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bordering on our shores. I do not find that any naturalist has ever discovered the cause for their deserting our fields, for I remember them equally as plentiful here as they are now across the water. was somewhat singular that my brother and I should mutually delight in following the same diversions, when there was so great a disparity in our ages and professions, that of a soldier and parish priest, and my brother was eighteen years older than me.

He was a Gentleman Commoner of Oriel-college, Oxford, at the time when I was born, under the tuition of Dr. Bentham, who sent him home, after three years residence, a complete scholar in classical learning, and well versed in natural philosophy, in so much that he outshone his contemporaries of the same rank and standing. He spent his younger days in general at home with his parents, but joined his associates in London for a month or two every year, and also visited France, Scotland, and Ireland. In the latter country he had a very intimate friend, Lord Kenmare, at whose hospitable mansion he spent some months at different times, near the Lake of Killarney in the county of Kerry, where my brother was indulged in his propensities for field sports, both shooting and fishing, in the highest perfection. After our father's death, my brother, as I have before mentioned, lived at Chettle in a very hospitable manner, respected and beloved, and was an acting and very active magistrate for the county. He lost his life in the fifty-ninth year of his age. He was returning from a morning visit which he had made to the Honourable Everard Arundell, the father of the present Lord, when his horse, by treading on a loose stone, fell on his knees, and in his exertion to rise my brother received an internal bruise, (though he never quitted the saddle till he got home,) which put an end to his valuable life on the ninth day after the accident happened. On the death of my brother I quitted Lidlinch entirely, and removed my

household to Chettle, where I resided with my younger sister and two nieces very happily many years, acting as a Justice of the Peace and Pastor of two neighbouring parishes, amusing myself at intervals in agriculture and sports of the field, to which I have been perhaps too much addicted. At this time, could I have obtained the height of my ambition, I should rather have been master of his Majesty's fox-hounds or harriers than Archbishop of Canterbury, being competent for the one and very unfit for the other, for I hunted a pack of foxhounds for nearly twenty years with the greatest suc¬ cess; but during the whole time I never neglected my pastoral duties one moment to the best of my knowledge. My life has, therefore, been an active one; but took a wrong bias in the beginning, owing to the rural life that I was trained up in from infancy.

My younger sister, who resided with me, had been an invalid and infirm for many years, and was obliged to have recourse very frequently to the warm baths at the city of Bath. Her complaints were caused by unskilful inoculation for the smallpox when she was a very fine girl of fifteen years of age. It was long before that art was brought to perfection by the celebrated Mr. Daniel Sutton, who was my operator; and before the now fashionable substitute was discovered, politely nominated vaccination. But of this I know too much to dare say any thing more. My sister, notwithstanding her infirmities, lived to the advanced age of seventy

two.

Before her death, an occurrence happened which occasioned some little alteration in our domestic concerns. A boy about nine years old, the youngest son of a clergyman with a very large family of the name of Napier, one of the oldest families in the county of Dorset, residing near Chettle, brought me a letter from his father respecting some justice busi

ness of little consequence. The day was a very rainy one, and the boy was thoroughly wet and uncomfortable. I therefore introduced him to my sister and nieces, who took compassion on him and supplied him with dry habiliments as well as they could; and, as the weather continued wet, he stayed with us two days, during which time he so ingratiated himself that he was invited to repeat his visit, which he did not neglect doing; and, after a few had been paid, he was taken into the family, and took up his abode with us entirely. My nieces, who were competent to the task, instructed him in English grammar, writing, and arithmetic; and by the kind assistance of a clergyman, a worthy friend, he was enabled to make some proficiency in the Latin and Greek languages, without ever being at any regular school, so that I deemed him not unqualified for one of our Universities, and I entered him as a Pensioner at Emanuel-college, Cambridge, under the present worthy master, Dr. Cory, where he went through his college exercises with credit to himself and satisfaction of his College, and took the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and soon after was ordained both Deacon and Priest by the present Lord Bishop of Salisbury. He has now some preferment in the Church*, is happily married, and comfortably settled. Nearly about the time that Mr. Napier was entered at Cambridge, my younger niece was married to a worthy gentleman, with whom she is now living very happily. My elder niece and I accompanied Mr. Napier to College at his first admittance, and finding that Mr. Pemberton's house at Trumpington was to be let ready furnished, I took it for the term of three years, to be near our favourite companion, who had not, for seven years,

* The Rev. John Tregonwell Lewis Napier, B. A. 1806, was instituted to the Rectory of Chettle, on the presentation of Mr. Chafin, in 1810; but resigned, it is believed, in 1820.

ever before been absent. I let my house at Chettle to a good tenant, Mr. Radclyffe, and resided the three years at Trumpington; and I have reason to believe that my presence so near answered every end at which I aimed.

But these pleasing expectations were in some measure discomfited by a letter which I received, quite unexpectedly, from Dr. Pelham, who had lately been preferred to the Bishopric of Bristol, admonishing and accusing me of neglect of duty, in absenting myself from his diocese without leave; and desiring to know my reasons for so doing. In my answer to his Lordship's letter, I gave him a true account of my inducements for residing at Trumpington; but chiefly dwelt on that of superintending the education of a pupil at Cambridge, in whose welfare I was much interested; and, as he was intended for Holy Orders, I thought he required more of my attention than he would otherwise have done. But his Lordship would not admit of any of my idle excuses, as he was pleased to call them; and, as I held two Benefices, he insisted upon my residing on one of them. Several letters passed between us; and finding that epistolary correspondence would not avail, I determined to take a journey into Dorset, and to pay my duty to his Lordship at his primary visitation at Blandford. found a greater assemblage of clergy than I ever saw there before. After divine service had been performed, and the Bishop's excellent charge delivered, and all the regular forms gone through, his Lordship with about forty of his clergy sat down to a sumptuous dinner at the greyhound inn. When the dinner was removed, and the customary toasts of Church and King, &c. had passed merrily round, Mr. Archdeacon Hall, who sat on the right hand of his Lordship, rose from his seat, and walked down the room with all eyes upon him until he

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came to me, to inform me that the Bishop desired to speak to me. I found myself in a very awkward situation, as being about to do penance in public. I was ushered up the room by the good Archdeacon in great form, and was placed in his seat, and he took his station, standing behind his Lordship's chair whilst I received a severe lecture; to which all ears were open. His Lordship at first received me kindly; and said he was glad to see me so readily return to my duty. I replied that, "I deemed it my duty to attend his Lordship's visitation, and had taken a long journey to do it ;" he immediately rejoined, "And your parochial duty also." I assured his Lordship that, "I had taken particular care in respect to that matter; and had entrusted my cure, during my absence, to a relation and friend, who was much more competent than myself." "But you have two benefices," his Lordship said, " and I am informed good ones; and I shall insist that you reside on one of them. The excuses you make for not doing it, I cannot admit of; and that of overlooking the education of a young man at college is the most futile; for it is not so long that I left Cambridge myself but that I know how lax the discipline of that University now is, and that the young men do as they please, and that your residing two miles from the place can be no check to the young person you allude to; and I do insist on your returning to my diocese immediately."

I informed his Lordship that I had left his diocese before he became the diocesan, that I had taken a house at Trumpington on a lease for three years, that I had a family in it, and could not remove them until my lease expired without sustaining much damage and great inconvenience. "You are

resolved then," says his Lordship, "not to reside in my diocese?" "I am, my Lord, at this present