dominions, and frustrating the ambitious and destructive designs of the enemy." A pension of 2000l. per annum was also granted his Lordship, for himself and the two next heirs of the peerage. In person, Lord Duncan was of a manly, athletic form, six feet three inches high, erect and graceful, with a countenance indicating great intelligence and benevolence. His private character was that of a most affectionate relative, a steady friend, and what crowned the whole with a lustre superior to all other qualities or distinctions, a man of great and unaffected piety. He encouraged religion by his own practice; and the public observance of it was always kept up wherever he held the command. When the victory was decided, which immortalized his name, his Lordship ordered the crew of his ship to be called together, and, at their head, upon his bended knees, in the presence of the Dutch Admiral, who was greatly affected with the scene, he solemnly and pathetically offered up praise to the GOD OF BATTLE. Let it be added here, that his demeanor, when all eyes were upon him, in the cathedral of St. Paul's, on the day of general thanksgiving, was so humble, modest, and devout, as greatly to increase that admiration which his services had procured him. His Lordship is succeeded by his son Robert, a Captain in the Ayr shire Militia. At the Grotto House, Margate, in the 16th year of his age, Mr. T. P. Oldfield, a youth of most extraordinary genius, and too generally known to suffer an idea of the following account of his life to be discredited: At the age of five years and a half he had a scarlet fever which brought on him a paralysis of the lower extremities, and debilitated his body for the rest of his life; but his mind presented the finest display of human perfection. Whatever he read, he instantly had by heart: his favourite pursuits were the mathematics, philosophy, astronomy, geography, history, and painting, in all of which he had made a great proficiency. His favourite authors were Locke and Newton; and his retentive faculties were so strong, that he never forgot a single incident with which he had been once acquainted. He could relate every circumstance of Grecian, Roman, and English history; was master of astronomy, and had pursued it up to all its recent discoveries; had the finest taste for drawing and painting, and would frequently take admirable likenesses of persons who struck him, from memory. He wrote a hand like copper-plate, and at a very early period of his life had made himself master of arithmetic.. He was never known to be out of temper, and though he suffered an illness of ten years, which terminated in a dropsy, and bursting of a blood-vessel upon the lungs, he was never once known to repine or be impatient. His wit was brilliant and refined; and his loss will ever be deplored by those who had the happiness of knowing him. 6. The Rev. THOMAS TWINING, Rector of St. Mary's, Colchester, and formerly of Sidney College, Cambridge; B. A. 1760; M. A. 1763. Sound learning, polite literature, and exquisite taste in all the fine arts, have lost an ornament and a defender, in the death of this accomplished scholar, and worthy divine. His translation of the Poetics of Aristotle, must convince men of learning of his knowledge of the Greek language, of the wide extent of his classical erudition, of his acute and fair spirit of criticism, and above all, of his good taste, sound judgment, and general reading, manifested in his dissertations. Mr. Mr. Twining was the only son of the eminent tea merchant by his first marriage, and intended by his father to succeed him in that house, which he had so well established; but his son feeling an impulse towards literature and science, intreated his father to let him devote his youth to study and a classical education; and being indulged in his wish, he was matriculated at Cambridge. Mr. Twining was contemporary in that university with Gray, Mason, and Bates; and so able a musician, that besides playing the harpsichord and organ in a masterly manner, he was so excellent a performer on the violin, as to lead all the concerts, and even oratorios, that were performed in the university during term time, in which Bates played the organ and harpsichord. His taste in music was enlarged, and confirmed by study as well as practice; as few professors knew more of composition, harmonics, and the history of the art and science of music, than this intelligent and polished dilet tante. Besides his familiar acquaintance with the Greek and Roman classics, his knowledge of modern languages, particularly French and Italian, was such as not only to enable him to read, but to write those languages with facility and idiomatic accuracy. His friends and correspondents will deplore his loss with no common grief. His conversation and letters, when science and serious subjects were out of the question, were replete with a wit, humour, and playfulness, so pleasant and original, that we know not his prototype. If there is any epistolary resemblance between his familiar correspondence, and any other eminent writer's, it is that of Gray, whose letters are as manly and playful, as his private character was finical and fantastical. In the performance of his ecclesiastical duties, Mr. Twining was exemplary, scarcely allowing him self to be absent from his parishioners more than a fortnight in a year, during the last 40 years of his life, though from his learning, accomplishments, pleasing character and conversation, no man's company was so much sought. Mr. Twining was a widower during the last 12 or 14 years of his life, and has left no progeny. His preferment in the church was inadequate to his learning, piety, and talents. But such was the moderation of his desires, that he neither solicited nor complained. The Colchester living was conferred upon him by the present Bishop of London, very much to his honour, without personal acquaintance or powerful recommendation; but from the modesty of his character, and love of a private life, his found learning and literary abili lities were little known, till the publication of his Aristotle. pro - 10. Aged 83, the Rev. ROBERT POTTER, prebendary of Norwich, vicar of Lowestoft in Suffolk, and formerly of Emmanuel College, where he proceeded B.A. 1741, and M.A. 1788. He was known to the literary world as the translator of the three great writers of the Greek Drama, which translations have been generally admired for the singular felicity by which the genius and manner of the respective writers are presented to us. The prebend is in the gift of the King, and the Bishop of Norwich is patron of the valuable living of Lowestoft. The Republic of letters, in the death of Mr. Potter, has lost one of its best and most unassuming ornaments. His manners were simple, and his life exemplary. He was a scholar of the Old School, and nothing tempted him to relinquish divine and polite literature. His works are not numerous, but they are valuable, and will find their way to posterity. his The only temporary effusion of pen was a pamphlet in defence of Gray, against the Criticisms of Johnson. Johnson. A great portion of his life was dedicated to the translation of three Greek Tragic Poets, to whom he is the first who has done ample justice in our language. He had the peculiar felicity of transferring their loftiness, and preserving their simplicity, without running into bombast, or descending to servility. His translations are justly admired by those who are well versed in the originals, of the charms of of which they convey the most gratifying idea to the English reader. It was not till after he had completed his last translation, that of Sophocles, that Mr. Potter obtain ed any preferment in the Church higher than that of vicar of Lowestoffe. He had been a schoolfellow of Lord Thurlow, and had constantly sent his publications to that great man without ever soliciting a favour from him. On receiving a copy of Sopho cles, howeeer, his Lordship wrote a short note to Mr. Potter, acknowledging the receipt of his books from time to time, and the pleasure they had afforded him, and requesting Mr. Potter's acceptance of a prebendal stall in the Cathedral of Norwich, which with his vicarage, rendered him comfortable for the remainder of a life honourably devoted to those pursuits which best become a profound scholar and true Christian. —At Seagrave, in Leicestershire, the Rev. Robert Ingram, vicar of Wormingford and Boxted in Essex, father of the Rev. Robert Acklom Ingram, rector of Seagrave, and late Fellow of Queen's College, Cambrigde. He was formerly of Bene't College, B.A. 1748, M.A. 1753. In Maddox-Street, London, the Rev. Barker Finis Wood, late of Diss in Norfolk, and formerly of Clare Hall, Cambridge, where he proceeded B.A. 1757. TO CORRESPONDENTS. The two last communications subscribed SEARCH, are literally copied from a very respectable Miscellany published about forty years ago; now, though we are not so particular as to refuse reprinting valuable and scarce pieces, yet we do expect that our Correspondents will have so much candour as to inform us when their papers are not original, and to name the sources from whence they are taken. The couplets by Bishop Horne are copied from that excellent Prelate's life, written by the late Reverend William Jones. We think it not quite fair to oblige us to pay postage for extracts. We are sorry to be under the necessity of rejecting the Letter of JuveNIS, owing to its extreme length; and to the many complaints we have received from various friends respecting the tedious extension of an hypothetical subject. The Letter of V. O.O. did not reach the Editor till after the publication of the last number, otherwise it would have been duly noticed: any farther discussion of the point, after what has already appeared would be needless. The Hint suggested by R. A. S. deserves consideration, and we believe it will be carried into effect; but we have strong reasons for declining to publish his Letter. The work he mentions is announced from a very bad quarter, and, if really intended, must be with a hostile view. Another valuable Essay, by the venerable Bishop HORNE, shall in our next. appear ERRATA IN THE LAST AND PRESENT NUMBER. Page 21, line 9, for conceptions read corruptions. 47,3, for hired read tried. 100, lines 29 and 32, for zaris read Xagis. THÊ ORTHODOX CHURCHMAN's MAGAZINE AND REVIEW, FOR SEPTEMBER 1804. Τὸ τῆς εκκλησίαι ὄνομα, ο χωρισμό αλλά ενώσεως και συμφωνίας εσιν ὄνομα The word CHURCH is not a name of separation, but of unity and concord. ST. CHRYSOSTOM, in 1 Cor. c. i-Hom. i. Ed. Savil. BIOGRAPHY. LIFE OF THE RIGHT REVEREND JOSEPH BUTLER,D.D. BISHOP OF DURHAM. Tat HIS profoundly learned and pious divine, was born at Wantage in Berkshire, in 1692. His father, who was a substantial tradesman of that town, observing in him a very serious disposition and an excellent genius, determined to educate him for the ministry among the Protestant Dissenters of the Presbyterian denomination.. Accordingly, after going through a preparatory course of education in the grammar school at Wantage, he was placed under Mr. Samuel Jones, who kept an academy then at Gloucester; but afterwards at Tewkesbury, whose son, Mr. Jeremiah Jones, is advantageously known among scholars by his laborious and excellent work on the canonical authority of the New Testament. Here Mr. Butler made a rapid progress in his theological studies, of which he gave a striking proof in the letters addressed by him to Dr. Samuel Clarke, laying before him the doubts which had arisen in his mind respecting the conclusiveness of some of his arguments in his "Discourses on the Being and Attributes of God." The first of these was dated Nov. 4, 1713, and the sagacity and depth of thought displayed in it, immediately excited Dr. Clarke's particular notice. This encouraged Mr. Butler to address him again upon the subject; and the correspondence Vol. VII. Churchm. Mag. Sept. 1804. Y being being carried on in three other letters, the whole was annexed to another edition of the Doctor's book. The management of this correspondence was entrusted by Mr. Butler to his friend and school fellow Mr. Secker, (afterwards archbishop of Canterbury) who, in order to conceal the affair, undertook to convey the letters to the post office at Gloucester, and to bring back Dr. Clarke's answers. Our young student was not, during his continuance at Tewkesbury, solely employed in metaphysical speculations. Another serious subject of his enquiries, was the nature and ground of Nonconformity, the result of which was a determination to embrace the communion of the Church of England. This intention was at first disagreeable to his father; but at length he suffered his son to follow his inclination, and he accordingly entered himself a commoner of Oriel College, Oxford, in 1714; where he contracted that friendship with Mr. Edward Talbot, second son of Dr. William Talbot, successively bishop of Oxford, Salisbury and Durham, as laid the foundation of all his subsequent preferments. In 1718, at the recommendation of this friend, and of Dr. Clarke, Mr. Butler was appointed by Sir Joseph Jekyll, to be preacher at the Rolls, where he continued till 1726, in which year he published in one volume 8vo. fifteen sermons preached in that chapel. In the meantime, by the patronage of Bishop Talbot, he had been presented first to the rectory of Haughton, which he afterwards exchanged for that of Stanhope. Whilst Mr. Butler continued preacher at the Rolls, he divided his time between his duty in town and the country; but when he quitted the Rolls he resided, during seven years,wholly at Stanhope, in the conscientious discharge of every obligation appertaining to a good parish priest. This retirement, however, was too solitary for his disposition, which had in it a natural cast of gloominess; and though his recluse hours were by no means lost either to private improvement or public utility, yet he felt at times very painfully, the want of that select society of friends to which he had been accustomed, and which could inspire him with the greatest chearfulness. Mr. Secker, who knew this, was very anxious to draw him out into a more active sphere, and omitted no opportunity of expressing this desire to such as he thought capable of promoting it. Having been appointed king's chaplain in 1752, he took occasion, in a conversation with which he was honoured by |