Part 1

MEMOIRS

JOSEPH PRIESTLEY, L. L. D. F. R. S. &c.

MEMOIRS

Dr. Joseph Priestley,

TO THE YEAR 1795,

WRITTEN BY HIMSELF:

WITH A CONTINUATION, TO THE TIME OF HIS DECEASE,

BY HIS SON, JOSEPH PRIESTLEY:

AND OBSERVATIONS ON HIS WRITINGS,

BY THOMAS COOPER, PRESIDENT JUDGE OF THE

4TH. DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA: AND THE

REV. WILLIAM CHRISTIE.

NORTHUMBERLAND: PRINTED BY JOHN BINNS.

1806.

District of Pennsylvania, to wit:

Be it remembered, that on the twenty-eighth of December in the thirtieth year of the Independence of the United States of America, A. D. 1805, Joseph Priestley, of the said district, hath deposited in this Office the Title of a Book, the right whereof he claims as Proprietor, in the Words following, to wit:

“Memoirs of Dr. Joseph Priestley, to the year 1795, written by himself, with a continuation, to the time of his decease, by his Son Joseph Priestley, and observations on his writings, by Thomas Cooper, President Judge of the 4th district of Pennsylvania, and the Rev. William Christie.”

In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, intitled “An Act for the encouragement of learning by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned.” And also to the Act entitled “An Act supplementary to an Act entitled “An Act for the encouragement of learning by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned.”” And extending the benefits, thereof to the Arts of designing, engraving, and etching, historical and other prints.

D. CALDWELL, Clerk of the District of Pennsylvania.

TABLE OF CONTENTS,

VOLUME I.

PREFACE, PAGE i

Memoirs with Notes, 1

Continuation of the Memoirs, 129

Appendix No. I. An Account of Dr. Priestley’s Discoveries in Chemistry, and of his writings on that, and other Scientific subjects, 223

-- -- No. 2 An Account of his Metaphysical writings, 294

PREFACE.

My father, Dr. Priestley, having taken the trouble of writing down the principal occurrences of his life, to the period of his arrival in this country, that account is now presented to the public in the state in which he left it, one or two trifling alterations excepted. The simple unaffected manner in which it is written, will be deemed, I have no doubt, far more interesting, than if the narrative itself had been made the text of a more laboured composition.