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the care of the Rev. Dr. Morgan, an old 
friend of the family, and a senior fellow 
of that society. 
“ My rooms,” says Mr. Cumberland,” 
were closely adjoining to his, belonging 
to that stair-case which leads to the 
chapel bell; be was kind to me when we 
met, but as a tutor | had few commu- 
nications with him, for the gout afforded 
him not many intervals of ease, and with 
the exception of a few trifling readings 
in Tully’s Offices, by which I was. little 
edified, and to which I paid litle or no 
attention, he left meand one other pupil, 
my friend and intimate, Mr. Walliam 
Rudd, of Durham, to choose and. pur- 
sue our studies as we saw fit. This de- 
reliction of us was inexcusable; for Rudd 
was a youth of fine talents, and a well- 
grounded scholar. In the course of no 
long time, however, Dr. Morgan left 
college, and went to reside upon his 
living of Gainford, im the bishopric of 
Durham, and T was turned over to the 
Reverend Dr, Philip Young, professor of 
oratory in the University, and afterwards 
bishop of Norwich, What Morgan made 
a very light concern, Young made an 
absolute sinecure, for from him EF never 
received a single lecture, and L hope his 
lordship’s conscience was not much dis- 
turbed on my account, for though he 
gave me free leave to be idle, | did not 
make idleness my choice. 
“In the last year of my being an un- 
der-graduate, when L commenced Soph, 
in the very first act that was given out to 
be kept in the mathematical schools, I 
was appointed to an opponency, when 
at the same time I had not read a single 
proposition in Euclid; I had now been 
jest turned over to Mr. Backhouse, the 
Westminster tutor, who gave regular 
Jectures, and fulfilled the duties of his 
charge ably and conscientiously. To- 
tally unprepared to answer the call now 
made ppon me, and acquit myself in the 
schools, I resorted to him in my distress, 
and through his interference my name 
was withdrawn from the act; in the mean 
time, I was sent for by the master, Dr. 
Smith, the learned author of the well- 
known Treatises upon Optics and Har- 
monics, and the worthy successor to my 
grand-father Bentley, who strongly re- 
rebated the neglect of my former tutors, 
and recommended me to lose no more 
time in preparing myself for a degree, 
but to apply closely to my academical 
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studies for the remainder of the year, 
which I informed him I would do.” 
. Mr. Cumberlafid accordingly kept his 
word, and began a course of stwdy so 
apportioned, as to allow himself but six: 
hours of sleep, living almost entirely upon 
milk, and using the cold-bath very tre-- 
quently. At length he was appointed, 
“ nothmg loth,” to keep an act, and) 
having distinguished himself on this oc- 
casion, the moderator concluded the day 
with a compliment to him, He svon 
after took his bachelor’s degree, with 
great credit, and returned home to the 
paternal mansion, to suffer for his severe 
studies, a fever having taken place in 
consequence of intense application. ; 
On his recuvery, our author made an 
excursion to the city of York, and en. 
tered into a new scene of life; for we ind 
him hunting in the mornings, dancing 1:0 
the evenings, and reading nothing but 
Spenser’s Fairy Queen. He appears, at 
this period, to- have been much pleased 
with some elegiac verses, written by 
Lady Susan Stewart, daughter of a late 
Earl of Galloway,and,in return, compased 
some poetry of his own, rather celebrated 
for its piety than its point, off which we 
shall insert only the two first stanzas : 
‘¢ True! we must all be chang'd by death, 
Such is the form the dead must wear, 
And so, when beauty yields its breath, 
So shall the fairest face appear. 
« But let thy soul survey the grace, 
That yet adorns its frail abode, 
And through the wondrous fabric trace 
The hand of an unerring God.” &c. 
On his return to college, a fellowship 
presented itself to Mr. Cumberlana’s 
view; but he was suddenly called on to 
take a part in very different pursuits, 
having been invited by Lord Halifax, 
then one of the ministers, to assume the 
situation of his private and confidential 
secretary. Notwitltstanding this, he 
found means to make a short visit to his 
college, and was again admitted to its 
honours. ~ 
Meanwhile, his father, who like him- 
self, had been educated at Westminster 
and Trinity College, Cambridge, having 
exerted his patriotism in behalf of the 
House of Hanover, was al-0 patronized 
by Lord Halifax, and at length obtained 
the bishopric of Clonfert, in Ireland, 
whence he was afterwards translated to 
the see of Kilmore. His son, wholooked 
up to the same’ source for protection, 
visited their noble friend at Horton, on 
the demise of his lady, and having re- 
moved 
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