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 HIFFERNAN. 311 who, on the following Sunday, preached the funeral sermon which has furnished many of the particulars which we have inserted above. With talents at once so solid and so brilliant as those of Henderson, it is to be regretted that the world received so little benefit from them, as, with the exception of an Appendix to the Dissertation on Everlasting Punishments, by William Matthews, and some Letters to Dr. Priestley, published in the Gentleman's Magazine, we do not know that any of his works are in existence. JOHN HICKEY, A statuary of some talent, was born in Dublin in 1756. He was pupil to Cranfield, an eminent carver. He worked in Dublin with success, and came to London under the patronage of Burke and Sir Joshua Reynolds. His basso relievo of the Massacre of the Innocents, obtained for him the gold medal of the Royal Academy. Hickey died in London from the effects of intemperance in 1787. HICKEY, Brother to the above, was a portrait painter of some talent, and was born in Bachelor's Walk, Dublin. He studied at the National Academy, and afterwards at Rome, and was appointed to accompany his countryman, Lord Macartney, in his mission to China, to take drawings of that country, and the dresses of the people. The time of his decease we are unacquainted with. PAUL HIFFERNAN, Was an author well deserving t h e epithet “ingenious,” and h e was likewise one o f those unhappy unions o f small talent with great vice, which i t has been our fate too fre quently t o lament. He was born i n the county o f Dublin, i n 1719, and received the early part o f his education a t a