dress to the Lower Classes of his Parishioners, on the Subject of Methodism, from the Minister of their Parish, by the Author of a Letter to a Country Gentleman on the same subject. 1806," 8vo; "Å Plain Discourse on the Subject of National Education, written and intended chiefly for the information of the Lower Classes of his own Parishioners. 1812," 12mo; "Parallel between the Characters and Conduct of Oliver Cromwell and Bonaparte, addressed to the French Nation, at this inviting and momentous crisis, by a British Officer." 8vo.

In the "Six Satyrs of Horace," p. 3, Mr. Clubbe draws the following humourous character of himself: Amongst the gaping crowd, should one desire

To know your AUTHOR, or his NAME enquire,
Say, in few words, his Father was a Priest,
And of the Reverend Order not the least.
A Bishop? no; a Canon? not so high,
A Country Parson on a Rectory;

A Country Parson? but his children's pride,
That in his virtues he was dignified.
With income for his notions much too small,
His Son makes out to live, and that is all;
Inclin'd to soar, he chance a dinner gives,
That only leads to question how he lives.
Acquaintance rather large, but nothing higher,
Nor does he court it, than the Country Squire;
Unfit for deeper studies, pleas'd with rhyme,
And, from late illness, grey before his time;
Of middle stature, fond to bask away
In sun and indolence the summer day;
Prone to dispute, if chance he takes a cup,
But never known to keep resentment up.

Should one more curious teaze you to be told,
Exactly to a year or month how old,

Fifteen when George the Third his reign begun,
And now just entering upon Fifty-one.

Dr. JOHN CLUBBE was an elder brother of the subject of the above notice; and was born in 1741. He was brought up to the medical profession, and practised for many years in Ipswich, both as a surgeon and physician, with well-merited reputation and great success, where, after a long and painful

illness, he departed this life on the 25th of April

1811.

Of the Doctor, who, like his father and brother, was a man of considerable humour and of a most cheerful disposition, many lively and pleasant anecdotes are still in the recollection of his friends. To a pun, or a facetious story, he was no enemy. His medical acquirements had deservedly obtained for him the highest esteem of the public; while the suavity of his manners and the sociability of his character had justly endeared him to a large circle of admirers. He was the author of the following professional works, viz. " A Treatise on the Inflammation in the Breasts of Lying-in Women, 1779," 8vo; and "On the Venereal Poison, 1782," 8vo.

He lies buried in the Church-yard of St. Stephen in Ipswich; and in the Church a neat mural tablet is erected, with the following inscription:

"To the Memory of JOHN CLUBBE, late a very eminent Physician in this place, who died 25th April 1811, aged 70 years. His well-known probity, universal benevolence, friendly disposition, obliging temper, and engaging manners, during a long residence in this town, endeared him to all who sought either his acquaintance as a friend or his assistance as a Physician, and his loss is as generally lamented."

His last surviving brother, Nathaniel Clubbe, Gent. was a solicitor at Framlingham, and died April 13, 1829, in his 83d year,

The REV. SAMUEL DARBY, A. M.

This learned and amiable divine* received his academical education at Jesus-college, Cambridge, of which Society he became both a Fellow and a Tutor. He proceeded to the degree of A. B. in 1743, and to that of A. M. in 1749. In 1773 he

* See the "Literary Anecdotes," vol. II. p. 571; VIII, 410,

was presented by his College to the Rectory of Whatfield *; and in 1788, by the Crown, to that of Bredfield, both in the county of Suffolk. He died at his house in Ipswich on the 31st of March, 1794, in the 72d year of his age, and his remains

* Mr. Darby succeeded Mr. Clubbe, the ingenious author of an admirable piece of irony at the expense of modern antiquaries, "The History and Antiquities of the antient Villa of Wheatfield in the County of Suffolk," and of whom see "Literary Anecdotes," vol. II. pp. 377-379; vol. VIII. p. 410. He was in turn succeeded by Mr. Plampin. The latter respectable divine received his academical education at Jesus-college, Cambridge, where he proceeded to the degree of A. B. in 1776; and, being classed the Twelfth Wrangler on the Tripos, was, in consequence thereof, elected Fellow. In 1779 he proceeded to the degree of A. M. In 1794, on the decease of Mr. Darby, he was presented by his College to the Rectory of Whatfield, and in 1800 to that of Stanstead. In the garden at Whatfield Mr. Plampin placed an elegant inscription to the memory of his facetious predecessor, Mr. Clubbe. See "Literary Anecd." II. 378.

He deceased on the 30th of May 1823, at Chadacre-hall, and was interred in the Church of Stanstead. The following chaste and elegant inscription from the pen of that pleasing writer and ingenious moralist Dr. Drake, of Hadleigh, who had known the deceased for more than a quarter of a century, and known only to esteem and love," is placed by his sorrowing widow over his beloved remains :

"Near this tablet are deposited the remains of the Rev. John Plampin, M. A. of Chadacre-hall in this parish, Rector of Whatfield and Stanstead, in the County of Suffolk, a Magistrate for the district in which he resided, and formerly Fellow and Tutor of Jesus-college, Cambridge. He died May 30, 1823, in the 69th year of his age.

If taste, if learning, if the love of art,

What schools can give, or foreign realms impart,
May claim a tribute from the polished few,

Here might it flow, as not unjustly due;

But in the fane to pure devotion given,

Can these light graces point the path to Heaven?
Then be it added, as in truth it can,

Here sleeps, what all should prize, an honest man!
Who taught unerring, to his faithful flock,
Christ as their hope, their living stay and rock;
Who loved through life, whate'er the vale he trod,
His kind, his King, his Country, and his God."

Noontide Leisure, vol. II. p. 30.

were interred in the Church-yard of St. Stephen in that town, where, on a table-monument, is the following inscription to his memory, from the pen of his intimate friend the Rev. Thomas Cobbold*: M. S.

Reverendi Sam. Darby, A. M.

Coll. Jes. apud Cantab. olim Socii,
at postea de Whatfield et Bredfield
in hocce comitatu Rectoris ;
viri docti et integerrimi,
sine ostentatione liberalis,
sine fuco pii;

Qui carissimus conjugi et amicis,
multis bonis flebilis,

sæva paralysi fractus

decessit pridie cal. April.

MDCCXCIV. Æt. LXXII.

Mr. Darby was a man of a most social and friendly disposition, strict integrity, distinguished abilities and extensive literary attainment; but, to the inexpressible grief of his dearest friends, and of all who had the happiness of knowing him, he was deprived of these valuable endowments by a paralytic affection, which gradually undermined his health and mental faculties, and some time previous to his death entirely destroyed them t.

*This worthy divine is a native of Harwich in Essex, and received the early part of his education at the Free Grammar School of Bury St. Edmund; from whence he was entered of Trinity-college, Cambridge, where he proceeded to the degree of A. B. in 1765, and to that of A. M. in 1773. In 1767 he was presented to the Rectory of Wilby, and in 1781 to that of Woolpit, both in the County of Suffolk. In 1779 he was licensed, on the nomination of the parishioners, to the Perpetual Curacy of St. Mary at Tower in Ipswich. This gentleman, who was on terms of the strictest intimacy with Mr. Darby, has published "A Sermon, preached at St. Mary Tower Church, Ipswich, for the Benefit of the Schools of Grey-coat Boys and Blue-coat Girls, on Thursday, October 12, 1809; a day observed as a Jubilee by the Friends of the said Schools, it being the close of a Century from their first Institution. Ipswich," 8vo; and, "A Justificatory Reply to an Article inserted in the Suffolk Chronicle, in a Letter addressed to his Parishioners, assembled in Vestry Meeting, June 24. 1818," 4to.

The late Lord Chedworth, in a letter to Mr. Crompton,

Mr. Darby married Martha, the only daughter of the Venerable John Jortin, D. D. Vicar of Kensington and Archdeacon of London, a learned divine and a celebrated writer. It is a sufficient eulogium on her character to say, that she inherited her father's candid and benevolent mind; that she was highly esteemed by a most respectable acquaintance; and that in her the poor lost a valuable friend and benefactor. She died at her house in Uxbridge on the 20th of March 1817, in the 86th year of her age, after having survived her husband for the space of twenty-three years.

Mr. Darby is known to the literary world as the author of the following works: viz. "A Sermon, preached at the Primary Visitation of the Right Reverend Lewis, Lord Bishop of Norwich, holden at Bury St. Edmund's, on Monday, May 17, for the Deanery of Sudbury. London, 1784," 4to; "A Letter to the Rev. T. Warton, on his late Edition of Milton's Juvenile Poems. London, 1785," Svo, a just and very elegant piece of criticism* ; and "A Sermon preached at the Visitation of the Reverend Thomas Knowles, D.D. Official of the Archdeaconry of Sudbury, holden at Lavenham, on Thursday, Sept. 28, 1786. Ipswich, 1786," 4to†.

ren.

On the publication of Bishop Watson's "Letter

thus feelingly describes Mr. Darby's situation: "I am sorry to tell you that Mr. Darby is gone to London to consult Dr. WarHe sometimes loses his recollection suddenly, and sometimes his sight is imperfect; he is very low, and fears he shall be bereft of his faculties. From what Clubbe says, I have a hope that this will not be the case; if it should, I shall feelingly exclaim: 'O what a noble mind is here o'erthrown!'"'

Letters from the late Lord Chedworth, p. 69.

* Green's Diary of a Lover of Literature, p. 235.

+ Lord Chedworth thus notices this Discourse in a letter to Mr. Compton: "You will see that the emendation in Mr. Darby's Sermon, Mark, ix. 49, 50, is Jortin's. This Mr. Darby told me soon after the Sermon was published; however, the defence and illustration of the proposed correction are Mr. Darby's own." Letters from the late Lord Chedworth, p. 196.