managers manifested their own discernment and love of letters, by selecting him to be their principal librarian, an appointment for which he was peculiarly qualified; and if time and health had been allowed him, he would have made their library truly valuable. His own, which he has been gradually collecting for thirty years, he has enriched by annotations of such value and importance to literature, that we hope and trust the whole will be placed in his own college, that it may for ever be within the reach of those whom his example may arouse to similar pursuits, though they may despair of reaching equal attainments.

Mr. Porson, as we have stated before, had, for the last eleven years been a victim of spasmodic asthma, during the agony of which he never went to bed, and in which he was forced to abstain from all sustenance. This greatly debilitated his body; and about a month ago he was afflicted by an intermittent fever; he had an unfortunate objection to medical advice, and he resorted to his usual remedy of abstinence; but on Monday, the 19th ult. he suffered an apoplectic stroke, from which he recovered only to endure a second attack the next day. He languished to the Sunday night, and expired without a struggle. The body was opened, by his medical men, and they have given a report, ascribing his death to the effused lymph in and upon the brain, which they believe to have been the effect of recent inflammation. The heart was sound, and the pericardium contained the usual quantity of lymph. The left lung had adhesions to the pleura, and bore the marks of former inflammation. The right lung was in a perfectly sound state." This is signed by Dr. Babington, Sir William Blizard, Mr. Norris, Mr. Blizard, and Mr. Upton. In refutation of an idle falsehood about the form of his skull, they add, "that it was thinner than usual, and of hard consistence."

Mr. Porson has left a sister living, an amiable and accom

plished

lished woman. She is the wife of Sidny Hawes, Esq. of Coltishall, in Norfolk; they have five children; their eldest son is entered of Bene't College, Cambridge. Henry, the second brother of the Professor, was settled in a farm in Essex, and died young, leaving three children. His brother Thomas kept a boarding school at Fakenham, an excellent scholar, and died in 1792 without issue and his father, Mr. Huggin Porson, died in 1805, in his 74th year. His mother died in 1784, aged 57." Courier:

Lately, Miss Elizabeth Smith, formerly of Piercefield, aged thirty, whose Fragments in Prose and Verse have been lately published at Bath by Mrs. Harriet Bowdler, in one vol. 8vo.

Sept. 1. At Norwich, aged forty-nine, Dr. Richard Lubbock, an eminent physician and native of that city, author of an inaugural Dissertation "De Principio Sorbili." 1784.

At Bury St. Edmund's, in Suffolk, æt. thirty-six, William Hamilton, M.D. author of " Observations on the preparation and utility of the Digitalis Purpurea or Foxglove" and other medical tracts.

Oct. 15. At West Ham, James Anderson, of Mounie, in the county of Aberdeen, LL.D.; a man equally distinguished for the variety and depth of his literary attainments, and for that philanthropic zeal so manifest throughout his numerous and valuable writings, with which he endeavoured to contribute to the welfare of mankind in general, and of this country in particular.

Oct. 16. The Rev. Dr. Nasmith, Rector of Leverington, in the Isle of Ely; Editor of Tanners Notitia, &c.

To Correspondents.

The Editor is honoured by the favour from Doncaster:

and requests T. I's promised contributions,

T. Bensley, Printer,

Bolt Court, Fleet Street, London.

CENSURA LITERARIA.

NUMBER XXXV.

[Being Number XXIII. of the New Series.]

ART. I. Curia Militaris: or a Treatise of the Court of Chivalry; in three Books. I. Concerning the Court itself; its Judges and Officers. 11. Of its Jurisdiction, and Causes there determinable. III. Of the Process and proceedings therein. With an Introduction, containing some Animadversions on two posthumous Discourses, concerning the etymology, antiquity, and office of the Earl Marshal of England, ascribed to Mr. Camden, and published in the last edition of the Britannia. By John Anstis, Esq. (of the Middle Temple.) Etiam quod dicere super-vacaneum est prodest cognoscere. Sen. L. vi. C. 1. de Benef. London: Printed by T. Mead, in Giltspur street, near the back gate of St. Sepulchre's Church. 1702. Svo.

ART. II. Letters to a Peer, concerning the Honour of Earl Marshal. Letter I. shewing that no Earl Marshal can be made during the minority of an Hereditary

VOL. IX.

London: Printed and

Hereditary Earl Marshal.

sold by the Booksellers of London and Westminster. 1703. Svo. pp. 35.

ART. III. Letters to a Peer concerning the Honour

of Earl Marshal Letter I. shewing that no Earl Marshal can be made during the minority or other incapacity of an Hereditary Earl Marshal, and Marshal of England. London: Printed and sold by the Booksellers of London and Westminster. 1706. 8vo. pp. 52.

THE first of these tracts contains nothing more than the introduction, and table of contents of the treatise itself. And Isaac Reed "could never find that any more of this work was ever printed."

The intended" Contents" are worth transcribing, as the outline of a very curious work, which has never yet been satisfactorily filled up.

"Concerning the Court itself; the Judges, Officers, or Ministers thereof.

"Chap. I.-That in all nations where military actions have been in any esteem, and particularly those from whom the English are descended, special laws have been provided for the regulation of them; and several judges appointed to correct the offences, and determine differences concerning the same.

"Chap. II. That in England such officers have been appointed for those purposes, their antiquity; and that the Court Military is an ordinary court of justice in these matters. Of its various appellations;

and

and how far the same, and the proceedings thereof, have been respected at the common law.

"Chap. III. Of the office of Constable in foreign nations; France, Castile, Sicily, Naples, the eastern empire, &c. and of Scotland, Ireland, Chester, Normandy, Calice, and France, whilst in our possession; of divers sorts of Constables in England; of the introducing an High Constable, and tenure of his office in grand serjantry, whereby it would descend to clergymen, infants, lunatics, absent persons, and women; and the methods taken in such cases; of his rights and authority; and of the power said to be lodged in him to arrest the King; of his bringing an action against King Henry the Eighth; the suppressing this office by that King, and in what cases it hath been ince granted pro hac vice tantum; a catalogue and history of them in matters relating to that office, with observations on their patents; of the Constable of the Exchequer, his power and duty; of the Sub-Constable.

"Chap. IV. Of the Marshals in foreign nations, Germany, France, Poland, Sicily, Naples, &c. Of Scotland, Ireland, and France, while in our custody; of the divers sorts of them in this kingdom; of the antiquity of the Great Marshal; and its hereditary descent to clergymen, infants, lunatics, persons absent, and women; and the methods taken in such cases; of the manor of Hempsted-Marshal, anciently annexed to the office, and privileges of other lands belonging to the Marshals; corrections and additions to the list of them in Reliquiæ Spelmanianæ; with observations on their remarkable patents; and the history of their actions, relating to this office; that the office is ministerial in many respects, and whether judicial in any, either

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