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Peace between France and England, 1802. War with France, 1803; terminated in June 1815. WARADEIN, GREAT, or Nagy Varad, a fortified town of Hungary, on the Koresch, the see of a Catholic archbishop, and a Greek bishop. The environs being marshy, the air is thick and foggy. The cathedral, after lying many years in ruins, was rebuilt in 1778, on an elegant plan, and the archbishop's palace is a beautiful edifice. Here are several Catholic convents and schools. The population of the town are employed partly in manufac tures and trade. At a little distance is New Warasdin, properly a suburb of the place we are describing; and in the neighbourhood are four warm mineral springs. In the Turkish wars in Hungary this was an important military post, which was several times taken. Population 7000. Thirtyfive miles S. S. E. of Debreczin, and 132 east by

south of Pest.

WARASDIN, a county of the Austrian states, in Croatia, having Styria and Illyria on the west, and the county of Agram on the east. Its area is about 720 square miles; its population, about 134,000, partly Catholics and partly of the Greek Church. The river Drave forms the northern boundary.

WARASDIN, THE GENERALATE OF, a district of Croatia, adjoining to Sclavonia, and separated from Hungary only by the Drave. More extensive, but less populous, than the county of the same name, this district contains 1440 square miles, with only 108,000 inhabitants. The capital is a town of this name. Thirty-eight miles N. N. E. of Agram, and 132 south of Vienna.

WARBECK (Peter, or Perkin), a pretender to the crown of England under Henry VII. See ENGLAND.

WARBLE, v. u. & v. n. I Old Teut. werben, WARBLER, IL. S. of barb. Latin vibrillo, from vibro. To quaver any sound; cause to quaver: to be quavered; to sing: a warbler is a singer; one that warbles.

A plaining song plain singing voice requires, For warbling notes from inward cheering flow. Sidney. There birds resort, and in their kind thy praise Among the branches chant in warbling lays. Wotton. Fountains, and ye that warble as ye flow Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise. Milton. She can thaw the numbing spell,

If she be right invoked with warbled song.

Id.

Such strains ne'er warble in the linnet's throat. Gay.
Hark! on every bough,

In lulling strains, the feathered warblers woo. Tickell.
Whilst warbling to the varied strain advance
Two sprightly youths to form the bounding dance.

Pope. WARBURTON (William), bishop of Gloucester, who has been justly styled vir magnus, acer, memorabilis, was descended from an ancient and considerable family in Cheshire. His grandfather distinguished himself in the civil wars of the seventeenth century, in the royal party. He had three sons; the second of whom, George, being bred to the law, practised as an attorney at Newark in that county. William, the subject of this memoir, and the second son of Mr. George Warburton, was born at Newark, December 24th, 1698. He was first put to school there under a Mr. Twells, but had the chief part of his education at Okeham in Rutlandshire, where he continued till the beginning of 1714, when, his cousin being made head master of the school at Newark, he returned to his

native place, and was for a very short time under the care of that learned and respectable relation. In April that year he was put out clerk to Mr. Kirke, an eminent attorney of Great Markham in Notting hamshire; and continued with that gentleman till 1719. He then returned to his family at Newark. He had always expressed a strong inclination to take orders; and on the 22d of December 1723 he was ordained deacon, and priest March 1st, 1727. In 1728 he was presented by Sir Robert Sutton to the rectory of Brand Broughton; where he wrote all the great works which will carry his fame down to posterity. In 1736 he published The Alliance between Church and State; or the Necessity and Equity of an Established Religion and a Test Law; demonstrated from the Essence and End of Civil Society, upon the Fundamental Principles of the Law of Nature and Nations. In 1739 he published the first volume of The Divine Legation of Moses demonstrated on the Principles of a Religious Deist, from the Omission of the Doctrine of a Future State of Rewards and Punishments in the Jewish Dispensation. In 1737 an intermitting fever had nearly proved fatal to him, but it was relieved by a plentiful use of the bark. Mr. Warburton's merit had now attracted the notice of the heir apparent, in whose service we find him in 1738, when he published Faith working by Charity to Christian Edification, a sermon. His next work was A Vindication of Mr. Pope's Essay on Man, by the author of the Divine Legation. Towards the end of 1739 Mr. Warburton published a new and improved edition of the first volume of the Divine Legation; and in May, 1741, appeared the second part, which completed the argument, though not the entire plan of the work. In summer 1741 Mr. Pope and Mr. Warburton, in a country ramble, took Oxford in their way. The university was naturally pleased at the arrival of two such strangers, and seemed desirous of enrolling their names among their graduates. The degree of D. D. was intended for the divine, and that of LL. D. for the poet: but intrigue and envy defeated this scheme, to the eternal disgrace of the university. After this Mr. Pope introduced and warmly recommended Mr. Warburton to most of his friends, and among others to Mr. Murray, afterwards earl of Mansfield, and Ralph Allen, esq., of Prior Park. In consequence of this he was at Bath in 1742; where he printed a sermon preached at the abbey church on the 24th of October, for the benefit of Mr. Allen's favorite charity, the General Hospital or Infirmary. In this year also he printed a Dissertation on the origin of books of chivalry, at the end of Javis's Preface to a translation of Don Quixote. In 1742 Mr. Warburton published A Critical and Philosophical Commentary on Mr. Pope's Essay on Man. In which is contained a Vindication of the said Essay from the misrepresentation of M. de Resnal, the French Translator, and of M. de Crousaz, Professor of Philosophy and Mathematics in the Academy of Lausanne, the Commentator. At this period, when Mr. Warburton had the entire confidence of Mr. Pope, he advised him to com plete the Dunciad, and add to it a fourth book. This was accordingly executed in 1742, and published early in 1743, with notes by our author; who, in consequence of it, received his share of the abuse which Mr. Cibber liberally bestowed on both Mr. Pope and his annotator. In the end of

the same year he published complete editions of the Thanksgiving appointed to be observed the the Essay on Man, and The Essay of Criticism; 9th of October, for the Suppression of the late and, from the specimen which he there exhibited unnatural Rebellion. In 1747 appeared his ediof his abilities, it may be presumed Mr. Pope de- tion of Shakspeare, and his Preface to Clarissa; termined to commit the publication of those works and in the same year he published 1. A Letter which he should leave to Mr. Warburton's care. from an Author to a member of Parliament conAt Mr. Pope's desire, he about this time revised cerning Literary Property. 2. Preface to Mrs. and corrected the Essay on Homer, as it now stands Cockburn's Remarks upon the Principles and in the last edition of that translation. The publi- Reasonings of Dr. Rutherford's Essay on the Nacation of The Dunciad was the last service which ture and Obligations of Virtue, &c. 3. Preface our author rendered Mr. Pope in his life time. to a Critical Inquiry into the Opinions and PracAfter a lingering and tedious illness, the event of tice of the ancient Philosophers, concerning the which had been long foreseen, this great poet died Nature of a Future State, and the method of teachon the 30th of May 1744; and by his will, dated ing by double Doctrine (by Mr. Towne), 1747, the 12th of December, bequeathed to Mr. War- second edition. In 1748 a third edition of The burton one half of his library, and the property Alliance, corrected and enlarged. About this time of all such of his works already printed as he had the publication of Dr. Middleton's Enquiry connot otherwise disposed of or alienated. In 1744 cerning the miraculous Powers of the Christian Mr. Warburton turned his attention to the several Church, gave rise to a controversy, which was attacks which had been made on the Divine Lega- managed with great warmth and asperity on both tion, and defended himself in a manner which, if sides, and not much to the credit of either party. it did not prove him to be possessed of much hu- On this occasion Mr. Warburton published an exmility or diffidence, at least demonstrated that he cellent performance, written with a high degree of knew how to wield the weapons of controversy candor and temper. The title of it was Julian; with the hand of a master. His first defence now or a Discourse concerning the Earthquake and appeared under the title of Remarks on several fiery eruption which defeated that emperor's atOccasional Reflections, in Answer to the Rev. Dr. tempt to rebuild the Temple at Jerusalem, 1750. Middleton, Dr. Pococke, the Master of the Char- A second edition of this discourse, with Additions, ter House, Dr. Richard Grey, and others; serving appeared in 1751, in which year he gave the public to explain and justify divers Passages in the Divine his edition of Mr. Pope's Works, with Notes, in Legation, objected to by those learned writers. 9 vols. 8vo.; and in the same year printed An To which is added A General Review of the Ar- Answer to a Letter to Dr. Middleton, inserted in gument of the Divine Legation, as far as it is yet a Pamphlet entitled, the Argument of the Divine advanced; wherein is considered the Relation the Legation fairly stated, &c.; and An Account of several Parts bear to each other and the whole: the Prophecies of Arise Evans, the Welsh Prophet with an Appendix in answer to a late Pamphlet in the last Century, annexed to the first volume of entitled, An Examination of Mr. W. -'s second Dr. Jortin's Remarks on Ecclesiastical History. Proposition. This was followed next year by Re- In 1752 he published the first volume of his sermarks on several Occasional Reflections, in An- mons, preached at Lincoln's Inn, entitled The swer to the Rev. Doctors Stebbing and Sykes; Principles of Natural and Revealed Religion, ocserving to explain and justify the Two Disserta- casionally opened and explained; and this, in 1754, tions in the Divine Legation, concerning the com- was followed by a second. His next work was A mand to Abraham to offer up his Son, and the View of Lord Bolingbroke's Philosophy. In SepNature of the Jewish Theocracy, objected to by tember 1754 he was appointed one of his majesty's these learned writers. Part II. and last. Both chaplains, and in the next year was presented to these answers are couched in those high terms of a prebend in the cathedral of Durham About confident superiority which marked peculiarly al- this time the degree of D. D. was conferred on most every performance that fell from his pen dur- him by Dr. Herring, archbishop of Canterbury. ing the remainder of his life. On the 5th of Sep- A new impression of The Divine Legation being tember, 1745, he married Miss Tucker, who sur- now called for, he printed a fourth edition of the vived him, and married Mr. Stafford Smith, of first part of it, with a dedication to the earl of Prior Park. At that important crisis our autnor Hardwicke. The same year appeared A Sermon preached and published three seasonable sermons: preached before Charles Duke of Marlborough, 1. A Faithful Portrait of Popery, by which it is President, and the Governors of the Hospital for seen to be the reverse of Christianity, as it is the the Small-pox and for Innoculation, at the Parish Destruction of Morality, Piety, and Civil Liberty. church of St. Andrew, Holborn, April 24th, 1755. Preached at St. James's, Westminster, October And in 1756 Natural and Civil Events the Instru1745. 2. A Sermon occasioned by the present un- ments of God's Moral Government; a Serinon on natural Rebellion, preached in Mr. Allen's Chapel, the Fast-day, at Lincoln's Inn Chapel. In 1757 at Prior Park, near Bath, &c., November 1745. Dr. Warburton meeting with Mr. Hume's tract 3. The Nature of National Offences truly stated. entitled, The Natural History of Religion, filled Preached on the General Fast-day, December 18th, the margin of the book, and some interleaved slips 1745-6. On account of the last of these ser- of paper, with many severe and shrewd remarks mons, he was again involved in a controversy with on the infidelity and naturalism of the author. his former antagonist Dr. Stebbing, which occa- These he put into the hands of his friend Dr. Hurd, sioned An Apologetical Dedication to the Rev. who, making a few alterations of the style, added Dr. Henry Stebbing, in Answer to his Censure and a short introduction and conclusion, and published Misrepresentations of the Sermon preached on the them in a pamphlet entitled, Remarks on Mr. General Fast, &c. In 1746 he was called by the David Hume's Natural History of Religion, by a Society of Lincoln's Inn to be their preacher. Gentleman of Cambridge, in a Letter to the Rev. November he published A Sermon preached ou Dr. Warburton. Towards the end of 1757 Dr.

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Warburton was promoted to the deanery of Bristol; and in the beginning of 1760 he was through Mr. Allen's interest with Mr. Pitt, afterwards earl of Chatham, advanced to the bishopric of Gloucester. He was consecrated on the 20th of January, 1760, and on the 30th preached before the house of lords. In 1761 he printed A Rational Account of the Nature and End of the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper. In 1762 he published The Doctrine of Grace; or the Office and Operations of the Holy Spirit Vindicated from the Insults of Infidelity and the Abuses of Fanaticism, 2 vols. 12mo.; and in 1763 drew upon himself much illiberal abuse from some writers of the popular party, on occasion of his complaint in the house of lords, on the 15th of November 1763, against Mr. Wilkes, for putting his name to certain notes on the infamous Essay on Woman. In 1765 he published a new edition of the second part of the Divine Legation, in 3 vols. In 1766 he gave a new and much improved edition of the Alliance. This was followed in 1767 by a third volume of sermons, to which is added his first Triennial Charge to the Clergy of his Diocese; which is one of the

most valuable discourses of the kind to be found in any language. With this publication he closed his literary course; except that he made an effort towards publishing, and actually printed, the ninth and last book of the Divine Legation. This book with one or two occasional sermons, and some valuable directions for the study of theology, have been given to the world in the splendid edition of his works in 7 vols. 4to., by his friend and biographer the bishop of Worcester. That prelate says that the ninth volume under all disadvantages is the noblest effort which has hitherto been made to give a rationale of Christianity. While the bishop of Gloucester was thus exerting his last strength in the cause of religion, he projected a method by which he hoped to render it effectual service after his death. He transferred £500 to lord Mansfield, Sir Eardley Wilmot, and Mr. Charles Yorke, upon trust, to found a lecture, in the form of a course of sermons, to prove the truth of revealed religion in general, and of the Christian in particular, from the completion of the prophecies in the Old and New Testament, which relate to the Christian church, especially to the apostacy of papal Rome. To this foundation we owe the admirable Introductory Lectures of Hurd, and the well adapted Continuation of Halifax and Bagot. After this, by the decay of nature, the bishop fell into a habit of melancholy, which was aggravated by the loss of his only son, who died of a consumption but a short time before his father, who died June 1779, in the eighty-first year of his age. A neat marble monument has been erected to him in the cathedral of Gloucester, with a proper inscription. A new edition of Warburton's works, in 12 vols. 8vo., was published in 1811; and a selection of his private letters was printed immediately after bishop Hurd's death, and by his special direction.

A WAR CRY was formerly customary in the armies of most nations, when just upon the point of engaging. Sometimes they were only tumultuous shouts, or horrid yells, uttered with an intent to strike terror into their adversaries; such as is now used by the Indians in America, called the warhoop.

WARD, v. a., v. N., &

WAR'DER, WARD'SHIP.

Sa

Sax. peændian; Belg.

WAR'DEN, n. s. [n.s. and Teut. waren; Goth. and Swed wara. To guard; watch; defend; fence off: to be vigilant; act defensively with a weapon: a watch; garrison; the act of watching; the thing, or party, or district watched or defended: hence a child under a guardian; guardianship; the effective part of a lock: a warder is a keeper, or head officer; and hence (perhaps) a large pear: warder is also a guard keeper, a trunchion: wardship, guardianship; pupilage.

So redoubling her blows, drove the stranger to no other shift than to ward and go back. Sidney. It is also inconvenient, in Ireland, that the wards and marriages of gentlemen's children should be in the disposal of any of those lords. Spenser.

Id.

Id.

Upon those gates with force he fiercely flew,
And, rending them in pieces, felly slew
Those warders strange, and all that else he met.
Still when she slept he kept both watch and ward. Id.
The' assieged castles ward
Their stedfast stands did mightily maintain.
impiety, was held in ward.
That wretched creature, being deprehended in that
Hooker.
Where be these warders, that they wait not here?
Open the gates!
Shakspeare.
Then, then, when there was nothing could have
staid

My father from the breast of Bolingbroke,
O, when the king did throw his warder down,
His own life hung upon the staff he threw.
From thousand dangers, bid him bury it.

Tell him it was a hand that warded him

ld.

Id.

Id.

I must attend his majesty's command, to whom I am now in ward. Thou knowest my old ward; here I lay, and thus I bore my point. Shakspeare. Henry IV. By reason of the tenures in chief revived, the sums for respect of homage be encreased, and the profits of wardships cannot but be much advanced. Bacon.

Lewis the Eleventh of France, having much abated the greatness and power of the peers, would say that he had brought the crown out of ward.

Id.

Up and down he traverses his ground;
Now wards a felling blow, now strikes again. Daniel.
Crustumian, Syrian pears, and wardens great. May.
Nor must all shoots of pears alike be set,
In the key-hole turns
The intricate wards, and every bolt and bar.
Throughout the trembling city placed a guard,
Dealing an equal share to every ward. Dryden.

Now by proof it shall appear,
Whether thy horns are sharper, or my spear.
At this I threw, for want of other ward,
He lifted up his hand his front to guard.

When, stern as tutors, and as uncles hard,
We lash the pupil, and defraud the ward.
The unequal combat, and resist in vain.
The warders of the gate but scarce maintain

Milton.

Id.

Id.

Id.

several inventions in the making and contriving their As there are locks for several purposes, so are there wards, or guards.

Moxon.

Ox-cheek when hot, and wardens baked, some cry.

King.

Titles of honour, and privileges, the rich and the great can never deserve, unless they employ them for the protection of these, the true wards and children of God. Sprat.

The warden of apothecaries' hall.
The pointed javelin warded off his rage.

Garth. Addison.

WARD (Dr. Samuel), a learned divine, educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. In 1609 he became master of Sidney College. He was

also professor of divinity, and archdeacon of Taunton. He was one of three deputies elected to the Synod of Dort, and was then a rigid Calvinist ; but changed his opinion when there. During the civil war, in 1643, he was imprisoned by the rebels; and died of the ill treatment he had received. He wrote several tracts on Theology. Some of his Letters are preserved in archbishop Usher's works; folio edition.

WARD (Dr. Seth), an English prelate, chiefly famous for his knowledge in mathematics and astronomy, was born at Buntingford in Hertfordshire, in 1617. He was educated at Sidney Colege, Cambridge, where he applied with great vigor to his studies, particularly to the mathematics, and was chosen a fellow. He was involved in the consequences of the civil war, but soon after the Restoration was made bishop of Exeter, and in 1667 of Salisbury. In 1671 he was made chancellor of the order of the garter; and was the first Protestant bishop who had that honor. He procured it to be annexed to the see of Salisbury. He survived his senses in consequence of a fever. He lived to the Revolution, and died in 1690. He was the author of several Latin works in mathematics and astronomy, but their use has been superseded by later discoveries and the Newtonian philosophy.

WARD (Dr. John), the son of a dissenting minister, born at London in 1679. He kept a school in Tenter Alley, Moorfields; but rendered himself so eminent in the study of antiquity, that in 1720 he was chosen professor of rhetoric in Gresham College; in 1723, during the presidency of Sir Isaac Newton, he was elected F. R. S., and in 1752 one of the vice-presidents, which he retained to his death. He was elected one of the trustees of the British Museum in 1753, and died at Gresham College in 1758. His chief works are Lives of the Professors of Gresham College; and Lectures on Oratory, 2 vols. 8vo.

WARD (Edward), a burlesque writer, who in the end of the seventeenth century published The London Spy; and turned Don Quixote into Hudibrastic verse.

WARD (Thomas), another burlesque writer, a bigoted papist, who published a History of the Reformation in doggerel verse; in 2 vols. 12mo.

WARDEN OF THE CINQUE PORTS. See CINQUE PORTS.

WARDEN OF THE FLEET, the keeper of the Fleet prison: who has the charge of the prisoners there, especially such as are committed from the court of chancery for contempt.

WARDMOTE, wardmotus, a court kept in every ward in London, ordinarily called the wardmote court. The wardmote inquest hath power every year to enquire into and present all defaults concerning the watch and constables doing their duty; that engines, &c., are provided against fire; that persons selling ale and beer be honest, and suffer no disorders, nor permit gaming, &c., that they sell in lawful measures; searches are to be made for vagrants, beggars, and idle persons, &c., who shall be punished. Chart. K. Hen. II.; Lex Lond. 185. See LONDON.

WARDROBE, n. s. Fr. garderobe; low Lat. garderoba. A room where clothes are kept.

The third had of their wardrobe custody,

In which were not rich tires nor garments gay,
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A WARDROBE, in a prince's court, is an apartment wherein his robes, wearing apparel, and other necessaries, are preserved under the care and direction of proper officers.

WARDROBE, THE MASTER, OR KEEPER OF THE GREAT, was an officer of great antiquity and dignity. High privileges and immunities were conferred on it by king Henry VI., which were confirmed by his successors; and king James I. not only enlarged them, but ordained that this office should be a corporation or body politic for ever. It was the duty of this office to provide robes for the coronations, marriages, and funerals of the royal family; to furnish the court with hangings, clothes of state, carpets, beds, and other necessaries; to furnish houses for ambassadors at their arrival, &c. &c. Besides the master, who had a salary of £2000, there was his deputy, who had £150, and comptroller and a patent clerk, each of whom had a salary of £300. There was likewise a removing wardrobe, which had its own set of officers, and standing wardrobe-keepers of St. James's, Windsor Castle, Hampton Court, Kensington, and Somerset House; but the whole of the wardrobe establishment was abolished by act of parliament in 1782. The chief duties are now performed by the lord chamberlain.

WARDSHIP, in chivalry, one of the incidents of tenure by knight service. See FEUDAL SYSTEM, KNIGHT SERVICE, and TEnure.

WARE. The pret. of wear, more frequently

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WARK (Sir James), a learned historian, at Duolin, in 1594; educated at Trinity College; and knighted by the lord justices, in 1629. During the rebellion he came over to England, and was sent to the Tower by the parliament; but released a few months thereafter, on which he returned to Dublin. He then went to France; but returned on the Restoration, when he was restored to his office. He published, 1. The History and Antiquities of Ireland: folio. 2. De Præsulibus Hiberniæ folio, and other works. He died at Dublin

in 1666.

WARE (James), a late eminent oculist, and the author of several excellent professional works. Among these may be mentioned a Treatise on Ophthalmy, Psorophthalmy, and the Purulent Eye; Chirurgical Observations relative to the Epiphora, or Watery Eye, &c.; a Treatise on the Cataract, translated from the French of baron Wenzel, with remarks; an Enquiry into the Causes which have most Commonly Prevented the Success of the Operation of Extracting the Cataract; Remarks on the Fistula Lachrymalis; and Chirurgical Observations, 1798, 2 vols. 8vo., including various tracts. Mr. Ware was a fellow of the Royal Society and of the London Medical Society. After having been long engaged in the practice of his profession in London, with the highest reputation, he died at the age of sixty, April 13th, 1815.

WARE, a market-town on the river Lea, Brughin hundred, Herts, three miles and a half E. N. E. of Hertford, and twenty and a half north of London. It consists of one principal street, nearly a mile in length, with several smaller ones intersecting it, and is distinguished for its extensive malting establishments.

WAREE, a country of Western Africa, southeast of Benin and near the river Formosa, which falls into the gulf of Benin. The country is covered with an impenetrable forest, growing in a complete marsh, but the capital is situated on a beautiful island in the river, a little elevated above the surrounding country. The subsoil is a red clay, formed by the inhabitants into jars and other utensils. The capital is divided into two towns, of which the largest, and that in which the king resides, contains about 5000 inhabitants. Much trade is carried on with Benny and New Calabar. The chief European commodity in demand consists of a species of brass pans, used in the manufacture of salt.

WAREHAM, an ancient borough of Dorsetshire, seated at the junction of the Frome and the Piddle, where they fall into Luckford Lake, and there form a good harbour. It was anciently very large, and had eight churches; but in 875 was sacked by the Danes, and has now only three. It had also walls and a castle, now in ruins. In the reign of Edward the Confessor it had 148 houses and two mints. It has now 383 houses, 2065 inhabitants, and a market on Saturday. It sends two members to parliament. It is nine miles south-west of Pool, eighteen east of Dorchester, and 114 southwest of London. Loug. 2° 16′ W., lat. 50° 43′ N. WARGENTIN (Peter), a Swedish mathematician, born at Stockholm, in 1717. He constructed Tables of the Satellites of Jupiter; and wrote several useful papers in the Transactions of the Academy of Stockholm. He died at Stockholm in 1788. WARHAM (William), an eminent prelate and statesman, born at Okely in Hants, and educated

at Winchester and Oxford, where ne became a fellow. In 1494 he was sent ambassador to the duke of Burgundy, and on his return was made bishop of London; next lord chancellor, and lastly archbishop of Canterbury. He ruled with great moderation, and died in 1532.

WARIN (John), a celebrated sculptor and engraver of Liege, born in 1604. He was invited to the mint at Paris, where he engraved the seal for the ci-devant French republic, which will surely be preserved in the National Institute, as it was esteemed his master piece. The impression is Richelieu's head. He also made two elegant busts of Louis XIV. in bronze. He was poisoned by some villain in 1672.

WARING (Edward), M. D., Lucasian Professor of mathematics in the university of Cambridge, was the son of a wealthy farmer, of Old Heath, near Shrewsbury. The early part of his education he received at the free school in Shrewsbury; whence he removed to Cambridge, and was admitted on the 24th of March, 1753, a member of Magdalen College. Here his talents for abstruse calculation soon appeared, and, at the time of taking his degree, he was considered as a prodigy in those sciences which make the subject of the bachelor's examination. The name of Senior Wrangler was thought scarcely a sufficient honor to distinguish one who so far outshone his contemporaries; and the merits of John Jebb were sufficiently acknowledged by being second in the list. Waring took his degree of B. A. in 1757, and the Lucasian professorship became vacant before he was of sufficient standing for the degree of A. M., which is a necessary qualification for that office. This defect was supplied by a royal mandate, through which he became M. A. in 1760; and soon after Lucasian professor. In 1762 he published his Miscellanea Analytica; one of the most abstruse books written on the abstrusest parts of algebra. This work extended his fame over all Europe. He was elected, without solicitation, member of the societies of Bononia and Gottingen; and received flattering marks of esteem from the most eminent mathematicians at home and abroad. Mathematics did not, however, engross the whole of his attention. In 1767 he was admitted to the degree of M. D., but it was to him merely a barren title. His life passed on, marked out by discoveries, chiefly in abstract science; and by the publication of them in the Philosophical Transactions, or in separate volumes, under his own inspection. He lived some years at St. Ives, in Huntingdonshire. While at Cambridge he married-quitted Cambridge with a view of living at Shrewsbury; but, the air or smoke of the town being injurious to Mrs. Waring's health, he removed to his own estate at Plaisley, eight miles from Shrewsbury, where he died in 1797, universally esteemed for inflexible integrity, modesty, plainness, and simplicity of manners. He was the discoverer, he says, of nearly 400 propositions in the Analytics. In 1759 he published the first chapter of the Miscellanea Analytica, as a specimen of his qualifications for the professorship. He published also, 1. Proprietas Algebraicarum Curvarum, in 1772; Miscellanea Analytica; 2. Meditationes Algebraicæ, in 1770; Meditationes Analyticæ, in 1773-6. These were his chief and most laborious works. In the Philosophical Transactions is to be found a variety of papers, which alone would be

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