PAGE 127 STURGES Thoughts on the Residence of the Clergy. By JOHN STURGES, LL.D. . A PERSECUTING BISHOP An Appeal to the Legislature and the Public, or the Legality of the Eighty-seven Questions proposed by the Bishop of Peterborough. A Rev. John Green. 1821 On the Policy of Communicating the Knowledge of Christianity to the Natives in India. By a LATE RESIDENT IN BENGAL. 1807. Addresses and Letters upon the same subject CHARLES JAMES Fox Characters of the late Charles James Fox. By PHILOPATRIS VARVI 130 144 CENSIS 170 176 193 208 ROSE's CRITICISM OF Fox's HISTORY On the Historical Work of the Right Honourable Charles James For By the Right Honourable GEORGE ROSE VINDICATION OF Fox's HISTORY Vindication of Mr. Fox's History. By SAMUEL HEYWOOD THE POOR-LAWS Method for rendering Income arising from Personal Property available to the Poor-Laws. 1819. NICOL. York. Considerations on the Poor-Laws. By John DAVISON On the Criminal Prisons of this Country. By GEORGE HOLFORD, M.P. 1821. 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By CHARLES WATERTON, Esq. Granby. A Novel in Three Volumes. London : 1826 T.etters on the Subject of the Catholics, to my brother Abraham, who the а HE author and speaker, whose works, here reprinted, will retain a pleasant village of Woodford. June 3rd, 1771, was the date of his birth, and his life terminated on February 22nd, 1845. His father was an English gentleman, whose habits are described to have been eccentric; his mother was the daughter of a French emigrant ; and he was the second of their four sons. The liveliness of his disposition may not have been foreign to the intermixture of the gayer spirit which runs, generally, in Gallic blood, with the usually more sluggish English temperament. He showed early promise; went to Winchester, and became captain of that school ; was elected to a scholarship in New College, Oxford, and two years after, in 1792, took his degree of B.A. He also obtained a fellowship of £100 a-year, a fact of consequence to him, as he was by no means well off. His own predilections were for the law, but in obedience to his father's wishes he took orders, and secured a curacy at Nether-Avon, on Salisbury Plain. There he attracted the attention of a wealthy neighbour, Mr. Hicks Beach, M.P. for Cirencester, and became tutor to that gentleman's eldest son. He had previously acquired the French language in a tour through Normandy, and it had been his design to visit, with his pupil, a German University, but the distracted state of the Continent, owing to the French revolution, prevented this step. An abode in Edinburgh was substituted, and during a residence there of several years, Sydney Smith made many valuable and lasting friendships, and acquired some reputation as a preacher and humourist. In 1799, being then 28 years of age, he was married to Miss Pybus, an English lady, the daughter of a banker. At this period the Scottish metropolis could boast of no inconsiderable literary power, and the young clergyman became acquainted with Henry, afterwards Lord Brougham, Francis, afterwards Lord Jeffrey, Francis Horner and others, who subsequently acquired fame in science and literature. At one of the meetings of these then comparatively unknown but talented young men, it was proposed to start a Review. “One day,” says the author of Peter Plymley's letters, “we happened to meet in the eighth or ninth story, or flat, in Buccleugh Place, the elevated residence of the then Mr. Jeffrey. I proposed that we should get up a review ; this was acceded to with acclamation. I was appointed editor, and remained long enough in Edinburgh to edit the first number of the Edinburgh Review.”* It appeared in October, 1802, he having contributed no less than seven articles. Two years later, he took up his residence in London. For the next two years he remained without any preferment in the Church, but preached at the Foundling Hospital, and Berkeley and Fitzroy Chapels, gaining considerable success in these pulpits. He also, during the seasons of 1804, 1805, and 1806, delivered three courses of lectures on“ Belles Lettres,” and “Moral Philosophy," at the Royal Institution. These, like his sermons, brought large fashionable audiences around him, who praised his matter and his wit ; but in afterlife, whimsically alluding to his ignorance of the subjects he treated, he characterized these lectures as a species of “literary imposture.” All this time he was constantly writing for The Edinburgh, and at Holland House and other mansions, principally Whig, he was a frequent and a welcome guest, delighting everybody with his brilliant conversational powers and rich humour. When his friends attained power in 1806, Lord Erskine presented him to the rectory of Foston-le-Clay, in Yorkshire, worth about £ 500 a-year, but for the first year or two of his incumbency he discharged his parish duties by means of a curate. In 1807 appeared, anonymously, “Letters on the Subject of the Catholics, by Peter Plymley." These had an immense circulation at the time, and are very characteristic of the author, sound sense being everywhere noticeable amidst the irony and pleasantries with which they abound. His efforts in the cause of justice to Catholics, thus early commenced, were never relaxed until Catholic Emancipation was carried. Two volumes of sermons were published a couple of years afterwards, and he now removed to Heslington, a village near York, where he was permitted by his diocesan to reside for a few years, as he hoped to exchange Foston-le-Clay for some more desirable parish. Unable to succeed in this wish, he resolutely turned his thoughts towards Foston, the forlorn situation of which he set forth by stating that it was twelve miles from a lemon." Here he constructed a parsonage which, for ugliness and comfort, had not its equal in the county. In 1814, he removed hither with his family, and remained there for fourteen years, counteracting what might have been to him, as one of the darlings of society, the tedium of exile, by literary work, preaching, lecturing, doctoring, gossipping, and ministering to his parishioners with a zeal which won him all their affections. Before his time, a long period had elapsed since the parishioners had listened to a resident incumbent in their parish church, and in reference to this absence he a * Lord Brougham denies the correctness of this account. |
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