"An Historical Account of the Life of Charles the Second, King of Great Britain; after the Manner of Mr. Bayle. Drawn from original Writers

was also a niember of the club in Essex-street, instituted by Dr. Johnson (see vol. II. p. 553).--He died, after a lingering illness, in the King's Bench Walk, Temple, March 11, 1500; and his remains were interred in the vault of the Temple church: where the funeral service was performed by the Master, Dr. Reynell, since Dean of Winchester. The pall-bearers were, the Master of the Rolls, Sir William Scott, Counsellor Graham, Mr. Popham, Sir William Wynne, the Attorney General, Mr. Graves, and Mr. Champion; his nephew Col. Price (son of his elder sister, by Robert Price, esq. of Hereford) chief mourner; other mourners, Mr. Stanley, Mr. Aldeney, Mr. Wynne, and Mr. Lascelles, brother benchers and particular friends.-To these particulars, originally compiled by Mr. Gough for the use of Mr. Urban, another correspondent adds, "There are certain men who, without the boast of great talents or resplendent abilities, obtain, by useful diligence, accurate investigation, and invariable integrity, that solid respect which the eccentricities of Genius will seldom suffer Genius to enjoy. Such respect did Daines Barrington possess throughout a long and honourable life. He was bred to the Bar; but, though esteemed a very sound lawyer, he never rose to any distinguished eminence as a pleader. He was, however, for some time Recorder of Bristol, a very respectable situation, in which he was preceded by that eminent judge Sir Michael Foster, and was succeeded by Mr. Dunning, the first lawyer of his day, afterwards created Lord Ashburton. He was also advanced

to the rank of King's Counsel, and was, during several years, one of the Welsh Judges. If it had been his wish, he might, without doubt, have attained the English Ermine; but, possessed of an ample income, having a strong bias to antiquarian knowledge, natural history, and its concomitant studies, he retired from the practice of the law, and applied his legal knowledge to the purposes of investigating curious questions of legal antiquity. They have been published in a quarto volume. His enquiries into ornithology and various phænomena of Nature are well known; and his conversation on those subjects will not be forgotten by any one who has been admitted to reap the benefits of it. He was an old and most respectable fellow of the Royal Society, and a very ingenious contributor to the annual volume of its Transactions. He was also among those who, at a former period, frequented Tom's Coffee-house, near the Temple; where, during the early part of the evening, the literature and the theatrical history of the day were agreeably discussed, by men who were capable of deeper discussions; and where, in his earlier years, the writer of this article has frequently listened with pleasure and improvement to their conversation. But Tom's Coffee-house is no more; and Mr. Barrington was nearly the survivor of those who formed that pleasant society. He had for a great

number

and State Papers. By William Harris*, D. D." 2 volumes, 8vo.

"Hogarth Moralised," by Dr. John Trusler, 8vo.

number of years occupied the chambers in the King's Bench Walks, in the Inner Temple, where he died. His latter companions were principally the Benchers of that Society, of which he was one; and the little exercise which he had for some time been able to take was in the Temple gardens, whose arrangement he was pleased to superintend, and where he appeared to find an occasional amusement in observing the growth of the few trees and flowers which adorn them. Thus he passed a studious, inoffensive, and long-extended life; and was attended to his grave in the Temple church by the principal members of that Society, with that respect which his life deserved, and that regret which the remembrance of him cannot fail to inspire."

* The Rev. William Harris, a Protestant Dissenting Minister of eminent abilities and character, at Honiton in Devonshire. On the 20th of December, 1765, the degree of D. D. was conferred on him by the University of Glasgow, by the unanimous consent of that Body. "He published, besides the above, an historical and critical account of the Lives of James I. Charles I. and Oliver Cromwell, in 5 vols, 8vo, after the manner of Mr. Bayle. He was preparing a like account of James II. He also wrote the Life of Hugh Peters; besides many fugitive pieces occasionally, for the public prints, in support of liberty and virtue. All his Works have been well received; and those who differ from him in principle, still value him in point of industry and faithfulness." I give this character in the words of his munificent patron Mr. Hollis, who had presented him with many valuable books in reference to the subjects of his Histories; and was at the expence of procuring his Doctor's degree. Dr. Harris's Works were differently thought of by the Authors of the "Critical Review," in an account of the "Life of Charles II." in March 1766.—Industry was the principal characteristick of Dr. Harris; whose writings certainly have none of the vivacity which inspired Bayle; and in the judgment of dispassionate readers, impartiality is frequently violated. Dr. Harris died at Honiton, Feb. 4, 1770. . Of this great, this inimitable Artist, I had (more than thirty years ago) collected some materials with a view to an Article in the first Edition of these Anecdotes. But my intelligence (aided by the acute and elegant criticism of the late George Steevens,. esq.) was so greatly extended beyond the limits of a note, that . I formed from them a separate publication, intituled, "Biographical Memoirs of William Hogarth, 1781;" which, by the indulgence of the publick, arrived at a second edition, in 1782; and to a third in 1785; and, at the distance of 25 years, having been thoroughly revised and new modelled, was again re-published in two handsome quarto volumes, illustrated with CLX beautiful Plates, in 1810.

"The

"The Confessional *; or, a full and free Enquiry into the Right, Utility, Edification, and Success,

* The (at that time anonymous) Author of this celebrated performance was obliged to Mr. Bowyer for some useful hints in its progress through the press, and for several improvements towards a new (and much enlarged) edition. This assistance was thus handsomely acknowledged:

"WORTHY SIR,

Nov. 16, 1766.

"Though Mr. Millar has not perhaps acquainted you with all my scruples concerning another edition of "The Confessional," yet I can have no objection to be determined by the considerations you lay before me with so friendly a view to the common benefit of my Brethren, and the credit of the Book, which however exhibits nothing more than every Clergyman ought to know without it. I am obliged to you greatly for suggesting the particulars concerning the Articles. The history of the clause, passed in the Lords' House, and rejected by the Commons, did not escape me. But it was made use of in a pamphlet published by Mr. Millar against Dr. Powell's Subscription Sermon some years ago; and I was aware, that if the Author of 'The Confessional' should ever come to be known, it would at the same time be known, that the same person was the Author of that pamphlet; and to repeat that circumstance, might be called pillaging his own works, which somebody calls the worst kind of plagiarism. However, as it is so much to the purpose, I will try if it may decently be put into a note at the place you mention. The terms of the limited subscription in the 13th Elizabeth, I had noticed in Selden and elsewhere; but own I had overlooked the double subscription in the Act of Uniformity, and am obliged to you for reminding me of it. With regard to the canonical subscription, my opinion is exactly the same with yours. But the case with me was this: I had the late Lord Hardwicke's opinion in MS. long before it was printed, from the late Mr. Erskine's papers: and as I supposed it conclusive as to the Clergy, I did not meddle with the limited subscription, as that might give advantage to an adversary, the point being certainly problematical. I own I differ with his Lordship as to the obligation of the Canons, even upon the Clergy, in this matter of subscription. I cannot see how canonical obedience, which is retained to things lawful and honest, can be extended to an ordinance enjoining unlimited subscription contrary to law. But the point was rather too delicate for me to handle in the light it appears to me, and, as I now perceive, it appears likewise to you. Some years ago I had occasion to ask a leading man in Cambridge by what authority they required subscription for degrees; and had for answer, it was by virtue of an injunction from James I. under his own Royal hand. The Cambridge people have dropped subscription at Matriculations, though I imagine both you and I subscribed at Matriculation, perhaps both at the very same time; for I remember you at St. John's

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of establishing systematical Confessions of Faith and Doctrine in Protestant Churches." Which

of my own year, and to have once drunk tea with you at a friend's room in your own College. I suppose you take my judgment of the forgery of the controverted clause of the 20th Article, from a note, p. 294, of The Confessional.' But, if you please to read the note again, you will see I decide nothing concerning the authenticity of the clause as passed or not passed in Convocation; but consider the authenticity, &c. to depend upon the question, Whether the imprinted book referred to 13 Elizabeth had the clause? I think it next to demonstrable it had not; and whether Hales thought it unauthentic for the same reason or not, he certainly paid no regard to it, if he wrote that letter. When I say, that Laud stopped that gap, I do not mean that he then first inserted it; for undoubtedly it was then in many printed editions long before Laud figured in the world. What I meant was, that he took care to have it inserted in all future editions; but in this I find since I was mistaken, for it had been inserted in all the English editions published after 1628, when the Articles were printed with his Majesty's Declaration before them. I have not Collier's Ecclesiastical History, nor would it . be easy to meet with it in the country; but I have the book from whence he is said to have taken his materials, viz. Vindication of the Church of England against Priestcraft in Perfection. I have likewise Dr. Bennet on the same argument; but it is impossible these should leave any impression on me (I will. not say on any impartial reader), after having read An Historical and Critical Essay on the Thirty-nine Articles of the Church of England,' printed for R. Francklin, 1724, and asscribed to Mr. Collins, and which was written in answer to , them, and leaves not in my mind the least remains of a doubt but that, the clause was a forgery, that Laud's record was perhaps not much better, and that the MSS. in Bene't college library are the true originals of the Articles passed in the Convocations of 1562 and 1571 respectively. N. B. I never saw an answer to the Historical and Critical Essay. With respect to Collier, he says, 'And hereby in particular I have answered every thing urged in the Ecclesiastical History of Mr. Collier, who is but a mere abridger of the Vindicator.' I think the Curators of the Church will do great honour to the Author of The Confessional,' by appointing so able and dignified a Veteran to enter the lists with him. But if the other person you name should undertake the same task, it is great odds but they run foul of each other. I am, worthy Sir, your much obliged humble

servant."

In a second letter to Mr. Bowyer, dated Dec. 23, 1766, the author says, "I think myself highly obliged to you for your favour of the 16th instant, as it rid me of a doubt concerning the Uniformity Act; for I had been assured from another hand, that the copies varied; which I was inclined to think might be

true,

passed very rapidly to a third edition, though pubÎished without a name, was very soon known to

true, as I had observed something like a various reading in Dr. Nichols, which I had not then at hand to consult. I really am concerned that I cannot agree with your supposition, that Mosheim was mistaken in ascribing the project to Wake. After a serious and deliberate examination of circumstances, I think Mosheim and the Biographer perfectly reconcileable. If you will reader over the article ake in the latter attentively, together with the remarks, you will readily see, that the project did not take its rise from the Commonitorium; and that some circumstances relating to the forming of it are artfully kept out of sight by the Biographer. I dare say you know from the signature P. [Dr. Philip Nichols] who compiled this article, as well as I do. Some of his artifices I have detected in other articles. And if you will read Wake's Letters to Courayer, which follow, you will find to what length he carries Church-matters, even to tread upon the heels of Popery. As to his former defences of Protestantism, there perhaps have been few such renegadoes to good principles as he was; and I for my part can wonder at nothing such men can do. The case standing thus, I am obliged to leave the text just as it is, so far as concerns Mosheim and Wake, excepting some little modification with respect to Mr. Maclaine, whom I had cited before inaccurately, and shall therefore be more exact and more cautions in some expressions; but have no manner of occasion to meddle with any with whom he might correspond in England, as he puts down the note as his own. With your leave, therefore, I will add a note in this part of the text, giving my reasons for thinking Mosheim was not mistaken, and for the rest leave the publick to judge. If I mistake not, Dr. Lardner discovered Mosheim's mistake of one King for another, and made mention of it in one of his late books of Jewish and Heathen testimonies. I think the subscription at Matriculation was dropped at Cambridge since you and I were admitted. If you recollect the names of two scholars, contemporaries at St. John's with you, Mearson and Fidler, you will know how to account for my particular remembrance of you. I must not omit to return you my thanks for your notes upon the Greek Testament, and particularly for the excellent Preface before them. They have been of great use to me and others on several occasions, and I wish we had more such collections by equally able hands.-A Correspondent I have abroad mentioned to me not long ago, a design to put The Confessional' into a French dress; in which he, with some other of his friends, as he said, were concerned. I have prevailed with him to drop the design at least till another edition come out. He is a man of great knowledge, though young, and capable of doing justice to any subject he thinks fit to undertake, and ought not to be employed in the drudgery of translating. If Mr. Millar can make any use of this hint, you may communicate it, and he will

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