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 A M H U R S T. 203 " had almoft as much wit, learning, and various knowledge, " as his two partners ; and when thofe great mafters chofe " fo well, that his eflays were often afcribcd to them. Am- " hurft furvived the downial of Walpolc's power, and had " l-Hjlinobroke, who had only faved the fhipwreck of his " The utmoft of his generofity to Am hurft, that I ever heard ' of, was ahogfhead of claret ! He died, it is fuppofed, of " a broken beart, and was buried at the charge of his honeft one of thofe imprudent and extravagant men, whnfe irregu- larities, in fpite of their talents, bring them at length, into <*< neral difelteem and negkd. But this does not excufe the conduit of his employers. His want of purity in morals (if that was his real charadter) was no objection to their con- nexion with him, when he could ferve their purpofe. And they ought to have fo far provided for him, as to have placed him above necetfity, during the remainder of his days. The ingratitude of the great to the ingenious perfons whom they make ufe of as the inftruments of their ambition, (hould fur- nifh an inftruclion to men of abilities in future times ; and en^aoe them to build their happinels on the foundation of their own perfonal integrity, diicretion, and virtue. r c ] Lord Cheflerfield's Charaflers the publisher of all Mr. Amhurft's reviewed, p. 4*. 4.4. Franckiin was works. AMMIRATO, or AMMIRATJ (Scipio), an eminent hiflorian, born at Lecca, in the kingdom of Naples, the 2jth of September, 1531. He ftudied firft at Poggiardo, after- wards at Brundufium ; and, in 154.7, he went to Naples, in order to go through a courle of civil law. When he was at Barri with his father, he was deputed by that city to manage fome affairs at Naples, which he executed with great fuccefs. Some time after, he determined to enter inro the church, and was accordingly ordained by the bifhop of Lecca, who con- ceived a high elteem (or him, and gave him a canonry in his church ; but not meeting afterwards with the preferment he expected, he formed a ciefign of going to Venice, and entering into the fervice of feme rmbaflador, in order to fee the feve- rr.l courts of Europe. Alexander Contarini however per- funded
 * ' not to appear in public thcmfelves, he fupplicd their places
 * ' reafon to expe& a reward for his labours. Ifweexcufc
 * ' foi tunes, we fhall be at a lofs to jultify Pulteney, who
 * ' could with eafe have given this man a comfortable income.
 * < printer, Richard Franckl in" [B], Mr. A mhuift was probably Dr;