went down to Worcester to see his regiment, which had returned from America in the November preceeding. The joyful reception he experienced from his old friends on that occasion was equally pleasing and honourable to him.

During the period of Lord Harrington's command of this regiment, the nation was happily in a state of peace. Many opportunities, however, occurred, in which the talents and exertions of his Lordship were conspicuously displayed. His regiment was honoured by the peculiar commendation of his Majesty, for their steady discipline and regular conduct at Cheltenham and at Windsor, at which places it was stationed during the royal residence. At the latter, the regiment, was continued in garrison for three years, a circumstance which particularly distinguishes it, as no regiment had ever remained so long on that duty.

In December, 1792, his Majesty was pleased to confer an additional mark of his regard upon Lord Harrington, by appointing him colonel of the first regiment of life-guards, with the gold stick. As an infantry officer, the army in general knew his lordship's splendid talents; but as he was now called to a new mode of service, which he probably only was acquainted with from theory, his intimate friends. were in some measure apprehensive for the honour of his reputation; but their fears were groundless, as his subsequent conduct has evinced.

At the promotion of general officers in 1793, his lordship was made a Major-general.

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active campaigns on the continent, his lordship applied to his Majesty, that he might be sent with his regiment to serve under his Royal Highness the Duke of York; but his appointment of gold stick rendered this wish nugatory. His Majesty, however, being desirous of becoming acquainted with certain matters on the continent, and the operations of the army, particularly the British, sent Lord Harrington on a private mission to the Duke of York, with whom he remained for a short time.

His lordship has since been made Lieutenantgeneral, and is now second in command on the London staff, his Royal Highness Field-marshal the Duke of Gloucester being first, and has also been made a privy counsellor.

Lord Harrington is a particular favourite of all the royal family; and, with his lady, constantly of all the private parties at the Queen's house. The Duke of York has a very great friendship for him, and, it is confidently said, pays much attention to his opinion in military matters. Indeed, with respect to dress, appointments, and the inferior œconomy of a regiment, his lordship stands unrivalled. The present sword of the army was first introduced by Lord Harrington, adopted by his Royal Highness in the Coldstream guards, and since by his Majesty's orders in all regiments.

In private life, Lord and Lady Harrington are a most honourable instance of domestic happiness. They are blessed with a numerous family, and are examples of conjugal and parental virtue.

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ARCHDEACON PALEY.

THE celebrated subject of this memoir was born at Peterborough, in 1743. His father had at that time the small living of Helpestone, near Peterborough, which he held till his death. About 1746 he obtained the valuable school at Giggleswick, in Yorkshire, to which place he removed with his family. It has been by many ignorantly supposed that Giggleswick had the honour of giving birth to Dr. Paley.

In his father's school Dr. Paley remained till 1759, when he became a student of Christ's College, Cambridge. It has been said that in the outset of his academical career his application was neither regular nor intense. To a young man of sixteen, juft absolved from the severe restraints of a private school, and new to the charms of dissipation, the college life offers temptations which are not easily resisted. Whatever influence they might have acquired over Dr. Paley's mind, he was soon able to deliver himself from it. The latter part of his under-graduateship was devoted unintermittedly to the university studies. He rose at five o'clock, and saw no company during the day. At nine every evening he supped alone at an inn in the Petty-cury, a street adjoining to his college, and returned to his rooms at ten. Such industry will always lead to the object at which he aimed. He was senior wrangler of the year 1763. Notwithstanding this ardour of exertion, there is reason to believe that Dr. Paley entertained little af

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fection for the mathematics and natural philosophy, which were in his time the sole, and are now the prin cipal subjects of the Senate-house examination. A natural inclination for the study would have been inflamed by the distinction it had procured him; and it is certain, that after he had obtained his bachelor's degree, he never seriously pursued it. Genius must conspire with long-continued and indefatigable industry to form a distinguished master in the mathematical sciences; but every mind may meet in them with admirable exercises of its powers. In this light Dr. Paley seems to have viewed them; and at the end of three years he might justly conclude, that there ought to be a period to mere preparation, and that the vigour which it had bestowed should be applied to an object.

The second wrangler of his year was Mr. Frere, the present member for Norwich. The immediate possession of a handsome estate was promised to him by a relation, if he should be declared the senior wrangler. The promise was undoubtedly made to encourage the exertions of Mr. Frere; and it is therefore reasonable to suppose that it was executed.

Dr. Paley was assisted in his studies by the late Judge Wilson, who was at that time a private tutor of very great celebrity. In the intercourse brought on by this engagement, the tutor and pupil imbibed a mutual esteem, and the foundation was laid of a lasting and intimate friendship between them. Judge Wilson was born in an obscure part of Westmoreland. In 1757 he was admitted a student of Peter-House, Cambridge.

Cambridge. In 1760, while not a bachelor of arts, he was elevated into considerable notice by the part he took in a dispute which greatly agitated the university. On a vacancy in the Lucasian* Professorship, Dr. Waring offered himself a candidate, and published a work to prove the justice of his pretensions. The celebrated Dr. Powell, at that time fellow of St. John's College, who supported another candidate, immediately published a very severe criticism on the work. He was answered by Wilson, and afterwards by Waring himself. This produced a rejoinder from Powell, and the rejoinder was met by a reply from Waring, now established in the professorship. The controversy interests the present age only, from the names of the controversialists. Powell's criticisin displays a supercilious contempt of Waring, then a young man, and profound ignorance of his work. Wilson's answer is temperate but keen, and displays the mistakes of his adversary in the strongest light. Waring's answer is equally temperate, and the neatness of the composition gives occasion to Powell to insinuate that he was assisted in writing it. The mathematicians were completely triumphant; and Powell left a useful proof of the disgrace and ridicule which may be incurred by a man of the first genius, who, stepping out of the circle

*It is worth 400l. per annum, and has been filled by Dr. Barrow, Sir Isaac Newton, Whiston, Dr. Sanderson, Colson, and Dr. Waring, who was succeeded by Dr. Milner, Master of Queen's College, and Dean of Carlisle.