In 1784 Dr. Price published " Observations on the Im portance of the American Revolution, and the means of making it useful to the World;" and in 1786 he published a volume of sermons, partly on practical and partly on doctrinal subjects. When a new academical institution was established by the dissenters, in 1786, at Hackney, Dr. Price was appointed tutor in the higher branches of the mathematics; but he soon after resigned that situation in favour of his nephew, the Rev. George Cadogan Mor gan, author of Lectures on Electricity, and of a paper in the Philosophical Transactions for 1785, on the light of bodies in a state of combustion.
In a sermon " On the Love of our Country," preached on the 4th Nov. 1789, before the society for commemora ting the Revolution of 1688, Dr. Price adverted, with tri umph, to the revolution which had then begun in France. These observations exposed hint to the severe invectives of Burke, in his Reflections on the Revolution in France.
Dr. Price had lost his wife in 1786 ; and in Feb. 1791, he had been seized with a fever, from which he was just recovering, when he was attacked with a painful disorder, which had threatened him for several years. Of this at
tack, he died, on the 19th March, 1791, in the 68th year of his age.
Besides the articles which we have mentioned, Dr. Price communicated to the Phil. Trans. for 1770, a paper On the Effects of the Aberration of Light on the time of a Transit of Venus. In the same work, for 1774, he printed a letter on the Insalubrity of Marshy Situations ; and in the volume for 1775, he published his Observations on the Difference between the Duration of Human Life in Towns and in Country Parishes and Villages. His Short and Easy Theorems on Annuities, were printed in the Trans actions for 1776.
Few individuals have enjoyed greater celebrity than Dr. Price, both for talents and personal character. his na ture was strongly marked with humility and unaffected modesty. The philanthropy which distinguishes his writings was exhibited in a practical form, by the de votion of a fifth part of his annual income to charitable purposes.