campaign. Not a doubt have I of his being soon able to exhibit, not only a readable, but a plausible, sheet for the amusement of his brethren; and I trust that he will avail himself of my innuendo. Far was it from me to cast the task upon him; and to satisfy him that it was not, be it known unto him that, I had provided not only a drawing of the sphere of the great Emanuel of Portugal, from Murphy's Batalha, but also delineations of the best copies I could acquire of the mottoes. A piteous atrophy impeded my progress; and I begin to be not a little apprehensive that asthma will soon be an additional malady, having experienced for more than a fortnight a shortness of breath, to which, in the days that are past, I was a total stranger. It becomes me, however, to be grateful that I can still, under my own sign manual, subscribe myself, dear Sir,

"Yours truly,

S. DENNE."

114. SAMUEL HAWKINS, Esq. to Mr. GOUGH. “SIR, Wilmington, Aug. 7, 1799. "It is with the truest concern I acquaint you with the great loss we have sustained by the death of our excellent and everto-be-regretted friend! which happened about four o'clock on Saturday morning last. We have long had too much reason to expect it, though it may appear more sudden than from the last accounts, perhaps, we might have been given to hope, a circumstance not unusual in such cases. I have the satisfaction, however, of assuring you, a melancholy one indeed it must be confessed, that he departed with a calmness which truly indicated that all within was peace!

"Poor Mrs. Denne *, than whom none will have a greater loss, nor feel it more, seems to bear it upon the whole as well as may be; and I sincerely wish it may not afterwards be felt more by her. She desires me to express her wish that I should say every thing that is proper for her. I have the honour to be, Sir, "Your most obedient humble servant, SAMUEL HAWKINS."

115. "SIR,

Pall Mall, Aug. 22, 1799. "I have had the pleasure of both your favours, and cannot see that there can be any objection to your having the refusal of your late friend's library; but, on the contrary, it is what I had intended considering as a compliment to be paid you if I had been able to find the will, but after most tedious searches at different times, no where is it forthcoming; and the only chance there is of discovering one is among the leaves of the different books which he may lately have had in use, and wherein he may inadvertently have left it. I am, Sir,

"Your most obedient servant,

SAMUEL HAWKINS."

Mr. Denne's sister; see the "Literary Anecdotes," vol. III. p. 527.

The following letters and extracts were communicated to Mr. Gough by Mr. Denne from the papers of his father and brother; chiefly as containing anecdotes of members of Corpus Christi or Bene't college, Cambridge:

Extracts of letters from the Rev. THOMAS Greene, D. D. Archdeacon of Canterbury, and afterwards successively Bishop of Norwich and Ely, and who had been Master of Corpus Christi college, Cambridge, to JOHN DENNE, a Fellow of that college.

"1716, June 23. I have recommended you as tutor to young Mr. Barrett, your quondam school-fellow, whom his uncle Dr. Boyce will very shortly send to your college to be a Fellow Commoner there. The Doctor and Mrs. Barrett will stick at nothing to reward your care, provided you will take a more than ordinary care of him. The young man is no great scholar, nor do they expect very much in that way. He is now innocent, a thorough Whig, and that they desire he should continue, for which reason they would not have him much acquainted with his school-fellows either of St. John's or Pembroke. They could wish that either he might keep in the chamber with you, if that might be, or as near you as possible, and that he might have your company as much as may be with your convenience; and, as I said before, whatever you shall ask for your trouble and care shall be granted. They desire he may be acquainted with Castle, who, also, if he will take some pains, and assist him in his studies, shall have a reward for it.

"And now, dear Sir, give me leave as a friend to add a word or two more. You are now setting out in the world, and cannot but be sensible of what great consequence it will be to your future advancement in it to begin well and prudently; and therefore let me advise you to be very cautious of your conduct, and set Mr. Laughton, of Clare hall, as a pattern before you for the management of your pupils. You see what an universal credit he has gained thereby. By all means avoid that tippling way of drinking wine every night at a townsman's house, which is both scandalous and chargeable, and draws into many other inconveniences. Give good example to your pupils, by keeping constantly to Chapel in the morning as well as the evening; and be as seldom out of the gates at night as possibly you can. I am sure you will thereby recommend yourself to your most excellent Master *, who is a pious good man, and will nev erlike such practices as I just now mentioned; and what is most of all to be desired, will have the blessing of God upon all your undertakings, who will never fail to prosper your piety and diligence.

John Bradford, D.D. afterwards Bishop of Carlisle and of Rochester, and whose daughter Mr. Denne married in 1724, and thus became an Archdeacon,-bad at the date of this letter recently succeeded its writer in the Headship.

I have a mighty desire to see you prosper in the world, to which you may assure yourself of my assistance to the utmost of my power. I have conceived great hopes of you and Mr. Herring*, and should be sadly baulked if I should be disappointed. Pray remember me to him in a particular manner, to whose acquaintance also I will recommend Mr. Barrett when he comes.'

"

"1716, Oct. 17. I have been in a good deal of hurry for some time, or you had sooner received my thanks for your very kind letter, as had also Mr. Barrett, to whom pray give my service; and tell him as soon as I am a little more at leisure, I will thank him myself. I am mighty glad to hear he goes on so well with you. The Master, in his letter to me, spake very kindly of him for his regularity and sobriety. His friends here are all wonderfully pleased to hear so good an account of him; and I hope it will be to your advantage as well as satisfaction, if he should come very well out of your hands, as I see not the least reason yet to doubt but he will; it may be of very good service to you by bringing more to you. By all means take care of the morals of those which shall be committed to you. Set Mr. Laughton as a pattern to you, and you cannot do amiss."

"1716-17, March 14. Your Master gives me a very good account of your charge Mr. Barrett, which I am extremely glad of. Pray give my service to him. Be so kind as to tell me sincerely how my nephew Vertue behaves himself in the college. I wish him well, and will make the Master his friend if he deserves it. I am afraid he is a little Toryish; I should be glad if you could bring him off from it."

"1717, April 19. I am sorry my nephew Vertue is not more sensible of his interest. I always thought him such as you represent him. Assure yourself, by what I hear from several, he is not to be depended upon for any zeal to that interest which I wish may always flourish in the college, and therefore I desire no favour for him from you against your inclination. If I were there again, I should have no regard to him whilst Mr. Genning and the rest of that interest were his advisers and confidents.

"It is a great pleasure to hear that the college flourishes so much. There is a young man coming from this school (Canterbury), one David Comarque, whom I have recommended to your care. It seems he has a brother too, who would come to study physic. They will be pensioners.

"I hear much of Castle to his reputation f. I am glad to hear Mr. Barrett goes on to yours and his friends' satisfaction. Pray give him my service."

Thomas Herring, afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury, was a fellowtutor of Bene't college with Archdeacon Denne.

+ Edmund Castle, B.D. afterwards Dean of Hereford, succeeded Bishop Mawson as Master of Bene't in 1744-5, and was succeeded by Dr. John Green (afterwards Bishop of Lincoln) in 1750; for his biography see the "Literary Anecdotes," vol. VII. pp. 65, 530.

On these extracts Mr. DENNE offered Mr. GoUGH the following observations:

"Fellow-commoner Barrett was, you know, a collector of antiques*, but not supposed to be so well instructed in that kind of lore; nor probably did he much improve the little scholarship Archdeacon Greene intimates he possessed, when he left the seminary in the Mint-yard, Canterbury; as his intellectual talents were not naturally above par. There is also reason to suspect that, maugre the wishes of his uncle and aunt, and of Dr. Greene, and the instructions impressed by his tutors, he afterwards became rather Toryish, for at the great election of Knights of the Shire for Kent, when Watson and Fairfax, as Whigs, obtained a decisive victory over the Tories, Thomas Barrett, Esq. gave a plumper for Sir Edward Dering; though, from an indolence of disposition, he had not the repute of being a zealous partizan, and he certainly had the merit of being in other points a respectable country gentleman. He presented to my father a picture of himself, which hangs over the chimney-piece in my chamber. I offered it to my late sister Denne, who was his Goddaughter, but she declined accepting it, because it did not in her opinion bear any resemblance to her sponsor at the font.

"James Vertue, though a Tory, was presented by his uncle, Bishop Greene, to the Rectory of Glemsford in Suffolk (Masters's List, p. 49), who, while Bishop of Norwich, seems to have given him the Rectory of West Halton, co. Lincoln; and, on the removal of Vertue to the Rectory of Feltwell in 1732, may not David Comarque, who succeeded to Halton, have obtained that living through the interest of Bishop Greene, who had recommended him to Bene't †?

"But of the extracts from a quondam Head of the old House, (who, by-the-bye, was not an epistolary correspondent of elegance) apart not the least curious is, that which alludes to the then habit of some of the tutors at Cambridge in tippling wine every night at the houses of townsmen; and, unless the town had a more respectable set of inhabitants in 1716 than it had between forty and fifty years afterwards, it was not to the credit of the tutors that these were places of call. But who would have surmised that, not far from the commencement of the present century, a late Head of a College should deem it expedient to caution tutors Denne and Herring not to be absent from Chapel in the morning, and to avoid having their names entered in the gate-bill?

* A juvenile portrait of Thomas Barrett, Esq. from a miniature executed by Zinke in 1725, is beautifully engraved in Dibdin's Decameron, vol. III. p. 456, accompanied by notices of his collections, and of his son, the inheritor of his name, his fortune, and his taste.

†The Rev. David Comarque proceeded B. A. 1720; M.A. 1726; and married Jan. 23, 1732, "a daughter of the late Peter Raneu, Esq."— His brother Reynald Comarque, the student in physic, took the degrees of M. B. 1728, and M. D. comitiis regiis the same year.

"From these extracts we see that Laughton, of Clare *, was the pattern tutor; nor was his name forgot when I was an academic, though Courtail† might be willing to throw his predecessor into the back-ground. In the Political Register of 1723, which notices Laughton's death on Sunday July 28, he is styled a tutor celebrated for the great number of the nobility and gentry educated under his care, and a person eminent for his learning; but no other specimen in print did he exhibit of his literary acquirements than a Sermon delivered before the King in King'scollege Chapel, anno 1717, and when I read that discourse some years ago, I do not remember that preaching was the forte of this illustrious tutor; and I think it is an observation not unfrequently made, that schoolmasters and tutors, who are accustomed to write in Latin, but seldom appear to advantage in English exercises. The Consecration Sermon preached by Dr. Markham, when his friend Bishop Johnson was raised to the See of Gloucester, has been by some critics termed pedagoguish, because it reads like a translation from the Latin into the vulgar tongue."

Extracts from a letter of J. DENNE to T. STEPHENS.

"Bene't college, Jan. 28, 1747-8. Mr. Hervey is with us; and from the little acquaintance I have the pleasure to have with him, is become a great favourite of mine. There seems as much good nature in him as politeness; and the manner in which he spends his time seems to show that he is inclined to improve those good qualities he has brought from Westminster; a disposition the more commendable as it is the more unusual among the politer part of the University."-As Frederick Lord Bishop of Derry and Earl of Bristol is the Mr. Hervey here described, S. Denne has more than once commended the superior sagacity of J. Denne in making choice of so favourite a character to be a subject of praise.-J. Denne thus proceeds: "Green has got £.500 in the lottery, which makes me inclined to think that Fortune is not so blind as she is represented, since she can bestow her favours upon a deserving man. I am myself equally happy with an university degree, which has put a very agreeable period to all my philosophical Jabours. I have been, I must own, a little impatient under the discipline that is necessary to attain it; and could almost compare the last year to a state of subjection and confinement in which the mind is embarrassed with rules, subdued by authority, and habituated only, as it were, to one track of thinking; but I can now, without any restraint, pursue those studies which are most suitable to my mind."

* Richard Laughton, D. D. of whom see the "Literary Anecdotes," vol. V. p. 420; and also the references in vol. VII. p. 222.

John Courtail, a Fellow of Clare, B. A. 1735, M. A. 1739.