considerable period Mr. Pearson had filled the situation of Tutor to the College (an office for which he was, in every respect, pre-eminently qualified,) in a manner equally creditable to himself, and advantageous to the Society; and in 1797 he was presented by his kind and esteemed Friend, Dr. Elliston, the Master, to the Rectory of Rempstone, Nottinghamshire. In the same year he married Susan, the daughter of Richard Johnson, Esq. of Henriettastreet, Covent Garden. In 1807 he was chosen by the Trustees to preach the Warburtonian Lectures at Lincoln's Inn, which he completed early in 1811. In 1808, on the death of Dr. Elliston, he was elected Master of Sidney Sussex College; on which occasion he received, by Royal Mandate, the degree of D. D.; and in the same year was appointed Vice-Chancellor. In 1810 he was elected by the University to the office of Christian Advocate. The arduous duties connected with these and various important appointments, had visibly affected his health, though no serious apprehensions were entertained for his safety but whilst taking his customary walk in the garden of his Parsonage, at Rempstone, he was suddenly attacked with an apoplectic seisure, from which he never recovered sufficiently to articulate; and expired, after a few days' illness, to the unspeakable anquish of his relatives and friends, and the deep regret of all who had the happiness to know him, on the 17th of August, 1811.

The literary character of Dr. Pearson is best collected from his writings*. These, it is evident, are not contentiously or ambitiously composed-for victory or fame; but bear, upon the surface of them, the impress of a calm, acute, discriminating mind, intent on the discharge of some particular duty. They offer no pretensions to eloquence, indeed, in the ordinary sense of that term; for the writer appears to

*A list of his numerous publications will be found in Gent. Mag. vol. LXXXI. ii. pp. 665, 198.

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have proceeded too much on the principle of regarding those whom he addressed, as beings, like himself, whose conduct, on all important occasions, would be determined solely by their judgment; and whose judgment could be influenced only, by a direct appeal to their reason: but as argumentative pieces, of this character, they possess particular claims to our attention: whatever be the subject treated, it is sure to be placed in some new and striking light; the utmost calmness and candour are combined with a serious and earnest endeavour to satisfy the mind, as well as to convince it; and the whole is conveyed in language utterly free from every taint of affectation, though singularly exact, precise, and apposite.

His writings were the pure emanations of the man: and that they exhibit merit of no common order, may be inferred from the remarkable circumstance, that the late Mr. Perceval, whilst high in office, was induced, from their perusal alone, to find out the author in his privacy; to solicit his friendship; and to cultivate a confidential intercourse with him, which terminated only with his life :-a connection as honourable to the Statesman, who sought a sincere and judicious adviser, in preference to a zealous partizan; as to the Churchman, who imparted his thoughts on ecclesiastical affairs most honestly and conscientiously, without the remotest view to any personal advantage.

In politics he rarely, if ever, took an active part. He appeared, in general, favourably disposed towards the measures of Government, partly from a serious sense of the Christian duty of submission; and partly from a presumption which he indulged, that those measures, under the correctives of our happy constitution, would, in most instances, be consonant to policy and justice: but he was no blind or bigoted adherent: he never scrupled to lament what he conceived to be the errors of those in power;

and he was always inclined to put the most liberal construction on the motives and characters of their opponents.

Dr. Pearson's piety was deep and fervent, but by no means of an austere or repulsive character: it mingled, on the contrary, in the kindliest manner with the whole texture of his thoughts and actions; and blending hope with resignation, shed a cheerful serenity and perpetual sunshine on his mind, through all the vicissitudes of life.

To the Established Church he was warmly attached, from a fixed persuasion, that it exhibited the most pure and perfect system of discipline and doctrines extant in the Christian world: but this attachment was accompanied with no feelings of bitterness or intolerance towards those, who, from deliberate scruples of conscience, found it impracticable to come within her pale. If any thing like resentment, on religious grounds, existed in his mind, it was confined to those who, he conceived, were labouring, and with but too much success, to subvert her character from within, by the revival of certain gloomy, harsh, and revolting doctrines, which she had either never explicitly avowed; or which, at any rate, improving with the improving spirit of the times, she had long since, by the general consent of all parties, virtually and substantially renounced.

As a Parish Priest, impressed, as he was, with an awful sense of the obligations of so important a charge, he seemed completely to realise the idea of a primitive pastor. Not content with the scrupulous performance of his prescribed duties as a minister, he instituted an evening lecture, in addition to double service, upon Sundays; attended, for a length of time, each Week-day in the church, for the purpose of reading portions of the Liturgy and expounding passages of Scripture; rigorously presided over the moral and religious instruction of the children; and,

above all, cultivated that personal acquaintance with his flock, which enabled him, in the most effectual manner, to administer, as occasion required, his admonitions, advice, or consolation.

But perhaps the scene in which this incomparable man appeared most engaging, was one, which sometimes proves a severe trial, even to sterling worth and is ever a sure exposer of empty pretensions-the quiet intercourse of domestic society. As a friend and companion, he was truly delightful: the more you saw of him, the more you wished to see; and the more reluctantly you parted. Though never shunning serious discussion when it arose, and admirably qualified to take the lead in such conversation, he never courted it; but seemed rather to luxuriate in an easy pleasantry and playful humour, peculiarly his own-quite enchanting to such friends as knew the real value of the man, and captivating even to those who were little aware of the talents and attainments which this sportiveness concealed. In the inmost recesses of this kind being, but trained by constant discipline, and known only, in its sensibilities, to the most confidential of his friends, throbbed a heart exquisitely tender and susceptible.

May it be permitted to the Writer of this brief memorial of a dear departed friend, to add, personally, at the close, that, with little affinity either in political or religious sentiment to the Object of it, it is his pride and pleasure to reflect, that during the continuance of a long, intimate, and most confidential intercourse between them, there never occurred, to the best of his remembrance, a single jar; and that in his walk through life-a busy journey once, though now an evening stroll, and solitary, too-it has never been his good fortune to meet with any character which, on a deliberate review, he can pronounce so truly amiable, estimable, and exemplary, as that which he has here endeavoured, however imperfectly, to commemorate.

Ipswich, January 14, 1819.

THE REV. HUGH MOISES, M. A.

Semper honoratuın, carum mihi semper habebo."

The following interesting Memoir *, by the Reverend John Brewster, M. A. Rector of Egglescliffe in the County Palatine of Durham, first printed in 1823 for private circulation, was appropriately inscribed to two of the Pupils of Mr. Moises, now of the highest eminence in their elevated situations.

* The Memoir is here inserted by Mr. Brewster's express permission; and the friendly manner in which the permission has been granted deserves to be recorded.

"DEAR SIR.

Egglescliffe Rectory, July 12, 1825. "Your approbation of my Memoir of the late Mr. Moises I set a value upon; and certainly can, not only have no objection to your adopting it in your Illustrations, but must think the better of it on that account. It suggested itself to me late in life (for I am a Septuagenarian), partly from similar memoirs in your writings, and partly from Dr. Zouch's life of his Schoolmaster, Clarke. The impression is private; and I have distributed copies of it only to my Friends, or such as were yet alive of Mr. Moises' Scholars. Amongst these, to two valuable men, who were my townsmen at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and whom I had known from early youth, Lords Stowell and Eldon. With the latter I had been a pupil at the same School, and under the same Master, though he is a few years older than myself. The Memoir produced to me two letters from them which were indeed highly gratifying from such men, after so long a series of years. If they were not too favourable to the Memoir, I should have had no objection to send you copies of them.

"With good wishes for annos multos et felices! I am, Sir, "Your very obedient servant,

"JOHN BREWster.'

Since the receipt of the preceding Letter, I have overcome Mr. Brewster's diffidence.- "At your request," he says, in a Letter dated August 2, "I send you copies of the two letters I mentioned. When you have read them, you will see my motive for hesitating, as the kindness of the expressions towards the Memoir, rendered me diffident in communicating them."

"SIR,'

Grafton Street, July 25, 1825. "I have duly received two copies of your interesting Memoir of our much-valued preceptor Mr. Moises. I beg you to accept my best thanks. The subject is one which never occurs to my