To the Rector of Hunton, in Kent, to be distributed by him in the same manner, and within the same time, £.50.

To the Rector of Sundridge, in Kent, to be distributed by him in the same manner, and within the same time, £.50.

To each of his Executors, £.100.

To his dear and pleasant friend Mrs. Kennicott*, £.500. Stock in the 3 per Cents.

To his excellent friend Mrs. Hannah More, of Barley Wood, in the county of Somerset, £.200 Stock, in the 3 per Cents.

He also bequeaths, after Mrs. Porteus's death (to whom he leaves, as it was his

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* The regard, which the Bishop entertained for this amiable and excellent Lady, is well known. For many years she paid him an annual visit; and he was always charmed by that power of cheerful, animated, improving conversation, by which she is so much distinguished. He had also the highest opinion of her good sense and judgment and talents; and these qualities, combined, as they eminently are, with the greatest humility, and an unremitted attention to every act of religious duty, public and private, could not fail of rendering her a most welcome and pleasant" visitor at Fulham.

anxious wish to do, and as indeed by her exemplary piety, her amiable manners, and her affectionate unceasing attention to him, she well deserved * a most comfortable and liberal provision,) the undermentioned sums to the following public Charities:

TO the Treasurer of a Society in London, called or described by the name of the Society of Stewards and Subscribers for maintaining and educating poor Orphans of Clergymen, till of age to be put apprentice, for the general uses of that excellent Society, £. 2,000. Stock, 3 per Cents. :

To the Treasurer of the Corporation of the Sons of the Clergy, for the benefit of the Maiden Daughters

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* How deeply the Bishop himself felt the truth of this observation, may be collected from the following passage, written some years before his death: "To Mrs. Porteus's kind attention and attachment to me, I owe," he says, "much of the comfort and happiness of my life; and it is my earnest wish and intention to make a provision for her after my decease in some degree proportioned to her merits, and to the situation she has held in life."

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of Clergymen of the Church of England, £. 2,000. Stock, 3 per Cents. :

To the Treasurer of the Society for the Conversion and religious Instruction and Education of the Negro Slaves in the British West-India Islands, for the general uses of that Society, £. 1,000. Stock, 3 per Cents:

To the Treasurer of St. George's Hospital, near Hyde Park Corner, for the general uses of that Charity, £. 1,000. Stock, 3 per Cents.:

To the Treasurer of the Middlesex Hospital, for the general uses of that Charity, £. 1,000. Stock, 3 per Cents. :

To the Treasurer of the London Hospital, for the general uses of that Charity, £. 1,000. Stock, 3 per Cents.:

To the Vicar of Fulham for the time being, to be divided equally every year amongst the twelve poor Women in the Alms-houses in that parish, the Interest of £. 400. Stock, 3 per Cents.

He also left to his Successors, the Bishops of London, the pictures of his Predecessors in that See, together with his own portrait by Hoppner; his excel

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lent and extensive collection of books; and, with the exception of three hundred. pounds, applied to another purpose, the value, whatever it might amount to, of the copyright of his printed works, as the commencement of a fund for the erection of a new wing for an episcopal library, to correspond with what is now the episcopal chapel at Fulham Palace.

The Bishop was in person under the middle size, of a thin and slender frame, and naturally of a tender constitution. In his youth he must have been extremely handsome; his features were of a superior cast; and, even when advanced in years, he still retained a remarkable clearness of complexion. These however were not the circumstances, which formed the prominent character of his countenance. There was a mildness, a gentleness,

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gentleness, an air of genuine philanthropy about it, with which even indifferent persons were always struck; and yet, when lighted up by the occasion, it displayed the utmost vivacity and animation. His smile had something in it uncommonly captivating; and, though he never lost sight of that dignity, which became his station, it was yet a dignity totally unmixed with pride. He had the enviable talent of dissipating at once that feeling of reserve and apprehension, which, in the presence of a superior, is so often a bar to the freedom and comfort of social intercourse, and by the graciousness of his manner placing those around him perfectly at ease. He delighted in cheerful, lively conversation, and no one ever more promoted it, or perhaps more excelled in it. There was a spirit and playfulness in his language,