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and deep. After UnserinE for about two yean, with many Ticjssitudes of amendment and re- lapse, he fell, by the use of acid liquors, into a diarrhoea, followed by a kind of lethargic in- sensibility. At the time of his death he bad just concluded the twenty-third annual collec- tion. He was buried in the church of St James's, Clerkenwell; but the following inscrip- tion, from the pen of Dr. Hawksworth, it placed at Rugby, in Warwickshire.

Near this place U« the body of

JOSEPH CAVE,

late of this pariah,

who departed thU life Nov. 18, 17<?,

aged 79 years.

He was placed by Providence In a hnmble station j

but iDdnstry abundantly supplied the wants of Nature,

and Tempenmce blessed him with Content and Wealth.

As he was an affectionate Father,

he was made happy in the decline of life by the deserved

en^ence of his eldest son,

Edward Cats,

who, without interest, fortune, or connexion,

by the native force of his own genius, assisted only by

a 1-lt i -*''-' education, which he received at the Grammai-

School of ttiis tovra, planned, executed, and established

a literary worlc, called.

The Omtleman'i Maganine,

whereby he acquired an ample fortune,

the whole of which devolved to his Cunily.

Here also lies the body of WILLIAM CAVE, the second son of the said Josira Cav«, who died May 3, 1097, agedfisyearsi and who, having survived his elder brotlier, Edwasd Cavk, Inherited ttam him a competent estate ; and, in gratttude to Us benefactor, ordered this monument to perpetuate his memory. He lived a patriarch in his nrnneroos race. And show'd in charity a Christian's grace ; Whate'er a friend or parent feels, he knew ; His hand was open, and his heart was true. On what he galn'd and gvrt, he taught mankind, A grateful always is a generous mind. Here rests his clay I His soul must ever rest. Who bless'd when living, dying must be blest.

Cave was a man of large stature, not only tall, but bulky ; and was, when young, of re- markable strength and activity. He was gene- rally healthful, and capable oi much labour, and long application ; but in the latter year of his life he was afflicted by the gout, which he endeavoured to cure or alleviate in a total absti- nence from strong liquors and animal food. From anhnal foo<l he abstained about four years, and from strong liquors much longer ; but the gout continued unconquered, and, perhaps, un- abated. His resolution and perseverance were very uncommon ; in whatever he undertook, neither expense nor fatigue were able to repress him ; but nis constancy was calm, and, to those who did not know him, appeared faint and languid ; yet he always went forward, though he moved slowly. The same chilliness of mind was observable in his conversation : he was watching the minutest accent of those whom he offended by seeming inattention ; and his visitant was surprised, when he came a second time, by prepa- rations to execute the scheme which he sup- posed never to have been heard. He was, con- sistently with this general tranquillity of mind,

a tenacious maintidner, though not a clanKMOus demander, of his right. Having in his youth summoned his fellow-jonmeymen to concert measures against the oppression of their masters, he mount^ the imposing stone, whence he harangued them so emcaciously, that they deter- mined to resist all future invasions; and when the stamp- officers demanded to stamp the last half-sheet of a magazine, young Care alone defeated their claim. He was a friend rather easy and constant, than zealous and active ; yet many instances might be given, where both his money and his interest were liberally employed for others. His enmity was, in like maimer, cool and deliberate; but, though cool, it was not insidious ; and though deliberate, not perti- nacious. His mental faculties were slow. If he saw little at a time, however, that little he saw with great exactness. He was long in find- ing the right, but seldom failed to find it at last. His affections were not easily gained, and his opinions not quickly discovered. His reserve, as it might hide his faults, concealed his virtues; but such he was, as they who best knew him, have most lamented.

1754. James Da vies set up a press at New- hem, being the first used throughout the whole province of North Carolina, in North America. He appears not to have printed much, except a folio volume of the Lawt of North Carolina.

1754. J. Parker, who was the principal mas- ter printer in New York, established the second printing-office in the province of Connecticut, at Newhaven, in Nordi America, and the first book printed was the Latot of Yale college, in Latin. On the first of January, 1755, he commenced a newspaper at Newhaven.

1754, Jan. 31. The Connoitteur, No. 1. This publication was projected and lUmost entirely written by George Colman* and Bonnell Thom- ton,f under the fictitious name of Mr. Town, critic and censor-general, and continued weekly for nearly three years ; No. 140, the concluding essay, being dated Thursday, Sept. 30, 1756.

where his father was British resident at the court of the grand dake of Tuscany, and received bis education at Westminster and Oxford. Being intended for the le^ profession, he entered at Lineoln's-inn, and was after, wards called to the bar ; it was long, however, before he deserted the law for the more alluring pursuit of lltenry fame ; and in 1760 he attracted the attention of the public by .his Polly Honeycombe, which was received with such applause, that, ITom this period, he became a most assi- duous and successful writer for the stage. This fertility in dramatic composition neither originated fhnn narrow circumstances, nor did it preclude his attention to classical studies. The year 1769 produced bis TrsiutetaiMu »f tht Comeditt of Terence, a work of acknowledged excellence, and which acquired hhn much credit as a sdiolar and a critic. To his celebrity as a classical scholar, be added greatly, in 1783, by a poetical version of Homer's Art 0/ Poetrfft with a commentary and critical notes. Mr. Col- man died August 14, 1704.
 * George Colman was born at Florence, abont 17X3.

t Bonnell Thornton was the son of an apotiiecary, and bom in London, in the year 1724, and passed vrith repnbi- tlon through Westminster, and Christ chnrdi, Oxford, where he commenced his literary career in the first number of th6 Student. He soon became celebrated as a poet, an essayist, and a miscellaneous writer. He published a translaUon in blank verse of seven of the plays of PlaiitBs in two vols. Svo. He died May 7, ITfiS, and was buried in Westminster abbey.

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