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An English author styled "the Platonist"; born in London, May 15, 1758; died there, Nov. 1, 1835. His works comprise 63 vols., of which 23 are large quartos. Among them are treatises on arithmetic and geometry; on the Eleusinian and Bacchic mysteries; an essay on the "Rights of Brutes", in ridicule of Thomas Paine's "Rights of Man"; a "History of the Restoration of the Platonic Theology"; and a volume of "Miscellanies in Prose and Verse". His main labor was the translating of great classical Greek and Latin works. His translation of Plato was in 5 vols., and was printed at the expense of the Duke of Norfolk. Of his translation of Aristotle only fifty complete copies were struck off; the expense being defrayed by W. Meredith, a retired tradesman.