PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY ABRAHAM SMALL, ............ ANECDOTES OF THE LIFE OF RICHARD WATSON, BISHOP OF LANDAFF. IT has been a custom with me, from a very early age, to put down in writing the most important events of my life, with an account of the motives which, on any occasion of moment, influenced my conduct. This habit has been both pleasant and useful to me; I have had great pleasure in preserving, as it were, my identity, by reviewing the circumstances which, under the good Providence of God, have contributed to place me in my present situation; and a frequent examination of my principles of action has contributed to establish in me a consistency of conduct, and to confirm me, I trust, in that probity of manners in my seventy-fifth year with which I entered into the world at the age of seventeen. My health has been for several years precarious; and the faculty have long ago left my constitution to struggle with a disorder which first seized me in 1781. The body and mind, I begin to perceive, are both of them losing their activity; the evil days are coming on in which men usually say, there is no pleasure in them; may I not be allowed, then, without incurring the imputation of vanity, to live, in a manner, an happy life (for B |