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THE

European Magazine,

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Embellished with, 1. A PORTRAIT of HUGH BOYD, Esq. And, 2. A View of the NEW PUMP at the ROYAL EXCHANGE.]

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Jeu d'Efprit of a late eminent Physician, 342 Cornelianum Dolium, Obfervations on Mr. Gray's two Pindaric Odes, ***'s Account of the late Dr. Joseph Warton, Mackliniana; or, Anecdotes of the late Mr. Charles Macklin, Comedian; together with many of his Obfervations on the Drama, and the general Manners of his time, [Continued] Account of Dr. Glynn Clobery, On Revealed Religion;

Original Letter of Dr. Mark Hildefley,

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Bishop of Sodor and Mann, (Lett. VI.) 360 Willich's Reply to the Abbé Barruel, Account of William Cowper, Efq.

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Le Negociant Univerfal, ou Recueil de Lettres Originales de Commerce, &c. Theatrical Journal; including Fable and Character of Children, or Give them their Way, a comic drama-De Montfort, a tragedy-Paul and Virginia, a musical drama-Indifcretion, a comedy -Liberal Opinions, a comedy-and Account of three New Performers, 384 Poetry; including Rule Britannia tranflated into Greek by Robert Luke, A. M.-Lines, written by Christopher Pitt, M. A. on a Great Shoe being lent to him in a Fit of the Gout-On feeing Mrs. Siddons' Bufts of her Brothers and herfelf-Stanzas to Mary-Stanzas by Thomas Adney--Ode to Senfibility-Addrefs to a young La'y on fecing her reading Groffe's Dagger'Letter to a Clergyman, occafioned by a report of his Patron's being one of the Lords Commiffioners of the Great Seal-Ode to Eleanor-Ode to Lucas George-Ode to a Medical Friendand Plague at Philadelphia, Journal of the Proceedings of the Fourth Seffion of the Eighteenth Parliament of Great Britain, [Continued] Foreign Intelligence, from the London Gazettes, &c. &c.

Domeftic Intelligence,

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Marriages,

Monthly Obituary,

Prices of S.ocks.

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Printed by Bunney & Geld, Stre-Lane, Flost-Fr et,

For J. SEWELL, CORNHILL; and
J. DEBRETT, PICCADILLY,

VOL. XXXVII. MAY 1800.

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Any Anecdotes of Mr. Cowper, mentioned by Correspondent A. M. will be acceptable. Political Squibs, we repeat our refolution not to infert. A Newspaper is the proper place for them.

Our poetical Correspondents will take their turn. Some lately received will be inferted

next month.

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THE

THE

EUROPEAN MAGAZINE,

AND

LONDON REVIEW,

FOR MAY 1800.

HUGH BOYD, ESQ.

(WITH A PORTRAIT.)

perfon whofe portrait we now prefent to our readers was one who, with good though not brilliant talents, paffed through life with the centure of the wife and the compaffion of the good. He was eccentric and benevolent, extravagant and humane, one who wanted prudence more than virtue, but whole conduct verified the remark of Johnfon," that those who, in confidence of fuperior capacities or attainments, diregard the common maxims of life, fhall be reminded, that nothing will fupply the want of prudence; and that negligence and irregularity long contined, will make kowledge ujelels, witridiculous, and genius contemptible.", He had paced quietly "to the country

from whole bourne no traveller returns,' and was nearly, torgotten, when a conjecture, alcribing to him tome political papers of great celebrity in their day, ill founded we conceive, and supported by vague and inconclusive evidence, brought him again into notice, and occationed a minute inveftigation of the circumftances of his life. Thefe, divelted of controversy, we propofe to prefent to our readers.

HUGH BOYD was the fon of Alexander Macauley, Eiq. M. P. for Themalton, in Ireland, and the intimate friend of Dean Swift. He was born in Ship freet, Dublin, the 16th day of April, 1746, a day memorable in our annals for the decitive battle of Culloden field. His father was extremely attentive to the education of his children, and this his for ufed to fay that he was put very young to school, and foon became much

attached to books; but the Metamorphofs of Ovid first truck his attention, and belt amufed his infancy. He felt no ambition to difplay his premature scholarship by making latin veries; nor did he copy the example of Pope, in trying to gratify his father by compofing Englith rhymes. But it is a fact which has been thought important to ftate, that his father who laboured anxiously his education, and fondly faw in his budding parts the promife of a copious harvest, fometimes cenfured his fon's profe for being too poetical, and prefcribed as a model to him the chafte ftyle of Swift and Addison, that he might learn (to ufe the old man's own words) to combine the frength and precision of the one with the fimplicity and ealy elegance of the other. The feeds however of poetic imagery, which nature had fcattered in our au thor's mind, never ripened into a harvest of poetry. He was educated at the fchool of the Rev. William Ball, in hip-treet before-mentioned, a school, which among other diftinguished scho lars and characters, fent forth Lord Clare and Henry Grattan, who being nearly of the fame age, were of the fame clais with our author, and yet remained a year behind him in Ship-street.

The step from the school to the college forms an important epoch in the biography of youth. Our student was received as a fellow-commoner into the University of Dublin by the name of Hugh Mac auley, on the 8th of July 1761. Here he is laid by his biographer to have pursued his favourite ftudies with af fiduity and delight. He certainly ac

quitted

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