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    Jisefh PeUr Bucho * , M , Z > . —M . Pfeffel . —M . Antoinc Bernard CaUterd . J — * fm Fe wings . —Charles M * Ccrmick LL . 2 ? .

    an . 30 , at Paris , aged ., 77 , JOSEPH PETER BUCHOZ , M . D . fellow of the College of Physicians at Nancy ; born at Metz , Jan . 27 , 1731 . His works , as enumerated by himself in a catalogue printed in 178 a , consisted of 3 ^ 9 volumes of various sizes . So well did he

    xnent the title of " Polygraphus /' given him by Haller . His works were chiefly relative to Natural History , and be is said to have expended 200 , 000 livres jn printing and engraving . During the latter part of his life he was reduced to great distress ; but a short time before his death the French

    Government granted him a pension of 1200 livres , ( 50 L ) per annum . Marchj at Paris , at the age of 81 , M . PFEFFEL , publicistforforeign relations , member of * the Legion of Honour and author of a Chronological Abridgement of the History and Public Law of

    Germany , ' a work thrice ^ printed , and which speedily acquired a high reputation . It is frequently quoted in Dr . Robertson ' s History of Charles Vth . M . PfefFel had travelled through the greatest part of Europe ,. had been engaged in the most important affairs of his time , and was connected with the

    most distinguished persons ; he had been a sagacious observer , and being possessed of a happy memory , was a living chronicle of the last half of the past century . He was frequently urged to continue his

    historical work to his own times , but he pertinaciously refused , urging that an ostensible-agent in political life ought not to publish the history of the times in which he himself has lived . He was a

    man of an open and amiable temper , simple in his manners , and worthy in all die relations of life-May , at Paris , M . ANTOINE BERNARD CALLIARD , at the age of 70 .

    He was fir it employed under JVLTurgot , whan intenclant of Limoges , and afterwards was secretary of legation at Parma , Cassel , and Copenhagen , and charge d * affaires in the last capital . He went in the same quality to Pctci bburg ,

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    and was subsequently minister plenipotentiary at Ratisbon and Berlin . On hi * return to France , in 1795 , he was mqdc

    keeper of the archives of foreign rela . lions , which post he held till his death . His active employments did not p : event him from cultivating literature , and he possessed a very select library . He wrote Memoirs on the Revolution of

    Holland in 1787 , and was one of * the translators of Lavater ' s Essays oh Physiognomy . He also communicated several interesting articles to the Magazia Encyclopedique , and to other journal * . A few months since at Chumleieh ,

    JOHN FEWINGS , aged upwards of 90 . This man was of the humble occupation of a tinker , but he presented a singular contrast to the corrupt manner * and dissolute life of this description of itinerants . He was never known to

    take what is technically called a dram , nor was he ever seen in a stateof intoxication ; and until within a year or two previous to his decease , he uniformly followed his employment without the assistance of glasses . At this advanced period abo he would ( to accomodate an old customer ) walk five or six miles , with his tools at his back , and return the

    same day , July a ? , aged 64 , CHARLES M < CORM 1 CK , L . L . B . He was a native of Ireland , and having early - evinced a love for reading and information , hia

    father , who had brought up a large fa * mily on a few paternal acres , determined to indulge this disposition as far as his slender patrimony would permit . A schoolmaster was settled in the neighbourhood who was a man of real classic of

    ca ^ learning . excellence the teacher , in a few years , discover ed itself in- the r ^ pid progress of the scholar in Roman and Greek literature . At the same time he wa ; not unmindful of the poet 3 , orators and historians of h ' n own country , while an ardent love of librrty led him to a perusal of those authors "whohad written on the British Constitution . At ihe age of 18 he came t , o JLon-

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1807, page 553, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2385/page/45/