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    eity a week , during which the attack of the Bastille and the massacre of the Thuiileries took place . He became acquainted with Turgot , Roland , and other persons distinguished at that period ; and he has wiitten a very animated and interesting journal of the events , which remains among his unpublished papers .

    After being presented with the Freedom of Norwich , he was elected one of its Aldermen . He served the office of Sheriff in 1803 ; that of Mayor in 1805 ; and was during 16 years indefatigable in performing the duties of a magistrate , by attending all public meetings , directing

    the management of the poor , exposing abuses , and watching over every thing that could influence the prosperity and comfort of his fellow-citizens . In politics he took on all important occasions a decided part , and throughout life maintained steadily the noble and liberal

    principles which he had imbibed in his earlier years . —Such was the capacity of his genius , that he was deeply versed in the literature of the day , and was possessed of almost every branch of science , more particularly physiology , botany and natural history . He was a Fellow of the

    Linnaean and Horticultural Societies ; a Member of the Corporation of Surgeons , and the Medical Society of London ; an Honorary Member of the Philadelphia Society for promoting Agriculture ; and was attached to many other institutions

    both foreign and domestic . His philanthropy led him to set on foot in the year 1786 , a Benevolent Medical Society for the Relief of the Widows and Orphans ! of Medical Men in the County of Norfolk , of which he was Treasurer until his death .

    —Requiring no other relaxation than that produced by a change of employment , he spent his hours of retirement in attending to improvements in agriculture , in which he was distinguished as much as in other pursuits to which he gave his attention .

    His facility in writing was extraordinary ; and the various works which his pen has produced will leave permanent proofs of his genius , experience and industry . —In relation to private life , Dr , Rigby was equally great and singular . A numerous list of relatives and descendants for four

    generations remain to lament his loss : and the inhabitants of Norwich will long consider it an honour to their city to have retained a Rigby for half a century to adorn it by his talents , and benefit and improve it by his unremitting labours . He was the author of several valuable

    and useful works ; one in particular on the Practice of Midwifery , has passed through five editions , and has been translated into French and German . Among

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    the rest may be enumerated , bis Essay of Animal Heat ; on the Red Peruvian Bark ? on the Inoculation of the Poor his Account of Hoik bam and its Agricu } ture ; of Framingham and its Agricult ureand his translation of Chateauvieux oa the Agriculture of Italy . Captain Parry the able and enterprising explorer of the Arctic Seas , is one of the nephews of Dr . Rigby , and was presented with the freedom of Norwich , when on a visit last spring to his relatives in that city .

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    —17 , of apoplexy , at his house in James Street , Buckingham-Gate , Rear-Admiral Burney , F . R . S ., in his 72 nd year , eldest son of the learned and elegant historian of music , and brother to two very distinguished persons of the present age , Madame d'Arblay , the justly celebrated novelist , and the late Dr . Charles Burney

    [ see Mod . Repos . XIII . 66 , 67 ] , a member of that triumvirate of profound scholars , which has adorned our own immediate times . Admiral Burney entered into the Royal navy at a very early period of his life , and accompanied Captain Cook in his two last voyages . His " History of Voyages of Discovery , " and his account of the Eastern Navigations of

    the Russians , " and other works , bear - timony to his science as a geographer . The following passage in a letter written by Dr . Johnson to Mrs . Thrale , upon Capt . Burney's promotion and appointment to the Bristol 50-gun ship , in 1781 , shews how great an interest the naval officer had excited in the breast oi

    the learned moralist : — "I am willing , however , to hear that there is happiness in the world , and delight to think on the pleasure diffused among the Burners , question if any ship upon the ocean got *

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    692 Obituary . —Mrs . Rebecca Relp h *—Rear-Admiral Burney , F . R . S .

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    he is obliged to deny himself this gratifi - cation . He trusts , however , that he shall not greatly offend against her wish by saying , that religion was in her a practical and active principle , that , supported by

    Nov . 3 , at WaltharnstoWy Mrs . Hebecca Relph , aged 78 . He who now announces her decease would have felt a melancholy pleasure in adding a sketch of her character ; but having heard her repeatedly express a wish that no such tribute should be paid to her memory ,

    the prospects of Christianity , she bore a lingering and painful illness with pioiKs resignation , and reaped the fruit of a well-spent life in the composure with which she looked forward to the approach of death . E . C .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1821, page 692, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2506/page/60/