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BROWN. pared for himaelf in the middle of the choir belonging to the hospital of St. Catherine. A list of his works are to be found in Park's edition of Lord Orford's Noble Authors DR, JEMMET BROWN WAs descended from a respectable family long settled at Cork. His grandfather was a merchant of considerable consequence, and intending his eldest sog for the mercan tile profession, sent him to Holland at an early age, to qualify himself, in various branches of commerce, that could not be acquired in his, native country.. When he had remained in the Netherlands about three or four years, his, fatber sent for him home, for the double purpose of settling him in marriage and in business. He dutifully obeyed his father's letter as speedily as possible, and landed at the custom-boase quay, at Cork, on a Sunday morning, at a time when the congregation were coming out of Christ-church. Not having seen bis native coun try for some years, be seleeted a post near the church, and wbere, placing himself against it in a pensive yet interest- ipg posture, he beheld the various groupes passing by, and gazed upon them all indifferent, till he saw ong " whose fairy form was never to be forgot" he, of course, followed her home, and determined it was impossible to be happy with any other woman. The next morning be received the agreeable commands to prepare binself to visit his intended bride; his feelings we sball not attempt to describe; he gloomily obeyed; but what were his transports, bis excess, of joy, when, upon the introduction, he found her to be the very same young lady whom he beheld the morning before, and whom the every wish of bis heart was to lead to the hymeneal alter. It is almost needless to say they were matried in a month, and the subject of the present memoir was the first fraits of that manageng