The four last-mentioned pamphlets are advertised at the end of the Visitation-Sermon, published in 1770, which sufficiently fixes the date. In the Bibliotheca Parriana p. 400, a volume of tracts is mentioned, which contains the following articles :

"Forster (Dr. Nath.) on the Middlesex-Election, in Answer to Sir Wm. Meredith, 1769.'-' Answer to Junius on the above Subject, 1769.' — The Sentiments of an English Freeholder on the late Decision of the Election, 1769.' (supposed to be written by Mr. Downley and Mr. Dunning.)- Forster's 'Answer to the same, 1770.'- A Letter to the Author of an Essay on the Middlesex-Election, 1770. 4.' (supposed to be Mr. Rous.) Dr. Forster's pamphlets are very able indeed. S. P."

The four pamphlets of Dr. Forster in this volume of tracts seem to be all the same as those mentioned by me in the articles numbered 8, 9, 10, 11; but Dr. Parr has not given the exact titles. The late Rev. Edward Forster * was the son of Dr. Nathaniel Forster, and in reply to a communication from myself respecting his father, he wrote to me thus:

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["March 18, at Paris, after a lingering illness of many months, the Rev. Edward Forster, M. A. F. R. and A. S. Chaplain to the British Embassy at Paris, Rector of Somerville-Aston in Gloucestershire, and Chaplain to the Duke of Newcastle, and to the Earl of Bridgewater. He was of St. Mary-Hall, Oxford, M. A. 1797; and was editor of the Arabian Nights' Entertainments, translated, embellished with Engravings from Pictures by Smirke, 1802. 5 vols. 8vo.; Anacreontis Opera, 1802. 8vo.; the British Gallery of Engravings, with Descriptions, super-royal-folio, published in Nos. in 1808, and the following years; also of Jarvis's Quixote, Hamilton's Tales, and other works." The Gent's. Mag. June

The Anacreon is mentioned in the Bibl. Parr. 135. as gift of the editor." E. H. B.]

"the

"Paris, Oct. 22, 1827. My father knew Dr. Parr from the time he was elected to the Colchester Grammar-School.

He soon was very intimate with him, and continued his intimacy during his, (Dr. P's.) residence at Norwich, and at Hatton, till his own death. At this period, (about 37 years ago,) I was at College, and out of kindness to me, he would not have me sent for merely to witness the last struggles of departing life. I returned home in the long vacation, to assist my mother in removing, and on looking over his papers we found no letters of any sort whatsoever. My father, therefore, must have destroyed them himself; for I know he had been in the habit of an extensive literary correspondence. Whether any of his letters were found on Dr. Parr's death, I know not. I soon after married, and resided in London. Dr. Parr and myself never corresponded, except when we resided for a few months in the same village; when we had a long dispute in consequence of his erroneously supposing that Mrs. F. and myself had been instrumental in the breaking off a match between the Rev. Charles Barker, of Ch. Ch. Oxford, and his eldest daughter, upon which he had set his heart, but which in fact was broken by the gentleman's mother. These Letters, however, relate only to the conduct of Mrs. and Miss Parr, and the other parties, and being merely upon family-affairs, can be of no use to you. We were never after this upon intimate terms.

"With respect to my father, I can tell you but little or nothing, that can be interesting to the public, now nearly 40 years after his death. He published a few Sermons, two or three anonymous Pamphlets, chiefly on Political Economy, and one larger one upon the High Price of Provisions. The boldness and novelty of the principles there advanced made considerable noise. He also wrote a detailed Plan for an Index to the Journals of the House of Commons, on which laborious work he was engaged many years. He left some few philosophical papers behind him, and that is all. In the Preface to

T. Twining's Translation of Aristotle you will find a short, but interesting mention of him."

The words of the excellent and learned and modest Mr. Twining, are these, edn. 2d. :xxx. "It is now six years p. since the Translation was finished; and both that, and the Dissertation and Notes, have received every advantage of revision and correction, which either my own care, or friendly criticism could give them. And upon this occasion I cannot refuse myself the gratification of publicly acknowledging how much I owe to the accurate judgment and just taste of one person in particular, (the Rev. Dr. Forster of Colchester,) in whom I found precisely that friendly censor, so happily and so comprehensively characterized by the Poet as

'Eager to praise, yet resolute to blame,

'Kind to his verse, but kinder to his fame,'

Hayley's Epistle on the Death of Mr. Thornton. and of whom, indeed, I may say, without any fear of indulging too far the partiality of friendship, that he never shrinks from any task, whether of private kindness, or more general benevolence, that calls for his assistance, and stands in need of his abilities."

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"You have written very sensibly about the author of Junius," says Dr. Parr in a Letter to Mr. Butler, (without date, but dictated between Jan. 22, and March 2, 1822.) " and we must allow that the pamphlet, which ascribes the book to Sir Philip Francis, and Brougham's critique upon it, contain very striking probabilities; but they make little impression upon my mind; for I, for these 40 years, have had the firmest conviction that Junius was Mr. Lloyd, brother to Philip Lloyd, (Dean of Norwich,) and Secretary to George Grenville. My information came from two most sagacious observers; and when I spoke to the second, I did not tell him what I had previously heard from the first. One of my witnesses was Dr. Farmer, a most curious, indefatigable, acute searcher in literary anecdote, and he spoke with confidence uubounded; the other was a witness of

a yet higher order, who opposed, and I think, confuted Junius, upon the Middlesex-Election. He was a most wary observer, and a most incredulous man indeed. He had access, not to great statesmen, but to the officers, who were about the House of Commons, and the House of Lords. He rested neither day nor night till he had made the discovery; and there lives not the human being, upon whose judgment I could rely more firmly for a fact.”

Dr. Nath. Forster has been already pointed out by me in the book entitled The Claims of Sir Philip Francis K. B. to the Authorship of Junius's Letters, disproved, Lond. 1828. 12mo. p. 262, as undoubtedly the person, to whom Dr. Parr alludes; and the Rev. Wm. Field, in his Memoirs of the Life, Writings, aud Opinions of the Rev. S. Parr LL.D. 2, 224. had, from the Bibliotheca Parriana p. 400, rightly conjectured Dr. N. F. to be the person alluded to. alluded to. Forster's employment, in making the Index to the Journals of the House of Commons, furnished him with the opportunities and means of information, of which Dr. Parr speaks.

In the Bibliotheca Parriana p. 587, mention is made of a Discourse dedicated to Dr. Forster, and I suppose from the date of it that the Dr. F. alluded to is the cousin of Dr. F. of Colchester: "God's Universal Goodness displayed, in a Discourse delivered to the Society of Free Enquirers, by a Member of that Church, which is as old as the Creation, dedicated to Dr. Forster, 1751. A Let

ter to the Deists by the Author of God's Universal Goodness displayed, 1751. 8."

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From the Biographical Dictionary, as edited by Chalmers, I learn that the executor of Dr. Joseph Butler, the learned and argumentative Bishop of Durham, who died June 16, 1752. "was his chaplain, the Rev. Dr. Nath. Forster, a divine of distinguished literature, who was especially charged to destroy all his MS. Sermons, Letters, and Papers." This executor was the editor of Plato. My excellent friend, the Rev. T. Crompton, in a Letter dated London, May 13, 1827.writes thus: "The Rev. Peter Fors-ter, my father-in-law, was the youngest brother of Dr. Nath. Forster, the learned editor of the Dialogues of Plato, etc., chaplain to Bishop Butler, and afterwards to Archbishop Herring, whose Life may be seen in Nichols's ninth Volume of Literary Anecdotes, printed from a MS., which I found among my father-in-law's papers, and, I doubt not, written by himself, (i. e. my e. my fatherin-law.)" In a Letter dated July 13, 1827. Mr. C. writes: "The epitaph on the Platonic Dr. Forster, my wife's uncle, was written, as I remember by Bishop Hayter. It is in the biographical sketch, published in the Literary Anecdotes." And in another Letter dated April 2, 1827. "I can give but little information with respect to the connection between Dr. Parr and