4. Between fifty and fixty articles in the new edition of the Biogr. Britan. with the letter T. annexed.

5. In 1773, An Examination into Sir J. Dalrymple's fcan dalous Attack on the Memory of Sydney and Ruffel.

6. In 1774, A Letter to Dr. Johnfon, occafioned by his recent political Publications. See Bofwell's Life of Johnfon, vol. II. p.

201 and 202. ›

7. A Letter to the Earl of Shelburn, 1782.

8. Obfervations on the Rights and Duties of Juries in Trials for Libels, &c. 1784.

9. Dialogues concerning the Ladies, 1785.

10. In 1786, An Effay on the Life and Writings of Dr. Johnfon.

11. In 1788, Memoirs of the Life and Reign of Frederick III. King of Pruffia. (A fecond edition has been fince published.) 12. Thoughts on the Commencement of a new Parliament, 1790.

13. A Dialogue, &c. refpecting the Commencement of the War with France, 1793.

14. Addrefs to the Electors of Great Britain, 1796.

15. Thoughts on natural Infanity, 1797.

16. Remarks on the Conduct, &c. of the Affociation at the Crown and Anchor, &c.

17. A Translation, from the French, of two Difcourfes delivered before the Royal Academy of Sciences at Berlin, by the Baron de Hertzberg.

18. A Tranflation, from the fame Language, of an historical Memoir of the laft Year of the Life of Frederick II. King of Pruffia.

19. Obfervations on Mr. Hume's Hiftory of England.

And, 20. An Oration delivered at the London Tavern, on the 4th of November, 1788, on Occafion of the Commemoration of the Revolution, and the Completion of a Century from that great Event :

After remarking that, great and interefting events, involving the happiness of nations, have always been celebrated by mankind, he recurs to the important

epoch

epoch, which placed William III. on the throne of

the Stewarts.

"Of this nature, and of this tendency," fays he," is the event which we are this day affembled to commemorate. It is an event, which must ever be regarded as one of the most important recorded in the British annals. It is an event, which, at the period when it happened, justly excited the attention of surrounding nations. It is an event, which will ever reflect honour upon our ancestors, and the remembrance of which should, at all times, excite in their defcendants an ardent zeal for the liberties of their country, and for the rights of human nature.

"That when all the efforts of regal tyranny were employed to overturn the liberties of England, they should have been still more fully established at the REVOLUTION; that, in confequence of that most important event, this country should now have enjoyed an high degree of liberty, civil and religious, for an entire CENTURY, -is a juft subject of national exultation, and of gratitude to the fupreme Ruler of the Universe, from whose providential dispensations Great Britain has derived fuch signal and such invaluable bleffings.

"It is among the highest honours of this country, that its inhabitants have been distinguished, in almost every period of their hiftory, by their firm, manly, and intrepid oppofition to the encroachments of tyranny. On a variety of occafions have our an cestors nobly afferted their rights as men, and as citizens. In the fenate, and in the field, they have repelled the attacks of tyrants, and maintained the honour, the dignity, and the liberties, of their country. Many efforts have been made by the poffeffors of power to overturn these liberties; and, at the period previous to the Revolution, fuch was the defpotifm of the meafures adopted by the then reigning prince, that, if they had been tamely fubmitted to by the people, the liberties of England would have had no longer an exiftence."

It is thus that he mentions the wrongs that led to, and the patriots who diftinguished themselves during that and a former period.

To

"To enter into a particular enumeration of the facts that preceded, and that attended the Revolution, would take up more time than would be fuitable to the nature of such a meeting as the prefent. I fhall, therefore, here only obferve, that when the illegal, the unconftitutional, and the tyrannical adminiftration of king James the Second, had rendered it neceffary that all who had any attachment to the liberties of their country, or to the Proteftant religion, fhould make a firm and united ftand against him; when he affumed a power of fufpending the laws, and of trampling on the conftitution ;-an illuftrious band of patriots rofe, who projected the Revolution, and who adopted those measures that at length brought it to a glorious completion. Among the principal Promoters of the Revolution, we may particularly enumerate the Earls of Devonshire, Shrewsbury, and Danby, Lord Delamere (1) Lord Lumley, Admiral Herbert, Admiral Ruffel, Henry Compton, Bishop of London, and Henry Sydney, brother to the illuftrious Algernon.

Of characters of this kind our country has happily produced too many to be now diftinctly enumerated: but it cannot be im→ proper on this occasion to mention the names of JoHN Hampden, who opposed the unjust claims of regal tyranny in the famous case of Ship-money, and who nobly fell in the caufe of his country in Chalgrove-field; of the virtuous, the amiable, the patriotic Lord RUSSEL; of the high-spirited and illuftrious ALGERNON SYDNEY, whofe admirable writings in the cause of freedom brought him to

(1) Henry Booth, Lord Delamere, afterwards created Earl of Warrington, was a nobleman of amiable and irreproachable character, who is faid to have been one of the original projectors of the Revolution, and who was one of the firft that appeared in arms in its fupport, after the landing of the prince of Orange. But he was not perfectly fatisfied with the manner in which fome points were adjufted at the Revolution. He appears to have withed for more retrenchments of the regal prerogative, and to have thought, that the liberty of the fubject was not fufficiently fecured and afcertained even under the new fettlement. Mr. Granger says of him, in his Biographical History of England, that "he was a man of a generous and noble nature, which difdained, upon "any terms, to fubmit to fervitude; and whofe paffions feemed to centre in "the love of civil and religious liberty." In Lord Delamere's "Advice to his Children," printed in his works, he fays, "There never yet was any good man who had not an ardent zeal for his country."

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the fcaffold; and of JOHN LOCKE, who has explained the true nature of civil government, and established the rights of men on the most unquestionable principles. And among the diftinguished" votaries of liberty in this country, our great and illuftrious bard, the fublime MILTON, fhould not be forgotten. Even the fplentdour of his genius has not secured him from the most virulent attacks from the partizans and advocates of despotic power; and his zeal in fupport of the great rights of mankind, fhould, therefore, the more endear his memory to those who are actuated by the fame generous principles. He is justly entitled to our veneration for the ardour of his patriotifm, as well as for that elevation of genius, which enabled him to reflect so much honour on his coun try by his immortal writings."

The various publications of Dr. Towers, the boldnefs of his principles, his unabated zeal, and the fide he had taken during the American conteft, have all tended to render him confpicuous...

The Doctor was admitted, in 1779, to the academical honours of the univerfity of Edinburgh, having received the degree of LL.D.

Several of his tracts, &c, have been lately re-publifhed in three vols. 8vo. with an admirable portrait of the author prefixed, an outline sketch of which is given in our frontispiece.

He has a fon, who is librarian of Dr. Williams' inftitution, in Red-cross-street, and author of " Illuftrations of Prophecy," in 2 vol. 8vo. a work of confiderable merit.*

Since the publication of the first edition of this work, Dr. Towers has been cut off from his family, his friends, and fociety, having ceased to exift on the 20th of May, 1799, in the 63d year of his age.

LORD

LORD THURLOW.

OF all the learned profeffions, as they are ufually called, that of the law is the moft propitious, in this country at leaft, to fuch as poffefs talents, but are deftitute of fortune. It affords a greater variety of opportunities for a young man to bring both his natural and acquired parts into a confpicuous point of view, and confequently to turn them to a more advantageous account, than any other; and where fterling abilities are united with induftry and application, the chance of fuccefs is highly flattering. In fupport of this affertion, one might refer with great confidence to the catalogue of eminent perfons, who have filled the first legal departments of this kingdom for centuries paft: the court calendar, and the peerage of the prefent day, will furnifh proofs ftill more decifive.

Edward, Lord Thurlow, was born, A.D. 1735, at Ashfield, an obfcure village in the county of Suffolk, of which his father, the reverend Thomas Thurlow (who died in 1762), was vicar, and whence he himfelf derives his barony. The family, like moft others. who bear the fame name with a great man of former times, is faid to be defcended from the celebrated Thurloe, the fecretary of Oliver Cromwell; but if

He married Elizabeth Smith, of Afhfield, by whom he had iffue,

1. The prefent Lord.

2. Thomas, who died Bishop of Durham, May 27, 1791, aged 56; and,

3. John, a manufacturer and alderman at Norwich, who died March 4, 1782.

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