with an Appendix, containing Remarks on the Letter of Mr. Burke, on the Revolution in France, 1790. Dialogue between an Associator and a well-informed Englishman, on the Grounds of the late Association and the Commencement of the War with France. Remarks on the Conduct, Principles, and Publications, of the Association at the Crown and Anchor, in the Strand, for preserving Liberty and Property against Republicans and Levellers. An Examination into the Nature and Evidence of the Charges brought against Lord William Russel and Algernon Sydney, by Sir John Dalrymple, Bart. in his Memoirs of Great Britain, 1730. A Dialogue between Two Gentlemen, concerning the Application to Parliament for Relief in the Matter of Subscription to the XXXIX Articles and Liturgy of the Church, of England. All these tracts, together with the "Review of the Doctrine of Christianity," were reprinted in three volumes, 8vo. 1796. Dr. T. wrote also the first seven of the ten volumes of "British Biography," published 1786. Memoirs of the Life and Reign of Frederick III. King of Prussia, two vols. 1788. An Oration delivered at the London Tavern, Nov. 4, 1788, on Occasion of the Commencement of the Revolution, and Completion of a Century from that great Event. He assisted Dr. Kippis in the new edition of the "Biographia Britannica," though the Doctor no where formally acknowledged his assistance; he wrote all the articles signed T. He is supposed to have been the editor of the last edition of the "British Plutarch;" and was said to have been engaged in writing a continuation of Hume's "History of England;" but that plan, it is believed, was laid aside. "As a compiler, he had great merit. His tracts are marked by an attachment to the interests of religion and virtue, but are written on Whig principles, and are characteristic of a politician more addicted to warmth than strict moderation can approve." (Literary Memoirs of Living Authors.) "They are distinguished by a clear and forcible, more than a brilliant, style; his observations are rather direct and pointed than moralizing or sententious; his subjects are, for the most part, popular and interesting, and he treats them commonly in an earnest, popular, and intetesting manner." (Critical Review, 1796.) The "Illustrations of Prophecy," are generally ascribed to a son of Dr. T. keeper of Dr. Williams's library in Red Cross-street, Barbican. Mr. July 5. At Bristol Hot-Wells, of a deep decline, Anthony Morris Storer, Esq. of Devonshire-street, and Purley, Berks; a man whose singular felicity it was to excel in every thing he set his heart and hand to, and who deserved, in a certain degree, if any one ever did since the days of Crichton, the epithet of Admirable. He was the best dancer, the best skaiter, of his time, and beat all his competitors in gymnastic honours. He excelled too as a musician, and a disputant, and very early as a Latin poet. In short, whatsoever he undertook he did it con amore, and as perfectly as if it were his only accomplishment. Quod volebat, valdè volebat. He was bred at Eton with Mr. Fox and Earl Fitzwilliam, and at Cambridge with Mr. Hare and Lord Carlisle. After he had finished his academic course; he came to London, and for many years figured in the circle of bon-ton as the Coryphæus of fashion; and led the dancing world at balls and assemblies till he went with Mr. Eden and the Earl of Carlisle to America. Returned thence, he was some time after sent by Mr. Fox to Paris as secretary of legation, and remained a short time plenipotentiary when the Duke of Manchester came home." Storer passed a great part of his life with Lord North, in whose family he was domesticated more than in his own. His father, Thomas, died in Jamaica, July 21, 1793, at the age of seventy-six years, of the same complaint as his son, having lived twenty-three years longer. He left him a large Jamaica estate, which in the annus magnus of the West India revenues, produced 1000l.: to this the son added 5000l. a year in Berkshire. His library was curious and select in a variety of departments, and rich in old bindings, in old plays, and Caxtons. Many of his books were illustrated with prints by his own hands, and decorated with drawings by various artists, some of which were honorary. All these he left to Eton college, and such of his books of which they had no copies. The duplicates are to be sold. His fine collection of prints, before and after the revolution, he has left to the same place, with all Sir Joshua's except Mrs. Baddeley and her cat, which he had not got. He was elected F.A.S. 1777; and was a member of the Dilettanti Society. His career was brilliant, but short. He lived much at Purley, where, aided by Mr. Repton, he made a place on the banks of the Thames, and left from 12 to 15,000l. to build a house. "Ne te longis ambagibus ultra Quam satis est morer, ex nitido fit rusticus, atque July 6. After a few hours illness, at his house in Oxford-street, Mr. Willey Revely, architect; a man of great attainments in his science. He 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, if we are not mistaken, he accompanied Sir Richard Worsley, till, on some difference, they separated, and Mr. R. 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 inonument 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, to which there is an appearance that it will now be applied. These plans he sometimes thought of publishing, with large explanations and technical accounts of every part; but we know not how far he had proceeded, or whether he had proceeded at all, in fulfilling such an intertion. 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. Revely's hopes were very apt to do. He was editor of the IIId and posthumous volume of Stuart's "Antiquities of Athens," 1795, and was peculiarly qualified, by his local and professional knowledge, for that of fice. 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 sup posed that he had a very fair prospect of success in his profession. But Revely had rather an aukward way of letting loose his real 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 more pliant and accommodating dispositions. 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 execution of them to a country builder, in order to save the expence of an architect. Mr. Revely, 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. Now, it most unfortunately happened that a member of the committee was an apothecary; and Mr. Revely was astonished to find himself and his designs very unceremoniously dismissed, to make room for a builder, who probably was not qualified to make such frivolous distinctions. We cannot conclude without giving this accomplished architect the best praise that can be bestowed. He 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 was suddenly snatched away in the prime of life, and is now consigned to the disposal of that builder, whose houses, in the language of Shakespeare, will last till domesday. July 12. At Impington, near Cambridge, aged forty-two, the unfortunate Elizabeth Woodcock, who was buried in the snow, in February last, eight days and nights.* Aug. 3. In his seventieth year, at Wilmington, near Dartford, Kent, to which vicarage he was presented in 1767, and, the same year, to the vicarage of Darent, by the Dean and Chapter of Rochester, (having resigned their vicarage of Lamberhurst, to which they had presented him in 1754,) the Rev. Samuel Denne, second son of Dr. John D. Archdeacon of Rochester. He was born at the deanery of Westminster, on January 13, 1730; admitted of Bene't college, Cambridge, 1748, where he proceeded B.A. 1753, M.A. 1756; and was elected F.A.S. 1783, Mr. D. (worn out and nearly exhausted from his disorder, a bilious complaint, which at length fixed, after having tormented him forty years,) was for nearly the two last months confined to the chair in his library; which unassisted he could not quit, and in which he was supported by a pillow, frequently sinking under oppressive languor. But in this situation his mind was not clouded, nor his expression much confused; continuing almost to the last to write, and to write connectedly and pleasantly, to his friends. The very last letter received by one of our correspondents, from the friendly hand which had afforded so much instruction and pleasure, ends thus: "Perhaps I have scribbled quant. suff.; perhaps more than sufficient; for, though I am well able to subscribe myself your faithful and obliged servant, yet in the spirit of weakness is added the signature S. DENNE." On Saturday, August the third, early in the morning, seated in his chair, without having kept his bed a single day, he breathed his last; and on the next Saturday was deposited, near his father, in the South transept of the cathedral of Rochester. An affectionate son he was; and true lover of the spot appointed for his resting place, and has done much for its illustration. For his character, the poor and needy of his parishes of Wilmington and Darent will afford the best testimonial in one respect; the literary word has sufficient in another. In 1771 he published "A Letter to Sir Robert Ladbroke, Knt. senior Ålderman and one of the representatives of the city of London; with an attempt to shew the good effects which may reasonably be expected from the confinement of criminals in separate apartments," 8vo. Of the "History and Antiquities of Rochester," published by T. Fisher, in 1772, he was avowedly the compiler; and was author of an anonymous pamphlet, signed [* See Appendix to this volume. E.] VOL. IV. Hh |
