EACH DAY'S PRICE OF STOCKS IN FEBRUARY, 1787. Bank 13 petCt 3 per Ct. Ditto 4 per C5 per Ct Long, Short Ditto | India, India India S. Sea 1726 Confol. Stock. reduc. confols. Old Ann. 1777. 1778. Stock. Ann. Bonds. Stock. Ann. New 3 per Ct, New 13 per Ct4perCt., Excheq Lottery Ann. Bills. Tickets. 1751 Navy. Scrip. Scrip. 28 Sunday 74 74a733 934 | 1103 132 56 2 dif. 15 05 30 31 74 151 74年 N. B. II. the 3 per Cent, Confols, the higheft and loweft Price of.cach Day is given; in the other Stock the highest Price only. The Gentleman's Magazine; London Gazette Public Advertiser Gazetteer Morning Chron. Morning Herald Morning Pot Public Ledger Gener. Advertise: The World Oxford Cambridge Bristol 3 papers Birmingham 2 Derby Hereford 2 Chester 2 Manchefter 2 Canterbury 2 ST. JOHN's Gate. Edinburgh 5 Newcastle 3 Nottingham a Liverpool 2 Bury St. Edmund's Lewes Sheffield Shrewibury Winchester Ipfwich Stamford Chelmsford Southamptor Dumfries Aberdeen Glasgow For MARCH, 1787. CONTAINING 197 198 199 202 216 ib. 224 225 226 Meteor. Diaries for Apr 1786, and Mar. 1787 190 | Origin of Gaming, Duelling, and Suicide By 206 205 208 208, 213 209 212 1b. SYLVANUS URBAN, Gent. LONDON, Printed by JOHN NICHOLS, for D. HENRY, late of SAINT JOHN'S GATE. 27 28 190 Meteorological Diaries for April, 1786; and March, 1987. Rain 100thsin. Weather in April, 1786. Dog's-tooth violet in bloom; did not blow last year till the 12th.-2 Male bloom appears on the Italian poplar. Wryneck or cuckoo's mate (jynx torquilla) returns and pipes.3 Early plum and daffodil in bloom.-4 Nectarines, peaches, and early pears in bloom.5 Goofeberry in bloom. Saxifraga craffifolia in bloom. Halo round the moon.— 7 Wild ftrawberries in bloom. Tit-lark (alauda pratenfis) fings.-8" Sumer is i cumen, Thude fing cucca."-9 Wood anemone and minute paftore rush (juncus campestris) in bloom.- Swallows return, and frequent chimnies. Nightingale effays to fing. Redftart (motacilla phoenicurus) appears. Blackthorn and ftichwort (fellaria holotta) in bloom. Regulus non criftatus medius Rai laughs. Standard cherry in bloom. 13 Anthoxanthum odoratum in bloom.-1+ Paftures yellow with bloom of dandelions. 15 Leaves of forward beech-trees and horse-chefnuts half expanded. *Now lufti "Aprilis with his thouris fote,-The drought of March hath percid to the rote.” Red-ftart, that is, red-tail, from the Saxon fleort, a tail; this bird hath a fimilar name in many other languages. METEOROLOGICAL TABLE for March, 1787. Height of Fahrenheit's Thermometer. D. of Month." Feb. 27 28 42 54 46 29,86 thowery 51 29,82 rain 43 29,33 thowery rain 45 29.5 Height of Fahrenheit's Thermometer. 11 o'cl. M.1 56 49 52 47 18 38 40 29,73 rain 45 44 29,43 41 rain 36 29,27 fair 35 5.1 37 29.9 Fair 521 19 35 56 20 39 55 41 30,3 fair 21 40 60 45 30,26 fair 42 29.56howery 33 23 10 40 47 41 29,21 rain 24 48 37 29,86 how, with thu 35 52 43 30,35 fair W. CARY, Mathematical Inftrument-Maker, oppofite Arundel the 4229,5 fair (198 THE Gentleman's Magazine: For MARCH, 1787. BEING THE THIRD NUMBER OF VOL. LVII. PART I. MR. URBAN, I March 1. N almost every account which has been publifhed of Dr. Johnfon fince his death, mention having been made of XXX Dr. Lawrence the phyfician, and fome miftakes concerning him having found their way into most of them, the following fhort account of his life may not be unacceptable to your readers. Dr. Thomas Lawrence was the grandfon of another Dr. Thomas Lawrence, who was first phyfician to Queen Anne, and physician general to the army; heliyed to a great old age, and held employ ments under four fucceffive princes, beginning with Charles the Second, by whom he was appointed phyfician to the garrifon at Tangier, part of the dowry of Queen Catharine: while he was in that station he married Mary Elizabeth daughter to the Lieutenant Governor of the garrifon, by whom he had fix fons and three daughters: the eldest daughter, whom we fhall have occafion to re. member again in the courfe of this narrative, was married to Mr. Gabriel Ramondon; a French gentleman; and the fecond, having become a widow by the death of her first husband, Colonel Edward Griffith, was afterwards mar. ried to Lord Mohun, well known for his fatal conteft with Duke Hamilton, in which both thofe noblemen loft their lives. All the fix fons dedicated themfelves to the profeffion of arms, and two of them were killed in the fervice of their country, one a foldier and the other a failor, who was shot in a fea engagement, as he ftood by the fide of his eldeft brother Thomas, then a captain in the royal navy, and father to Dr. Lawrence, who is the fubject of this relation. He was born on the 25th of May, 1711, in the parish of St. Margaret, Weftminster, the fecond fon of his father, by Elizabeth the daughter of Mr. Gabriel Soulden, Merchant of Kinfale in Ireland, and widow of Colonel Piers. About the year 1715 Captain Lawrence, being appointed to the Irish station, carried his family into that country, where his wife's relations refided; but the dying in the year 1724, and leaving him with five children, one of which was a daughter, he determined, being poffeffed of a very eafy fortune, to quit the navy, and to accept the invitation of his eldest fifter Mrs. Ramondon, who was lately become a widow, of fettling with her at Southampton, where the undertook the fuperintendence of his family, till in the year 1726 he married a fecond time, to Elizabeth the daugh ter of Major Rufane, who furvived her hufband, and is ftill alive. Some years after this Captain Lawrence went with his family to Greenwich, and foon after his removal thither was appointed one of the Captains of the Hofpital, where he died in December 1747. On his arrival at Southampton young Lawrence was placed under the care of the Rev. Mr. Kingfman, mafter of the Free School at that place, and there finished the school education, which he had begun at Dublin, and was entered in 192 Biographical Anecdotes of the late Dr. Thomas Lawrence. in October, 1727, a commoner of Trinity College, Oxford, under the tuition of the Rev. George Huddesford, after wards Prefident of that College, when hé removed to London, where he purfued his ftudies till fome time in the year 1734, and, according to the custom of young phyficians at that sime, took a lodging in the city for the convenience of attending St. Thomas's Hospital, and became a pupil of Dr. Nicholls, who was then reading anatomical lectures in London, with a celebrity never attained by any other before or fince. The novelty of his discoveries, the gracefulness of his manner, and the charms of his delivery, attracting to him, not only the medical people in every line, but perfons of all ranks, and all profeffions, who crowded upon him from every quarter: what progrefs Dr. L. made under fuch a teacher is too well known to be here infifted on. At thefe lectures he formed many of thofe friendips, which he most valued during the remainder of his life; and here he was first acquainted with Dr. Bathurst, by whom he was afterwards introduced to the friendship of Dr. Johnfon, In the year 1740 he took the degree of Dr. of Phyfick at Oxford, and was, upon the refignation of Dr. Nicholls, chofen Anatomical reader in that Univerfity, where he read lectures for fome years, as he did alfo in London, having quitted his lodging in the city for an houfe in Lincoln's Inn fields, which had before been occupied by Dr. Nicholls, and was vacated by him upon his marriage with the daughter of Dr. Mead. On the 25th of May, 1744, Dr. Lawrence was married, at the parish church of St. Andrew Holborn, by Dr. Taylor Prebendary of Westminster, to Frances the daughter of Dr. Chauncy a phyfician at Derby, by whom he had fix fons and three daughters. Upon his marriage he took an houfe in Effex street in the Strand, where he continued to read his anatomical lectures till the year 1750. After which he laid them afide, and evoted himself more entirely to the practice of phyfick, in which he had for many years a confiderable thare of bufinefs, which he obtained folely by the reputation of his skill and integrity; for he laboured under the difadvantage of very frequent, and fevere fits of deafness, and knew no art of fuccefs but that of deferving it. In the fame year (1744) he was chofen Fellow of the Royal College of Phy ficians in London, where he read fuc ceffively all the lectures instituted in that fociety, with great reputation both for his profeffional knowledge, and for the purity and elegance of his Latin; nor did he confine himself to the oral inftruction of his contemporaries, for in the 1756 he published a medical difputation, de Hydrope, and in 1757 Prælec tiones Medice, and in 1759 De Naturâ Mufculorum Prælectiones Tres; and when the College published the works of Dr Harvey in 1766, Dr. Lawrence wrote the Life which is prefixed to that edition, for which he had a compliment of 100 guineas. In 1759 he was chofen Elect. and in 1767 Prefident, of the College of Phyficians, to which office he was reelected for the feven fucceeding years. In 1773 an event happened in his family, which, as it gave occafion to a very elegant Latin Ode addreffed to him by Dr. Johnson, and which is now pub. lifhed; it may not be impertinent to relate in this place. The Eaft India Company being then in the meridian of their power, the fecond of his fons then alive, a young man of very lively parts and afpiring hopes, was fo dazzled by the fplendid accounts brought home by the fervants of the company, and had fo much fixed his mind upon trying his fortune in that part of the world, that his friends were induced to perfuade his father to comply with his inclinations in this point; yet fuch was his opinion of the corruptions and temptations of the East Indies, that, though his fon went out with many advantages of connection and recommendation, the grief of fo parting with him, dwelt long upon his mind. The Supreme Court of Judicature being cftablished at Calcutta a few years after, Mr. Lawrence complied with the withes of his friends, in returning to the law, for which profeffion he had been educated, and became an advocate in that court; he died at Madrals, whither he went for the recovery of his health, in December 1783, having obtained the rank of fecond advocate to the East India Company. About this time Dr. Lawrence's health began to decline, and he firft perceived the fymptoms of that diforder on the breaft, which is called by the physicians the Angina pectoris, and which continued to afflict him to the end of his life; notwithftanding, he remitted little of his attention, either to study or bufinefs; for no man of equal fenfibility had a greater contempt of giving way to fuffering of |