in the Sussex Militia, of which he afterwards had the command. In 1780 he was elected into parliament for the city of Coventry, after one of the most violent contests ever known, which ended in the committal of the two sheriffs of that city to Newgate. When the fanatical petitions against the Roman Catholics were brought up to the House of Commons by Lord George Gordon, who was accustomed to harangue the mobs on those occasions; Colonel Holroyd fearing the consequences laid hold of his lordship, and said, "hitherto I have imputed your conduct to madness, but now I perceive that it has more of malice than madness in it;" adding at the same time," that if any of the mob made an entrance into the house he would instantly inflict summary vengeance on his Lordship as the instigator." At this time he was created Lord Sheffield, Baron of Dunamore, in the county of Meath, though afterwards an alteration took place in the form of the patent, with remainder of the title to his daughters. The commercial knowledge displayed by his Lordship recommended him to the city of Bristol at the next general election, and he rendered himself popular to his new constituents, by his indefatigable opposition to the abolition of the slave trade. In 1802 he was created an English peer, and in the upper house he has displayed the same independency of spirit which characterized him in the other house of parliament. He has been thrice married. On the death of his first lady, in 1793, he espoused Lady Lucy Pelham, daughter of the Earl of Chichester, and after her death he married Lady Anne North, daughter of the late Earl of Guildford, by whom he has issue, George Augustus Frederic North, born in 1802. Lord Sheffield was the most intimate friend of the historian Gibbon, to whose memory he has done honour by the publication of his memoirs and posthumous works, in 3 vols. 4to. His own literary performances are these: Great Britain, 8vo. 1804.-The Orders in Council and the American Embargo beneficial to the Commercial and Political Interests of Great Britain, 8vo. 1809. -A Letter on the Corn Laws, and on the means of obviating the Mischiefs and Distresses which are 13 pidly increasing, 8vo. 1815.-On the Trade in Wool and Woollens, extracted from the Reports addressed to the Wool-Meetings in 1809, 1810, 1811 and 1812.Report at the Meeting at Lewes Wool Fair, July 26, 1813. Both these Pamphlets are recorded in the Pamphleteer. SHELDRAKE, TIMOTHY, of the Strand, Trussmaker to the East India Company and the Westminster Hospital. Remarks on Mr. Brand's Chirurgical Essays, 8vo. 1783.-On the Causes of the distorted Spine, 8vo. 1783.-Observations on the Cause of Distortion of the Legs of Children, and the consequence of the pernicious with cases to prove the efficacy of a method of cure inmeans generally used with the intention of curing them, vented and practised, 8vo.1794. 2d ed. 1796.-Practical Essay on Club Foot and other Distortions in the Legs and Feet of Children, intending to show under what Circumstances they are curable or otherwise, 8vo. 1798. tures on the nature, cure and consequences of the -Useful hints to those who are afflicted with RupDisease, 8vo. 1803.-Appendix to the Essay on Distortion in the Feet of Children, 8vo. 1806.—An Appeal to the Public on the Conduct of certain Surgeons, with an Essay on the Cure of Distorted Spine, 8vo. 1810. SHEPHERD, HENRY, Esq. Captain of the 49th Regiment. The Orphan, or Generous Lovers, an opera in 3 acts, 8vo. 1800. The New Boethius, or the Consolation of Christianity, SHEPHERD, Rev. WILLIAM, a Dissent- 2 v. 8vo. 1815. course of Suomeen, Right Hon. RICHARD PATHY, Receiver General of the Duchy of Cornwall; is the third son of the celebrated Thomas Sheridan, an actor of eminence, and more distinguished as a teacher of elocution. Mrs. Sheridan, the mother of our author, was also a wo man of very superior genius and of excellent principles. She was the intimate friend of Dr. Samuel Johnson and other Observations on the Commerce of the American States, 8vo. 1783; 6th ed. 1781.-Observations on the Manufactures, Trade, and present State of Ireland, 8vo. 1785; 3d ed. 1792.-Observations on the Project for Abolishing the Slave Trade, 8vo. 1789.-Observations on the Corn Bill now depending in Parliament, 8vo. 1791. Substance of his Speech on the subject of the Union with Ireland, 8vo. 1799.-Remarks on the Deficiency of Grain, occasioned by the bad harvest 1799, 8vo. 1800.-Observations on the Objections made to the Exportation of Wool from Great Britain persons of great name in the world of to Ireland, ovo. 1800.-Strictures on the Necessity of letters. Mr. Richard Sheridan was born maintaining the Navigation and Colonial System of at Dublin in October 1751, and at the Lit. Cal. 2 R age of seven years was placed with his on the retirement of Garrick, the purelder brother Charles, under the care of chase of his share of the patent was enMr. Samuel Whyte, a schoolmaster, in tered into with him by Dr. Ford, Mr. the above city, and a relation of Mrs. Linley, and Mr. Sheridan for 30,000l. Sheridan. It is observable that at the Having now an interest in that concern time when these boys were committed to which called for his particular exertions, the instruction of Mr. Whyte, their mo- our author produced in the season folther thus expressed herself concerning lowing a comedy altered from Vanbrugh, them to that gentleman, "I have hither- called "A Trip to Scarborough;" which to been their only instructor, and they was eclipsed by one of his own entitled have sufficiently exercised my patience; "The School for Scandal," the most po for two such impenetrable dunces I ne- pular and perhaps the most legitimate ver met with." After remaining with piece of the kind of the modern drama. Mr. Whyte about a year and a half, the In 1778 he brought out the musical piece youths were sent to England, and in of the "Camp," which was followed by 1763, Richard Brinsley was entered at the entertainment of "the Critic," alterHarrow School, on which occasion the ed with great improvements from the mother wrote thus to her friend Mr. "Rehearsal" of the Duke of BuckingWhyte, "Dick has been at school since ham. At the general election in 1780 Christmas; as he probably may fall he was returned to parliament for Stafinto a bustling life, we have a mind to ford, and immediately enrolled himself accustom him early to shift for himself." on the side of opposition, under the banThe progress of young Sheridan at Har- ners of his friend Mr. Fox, to whom he row was not, however, such as to remove became under secretary, when that genthe impression so early formed against tleman formed his noted coalition with his genius by his parent, but at length Lord North. During the Shelburne his latent powers are said to have been administration a periodical paper appcardiscovered by Mr., now Doctor, Samuel ed bearing the name of "The Jesuit," Parr, who spared no pains in drawing as characteristic of the nobleman who them into activity. About the year stood at the head of affairs. In that 1769, he was taken from Harrow, and work Mr. Sheridan had a principal conentered a student of the Middle Temple, cern; and it was so severe that the Atwhere we have every reason to believe torney General was directed by Governthat his application was not at all answer- ment to institute a prosecution against able to his father's expectations. The the publisher. It ought here to be menembarrassments of Mr. Sheridan were tioned as a curious instance of the honesincreased by his marriage with Miss ty of party, that when the conductors of Linley, the daughter of the celebrated this paper came soon after into power, composer, and herself a favourite singer they suffered the prosecution to go on, at Drury Lane. The affections of this and the bookseller to be imprisoned lady were gained by two desperate duels twelve months without interposing on which her lover fought on her account his behalf, or even paying the heavy exwith a Mr. Matthews, another of her ad- penses which he had incurred! On the mirers, in both of which Mr. Sheridan restoration of his friends Mr. Sheridan came off victorious. Though this alli- was once more brought into place, and ance involved our author in considerable appointed Secretary of the Treasury; but difficulties he would not suffer his wife he had scarcely seated himself in that afterwards to appear on the stage; and office before the precipitate India Bill of he actually refused many considerable Mr. Fox again occasioned a change, offers which were made to him by the and Mr. Pitt became too firmly fixed to managers for his consent. On the 17th be shaken by the arts or the eloquence of January 1775 he brought out his first the opposition. From that time Mr. comedy of the Rivals, at Covent Garden, Sheridan distinguished himself with but the success of this piece did not great energy on that side, and his equal its merits and it was withdrawn. speeches, whatever might be thought of His next production was a farce entitled, them by cool and dispassionate reasoners, "St. Patrick's Day, or the Scheming never failed to attract public admiration Lieutenant," which appeared the same for the poignancy of their wit and the season. The next year appeared his eloquence of the language. At the comcomic opera of the Duenna, which ran mencement of the French revolation, inseventy five nights, and about this time, deed, he experienced some very cutting retorts from his old associate Mr. Burke, he was bound apprentice to a boat builwho exposed his weakness in seeking a der at North Shields. Fortunately for little paltry popularity from clubs, with him the celebrated Avison was at that keen but just severity. It is but just, time a resident in the neighbourhood, however, to observe that in some instances and from him he derived much assistance Mr. Sheridan displayed more real pa- in his musical studies, which he still purtriotism than his great leader Mr. Fox, sued at his leisure hours. At the expiparticularly at the time of the mutiny ration of his indentures he relinquished among the seamen, and also in vindi- the trade to which he had been brought cating the parochial associations for the up, and became the leader of a theatric defence of the kingdom. On the death band at Durham. Such was his sucof his first wife in 1792, he married Miss cess that he was advised to repair to LonOgle, daughter of the late dean of Win- don, where he obtained the friendship of chester; and when his party came again Cramer, who employed him in the orchesinto power after the death of Mr. Pitt, tra at the Opera House. In 1792 Mr. our author was appointed treasurer of Shield visited Italy, where he added to the Navy. From that period he has his knowledge and his reputation, as his gradually declined in political conse- various compositions sufficiently evince. quence, and at the last general election Of his musical productions, in the capahe failed in securing a seat. Besides his city of composer to Covent Garden dramatic performances already mention- Theatre, it belongs not to us here to ed, he adapted the Pizarro of Kotzebue speak, but his literary and scientific to the English stage in 1798; and wrote powers are displayed to advantage in, several songs which were inserted in the An Introduction to Harmony, 4to. 1800.-Rudiworks of others. The order of his pub-ments of Thorough Bass, for young Harmonists, 4to. lications is as follows: The Epistles of Aristanæætus from the Greek, anon. 8vo. The Rivals, com. 8vo. 1775.-The Duenna, com. op. 8vo. 1775, 8th edit. 1794-Trip to Scarborough, com. 8vo. 1781.-The Critic, or a Tragedy Rehearsed, 8vo. 1779. These pieces with the School for duodecimo, in Dublin, but it is very remarkable that till very lately the last mentioned comedy has never been regularly published.-Verses to the Memory of David Garrick, 4to. 1779.-Comparative statement of the two Bills for the better Government of the British Possessions in India, 4to. Scandal were collected and printed in a neat volume 1788. 2d edit. 8vo. 1806.-Epistle to the Right Hon. Henry Dundas, 4to. 1796.-Pizarro, altered from Kotzebue, and adapted to the English stage, 8vo. 1799.Speech on the Motion for the Army Establishment, 8vo. 1802. SHERWEN, JOHN, M. D. formerly a surin the East India Company's service, geon but now a resident physician at Enfield. Cursory Remarks on the Nature and Cause of the Marine Scurvy, 8vo. 1799.-Introduction to an Examination of the internal evidence respecting the au. thenticity of certain publications said to have been found in MS. at Bristol, 8vo. 1809. In this work the author has ventured to defend the existence of Rowley, and his claims to the poems brought forward under his name by Chatterton. 1815. SHILLITO, CHARLES, formerly a Lieutenant in the Marines, and for many years a resident at Colchester. He has been a contributor to the Wit's Magazine, and other periodical publications, while separately he is the author of, The Sea Fight, an elegiac poem written at Sea, 4to. An improved Method of Book Keeping, 4to. 1799. A Tribute to the Memory of the Right Hon. William. Pitt, 4to. 1806. SHIRREFS, ANDREW, M.A. a bookbinder at Aberdeen who has lost the use of both his legs. Poems chiefly in the Scottish dialect, 8vo. 1790.- An Inquiry into the Life, Writings, and Character of SHIELD, WILLIAM, Esq. musician in deen, with some strictures upon Spalding's account ordinary to his Majesty, was born in of him and of the times in which he lived, 8vo. 1799. 1754, at Swalwell in the county of Dur- don; educated at the seminary of the SHOBERL, FREDERIC, born 1775 in Lonham. His father, who was a singing United Brethren, commonly called Momaster, taught him the violin at a very ravians, at Fulneck, near Leeds, Yorkearly age, and such was his progress shire. Besides assisting in various pethat before he was eight years old he could play some of Corelli's most difficult pieces. The loss of his parent shortly after this occasioned a great change in his circumstances, and at the age of 14 riodical and other works, he has comDescriptive Account of Germany, &c. (to accompany piled and translated the following: Chauchard's Map), 4to. 1800.--The Travellers in Switzerland, a nov. from the French of Lantier, 6 v. 12mo. 1803-Essay on Solitude, from the German of Zimmermann, 2 v. post 8vo.1805.-Works of Solomon Gessner, from the German, 2 v. post 8vo. 1806-Essay on National Pride, from the German of Zimmermann, post 8vo. 1806.-Demonstration of the Existence of God, from the French of Chateaubriand, (being an extract from his Beauties of Christianity) fe. 8vo. 1806.Studies of Nature, from the French of St. Pierre, 4 v. post 8vo. 1807.-Reflections on the Works of God, from the German of Sturm, 4 v. fc. 8vo. 1808. His 8vo. 1811.-Travels in Greece, Palestine, Egypt and Lord? three sermons, 8vo. 1792.-Twelve Sermons preached at the New Jerusalem Temple in Redcross Street near Cripplegate, London, 8vo. 1796.-The Liturgy of the New Church.-The Call of the Jews, two sermons, 8vo. 1796.-The Genuine Trial of Thomas Hardy for High Treason, at the Old Bailey, 2 v. 8vo. 1795. SICKELMORE, RICHARD, an eccentric character at Brighton, who was originally a mechanic, but having a lively fancy he became a writer of paragraphs in the newspapers. His articles in this line being interlarded with the epithets pedestrian and equestrian procured him the title of Apollo on Horse Back. He has published the following pieces : The Dream, a drama, 8vo. 1797.-Edgar, or the Phantom of the Castle, nov. 2 v. 12mo. 1798.-Quarter Day, au interlude, 8vo. 1798.-Saltinbanco, an opera, 8vo. 1798.-The Cottage Maid, an opera, 8vo. 1798.-Aboukir Bay, a mus. dram. 8vo. 1799.-Agnes and Leonora, nov. 2 v. 12mo. 1799.-Mary Jane, Historical Account of the Silk Manufactures in Eng- nov. 2 v. 1800.-Sketches from Life, com. 8vo. 1802. land, 8vo. 1811. SHONE, W. Esq. of Mincing Lane, London. Marlowe's Jew of Malta, with Notes, 8vo. 1810. SHORE, A. butler for many years to A Practical Treatise on Brewing, 12mo. 1805. -Rashleigh Abbey, or the Ruin of the Rock, nov. 3 v. 12mo. 1805.-Osrick, or Modern Honors, 3 v. 12mo. 1809. SIDMOUTH, Right Hon. HENRY ADDINGTON, VISCOUNT. He is the son of Dr. Anthony Addington, formerly an eminent physician at Reading, and the confidential friend of the great Lord Chatham, which connexion brought on an intimacy with their respective sons. The subject of the present sketch was born at Reading about 1755, and with his brother Mr. Hiley Addington sent to Cheam Address on the Excellence of the Hebrew Language, school under Mr. Gilpin, from whence 8vo. 1811. SHRAPTER, THOMAS. The Fugitive, a pastoral drama, 8vo. 1790. 1809. SIBBIT, ADAM, M.A. Rector of Clarendon in the island of Jamaica. He was of Magdalen Hall, Oxford, where he pro they removed first to Winchester, and afterwards to Ealing, where they had the instructions of the present Bishop of Carlisic. Mr. Henry Addington became a student of Brazenose College, Oxford, where he took his Master's degree November 18, 1780. On leaving the University he entered himself at Lincoln's Inn, and was called to the bar about the same time with Mr. Pitt, under whose auspices he obtained a seat in Parlia ment for the borough of Devizes of which he had been previously chosen Recorder. In 1789 he was elected Speaker of the House of Commons, in which office he displayed great talent and impartiality. On the resignation of Mr. Pitt and his colSIBLEY, MANOAH, shorthand writer, leagues, Mr. Addington was appointed bookseller, and preacher in the sect of Chancellor of the Exchequer, in which Swedenborg at a chapel in Redcross capacity he effected the treaty of Amiens Street. He is a native of Bristol, where which certainly will not confer any great his father was a shoemaker, to which bu- lustre on his administration. When Mr. siness he and his brother, the late empi- Pitt resumed the seat of power, his friend ric and astrologer Dr. Sibley, were also was made a peer and appointed Lord brought up. This person has published: President of the Council; and in the Critical Essay on Jeremiah xxxiii. 16. 8vo. 1777.-An Fox and Grenville administration he held Answer to the most important question Who is the the office of Privy Seal, lie at present ceeded M.A. June 12, 1800. lence, 8vo. 1800. enjoys the post of Secretary of State for the Home Department, and is highly esteemed for his integrity and liberality. Lord Sidmouth married Miss Hammond, by whom he has issue Henry William Addington and three daughters. Under the name of this nobleman have appeared: Speech on the Motion of the Marquis of Stafford relative to the Change of Administration, 8vo. 1807. Speech in the House of Lords on the Danish Ships detained in the Ports of Great Britain, 8vo. 1808. the Public, or a Letter to the Rev. Dr. Pearson, in reply to his Cautions to the Readers of a Sermon of Mr. Simeon's, 8vo. 1810.-The Jews provoked to Jealousy, a Sermon, 8vo. 1811.-Four Sermons, preached before the University of Cambridge, on the Excellency of the Liturgy, 8vo. 1812.-University Sermons, 8vo. 1812.-Christ Crucified, a Sermon, 8vo. 1811.— Jenks's Prayers and Offices of Devotion for Families, a new edition improved, 8vo. and 12mo. 1813.-Dr. Marsh's Fact, or a Congratulatory Address to all the Church Members of the British and Foreign Bible Society, 8vo. 1813. A Treatise on the Law of Elections, 8vo. 1796. He Five Common-sense Arguments to evince the Efficacy, and enforce the Duty, of Inoculation by the CowPox, and to obviate existing Prejudices and Objections, 12mo. 1803. SIMEON, JOHN, Esq. of Lincoln's Inn, SIKES, Rev. THOMAS, M.A. Vicar of Barrister at Law, a Master in Chancery, Gilsborough in Northamptonshire. He and one of the Commissioners for the was formerly a member of Pembroke Protection of the King's Property. College, Oxford, where he took his mas- is a brother of the preceding, and has ter's degree in 1792. Mr. Sikes who is published, possessed of a very handsome paternal estate, is a zealous defender of the established church. He was the first who made a direct attack upon the British and Foreign Bible Society, not on account of the principle of circulating the Scriptures, but the impropriety of churchmen associating with sectaries, and aiding them in creating funds by which the interests of the establishment must eventually be injured. Mr. Sykes therefore published a Letter to Lord Teignmouth on that subject, subscribed by a Country Clergyman," to which Mr. Owen, secretary of the society, returned an answer with the signature of a "Sub-Urban Clergyman." The other productions of Mr. Sikes are, Dialogues concerning the Christian's Liberty of Choosing his Teacher, and concerning Christian Edification, 12mo. 1803.-Parochial Communion, 8vo. 1812. SIMEON, Rev. CHARLES, M.A. Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. He is a native of Reading, and was educated at Eton College, on the foundation, from whence he was elected to the University of Cambridge, in due course. Mr. Simeon has been distinguished as an open and zealous espouser of the Calvinistic doctrines, which he preaches with great energy in the University pulpit, and in the chapels of the popular ministers of the same creed in London. His warmth in that cause has brought him into some disputes with other divines of the same university, but in none of his controversies has he displayed either acuteness or temper. His publications are as follow: Claude's Essay on the Composition of a Sermon, with an Appendix containing One Hundred Skeletons of Sermons, 8vo. 1796.-Helps to Composition, or Five Hundred Skeletons of Sermons, 5 v. 8vo. 1802.-The Churchman's Confession, or an Appeal to the Liturgy, a Sermon, 8vo. 1805.-The Fountain of Living Waters, a Sermon preached before the University of Cam bridge, 8vo. 1809.-Evangelical and Pharisaic Righte ousness compared, a Sermon, 8vo. 1809. Cautions to SIMMONS, WILLIAM, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, and senior surgeon to the Manchester Infirmary. Besides many curious articles and cases in the London Medical Journal and Dr. Simmons's Medical Tracts and Observations, this gentleman has published, Reflections on the Propriety of the Cæsarean Operation, 8vo. 1798.-Detection of the Fallacy of Dr. Hull's Defence of the Cæsarean Operation, 8vo. 1799. Cases and Observations on Lithotomy, and on the Chimney Sweeper's Cancer, 8vo. 1809. SIMONS, BENJAMIN, M.D. References to the Bones for the Use of Anatomical SIMONS, THOMAS, master of an academy at Edmonton. Moral Education, the one thing needful, briefly re- SIMPSON, GEORGE VAUGHAN, A.B. of Londonderry, with an Explanatory Memoir, 4to. SIMPSON, Rev. JOHN, a dissenting minister of Baldock in Hertfordshire, and master of an academy there. Christian Arguments for Social and Public Worship, a Sermon, 8vo. 1792-An Essay on Religious Fasting and Ilumiliation, 8vo. 1795.-Thoughts on the Novelty, Excellence, and Evidence, of the Christian Religion, 8vo. 1798.-Internal and Presumptive Evidences of Christianity, considered separately, and as uniting to form one Argument, 8vo. 1801.- Thoughts on the New Testament Doctrine of Atonement, 8vo. 1802.-An Essay on the Duration of a Future State of Punishments and Rewards, 8vo. 1803.-Quæstiones Græcæ, or Questions adapted for the Eton Greek Graminar, 8vo. 1807; 2nd edit. 1814.-Essays on the Language of Scripture, 2 v. 8vo. 1808. SIMPSON, Rev. JOHN, curate of Chesham. |