ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS, VOLUME I. P. vii. It has been obferved to me, from the Bishop's Letters to Pope, vol. I. pp. 79. 81. that " he was too infirm 66 to engage in fuch a plot as was afcribed to him. And let "any one judge," fays my correfpondent, "if the writer of the 39th letter, p. 61, could poffibly have been fo engaged." P. 1. Mr. William Whitfield, one of Atterbury's corre fpondents, was a ftudent of Chrift Church, where he took the degree of M. A. June 3, 1684, He was Chaplain in ordinary to King William III, in 1697, when he preached two Vifitation Sermons at Guildford (first printed in 4to, 1698); and was afterwards Rector of St. Martin's, Ludgate; a Prebendary of Canterbury (inftalled Feb. 4, 1708); a Proctor in Convocation for that chapter; and, in 1714, became Vi car of St. Giles's, Cripplegate. Seven fingle Sermons, preached by him on public occafions, are in print; amongst which is one preached before Bishop Trelawny, at his primary vifitation at Guildford, July 5, 1708, "in answer to "fome points treated of in "The Rights of the Christian "Church." "This Sermon," as the author tells Bishop Trelawny in a dedication, "was ccmposed before any an fwer was published to the Rights, and humbly begs to be admitted amongst others preached on that occasion 66 upon the fame fubject, as a testimony of the common concern of your Clergy for the interefts of the Chriftian "Religion and our Established Church; and of the reliance "they have on your Lordship for their defence against the infolences of a late adverfary to the Christian Priesthood "and Holy Sacraments. This is indeed a caufe wherein, I truly believe, there is an unanimous concurrence of the "whole body of our Church. For, befides the unanswerable "treatifes it has produced, there have been many excellent "Difcourfes from the pulpit in our vindication, preached "every where before our Right Reverend Bifhops, or their "Arch-deacons, at their vifitations, with their approba"tion, and to the good liking of their Clergy. I with more of them had been under the fame commands your Lordfhip hath been pleafed to lay upon the unworthieft, to be "published: for then perhaps not one erroneous principle 1 or or wrefted citation in that book (being taken to pieces by fo many hands), would have escaped examination and a just cenfure. But I need not move your Lordship's refentment in a caufe wherein you have been a confeffor, "whilft others fell from the faith. Your Lordship's firmnefs in that difficult time of trial is a ftanding proof of your abhorrence of thofe principles which then tempted fuch men to the betraying our Church and Reformation, and ftill urge them on to unchriftian revilings. Popery "under any shape or difguife, and Blafphemy barefaced, can never want your just indignation; nor your wonted zeal to protect them who engage against these adversaries. Amongst whom I fhall always defire the honour of subfcribing myfeif, my Lord, your Lordship's moft obedient and dutiful fon and fervant, W. WHITFIELD." P. 23. " J. G." was poffibly John Gregory, Prebendary of Nonnington in the cathedral of Hereford, one of the Proctors in Convocation for the Clergy of Gloucester, and Rector of Hampfted, near Gloucester, where he died and was buried in 1708. P. 44. Pope gave the Bifhop the Paris edition of Homer, of Turnebus, 1554, as appears by the following memorandum on a blank page of it, which I have been permitted to copy: "F. ROFFEN, HOMERI Iliadem Typis his nitidiffimis Græcè editam, Qui eandem Carmine Anglicano, quantum inftar in ipfo eft Haud fuerit quamquam, quem Tu fequereris, Homere, "you guess at my right mind,' &c." The fame gentleman obferves, on the note in p. 125, that "the Government had no reafon or grounds for fufpecting;" and on the note in p. 131, "Can it poffibly be thought he disbelieved "the principles of the Church he fo ftrongly fupported? See "the Letter of Mr. Evans on Mr. Morice's death, and the Bifhop's Wili." On the note in p. 132, he adds, "the "name might eafily have been contrived by those who wrote "the letter." And fee the Letter to Lord Inverness, in this volume, p. ix. P. 147. When Bishop Atterbury landed at Calais, having been informed that Lord Bolingbroke, who after the rifing of the Parliament had received the King's pardon, was arrived at the fame place on his return to England, he said, with an air of pleasantry, "Then I am exchanged!" And it was, in the opinion of Pope on the fame fubject, “a fign "of the nation's being curfedly afraid of being over-run "with too much politenefs, when it could not regain one great man but at the expence of another." It would require a nice judgement to determine, whether the nation, in a political view, was benefited by this exchange; but, if the question be confidered in a literary or religious view, the balance was, by the return of the noble Lord, greatly against us. The Prelate was little inferior to the Peer with refpect to abilities, and certainly fuperior to him in learning; and, except when he deviated into fubjects foreign to his profeffion, he rarely converted his natural and acquired knowledge to an improper ufe, and very frequently employed his masterly pen in vindicating the doctrines, and enforcing the practice, of the duties of Christianity. P. 167. "Confidering how we are to be employed to"morrow morning." This alludes to the mode in which the Bishop ufually spent his Sunday mornings, in the performance of ecclefiaftical duty in his family, when he usually administered the facrament. P. 180. Dr. Goldfmith (History of England, p. 245.) obferves, that a noble Lord [Bathurst] who patronised the cause of Atterbury, turning to the epifcopal bench, faid, "he could "hardly account for the inveterate hatred and malice which "fome perfons bore to the ingenious Bishop of Rochester, "unless it was, that, infatuated like the wild Americans, "they fondly hoped to inherit not only the fpoils, but " even the abilities, of the man they should destroy." See vol. II. p. 84. P. 1859 66 66 P. 185, l. 12, &c. Fabricius, among the libri deperditi of Varro, mentions "De Republicâ libri, quorum vigefimum Novius allegat ;" and perhaps the paffage preferved in Novius may be that which the Frenchman cites. P. 195, 1. 2." Thofe leaves in his Gofpel." See Keysler's Travels, III. 26. last sentence of the note. 66 P. 242. l. 13. r. "to Toulouse. Mrs. Morice herfelf was very preffing to be going, wishing to be at Toulouse, &c." P. 251. The "brother" of Mr. Evans was, I believe, one of the Prebendaries of Westminster (fee p. 352). There is a ftons under the Cloysters of Westminster-Abbey to the memory. of John Evans, Efq; who died April 10, 1727, aged 70;" their father probably. On this narration of Mr. Evans an ingenious periodical writer remarks, "As fcenes of diftrefs "difplay the highest and most affecting degrees of virtue; "fo the exile of the Bishop of Rochefter gave occafion to a "noble and very interefting exercife of parental tenderness "on the one part, and of filial duty and affection on the "other. What inoftly embittered the banishment of the "Bifhop, was regret at leaving behind him his daughter, "Mrs. Morice, in an infirm ftate of health. A mutual "longing to fee one another took faft hold of the father and "daughter; and the lady, though very ill, performed with great difficulty and pain a journey and voyage from Westminfter to Bordeaux and Touloufe, where Dr. Atterbury "refided. Mr. J. Evans, a gentleman who accompanied Mr. and Mrs. Morice on their voyage from Dover to Bourdeaux, and from thence to Touloufe, gives an exact diary of this journey and voyage, which is truly interefting. The fame gentleman, who was prefent at Mrs. Mo"rice's death, gives a very pathetick narrative of that event, "with the circumftances that accompanied it. The fictions "of the Tragic Mufe have not exhibited a more affecting fcene; and, fo forcible are the impreffions of truth and nature, that a plain gentleman, with a good heart, un"known to the world, and unambitious of literary fame, defcribes the latter end of that amiable lady in a manner "that could not have been furpafled by the finest writer. "Such is the power of fimplicity and nature, and fuch the "connection between tafte and virtue! It is in an affecting defcription of human life and manners, and, above all, in 61 The author of "The English Review." "dif. * displaying amiable and heroic virtue, that literature is "most happily employed. It is thus that it softens and • humanises the mind, and difpofes it to univerfal fympathy. Emollit mores, nec finit effe feros." P. 283. Dr. Birch, in this point an unexceptionable evidence, declares, in his "Life of Hampden," p. 78, that he faw the paffage concerning Cinna applied to Mr. Hampden in Lord Clarendon's own MS." P. 302. Extract from the Daily Poft Boy, N° 6868, Tuefday, Feb. 29, 1731-2.- Feb. 22. On Tuesday laft died at Paris, the Right Reverend Dr. Francis Atterbury, late' "Bishop of Rochester, aged near 70 years: a man univerfally esteemed for his great parts, learning, judgement, " and eloquence; and for his eafy, polite, entertaining, and inftructive converfation. He has left his fon-in-law. "William Morice, Efq; executor, who fets out for France * this morning to take care of his interment, which (ws hear) will be in Westminster-Abbey." Infcription on the Bishop's coffin: Nat. 6 Martii, 1662. P. 379. Francis was Proctor of the Univerfity of Oxford in the year 1768. P. 2. The two Roger Althams mentioned in the note were the fame man; who was disqualified on account of the oaths in 1697; and restored to his stall March 12, 1702. He was the Moral Philofophy Lecturer at Oxford, 16931697; and Hebrew Profeffor from 1702 till his death, which happened Aug. 15, 1714, aged about 66. He was buried in the cathedral of Christ-Church. Ibid. note. "De Divinatione." The remainder of the fentence fhews clearly that the writer alludes to the celebrated piece "De Naturâ Deorum," and the following letter puts it out of all doubt. MONTHLY Review. P. 3. Two diftinct works of Dr. Henry More are here confounded. For this correction I am indebted to the friend. ship |