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years, of the parish of Sculcoates. He was born 

 at Hull, where his father was an officer of 

 Excise, and was baptized at the Holy-Trinity 

 Church, on the 25th day of November, 1769. 

 He commenced and completed his elementary 

 education under the late Rev. Joseph Milner, at 

 the Grammar School, in this town, where he 

 was long the class-fellow and competitor of the 

 Rev. John Healey JBromby, the present vicar of 

 the Trinity Church, and the Venerable Archdea- 

 con Wrangham. Of this triumvirate it may not 

 be saying too much to affirm that they took with 

 them to Alma Mater, a combination of talent 

 which could not fail to add greatly to the cele- 

 brity of their master, as a preceptor of the highest 

 order. Mr. Patrick first appeared before the 

 world as an author anonymously, in a learned 

 critique, on Davies' Celtic Researches, furnished 

 to the editor of the Imperial Review :* he after- 

 wards published an able sermon on education, 

 entitled " the State of Morals in a Seaport," 

 preached by him in 1808, for the benefit of 

 the Vicar's Charity School. The extent of 

 his reading, and of his researches into the his- 

 tory and origin of languages, was chiefly made 

 known to the public through the medium of the 

 Classical Journal. In the 5th Number of that 



* Vol. 5, page 59. 



