elegant mural monument has been erected, with a suitable Latin inscription.

Having scrupulously discharged these sacred duties, the Doctor sought for consolation and relief in his books, and in devising ornaments for his parish church. By a subscription among his former and present pupils, and a few friends, he had already contrived to embellish it with two fine chandeliers; and this year a new east window, and one on each side of the chancel were beautifully painted by Mr. Eggington. The subject of the largest of these is the crucifixion; and the manner in which it is executed excites great expectation, from the future improvements of that artist, in every beholder. Still some literary exertions were necessary to rouse his mind, and, fortunately for him, he had been engaged before this event in a laborious piece of criticism, which being not yet finished, he was called upon to complete.

Early in 1793 the British Critic, a new Review, had been offered to the public, and had met with a favourable reception. From his acquaintance with the conductor of that work, he had been induced to lend it his assistance; and, accordingly, in the beginning of this year, he entered upon an examination of Dr. Combe's Variorum Edition of Horace, which had recently Issued from the press. That work certainly derived no credit from the remarks of the reviewer which were carried on through five numbers

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and distinguished by acuteness of penetration, solidity of judgment, and depth of erudition. The Editor was highly incensed at the critic, and, contrary to whatever we recollect to have been done before in similar case, any called upon him by name, to retract his own assertions, and refute his own observations. Baffled in that attempt, Dr. Combe at length published a small pamphlet intituled "A Statement of Facts relative to the Behaviour of Dr. Parr, to the late Mr. H. Homer and Dr. Combe." In that statement Dr. Parr was vehemently accused of breach of promise, violation of friendship, and even of want of veracity. How well and how successfully he defended himself against those charges will not soon be forgotten.

Dr. Parr, in his reply to the Editor, has given the whole history of the connection with Mr. Homer, from its commencement to the death of the latter. Most interesting and satisfactory is that account, and we believe the doctor's affection for his friend to have been most sincere, and the grief he felt at his death most poignant. Whether the Variorum Horace was first projected by Dr. Combe, or not, and whether Dr. Parr engaged to take any considerable share in it, or not, it is certain that Mr. Homer was to have been the principal conductor of that arduous undertaking, and probable, that the editor might be indebted to him for the merit which belongs to the execution.

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To do justice to such a character as that of Dr. Samuel Parr--to mark the extent of his erudition, to describe the powers of his eloquence, to show the vast magnitude of his genius, but, above all, to praise his virtues as they deserve, is a task that we reluctantly resign to some future biographer. In what we have written it has been our aim

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Nought to extenuate,

"Nor set down aught in malice."

But we must be permitted to affirm, that as a divine, he is sedulous and beneficent: That his politics are not the offspring, and have never been the tools, of party: That he is a warm friend, a tender parent, and a kind neighbour. As a preceptor, the treatment of his pupils has been paternal, and an affection truly filial has often been manifested by most of them towards him.

Dr. Parr has very lately declined taking any more pupils. His friends are numerous, and their conversation and correspondence, have been his principal solace and relief through many years of unremitting toil. It has been his custom, in various parts of the kingdom, to spend his holydays among them.

It has been, in such a degree, the doctor's pride to improve and embellish his church, that the decorations may by some be deemed too gorgeous. All the windows, except two, which belong

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to the singing gallery, are now painted; and the pulpit-cloth and the other furniture, are sumptuous and magnificent.

His library, which he himself built, on his com ing to reside at Hatton, is a large well proportioned room. But, no longer capable of holding all his books, which, we have heard, he has since been obliged to distribute among other apartments. So voracious, indeed, and insatiable is his helluosity, that we doubt whether, if his books continue to accumulate as they have hitherto done, the whole house may be ample enough to contain them. For scarcity of edition, taste in selection, and wide range of literature, a more valuable collection has, probably, never been made by any single scholar, who was not a man of high rank, or splendid fortune.

About the year 1771, the doctor married Miss Maisendale, by whom he has had several children. Two only are now living. The eldest was married, not long since, to the eldest son of Col. Wynne. The other is unmarried.

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DOCTOR CHARLES HUTTON.

THIS extraordinary person, F. R. S. and member of several learned academies in Europe and America, is the present Professor of Mathematics to the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich; having adorned that chair for upwards of twentysix years, and greatly contributed, by his industry and judgement, to raise the course of education at that seminary to the most distinguished pitch of credit and usefulness.

That great talents, and the highest respectability of character and manners in life, do often emerge, by the force and energy of individual powers, from low and obscure origin, are facts, which, perhaps, have at no time been better illustrated than in the instance of this gentleman, whose distinguished abilities and application have raised him to the most respectable eminence in life and literature.

Dr. Hutton is a native of the town of Newcastleupon-Tyne, in Northumberland, where he was born about the year 1737, of parents, who, though among the lower ranks in life, were always at the top, and among the most respectable, of their station; a circumstance which Dr. H. himself has also at all times preserved through the various conditions and situations which he has filled in life.

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