simile, and therefore recourse must always be had to the MS. itself in any point of consequence. The printed copy of the Alexandrian MS. is a pretty singular curiosity, like Pine's Horace, but there is no need of more than one of this sort. It is a lucky circumstance that in the Dublin MS. almost all that part of St. Matthew's Gospel wanting in the Alexandrian should be found; but I am much disappointed in not finding the Doxology to make a part of it.

"I have a sermon to prove its authenticity from internal evidence, i. e. from its being so natural a sequel to deliver us from the Evil One. For thine is the kingdom, not his, though he pretended to offer Jesus the whole world, as such, with all its glories. At Cambridge, I looked over Dr. Bentley's prepared volumes of the New Testament, which seem finished according to his proposals, though Middleton asserted he had only done the last chapter of Revelations. They were lately left to Trinity College by his nephew, Dr. Richard Bentley, from whom Dr. Woide got leave to copy the Vatican Collations for his edition of the Alexandrian.

"Just after the receipt of your letter I sent you two newspapers in an open cover, each containing something by M. Lort. If they cost you more than a penny I shall be sorry. When your new paper 'The Dublin Chronicle' comes out, pray send me one as a specimen. Last New Year's Day came out three new papers here; two of them soon died; the third, called the "World," still keeps its ground, carried on by Captain Topham* and Mr. Miles Andrews, † a gunpowder merchant, both well known to the theatrical world as writers of farces and epilogues. As I frequent no coffeehouse I seldom see any paper but that I take in, "The Public Advertiser." I mention this as an apology, if I should miss sending you anything very curious in the others, which are often difficult to procure after their day is passed. If I thought you had not Priestley's Letter to Mr. Pitt, I would send you that under Mr. Ley's cover; but I

Major Edward Topham died April 26, 1820, aged 68. See an account of him and his writings in Gent. Mag. XC. i. 469.

† Miles Peter Andrews, M.P. dieď July 18, 1814, aged 84. He was the author of eleven farces, from 1774 to 1795. Amongst other legacies he left his friend Major Topham 3001. An account of him and his writings will be found in Gent. Mag. LXXXIV. ii. 190. See also Gent. Mag. LXXXV. i. 597, a curious instance of mental delusion in Mr. Andrews supposing he saw Lord Lyttleton appearing at his bedside on the day he died.

presume that if any of the late publications here on the Test Act came to Dublin, this must have been in their number. The leading Dissenters here are very angry with him for that publication, and made him reprint a page to retract one particular assertion concerning the minister's promise of support. Lord North made probably his last speech in the House of Commons on that occasion. He is now irrecoverably blind by a gutta serena in both eyes. There is a letter of Berington,* the popish priest, to Priestley, which I will send to Mr. Ley, the same man who in a former pamphlet drew a character of Lord Surrey, now the Duke of Norfolk, which he was obliged to omit in a second edition. This man wrote also an Answer to Hawkins's Appeal on his quitting the Catholics at Worcester.† Hawkins is now in London, patronised by the Bishop of Winchester, who has put him into our orders and recommended him to Lambeth for a degree. Mr. Wharton, § a popish priest from the same neighbourhood, is now in America; and Carroll, a popish bishop in Maryland, has written and published in America an Address to the Roman Catholics of the United States. I mention all these to know if you wish I should purchase them for you, and how they may be conveyed to you. I picked up lately A Free Examination of the Common Methods employed to prevent the Growth of Popery, to which are added seasonable Reflections offered to the Consideration of the Legislature, 12mo. Dublin, printed by D. Chamberlayne, at Faulkner's Head, 1774. This is a compilation of papers first published in the "Public Ledger," and spouted at some disputing clubs set up by the Catholics in London.

"I bought Lindsay's Liturgy lately; it is I am told

The Rev. Jeseph Berrington was a voluminous author. He was a valuable correspondent of the Gentleman's Magazine. See vol. LVII. 955, 1044, LVIII. 124, 696, 1156, LIX. 26, LX. 1012, 1165, LXV. 451, LXIX. 653, 749-751. His opinions were not approved of by his Roman Catholic brethren. See a notice of Mr. Berrington in the memoir of Dr. J. Milner, in Literary Illustrations, vol. V. p. 685, and a letter from Bishop Milner in Gent. Mag. LXV. 723. He died Dec. 1, 1827, aged 84. See a full account of him and his works in Gent. Mag. XCVIH. i. 374.

The Rev. John Hawkins published, An Appeal to Scripture, &c. 8vo. 1786. Month. Rev. LXXIV. 412. Address to Dr. Priestley, 1789, Evo. Month. Rev. LXXX. 91.

Dr. North.

§ Mr. Wharton published "A Letter to the Roman Catholics of Worcester; from a late Chaplain of that Society; stating the Motives that induced him to retire from their communion and become a Member of the Protestant Church,” 8vo. 1784; commended in Monthly Review, LXXII. 395.

adopted by the Episcopalians in New England; there is also an abridgment of the Common Prayer, done and printed at Benjamin Franklin's expense, at London, in 1773, but I do not find adopted anywhere. I have not been able to procure yet the American Liturgies. Bishop Seabury and his flock in Connecticut I believe have made no alterations in the English Liturgy, but political ones.

"I was very glad to receive an account of your new Society for Christian Knowledge and Practice, and the first fruits of its institution. O'Leary's print, I am told by those here who know him, is a strong likeness; but you are behind us in caricature. I sent in the small box, which you say is not yet arrived, two or three on modern fashions for the use of your ladies, who I hope are well, and to whom I beg mine and Mrs. Lort's compliments.

"Mrs. Piozzi and her cara sposa seem very happy here at a good house in Hanover Square, where I am invited to a rout next week, the first I believe she has attempted, and then will be seen who of her old acquaintance continue such. She is now printing Johnson's Letters in 2 vols. octavo, with some of her own; but if they are not ready before the recess they will not be published till next winter. Poor Sir John Hawkins, I am told, is pulled all to pieces in the Review.*

"I am sorry your Lordship is so disturbed about the letter in the last Archæologia. On ascertaining a curious fact, it was voted to be printed, and being such only I did not think you expected to have been applied to for your consent; but I will take better care for the future. Your friend Pinkerton has been publishing something about the Celts, in which I am told he bears almost as hard as Johnson did on the publisher of Ossian. I shall not be sorry to see them go to loggerheads; I mean on paper. "Your Lordship's affectionate and faithful servant, "M. LORT.

"Lord Bishop of Dromore, at Dromore."

"MY DEAR LORD,

Saville Row, June 26, 1787.

"I am happy to find, by your letter of the 15th, that

*This very long and able review of Dr. Johnson's Life will be found in Monthly Review, LXXVI. 273, 469, LXXVII. 56, 131. Sir J. Hawkins is unmercifully cut up.

+ An extract from a letter from Bishop Percy to Dr. Lort, on some large fossil horns found in Ireland, was printed in the Archæologia, VII. 158.

the parcel I sent by sea from home some months ago is at length arrived; but I suspect the modern pyramids are almost become ancient, and have given place to some new folly. I am glad also that the two pamphlets I sent to Mr. Ley's came safe to you and uncharged; I have just forwarded another, Père Courayer's* Sentiments, &c. and have also sent four or five of the Popish Controversy, by Wharton, Carol, &c. to Mr. Barker's lodgings. I could not procure Hawkins's Letter to the Worcester people. Geddes' 'Church of Malabar' is likewise not to be had at present, but must be sought for in catalogues. Lindsay's Liturgy Sir John Hawkins has, or will procure you. I know nothing yet of Baxter's, nor do I understand what is meant by the Free Examination, &c. 12mo. 1774. The 'Liturgy on Universal Principles' is Williams's,† that did not succeed in Margaret-street Chapel. Dr. Stocks' Answer to Dr. Campbell came safe; and I was much pleased with it. Campbell's pamphlet is reprinted here: the Dissenting party will not suffer such writings to be long unknown in this metropolis. The Dublin Chronicle also came to hand, and is a specimen worthy imitation here. I saw an advertisement in it of a new Map of Ireland, by the Rev. Augustus Beaufort, M.R.I.A., ‡— letters I cannot decipher. I heartily congratulate your Lordship on the success which has crowned so deservedly the labours of the champions of the Church of Ireland: 'So the pure, limpid stream,' &c. &c.

"A Declaration of my last Sentiments on the different Doctrines of Religion, by the late P. F. le Courayer, D.D. (Published from the French by W. Bell, D.D. Prebendary of Westminster. See Monthly Review, LVIII. 37). Translated from the French. To which is prefixed an account of Dr. Courayer." The translator (whose name at the time was concealed) was the Rev. John Calder, D.D. Dr. Calder died June 10, 1815, aged 82. See memoirs of Dr. Courayer in Literary Anecdotes, II. 39-44; VII. 96, 543; and further anecdotes of him, with his portrait, in Literary Illustrations, vol. V. p. 60; and a memoir of Dr. Calder, with a selection from his correspondence, in Literary Illustrations, vol. IV. pp. 789-848.

† Of David Williams a long memoir, written by his friend the Rev. Richard Yates, will be found in Gent. Mag. 1816, ii. 86-90. His Liturgy and Lectures at Margaret Street Chapel continued about four years; see Gent. Mag. 1816, p. 88. He was the founder of the Literary Fund; and died June 29, 1816, aged 78. In the words of Mr. Fitzgerald, the honorary poet of that Society,

"Time that destroys the Hero's trophied bust, Shall spare the bay that blossoms o'er his dust." Member of the Royal Irish Academy.

"Your friend Dodsley has had 2500l. worth of printed paper burnt in a warehouse, so as to produce him when sold for waste only 801.: none of this insured. The chief copies were Spence's Polymetis,' London and its Environs,' and a quarto Geographical Account of England; none of them much to be regretted, nor that would probably have produced him many fourscore pounds.*

"Mr. Lovitt called on me lately, and would have carried over any parcel for me to your Lordship; but I found he was not going soon back to Ireland. Mr. Barker also called on me, and I would gladly have seen more of him, but Mrs. Lort has left me alone here. She is gone to Colchester; and I shall follow her to-morrow, but shall return in a fortnight, and make similar excursions from here for the remainder of the summer. I do not like seavoyages; otherwise your Lordship's invitation would be a very tempting one, both to me and to Mrs. Lort. I beg my best respects to the ladies, and remain with great truth your Lordship's ever faithful “ M. LORT.

"To Lord Bishop of Dromore, Dublin."

"MY DEAR LORD,

Saville Row, Aug. 14, 1787.

"I have been on the ramble since I received your letter by Dr. Hales, but was lucky enough to be a few days in town during his stay in it, and think myself much obliged to your Lordship for introducing me to so worthy a character. Unluckily he was here at a time when the town was quite empty, and was not better off at Cambridge, where he found few or none of the persons to whom he had letters of recommendation. The publication you sent me of his was imperfect; so he supplied me with another, and I presented another for him to the Archbishop, who has been so much engaged in business of late, at the Privy Council and elsewhere, that I suppose he could not find time to receive strangers. He has at last carried through one important matter, which but for his zeal and activity would not have been finished-at least this year. On Sunday Dr. Inglis was consecrated Bishop of Nova Scotia,

* A fire in Little Wild Street, June 7, 1787, communicated to Mr. Jarvis's printing-office, and to the warehouses of Messrs. Dodsley, Longman, &c. in which were deposited an immense quantity of books, which were consumed. (See Gent. Mag. LVII. 634.)