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The celebrated John Henderfon of Pembroke College, Oxford, was fent to the University, and fupported there at the Dean's expence, when he had no other means whatever of gratifying his ardent defire for study.

We fhall mention another inftance of generosity in this place, which reflects the greatest honour upon the Dean. About the year 1790, he entertained thoughts of refigning his rectory in Bristol, and without communicating his defign to any other perfon, applied to the Chancellor, in whofe gift it is, for leave to quit it in favour of his curate, a moft deferving man, with a large family.

His lordship was willing enough that he should give up the living, but refufed him the liberty of noIminating his fucceffor. On this the Dean refolveď to hold it himself, till he could find a fit opportunity to fucceed in his object. After weighing the matter more deliberately, he communicated his wifh to his parishioners, and advised them to draw up a petition to the Chancellor in favour of the curate. This was accordingly done, and figned by all of them, without any exception, either on the part of the Diffenters or

others.

The Chancellor yielded at laft to the application; in confequence of which the Dean cheerfully refigned in favour of a fucceffor well qualified to tread in his fteps. Since that period, he refided chiefly at Gloucefter, having married a widow lady, Mrs. Crowe of that city, until December 1799, when he

fed to be one of the living" Public Characters"

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of this country. Here follows a tolerably correct lift of the Dean's works :

THEOLOGICAL AND CONTROVERSIAL.

1. A Sermon, preached before the Governors of the Infirmary

of Bristol, 1745.

2. Letters in Behalf of the Naturalization of the Jews.

3. Apology for the Church of England, 1772.

4. Six Sermons, 12mo. 1773.

5. Letter to Dr. Kippis, on his Vindication of the Proteftant diffenting Minifters.

6. Two Sermons and Four Tracts.

7. View of the Difficulties of the Trinitarian, Arian, and Socinian Systems, and Seventeen Sermons, 1777.

POLITICAL AND COMMERCIAL.

8. A pamphlet on the Turkey Trade.

9. A brief View of the Advantages and Difadvantages which attend a Trade with France.

10. Reflections on the Expediency of naturalizing foreign Proteftants, and a Letter to a Friend on the fame Subject.

11. The Pleas and Arguments of the Mother Country and the Colonies ftated.

12. A Letter to Mr. Burke.

13. Quere, Whether a Connection with, or Separation from America, would be for national Advantage?

14. Answers to Objections againft the Separation from America.

15. A Treatife on Civil Government.

16. Cui Bono?

17. Four Letters on national Subjects.

18. Sequel to Sir William Jones on Government.

19. On the Dispute between Great Britain and Ireland.

20. Several Papers under the fignature of Caffandra, &c. on the difficulties attendant on an invafion.

21. Elements of Commerce, printed, but never published.

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MISCELLANEOUS.

22. Directions for Travellers.

23. Cautions against the Ufe of Spirituous Liquors. 24. A Tract against the barbarous Diverfions of Cock-fight-. ing, &c.

ADMIRAL LORD VISCOUNT DUNCAN.

WHATEVER may be thought of the origin of the prefent war, or the principles upon which it has been conducted; whatever humiliating ideas may, on fome grounds, prevail in the minds of Englishmen while they are reviewing the hiftory of this extraordinary and eventful conteft ;-there can ftill be but one opinion respecting the conduct of our naval commanders, in general: and every British heart must glow with rapture at the confideration, that the honour of the national flag, fo far from being tarnifhed in a fingle inftance, has received greater luftre than ever distinguished it at any former period.

Among the eminent names which the pen of the hiftorian will dwell upon with peculiar fatisfaction, when engaged in recording the naval events of the prefent times, that of Adam Lord Duncan will be proudly confpicuous.

This diftinguifhed veteran, born at Dundee, in Scotland, July 1ft, 1731, was the younger fon of a very ancient and reputable family, which has for a long feries of years held the lordship of Lundie in the thire of Perth. The family eftate, the rental of

which is about 500l. came to Lord Duncan about two years ago, in confequence of the death of his elder brother the Colonel.

The younger branches even of a refpectable family, are generally obliged to force their way in life by their own merits and exertions. Lord Duncan accordingly owed but little to his relations. He was very early sent to fea, a profeffion which cofts but a trifle in the outfet, and is generally attended with but fmall expence after the young adventurer is thus difpofed of. Much is not known of the admiral's early fervices; but we are warranted in conjecturing that they must have been meritorious, by his attaining the rank of poft captain, February 25th, 1761, at which time he was appointed to the command of the Valiant, by means of that excellent officer Lord Keppel, and was ever after honoured with the friendship of this gallant commander of the old fchool. During the last war, Captain Duncan had no opportunity of displaying his nautical talents, except when he commanded the Blenheim at the relief of Gibraltar. He was with his friend at the taking of the Havannah; and when Keppel was appointed to a flag, he chofe Duncan to be his Captain.

He was also a member of the court-martial which fat upon the trial of that distinguished veteran; and continued attached to him by the strongest ties of intimacy and friendship till his death.

On September 24th, 1787, he was made a rear-admiral; in 1793, he was promoted to the rank of viceadmiral; and in 1795, he became admiral of the blue Hitherto

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Hitherto he had moved on in his profeffion regularly, but with little notice, for it had not been his lot to get employed on any fervice likely to bring him forward to public view.

His appointment, at last, to that station, in which he has all at once obtained laurels equal to those which adorn the brows of men who have been more extenfively employed, seems to have been owing to his relationship to Mr. Secretary Dundas, whofe niece he married, and by whom he has feveral children.

This alliance procured for him an appointment he was admirably fitted for, that of the north sea station. Nor does it at all reflect upon his lordship, that his circumftances ftood in need of his being thus employed. With hardly any other fortune than his halfpay as an admiral, it was natural enough for him to be anxious to be engaged in active service, for the benefit of a wife and children whom he loved. The fcene of action which he chofe was an arduous one. The feverity of the winter season, in that latitude, must also have been very trying to a man of his time of life. Moreover, he had to encounter with difficulties ftill more troublesome and painful to a British officer: we allude to the mutinous spirit which prevailed in his fleet, in common with the other naval fquadrons in the Channel.

In the midst of all these unpleasant circumftances he manifested a cool and fteady mind. He kept his station with such persevering ardour, in the most boisterous season of the year, that the enemy could not, by any means, effect their defign of escaping

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