Rockingham, and most of the Nobility and Gentry of taste and power. Besides his appointment at Greenwich Hospital, the additions and rebuilding of that part which was destroyed by the fire there, were conducted under his direction. He built several good houses in London-Mr. Anson's in St. James's Square, Mrs. Montague's in Portman Square, &c. &c. Whatever new project he engaged in, he pursued with such avidity, that he seldom quitted it while there was any thing further to be learnt or understood from it. Thus he rendered himself skilful in the art of engraving; likewise of carving; and his enthusiastical love for antique elegance made him also an adept in all the remote researches of an Antiquary. But, in this display of his talents, let me not omit to offer a just tribute to his memory as a man. Those who knew him intimately, and had opportunities of remarking the nobleness of his soul, will join in claiming for him the title of Citizen of the World; and, if he could be charged with possessing any partiality, it was to Merit in whomsoever he found it. Raised by his own abilities and integrity, from the utmost abyss of penury to the most pleasing condition of respectable affluence, without servility, without chicane, without any stratagem, by the bold efforts of unconquerable per-everance, prudence, and an independent mind! He was a great humourist in the most agreeable sense of the word; an attentive observer of men and manners; and, having learned that there were clubs of artists, &c. held at certain porter-houses in his neighbourhood, belonging to which were some odd geniuses, men of an original turn of thinking and conversation, he would, occasionally, when his evenings were not otherwise engaged, resort for variety to such places, in order to smoke his darling pipe, and listen to their curious debates, &c. At these places he was received with much respect by the company, who thought themselves highly honoured by his presence: and often, on the next day, would be entertain his friends of the higher orders with his pleasant details of what usually passed at such droll assemblies. Dean Swift and Hogarth often did the same; and, to the ideas which they acquired on such occasions, the world is indebted for many of those admirable strokes of humour which have distinguished the pen of the one and the pencil of the other. Mr. Stuart was twice married. His first choice, about 1760, fell upon his housekeeper, a very good woman, by whom he had a son, who died at the age of four or five years. His second wife was a Miss Blackstone, whose father was a farmer in Kent; and to this very young lady he was united when he was about the age of 67. By her he had four children; one of whom, a boy, Mr. Stuart and Mr. Revett* had been completed at the press by the kind assiduity of Mr. William boy, was the very" image and superscription" of himself, both in body and mind; he manifested a most astonishing turn for drawing, even before he was three years old; and would imitate, with pen or pencil, every thing he saw lying on his father's table. This child (his father's darling) died of the small-pox towards the latter end of the year 1787; and Mr. Stuart's health declining very rapidly from that time, he died Feb. 2, 1788, in his 76th year, and was buried in the vault of the church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields. His eldest son, a fine boy then about seven years old, was placed at Hammersmith, under the care of that eminent Scholar Mr. (now the Rev. Dr.) Charles Burney; and his two daughters, the eldest about eight years old, at Mrs. Scott's in the same village. A Portrait of Mr. Stuart, drawn and engraved by E. Knight, was published by his Widow in 1789. * Mr. Nicholas Revett, younger son of Andrew Revett, Esq. of Brandeston Hall, Suffolk, was by profession an Architect; and it was from him that Mr. Stuart first caught his ideas of that science, in which (quitting the Painter's art) he afterwards made so conspicuous a figure. Their acquaintance first began at Rome; whence they travelled to Athens, for the purpose of investigating the remains of antient grandeur still to be found in the ruins of that celebrated Metropolis. Mr. Revett also travelled through Asia Minor with Dr. Chandler, and published the Ionian Antiquities, being engaged for that purpose by the Dilettanti Society. At the distance of 40 years, at the request of Sir Lionel Lyde, Bart. of Ayott St. Laurence, Herts, Mr. Revett added another trophy to his architectural fame. The old church, at the back of Sir Lionel's Mansionhouse, being dilapidated, though not incapable of restoration at a far less expence; it was determined to erect a new one, fronting the house, at the Western extremity of the Park, in a style of Architecture not confined to any one Grecian model; and the following inscription is placed on a pedestal supporting an urn under a colonnade flanking the entrance: "NICOLAUS REVETT, Suffolciencis; Romæ, Athenis, et Smyrnæ, commoratus, ad antiquæ Architecturæ exemplaria Hoc Monumentum posuit sumptibus LYONELLI LYDE, Baronetti, MDCCLXXXVIII." On a corresponding pedestal is an inscription to Sir Lionel Lyde, Bart. who died in 1791, aged 68.-After the new church had been consecrated†, and made use of, Bishop Thurlow refused + See the ceremony of the consecration, Gent, Mag. LIX. 370. Newton*; who superintended also a part of the Third, when his death, in 1790, again interrupted the printing of the Work; which found, however, an able continuator in Mr. Reveley §. A Fourth his licence to take down the old one, which still remains, with the monuments of its patrons and benefactors, a beautiful ruin. -Mr. Revett, who was described in 1789 as occasionally enlivening a small select circle of friends with his lively conversation," died, at a very advanced age, in June 1804. The effects of his labours and researches will for ever remain monuments of his memory and talents as an Artist, whilst those noble publications of Palmyra, Balbeck, and the Ionian Antiquities, are admitted into the cabinets of the curious. His valuable Library of books of Architecture, and Drawings by himself and others, including many on sacred subjects in four volumes by Dr. Stukeley, was sold by Mr. Christie on the 26th and 27th of June. * William Newton, Esq. Clerk of the Works at Greenwich Hospital, Architect of the then newly erected part of that noble building, died at Sidford, near Sidmouth, in July 1790. + The Three Volumes contain 281 Plates, engraved by the best Artists, of Views, Architecture, Plans, &c. with Letter-press, historical and descriptive, illustrating by a research of many years' labour and great expence, the purest examples of Grecian Architecture, many of which no longer exist, and the traces of them can be found only in this work. "With pleasure we resume the contemplation of this work, which does so much credit to the national genius and taste, and completes Mr. Stuart's plan; and to regret the loss of its Author as its Editor, would be to pay a bad compliment to the Friend who, on the death of Mr. Newton, undertook that task for the present volume. This friend is no other than Mr. Reveley, whose drawings brought all Athens and Egypt before our eyes, when he exhibited them to select visitors, and make us regret that he has not yet offered them to the Publick. Who so fit to express the ideas of Mr. Stuart, and to supply them, as a man who had himself attentively examined the same subjects? Accordingly Mr. Reveley candidly informs us where he has filled up the interstices both of description and drawing, and continued Mr. Stuart's observations by his own when he visited the spot in 1785." Gent. Mag. LXV. 137. § Mr. Willey Reveley, a man of great attainments in his science, had followed the steps of Athenian Stuart, in his travels through Greece, and residence at Athens; and had availed himself of all the advantages which might be derived from visiting the architectural remains in that part of the East. His collection of drawings, universally known to all the lovers of art, and admirers of Classic Antiquity, were made during his progress; in which, I have been informed, he accompanied Sir Richard Worsley, Volume, containing more than 70 Plates, may shortly be expected, under the superintendance of Worsley, till, on some difference, they separated, and Mr. Reveley retained his own drawings, which he afterwards exhibited to his particular friends. His principal work is the New Church at Southampton, which possesses great merit as it is; and would have been a very distinguished monument of his talents, if his original design had been completed, and he had not been curbed and controuled in the progress of it by his employers. His Plans for Wet Docks on the Thames, which were offered to the consideration of Parliament, display a very comprehensive knowledge of the various branches of his profession connected with such an undertaking. We have heard that he first suggested the conversion of the Isle of Dogs to that use. These Plans he sometimes thought of publishing, with large explanations and technical accounts of every part; but I know not how far he had proceeded, or whether he had proceeded at all, in fulfilling such an intention. He was once tantalized with the flattering expectation of being employed at Bath, in erecting a suite of buildings for a new arrangement of the public baths in that city. He accordingly made designs of great beauty and elegance, replete with convenience, full of rare contrivance, and disposed in an original style of accommodation. But this hope passed away, as Mr. Reveley's hopes were very apt to do. In 1795 he was the Editor of Mr. Stuart's Third Volume; and was peculiarly qualified, by his local and professional knowledge, for that office. He had been a pupil of Sir William Chambers; and, with all the subsequent advantages derived from travel and residence in Italy and Greece, it might have been supposed that he had a very fair prospect of success in his profession. But Mr. Reveley had rather an aukward way of letting loose his opinions; and had habituated himself to a sarcastic mode of delivering them. It need not be added, that such qualities were not calculated to render him popular; and it is apprehended that they influenced many, who were disposed to employ him, to seek Architects of a more pliant and accommodating disposition. He entertained a very high opinion of the profession of an Architect; but it did not check his industry by any supercilious affectation of importance, for he sought employment wherever a liberal spirit would permit him to seek it. This activity, however, appears, from some untoward circumstance or other, to have been continually baffled. He once made a journey to Canterbury, with a set of admirable designs for a County Infirmary, in consequence of an advertisement from the Governors of the then projected Hospital in that City, which invited Architects to make proposals for the erection of such an edifice. His designs were approved and admitted; but, after some consideration, the Committee appointed to conduct the business proposed to purchase the drawings, and trust the exe Mr. J. Taylor, an intelligent and enterprizing Publisher of Works of Architecture. "Albion, a Poem," by Mr. Waller. "An Appendix to the Report of the Select Committee of Inquiry, appointed by a General Court of Governors of the Royal Hospitals of Bridewell and Bethlem, Jan. 10, 1792," 4to. "The Medical Spectator, Vols. I. and II." 8vo. cution of them to a country builder, in order to save the expence of an Architect. Mr. Reveley, mortified at this treatment of his professional character, rather warmly, but very innocently observed, that to commit a work of such consequence to a common Carpenter, when an Architect was at hand, would be as injudicious as if any one, in a case of great danger, should apply to an Apothecary when he could consult a Physician. It was stated at the time that a member of the Committee was an Apothecary; and Mr. Reveley was astonished to find himself and his designs dismissed, to make room for a Builder, who probably was not qualified to make such frivolous distinctions. This accomplished Architect was a man of strict integrity in all his dealings, and the little eccentricities of his character had no tendency to weaken the main supporters of it. He died, after a few hours illness, in the prime of life, July 6, 1799. * On the Report of that Committee, of which I had the honour of being an active Member, many useful regulations were introduced in those munificent and truly Royal establishments. "The ingenious Author of this Miscellany, in imitation of his predecessor the Spectator, begins by giving an account of himself, and seven companions, members of the Medico-Spectatorial-Club, who are all engaged in the different branches of the practice of Physic. We may, therefore, expect in the course of the Work, observations on every thing new or important in that Science. The principal part of the first Volume is employed in examining the Harringtonian system of the atmosphere, and the use of respiration, contrasted with the opinions on those subjects, of Priestley, Lavoisier, Black, Crawford, &c. In the course of the Volume are many humourous and entertaining papers, anecdotes, &c. intended probably to amuse and relieve the Reader, amidst his more grave and serious lucubrations; and with that view, we will add, they may be read with advantage." British Critic, III. 699, 700. This scientific and very amusing work, not meeting with the encouragement which it well deserved, was closed when a small part only of the Third Volume was completed. The Author was shrewdly suspected to be Dr. John Sherwen, an eminent Physician at Bath, and a strenuous advocate for the authenticity of Rowley's Poems. "Poems, |