tled his worldly affairs: Indeed, he had little worldly affairs to fettle; for he had remitted his treasure to the other world, and fecured an eternal reverfion there. He talked of dying with, the fame unconcernednefs, or with the fame pleafure, as if he was only taking a journey; and wifhed for nothing but an eafy pallage:-Which he obtained, being taken out of this world in the fame cafy and quiet manner as he had endeavoured to live, and wished to die.

His body was interred, the 5th of the fame month, in the church-yard of Fulham, according to his particular direction: For he ufed to fay, That the church is for the living, and the church-yard for the dead. So that his humility of life, and greatness of mind, above worldly pomp, followed him to his grave. Over it there is erected a handfome tomb, furrounded with iron rails, having only this fhort infcription: H. London. EI MH EN TO TAŸPË. MDCCXIII. The Greek words (Englifhed, Save in the erofs') are part of Galatians VI. 14. God forbid that I fhould glory, fave in the crofs of our Lord Jefus Chrift.'

As to his perfonal qualifications, he was, in all refpects, one of the beft-bred men in his time; courteous and affable; not full of words, but very converfable; and, as in his minifterial offices, fo in converfation too, willing and apt to teach. He was always eafy of accefs, and ready to do good offices. In his friendships he was conftant, or rather inflexible He was a man of the largest and most public spirit; and he liked nothing that looked narrow or ftingy. He had no little, artful, felfifh defigns. He was never feen to be afraid, or concerned at danger. In the midst of ftorms he himself was calm. With regard to his moral character, he was a perfon of fingular modefty and humility; of great temperance and abstinence; of exemplary piety and every virtue. No one was fo ftrict and regular in his private devotions; no one fo conftant and frequent in the fervice of the church. For, befides the public offices morning and evening, his whole family began the day with the Litany, and ended it with felect prayers from the Liturgy; and at all thefe times he himself, when he was able, was a conftant attendant. Never did fuch tender and fuch manly paffions meet before in the fame breast! Never fuch firmness and fortitude, mixed with fo much meekness and condefcenfion! But he was moft particularly eminent for his unbounded charity and beneficence, being generous and charitable beyond example. He difpofed of money to every one who could make out (and it was very easy to make. that out to him) that he was a proper object

of charity. He answered literally the Apoftle's character, Poor enough himself, yet making many rich.' He had divers ancient people, men and women, whom he fupported by conftant annual penfions; and feveral children at school at his own coft and charge; befides thofe educated from children, and brought up to the Universities, to the fea, or to trades, &c. The poor of his parish were always attending his gate for their dole, and for the remains of his conftant hofpitable table; which was always furnished, and free to thofe whom refpect or business drew to him. His hall was fre quented, in the morning, with petitioners of all forts. More particularly, he fpared no coft nor pains to ferve the church and clergy. He bought many advowfons out of layhands, as the rectories of St. James's and All-faints, and the vicarage of St. Peter's, all in Colchester; the rectories of AbbertonTendring in Effex, &c. He gave great fums for the rebuilding of churches, and greater ftill for the buying in impropriations, and fettling them on the poor vicars; particularly the impropriation of Marks Tay in Effex, for which he is faid to have given no less than 700l. whereby he railed a very mean curacy to a competent fubfiftence. There was no poor honeft clergyman, or his widow, in want, but had his benevolence, when applied for. Not any in the Reformed churches abroad, to whom he was not a liberal Patron, Steward, and perpetual Sollici tor for. The French Refugees drank deep of his bounty for many years; fo did the Irish in their day of affliction, and likewife the Scotch Epifcopal party in their grievous perfecution. He provided, in particular, for numbers of the Scotch Episcopal clergy who fled into England at the Revolution. To Mr. Robert, for inftance, he gave the living of Dunmow; to Mr. Thomas Dunbar, that of Keldon; both in Effex: And the like in many other inftances. He was, indeed, upon fome occafions, impofed upon, and beflowed his charity, fometimes, upon forward and impudent perfons, who did not want or deferve it; but that is frequently the cafe of generous, well-meaning perfons; and muft be owned to be a weakness rather than a fault. We fhall conclude this article of his charities with these words of Dr. Whitfeld:

To his honour be it fpoken! He died poor, having made the needy and miferable his heirs, all his life long. His contempt of gathering or leaving riches out of the patrimony of the church was worthy of his great mind and station. And he died with that honour with which he had always lived. We must not forget to obferve, that he left. the third-part of his large and well-chofen

library

library to the Corporation of Colchester. But that noble gift was flighted; fo that his Lordship's heir was forced to difpofe of it otherwife. The two other parts of his library he left to St. Paul's Cathedral and to Sion-college.

If we confider him as a Bishop, he was not only blameless, but a pattern of good behaviour in every refpect. He applied himfelf more to his function, than Bishops had commonly done. He went much about his diocese, and preached and confirmed in many places. Bishop Burnet tells us, that his preaching was without much life or learning; for he had not gone through his ftudies with the exactnefs that was fitting. But Dr. Whitfeld, who knew him better, gives the following account: He fpoke with the affection and authority of a spiritual father; always above the affectation of popular eloquence, but in the power of the Spirit and primitive fimplicity; with the majefty of plainness, in the utmost fedatenefs and good judgment. His weighty reafons needed not to be fet off with trappings. The love, with which his people met his doctrine, made it fuperfluous to speak to their paffions, fo eafily raised, and fo foon finking. He spoke to convince their underftanding. His deliberate way of utterance gave them leifure to receive and fix his notions, and brought forth nothing, but with, maturity of thought and exactness of judgment.-His knowledge and learning had been well cultivated in his privater ftations in the church, and particularly affifted by his friendship with Dr. Rich. Alleftry, Regius Profeffor of Divinity at Oxford. His books had always attended him in his youth ful years; nor were they neglected to the laft in his fulness of bulinefs. His library was an evidence of his knowledge in divine things especially, and alfo in human learning, and in the modern languages.

His method also was, in ftated meetings with his clergy, to propofe fome topic in divinity; on which they difcourfed together in a ferious, familiar, and judicious manner; which afterwards was fummed up, and formed into a regular treatise. Many of thefe difcourfes are published, under the title of The Bishop of London's Conferences. At thofe times, and indeed upon all other occations, he was extremely civil, affable, and courteous, full of candour and patience. None of his clergy ever felt his difpleature, but for faults which carried their own mark and evidence. No difference of opinion in State-matters did ever eftrange him from a deferving man: That which was good and virtuous in the fon he laid hold on, and cherished with a fatherly tendernefs, and paffed by his mistaken judgment in that

which was amifs. But, in those that were bad, no intereft, no being attached to the fame caufe with himself, could ever make him overlook their faults. This was true moderation, candour and charity to good men of all opinions, and firmness to his own juft principles. In a word, by his death, the Church loft a moft excellent Bishop; the kingdom, a brave and able Statesman; the Proteftant religion, at home and abroad, its ornament and refuge; and the whole Chrif tian world an eminent example of virtue. and piety. His Lordship was never married. [See a Genealogical Account of the Compton Family, in our Magazine for January laft.] The few things he published are as follow: 1. A Tranflation, from the Italian, of the Life of Donna Olympia Maldachini, who governed the Church during the Time of Innocent X, which was from the Year 1644 to 1655. Lond. 1667. Written originally by Abbot Gualdi, and printed privately at Paris. 2. A Trandation, from the French, of the Jefuits Intrigues; with the private Inftructions of that Society to their Emiffaries. Lond. 1699, 9 fheets, 4to. This was found in MS. in a Jefuit's closet after his death; and both were fent in a Letter from a Gentleman at Paris to his friend in London. 3. A Treatife of the Holy Communion. Lond. 1677, 8vo., His name is not fet to it. 4. A Letter to the Clergy of the Diocese of London, concerning Baptifin, the Lord's Supper, and Catechifing. Dated April 25, 1679, and printed on one fide of a sheet 5. A Second Letter, concerning the Half Communion, Prayers in an unknown Tongue, Prayers to Saints. Dated from Fulham, July 6, 1680; and printed also on one fide of a fheet of paper. 6. A Third Letter, on Confirmation and Vifitation of the Sick. From Fulham, 1682. 7. A Fourth Letter, upon Canon 54. From Fulham, April 6, 1683. 8. A Fifth Letter, upon Canon 118. From Fulham, March 19, 1684. 9. A Sixth Letter, upon Canon 13. Fulham, April 18, 1685. They were all reprinted in 1686, 12mo. under the title of Epifcopalia: Or, Letters of the Right Reverend Father in God, Henry, Lord Bishop of London, to the Clergy of his Diocese. We are inform ed, that they were part of them printed without his knowledge; but not without a defign of bringing more trouble upon his head from King James II, for his oppofing Popery, as he doth in fome of them. 10. There is alfo a Letter of his, to a Clergyman in his Diocefe, concerning Non-reliftance, written foon after the Revolution, and inferted in the Memoirs of the Life of Mr. John Kettlewell.

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HE amiable and young Rofalinda had

fmiled on her, but deceived her almoft from her birth; for in her early years, he had no other fupport than Heaven and her inno cence; the lived in a cabbin with her mother, an aged, feeble, and poor widow. Both fequeftered in a tranquil valley, hidden by folitude and the tufted thicket, but ftill more by fhame, the companion of poverty, from which even modefty is not exempt, they avoided together that cruel fcorn, to which virtue, reduced to wretchednefs, beholds itfelf expofed from extravagant paffions and the vile pride of the human mind. The common bounty of nature conftituted almost alone the whole expence of their repafts; they lived contented and without care of the morrow, as the birds, whose melody, procured them a fweet repofe. Rofalinda's beauty was brilliant as the rofe, when the freshness of the morning humects its leaves; and it was pure as the lilly, and as the mountain-frow. The modeft virtues glif tened in her lowly eyes, which darted only their humid rays on the pride of flowers. Sometimes, when her mother related to her the mournful tale of what faithlefs fortune had formerly promised her, her thoughts were in agitation, and her eyes, like unto the ftar of the night that sheds the dew, were feen bathed in tears. A natural grace animated her whole perfon; her charms were veiled by a plain garment, an ornament preferable to all the pomp of drefs; for charms ftand in no need of fuch foreign fuccours; the lefs a fine girl is adorned, the more fhe appears fo: In fhort, fhe was beauty itself, fecreted among the fhrubs that fheltered her, and unacquainted with herself. As a myrtle, raised out of the reach of the human eye, in the profound receffes of the Appenine, under the protection of the invironing hills,diffufes its perfumes over the defert; fo flourished the fweet Rofalinda, unknown by all, till forced by the fupreme law of dire neceffity, patience in her heart, and gentleness in her looks, she set out to make hay in the fields of Collin.

He was the ornament of fwains, generous, opulent, and leading a rural life in all its joy and elegance, fuch as the poet of Arcadia has celebrated and tranfmitted it to us from remote and innocent times; times! when custom did not yet tyrannife over the happinefs of man, and permitted him to follow nature in the bofom of peace, Collin's ima

gination was amufing in itself with the useful

mong his haymakers, when poor Rofalinda attracted his looks. She did not know the power of her beauty, and blushing turned out of his way. Collin was fmitten with fo many charms, though he faw but the half of what modefty could not deprive his eyes. At that inftant, love and chaite defire started up in his heart, without his perceiving them; for always the world, and raillery that frightens the moft firm philofopher, get the afcendant over the fimplicity of heart. He knows not himself whether he could own to the power over him of a hired haymaker. Abaihed, confounded, he fighs in fecret. -What a mishap, faid he, that so delicate a figure! fo beautiful! so charming! on whofe countenance fomething noble, together with goodness, feems painted, fhould be delivered over to the rude embraces of fome grofs peafant. She is worthy of being of the race of old Damon, and the recalls to my mind that beneficent patron of my happy life, to whom I owe the beginnings of my great fortune. He is now no more; his houses, his lands, and his family, formerly gay and extenfive, are difperfed, or gone into other hands. 'Tis faid, that his aged widow and his daughter abide in fome folitary and obfcure retreat, forced by fad remembrance and decent pride to remove from places, of which they were the ornament in more fortunate times. To this day, I have not been able to find them out; all my inquiries have been in vain: Strange defire! how I wish that she was his daughter!

Then informing himself exactly from herself, he finds that fhe is the daughter of his friend, the good Damon. What can exprefs the mingling together of the paffions that furprised his heart, and the agitation of his different tranfports! His hidden flame catches fire and blazes up in an inftant: It no longer raises the blush of fhame in his face, and becomes lefs timid; he continually gazes on her with ardour: Then love, gra titude, and pity, combined and confounded in his ful, fuddenly force tears from him. Confufed and affrighted by thefe fudden tears, Rofalinda difplays greater beauties, and Collin given up to a paffion, which every thing justifies in him, thus expreffes the pious extafies of his heart.

"Art thou the precious remains of Damon, thou, whom my gratitude has fo lung fought after in vain? Yes, thou art the perfon; the

fweet

Kweet image of my noble friend; there are his looks and his features touched more ele gantly. Thou art more delightful and more brilliant than the fpring, O amiable flower! the only young branch of that tree which raised my fortune. Tell me, in what remote defart thou haft invited to fmile on thee the benign afpect of favourable Heaven? How didit thou attain to that fresh and florid beauty, notwithstanding the piercing wind of poverty, and the ice of indigence freezing down thy tender years? May it be now permitted me to tranfplant thee in fafety into a richer foil, where the fun and fpring fhowers shall spread about their fruitful influence; and fhalt thou not be the pride and joy of my garden? How could it be, that the daughter of Damon fhould be neceffitated to make hay in the fields I am indebted to his beneficent friendship for: He was the father of the country, and his treafures, always open, were, tho' abundant, too little for his heart which was ftill more abundant. Throw away that rake from a hand which was not made for fuch employment: The fields, the house, the mafter, all are

thine, if thou art pleased to add to the good things thy family has lavished on me, that which is dearest to me of all, the power of making thee happy.'

The fwain ceafed fpeaking; but, his eyes expreffed the triumph and tranfports of his foul, that divine flight foaring beyond vulgar joy, whofe principle and effence flowed from the virtue he cherished, from gratitude and from love. Rofalinda, without anfwering, fuffered herself to be won by the irrefiftible charm of goodness, and, feized with a diforder not lefs fweet than unknown, the confents blushing, and haftes to impart the happy news to her mother, who, folitary and apprehensive in regard to her daughter, waited her return in fear and uneafinefs. Aftonifhed, the fcarce believed what he heard: Joy trickled through her dried up veins, a bright ray burft upon the decline of her days, happy and as happy as that fortunate couple, which long enjoyed the most unalterable felicity, and tranfinitted it down to a numerous pofterity, as amiable, as virtuous as their progenitors, and continuing to be the omament of the whole country.

ON the 12th of March, 1770, feven bills paffed the Houfe: The first, for dividing and inclefing the open and common fields, commonable lands, and wafte grounds, within the manor and parish of Navenby, in the county of Lincoln: The fecond, for dividing and inclosing certain open lands, groun is, and common pastures, in the parish of Winterton, in the county of Lincoln: The third, for dividing and inclofing certain open and common fields and grounds, within the parish of Benniworth, in the county of Lin. coln: The fourth, for continuing the terms, and enlarging the powers, of several acts of Parliament, made for repairing the road from Ipswich to Cleydon, and several other roads therein mentioned, in the county of Suffolk: The fifth, for the more eafy and fpeedy recovery of finall debts, within the parishes of Poulton, Kirkham, Lytham, and Bifpham, and townships of Preefall and Stalmine, in the county palatine of Lancaster: The fixth, for dividing and inclofing part of the common fields in the parish of Uppingham, in the county of Rutland: And the feventh, from the Lords, intitled An act, to enable the Bishop of Bristol to grant a leafe, or leafes, cf a clofe of ground, commonly called The Bishop's Park, in the

parish of St. Auguftine, otherwife called St. Auguftine the Lefs, within the city of Briftol, or the fuburbs thereof.'

The order of the day, for taking into confideration the report which was made from the Committee, to whom the petition of Robert Treall, Ric ard Wind, James Cumings, Robert Coventry, William Nicholfon, David Elder, and others, whofe names are thereunto fubfcribed, being skippers and keelmen employed by hoaftmen or fitters of Newcastle upon Tyne; and alfo fkippers and caftors employed by fitters of Sunderland, in the county palatine of Durham, in working, navigating, unloading, or delivering keels, upon the rivers Tyne and Wear, on behalf of themselves and others, skippers, keelmen, and caftors, fo employed there; and alfo the petition of the keelmen, skippers of keels, and caftors, of the port of Sunderland, near the fea, in the county of Durham, were feverally referred, being ordered to be read, the House proceeded to take the faid report into consideration: And the faid report was read; and the refolutions of the Committee were as follow, viz.

That it is the opinion of this Committee, That, upon the evidence laid before them,

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the affertion contained in the note at the bottom of the petition of Robert Treall, Richard Wind, James Cumings, Robert Coventry, William Nicholfon, David Elder, and others, whose names are thereunto fubfcribed, being skippers and keelmen, emplayed by hoftimen or fitters of Newcastle upon Tyne, and alfo fkippers and caftors employed by fitters of Sunderland in the county palatine of Durham, in working, navigating, unloading, or delivering keels, upon the rivers Tyne and Wear, on behalf of themselves and other skippers, keelmen, and caftors, fo employed there, is not founded.

That it appears to this Committee, from the petition referred to them of upwards of three hundred keelmen, skippers of keels, and caftors, of the port of Sunderland, that, fo far from giving their authority to that affertion, they deny any knowledge of the petition of Robert Treall, Richard Wind, James Cumings, Robert Coventry, William Nicholfon, David Elder, and others, whofe names are thereunto fubfcribed, being skippers and keelmen, employed by houftmen or fitters of Newcaîtle upon Tyne; and alfo fkippers and caftors employed by fitters of Sunderland, in the county palatine of Darham; in working, navigating, unloading, or delivering keels, upon the rivers Tyne and Weir, on behalf of themselves and other skippers, keelmen, and caftors, fo employed there; or any petition whatfoever; till the faid petition appeared in the votes of

the Houfe.

That it is the opinion of this Committee, that for any perfon to affert, in a petition to Parliament, that any perfon or persons, or any body of men, do concur in that petition, without being able to produce a fufficient authority for the fame, is a dangerous prac tice, and ought to be difcouraged.

That it is the opinion of this Committee, that an act, made in the 6th and 7th years of the reign of K. William III, intitled An act for the better admeasurement of keels and keel-boats, in the port of Newcattle, and the members thereunto belonging,' is not effectual for the purposes for which it was intended, and ought to be amended. And

That it is the opinion of this Committee, That it is expedient that a bill fhould be brought in, for relief of keelmen in and about Newcastle upon Tyne, their widows and children.

The three firft refolutions of the Committee, being read a fecond time, were agreed to by the House; and the further confideration of the faid report was ordered to be adjourned till the 20th day of this infitant Marsla

Mr. Bacon, according to order, reported, from the Committee of Privileges and Elections, the matter, as it appeared to them, touching the election for the town and port of Dover, in the county of Kent, together with the refolutions of the Committee thereupon, which were as follow, viz.

That the non-inhabitant freemen, as well as the inhabitant freemen, and free burgeffes, of the town and port of Dover, have voice in the election of their Barons to ferve in Parliament. And

That Sir Thomas Pym Hales, Bart. is duly elected a Baron to ferve in this prefent Parliament, for the town and port of Dover, in the county of Kent.

Sir Charles Whitworth, according to order, reported from the Committee of the whole Houfe (to whom it was referred to confider further of the supply granted to his Majefty) the following refolutions, which the Committee had directed him to report to the House:

That a fum, not exceeding 55501. be granted to his Majesty, on account, for defraying the charges of the civil government of Senegambia, for the year 1770. And

That the fum of 1,800,000l. be granted to his Majesty, for paying off and dif charging the Exchequer-bills made out by virtue of an act, paffed in the last feffion of Parliament, intitled An act for raising a certain fum of money, by loans or Exchequer-bills, for the fervice of the year 1769, and charged upon the first aids to be granted in this feffion of Parliament.

Afterwards it was refolved, that an humble addrefs be prefented to his Majefty, That he will be graciously pleafed to give directions, that there be laid before this Houfe an account of the debt on the Civil Lift, as it flood on the 5th day of April, 1762; the 5th of April, 1763; the 5th of July, 17653 and the 5th of July, 1766; together with an account of the arrears of his late Majefty's Civil-lift revenues unapplied, and his prefent Majelty's Civil-lift cash remaining in the Exchequer, at those feveral times.

On the 13th, two bills paffed the House: The first, for repairing and widening the road from Bicefter, in the county of Oxford, to Aylesbury, in the county of Bucks: And the fecond, for dividing and inclofing the common and wafte grounds, within the township and manor of Thornton, in Bradford Dale, in the weft riding of the county

of York.

The fame day, Sir Charles Whitworth reported, from the Committee of Supply,

That