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exotics, now houfed with care in the winter, are hardy enough to live abroad in moderate feafons, and to afeertain these from experience is defirable; the flowerborders would hereby obtain acceffion of ornament in that period when they are generally moft deftitute; the plants thrus placed in the open ground will grow much ftronger, flower more freely, and perfect their feeds better; and the green-houte, nay, probably, in fome inftances, the hot-houte, might fpare feme winter-tenants, thereby making room for others to whom their protection is more neceifary. Great advantage may have been taken of the pretent uncommonly mild winter, in afcertaining this fubject; and the refult of experiment in various inftances would be very acceptable to many of your readers-to none more than myfelf, who, if in my power, will readily, in return, communicate thofe within my own knowledge. T. C.

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felfor Hunt, of whom, and of whofe firft literary work, mention is made in p. 8 of your last volume *, following imperfect notices may, perhaps, be deemed not altogether uninterefting. The pothumous publication, there referred to, confifts of 193 quarto pages, befides eight of Introduction, and had for its editor his highly efteemed friend, Dr. Kennicott, in whofe Preface, dated March 3, 1775, he speaks of himfelf as having been "honoured with the particular friendship of the learned profeffor during near thirty years; and the "greatnefs of his literary fame, and the high eftimation in which he was juftly held by real proficients in Oriental literature," are there duly recognized. At the end of this important, though fmall volume, are advertifed two

In L. 43, of which page red "p.rgz." See allo p. 35, col. I, of vol. XLVI.

Latin fpeeches, delivered by hin "in Schola Linguarum:" the first of which; "De Antiquitate, Elegania, Utilitate, Lingue Arabicæ," was published in 1739; as was the other, "De Ufu Dialectorum Orientalium, ac præcipuè Arabicæ, in Hebraico Codice interpretando," in 1748. In 1746 the learned profelor put out" Propofals for printing Abdollatiphi Hiftorie Ægypti Compendium';" with a fall account of the work accompanying them: which, however, he never publithed (See vol. LI. p. 455. col. 2.). Dr. Kennicott obferves, that "he was remarkably timorons and diftraftful of his own judgement," which had prevented him from finishing the pofthumous volume himself; 112 pages of which were printed off long before his death. In 1757 he published the works of Bishop Hooper; in the "General Preface" to which he reprefents him-, felf as "one who had received many obligations from his lordship;" and as having had the honour to be. acquainted with Bishop Hooper's family; and formerly been intrufted bishop

of publishing one of his learned works;" which was that intituled, "De Benedictione Patriarchæ Jacobi Gen. xlix. Conjecturæ. Oxon. 1728, 4to; in the copious preface to which the editor alfo exprelles himfelf as greatly beholden to the kindness and benevolence of the bithop, then lately deceated; and as amply remunerated for any fer-. viee which "tenues meæ vires ei præftare poffent, fuis jampridem be neficiis, in me a pueritiâ ufque collatis, gratiffimoque femper a mé Latin Epitaph" on this prelate, animo recolendis." The "elegant which is inferted in vol. LXII. P. 165, was written by George Wigan, of Chrift Church, who was created D. D. by diploma, in 1749; and is more accurately printed im mediately after the "General Preface," by Dr. Hunt; by whom he is characterized as a gentleman of the greatest veracity as well as

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learning; one who is allowed to be as good a judge of merit in general, as he certainly was well acquainted with that of the great prelate he cele"brates; and it is as jutt and true in every article, as it is claffical andele gant." Our worthy Profeffor's epiftolary correfpondence, both abroad and at home, was confiderable. Some of his letters are to be found in Mr. Stedman's valuable publication, reviewed in vol. LX. pp. 644 646. In more than one of them he mentions his Egyptian Hiftory," and his attendance on Abdollatiph;" which he had noticed in p. 26 of his fecond speech, as having prevented him from the pubdication of two lectures, " quas ad prelum mittere cogitabam, hic Orationi, cujus doctrinam confirmant et perficiunt, fubjung ndas:" Are his labours upon Abdollatiph, and there two lectures, quite loft to the world? Dr. Kennicott was fo fully employed in his own fiupendous publication, that it was not to be expected that he could allow himself an opportunity of aninutely examining all the papers of the learned Profeffor. His renowned fucceffor in the Arabic chair, Dr. White, will probably fatisfy the enquiry relative to Abdollatiph, when he fulfills his defign, expreffed to long fince as April 1778, of publishing an English tranilation of Abdollatiph's travels in Egypt (fee vol. LI. p. 312. col. 2). Dr. Kennicott, in 1759, dedicated his fecond volume on the "State of the printed Hebrew Text of the Old Teftament" to his much refpected friend, Dr. Hunt, to whom he ftood" indebted for his knowledge of the very clements of the Hebrew language." The infolent and degrading reflections on the amiable profeffor, from the foul pen of an impertinent Frenchman, who had been hofpitably received by him, partly occafioned an animated "Lettre à Monfieur A[nquetil] du P[erron] dans la quelle eft compris l'Examen de fa Traduction des Livres attribués à

Zoroaftre *. A Londres: chez P. Elintly, 1771;" in which is the following paffage: "Nous avons, Monfieur, Thonneur de connaitre le Docteur Hunt, et faifons gloire de le respecter," p. 22. This letter was written by the late truly eminent Sir William Jones, then only B. A.; who was fully fenfible of the great merits of his friend Dr. Hunt, and confequently indignant at the prefumption and ingratitude of the conceited Frenchman. It is greatly to be regretted that the good doftor was fo difinclined to finish the works he had projected. It might not, however, be fo much difinclination as real want of leifure: for, befides that not a little. of his time was occupied in aftending to the various foreign travel-lers who engaged his notice while on their vitits to the University, his conftant refidence in it occafiosed frequent interruptions from many correfpondents, who withed to confult hun upon fubjects of enquiry, which could there only be fatisfactorily difcuffed. The late Dr. Gregory Sharpe, among many other learned men at home, was under no fmall obligations to him, though no notice is taken of fuch obligations in the prolegomena pres fixed to the two volumes of the celebrated Dr. Hyde's Dittertations, &c. published by him from the Clarendon prefs, in 1767, in quarto. During the progrefs of this laudable undertaking, the edifor was continually applying to the profeffor, who afforded every information in his power, and even beftowed his affiftance in correcting the fheets at the prefs. But fo liftlefs and unconscionable was the former, as to folicit the latter to undertake the unwelcome talk of tranilating a long English detail of introductory matter into Latin which being declined by the profelor, the editor was fo much chagrined, that feveral expreflions of compliment were curtailed or erafed from the manufcript, when *See vol. XXXI p. 373-par.

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ban, I cannot help thinking the yle of non-gardening by Meffrs. Price and Knight a tiflue of the deftructive principles of the natural rights of man, and as little calculated to produce comfort, or improve the national tafte. That a return of fome particular thoughts fhould be common to Mr. Repton, as to other artifts, is not extraordinary; but that no man exerts his talents more to conceal his art, cannot be denied. To Mr. Dallaway's quotation, I would oppofe them with the following remarks from Lord Orford on modern gardening *. L'ennui du beau amene le goût du fingulier. The noble fimplicity of the Auguttan age was driven out by falfe tafle. The gigantic; the puerile, the quaint, and at latt the barla rous, and the monkish, had each their fucceffive admirers. We have given the true model of gardening to the world; let other countries mimic or corrupt our tafte; but let it reign here on its verdant throne, original by its elegant fimplicity, and proud of no ther art than that of foftening Nature's harflineffes, and copying her graceful touch. The more we expect novelty, the fooner our tafle will be vitiated. Situations are every where fo various, that there never can be a fameness while the difpofition of ground is ftudied and followed, and every incident of view turned to advantage."

THE GHOST OF KENT.

Mr. URBAN, Grosvenor-fq. Feb. 1S. N'your account of the death of Edward, Earl of Aldborough, &c. p. 91, you fay he died in Dubli, &c. No; he died, of a ftroke of the palfy, at his manfion of Belan, in the county of Wicklow, Jan. 2; and was buried in a vault in St. Thomas's church, in Dublin, the 7th of the faine month, He married, firft, Barbara, daughter of the Hon. Mr. Herbert. He took the leafe of the ground of the city of London, and planned and

* Quarto ed. 1798, vol. II. p. 544,

built Stratford-place, and Aldborough-houfe. where they refided. At her death he let it on leafe, on marrying a fecond wife, AnnElizabeth, daughter of Sir John Henniker, of Newton-hall, near Dunmow, and Stratford-houfe, Weft Ham, both in the county of Effex, then baronet (now lord). His Lordfhip was married at the houfe of her aunt, the Dowagerdutchefs of Chandos, in Grofvenorfquare, by the Archbishop of York. He received with her a fortune; paid down in money, of 50,000l. which redeemed from incumbrances his large fortune in both kingdoms. He then built a new manfion for himself in Stratford-place, next door to Aldborough-houfe, for their town refidence, and finished Stratford-place. Never were two hearts more firmly united. Conjugal felicity was their aim, and each other's happinefs their object; and they were jointly the encouragers of the arts, the parents of the poor, and the openhearted friends of the indigent. A more fincere Chriftian, a more loyal fubject, a firmer patriot, a better hufband, or a better man, never lived. He was fovereign of the borough of Baltinglafs, to which town he was a conftant and large benefactor, and in which he had great property. He built the town of Stratford upon Slaney, of 400 fone houfes flated; a fuperb church, which he endowed; and, although a ftrict Proteftant, a place of worship for the Roman Catholicks. He gave bleaching grounds and lent money to eftablish manufactories in it. He alfo has creéted, in Dublin, a grand fione man fion, in the higheft and most elegant ftyle, with playhoufe, coldbath, mufic room, and every requifite, now finished, for his intended refidence. His laft act was the erection of the Corinthian pillar noticed in vol. LXX. p. 230. His Lordthip is fucceeded in his title by his next brother, John, now Earl of Aldborough, &c.

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