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splendid scenes of fasMon^blp life. Though 

 ill the opinion of so;reof his friends he migfit 

 perhaps have saciificeri t( o much to 'he 

 natural bent of his disposition, bv wit'i- 

 drauin;:, at such an e.irlv period of I if', 

 frooi those scenes cf g.iiety, he pos^es^ed 

 too much dignity of mi, id to softer hinseif 

 to sink into a sottish it-tirement, too great 

 a love for the opinion of those he eseemtd 

 to allow *he rust of abstraction to tarriish 

 the polih of his manner^. His understiind- 

 ing wai naturally excellent; and during the 

 period of liis too limited life, he took un- 

 ceasing pains in its cultivation. He was 

 "educated at Gottingeii ; and, though sum- 

 inoned when very voung to enter upon the 

 duties of the profession" assigned him, his 

 proficiency evinced that his time had not 

 been misapplied. He was a good classical 

 scholar, and was con\ersant with most of 

 the modern l.inguages, t'le practice of which 

 he kept up, with the aid of the best masters, 

 till the period of his la-t illness. In sh^r-, 

 the improvement of his mind was the dai- 

 ling object of his ambition ; and to this 

 pursuit all others were subservient. In 

 proportion to the greatness of his mind, 

 his enemies were very kw ; and those most 



f)robably would iiut liave existed had he 

 ived in other times: hut his politic.il opi- 

 nions, opposite to those of the majority of 

 his contemporaries, similarly situated with 

 himself, exposed him to the jea ousy of the 

 enlightened among his opponents, and to 

 the rancorous petulance of the ignoiant. 

 The native dignity of his soul, sp.rning at 

 the restraint which a mean policy v.ould 

 have imposed on a coh'er heart, might occa- 

 sionally brea!< forth in a display of his seii- 

 tinienis when topics of this nature were 

 discussed in his society; bvit he never ob- 

 truded his opinions uiiiin ited ; andsuch was 

 the controul in whicti his passioi.s v>ere held 

 by the di^tingulshed urbanity of his manners, 

 that heneverfailed locoiiciliaie when (icfcculd 

 not convince. To sum up his character in 

 afew words, he ; osscssed generosity without 

 ostentation; a pride the most digiiifitd un- 

 tlnged by vanity ; excessive modesty un- 

 shackled by childish tinnditv. He was the 

 best of sons, the kindeii rtldiion, the niost 

 sincere of frien Is. 



\_Aid\tijni and corrections to the account of 

 Cbrittopter Austcy, ctq. whose dea.b is iiaiicedat 

 p. %6i,i'fwe astiiumijer. Mr. A. f)i->lili.?uish- 

 ed himself bo'li at Eion and Cambri ge, as 

 a very elegant scholar -\ speech whuh he 

 maie iii~ the putdic schools, upon some of- 

 fence that had been given him, bcgiiuiing 

 " Doctores sine doctriua, ii.agi>t:i i*nium 

 line aitibus, l<i tiaccalaurei haculo poiius 

 quani laurodigni," was ttic cause of liis rus- 

 tication from the University. Afier ihis 

 he went into the army, and married Miss 

 Calvert, a near rela;ion of the celebrated 

 brewer, by whom he had se\eral children. 

 He was a frequent res.deni in the ciiv of 

 Bath, and wa^ disling:.ished bv ihe notice 

 of the late celebrated Lady Miller, at the 

 Bath-Kasion villa, ot whose poe:ical coterie 

 he became a frequent membrr. The hath 

 Guide first appeared in the vear 1766, while 

 he was anil i/i the armv, and his ))oein on ihe 

 jjaih of the Marqi is of Tavibtocii Wns pub- 

 MopdjitY Mao. No. 1.14. 



lished the following year. Soine.j'ears af- 

 terwards Mr. A. published " An Election 

 Ball, in Poetical Letters, from Mr. In;;le 

 at Bath, to h/s Wife at Gloucestrr; with 

 a poetical AdJr^ss to John Milh-r, e-q. at 

 Bath-Easfon Vill?;" w!iic!i, though in- 

 ferior to the fcr'uer poem, abount'i .ith 

 a considerable rii gree of #it and humour. 

 He likewise published " A poe'ic.il Para- 

 phrase upon the Thir'e-nth Ch;:perof ,*be 

 first Epi tie to ilse Co inthianj, i .'7-7, " 

 foMo, which served '0 evince his dus elti- 

 mation of his prcn;inent talent in ihp first 

 ins'ance, and tha* lie si'cce'-ried best, \'. hen 

 h ■ took in hin'' subjects of a fincifitl and 

 ludi.rous caM. He was also auihor of 

 " Ihe Priest Dissected, a Potm addressed 

 t' th-: Keverend Ai.t'^orof Regulus, Toov, 

 Caesar, an 1 other Pieces in the Papers, 

 Canto I. 1774;" a satire, intlt'-Ird, '-Ad 

 C. W. Banityide, Epis'o'a poetica fami- 

 liaris in qua contin''niiir Tab ilae V. ab eo 

 pxcogitata; quas Per-Jonas'reprtsentant Poe- 

 matis cuii'sdem Anglican! cui 'I'itulus, 

 An Election Ball, 1776," 410. I his ponrn 

 was written to iiurod k e to the public 

 some designs by Mr. B. cf Kesterc- irbf, 

 ill Son'erseishir*, for several o' the pers. ns 

 and incidents in the Elec'ion Ball It has 

 been very iiidift'er»-ntlv translated into Eng- 

 li.^h by another hard. He, with another 

 gentleman, wrote a verv beautiful transla- 

 tion of Grav's Elegv. " Sp.-culation ; or, 

 a Defence of Mankind, i7So," ^to, com- 

 plaining that the poet had been ire ted by 

 ill'' woild in a manner which his inoii'enTvt 

 reprehension ct its vices <lid not ei'tnlthitn 

 to. " Liberality; or, Mernoirs of a decav- 

 ed Macarui 1, . 8S , " 4:0; cautioning 

 agiinst the men-'icants of Bath, who have 

 lived very gentteilv above their ujconies, 

 and some still more ge'teeliy ui hr.it any 

 incomes at all. " flie Fanner's Dirgh'er, 

 a poetical Tale, founded on Fa t.'- jiub- 

 lished in I7v5, wiili a laudable vie v '• \o 

 set Innocence on its guard, and to p'omoie 

 the cause of Virtue." T jS unf.rtimate 

 damsel had been seduced hv a nnliiai . of- 

 ficer, and was afterwards d, serttd bv him. 

 Filled with anguish, shame, and remorse, 

 not without some remains of love "or the 

 destroyer of her iiinucenre, she h-li her fa- 

 ther's hou'-e in search ol her pcrluiious lover, 

 and perished thro.ish fatigue and cidd in one 

 of the inclement nights of the severe win- 

 ter of 1:9 . To the elcgani pe ; of this 

 gentleman were attributed some beautiful 

 verses which appeared in the Bdth Heiald 

 about 1796 or 1797. His latest publira'ioa 

 was an elegant Latin Ode to Dr. J^'inier, 

 written a > e-rv short time previo s to his 

 decease. The following line<from a tr.nj- 

 laiioii of this pcrfoima. ce bv Mr. Hing, 

 evince that the venerable author' ^ talents 

 stil tlo'lri^hed unimpaired at this advanced 

 period of his lile. 



" Oh ! blest by Phoebus, at thv natal hour. 

 The ha; py presa,;e of thv healing power' 

 •Tis thine 10 ttiid" Nature's hidden laws, 

 Trace ;jll her w6. ders loiheir svciet cause; 

 Prevent disease wi:li thy Pi»oi iaii ;.rt, 

 Encounur beuth, and blunt his (dial dart. 

 VVIiile thus 1 rove throUL'h Ch.ita's 

 Jlo'.v ry plain, 



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