The disorder which hastened his death was an obstruction in the bladder, occasioned by a delicacy which made him unwilling to alight from his carriage for relief. He died at his house in Harpur Street, Dec. 26, 1780; and his remains were interred, Jan. 5, in the Quakers burying-ground at Winchmore-hill. The executors, who were his sister, and Mr. Chorley, linendraper, in Gracechurch Street, who married one of his nieces, intended the burial to be private; but the desire of the Quakers to attend the funeral rendered it impossible. Only ten coaches were ordered, to convey his relations and friends; but there were more than seventy coaches and post-chaises attending; and many of the Friends came above 100 miles, to pay their last tribute of respect. The Doctor by his will appointed, that his shells, and other pieces of natural history, should be offered to the late Dr Hunter at 500l, under the valuation he ordered to be taken of them. Accordingly Dr. Hunter bought them for 1200l. The drawings and collections in Natural History, which he had spared no expence to augment, were also to be offered to Mr. (now Sir Joseph) Banks, at a valuation. His English portraits and prints, which had been collected by Mr. John Nickolls of Ware, and purchased by him for 80 guineas, were bought for 200 guineas by Mr. Thane. His books were sold by auction, April 30, 1781, and the eight following days. His house and garden at Upton were valued at 10,000l. The person of Dr. Fothergill (of whom a Portrait is here annexed) was of a delicate rather than an attenuated make. His features were all expressive, and his eye had a peculiar brilliancy. There was a charm in his conversation and address that conciliated the regard and confidence of all who employed him; and so discreet and uniform was his conduct, that he was not apt to forfeit the esteem which he had once acquired. At his meals he was uncommonly abstemious, eating sparingly, and rarely exceeding two glasses of wine at dinner or supper. By this uniform and steady temperance, he preserved his mind vigorous and active, and his constitution equal to all his engagements. His writings, with the exception of his inaugural thesis 'De Emeticorum Usu,' and his Account of the Putrid SoreThroat,' consist principally of papers printed in the Philosophi cal Transactions of the Royal Society, and in the Medical Observations and Inquiries,' a work of which six volumes were published, and which is known and highly esteemed wherever medical science is successfully cultivated. Besides the numerous essays in that excellent collection to which the name of Dr. Fothergill is prefixed, he was the author of the three anonymous papers in the fourth volume, which constitute the 8th, 10th, and 17th articles. He also published, as already remarked, several little essays, on the weather, and reigning diseases, on the Simarouba, and other subjects, in the Gentleman's Maga zine, and other periodical publications, which, however, were written in haste, and not publicly avowed. These have been collected by Dr. Elliott, 1781, Svo; and by Dr. Lettsom, 1784, 4to." P. 297. ling to use in Terred, re-hill JOHN FOTHERGILL MD. ER.S. Qui suas Seire concefsit, celerem et medendi Delius usum From a Bust in the Posefsion of Dr Letteom P. 227. A very neat mural monument, by Westmacott, has been placed in Brompton chapel, thus inscribed: "Sacred to the memory of the Rev. Richard Harrison, Minister of this Chapel from its opening in 1769, Rector of St. John's, Clerkenwell, and Evening Preacher at the Magdalen Hospital, He departed this life 23d Dec. 1793, aged 57 years. "His labours were abundant: his praise is in the Gospel: his reward is with the MOST HIGH!" On this subject I received the following Letter from a very excellent Friend: "DEAR SIR, Chelsea, Feb. 10, 1797. "I observed with pleasure your account of the monument lately erected in honour of an oid and much regretted Friend. Musing upon it in my walks, I was, a few days since, very agreeably surprized, on calling upon a lady, to find the following piece, large, framed and glazed, hung up in her drawing-room. It was elegantly worked on a white tissue ground, with black silk. The representation was a funeral urn, well designed, overspread with a weeping willow; and at the base, as if near a streamlet, were aquatic plants and reeds in a withering state. On the front was placed the narrative part of the inscription; be neath the base the striking character of the deceased; closed by the elegiac lines, whose impression I hope never to forget. You knew the Man; and with me, I am persuaded, feel for the loss of a Friend, an Instructor, and an amiable Pattern. Weeden Butler." "An Elegy on the much lamented Death of the Rev. Mr. Harrison; who died on Monday, Dec. 23, 1793, aged 57. "After preaching twice the day before (Sunday), in the morning at Charlotte-street Chapel, Pimlico, and in the evening at St. John's, Clerkenwell, which was his last sermon; Mr. Harrison was struck with an apoplectic fit the following morning, and expired about noon, after testifying his confidence in God, through the merits of Christ his Redeemer. "A more able or zealous Minister of the Word seldom filled the pulpit; a more worthy, humane, and upright man, never adorned the Christian character in his private walks. "Watch ye, therefore; for, ye know not when the Master of the House cometh; at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning. Mark xiii. 35. Go, happy Spirit! share the rest Appointed for the Saints of GOD, Who, through their Saviour's love, are blest, Behold, the generous Spirit 's fled Ye mourners then restrain the tear. The plaintive accents melt the heart; Now Now our best Friend to Heav'n is gone, But hark! from Heav'n a voice descends: And shuns the Tempter's fatal snare." P. 240. Henry-James Pye, esq. descended from a very antient and respectable family, was born in London in 1745, and educated at home under a private tutor until he had attained the age of seventeen, when he entered a gentleman commoner of Magdalen College, Oxford, under the care of Dr. Richard Scroup, where he continued four years, and had the honorary degree of M. A. conferred on him July 3, 1766. In 1772, at the installation of Lord North, he was also created LL. D-From his earliest days Mr. Pye was devoted to reading. When he was about ten years old, his father put Pope's Homer into his hand; the rapture which he received from this exquisite paraphrase of the Grecian Bard was never to be forgotten, and it completely fixed him a Rhymer for life, as he has pleasantly expressed it. To this early love of reading Mr. Pye was indebted for the various learning he possessed. Within ten days after he came of age, his father died (March 2, 1766,) at Faringdon; and Mr. Pye married in the same year, the sister of Lieutenant-col. Hooke, and lived chiefly in the country, making only occasional visits for a few weeks to London, dividing his time between his studies, the du ties of a magistrate, and the diversions of the field, to which he was remarkably attached. He was for some time in the Berkshire militia. In 1784 he was chosen Member of Parliament for Berkshire; but the numberless expences attending such a situa tion, and the contest to obtain it, reduced him to the harsh, yet necessary, measure, of selling his paternal estate. In 1790 Mr. Pye was appointed to succeed his ingenious and worthy Friend Mr. T. Warton, as Poet-laureat; and in 1792 he was nominated one of the magistrates for Westminster, under the Police Act; in both of which situations he conducted himself with honour and ability. His first literary production, probably, was an "Ode on the Birth of the Prince of Wales," published in the Oxford Collection; after which a considerable number of publications successively appeared from his pen *. He died at Barnet, Aug. 11, 1813, in his 69th year. P. 240. Of Mr. Boscawen, see a full and satisfactory account in Chalmers's Biographical Dictionary, vol. VI. p. 146. • See a list of them in Gent. Mag, vol. LXXXIII. Part ii. p. 295. |