"Reader inquire no further,

"The Lord have mercy on his foul, and thine."

Animated with a lively faith in the glorious Redeemer, Mr. Hanway met the fummons of death with as much. tranquillity as if he had been going on one of his journeys. He expired in 1768; and a fubfcription was raised to erect a monument to his memory.

Biographical Dictionary, Vol. VII.-Hiftoric
Defence of Experimental Religion, Vol. II.

DR. JOHN FOTHERGILL. JOHN FOTHERGILL, a celebrated physician, was born March 8th, 1712, in Yorkshire. After remaining two years under the tuition of Dr. Wilmot at St. Thomas's hofpital, he was fent to Edinburg to ftudy phyfic, and there took his doctor's degree. He began to practice in London about 1740, and acquired both reputation and fortune. He was admitted a licentiate of the college of phyficians in that city, and in 1754, fellow of Edinburg, to which he was a confiderable benefactor. In 1753, he became a member both of the Royal and Antiquarian Societies, and before his death, belonged to the Royal Society at Paris.

Befides his fkill in medical science, he was well acquainted with natural hiftory and botany; and was, for many years, a valuable contributor to the Gentleman's Magazine, which in return affifted his rifing fame. He continued to practice phyfic with uninterrupted fuccefs, till within the two laft years of his life, when a malady, which was caufed by his unremitting attention, obliged

him greatly to contract it, and for fome time before his death he prefcribed gratis. He died at his houfe in Harper ftreet, December 26, 1780, aged fixty nine years.

Dr. Fothergill was eminently diftinguished for active benevolence. His public benefactions, encouragements of fcience, attention to the health, the police, and convenience of the metropolis, are too numerous to be particularly enumerated.

This illuftrious phyfician was a firm believer in the truth of divine revelation; and was at the expense of an entirely new translation of the whole Bible* from the Hebrew and Greek originals, in two volumes folio, 1764 ; and alfo in 1730, of an edition of Bishop Percy's Key to the New Testament.†

In order to confute the opinion, that physicians have been in general unfriendly to chriftianity, Dr. Rush adduces the inftances of Fothergill, Sydenham, Boerhaave, Haller, and other diftinguished characters in the medical line, who have been believers in, and advocates for the facred truths of revealed religion.

Biographia Medica Vol. I.-Rufh's
Medical Inquiries.

JOHN WINTHRO P, Esq.

JOHN WINTHROP, profeffor of mathematics and natural

*This work is faid to have coft the doctor not lefs than 2000 pounds; it was executed by Anthony Purver, a celebrated quaker.

This performance was adapted for a feminary of young quakers at Ackworth, near Leeds, but innumerable inftances confpire to prove his benevolence was not confined to his own denomination.

philofophy, was defcended from an ancient and refpectable family, and born in Bofton, December 19, 1714. He was educated at Harvard college, and graduated in 1732, being then diftinguished for his fuperiour talents, and proficiency in literature.

In the year 1738, he was chofen profeffor of mathematics and natural philofophy, at Harvard college, and filled this place with dignity and propriety. He poffeffed great ftrength of mind, a found judgment, a retentive memory, and uncommon quicknefs of apprehenfion. Being affiduously engaged in pursuing his ftudies, his learning was deep and critical; and he had the happy talent of communicating his ideas in fuch an easy and intelligible manner, as to render the most abstruse subjects plain to his pupils.

The wifdom of his counfels greatly ftrengthened the government of the college. He was not only excellent in his own profeffion, but was an univerfal fcholar. In claffical learning, few were his equals. In order to acquire a more perfect knowledge of the facred writings of the Old Testament, he made fuch a proficiency in the Hebrew language, as enabled him to form an exact judgment on the most critical and difficult paffages.

In his proper profession, he acquired a high character in foreign universities. His merit was early acknowledged, and he was admitted a fellow of the Royal Society in England; with which he maintained a correspondence. When a fociety was formed in Philadelphia for fimilar purposes, he was received among their firft members. Ia 1765, he was honoured by the univerfity of Edinburg with the degree of doctor of laws; and the fame refpe&t

was paid him the fubfequent year by Harvard college. In 1773, when the contention with Great Britain began to affume a serious afpect, he was chofen into the council of Massachusetts, and gave his affiftance in all the measures taken to fecure the liberties of his country, and prevent the calamities of civil war. He was alfo chofen the enfuing year, but, with fome other patriots, was negatived by the governour. When the war with Britain actually commenced, he was again called to the council board, and through that and the following year, continued to employ all his talents in defence of his country.

But the greatest excellence of his character is derived from his fupreme regard to religion. He paid the highest reverence to divine revelation; studied the fcriptures with the greatest attention, and was fully convinced of their truth; hence he vindicated the gospel on all occafions, attended all the public ordinances of religion, and maintained ferious devotion in his family. His piety was undiffembled, and every part of the chriftian temper was apparent in his life and converfation.

This christian philofopher, the day preceding his death gave ample teftimony to the truth of the gospel in the following words: "I view religion as a matter of very great importance. The wife men of antiquity fat themfelves to work to prove the reality of a future ftate. They catched at every thing which had the fhadow of probability. They gave a degree of plausibility to the argument. They were fenfible of the need they ftood in of fuch a doctrine. In oppofition to the wife men of antiquity, the wife men of modern times have employed their abilities to undermine every argument in favour of

immortality, and in weakning the only hope that can fuftain us. But the light thrown on the matter by the glorious gospel, with me amounts to demonftration. The hope which is set before us in the New Testament, is the only thing which can fupport a man in his dying hour. If any man build on any other foundation, in my appre henfion, his foundation will fail."

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This excellent man died 1779, in the fixty fifth year his age. Langdon's Sermon on the death of Profeffor Winthrop

JAMES BURGH.

JAMES BURGH, a worthy and ingenious moral and political writer, was born in Madderty in Perthshire, North Britain, in the latter end of the year 1714. After receiving a school education, he was removed to the university of St. Andrews, with a view of becoming a clergyman in the church of Scotland, but did not continue long at the college, being obliged to leave it on account of ill health. This circumftance induced him to lay afide all thoughts of the clerical profeffion.

After unfuccessfully engaging in trade, he removed to Great Marlow, as an affiftant in the free grammar school of that town, where he first commenced author, by writing a pamphlet, entitled "Britain's Remembrancer," 1746, which went through five large editions in two years. Soon after, he published "Thoughts on Education," and other valuable works.

In 1747, he commenced master of an academy in Stoke