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living would lapfe into his hands; and he told Mr. Say that he defigned it for me. He was disappointed in his expectation; so was not I: for I had no inclination to go and dwell in the North of England. Afterwards, when Mr. Say died, he asked me of his own accord, whether I fhould like to fucceed him in the queen's library. I told him that nothing could be more acceptable to me; and he immediately used all his intereft to procure it for me; but he could not obtain it. Afterwards, the archbishop affured me of his affiftance toward procuring either the preacherfhip or the mastership of the Charter-Houfe, where I had gone to fchool. This project alfo failed; not by his fault. He likewife, in conjunction with bifhop Sherlock, procured for me the preaching of Boyle's lecture. He alfo offered me a living in the country; and (which I efteemed a fingular favour) he gave me leave to decline it, without taking it amifs in the leaft, and faid he would endeavour to ferve me in a way that should be more acceptable. He did fo, and gave me a living in the city. Afterwards, he gave me a doctor's degree. I thought it too late in life, as I told him, to go and take it at Cambridge, under a profeffor, who in point of academical standing, might have taken his first degree under me, when I was Moderator. I was willing to owe this favour to him; which I could not have afked or accepted from any other archbishop. That fome perfons, befides Mr. Say, did recommend me to him, I knew, and was obliged to them for it; but I must add, that on this occafion they did σπεύδοντα ὁτρύνειν, fpur a free courfer, and that he would have done what he did without their interpofition.'

The living in the city here mentioned was that of St. Dunftan in the eaft; and the manner in which the archbishop gave it was as follows.

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In the fpring of the year 1751, Mr. Jortin dined at the feaft of the Sons of the Clergy, where archbishop Herring was prefent; and on being told that his grace was defirous of renewing his acquaintance with him, Mr. Jortin prepared for going to the upper end of the room, by looking at the lower end, amongst a great number of hats that were laid on a table in a confufed manner, for his own: his friends told him that the hat was by no means neceffary, and he therefore waited on the archbishop without it. His grace complimented him on his talents and his writings, and ended the converfation by giving him in the prefence of the clergy, the presentation to the above rectory, which he had brought in his pocket for

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that purpofe. Mr. Jortin then returned to his feat, telling his friends" I have loft my hat, but I have got a living."

The archbishop alfo gave the degree of doctor in divinity to the induftrious Thomas Birch, who in the dedication of his life of Tillotfon, compares his grace to that great prelate, in the following refpects," eminence in the office of a Chriftian preacher, condefcenfion and affability, reconciling inferiors to elevation of rank, without detracting from its dignity; humanity and generosity unrestrained by the parties and diftinctions of mankind; moderation of temper and principles moft friendly to the true interests of the established church, and a known reluctance to accepting the first station in it.”

On Hawkesworth he conferred the degree of doctor of laws, as a mark of his approbation for the service rendered to virtue and religion, by that writer in his periodical work entitled the "Adventurer."

Fawkes had been of the fame college with the archbishop,to whom he addressed an ode on his recovery from a violent fever in 1753. This performance obtained for the author the vicarage of Orpington with St. Mary-Cray, in Kent; and the poet expreffed his gratitude in an elegant elegy upon his patron's death. That event happened March 13th, 1757, and agreeable to the exprefs direction of his will the archbishop's remains were interred in a private manner in the vault of Croydon church.

Archbishop Herring poffeffed the virtues of public and private life in a most eminent degree, and he was a true friend to civil and religious liberty. He expended upwards of fix thousand pounds in repairing and adorning the palaces and gardens of Lambeth and Croydon.

In 1763, a volume of his Sermons on Public Occasions, was published for the benefit of the London infirmary; and afterwards appeared, a corresponding volume of his letters, edited by Mr. Duncombe of Canterbury.

The fucceffor of Dr. Herring in the primacy, was Dr. Matthew Hutton, who was alfo removed thereto from the fee of York. He died in April the following year, and as no memorials of him are recorded we shall proceed in our next, to the life of archbishop Secker.

Mifcellanies.

An ORIGINAL LETTER from BISHOP BERKELEY.

MY DEAR LORD,

Cloyne, Feb. 29, 1750.

THIS morning before day it pleafed God to take to himfelf my fon Willy, my third and youngest fon turned of fifteen, a boy of most amiable qualities. He was choaked in his bed by flegm in his ftomach. He was perfectly recovered of his fpotted fever and pleurify; but relapsed by a fresh cold, &c. in the late terrible weather. His relapse reduced him wonderfully, as he was harraffed with a cough and fever, and at the fame time averfe from drinking tar water, the only thing that gave him an appetite, and fo was reduced to fkin and bone: but a few daies fince being prevailed on to drink it again, he was foon freed from his cough and fever, and grew hungry, and called fo often for gellies, broth and bifcuits, &c. that (although I had endeavoured to guard againft loading his ftomach) thofe about him gave him (though little at a time, yet) more upon the whole than he could well digeft. This filled his ftomach with flegm more than he had ftrength to throw up, which surprising him in bed he was fuffocated.

In justice to tar water I muft needs fay, his cough and fever were quite fubdued by it, and weakness alone remained, which was mending apace, and by more leisurely proceeding would in all likelyhood have been foon remedy'd. For fome daies and nights paft he was fo well and hearty, and chearful, that we had not the leaft fear or apprehenfion of his death, which therefore came upon us improvifo like a thunder ftroke.

The Lord hath given and the Lord hath taken away, bleffed be the name of the Lord.

Adieu my dear Lord,

Your most affectionate

and faithful fervant,
G. CLOYNE.
P. S. My

P. S. My intelligence about the plague being cured in the Mediterranean, was, I doubt, premature or falfe, having feen the failor's letter t'other day. I believe the fores which he and his comrades took for eruptions of the plague were only fcorbutic fores in a high degree of the fcurvy.

My poor wife is in great diftrefs, and wafted with long attendance and watching, yet, I thank God, her fortitude and refignation are more than ordinary. We both send our best respects to those good friends who fo kindly remember us. Pray how doth our good friend the B. of Bristol ?*

* Dr. Joseph Butler, afterwards Bishop of Durham.

LETTERS to a YOUNG GENTLEMAN, &c.

LETTER II.

The life of a clergyman, a life of labour and application.→ Hint of improvement in clerical education.

F I would wifh you, my dear Charles, to be free from

I views clerical profeffion;

you will eafily believe, that, I am no lefs defirous, you should entertain no indolent purposes of ease and self-indulgence. These are as contrary to the true fpirit of your profession, as the most covetous or ambitious projects: and a man who is influenced by them, can no more anfwer with a safe confcience, that "he trufts he is inwardly moved by the Holy Ghoft, to take upon him this office," (in the moft temporal fenfe of the word) than he, who enters into holy orders only with a view to honour and preferment.

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I remember, when I was a young man at college, and thought lefs feriously of these things, than I do now; that I was one day very much ftruck by a young gentleman of my particular acquaintance, who, unlike myself, was intended for the ministry: and who faid, upon our speaking of our feveral future fchemes in life; "Well, for my part, as foon

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* See "the Ordering of Deacons," according to the Church of England. The candidate will also do well to read carefully the present bishop of Gloucester's charge, entitled "Preparation for the Holy Order of Deacons." Printed for Cadell and Davies, 1807. Ep.

as Christmas is over, and I have got my degree, I fshall take orders and go down into the country to a living which my father has purchafed for me: and there I fhall lead a pure comfortable life; for I fhall have nothing to do, but to follow my pleasures, and act as I like. I have bought a few old manuscript sermons, rather too few indeed,—but I will change them with my neighbour parsons; amongst us we fhall do pretty well, and manage fo, as that they may not come round too often." No wonder amongst a circle of gay young men, thefe declarations were received with applaufe: my lips too applauded them; but indeed my heart recoiled: I could not help deeming more highly of that facred and moft refpectable office. However, I had too little fortitude, and perhaps too little knowledge of the profeffion to remonftrate; and you know, that it is one evil of fprightly conversation, that we frequently approve in the gaiety of our fouls, what our better judgment wholly renounces. But these words of my dear friend, (who was notwithstanding a most valuable youth, and whom providence early cut off, or I am perfuaded, his future practice would have been effentially different) thefe words have often recurred to my memory; and the rather as I fear they may too frequently be verified: you perhaps have fome of your univerfity friends in your eye while I write.

Young gentlemen greatly miftake the matter, if they conceive, that providing a fermon for Sunday is the principal part of the clerical duty; and that after they have delivered it, (be it new or old) they have nothing further to do all the week, but to dance after their diverfions and amufements; and on Sunday again turn over their heap, and to take to the pulpit another difcourfe. This is not to discharge the duty of a minifter of Jefus Chrift; of a faithful thepherd and watchman over the fouls of the people committed to their

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Do not these applications ftrike you? It certainly deferves your ferious attention, my dear brother, that all the

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* I think I have read it, or heard it said of the famous lord Rochester, that he confessed, in his days of penitence, that very often his own heart has been shocked at the praises which he received in company, for his brilliant wicked sayings, or for his defences of impiety, immorality and atheism: frequently he would say to himself "Good God! what a wretch am I, to receive commendations, for the abuses of God, and for things, which merit the utmost ab horrence."

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