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a Sketch of what remains to be ascertained by future Navigators. By William Coxe, A. M. F. R. S.

with three plates, "A Collection of the minute and rare Shells* lately discovered in the Sand of the Sea-shore near Sandwich. By William Boys, Esq. F. S. A. Considerably augmented, and all their figures accurately drawn, as magnified with the Microscope, by George Walker, Bookseller at Faversham;" which, in the Preface, is candidly acknowledged, by the Editor, to be the joint production of Mr. Boys and himself, assisted by their common friend, Edward Jacob, Esq. of Faversham. In 1787, Mr. Boys printed the-above mentioned affecting Narrative, drawn up by his Father, to which he added a preface and an appendix containing some additional anecdotes of the sufferers. In 1792, he communicated to the Society of Antiquaries " Observations on Kits-Coity house in Kent," inserted in the Archæologia, vol. XI.; and Mr. Pennant, Dr. Latham, and many other Antiquaries and Naturalists, in their respective works, acknowledge their obligations for assistance contributed by him. Dr. Latham, in his Index Ornithologicus, has given Mr. Boys's name to a new species of Fern communicated by him. In 1787, Mr. Boys was appointed surgeon to the sick and wounded seamen at Deal; but this appointment was found to require so much of his time and attention, that in 1796 he was induced to relinquish entirely his medical practice at Sandwich, and to reside near the Naval Hospital at Walmer till 1799, when the Commissioners of the Sick and Hurt Office accepted his resignation of the office of Surgeon of the Hospital, and appointed to it his fourth son, Edward Boys, M. D. At this period he returned to Sandwich, but with very impaired health. In February of that year, he had a slight attack of apoplexy; and in December another and more alarming paroxysm occurred, from the effects of which he did not recover for nine or ten months. March 2, 1803, his servant, on coming into the parlour where he was sitting after breakfast, found him fallen back in his chair in a state of apoplexy. He remained in this state, but with symptoms which, for some days, at intervals, encouraged his friends to hope that he might still recover, till the 15th of the same month in the afternoon, when he placidly breathed his last. He had been for many years a very useful magistrate of the town in which he resided; having been elected a Jurat of Sandwich in 1761, and served the office of Mayor in 1767 and 1782. In 1775, when the Corporation found it expedient to oppose an intended Act of Parliament for draining the general valleys of East Kent, on the grounds that the remedy proposed to be adopted might, without effecting the professed object of the Bill, prejudice, if not

* Plancus, in a treatise " De Conchis minus notis,' printed at Venice in 1739, is the only writer who bad before described shells so minute as those which are the subject of this work, by Mr. Boys and Mr. Walker. totally

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One of the Senior Fellows of King's College, Cambridge."

"Dr. George Harris's* Visitation Articles," 4to.

totally destroy, the haven and harbour of Sandwich; Mr. Boys drew up a very sensible memorial on the subject, which was printed in 4to, but without his name, under the title of "The Case of the Inhabitants and Corporation of the Town and Port of Sandwich, in the County of Kent, touching a Bill lately brought into the House of Commons, to enable the Commissioners of Sewers, for several Limits in the Eastern Parts of the County of Kent, more effectually to drain and improve the Lands within the general Valleys." The attention he paid to this subject rendered him afterwards very useful as one of the Commissioners of Sewers for East Kent, at whose meetings he was a constant attendant as long as his health permitted.-An elegant mural Monument has been erected in the Parish Church of St. Clement at Sandwich, by his family, with the following Inscription:

"Juxta sepultus est

GULIELMUS Boys, Armiger, S. A. et L. S. Socius;
ab antiquâ et clarâ familia

olim de Bonington et Fredville in hôc comitatû oriundus. Natus est apud Deal; inde discedens, Chirurgiam et Medicinam in hoc Oppido

ab adolescentia usque ad provectiorem ætatem exercuit.
Oppidi hujusce et Portus XLII annos Juratus,
Bis Prætoris munere functus est.

Inter officia institutæ vitæ susceptæque publicæ curæ obeunda,
literas humaniores feliciter excoluit,
Historiam Naturalem, Antiquitatis Monumenta,
Domesticosque præsertim Oppidi et Portûs Sandvicensis Annales,
ingenii solertiâ et studio illustravit.

Vir eximio animi candore, suavissimis moribus,
summâ vitæ integritate ornatus,

Mortem obiit, LXVIII annos natus, XVto die Martii,
Anno Domini MDCCCIII.

Uxorem primam duxit, anno MDCCLIX, Elizabetham, Henrici Wise, hujusce Oppidi, generosi, filiam; quæ demortua anno MDCCLXI, in Ecclesià S'cti Petri sepulta est: alteram, anno MDCCLXII, Janam, Thomæ Fuller, de Statenborough in villa de Eastry in hoc comitatu, armigeri, filiam; quæ demortua anno MDCCLXXXIII, in eodem tumulo cum marito sepulta jacet : Ex illâ filium unicum Gulielmum-Henricum, filiam unicam Elizabetham: Ex hâc sex filios, Thomam, Johannem-Paramor, Edvardum, Henricum, Robertum-Pearson, Georgium; tres filias, Janam, Mariam, et Saram suscepit. Quorum Elizabetha et Sara olim è vitâ excessêre; reliqui verò superstites hâc tabula Patris dilectissimi memoriam consecraverunt.'

* George Harris, D. C. L. (Chancellor of the Dioceses of Durham,

"Select Beauties of Antient English Poetry; with Remarks by Henry Headley*, A. B." 2 vols. 8vo.

ham, Winchester, Hereford, and Landaff; and Commissary of Essex, Herts, and Surrey) was the son of Dr. John Harris, Bishop of Landaff; and died April 19, 1796. He was Author of a small pamphlet, intituled "Observations upon the English Language, in a Letter to a Friend, 1753;" translator of "Justinian's Institutes, 1756," 4to.; and published a second Edition of that admirable work in 1761. He left a very large fortune, which he chiefly bequeathed to public charities: to St. George's Hospital 40,000l.; to Hetherington's Charity for the Blind 20,000l.; to the Westminster Lying-in Hospital 15,000l.; and to the Hereford Infirmary 5000l.

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* "To those who know the good taste of this ingenious Collector, no recommendation of his volumes will be necessary. To the Publick at large we may report, that they are well adapted to do justice to deserted merit; and, by diversifying the materials of common reading, and opening such sources of innocent amusement, may probably lead to strengthen and cooperate with that taste for poetical antiquities which for some time past has been considerably advancing." Gent. Mag. LVII.1169. For some memoirs of this amiable Scholar, see vol. VIII. p. 158. -The following Inscription was proposed for his Tomb:

"Thou, who now read'st this luckless tale secure,
Thy fate expect, and deem that fate mature;
For, know, here sleeps what Genius could not save,
Nor Youth nor Virtue rescue from the grave."

His memory was also thus embalmed by Mr. Bowles:
"Sad, o'er her fainting Favourite Fancy sigh'd,
When, in life's opening morn, Eugenius died!
Ah, long had pining Sickness left her trace,
Silent and pale, o'er each decaying grace;
Whilst Resignation, musing on the grave,
To his wan eye a sadder sweetness gave.
Nor ceas'd he yet to stray, where, winding wild,
The Muse's path his drooping steps beguil'd,
Intent to rescue some neglected rhime,

Lone-blooming, from the mournful waste of Time;
Or mark each scatter'd sweet, that seem'd to smile
Like flowers upon the long-forsaken pile.

Far from the murmuring crowd, unseen he sought
The charms congenial to his sadden'd thought.
When the grey morn illum'd the mountain's side,
To hear the sweet bird's earliest song he hied:
When meekest eve to the fold's distant bell
Listen'd, and bad the woods and vales farewell,

"Sir Philip Sidney's Defence of Poetry* ;" and "Observations on Eloquence and Poetry, from the Discourses of Ben Jonson ;" edited by Dr. Joseph Warton.

"Poetical Translations from various Authors. By Master John Browne of Crewkerne, Somerset ; a Boy of Twelve Years old! Published by the Rev. Robert Ashe, Curate of Crewkerne, and Master of the Free Grammar School, for the Benefit of his Pupil." 4to.

"An Essay on Mathematical Language; or, an Introduction to the Mathematical Sciences. By C. G. A. Baselli §." Svo.

Musing in tearful mood, he oft was seen,
The last that linger'd o'er the fading green.—
The waving wood, high o'er the cliff reclin'd,
The murmuring water-fall, the winter's wind,
His heart with kindred music seem'd to suit,
Like sad airs touching soft the mourning lute.
Nor deem Affection's genuine spirit dead,
Tho' from the world's hard gaze his feelings filed.
Firm was his friendship, and his faith sincere,
And warm as Pity's his unheeded tear,

That wept the ruthless deed, the poor man's fate,
By Fortune's storms left cold and desolate.
Farewell-yet be this humble tribute paid
To all thy virtues, from that social shade
Where once we sojourn'd.—I, alas, remain,
To mourn the hours of youth (yet mourn in vain)
That fled neglected.-Wisely thou hast trod
The better path, and that high meed, which God
Ordain'd to Virtue, towering from the dust,

Shall bless thy labours-Spirit, pure and just!"

In Gent. Mag. LIX. 649, are some verses supposed to have been written by Mr. Headley during his last illness; a supposition disproved in p. 674 on the authority of his admirable friend Mr. William Benwell, who survived him but a few years.

* This Tract, having again become extremely scarce, has been re-published by Lord Thurlow, in an elegant quarto volume.

See Dr. Warton's ideas, in 1784, on this projected publication; vol. VI. p. 172.

Afterwards Dr. Hoadly-Ashe; of whom hereafter.

"In this age, when every effort is made to reduce the sciences to the utmost simplicity, we are sorry to find ourselves under the necessity of observing, that the Author of the present

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"Favourite Tales, translated from the French*." "A Treatise on Tropical Diseases, and on the Climate of the West Indies. By Benjamin Mose

performance has rendered the art of arithmetic and algebra more complex than he found it, and has deprived it of that simplicity and conciseness which ought always to distinguish the first principles of the Mathematics. The book contains a variety of matter, among which we have observed some particulars that shew the Author's ingenuity; and others which persuade us that he has not applied to the mathematical studies in vain."

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* "These Tales,' very much beyond the ordinary run of French frippery, are original and entertaining." The Translator was Captain Skinner. Gent. Mag. LVII. 1092.

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Monthly Review, Vol. LXXVIII. p. 349. "This judicious and interesting work has unlocked many recesses, in which a rational cure seems to be found for some of the most dreadful diseases incident to the human body. happy to find that the treatment of those diseases is founded on experience, and on such facts as may encourage a similar practice." Gent. Mag. LVII. 1175. This respectable Writer (now one of the Senior Licentiates of the Royal College of Physicians in London) is of the antient family of Moseley in Lancashire. He began his medical career in London and Paris, under the most eminent practical masters in pharmacy, chemistry, anatomy, surgery, and physic; and having from these sources drawn acquirements of which no Physician should be ignorant, he embarked for the West Indies, where the views most flattering to his hopes were fully answered. Soon after his arrival in Jamaica, he was appointed Surgeon-general of that Island, and acted in that arduous situation during the war. The advantage derived from his skill and attention were in every emergency demonstrated, when violent diseases made their ravages among the militia, and in the camps of the regulars, exposed to the severest trials of fatigue and climate, under repeated martial law, for the defence of the country, against the enemies of Great Britain. During the war, at the particular instance, and for the immediate benefit, of the military, he published, at Kingston, in Jamaica, a small octavo Essay, containing the method which he had long used in private practice, and among the troops, for curing the Dysentery. This was the first medical piece of literature, of reputation, that had ever been written in that Island. It was fortunately timed, for the enemies as well as for the friends of England, and circulated with great rapidity among the French, Spaniards, and Americans. It pointed out an entirely new and successful method, by perspiration, of treating the Bloody-flux; which had been, and then was, the destruction of their armies, and the cause of the defeat of almost every enterprize in the war. This novel doctrine has since been adopted by practitioners, and the

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