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powers of mind were equal to theirs; and, 
with similar energy, directed to the most 
honourable purposes. It was always his 
ambition, wherever he went as a servant of 
his country, “‘ to do his duty!’’ and, we 
may say, that, fulfilling it to the utmost, in 
a distant and dangerous climate, he at last 
terminated his life in the “ very gate of his 
post !’? Never having married, whatever 
honours are hereditary in the family, devolve 
on his cousin, General Alexander Wood- 
ford, who, while commanding the Foot 
Guards of Houguemont, behaved with dis- 
tinguishing gallantry in the memorable day 
of Waterloo. This gentleman is at present 
in a military station at Corfu. 
THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY. 
Tue Most Reverend Father in God, his 
Grace, Charles Lord Archbishop of Canter- 
bury, Metropolitan of all England, &c., 
was a branch of the ducal family of Manners, 
descendants from the sister of King Edward 
the Fourth. He was grandson to John, the 
eleventh Earl, and third Duke of Rutland. 
His father, Lord George Sutton—-so called, 
from a family alliance with Bridget, only 
daughter of Robert Sutton, Lord Lexing- 
ton—married, in the year 1749, Diana, 
daughter of Thomas Chaplain, of Blankley, 
in the County Palatine of Lancaster, Esq. 
Charles, his fourth son, the subject of this 
sketch, was born on the 17th of February, 
1755. He was educated at the Charter 
House, whence he removed to Emanuel 
College, Cambridge; where, in 1777, we 
find him one of the triposes, on which occa- 
sion he took the degree of A.B. He after- 
wards proceeded to D.D., and soon obtained 
ecclesiastical preferment. After holding se- 
veral livings in succession, he was made 
Dean of Peterborough, in 1791. On the 
death of Dr. Horne, in 1792, he was ele- 
vated to the See of Norwich ; when he re- 
linguished his other livings, and in lieu 
thereof accepted the Deanery of Windsor. 
Dr. Sutton’s residence at Windsor intro- 
duced him particularly to the late King, 
whose excellent sense and sound discrimi- 
nation soon led him to a just estimate of the 
merits of the new Dean. Dr. Sutton had 
married, as far back as the 3d of April, 
1778, Mary, the daughter of Thomas Thor- 
ston, Esq. This lady was honoured with 
the friendship of her Majesty, Queen Char- 
lotte. It was probably from a knowledge 
of this favourable combination of circum- 
stances, that the author of ‘‘ The Pursuits of 
Literature”’ was led, in 1797, to predict, for 
Dr. Sutton, the possession of archiepiscopal 
honours. To these eminently characteristic 
lines, we find the following note appended : 
Nay, if you feed on this celestial strain, 
You may with Gods hold converse, not with men; 
Sooner the people’s rights shall Horsley prove, 
Or Sutton cease to claim the public love ; 
And e’en forego, from dignity of place, 
His polished mind and reconciling face. . 
Biographical Memoirs of Eminent Persons. 
[Avueust, 
“ Dr. Charles Manners Sutton, Bishop 
of Norwich, a prelate whose amiable de- 
meanour, useful learning, and conciliating 
habits of life, particularly recommend his 
episcopal character. No man appears to me 
so peculiarly marked out for the HIGHEST 
piecniry of the church, sede vacante, as 
Dr. Sutton.” 
On the death of Dr. Moore, Archbishop 
of Canterbury, in 1805, there were three 
competitors to succeed him :—Dr. Tomline, 
supported by Mr. Pitt; Dr. Stuart, who 
claimed on a promise made to him, when 
he accepted the See of Armagh; and Dr. 
Sutton, enjoying the especial fayour of the 
King. His Majesty’s congé d’élire having 
been issued, Dr. Sutton was duly elected on 
the 12th of February, and conjix‘med on the _ 
21st; when he was also nominated a mem- 
ber of the King’s Most Honourable Privy 
Council. 
This Prelate never greatly distinguished 
himself as a politician. When the Clergy 
Farming and Residence Bill, introduced by 
Sir William Scott, was discussed in the 
House of Peers, in June, 1803, he spoke 
several times; and, while he insisted on_ 
the necessity of the measure, he pointed out 
the spirit of persecution introduced into the 
Act of Henry the VIIIth, some of the, 
clauses of which afforded a lucrative employ- 
ment to informers.—His Lordship spoke for 
the first time in his archiepiscopal capacity 
on Moor’s Divorce Bill, on the 13th of 
June, 1805. He availed himself of the 
occasion, ‘* to deprecate every thing that. 
might give facility to divorces; which, if 
carried beyond a certaint extent, tended in 
fact to afford a direct encouragement to the. 
practice of adultery itself.”” 
His Grace was a steady and consistent op- 
ponent of the Roman Catholic claims. As 
early as the year 1805, on the resumed de- 
bate on the Roman Catholic Petition, after 
the Earl of Suffolk and Lord Hutchinson 
had spoken in behalf, and the Earl of Buck- 
inghemshire against the prayer of it, he arose, 
and immediately fixed the attention of the 
House. Enumerating the various privileges 
which had been conceded to the Roman 
Catholics, by the 18th, 22nd, 31st, and 
33rd, of his Majesty, George III., his 
Grace “ expressed his surprise, that after 
such a series of concessions, a petition like 
that on the table should be brought forward. 
Toleration ’’ he added, ‘‘ was the brightest 
ornament of the Church of England; but 
the claims now meant to be obtained were 
inconsistent with the very idea of toleration ; 
for they struck at the act of settlement, and 
tended to give not only equality, but eventual 
superiority, to the Roman Catholic religion 
in a Protestant state.”’ The claims of the 
Protestant Dissenters were treated by his 
Grace in a different manner. He gave his 
voice and his vote against Lord Sidmouth’s 
Bill, in 1811; and on the late settlement of 
those claims, he gave them his vote by 
proxy, and, so far as iu absence he could, his. 
