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which he read; and some of his abridgments, with the observations by which he illustrated them, are written with singular conciseness and power. I know not,' said one of the most eminent English diplomatists, with whom he had afterwards very frequent communications, I know not where Lord Collingwood got his style, but he writes better than any of us.' His amusements were found in the intercourse with his family, in drawing, planting, and the cultivation of his garden, which was on the bank of the beautiful river Wansbeck. This was his favourite employment; and on one occasion, a brother Admiral, who had sought him through the garden in vain, at last discovered him with his gardener, old Scott, to whom he was much attached, in the bottom of a deep trench, which they were both busily occupied in digging.'

In spring 1803, however, he was again called upon duty by his ancient commander, Admiral Cornwallis, who hailed him as he approached, by saying, "Here comes Collingwood!-the last to leave, and the first to rejoin me!" His occupation there was to watch and blockade the French fleet at Brest, a duty which he performed with the most unwearied and scrupulous anxiety.

"During this time he frequently passed the whole night on the quarter-deck,-a practice which, in circumstances of difficulty, he continued till the latest years of his life. When, on these occasions, he has told his friend Lieutenant Clavell, who had gained his entire confidence, that they must not leave the deck for the night, and that officer has endeavoured to persuade him that there was no occasion for it, as a good look-out was kept, and represented that he was almost exhausted with fatigue; the Admiral would reply, I fear you are. You have need of rest; so go to bed, Clavell, and I will watch by myself. Very frequently have they slept together on a gun; from which Admiral Collingwood would rise from time to time, to sweep the horizon with his night-glass, lest the enemy should escape in the dark."

In 1805 he was moved to the station off Cadiz, and condemned to the same weary task of watching and observation. He here writes to his father-in-law as follows:-

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respecting my intentions, and to give full scope to
your judgment for carrying them into effect. We
can, my dear Coll., have no little jealousies: we
have only one great object in view-that of anni-
hilating our enemies, and getting a glorious peace
for our country. No man has more confidence in
another than I have in you; and no man will ren-
der your services more justice than your very old
friend,
NELSON AND BRONTE."

The day at last came; and though it is highly characteristic of its author, we will not indulge ourselves by transcribing any part of the memorable despatch, in which Lord Collingwood, after the fall of his heroic commander, announced its result to his country. We the following particulars as to his personal cannot, however, withhold from our readers conduct and deportment, for which they would look in vain in that singularly modest and generous detail. The first part, the editor informs us, is from the statement of his confidential servant.

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"I entered the Admiral's cabin,' he observed, about daylight, and found him already up and dressing. He asked if I had seen the French fleet; and on my replying that I had not, he told me to look out at them, adding, that, in a very short time, we should see a great deal more of them. I then observed a crowd of ships to leeward; but I could not help looking, with still greater interest, at the himself with a composure that quite astonished Admiral, who, during all this time, was shaving me! Admiral Collingwood dressed himself that morning with peculiar care; and soon after, meeting Lieutenant Clavell, advised him to pull off his boots. You had better,' he said, 'put on silk stockings, as I have done: for if one should get a shot in the leg, they would be so much more manageable for the surgeon.' He then proceeded charge of their duty, and addressing the officers, to visit the decks, encouraged the men to the dissaid to them, Now, gentlemen, let us do something to-day which the world may talk of hereafter.' He had changed his flag about ten days before which had been so constantly practised in the exerthe action, from the Dreadnought; the crew of cise of the great guns, under his daily superintendence, that few ships' companies could equal them How happy should I be, could I but hear from in rapidity and precision of firing. He had begun home, and know how my dear girls are going on! by telling them, that if they could fire three wellBounce is my only pet now, and he is indeed a good resist them; and, from constant practice, they were directed broadsides in five minutes, no vessel could fellow; he sleeps by the side of my cot, whenever I lie in one, until near the time of tacking, and then enabled to do so in three minutes and a half. But marches off, to be out of the hearing of the guns, though he left a crew which had thus been discifor he is not reconciled to them yet. I am fully deplined under his own eye, there was an advantage termined, if I can get home and manage it properly, he went, had lately returned from England, and as in the change; for the Royal Sovereign, into which to go on shore next spring for the rest of my life, for her copper was quite clean, she much outsailed the I am very weary. There is no end to my business; I am at work from morning till even; but I dare other ships of the lee division. While they were say Lord Nelson will be out next month. He told running down, the well-known telegraphic signal me he should; and then what will become of me I duty." When the Admiral observed it first, he said was made of England expects every man to do his do not know. I should wish to go home: but I must that he wished Nelson would make no more signals, go or stay as the exigencies of the times require." for they all understood what they were to do: but At last, towards the close of the year, the when the purport of it was communicated to him he enemy gave some signs of an intention to expressed great delight and admiration, and made come out and the day of Trafalgar was at it known to the officers and ship's company. Lord hand. In anticipation of it, Lord Nelson ad- (who was anxious for the preservation of so invaluNelson had been requested by Captain Blackwood dressed the following characteristic note to his able a life) to allow some other vessel to take the friend, which breathes in every line the noble lead, and at last gave permission that the Téméraire frankness and magnanimous confidence of his should go a-head of him; but resolving to defeat soul::the order which he had given, he crowded more Royal Sovereign was far in advance when Lieutesail on the Victory, and maintained his place. The nant Clavell observed that the Victory was setting her studding sails, and with that spirit of honourable emulation which prevailed between the squadrons, and particularly between these two ships, he

"They surely cannot escape us. I wish we could get a fine day. I send you my plan of attack, as far as a man dare venture to guess at the very uncertain position the enemy may be found in: but, my dear friend, it is to place you perfectly at ease

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pointed it out to Admiral Collingwood, and requested his permission to do the same. The ships of our division,' replied the Admiral, are not yet sufficiently up for us to do so now; but you may be getting ready.' The studding sail and royal halliards were accordingly manned, and in about ten minutes the Admiral, observing Lieutenant Clavell's eyes fixed upon him with a look of expectation, gave him a nod; on which that officer went to Captain Rotherham and told him that the Admiral desired him to make all sail. The order was then given to rig out and hoist away, and in one instant the ship was under a crowd of sail, and went rapidly a-head. The Admiral then directed the officers to see that all the men lay down on the decks, and were kept quiet. At this time the Fougueux, the ship astern of the Santa Anna, had closed up with the intention of preventing the Royal Sovereign from going through the line; and when Admiral Collingwood observed it, he desired Captain Rotherham to steer immediately for the Frenchman and carry away his bowsprit. To avoid this the Fougueux backed her main top sail, and suffered the Royal Sovereign to pass, at the same time beginning her fire; when the Admiral ordered a gun to be occasionally fired at her, to cover his ship with smoke.

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more than thirty years. In this affair he did nothing without my counsel: we made our line of battle together, and concerted the mode of attack, which was put in execution in the most admirable style. I shall grow very tired of the sea soon; my health has suffered so much from the anxious state I have been in, and the fatigue I have undergone, that I shall be unfit for service. The severe gales which immediately followed the day of victory ruined our prospect of prizes."

He was now elevated to the peerage, and a pension of 2000l. was settled on him by parliament for his own life, with 1000l. in case of his death to Lady Collingwood, and 500l to each of his daughters. His Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence also honoured him with a very kind letter, and presented him with a sword. The way in which he received all those honours, is as admirable as the services by which they were earned. On the first tidings of his peerage he writes thus to Lady Collingwood :—

It would be hard if I could not find one hour to write a letter to my dearest Sarah, to congratulate "The nearest of the English ships was now dis- her on the high rank to which she has been advanctant about a mile from the Royal Sovereign; and ed by my success. Blessed may you be, my dearit was at this time, while she was pressing alone est love, and may you long live the happy wife of into the midst of the combined fleets, that Lord your happy husband! I do not know how you bear Nelson said to Captain Blackwood, See how that your honours; but I have so much business on my noble fellow, Collingwood, takes his ship into hands, from dawn till midnight, that I have hardly action. How I envy him!' On the other hand, time to think of nine, except it be in gratitude to Admiral Collingwood, well knowing his comman- my King, who has so graciously conferred them der and friend, observed, What would Nelson upon me. But there are many things of which I give to be here!' and it was then, too, that Admiral might justly be a little proud--for extreme pride is Villeneuve, struck with the daring manner in which folly-that I must share my gratification with you. the leading ships of the English squadrons came The first is the letter from Colonel Taylor, his Madown, despaired of the issue of the contest. In jesty's private secretary to the Admiralty, to be passing the Santa Anna, the Royal Sovereign gave communicated to me. I enclose you a copy of it. her a broadside and a half into her stern, tearing it It is considered the highest compliment the King down, and killing and wounding 400 of her men; can pay; and, as the King's personal compliment, then, with her helm hard a-starboard, she ranged I value it above everything. But I will tell you up alongside so closely that the lower yards of the what I feel nearest to my heart, after the honour two vessels were locked together. The Spanish which his Majesty has done me, and that is the admiral. having seen that it was the intention of the praise of every officer of the fleet. There is a thing Royal Sovereign to engage to leeward, had col-which has made a considerable impression upon me. lected all his strength on the starboard; and such A week before the war, at Morpeth, I dreamed diswas the weight of the Santa Anna's metal, that her tinctly many of the circumstances of our late battle first broadside made the Sovereign heel two streaks off the enemy's port, and I believe I told you of it out of the water. Her studding-sails and halliards at the time: but I never dreamed that I was to be a were now shot away; and as a top-gallant studding-peer of the realm! How are my darlings? I hope sail was hanging over the gangway hammocks, Admiral Collingwood called out to Lieutenant Clavell to come and help hin: to take it in. observing that they should want it again some other day. These two officers accordingly rolled it carefully up and placed it in the boat.'

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We shall add only what he says in his ter to Mr. Blackett of Lord Nelson:

they will take pains to make themselves wise and good. and fit for the station to which they are raised."

And again, a little after:

"I labour from dawn till midnight, till I can hardly see; and as my hearing fails me too, you will let-have but a mass of infirmities in your poor Lord, whenever he returns to you. I suppose I must not be seen to work in my garden now! but tell old Scott that he need not be unhappy on that account. Though we shall never again be able to plant the Nelson potatoes, we will have them of some other sort, and right noble cabbages to boot, in great perfection. You see I am styled of Hethpoole and Caldburne. Was that by your direction? I should prefer it to any other title if it was; and I rejoice, my love, that we are an instance that there are other and better sources of nobility than wealth."

"When my dear friend received his wound, he immediately sent an officer to me to tell me of it,and give his love to me! Though the officer was directed to say the wound was not dangerous, I read in his countenance what I had to fear; and before the action was over, Captain Hardy came to inform me of his death. I cannot tell you how deeply I was affected; my friendship for him was unlike any. thing that I have left in the navy; a brotherhood of

:

*"Of his economy, at all times, of the ship's stores, an instance was often mentioned in the navy as having occurred at the battle of St. Vincent. The Excellent shortly before the action had bent a new fore-topsail and when she was closely engaged with the St. Isidro, Captain Collingwood called out to his boatswain, a very gallant man. who was shortly afterwards killed, Bless me! Mr. Peffers, how came we to forget to bend our old top-sail? They will quite ruin that new one. It will never be worth a farthing again.'"

At this time he had not heard that it was intended to accompany his dignity with any pension; and though the editor assures us that his whole income, even including his full pay, was at this time scarcely 1100l. a year, he never seems to have wasted a thought on such a consideration. Not that he was not at all times a prudent and considerate person, but, with the high spirit of a gentleman, and an independent Englishman, who had made

h's own way in the world, he disdained all but keep a good fire in winter. How I long to have sordid considerations. Nothing can be nobler, a peep into my own house, and a walk in my own or more natural, than the way in which he ex-garden! It is the pleasing object of all my hopes." presses this sentiment, in another letter to his wife, written a few weeks after the preceding:

"Many of the Captains here have expressed a desire that I would give them a general notice when ever I go to court; and if they are within five hundred miles, they will come up to attend me! Now all this is very pleasing; but, alas! my love, until we have peace, I shall never be happy: and yet, how we are to make it out in peace, I know not, with high rank and no fortune. At all events, we can do as we did before. It is true I have the chief command, but there are neither French nor Spaniards on the sea, and our cruisers find nothing but neutrals, who carry on all the trade of the enemy, Our prizes you see are lost. Villeneuve's ship had a great deal of money in her, but it all went to the bottom. I am afraid the fees for this patent will be large, and pinch me: But never mind; let others solicit pensions, I am an Englishman, and will never ask for money as a favour. How do my darlings go on? I wish you would make them write to me by turns, and give me the whole history of their proceedings. Oh how I shall rejoice, when I come home, to find them as much improved in knowledge as I have advanced them in station in the world: But take care they do not give themselves foolish airs. Their excellence should be in

knowledge, in virtue, and benevolence to all; but most to those who are humble, and require their aid. This is true nobility, and is now become an incumbent duty on them. I am out of all patience with Bounce. The consequential airs he gives himself since he became a Right Honourable dog, are insufferable. He considers it beneath his dignity to play with Commoners' dogs, and, truly, thinks that he does them grace when he condescends to lift up his leg against them. This, I think, is carrying the insolence of rank to the extreme; but he is a dog that does it.-25th December. This is Christmas-day; a merry and cheerful one, I hope, to all my darlings. May God bless us, and grant that we may pass the next together. Everybody is very good to me; but his Majesty's letters are my pride: it is there I feel the object of my life attained."

And again, in the same noble spirit is the following to his father-in-law :

"I have only been on shore once since I left England, and do not know when I shall go again. I am unceasingly writing, and the day is not long enough for me to get through my business. I hope my children are every day acquiring some know ledge, and wish them to write a French letter every day to me or their mother. I shall read them all when I come home. If there were an opportunity, I should like them to be taught Spanish, which is the most elegant language in Europe, and very easy. I hardly know how we shall be able to support the dignity to which his Majesty has been pleased to raise ine. Let others plead for pensions; I can be rich without money, by endeavouring to be supe, rior to everything poor. I would have my services to my country unstained by any interested motive; and old Scott and I can go on in our cabbage-garden without much greater expense than formerly. But I have had a great destruction of my furniture and stock; I have hardly a chair that has not a shot in it, and many have lost both legs and arms-without hope of pension! My wine broke in moving, and my pigs slain in battle; and these are heavy losses where they cannot be replaced..

"I suppose I shall have great demands on me for patents and fees: But we must pay for being great. get no prize-money. Since I left England, I have received only 1831., which has not quite paid for my wine; but I do not care about being rich, if we can 84

In the midst of all those great concerns, it is delightful to find the noble Admiral writing thus, from the Mediterranean, of his daughter's sick governess, and inditing this postscript to the little girls themselves:

-! I am

"How sorry am I for poor Miss sure you will spare no pains for her; and do not lose sight of her when she goes to Edinburgh. Tell her that she must not want any advice or any comfort; but I need not say this to you, my beloved, who are kindness itself. I am much obliged to the Corporation of Newcastle for every mark which they give of their esteem and approbation of my service. But where shall we find a place in our small house for all those vases and epergnes? A kind letter from them would have gratified me as much, and have been less trouble to them."

"My darlings, Sarah and Mary,

ings, and desire you to write to me very often, and "I was delighted with your last letters, my blesstell me all the news of the city of Newcastle and town of Morpeth. I hope we shall have many happy days, and many a good laugh together yet. Be kind to old Scott; and when you see him weeding my oaks, give the old man a shilling!

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May God Almighty bless you.'

The patent of his peerage was limited to the heirs male of his body; and, having only daughters, he very early expressed a wish that it might be extended to them and their male heirs. But this was not attended to. When he heard of his pension, he wrote, in the same lofty spirit, to Lord Barham, that if the title could be continued to the heirs of his daughters, he did not care for the pension at all! and in urging his request for the change, he reminded his Lordship, with an amusing naiveté, that government ought really to show some little favour to his daughters, considering that, if they had not kept him constantly at sea since 1793, he would probably have had half a dozen sons by this time, to succeed him in his honours!

It is delightful to read and extract passages like these; but we feel that we must stop; and that we have already exhibited enough of this book, both to justify the praises we have bestowed on it, and to give our readers a full impression of the exalted and most amiable character to which it relates. We shall add no more, therefore, that is merely personal to Lord Collingwood, except what belongs to the decay of his health, his applications for recall, and the death that he magnanimously staid to meet, when that recall was so strangely withheld. His constitution had been considerably impaired even before the action of Trafalgar; but in 1808 his health seemed entirely to give way; and he wrote, in August of that year, earnestly entreating to be allowed to come home. The answer to his application was, that it was so difficult to supply his place, that his recall must, at all events, be suspended. In a letter to Lady Collingwood, he refers to this correspondence, and after mentioning his official application to the Admiralty, he

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Lord Mulgrave, and he tells me in reply, that he hopes I will stay, for he knows not how to supply my place. The impression which his letter made upon me was one of grief and sorrow: first, that with such a list as we have including more than a hundred admirals-there should be thought to be any difficulty in finding a successor of superior ability to me; and next, that there should be any obstacle in the way of the only comfort and happiness that I have to look forward to in this world."

be required of him.' When he moored in the harbour of Port Mahon, on the 25th of February, he was in a state of great suffering and debility; and having been strongly recommended by his medicat attendants to try the effect of gentle exercise on horseback, he went immediately on shore, accom panied by his friend Captain Hallowell, who left his ship to attend him in his illness: but it was then too late. He became incapable of bearing the slightest fatigue; and as it was represented to him that his return to England was indispensably necessary for In answer to Lord Mulgrave's statement, the preservation of his life, he, on the 3d of March, he afterwards writes, that his infirmities had surrendered his command to Rear Admiral Martin. sensibly increased; but "I have no object in The two following days were spent in unsuccessful the world that I put in competition with my hon; but on the 6th the wind came round to the attempts to warp the Ville de Paris out of Port Mapublic duty; and so long as your lordship thinks westward, and at sunset the ship succeeded in clearit proper to continue me in this command, my ing the harbour, and made sail for England. When utmost efforts shall be made to strengthen the Lord Collingwood was informed that he was again impression which you now have; but I still at sea, he rallied for a time his exhausted strength, hope, that whenever it may be done with con- and said to those around him, 'Then I may yet live to meet the French once more.' On the morning venience, your lordship will bear in mind my of the 7th there was a considerable swell, and his request." Soon after he writes thus to his friend Captain Thomas, on entering his cabin, obfamily:-"I am an unhappy creature-old served, that he feared the motion of the vessel disand worn out. I wish to come to England; turbed him. No, Thomas,' he replied; I am now but some objection is ever made to it." And, in a state in which nothing in this world can disturb me more. I am dying; and I am sure it must be again, "I have been very unwell. The phy- consolatory to you, and all who love me, to see how sician tells me that it is the effect of constant comfortably I am coming to my end.' He told one confinement-which is not very comfortable, of his attendants that he had endeavoured to review, as there seems little chance of its being other- as far as was possible, all the actions of his past life, wise. Old age and its infirmities are coming and that he had the happiness to say, that nothing on me very fast; and I am weak and tottering times of his absent family, and of the doubtful congave him a moment's uneasiness. He spoke at on my legs. It is high time I should return test in which he was about to leave his country into England; and I hope I shall be allowed to volved, but ever with calmness and perfect resigna do it before long. It will otherwise be too late." tion to the will of God; and in this blessed state of And it was too late! He was not relieved-mind, after taking an affectionate farewell of his atand scorning to leave the post assigned to him, while he had life to maintain it, he died at it, in March, 1810, upwards of eighteen months after he had thus stated to the government his reasons for desiring a recall. The following is the editor's touching and affectionate account of the closing scene-full of pity and of grandeur and harmonising beautifully with the noble career which was destined there to be arrested :

tendants, be expired without a struggle at six o'clock
of fifty-nine years and six months.
in the evening of that day, having attained the age

"After his decease, it was found that, with the exception of the stomach, all the other organs of life were peculiarly vigorous and unimpaired; and from this inspection, and the age which the surviving members of his family have attained, there is every reason to conclude that if he had been earlier relieved from his command, he would still have been in the enjoyment of the honours and rewards which would doubtless have awaited him on his return to England."

"Lord Collingwood had been repeatedly urged by his friends to surrender his command, and to seek in England that repose which had become so The remainder of this article, containing necessary in his declining health; but his feelings discussions on the practices of flogging in the on the subject of discipline were peculiarly strong, Navy, and of Impressment (to both which and he had ever exacted the most implicit obedience Lord Collingwood, as well as Nelson, were from others. He thought it therefore his duty not to quit the post which had been assigned to him, opposed), is now omitted; as scarcely possessuntil he should be duly relieved, and replied, that ing sufficient originality to justify its republihis life was his country's, in whatever way it might cation, even in this Miscellany.

(December, 1828.)

Narrative of a Journey through the Upper Provinces of India from Calcutta to Bombay, 1824, 1825 (with Notes upon Ceylon); an Account of a Journey to Madras and the Southern Provinces, 1826; and Letters written in India. By the late Right Reverend REGINALD HEBER, Lord Bishop of Calcutta. Second Edition. 2 vols. 8vo. London: 1828.

THIS is another book for Englishmen to be person to whom it relates-and that combina proud of almost as delightful as the Memoirs of Lord Collingwood, and indebted for its attractions mainly to the same cause-the singularly amiable and exalted character of the

tion of gentleness with heroic ambition, and simplicity with high station, which we would still fondly regard as characteristic of our own nation. To us in Scotland the combination

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see.us, in this instance, even more admirable the rank and opulence which the station imthan in that of the great Admiral. We have plied, were likely to realise this character in no Bishops on our establishment; and have those who should be placed in it, that our been accustomed to think that we are better ancestors contended so strenuously for the without them. But if we could persuade our abrogation of the order, and thought their selves that Bishops in general were at all like Reformation incomplete till it was finally put Bishop Heber, we should tremble for our Pres- down-till all the ministers of the Gospel byterian orthodoxy; and feel not only venera- were truly pastors of souls, and stood in no tion, but something very like envy for a com- other relation to each other than as fellowmunion which could number many such men labourers in the same vineyard. among its ministers.

The notion entertained of a Bishop, in our antiepiscopal latitudes, is likely enough, we admit, not to be altogether just:-and we are far from upholding it as correct, when we say, that a Bishop, among us, is generally supposed to be a stately and pompous person, clothed in purple and fine linen, and faring sumptuously every day-somewhat obsequious to persons in power, and somewhat haughty and imperative to those who are beneath himwith more authority in his tone and manner, than solidity in his learning; and yet with much more learning than charity or humility -very fond of being called my Lord, and driving about in a coach with mitres on the panels, but little addicted to visiting the sick and fatherless, or earning for himself the blessing of those who are ready to perish―

-"Familiar with a round

If this notion be utterly erroneous, the picture which Bishop Heber has here drawn of himself, must tend powerfully to correct it. If, on the other hand, it be in any respect just, he must be allowed, at all events, to have been a splendid exception. We are willing to take it either way. Though we must say that we incline rather to the latter alternative-since it is difficult to suppose, with all due allowance for prejudices, that our abstract idea of a Bishop should be in such flagrant contradiction to the truth, that one who was merely a fair specimen of the order, should be most accurately characterised by precisely reversing every thing that entered into that idea. Yet this is manifestly the case with Bishop Heber-of whom we do not know at this moment how we could give a better description, than by merely reading backwards all we have now ventured to set down as characteristic of his right reverend Of Ladyships-a stranger to the poor' brethren. Learned, polished, and dignified, decorous in manners, but no foe to luxurious he was undoubtedly; yet far more conspicuindulgences-rigid in maintaining discipline ously kind, humble, tolerant, and laboriousamong his immediate dependents, and in ex- zealous for his church too, and not forgetful of acting the homage due to his dignity from the his station; but remembering it more for the undignified mob of his brethren; but perfectly duties than for the honours that were attached willing to leave to them the undivided privi- to it, and infinitely more zealous for the releges of teaching and of comforting their peo-ligious improvement, and for the happiness, ple, and of soothing the sins and sorrows of and spiritual and worldly good of his fellowtheir erring flocks-scornful, if not openly creatures, of every tongue, faith, and comhostile, upon all occasions, to the claims of plexion: indulgent to all errors and infirmi the People, from whom he is generally sprung ties-liberal, in the best and truest sense of --and presuming every thing in favour of the the word-humble and conscientiously diffiroyal will and prerogative, by which he has dent of his own excellent judgment and neverbeen exalted-setting, indeed, in all cases, a failing charity-looking on all men as the much higher value on the privileges of the children of one God, on all Christians as the few, than the rights that are common to all, redeemed of one Saviour, and on all Christian and exerting himself strenuously that the teachers as fellow-labourers, bound to help former may ever prevail-caring more, ac- and encourage each other in their arduous cordingly, for the interests of his order than and anxious task. His portion of the work, the general good of the church, and far more accordingly, he wrought faithfully, zealously, for the Church than for the Religion it was and well; and, devoting himself to his duty established to teach-hating dissenters still with a truly apostolical fervour, made no more bitterly than infidels- but combating scruple to forego, for its sake, not merely his both rather with obloquy and invocation of personal ease and comfort, but those domestic civil penalties, than with the artillery of a affections which were ever so much more powerful reason, or the reconciling influences valuable in his eyes, and in the end, we fear, of an humble and holy life-uttering now consummating the sacrifice with his life! If and then haughty professions of humility, such a character be common among the dig. and regularly bewailing, at fit seasons, the nitaries of the English Church, we sincerely severity of those Episcopal labours, which congratulate them on the fact, and bow our sadden, and even threaten to abridge a life, heads in homage and veneration before them. which to all other eyes appears to flow on in If it be rare, as we fear it must be in any almost unbroken leisure and continued in-church, we trust we do no unworthy service dulgence!

This, or something like this, we take to be the notion that most of us Presbyterians have been used to entertain of a modern Bishop: and it is mainly because they believed that

in pointing it out for honour and imitation to all; and in praying that the example, in all its parts, may promote the growth of simila virtues among all denominations of Christians, in every region of the world.

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