a diamond pin, for recovery of which she paid twelve guineas. I followed the Chancellor's train, after several repulses, and got a place pretty near the Orator. The Vice-Chancellor opened the ceremony with a short compliment in English to the Chancellor, presenting his Patent of Installation, which was then read by the senior Proctor; and followed by another English compliment from the Vice-Chancellor. Then the Orator made his harangue, which I do not pretend to have heard except his concluding reflection on the factious spirit of the times. The Chancellor replied in an extempore English speech, in which he observed, that though he had not the vanity to expect he should have been chosen to that office, his experience of the University's attachment to his Sovereign, gave him hopes that their choice would fall on one of his Majesty's servants; and that he did not doubt but the best supporters of the Constitution would be found in the two Universities. The Speech he had prepared was not used. Indeed he confessed he never was so fluttered. He was seated in the chair exactly at twelve; and after the Orator's Speech, followed the Ode, well set and performed, but charged with obscurity. This was over by one; and the company departed in better order than they entered. Next followed the dinner, in Trinity College Hall, where were seven turtles and a number of haunches, with plenty of Claret, Champagne, and Burgundy. There were five tables in the hall; one in the lodge, and a fifth for the invalids, among whom the Bishop of Lincoln bears the pre-eminence. Though it was given out that none but Gremials should dine with the Chancellor, several strangers got in, and no one's tickets were called for. I was not one of the guests, nor did I assist at the Speeches delivered in Trinity Chapel, at seven that evening, by Lord Richard Cavendish, Mr. Proby, and Mr. Montague, on the question, whether the Conqueror came in by conquest or the consent of the people t. Lord R. C. took the first side, and, in the character of an old Baron, made a long detail of the grievances of that reign, which some have endeavoured to parallel with modern ones. Acis and Galatea' at the Senate house, that evening, was as much crowded as the morning business. On Sunday Drs. Cowper and Proby preached; the latter a most longwinded sermon, the former better proportioned, but neither happy in their subjects. The Chancellor was received in the morning by part of the Messiah and the overture to the occasional Oratorio, and in the afternoon by an Hallelujah of Dr. Howard's, whose Anthem was also performed to a crowded audience. The Duke's expences are laid at about £2000; and the University's, for repairs of the theatre windows, at €30, not including those of St. Mary's. On Monday, fourteen Noblemen, &c. were admitted to Doctors' degrees: Granby, Sandwich, Weymouth, Burghersh, North, Henley, Pigot, Sidney,

Dr. John Green.

This subject was revived in the Gent. Mag. vol. XCV. ii. p. 163. 222. 517.588; XCVI. i. p. 132.

Ward, Sir Alexander Gilmour, Sir George Osborne, Hon. Henry Herbert, and others *. Mr. Grimston, Damer, and a third, A. M. Dr. Andrews, Provost of Dublin College, ad eundem. There were speeches by Mr. Montague and Damer, and verses by Cowper and Doughty, of Trinity Hall, and Grimston of Christi. The Chancellor went off from the Senate house in his robes at one, across the country to Woburn. His person and address unpleasing and reserved. Three crowded levees.

"This morning I assisted at the consecration of your elegant chapel. At eleven the Bishop of London † entered at the head of the Master and Fellows, repeating the form in Burn's Ecclesiastical Law. When the Consecration Prayer, the Bishop of Ely's t Commission, and the whole service of the day, epistle and gospel by the Chaplain, were ended, Dr. Goddard preached about half an hour from Matthew 21, 13. on the duty of maintaining and keeping clean such buildings; after which the company was dismissed, and there was a communion for the society, to be followed by a dinner, at three o'clock, for ninety persons, Heads, Professors, &c. "Yours truly, R. GOUGH."

20. "DEAR FORSTER,

Enfield, July 3, 1770.

"Sexton is misused in the county of liberty §, and under the dominion of Sir George Savile, that champion of liberty. If we sit at our ease in no other part of England, one should have certain hope of doing so in the North. The second phenomenon after this, is Benjamin Forster teaching Greek with or without him. I should as soon have thought you would have taken the tutorship at Corpus Christi College, as to break people's teeth with paradigms of verbs. But wonders are not ceased, and we have another comet as unexpected as the last.

"I am afraid to come to Wakefield, least I should interrupt you in the sweet converse you hold with the Wits and Genii of the age, to whom a simple Topographer would be a very unmeet associate. I am as much afraid to come North, because something whispers in my ear that I must not be within thirty miles of the afternoon man of Wakefield without asking him how he does. I have some faint notion of making a West or North-west tour; and if Yorkshire comes within it, I shall have the pleasure of seeing your face once more before I die.

"I am ready to do Dr. P. any service in my power, and the more so as he is returned to the tract he is most qualified for. He is too furious to undertake the cause of liberty. Zeal without knowledge is literally his character in his late squibs. His warmth of temper outruns his acquaintance with the world. I do not know what you think of my political principles, but I grow a cool old man, and withdraw myself as much from the debates of party, as from the fools and knaves that foment them. I wish you would send me a comment on Solon's maxim, that a man is indispensably obliged to be of one party or the other. See Gent. Mag. vol. XXXIX. p. 362. + Dr. Richard Terrick. Dr. Matthias Mawson, § Yorkshire.

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Perhaps I have not self-interest enough to take either. am sure my love of ease is a powerful restraint on my acting, and it may be on my understanding, this piece of worldly wisdom. Yours truly, R. GOUGH."

22. "DEAR FORSTER,

August 3, 1770.

"I have had the pleasure of conversing with a genuine native of China *. You may have heard of one Mr. Chitqua, an artist, whose figures or busts moulded.in clay, have been exhibited at Pall Mall. He came over with Captain Jameson, last year, from Canton, some say on a motive of curiosity, others to avoid his creditors. He lodges at a hatter's, the corner of Norfolk-street, and has been long enough among us to have done with an interpreter, though his English is broken, and his speech thick. He is a middle-sized man, about or above forty, thin and lank; his complexion different from any Eastern I ever saw, with more yellow in it than the Negroes or Moors; his upper lips covered with thin hair an inch long, and very strong and black; on his head no hair except the long lock braided into a tail almost a yard long; his lips prominent, nose long, eyes not very lively, nails as long as one sees those of our sedentary mechanics. He wears the dress of his own country, a pointed stiff cap, with a border turned up of quilted silk, an under vest like a banian of green silk, with a lining; his upper vest a kind of mantelet; his drawers the same as his under vest; and his slippers yellow. He complained much of cold, but had no fire; and preferred the country to London only for quietness from noise, for he meets with no insults in the streets. He likes his own climate best, and returns with the next shipping. His price for a bust on a pedestal ten guineas; and for a whole figure but five more. He told me he could get no earth here for his work, whence I conclude he brought over a cargo. It was impossible to hold a regular conversation with him; but when I asked him if he had seen the King, he said yes, and the King's Mother too. He said the Emperor of China had no name, and that there were no distinction of titles among their nobility as among us.

"I always understood it was a capital offence to quit the country; but am since told it may be compounded for £10. This man is so well known by our people who have been at Canton, where he keeps a shop for making figures, that there is not the least room to suspect this statement.

"Yours truly,

R. GOUGH." * At that time a very uncommon occurrence. There was in 1795 published a fine folio mezzotinto plate, by T. Burford, representing a wholelength portrait, painted by D. Serres, of "Loum Kiqua, the Chinese, came to Lisbon in 1755, was there at the time of the Earthquake, and providentially escaped with life; after many hardships and ill treatments from the Portuguese, he came over to England in 1756, where he met with different usage, having had the honour to be seen by his Majesty and the rest of the Royal Family, most of the Nobility, &e. by whom he was much caressed. Having made application to the bon. the East India Company, for his passage home, he was kindly received and generously accommodated on board one of their ships, to carry him to Canton, his native Country."

**The following extract from the Gentleman's Magazine for 1771, p. 237, well illustrates the preceding letter:

"Mr. Chitqua, the ingenious Chinese artist, whose models after the life have been so justly admired, has been disappointed of a passage this year, to his native country, by a train of unfortunate circumstances. Having embarked on board the Grenville EastIndiaman at Gravesend, he discovered that the common sailors were unaccountably prejudiced against him; owing, probably, to his strange dress and appearance. Add to this, he had one day the misfortune accidentally to fall overboard, and being saved from drowning by being buoyed up by his loose habit, after floating with the tide near half a mile, he was taken up half dead. This, with the superstitious fears of the mariners, like those of Tarshish, and their brutish imprecations against the Chinese dog, whom they deemed a madman, so alarmed him, that he begged the carpenter to make him a coffin, and carry his corpse ashore, as it was not lawful in his country to be buried in the water. At length, the captain, who with the other officers, treated him with proper humanity, seeing his distress, offered to set him on shore at Deal with the pilot, who might accompany him to London. This offer Mr. Chitqua thankfully embraced, and to London he came in the machine. But when arrived there, another distress befell him; he could not recollect or express intelligibly where he lodged; and a mob gathering round the hackney coach, began to abuse and beat the pilot, for having, as they supposed, kidnapped a foreigner. Luckily, a gentleman passing by, happened to know him, and by his means, after the mob was dispersed, Mr. Chitqua was re-conveyed to his former lodgings in the Strand, where he must remain for another season, when it is hoped, for the honour of our seamen, he will not again be deemed a Jonah, but will meet with a more humane crew, to which his wearing the English dress (which he has been pursuaded to put on) may probably

"This gentleman came over to England in the Horsendon East Indiaman, Capt. Jameson, the beginning of August, 1769. He obtained leave of the Chinese government (which is very strict with regard to the emigration of its subjects) to go to Batavia; instead of which he took passage for Great Britain. Curiosity and respect for the British, induced him to visit this island. He is a middle-aged man, of a proper stature, his face and hands of a copperish colour; is elegantly cloathed in silk robes, after the fashion of his country; speaks the Lingua Franca, mixed with broken English; is very sensible, and a great observer. He is remarkably ingenious in forming small busts with a sort of China earth, many of which carry a striking likeness of the person they are designed to represent. He steals a likeness, and forms the busts from his memory."

22. Rev. B. FORSTER to Mr. GOUGH. "DEAR SIR, Sept. 28, 1770. Though I am pleased that we should for once be of a mind about the beauties of a country (as we are inost completely with respect to the glories of North Wales), yet I can hardly forgive your having been so near Wakefield, even as Chester is, without having stepped out of your way to call on an old friend. I, too, have seen the two Cathedrals you characterise so well. I have been in a cloud (though not fortunate enough to get above one) on the highest point of Snowdon, opposite Craig-eryrd, or the Eagle's nest. I have climbed also the easier ascent of CaderIdris, and, seated in Arthur's chair, in one of the most delicious of bright evenings, have been enchanted with the rocks and lakes near me, and have viewed from thence the wide world in its pride. To the West, the beautiful Bay between Merioneth and Carnarvonshire, skirted with Pwlhelly Hills, the most grotesque and romantic in their form of all hills; the Bay opening to the Irish Sea, and the sun pillowing his red chin in the distance. To the East, a vast extent of mountainous country, lying beneath me with an appearance singular beyond conception, like a field of hay in foot-cock ;-Snowdon at the distance of about thirty-eight miles to the North, Plinlimmon somewhat nearer the South boundary. By its form I knew Snowdon, though my guide (who understood not a word of English) on my pointing to it, and saying 'Snowdon,' replied, Nachi, Nachi, Pen-y-wydafwr. The Dash of Pistyk Rhaiadr I did not see; but Clyn Phaiedr Dee, near Tan-y-bwlch, though not so considerable a fall, might perhaps make me amends by the variety of its course, and the rich wood about it. Can any thing exceed the rich, the rocky, the well-wooded edge of Merioneth and Carnarvon? with torrents dashing all around in various directions, gentle knowls covered with wood, and wild mountains finishing the scene? The stage from Dolgelly to Llanrwst, by the vast and strange rock of Bwlch-carag-o'grawn, how desolately wild, till you get to the beautiful valley, and the confluence of the Conway with another stream, a few miles from harp-framing Llanrwst ! But to talk of the enchantments of North Wales, whole weeks would not suffice.

'I was prevented being at York Races by staying longer than I had designed in Northamptonshire, on account of the illness of Mr. Stephenson: he is now travelling for the establishment of his health; and will think himself much obliged to you for every hour of your company which you can spare him while he stays at Enfield. I intended being at York the week after next, and, if I had been so, I would have enquired about the Temple of Serapis; but il Vecchio Cornubiense has taken his flight for Elysium; in consequence I set off for Boconnock in a week. You shall hear from me from thence, if wind and tide favour. In the mean time