various means, and by slow and sure divine communication, suited to the gradual progress of mankind, discovered to them the divine revealed Religion which could only be found in the Scriptures; in these precepts all true happiness of mankind here and hereafter is contained. Of course he who does not respect the Sabbath is already a sinner, though he may suppose (by self-conceit) that he is a good man. But when avarice, pride, or various propensities of wickedness enter to his imagination, the progress of sin will proceed rapidly; many criminals who have died by the law of their God and their country, have declared that the first beginnings of guilt were from neglect of the duties of the Sabbath."

JOHN HAWKSWORTH, L.L.D.

THIS very eminent writer of "The Adventurer,” published in four volumes, was born in the year 1720; he devoted himself to literature. The very excellent Archbishop of York, Dr. Herring, was his patron, and procured for him the degree of L.L.D. The good principles and good style and sentiments in "The Adventurer," caused him to be employed to compile a full narrative, by orders from Government, of the discoveries made in the South Seas by Captain Cook, the justly celebrated navigator. Dr. Hawksworth was chosen a director of the East India Company, on account of his talents and of his knowledge of affairs in the East. Of his literary taste the Adventurer is a good proof; he had great sensibility of mind, and had suffered great affliction by the death of his very amiable and accomplished wife; she had been long ill, and he carried her to Clifton with sanguine hopes of her recovery: but she died there, and he never recovered his own health afterwards. He wrote the following verses to her memory:—

"Whoe'er, like me, with anxious feeling brings
His heart's best treasure to fair Bristol's springs;
Whoe'er, like me, to soothe disease and pain,
Shall pour these salutary streams in vain ;

Condemned, like me, to hear the faint reply,
To mark the flushing cheek, the sinking eye,

From the chill brow to wipe the damps of death,
And watch, with dumb despair, each short'ning breath:
If chance direct him to this artless line,

Let the sad mourner know his pangs were mine!

Ordain'd to lose the

partner of my breast,

Whose beauties warm'd me, and whose virtues blest,
Form'd every tie that binds the soul to prove,
Her duty, friendship, and that friendship love,
But yet, remembering that the parting sigh
Ordain'd the just to slumber, not to die,
The falling tears I check, I kiss the rod,
And not to earth resign her, but to God!"

DR. HERRING,

ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY.

THIS wise and pious Archbishop was most justly held in great estimation for his distinguished virtues and talents; he was the son of the Rev. John Herring, Rector of Watsoken in Norfolk, where he was born in the year 1693; he was educated at Cambridge, where he was entered in 1710. He was chosen fellow of Corpus Christi College in 1716. He continued a tutor there upwards of seven years, and entered into Priest's orders in 1719, and was successively minister of Great Shelford, Stow cum Qui, and Trinity in Cambridge.

In 1722, Dr. Fleetwood, the Bishop of Ely, made Mr. Herring his chaplain, and soon after presented him to Rettindon, in Essex, and soon to be the Rector of Barly, in Hertfordshire. In 1726 he was chosen by the Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn to be their preacher; he took a doctor's degree about the same time, and was soon after appointed chaplain to his Majesty, King George the Second. In 1731 he was presented to the rectory of Bletchingley, in Surrey, and presented in the same year to the deanery of Rochester. In 1737 he was consecrated Bishop of Bangor;

and in 1743 he was appointed Archbishop of York on the death of Dr. Blackburn.

Not only was Archbishop Herring most eminent by great piety and eloquence in the pulpit, with the most benevolent charity and goodness; he was also distinguished by his talents and patriotism. When the rebellion broke out in Scotland, in 1745, and the Highlanders had defeated the King's troops at Preston Pans, the worthy Archbishop of York contributed much to rouze the nation from its lethargy he convened a meeting of the nobility, gentry, and clergy in Yorkshire; he addressed them in a noble and animated speech, which had such an effect on his audience that a subscription followed to the amount of 40,000l. for the aid of Government. This good example was followed by the nation in general. On the death of Dr. Potter, (the Archbishop of Canterbury) in 1747, Archbishop Herring was translated to the See of Canterbury. In 1753 he was seized with a severe fever which brought him to the brink of the grave; he retired to his palace at Croydon and declined all public business, seeing only his family and very particular friends; he expired in May, 1757, deeply regretted by all who knew his superior merits and talents. By his express desire he was interred in the vault of Croydon Church.

One volume of his excellent sermons was printed and most justly praised, also a volume of his letters to Mr. Duncombe, when Dr. Herring was Bishop of Bangor. The Editor has read these