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Enquiry into the Right of Appeal from the Chancellor, in Matters of Discipline, (by Dr. Chapman,) 1751.-2. A Farther Enquiry into the Right of Appeal, etc. 1752. — 3. A Letter to the Author of the Farther Enquiry,' etc. 1752.-4. The Opinion of an Eminent Lawyer, etc. (ascribed to Mr. Hurd, then Fellow of Emmanuel, now Bishop of Worcester.*) 5. Considerations on the Regulations at Cambridge, 1751. (by Dr. Green, afterwards Bishop of Lincoln.)" P. 662.

Hume's Essay on the Natural History of Religion. Warburton appears to have been so much concerned in this tract, that we find it republished by Hurd in the quarto-edn. of that Prelate's Works, and enumerated by him in his list of his own Works. appears to have given Hume some uneasiness, and he notices it in his account of his Life, with much acrimony." Chalmers's Biogr. Dict.

It

The following extract from Hurd's Life of Warburton p. 77, will shew that Dr. Parr was mistaken in attributing the

*["In May 1750, by Warburton's recommendation to Dr. Sherlock, Bishop of London, Mr. Hurd was appointed one of the Whitehall-Preachers. At this period the University of Cambridge was disturbed by internal divisions, occasioned by an exercise of discipline against some of its members, who had been wanting in respect to those, who were entrusted with its authority. A punishment having been inflicted on some delinquent, they refused to submit to it, and appealed from the Vice-Chancellor's jurisdiction. The right of the University, and those, to whom their power was delegated, becoming by

"Letter to the Lord Bishop of Worcester, occasioned by his Strictures on Archbishop Secker and Bishop Lowth, in his 'Life of Bishop Warburton', now prefixed to the 4to. Edition of that Prelate's Works, by a Member of the University of

Remarks to the pen of Hurd, when in point of fact, Hurd wrote only the introduction and the conclusion, and the Remarks were the composition of Warburton. Dr. Parr has quoted the book in his Tracts by Warburton and a Warburtonian pp. 155. 156. 161. 162. 163. 165. 166. 170. 172.; but he had no suspicion of the double authorship.

"After this complete triumph," says the Bishop, "over the great chieftain of his party, (Bolingbroke,) it would scarce be worth while to celebrate his successes against inferior adven

this means the subject of debate, several pamphlets appeared, and among others, who signalised themselves upon this occasion, Mr. Hurd was generally supposed to have written The Academic, or A Disputation on the State of the University of Cambridge, and the Propriety of the Regulations made in it on May 11, and June 26, 1750. 8vo. But this was, as we have already remarked, the production of Dr. Green. Mr. Hurd, however, wrote- The Opinion of an Eminent Lawyer, (the Earl of Hardwicke,) concerning the Right of Appeal, from the Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge to the Senate, supported by a Short Historical Account of the Jurisdiction of the University, in Answer to a late Pamphlet, intituled An Inquiry into the Right of Appeal from the Vice-Chancellor, etc. by a Fellow of a College,' 1751. 8vo. This passed through three editions; and being answered, was defended in a Letter to the Author of a Farther Inquiry,' 1752. 8vo. It is also preserved in the Bishop's Works." Chalmers's Biogr. Dict. E. H. B.]

Oxford, (Mr. Winkle of Pembroke-College, Oxford,) 1795." P. 584.

It is worth while to attend to the account of Hurd, which Mr. Chalmers gives in his Biogr. Dict., and which is tolerably impartial :

turers, if one of them had not published his own shame; and if what I owe to Dr. Warburton's memory, did not require me to explain a trifling matter, in which I happened to be concerned. Mr. Hume had given an early specimen of his freethinking philosophy in some super-subtile lucubrations of the metaphysical kind: which, however, did no great mischief to religion; and what chagrined him almost as much, contributed but little to his own fame, being too sublime or too dark for the apprehensions of his readers. For so good a purpose as that of assisting in the common cause of impiety, he thought fit to come out of the clouds, and to attempt a popular vein of writing, as the more likely to get himself read and talked of in the world. In 1749, he therefore gave the public a hash of his stale notions, served up in the taking form and name of Essays, and with a stronger, at least more undisguised, mixture of atheism than before. Dr. Warburton, who was then sending his Julian to the press, saw these Essays, and had thoughts of closing that work with some strictures upon them. In a Letter of Sept. 28, of that year, to a friend at Cambridge, he says: 'I am tempted to have a stroke at Hume at parting. He is the author of a little book called Philosophical Essays: ' in one part of which he argues against the being of a God; and in another, (very needlessly, you will say,) against the possibility of miracles. He has crowned the liberty of the press; and yet he has a considerable post under the government. I have a great mind to do justice on his arguments against miracles, which I think might be done in a few

"The friendship, which had already taken place between Warburton and Mr. Hurd, had from its commencement continued to increase by the aid of mutual good offices; and in 1755, an opportunity offered for the latter to shew the warmth of his attachment, which he did perhaps with too close an intimation of his friend's manner.

'words. But does he deserve this notice? Is he known ' amongst you? Pray answer me these questions. For if his own weight keeps him down, I should be sorry to contribute 'to his advancement to any place but the pillory.' No encouraging answer, I suppose, was returned to this Letter; and so the author of the Essays escaped for this time. His next effort was to discredit religion by what he calls its Natural History. This book came out early in 1757, and falling into the hands of Dr. Warburton, provoked him, by its uncommon licentiousness, to enter on the margin as he went along, such remarks as occurred to him. And, when that was too narrow, to contain them all, he put down the rest on loose scraps of paper, which he stuck between the leaves. In this state the book was shewn to me, (as I chanced at that time to be in London with the author,) merely as matter of curiosity, and to give me an idea of the contents, how mischievous and extravagant they were. He had then written remarks on about twothirds of the volume; and I liked them so well, that I advised him by all means to carry them on through the remaining parts of it, and then to fit them up, in what way he thought best, for public use, which I told him they very well deserved. He put by this proposal slightly; but, when I pressed him again on this head some time after, in a Letter from Cambridge, he wrote me the following answer: As to Hume, I had laid 'it aside ever since you were here. I will now, however, 'finish my skeleton: it will be hardly that. If then you think anything can be made of it, and will give yourself the

Dr. Jortin having in his Dissertation spoken of Warburton with less deference and submission than the claims of an overbearing and confident superiority seemed to demand, Mr. Hurd wrote a keen satire, entitled The delicacy of Friendship, a Seventh Dissertation, addressed to the Author of the Sixth, 1755. 8vo. It has been said that

'trouble, we may perhaps between us do a little good, which 'I dare say we shall both think will be worth a little pains. * If I have any force in the first rude beating out the mass, you ' are best able to give it the elegance of form and splendour of 'polish. This will answer my purpose, to labour together in a joint work to do a little good. I will tell you fairly, it is

no more the thing it should be, than the Dantzick-iron at the 'forge, is the gilt and painted ware at Birmingham. It will 'make no more than a pamphlet ; but you shall take your own time, and make it your summer's amusement, if

you will.

I propose it bear something like this title Remarks on Mr. Hume's late Essay called The Natural History of Religion, 'by a Gentleman of Cambridge, in a Letter to the Rev. Dr. 'Warburton. I propose the Address should be with the dryness and reserve of a stranger, who likes the method of the 'Letters on Bolingbroke's Philosophy, and follows it here, against the sort of writer, inculcating the same impiety, naturalism, and employing the same kind of arguments. The Address will remove it from me; the author, a gentleman of Cambridge, from you; and the secrecy of printing, from us 'both.' I saw by this Letter, he was not disposed to take much trouble about the thing. Accordingly his papers were soon after sent down to me at Cambridge, pretty much in the state I had seen them in" (dele in) at London, so far as they then went, only with additional entries in the latter part of the book. However, in this careless, detached form I thought his observations too good to be lost. And the hint of the Address

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