"Man in Quest of Himself, or a Defence of the Individuality of the Human Mind, or Self." These he intended to republish, probably with original remarks, but the whole impression is stored up in the printer's warehouse.

In 1808, Mr Coke, of Holkham, made Dr Parr an offer of the rectory of Buckingham. This, however, did not tempt the doctor to leave the spot to which he was so attached.

On the death of Mr Fox, Dr Parr announced his intention of publishing a Life of his celebrated friend and political favourite. The expectations of the public were excited, but were certainly disappointed in a publication of two octavo volumes, entitled "Characters of the late Charles James Fox; selected, and in part written, by Philopatris Varvicencis," 1809.

On December 27, 1816, Dr Parr married, secondly, Mary, sister of Mr Eyre, of Coventry, who survives him.

Two small publications, one of which was printed by his especial request (containing a critical essay by Dr Parr on the character of Dr Taylor, the learned editor of Demosthenes and Lysias ;) and of the other of which he was the immediate editor, must not pass unnoticed. They were,-1st," Two Music Speeches at Cambridge, in 1714 and 1730, by Roger Long, M.A., and John Taylor M.A., to which are added, a Latin Speech of Dr Taylor; several of his juvenile Poems; some Minor Essays in prose; and Specimens 0. his Epistolary Correspondence; with Memoirs of Dr Taylor, and Dr Long." 8vo. 1819. 2dly, "Four Sermons: 1 & 2, by Dr Taylor; 3, by Bishop Lowth; and 4, by Bishop Hayter; with a preface suggested by remarks of Dr Parr."

A variety of Dr Parr's minor literary productions appeared in "The Gentleman's Magazine;" to which he was a frequent and valuable correspond

ent. Among these are two Letters on the subject of Howard's statue, a learned Letter to the Rev. Mr Glasse, on the word Cauponari, and several Letters to Lord Chedworth (inserted in a report of the trial on the will of that nobleman.) Many biographical notices from his masterly pen have also graced the pages of Sylvanus Urban. In "The Gentleman's Magazine" may likewise be found most of his Latin epitaphs, amounting to upwards of thirty. His manuscripts are said to be very numerous, and upon various subjects of verbal criticism, theology, and metaphy sics. He often declared during his lifetime, that they were not in a state fit for publication; that many of them were illegible even to himself; and that he had most peremptorily desired his executors to destroy them after his death, without distinction, and even without inspection. Fortunately, however, Dr Parr seems to have re-considered this subject; for he has left written direc tions for the positive publication of some, and the discretionary publication of other parts of his works; a duty which his executors will no doubt undertake with all the care and fidelity which the case requires.

It appears from a private letter to the, conductor of "The Gentleman's Magazine," dated December 18, 1818, that Dr Parr then meditated the publication of a tract, which, however, did not appear till after his death.

"Milner, the Roman Catholic, has published an elaborate work, which cannot fail of having a very extensive and powerful effect on any person of his own religion. He has put forth all his strength, and let loose all his venom. Among other matter, he three times says that Bishop Halifax died a Catholic, and this you see affords a glorious triumph to the Roman Catholics. I am determined to call him to a public account. I have all the matter and paper now lying before me. If you cho

insert it in your old Magazine; be 30. But you will observe, first, that will occupy twenty-five or thirty pa3; secondly, that it must not be diled; thirdly, that I must be permit 1 to revise one proof-sheet, and to ve directions to the printer about italines, &c. &c.

"The whole bench of bishops will ve their eye upon me, and a whole my of Catholic Polemics may fall on me. This I regard not.

"If you refuse admission to so long article, I will offer it to one more pe›dical publication, and if it be thought o long there, I shall print a pamphlet, d put my name.'

In a second letter, only five days afr, the Doctor observed :"Somehow or other my matter has owded upon me so fast, that I must ve up all thoughts of introducing it to any periodical publication, and, erefore, I shall make a pamphlet, and int it at Warwick. There again my exations about a scribe are almost inlerable; I must submit to the torLents of delay."

This tract has been published by the Lev. John Lynes, the grandson by marage, and one of the executors of Dr 'arr. It is called "A Letter to the Rev. Dr Milner, occasioned by some assages contained in his Book, entit ed The End of Religious Controvery.' By the late Rev. S. Parr, LL.D."

One of the most material of the Docor's intended labours, was a memoir of Robert Sumner, the master of Sir William Jones and himself, at Harrow, and the friend of Dr Samuel Johnson; and it appears, that, at the time of his death, he had made considerable progress in the work, which was upon a comprehensive plan.

Perhaps the reader may wish to know in what manner Dr Parr conducted his instructions from the pulpit. He wrote many of his sermons; but in Middlesex, at Colchester, and at Norwich, he

often preached extempore: and it must be unnecessary to say, that the ardour of his temper, the fulness of his knowledge, and the strength of his understanding, always readily supplied him with matter pertinent, forcible, and abundant. He preached without any preparation whatsoever, and his custom was to select his subject from that which struck him in the lessons, epistle and gospel, or psalms of the day. There was always method in these extemporaneous effusions. They were frequently accompanied with critical remarks; and they were delivered with an earnestness of manner, and a correctness and vigour of diction, most interesting to the hearers, and equal to the highest expectations which could be formed of his powers, even by men most prejudiced in his favour, and most accustomed to his conversation. At Hatton he generally took up a sermon written by Clarke, Balguy, or Jortin, or by some other distinguished divine of the Established Church. But his own observations were always introduced; and from the peculiarity of his thinking and his style, the difference was easily discerned by an intelligent hearer. Such, indeed, were his readiness and copiousness, that of sermons which continued for half an hour or forty minutes, the parts which he merely read occupied scarcely five or six pages.

His views were most comprehensive, his arguments most acute; his diction was correct without stiffness, and his imagery splendid without glare. It was the vulgar notion of those who did not know Dr Parr, that his information was confined to the structure of sentences, the etymology of words, the import of particles, and the quantity of syllables. But those who intimately knew and appreciated his singular mental acquirements, were struck alike with their variety and with their depth. In classical erudition he was without a rival, and was one of the few surviving devotees of the

old school of learning. His knowledge of ecclesiastical history, particularly as connected with the church history of Britain, was most extraordinary: all the minute and illustrative facts connected with the liturgies, forms, doctrines, and creeds of the establishment, were most accurately known to him, As he idolized the memories of those who had fallen martyrs in the cause of political truth, so, in his own words, he "loved to soar in the regions of religious liberty." His religious sentiments were formed on the most mature reflection, the most accurate balance of evidence, the most extensive, bold, and impartial results. There were no doubts he dared not investigate, no difficulties he did not grapple with. But although there was no polemical question which he did not analyse, yet he entertained the most profound contempt for established bigotry, and sectarian dogmatism. Above all, he early discovered the limitation of the human understand ing; the folly of diving after hidden knowledge. To use his own quotation from Johnson, "by the solicitous examination of objections, and judicious comparisons of opposite arguments, he attained what inquiry never gives but to industry, and perspicuity,-a firm and unshaken settlement of conviction; but his firmness was without asperity, for knowing with how much difficulty truth was sometimes found, he did not wonder that many missed it."

So careful a guardian did the doctor prove of the different bequests belonging to the poor of his parish at Hatton, that one of them has been tripled, after having been recovered from thirty-six years' loss. Another is made to produce clothes for the poor in two townships, nearly in a threefold proportion. Another, left for the decoration of the church, has been rescued from

an inferior class of trustees, who formerly misapplied the revenue; and the revenue itself is increased in value, as well as employed to the purpose for which it was originally designed.

dear!

The doctor was as strongly attached to a pipe as the learned Dr Isaac Bar row is said to have been. Wherever he went to dine he was indulged with his favourite whiff. He was once in vited to dinner by a gentleman whose wife, a fine lady, had an intense aver sion to smoking, and the following story is told of the occasion:-The husband, on his return—“ My dear, whom do you think I met in the street just now, and invited to dine with us to-morrow?" "I cannot say, my love, unless you tell me." "Dr Parr." "Very well, love; you know I am always happy to see your friends at ou table." "You are very kind, my dear wife, but I must mention one thing; the doctor, wherever he goes, is indul ged with a pipe." "Indeed, my then I have only this to say, he shall not have that indulgence here; no gentleman shall smoke a pipe in my draw ing-room." The husband perceived the case was lost, and like a wise man, dropped the subject. On the morrow the Doctor came, and a select party met him. After a sumptuous dinner, they retired to the drawing-room. The Doctor began to feel certain cravings for the stimulating fumes of his beloved pipe; he tried to catch the eye of his host, but that was constantly averted. The lady of the house was on the qui vive; she watched both her husband and the Doctor. At length the reve rend gentleman grew impatient; be addressed himself in a half whisper to his friend: the word "pipe" caught the ear of madam, who immediately took upon herself to answer for her husband. Lady: "Dr Parr, I hope you will excuse what

n going to say, but I cannot permit sking in my drawing-room." Doc: "And why not, madam? I have oked a pipe with my king, and it ely can be no offence or disgrace to ubject to permit me the like indulice." Lady: "Notwithstanding that, I never will allow my drawingm to be defiled with the nauseous oke of tobacco. I have ordered a ›m below to be prepared for any genmen who wish to indulge in that disreeable habit." Doctor: "Madam -"Lady, quickly: "Sir." Doc: Madam, you are ———. Lady: I beg, sir, you will not express any deness!" The doctor, raising his ice: "Madam, you are the greatest bacco stopper in England." This salcaused a loud laugh at the expense the lady, and though the doctor had t the pleasure of his pipe, he enjoyed e effect of his wit.

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Soon after the execution at Maidstone, 1798, of O'Coigley, the Irish priest, r high-treason, Dr Parr happened to in company with a gentleman, a nave of Scotland, who has since acquired nsiderable celebrity, both on the bench ad in the House of Commons, but who as then only a young barrister, and as suspected of more than a disposion to desert whiggism, of which he ad been the warm advocate, for the olitics of the administration of that ay. In the course of conversation, is gentleman observed, that O'Coigy richly deserved his fate, for that it as impossible to conceive a greater coundrel. "By no means, sir," said Or Parr; "it is possible to conceive a uch greater scoundrel. He was an rishman, he might have been a Scotchan; he was a priest, he might have een a lawyer; he was a traitor, he might have been an apostate!"

To the latest period of his life the gour of Dr Parr's mind remained unmpaired. In his 77th year he wrote Mr Brougham," Animo quam nul

la senectus, say I, triumphantly, in the words of Statius." His last illness was long protracted. In the course of it appearances were, more than once, so favourable as to excite the strongest hopes of his recovery; but about a fort night before his decease all these flattering ideas took their flight. From that time he gradually declined, the vital powers slowly and almost imperceptibly wasting, until exhausted nature sunk, and in the evening of the 6th of March 1825, he gently expired, having completed his 78th year on the 26th of January. He was to the last serene and placid, calmly, even cheerfully resigned. It was most gratifying to his weeping relatives and friends to hear, mingled with the devoutest breathings of pious acquiescence in the will of Providence, the warm and glowing expressions which often broke from his lips of intense feeling and generous concern for the welfare of his friends, his numerous acquaintance, his country, and his fellow-men. Even in his last hours, it seemed to be still his delight, as it ever was in his previous life, to range through the whole compass of rational creation; embracing within his kindest thoughts and wishes all human beings; and interesting himself in every event, in every part of the world, which wore a favourable aspect towards human improvement and human happiness. With that greatness of mind which can anticipate with perfect composure the last awful change of mortal man, he gave minute directions respecting his funeral.

His remains were deposited near those of his late wife and her daughters, in a vault in Hatton Church. They were attended on foot by nearly forty gentlemen in mourning, consisting of the clergy of the surrounding parishes, &c. The pall-bearers were seven clergymen, and one dissenting minister; and the coffin was borne by parishioners of Hatton appointed by himself.

Agreeably to his express instructions,

the burial service was read by the Rev. Rann Kennedy, minister of St Paul's Chapel, Birmingham. After reading of the lessons, a sermon was preached, ❝in obedience to his own request," by the Rev. Dr Butler, Archdeacon of Derby, and Head Master of Shrewsbury School, from the text which Dr Parr directed to be inscribed on his monument, viz. "What doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?" On the following Sunday, the Rev. Dr Wade, Vicar of St Nicholas, Warwick, there preached a funeral sermon for him, which was attended by an immense concourse of all ranks. Another was delivered the same day at the High Street Dissenting Chapel.

The father of Mr Fuseli was an artist of Zurich, John Gaspard Fuessli, (for Fuessli was the family name,) who painted portraits and landscapes with great power. He had three sons; Rodolph, who settled at Vienna, and became librarian to the Emperor of Germany; Henry, the subject of the present memoir; and Caspar, a skilful entomologist, who, after having published several works on his favourite science, died in the prime of life.

The precise year of Mr Fuseli's birth is not known. He had the foible which is frequently found in persons of the strongest mind, that of unwillingness to talk of their age. It is generally supposed that he was born in 1739; but this is only conjecture.

Although young Fuseli evinced, from infancy, strong indications of the pecu

liar talent by which he afterwards se eminently distinguished himself, his father determined to bring him up to the church, and did everything that he could to thwart the natural bent of his inclination. This opposition met with the fate which usually attends similar attempts. The zest of prohibition be ing added to the gratification which young Henry felt in the exercise of his pencil, he devoted to it every moment that he could contrive to withdraw from his other occupations. Even at that period, Michael Angelo was his favourite. His father had an extensive collection of prints, especially after that great master; and with their peculiar merits and style, young Fuseli, by repeated copies, rendered himself fami liar. Nor did he confine himself to "servile imitation." Among the productions of his juvenile invention, were a set of outlines, (etchings of which were many years afterwards published,) suggested by the perusal of an eccen tric German novel, called " The Hourglass;" and representing a number of fantastic imps engaged in all kinds of mischievous tricks.

In order that he might be duly qua lified for the sacred office to which he was destined, his father placed him, at the proper age, in the Academical Gymnasium, or Humanity College. Here he became a fellow student in theology with the amiable Lavater, with whom he formed a friendship that lasted until death; and that was then transferred to Lavater's son with unabated fervour. It was here also that he began to cultivate a knowledge of the English language; in which he soon became so great a proficient as to read Shakspeare with ease, and to translate Macbeth into German. He subsequently translated Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's letters into German. Here, too, the writings of Klopstock and Wieland operated as incentives to his muse; he imbibed an in