the Law School [his friend,
Alexander Knox, being always one], sufficient to encourage me, or at
least to permit me, to persevere, but not to animate my exertions by
publicity. But as I was approaching the sixteenth century, the number
of my hearers {137} increased so much, that I was encouraged to remove
to the Examination Hall, from which time my lectures attracted a large
portion of public attention, strangers forming a considerable portion
of the auditory."

It is worthy of remark, in connexion with this production of a
highly-gifted scholar and divine, whose name does honour to Trinity
College, Dublin, that Dr. Sullivan's _Lectures on the Constitution and Laws
of England_, which have since deservedly acquired so much fame, were
delivered in presence of only _three_ individuals, Dr. Michael Kearney and
two others--surely no great encouragement to Irish genius! In fact, the
Irish long seemed unconscious of the merits of two considerable works by
sons of their own university,--Hamilton's _Conic Sections_ and Sullivan's
_Lectures_; and hesitated to praise, until the incense of fame arose to one
from the literary altars of Cambridge, and an English judge, Sir William
Blackstone, authorised the other.

In the memoir to which I have referred, we find a complete list of the many
publications which Dr. Miller, "distinguished for his services in theology
and literature," sent forth from the press. We are likewise informed that
there are some unpublished letters from Hannah More, Alexander Knox, and
other distinguished characters, with whom Dr. Miller was in the habit of
corresponding.

ABHBA.

_Anticipations of Modern Ideas or Inventions._--In Vol. iii., pp. 62. 69.,
are two interesting instances of this sort. In Wilson's _Life of Defoe_, he
gives the titles of two works which I have often sought in vain, and which
he classes amongst the writings of that voluminous author. They run thus:

"_Augusta triumphans_, or the way to make London the most flourishing
city in the universe. I. By establishing a university where gentlemen
may have an academical education under the eye of their friends [_the
London University anticipated_]. II. To prevent much murder, &c., by an
hospital for foundlings. III. By suppressing pretended madhouses, where
many of the fair sex are unjustly confin'd while their husbands keep
mistresses, and many widows are lock'd up for the sake of their