ting address, and dignity and ease in conversation, gained her the warmest and truest esteem of all who had the happiness of her acquaintance. Her letters, which make no small part of this work, need no encomium. Every reader will do justice to their merit. The following note from Dr. Hunter is a testimony of her talents in science:

"28th Oct. 1788.

"DR. HUNTER presents his respects to miss Wilkes, and esteems himself happy in being honoured with her commands respecting the specimens of the English Lavater. Those he has the pleasure of now sending her are among the best impressions of the plate which remain, though the letter-press does not look quite so well on French paper.

"The proprietors consider themselves as greatly indebted to miss Wilkes for her patronage of the work, and are much flattered by her and Mr. Wilkes's approbation of the execution. They too sensibly feel the obligation she is laying them under in exhibiting the specimen

to her friends at Paris, to think of accepting the payment of such a trifle.

"Dr. H. receives with unfeigned thankfulness miss Wilkes's candid, judicious, and very friendly criticisms. Measures are already taken to prevent a repetition of some of the little awkwardnesses and inaccuracies of which she so justly and so patriotically complains.—It is to be regretted that Calas and his daughter had not fallen into the hands of a better artist. Were Dr. H. the sole director of the undertaking, that subject should most undoubtedly be re-engraved."

COPY OF MISS WILKES'S WILL.

In the name of God, Amen. I, Mary Wilkes, spinster, of Grosvenor-square, London, do hereby revoke all my former wills, and declare the present to be my last will and testament; most gratefully acknowledging the goodness of Providence and the affection of those honoured relatives from whence I have derived what I enjoy, and am enabled to make the disposal of my property. I nominate and appoint Joseph Paice esquire, of the Paragon, Southwark; Mr. John Wainewright, solicitor, of Field-court, Gray's Inn; and Mr. James Boudon, of the chamberlain's office, Guildhall, London; jointly, or the survivors or survivor of them, executors and executor of this my last will and testament: and I give and bequeath unto the said Joseph Paice esquire, Mr. John Wainewright, and Mr. James Boudon, or the survivors or survivor of them, all my real and personal estates and effects whatever of which I may die possessed, in trust for the

following purposes; to pay all my just debts and funeral expences, and then the legacies herein and in the manner hereafter mentioned.

My house in Grosvenor-square to be sold, with all the furniture except what I specify as bequests: and the produce of such sale to be first employed in paying the mortgage of miss Sybilla Jane Price on the premises, of fifteen hundred pounds, with what interest may prove due thereon, and the remainder to be appropriated to the general purposes of this my will. will. I give and bequeath to the before-mentioned Joseph Paice esquire, the worthy friend of my family and myself, to him, his heirs and assigns for ever, my house in Gracechurch-street, London, with all the premises thereunto belonging; desiring him to pay and to secure out of the rent or value thereof, by sale, to James Davidson, formerly servant to my late honoured mother, for the term of his natural life twenty pounds a-year. I give and bequeath to the before-mentioned Mr. John Wainewright and Mr. James Boudon one hundred pounds each. I give and bequeath also unto Samuel Shore esquire, of

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Norton-hall, in the county of Derby; and William Hood esquire, of Chancery-lane, London; fifty pounds each: in testimony of my sense of the strict integrity and constant attention with which those gentlemen, with the before-mentioned Joseph Paice esquire, have acted under the different trusts which they have held for my benefit. I give and bequeath to my cousin Charles Wilkes, of New York, in America, son of my uncle Israel Wilkes esquire, all the lands and houses which became mine under the marriage-settlement of my honoured parents, in Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Buckinghamshire, and Bedfordshire; to him, his heirs and assigns for ever: and I desire my said cousin to secure out of their produce one hundred pounds a-year to my uncle, his father, during the life of my said uncle; and eighty pounds a-year to his mother, the wife of the said Israel Wilkes esquire, in case of her surviving her said husband, during her life. And I desire him also to pay to his sister Mrs. Simond fifty pounds, and to his brother Mr. John De Ponthieu Wilkes thirty pounds.