Days Bank Stock. 152 3 per C. 3 per C. 5 per C. reduced. confols. confols. confols. Long Ans. Short PRICES of STOCKS, from JANUARY 28, to FEBRUARY 25, 1795, both inclufive. By ANTHONY CLARKE, Stock-Broker, No. 13, Sweeting's-Alley, Cornhill. 4 per C. India India Ans. Stock. Bonds. South Sca Old Stock. New NAVY Ann. Ann. Bills. English Lot, Tic. In the 3 per Cent. confols. the higheft and lowest Price of each Day is given; in every other Article the higheft Price only, the Long and Short Annuities excepted, which are given within a fixteenth of the highest Price. In the different Funds that are fhut, the Prices are given with the Dividend till the Days of Opening. The UNIVERSAL MAGAZINE for MARCH, 1795. 153. PARTICULARS of the LIFE of Sir HANS SLOANE, Bart. With a fine Portrait of that celebrated Physician and Naturalift. It has been more than once intimated to us, by fome feientific Friends, that in a Work which contains fo many Hundred Portraits of celebrated Men, that of a Character fo illuftrius as Sir Hans Sloane, is avanting. This Deficiency we have taken the earliest Opportunity to fupply, and here prefint our Readers ́ with fame Particulars of his Life, referring, for more copious Memoirs, to our Magazine for Auguf: 1763. SIR Hans Sloane, an eminent phy- plants in this place, and travelled fician and naturali, and the through Languedoc with the fame founder of the British Museum, was view. In 1684, he returned to Lonborn at Killileagh, in the county of don, with an intent to fettle, and Down, and province of Uliter, in, follow, his profeffion. Ireland, on the 16th of April 1650; his father, Alexander Sloane, being then at the head of that colony of Scots, which king James the first fet-, tled in the north of that kingdom. The very first bent of his genius difcovered itself toward the knowledge of nature, and this was encouraged by a proper education. He chote phyfic, for his profeffion; and in order to attain a perfect knowledge of the feveral branches of it, repaired to London. Here he attended all the public lectures of anatomy, botany, and chymistry. His turn to natural hiftory introduced him to the acquaintance of Boyle and Ray; which he carefully cultivated, by communicating to them every curious or ufetul obfervation which he made. Having spent four years in London, he went to Paris; and there attended the hof pitals, heard the lectures of Tournefort the botanift, of Du Verney the anatomift, and other eminent masters. Having obtained letters of recom mendation from Tournefort, he went to Montpellier; and was introduced by Mr. Chirac, then chancellor and profeffor of that univerfity, to all the learned men of the province, but particularly to Mr. Magnol, who introduced him to an acquaintance with the fpontaneous productions of nature in that happy climate, and taught him to clafs them in their proper order. He spent a whole year in collecting VOL. XCVI. He immediately tranfmitted to Mr. Ray a great variety of plants and, feeds, which Ray has defcribed, with proper acknowledgements in his Hiftoria Plantarum. About this time, he became acquainted with Sydenham, who took him into, his houfe, and recommended him in the warmest manner to practice; and fhortly he was. chofen a fellow of the Royal Society, and of the College of Phylicians. But a profpect of making new difcoveries in natural productions induced him to take a voyage to Jamaica, as phyfician to Chriftopher duke of Albe-, marle, then governor of that ifland. His whole ftay at Jamaica was scarce fifteen months; yet he brought together fuch a variety of plants as greatly furprifed Mr. Ray, not thinking there had been fo many to be found in both the Indies. He now applied himself clofely to his profeffion, and became fo eminent, that he was chofen phyfician to Chrift's hofpital on the first vacancy. What is fingular, he ap plied the money he received from his appointment to the relief of poor objects in the hofpital, not being willing to enrich himfelf by the gains he made there. He was chofen fecretary to the royal fociety in 1693, and immediately revived the publication of the Philofophical Tranfactions,' which had been omitted for fome time: he continued to be editor of them, till 1712; and the volumes, which were U published in this period, contain many pieces written by himfelf. As he had from his earliest days a ftrong appetite for natural knowledge, he had made a great collection of rarities, and enriched his cabinet with every thing that was curious in art or nature. But this received a great augmentation by a bequest of William Courten, efq. a gentleman who had employed all his time, and the greatest part of his fortune, in collecting cariolites. The fenfe, which the public entertained of his merit, is evidently fhewn by the following honours conferred upon him. He was created a baronet by George I, chofen a foreign member of the royal academy at Paris, prefident of the college of phyficians, and prefident of the royal fociety on the death of fir Ifaac Newton. Having faithfally discharged the refpective duties of the places he enjoyed, and anfwered the high opinion which the public had conceived of him, he retired, at the age of eighty, to Chelfea, to enjoy in a peaceful tranquillity the remains of a well-fpent life. Here he continued to receive the vifits of people of diftinétion, and of all-learned foreigners; and admittance was never refufed to the poor, who came to confult him concerning their health. At fixteen, he had been feized with a pitting of blood, which confined him to his chamber for three years, and he was always more or less fubject to it; yet, by his fobriety, moderation, and an occafional ufe of the bark, he protracted life beyond the common meafure of humanity, without even feeling the infirmities of old age. After a fhort illness of three days, he died the 11th of January 1752, in his ninety-firft year. In his perfon he was tall and well proportioned; in his manners, easy and engaging; and in his converfation, fprightly and agreeable. He was every way a liberal benefactor to the poor. He was a governor of almost every hofpital about London; to each he gave a hundred pounds in his life-time, and at his death a fum more confiderable. He laid the plan of a difpenfatory, where the poor might be furnished with pro per medicines at prime coft; which, with the affiftance of the college of phyficians, was afterward carried into execution. He gave the company of the apothecaries the entire freehold of their botanical garden at Chelsea; in the centre of which a marble ftatue of him is erected, admirably executed by Ryfbrack, and the likeness friking. He did all he could to forward the establishment of the colony in Georgia in 1732, of the Foundlinghofpital in 1739, and formed the plan for the bringing up the children. He was the first in England, who introduced into general practice the ufe of the bark, not only in fevers, but in a variety of other diftempers; particularly in nervous diforders, in mortifications, and in violent hæmorrhages. His cabinet of curiofities, which he had taken fo much pains to collect, he bequeathed to the public; on condition, that the fum of 20,cool. fhould be paid to his family; which fum, though large, was not near half the original coft, and scarce more than the intrinsic value of the gold-and-filver medals, the ores and precious ftones, that were found in it.. Beside thefe, there was his library, confift ing of more than 50,000 volumes; 347 of which were illuftrated with cats, finely engraven and coloured from nature; 3566 manufcripts; and an infinite number of rare and curious books. The parliament accepted the bequeft; and that magnificent ftructure, called Montague Houfe, in Ruffel-street, Bloomsbury, was purchased for their reception of this collection, as well as for that of the Cottonian library, and the Harleian manufcripts; and thus fir Hans Sloane became the founder of the British Museum, one of the nobleft collections in the world. The wits, however, who never fpare a character, however eminently great and useful, more than once took occafion to ridicule this good man fur tafte, the utility of which they did not comprehend, but which was honoured |