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 416 MALONE. is erected to his memory, with a Latin inscription, by the Rev. John Simpson. Dr. Maclaine was the author of two volumes of sermons, and a series of Letters to Soame Jenyns, a small 12mo. volume. But the work on which he builds his grand claim to fame, is his translation of Mosheim's Ecclesiasti cal History, enriched with notes and appendices, full of learning and ingenuity. For this work, by which thou sands have been realized, Dr. Maclaine received only the pitiful sum of 130l. DENNIS MACNAMARA, Commonly known by the name of Ruadh, or Redhaired, we are told was looked up to by his contemporaries in Irish literature (for seventy years at least) as possessing that poetical eminence which ranked him among the most celebrated of modern bards. He died October 6, 1810, in the ninety-fifth year of his age, at New Town, near Kilmacthomas. JOHN MAGEOGPIEGAN, An Irish Roman Catholic ecclesiastic, was the author of an excellent History of Ireland (in French) in three vols. 4to, with maps. He resided at Paris, and the work was printed there in 1758. He died about the year 1764, aged sixty-three years. His History, which is very scarce, is held in considerable estimation. EDMUND MALONE, A critic of considerable literary research, and one of the ablest commentators on Shakspeare, was descended from an Irish family of great antiquity, and was born in Dublin on the 4th of October, 1741. In 1756, he entered the university of that city, where, he took his degree of l