!8G6,] Furlhcr Account of the laic Dr. Gacherl 



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where he l;iid the foucdation of that celebrity 

 which he has llnce enjoyed. A (imilarity of 

 taftc in the piivfiiit of clafikal Itnnwiedgc pro- 

 duced between them a friendrtiip., which was 

 only interrupted by death. Among tlie num- 

 ber of thofc friendfliips which iie cukivgtcd in 

 e.irly life we find the name of the late aniiabk 

 andlamenled Dr. John Jebb : a man of various 

 leiirni.ng, of much political knowledge, and 

 who for confcience f.ike relinquillied a very 

 goad living, and atterw.irds ftiidicd fliyfic, but 

 was cut off by a pulmonary confumption jult 

 as lie was beginning to reap the fruits oi his 

 laborious application to the acquirement of 

 ^rieJical knowledge, to the great regret of liis 

 friends and the public In the laft few years 

 Mr. Caches became acquainted with Dr. Parr, 

 and the opinion wliich Dr. J*, formed of him 

 as a critic is beil collcded from his own words. 

 When Mr. Gjchts had fiiiiflicd the ufual 

 .courfe of academical ftudies it was his inten- 

 tion to have profccuted t!ie ftudy of the Law, 

 for which he was admirably calculated, but in 

 tonfequence of fome difappointraents, wliich 

 he met with, he took lioly orders, and at 

 length accepted from King's college the pre- 

 fcntation to the living of VVuoitou Wawen, 

 near Stratford on Avon. He afterv\ards was 

 prcf'rnted by the T rovoft and Fellows oi Eton 

 to the vicarage of Long Compton in the fame 

 county. This he rcfigneu about two years 

 ago in favour of one of iiis nephews, the Rev. 

 J. Ellis. On the refignaiinn of his fellowfhip 

 he married I\Iiis Ellis, who at that time re- 

 filled at Cambridge, and whofe death happen- 

 ed in AprU lljO-i. Previoully to that event 

 Mr. Caches had feveral apopledtic, or para- 

 lytic attacks, fiom which he had recovered. 

 The laft was more fuidcn and violent, and 

 o.n!y allowed him to utter a few words, ex- 

 prelUve of his fenfe of his danger. He then 

 ^11 into a ft:.le of torpor, or infenfibility, 

 til! he expired in the 73d year of his age. A 

 few mojiths before his deatb he marrie.i Mifs 

 Ji:£^, of Heniy, in Arden Mr. Caches, as we 

 iiave already mentioned, has long enjoyed the 

 jeputation of being one of the beil claffical 

 fcholars in England. His early exercifes 

 were of great nierit, but v.'e know of nothing 

 which he printed except lome Latin verfcs in 

 the Gratulatio-ies Academi^.s on the |!eace at 

 the beginning of this reign, replete with the 

 kceneft fatire on the mjniitry of that time. 

 As it is a compefitiun of great merit, and the 

 b ok very fcaice, we fhall reprint it in the 

 <j;iginal poetry of our next number. We 

 jhail alfo give fome of his fugitive pieces, 

 which have never been pu'ililhed. From 

 ^ his firft paralytic feizure hehas ul.vays cx- 

 peftcd a fuddcn death, and not long ago 

 /le deftroseJ feveral pieces, which he li.rd 

 written, among the re!t, a Latm poem, 

 addreffed to Sir James Mansfield upon 

 courfing, an aniufcment, to which he was very 

 much attached, and which he purfued with 

 Jfrcat cagcrncfs almoft to the clotc of hii life. 



Mr. Caches was in thecomrnKTiori of the peace 

 for the county of Warwick, and we may ven- 

 ture to fay that a more upright magiftrate 

 never fat on ihe bynch. He was particularly 

 a friend to the indultrious poor, whom he pro- 

 teCled on all occafions, clpecially in the time 

 of diltrcfs, from the icarcity a few years ago. 

 When Mr. "Cliches firft rehdcd in Warwick- 

 ftire, the road from Oxford to Birmingham 

 was A) bad as hardly to be parfable in winter. 

 He projcfkej, and in ii great meafure fuperin- 

 tendcd, the execution of that pait of it which 

 lies between Shepfton on Siour and Birming- 

 ham, the effect of which has been that it is 

 now one of tlu: beft frequented in England, 

 and is become the high road from London to 

 Holyhead. Though the fubjcft of this mo* 

 moir lived in a szxy fequeltered fpot in the 

 country, yet he never relaxed from his hibits 

 of ftudy. His mind w.'.s therefore ftored with 

 all the learning of antiquity, and fuch was the 

 ftrengtii of his memory tnat he made every 

 book, which he read, his own. He was a very 

 keen difpiitant, and a very clofe reafoner, and 

 being perfectly /killed in the ufe of his wea- 

 pons, few durft enter the lifts v.ith him, and 

 he generally was able to toil the attacks of the 

 ableft adveifary. He became from this cir- 

 cumftancc an objedl of fear to thofe dabblers 

 in literature, whofe fuperficial knowledge led 

 them fometijr.es imprudently into difcuffions 

 upon fubjcc^s, which they were not qujlificd 

 to maintain Mr. Caches w.isofaquick tem- 

 per, and impatient of learned ignorance. 

 When he attacked he was fure to conten.t, 

 and this with fome gave him the cliaradlcr of 

 fevcrity. He was always leady to aliift 

 unafluming merit, and to inform tho.e, who 

 were defirous of iiiformalion. Of this difpo— 

 fition he gave a ftrong proof in the affurance 

 which he gave to many of thofe v/lio com- 

 polcd verfes for infertion in the Cratulationes 

 Acadeniic2e. He ccrt.iinly entirely wrot* 

 fome, which bear other nimes, in that collec- 

 tion. Though of the cler.cal order he was 

 not of the high church party. He lived on 

 very good terms with tiie catholics in his 

 neighbourhood, and, was highly refpefted by 

 them, and at the time of the difgr.ccful riots 

 and perfecution of the dilfcntcrs at Birming- 

 ham fome years ago, he- received and protect- 

 ed fome of thofe, who were the objeiSs of po- 

 pular fury and indignation. In his political 

 fentimtnts he was of opinion that government" 

 v.-as in:iituted for the good of the people, jind 

 though as a magiftrat;e he adminiftered juftice 

 with the gieatelt impartiality, yet he never 

 fjiled upon every prL-'Cr occafion to lend his 

 pioieftion t<! iuch periods as he conddcred to 

 be the objeili of political perfecution. On the 

 whole he was one of thofe charailers, whofe 

 lofs will be lor fume time cunl'iderably felt in 

 the diftiict where he rended, and long regret- 

 eJ by thofe, who having known him longeft 

 anil moll, knew bell ho.v to appreciate his 

 merit.] L. 



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