have been indebted to the kindness of Dr. Chapman, the president of the college. He is indeed a King's preacher at Whitehall; but it was impossible to overlook him in such an appointment.

Pudet hæc opprobria dici,

Et non potuisse refelli.

The ablest scholars and the most exemplary divines are not always the best rewarded; for such in general are more studious to deserve than secure patronage. An ingenious and elegant mind shrinks from the meanness of importunate solicitation, while the ignorant and presuming, destitute of those finer feelings which ennoble mankind, bear away the prize which should be conferred on worth and learning alone. Every person's own observation verifies this remark; and it is with pain we have farther to observe, as it tends to the discredit of our race, that superior talents and acquirements, instead of procuring to their possessors the homage of respect, frequently provoke envy and opposition, particularly in those who despair in reaching the heights of excellence themselves. Perhaps Mr. Kett has conferred more honour on the university than any individual member now resident there: his name is familiar to every scholar; and few learned men of any nation visit Oxford without obtaining an introduction to him; yet we do not believe that he has ever received any public compliment from his alma mater, except in being appointed Bampton lecturer, as already mentioned, and one of the examining masters for degrees, both situations of respectability indeed, but of little emolument.

Some years ago Mr. Kett published a small collection
fects of that great event upon the manners of the
people; and he has at different times during the long
vacations explored the beauties of his native island,
and is not unacquainted with its genius and interests.
of poems; and that he does not woo the Muses in
vain, we presume may be proved from his verses re-

cited at the last anniversary of the Literary Fund, in
which the harmony of the friends of the institution,
and the praises of his own university are thus intro-

Where patient Wallis rais'd his glass on high,
T'explore the wonders of the starry sky:

Where Locke escap'd the schoolmen's strict controul,
Illum'd the dark recesses of the soul:

Where Warton, hid in Pope's yew-mantled grove,
His flowery garlands of gay Fancy wove,
Sacred to Isis and to Chatham's praise;
Or, emulous of Pindar's glowing lays,

Struck with a rapid touch the Æolian string,

And hail'd with annual strains Britannia's DARLING KING.

Oxford with joy enrolls a Seymour's name,

There gallant Moira learn'd the road to Fame:

Mira! fair Albion's and fair Erin's pride,

Whose sword protects us, and whose counsels guide;
Deep felt within whose hospitable breast
That best delight-to succour the distress'd.
Witness, O Donington, thy splendid seat!
Of Gallic exiles the belov'd.retreat,
Where social glee their sense of pain beguiles,
And tears of sorrow lose themselves in smiles.
But not to mansions where the Noble dwell,
The haunts of Commerce, or the Scholar's cell,
Is Charity confin'd; her ample sway
Shines universal as the orb of day.
Ev'n on the distant India's burning coast
No tear of British sympathy is lost;
To letter'd merit pining in the shade
The generous patrons waft their ready aid,
With us with great Augusta's sons they join
To lay their offerings at fair Learning's shrine;
Tho' various streams swell Bounty's rising tides,
One zeal inflames us, and one motive guides.

Thus when proud Gallia's Despot threats to pour
His plundering legions on Britannia's shore;

Sir Thomas Pope was the founder of Trinity College, Ox

ford.

Assembled

Assembled Patriots rally round the throne,
Assert their Monarch's rights, and guard their own :
At Glory's call they leave their native home,
And only fear their foes will never come:

From Orkney's isles to Cornwall's rocky coast,

ONE HEART, ONE SOUL, INSPIRES THE MARTIAL HOST.

M. R.

EARL CAMDEN.

THE family of Pratt was seated originally in Devonshire, and one of its branches appears to have been in possession of Careswell-priory, near Columpton, in that county, about the middle of Elizabeth's reign.* The first purchase in Kent consisted of the manor and seat of Wilderness, formerly called Stidulfe's-place. It was bought by Serjeant, afterwards Sir John Pratt, in the reign of Anne, an act of parliament having been procured expressly for that purpose. This gentleman, who attained considerable eminence in the law, was accustomed to reside there during the long vacation. In 1714 he was appointed a puisne judge of the king'sbench, and after that a commissioner of the great seal. Nor did his preferment end here, for he was nominated chief justice 5th of George I. and died at an advanced age, leaving a numerous issue behind him.

A younger son Charles, by his second wife, followed the profession of his father, and rose, with the general approbation of all men, to its highest honours. He distinguished himself, while presiding in the court

*Hasted's Kent.

of

of common pleas, by the integrity of his character, while his upright conduct in the case of Mr. Wilkes obtained for him not only an extraordinary degree of popularity, but rivetted the friendship of the greatest statesman of the age, and instead of impeding, led to his own immediate advancement. Accordingly, when Mr. Pitt, afterwards Earl of Chatham, was restored to power, this great lawyer was nominated lord chancellor, and in the court of chancery, as well as in the house of peers, continued to reflect new lustre on his abilities, by the justice of his decisions and the integrity of his conduct.

As a reward for his eminent services, he first receiv-1 ed the patent of Lord Camden, Baron of Camden-' place, in Kent, and on May 13, 1786, was created an earl of Great Britain, by the style and title of Earl Camden, Viscount Bayham, in Sussex. When he had resigned the seals, in 1770, he retired to the seat formerly purchased by him, and this nobleman, who had spent the carly portion of his life in the practice of the law, and the middle portion of it in the affairs of state, for the space of twenty-four years chiefly. occupied his leisure hours in improving his grounds, and gratifying his taste for ornamental scenery.*

* The house inhabited by his lordship stands on the west side of Chisselhurst-common, and is called Camden-place. It was here" that the learned Camden, one of our ablest antiquaries and most diligent historians, resided. After having acted in the two very dif ferent capacities of Clarencieux king at arms and chief master of Westminster school, he retired to this seat in 1609, and died here November 9, 1623, in the seventy-third year of his age.

The body having been removed thence to his house in London,

Was