fecures to Bishops and ecclefiaftical per- a very agreeable object, in a country fons repayment by their fucceffors of expenditures in purchafing glebes and houfes, or building new houfes, originated from this excellent-man, and mult ever endear his name to the clergy. The other acts for repairing churches, and facilitating the recovery of ecclefiaftical dues, were among the many happy exer. tions of the Primate for the honour of religion. But it is at Armagh, the antient feat of the primacy, that he has difplayed a princely munificence. A very elegant palace, ninety feet by fixty, and forty high, adorns that town; it is light and pleafing, without the addition of wings or leffer parts, which too frequently wanting a fufficient uniformity with the body of the edifice are unconnected with it in effect, and divide the attention. Large and ample offices are conveniently placed behind a plantation at a small distance. Around the palace is a large lawn, which fpreads on every fide over the hills, fkirted by young plan. tations, in one of which is a terrace, which commands a most beautiful view of cultivated hill and dale; this view from the palace is much improved by the barracks, the fchool and a new church at a distance; all which are fo placed as to be exceedingly ornamental to the whole country. where churches and fpires do not abound. D. The Life of Patrick Browne, Efq. M. D. (Author of Hiflory of Jamaica.) OCTOR BROWNE was the The barracks were erected under the Primate's direction, and form a large and handfome edifice. The school is a building of confiderable extent, and admirably adapted for the purpose; a more beautiful or better contrived one is no where to be feen; there are apartments for a master, a School-room fifty-fix feet by twenty-eight, fourth fon of Edward Browne, a large dining-room and fpacious airy dormitories, with every other neceffary, and a fpacious play-ground walled in; the whole forming a handfome front: and attention being paid to the refidence of the mafter (the falary is 400l. a year) the fchool flourishes, and must prove one of the greatest advantages to the country. This edifice was built entirely at the Primate's expenfe. The church is erected of white stone, and having a tall fpire makes Efq; a gentleman of refpectable family and handfome eftate. He was born at Woodstock, the paternal inheritance, in the parish of Crofsboyne and county of Mayo, about the year 1720. After receiving the best education that country could afford, he was fent to a near relation in the island of Antigua in 1737, but the climate at that time difagreeing very much with his conftitution, he re turned turned in about a year to Europe, and landing in France, went directly to Paris, where he speedily recovered his health, and with the approbation of his parents applied himself clofely to the ftudy of phyfic, and particularly to the fcience of botany, for which he always had a particular predilection. After five years fpent at Paris he removed to Leyden, where he ftudied near two years more, and from that univerfity obtained his degree of M. D.- Here he formed an intimacy with Gronovius and Muffenbroeck, and commenced a correfpondence with Linnæus and other eminent botanists and learned men. From Holland he proceeded to London, where he practifed near two years, moft of which time he attended St. Thomas's hofpital, with the celebrated Doctor Letherland, phyfician formerly to Queen Caroline, his warm and affectionate friend. From thence he went out again to the Weft Indies, and after spending fome months in Antigua and fome others of the fugar islands, he proceeded to Ja maica, where he spent his time in collecting and preferving fpecimens of the plants, birds, fhells, &c. of thofe luxuriant foils, with a view to the improvement of natural history. Whilft in Jamaica, his refidence was chiefly in Kingston, and it was he who first pointed the abfurdity of continuing Spanish-town the port and capital, which reafon plainly pointed out Kingfton, or in his own words " the defects of a port of clearance to leeward;" and by his writings the governor and counfel reprefented the matter fo ftrikingly to Earl Granville, prefident of the council in 1756, that the measure was immediately adopted, and Kingfton made the port of clearance, to the very great benefit of commerce in general, as before that when fhips were clearing out of Kingston, and ready to weigh anchor, they were obliged to fend near feven miles to Spanish-town, by which they often fuffered great inconvenience and delay. At this time he also collected materials and made the neceffary obfervations (be ing a very good mathematician and aftronomer) for a new map of Jamaica, which he published in London in August 1755, engraved by Bayly, on two fheets, by which the Doctor cleared four hundred guineas. Soon after this (March 1756) he publifhed his Civil and Natural Hiftory of Jamaica, in folio, ornamented with fortynine engravings of natural history, a whole fheet map of the island, and another of the harbour of Port-royal, Kingfton-town, &c. of this work there were but two hundred and fifty copies printed by fubfcription, at the very low price of one guinea, but a few were fold at two pounds two fhillings in fheets by the printer. Moft unfortunately all the copper plates, as well as the original drawings, were confumed by the great fire in Cornhill, November 7, 1765. This alone prevented in his life-time a fecond edition of that work, for which he made confiderable preparations, by many additional plants, and a few corrections in his feveral voyages to thefe iflands, for he was fix "different times in the Weft Indies; in one of thofe trips he lived above twelve months in the ifland of Antigua: However these obfervations wiil we truft not be loft to the public, as he lately fent to Sir Jofeph Banks, P.R S. "A catalogue of the plants growing in the fugar iflands, &c. claffed and defcribed according to the Linnæan fyftem, in quarto, containing about eighty pages;" and Sir Jofeph promised to get it published. Dr. Browne, long and regularly kept up a correfpondence with the celebrated Linnæus, which continued to his death; and the writer of this memoir has been favoured with a perufal of fome of that incomparable botanift's letters; but by an unaccountable neglect, the Doctor kept no copies of his own. In Exfhaw's Gentleman's and Lon. don Magazine for June, 1774, he publifhed "a catalogue of the birds of Ireland," and in Exfhaw's August Magazine following, "a catalogue of its fifb. In 1788 he got ready for the prefs a very curious and useful catalogue of the B 2 plants plants of the north weft counties of Ireland, claffed with great care and accuracy according to the Linnæan fyftem, containing above feven hundred plants, moftly obferved by himfelf, having trufted very few to the defcriptions of others. This little tract, written in latin with the English and Irish names, might be of confiderable use in affifting to compile a Flora Hibernica, a work every botanist will allow to be much wanting. The Doctor was a tall, comely man, of good addrefs and gentle manners, naturally cheerful, very temperate, and in general healthy; but of late years had violent periodical fits of the gout, by which he fuffered greatly: In the intervals of these unwelcome vifits, he formed the Catalogue of Plants, and was always, when in health, doing fomething in Natural History or Mathematics. At a very early period he married in Antigua a native of that ifland, but had no iffue. His circumftances were moderate but eafy, and the poor found ample benefit from his liberality as well as profeflional skill. This worthy member of fociety paid the debt of nature at Rushbrook, county of layo, on Sunday, August 29th, 1790, and was interred in the family burial-place at Crofsboyne. In his will he defired the following infcription to be placed on his monument, viz. "Hanc opponi juffit Patri Matri Fratribufque Piiflimis & fibi ; Patricius Browne olim Medicus Jamaicenfis, qui, nunc infita humiliter pro tum inter mortuos enumerandum deprecetur præcis fidelium pro fe illifque offerri; ut cum Domino Deo Requiefcant in pace. Amen." His publications are "The Civil and Natural Hiftory of Jamaica, containing, 1. An accurate defcription of that ifland, its fituation and foil; with a brief account of its former and prefent state, government, revenues, produce, and trade. 2. An History of the Natural Productions, including the various forts of native foflils; perfect and imperfect vegetables; quadrupeds, birds, fishes, reptiles, and infects; with their properties and ufes in mechanics, diet and phyfic. "By PATRICK BROWNE, M. D. "Illuftrated with forty-nine copperplates, in which the most curious productions are reprefented of their natural fizes, and delineated immediately from the objects. By George Dionyfius Ehret." This volume contains 513 pages folio. The 2d edition, published 16th Nov. 1789, contains four new Linnæan Indexes, making 46 pages more than the old one; but wants the Plan of Port Royal, &c. In this work Dr. Browne obferves (preface, p. 6.)—“ Sir Hans Sloane hath not collected above 800 fpecies of plants in all his travels: In Jamaica alone I have examined and defcribed about 1200, befides fofils, infects, and other productions, many of which he makes no mention of. It must be owned, neverthelefs, to his praife, that his works, inaccurate as they are, upon the whole, have done both the Author and his country credit." The Doctor hints at three Differtations, and one on Worm Fevers, intended to be published, (but they never were). See Hift. Jam. p. 490. His next work was a fhort Effay, intitled-"A Catalogue of the Birds of Ireland, whether natives, cafual visitors, or birds of paffage, taken from obfervation; claffed and difpofed according to Linnæus."-This was published in Exfbaw's Magazine, June 1774, making about three pages 8vo. "A Catalogue of Fifhes, obferved on our Coafts, and in our Lakes and Rivers, claffed and difpofed according to Linnæus."-In Exfhaw's Magazine for Auguft 1774--near a page and an half 8vo. His MSS are, "A Catalogue of the Plants growing in the Sugar Islands, &c. claffed and defcribed according to the Linnæan System;" fent to Sir Jofeph Banks. 4to. about 80 pages MS. but this I never faw. "Fafciculus Plantarum Hiberniæ: or, Ardglas is, as its name imports, a high green hill in the barony of Slieumargy and Queen's county, and about four miles north of Carlow. Though it is called Ardglas church it is now a roman catholic chapel, built, as tradition reports, above an hundred years ago, by a lady of the family of the Hartpoles, who have a large property in the vicinity. It is erected in the form of a crofs, and thatched. In one arm of the cross is a fmall chapel, wherein the ancient and refpectable family of the Graces have their place of interment. Engraven on O, a fquare copper-plate is this epitaph: Nobilis ingenio, mitis, formofa, pudica, Solvere virtutis præmia terra nequit. Sedula fecifti, filia, fponfa, parens. Unica cura inopes, & Deus unus amor. que, Oppofite is this Infcription: Here Lyeth the Body of Religious without oftentation, To the orphans a mother Forgiving to her enemies. Do thou labour to refemble her in that race, She won the glorious prize, mmortal This family are defcended from the Graces who came over with Strongbow, and are fubfcribing witneffes to the Earl of of Pembroke's charter to St. John's, Kilkenny, A.D. 1220; in three years after, William Hamand and Amnar Grace are witnesses to the charter granted to the last named city. A large tract of country to the weft of this city, at this day called Grace's country and Grace's caftle, in Kilkenny, prove they were highly esteemed by their feudal lord. Hamand Grace fettled in the county of Wexford, as this notice in Camden proves, "A.D. 1305, Lord Gilbert de Sutton, Senefchal of Wexford, was flain by the Irish near the village of Haymond de Grace; which Haymond fought Houtly in this fkimifh, and escaped by his great valour." Branches of them fettled at Ballylynch, at Carney, and Leighan, in the county of Tipperary, and at Shanganagh, after called Gracefield, in the Queen's county. The Editor returns thanks for the foregoing communication: fepulchral inferiptions and accounts of ancient refpectable families, though neither of the higher, or leffer orders of nobility, will always find a place in the Anthologia. An account of two Odes of Horace lately difsovered. HAT many MSS of great curi were found about fourteen years ago in the Palatine Library at Rome, by M. Pallavicini. Many literary difcoveries have been made, as might be expected, in that imperial city; as a fragment of the gift book of Livy; an Anacreon; and two chapters of the characters of Theophraftus. Thefe odes were placed at the end of the addenda in animadverfionibus ad Longi Pafloralia by M. de Villoifon, and therefore have not been brought into public notice as foon as might be expected. The firft ode is infcribed to Julius Florus, the fame perfon to whom Horace addreffed two epilles. He feems to have been a man of much ingenuity, learning, and tafte, as our author compliments him on his fplendid and various talents. This ode was written in autumn it begins with a defcription of that feafon of the year; after, recites the fport and feftivity peculiar to it, and concludes with a view of death; which is intended as a strong Epicurean reason for enjoying every opportunity of pleasure. The fecond ode is addreffed to his book, which is reprefented as a fervant boy, who, having experienced much foftering care, naturally difcovers a great degree of timidity and reluctance at being obligto go forth into the world. Critics have been divided in opinion Touity and value lie concealed amid as to the authenticity of these pieces. the duft and rubbish of libraries has been fully evinced by discoveries made in the Jaft and prefent centuries. The eager nefs for every precious remnant of antiquity has made fome learned men practife bafe impofition on the public, by cbtruding their own inftead of the productions of remote ages. Such were Sigonius's treatife De Confolatione, afcribed to Cicero; Chancellor Hofpital's Satyr De Lite; & Muretus's epigram; which were fo admirably executed, as to deceive fuch fcholars as Scaliger and Boxhorn. Every degree of caution and critical examination are neceffary before we pronounce as genuine, the fragments of antient authors. The two odes of Horace, which follow and of which a tranflation is requested, The gentleman who publifhed a fmail differtation on them in English, and who urges ftrenuously many arguments to prevail on us to think them genuine, feems to us to betray his caufe in the conclufion. He fays, "In neither of thefe odes do we meet with any of those bold poetical licenfes, which occafion great torture to tranflators and interpreters, but which were probably much admired by the Romans themselves: as Cervix rofea; brachia purpurea; candidi ora nive; nemorum comæ, &c. all which clearly demonftrate how much is loft by the Latin having become a dead language, which confines our attention to verbal meaning. It must therefore be confidered as a happy circumstance, that no |