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 MACLAINE. 415 anong whom were many of the deceased's theatrical friends. As an actor, the censure bestowed on him by Churchill is just; but his very defects were in his favour in the representation of Shylock, and in his own plays of “The Man of the World,” and “Love à-la-Mode.” He had an extremely harsh set of features, and an unpre possessing countenance, which occasioned Quin to say of him, “If God writes a legible hand, that fellow is a villain!” DR. ARCHIBALD MACLAINE, A pious and learned clergyman, was descended from an ancient and respectable Scotch family, but was born at Monacham, in Ireland, in 1723, where his father was a minister. He lost his parents at an early age. After having completed his education at Glasgow, he accepted an invitation to Holland from his maternal uncle, and went to that country at the age of twenty. His uncle was the venerable Dr. Milling, and him he succeeded as pastor of the English Church at the Hague, and remained in that situation until the invasion of the country by the French, in 1794, compelled him to take refuge in England. He had not been there long when an only sister, whom he had not seen for fifty years, joined him in consequence of the Irish rebellion. During his residence at the Hague, he was known and highly respected by every one, and not unfrequently consulted by official men of the highest rank. Some time previous to his decease he was seized with a paralytic affection, induced probably by agitation and distress of mind: as the nature of his disorder rendered the use of the baths and the water of Bath necessary, the doctor visited that city, and at length made it the place of his settled abode. Here helived, exemplifying the best traits of the christian and the scholar, till the 25th November, 1804, when he was removed to that happy state for which his whole life had been a preparation. Dr. Maclaine lies buried in the Abbey church in Bath, where a monument