moreland; that he practised as a physician there with considerable success, and, on his establishment in London, was visited by all who were distinguished for learning, and curious in the fine arts. Dr. MEAD supported him with a sort of paternal zeal; nor did he find in his protegé an ungrateful son*. Few minds were probably more congenial than were those of Mead and Askew : the former had, if I may so speak, a magnificence of sentiment which instilled into the latter just notions of a character aiming at intellectual fame. Dr. Askew, with less pecuniary means of gratifying it, evinced an equal ardour in the pursuit of books, MSS. and inscriptions. I have heard from a very worthy old gentleman, who used to revel 'midst the luxury of Dr. Askew's table, that few men exhibited their books and pictures, or, as it is called, shewed the Lions, better than did the Doctor. Of his attainments in Greek and Roman literature it becomes not me to speak, * See The Director, vol. i. p. 309. when such a scholar as Dr. PARR has been most eloquent in their praise. I SHOULD add that the MSS. of Dr. Askew were separately sold in 1781, and produced a very considerable sum. The Appendix to Scapula, published in an Svo. volume, in 1789, was compiled from one of these MSS. Published by LONGMAN, HURST, REES, and ORME, Paternoster Row; J. HATCHARD, Bookseller to Her Majesty, 190, Piccadilly; and WILLIAM MILLER, Albemarle Street. Printed by William Savage, Bedford Bury. THE DIRECTOR. No. 22. SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 1807. One great amusement of our household was, THOMSON'S Castle of Indolence, Stanz. xlix. It was in one of those beautiful evenings of autumn, when the stillness of the surrounding scene, and the varied hues of the distant landscape, excite an indescribable pleasure in the contemplative mind, that I retired to an alcove, situated on an eminence at the extremity of my garden. In my way thither, a thousand amusing objects pre |