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and creeping: bentegrasses, I was equally cer- 
tain that such land was poor and steril. In 
the year 1775, I published. my “ Hints to 
Gentlemen of Landed Property,” in which I 
characterized and described a great number of 
diffetent sorts of land; by what grew upon 
them, and suggested the must obvious means 
of improving them. I flatter myself this 
book has beén the cause of considerable im- 
provement;.and will of more when I am 
mouidefed into dust. 1 now found myself 
employed as a land valuer upon a large scale; 
but.itis my satisfaction to reflect that I did 
not undertake this office till I had satisfied my 
ewn.conscience. that 1 was capable of it. 
When agentleman put his estate into my hands, 
I considered it was the highest trust he could 
reposein me 5 it wasleaving it.to me to mite 
out his fortune byallotting him what Lthought 
pfoper.upon the object submitted to me. It 
was therefore incumbent on me to take care 
of his interest, at the same time there was 
another person who had an egual claim.to 
justice from me, which was the occupier, who 
had a right to be recompensed for his labour, 
judgment, and capital. In weighing: these 
interests where there was doubt, I contess I 
gave the turn of the scale to the latter, 
Acting thus, the landlord and tenant in ge- 
neral expressed reciprocal satisfaction. Jam 
much-flattered by your approving of me as a 
Jand valuer, and presume to hope, that you 
will alsoconsider me asa landimprover. Al- 
low me to say, that the embankment between 
the Lincolnshire washes, which secured land 
from the sea, to the amount of 200,000I. in 
walue, was principally brought about and ef- 
fected by my advice, and there are many 
thousand acres of wast¢ land in different parts 
of the kingdom, that likewis¢ owe their im, 
provement to me. It is now forty, years, 
gentlemen, since I have*been closely con- 
nected with thiscounty. Ihave had the sa- 
tisfaction to make a vast number of valuable 
friends, and if I have any enemies I trust 
they are but few, I have always acted from 
a conscientious consideration of the business 
laid before me; and Shakspeare, the great 
judge ef the human heart, says, ¢*Above all be 
to thine. own self be true, and it must follow, 
asthe night the day, thou canst not be faise 
#0 any man.” 
{ Further particulars of the Rew. Ralpb Harrison, 
whose death was announced in our last volume. | 
He was the son ofthe Rev. W. Harrison, 
minister of a small society of Protestant dis- 
senters at Chinley, in Derbyshire. Being 
originally designed for the Christian ministry, 
he entered upon a course of appropriate stu- 
@ies at the academy in Warrington, which 
was then conducted by the Rey. Dr. Aikin, 
wnder whose superintendance the institution 
acquired considerable celebrity. As a student 
he acquitted himself with great credit, and 
Account of the late Rev. Ratph Harrison. 
upon leaving that seminary, he received from — 
his tutors, ‘high commendation for the exeme _ 
plary propriety of his moral behaviour. Soon 
after the commencenient of his professional 
career, he was invited to Shrewsbury, to une 
dertake in conjunction with the Rev. Joseph 
Fownes, the pastoral charge of a respectable 
society of Protestant dissenters. Upon the 
death of the Rey. Joseph Mottershead, in 
1771, he was chosen to he one of the minis; 
ters of a highly respectable society of Protes- 
tant dissenters ia Manchester, in which sie 
tuation he continued till within a few weeks 
of his death, when the declining state, of his 
health compelled him to resign. In the year 
1774, he began a school for the education of 
youth. In this arduous but honourable occu 
pation le displayed superior skill, and his 
celebrity as a, teacher spread far beyond the 
neighbourhood in which he resided. In 1786 
he undertook, in conjunction . witlr his col» 
league in the ministry, the late Rev. Dr, 
Barnes, the important charge of an academical 
institution in Manchester, the duties of 
which he fulfilled in a most satisfactory man- 
ner. He has occasionally appeared before . 
the public as an author. His English gram- 
mar is, perhaps, one of the best elementary 
works in the language, His two volumes of 
Sacred Harmony,” are too well known to 
require any encomium. He also published 
an Introduction to the Study of Geographys 
with aset of blank maps, a Sermon upog 
Education, and a Biographical Tribute to the 
Memory of the Rev. John Seddon, one of hig 
predecessors in the pastoral office at Manchesy 
ter. Asa preacher he was judicious and ine 
structive. His compositions which were 
correct and perspicuous, exhibited a pleasing 
union of the argumentative and the pathetic, 
His voice was clear and harmonioys, his de- 
livery natural and unaffected, and he secured 
the attention of his hearers by a manner the 
most serious and impressive, In private life 
he was uncommonly amiable, Asa husband, 
a father, a relative, a friend, he was truly 
yaluable. To an undeviating integrity of 
character, he united the habitual exercise of 
an enlightened and fervent piety. In his 
general disposition he had great natural viva- 
city. His manners were gentle and aligce 
tionate, his address prepossessing, his con 
Versation entertaining and instructive. Afcer 
languishing for some time under a disorder, 
which baffled the efforts of medical skill, he 
departed this life in the 63d year of his age,- 
and the 45d of his stated ministry. His re~ 
Mains were attended to the grave by anume= _ 
rous and respectable assemblage of friends, 
who voluntarily came together to pay their 
last tribute of respect te his memory. His 
virtues will be long remembered by all who 
knew him. They will be atheme of grateful — 
recollectioa to his mouraing family.. 
FROVINCIAL 
