Acceunt of 
Dr Dryidale, 
46 HISTORY of the SOCIETY. 
of friendthip ; their conftant ftudy being to oblige each other 
by a perpetual feries of mutual good offices. 
By the death of Dr Jarpine likewife, Dr DrysDALE now 
obtained a fhare in the few clerical offices which the Crown has 
to beftow on the clergy of Scotland. By Royal warrant, he © 
was appointed one of his Majefty’s chaplains, with one third 
of the emoluments of the Deanry of the Chapel Royal. The 
late Marquis of Rockingham was then Prime Minifter and he 
was determined in his choice of Dr DryspAxe folely by the 
recommendation of Dr RoBERTsoON. 
As this office much improved Dr DrysDALe’s pecuniary cir- 
cumftances, it furnifhed him with the means of indulging his 
inclination for domeftic hofpitality to a much greater extent 
than he had hitherto done. His houfe was open at all times to 
his numerous friends and acquaintance, and it was their fre- 
quent place of refort. There, in particular, many of the 
younger clergy, and other young men, enjoyed the advantage 
of his agreeable converfation, and never were happier than 
when in his company. There was fomething fo cheerful, fo 
unaffuming, fo benign, and, at the fame time, fo upright and 
decided in his manner, that he gained the efteem and good will 
of all who had any connection with him, without ever exciting 
the leaft degree of envy. Even fuch as were of different fen- 
timents in church. affairs efteemed the man; and with feveral 
of thefe he maintained a very friendly intercourfe. As his turn 
of thinking on all fubjeéts was clear, acute and judicious, he 
was very expert in the method of conducting affairs. He had 
a peculiar facility and elegance of expreffion in the numerous 
letters he had occafion to write, in a moft extenfive correfpon- 
dence which he carried on throughout the Church. No perfon 
who applied to him for a favour from the remoteft parts of 
the kingdom ever found the application treated with neglect ; 
but, on the contrary, he was foon convinced, that Dr Drys- 
DALE had made every praéticable exertion in his behalf. With 
fuch 
