said he; I write all my Master's Discourses out for him; but this I never wrote, nor did he ever think of it till after he left you.' "Your Master told me," says 1, "that when he wants to refer to a passage in the Greek Testament, he has taught you to read Greek so well as to understand it from your reading." Ah, Sir, so he tells me; but I don't understand a word of it.' Pray do let me hear how you do it," says I, and gave him a Greek Testament. The Boy took it, and read it so intelligibly that I perfectly understood the meaning of the Writer. Mr. Benson had lamented to me, as one of his greatest hardships, his inability to keep a good servant. He could not afford, he said, to give much wages, as his Living was very small, not 801. a year, and he kept his Predecessor's Widow and Daughter; 'so that,' says the worthy man, as soon as I have taught one of my parishioners to read well, and made tolerably master of my method, he must leave me, to seek a more advantageous employment, and I have all the labour of instruction to go over again. This journey, in the event, proved fatal to the poor Gentleman. He was going to visit a Relation at Hamstead, and mounted upon a fine grey mare, which had carried him safely, he was boasting, many years, and which upon his journey he had been offered twenty guineas for; but, Sir,' adds he, kingdom would hardly pay me the value of her.' Upon his return back, about a month after, I saw him uneasy and dejected; for, alas! his mare was no more! she had been turned to grass with other horses, who had broke her leg, and made it necessary to dispatch her. He had another horse given him, it was true, but nothing like his old favourite. Some short time after, I heard this horse had started with him, flung him, and that his death was almost immediately the consequence of his fall."- Another Divine of his name, LL. D. Nephew of Bishop Benson of Gloucester, Chancellor of that Diocese in 1770, Prebendary of Gloucester and Salisbury, and Rector of Salperton and Standish, died Sept. 19, 1785.

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P. 76, note. "The Epitaph in Surfleet Church on Everard Buckworth contains in the latter part the exact words of another in vol. III. p. 25, on Dr. John Foster, as written by himself, with the slight inaccuracy marked there; and evidently copied from Gent. Mag. vol. LIII. p. 1005, dated Windsor, where it is said, "that learned man undoubtedly wrote it for himself." The former part was doubtless so, but the latter must have been adopted, probably by himself, as having met with and approved it. This last account of Dr. John Foster is referred to in vol. LIV. p. 180, with the signature L. probably the same who signs C. L. vol. LXIX. p. 663." E. JONES.

P. 80. Dr. Samuel Smith, King's Scholar at Westminster 1746; elected to Trinity College, Cambridge, 1751; B. A. 1754; M. A. 1757; LL. D. 1764; Head Master of Westminster School from 1764 to 1788; Prebendary of Westminster and of Peterborough 1787; died March 23, 1908.

P. 81. John-Theophilus Desaguliers was born March 12, 1688, In 1716 he published a piece intituled "Fires improved; being a new Method of building Chimneys, so as to prevent their smoking." This was a translation from the French, and involved him in some dispute with Edmund Curil, whom he had employed as his publisher, and admitted to have a share in the book. Curll, in order to promote the sale, had puffed it off in a very gross manner; which induced Mr. Desaguliers to publish a Letter in a periodical paper called "The Town-Talk," then publishing by Sir Richard Steele, in which he informed the Publick, that, whenever his name hereafter "was or should be printed with that egregious flatterer Mr. Curll's, either in an advertisement or at the title-page of a book, except that of 'Fires improved,' he entirely disowned it." His merit had now attracted the notice of the Duke of Chandos, who made him his Chaplain, and presented him, about 1714, to the Living of Stanmore Parva, or Whitchurch (not Edgware, as stated in p.81). In 1717 he went through a Course of his Lectures on Experimental Philosophy before King George I. at Hampton Court; with which his Majesty was so well pleased that he intended to have conferred upon him the valuable Rectory of Much Munden in Hertfordshire; but that benefice was obtained for another person by the Earl of Sunderland, who prevailed with a friend to present him with a Living in Norfolk, the revenue of which, however, amounted only to 70l. a year. March 16, 1718, he accumulated the degrees of B. and LL. D. at Oxford. He had the honour of reading his Lectures before King George the Second, as well as the rest of the Royal Family; and exchanged the Living which he had in Norfolk for the Rectory of Little Warley in Essex, to which he was presented in 1727 by Sir John Tyrell, bart. He was likewise made Chaplain to Frederick Prince of Wales; and in 1738 was appointed Chaplain to Bowles's Regiment of Dragoons. When Channel-row, in which he had lived for some years, was ordered to be taken down to make way for the New Bridge at Westminster, Dr. Desaguliers removed to lodgings over the Great Piazza in Covent-garden, where he carried on his Lectures till his death. He is said to have been repeatedly consulted by Parliament upon the design of building that bridge; in the execution of which, Mr. Charles Labelye, who had been many years his assistant, was appointed a Supervisor. He likewise erected a Ventilator, at the desire of Parliament, in a room over the House of Commons. Dr. Desaguliers, who is styled by Dr. Priestley "an indefatigable Experimental Philosopher," died Feb. 29, 1743-4, at the Bedford Coffee-house, Covent-garden, where he had lodgings; and was buried March 6, in the Savoy. He translated into English, from the Latin, Gravesande's "Mathematical Elements of Natural Philosophy." This work was published by his son, John-Theophilus Desaguliers, in two vols. 4to. In Dr. Desagu liers's character as a Divine we find only one publication by him, a single

a single Sermon, in octavo, preached before the King in 1717, from Luke xiii. 5, "I tell you nay; but except you repent, you shall all likewise perish." It was a Thanksgiving Sermon ; but on what particular occasion it was delivered we are not informed. The following anecdote is recorded of his respect for the clerical character. Being invited to an illustrious company, one of whom, an officer, addicted to swearing in his discourse, at the period of every oath asked Dr. Desaguliers's pardon: the Doctor bore this levity for some time with great patience, but at length silenced the swearer with the following rebuke: "Sir, you have taken some pains to render me ridiculous, if possible, by your pointed apologies; now, Sir, I am to tell you, that if God Almighty does not hear you, I assure you I will never tell Him.”

If credit is to be given to Mr. Cawthorn, Dr. Desaguliers was in very necessitous circumstances at the time of his decease. In the Poem intituled "The Vanity of Human Enjoyments," Mr. Cawthorn laments his fate in these lines:

"How poor, neglected Desaguliers fell!

How he, who taught two gracious Kings to view
All Boyle ennobled, and all Bacon knew,
Died in a cell, without a friend to save,
Without a guinea, and without a grave!"

A good Portrait of Dr. Desaguliers is here annexed.

P. 81. "Dr. Desaguliers left three sons; one of whom, JohnTheophilus Desaguliers, was Vicar of Cratfield and Laxfield in Suffolk about eight years and a half. He died, aged 34, Nov. 28, 1752; and was buried Dec. 7, in Cratfield Chancel, under a stone by the Vestry-door." D. A. Y.

P. 82. Zante is in Europe, not in Asia.

P. 83, 1. 4, r. "Sir Richard Ellys."

Ibid. 1. 22. The Hon. Sir Charles Frederick, K. B. died Dec. 18, 1785. He was third son of Sir Thomas Frederick, Governor of Fort St. George in the East Indies; born in 1709; elected F.R.S. and F.S.A. in 1731; and in 1735-6 Director of the Society of Antiquaries, which he resigned on setting out on his travels in 1737. He married, in 1746, Lucy daughter of Hugh Viscount Falmouth, who was born in 1710, and died Jan. 17, 1784, by whom he had a son, Charles, born in 1748, and three daughters. Their second daughter, Augusta, born July 25, 1747, married, in 1771, Thomas Prescott, esq. second son of George Prescott, esq. Sir Charles was eminently distinguished for his taste in the polite arts, and for his great skill in drawing, several specimens of which are preserved in the Collection of the Society of Antiquaries, who published his "Account of the Course of the Ermine Street through Northamptonshire, and of a Roman Burying-place by the Side of it in Bernack Parish," in their "Archæologia," vol. I. p. 91, but without his drawings of the urns and coins found therein. He was chosen M. P. for Shoreham in 1746; and appointed Clerk of the Deliveries in the Office of Ordnance, and Surveyor-general of the Ordnance; in which VOL. IX.

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