nil a Well a” pean Ieee alin 
1828.] 
eyes are excelent good, and not any thing,in her 
face that in the least degree can shayme one; on 
the contrary she hath as much agreeablenesse in 
her lookes altogether as ever I saw, and if I have 
any skill in visiognemy, which I think I have, she: 
must be as good a woman as ever was borne; her 
conversation as much as I can perceave is very 
good, for she has witt enough and most agreeable 
¥oyse ; you will wonder to see how well we‘are 
acquainted already, in a worde! thinke myselfe 
very happy, for I am confident our two humours 
will agree very well together.—I have not time to 
say any more. My Lord Loy, will give you an 
account of the rest. Cc, 
No, IT, 
Letter from Charles the Second to Lord Claren- 
don.—In the Briti-h Museum.—Indorsed in 
Lord Clarendon’s hand-writing and addressed 
—For the Chancellor. 
Hamton Court, Thursday morning. 
I forgot when you weare heare last to desire 
you to give Brodericke goud councell not to med- 
dle any more with what concerns my Lady Castle- 
maine, and to lett iim have a care how heis the 
authour of any scandelous reports, for if I tinde 
him guilty of any such thing I will make him re- 
pent it to the last moment of his life: and now I 
am entered on this matter, I thinke it very neces- 
sary to give you a littie good councell, least you 
may thinke by making a farther stirr in the busi- 
ness you may diverte me from my resolution, 
which all the world shall never do, and I wish I 
may be unhappy in this world and in the world to 
come, if I faile in the least degree of what I re- 
solved, which is of making my Lady Castlemaine 
of my wives bed chamber, and whosoever I finde 
endeavouring to hinder this resolution of myne 
(excepts it be only to myselfe) I will be his enemy 
to the last moment of my life. You know how 
mueh a friend I have been to you, if you will 
oblige me eternally, make this businesse as easy 
to me as you can, of what opinion you are of, for 
Tam resolved to go through with this matter, lett 
what will come on it, which againe I solemnly 
sweare before Almighty God, wherefore if you 
desire to have the continuance of my friendship, 
meddle no more with this business, excepte it be 
to beate downe all false and scandalous reports, 
and to facilitate what I am sure my honour is so 
much concerned in ; and whomsoever I finde to be 
my Lady Castlemaine’s enemy in this matter I do 
promise upon my word to be his enemy as long 
as Llive; you may shew this letter to my Lord 
Lunt, and if you have bothe a minde to oblige me, 
carry yourselves like friends to me in the matter. 
Cuarves R, 
Journey through the Upper Provinces 
of India, from Calcutta to Bombay, 1824-5, 
by Reginald Heber, Bishop of Calcutta. 
2 vols. 4to.; 1828.—These volumes belong 
to the very highest class of narrative travels. 
The writer was one of the most accomplished 
men of his day—a scholar and a gentleman, 
‘ardent in his benevolence, and earnest to 
diffuse good will and peace among men, 
-with—what adds greatly to the interest his 
fate excites—something of the delicate and 
Sensitive temperament of genius — high 
strung and high wrought—essentially erra- 
tic, but kept within the bounds of perfect 
Domestic and Foreign. 
523. 
propriety, by his peculiar position, kind 
feelings, and domestic attachments. The 
eniire simplicity and singleness of his cha~ 
racter was rescued from contempt by the 
direction and steadiness of his ruling purs 
poses. The gentleness of his temper and 
evenness of his conduct, may, and must in 
part be ascribed to the ease and competency 
of his circumstances—his mixing mainly 
with the better part of mankind—the entire 
absence of all occasion for conflicting with 
opponents, or encountering serious difficul- 
ties. From the outset of life he was fa- 
vourably placed—with every opportunity 
before him ; his early acquirements were of 
a kind to win admiration among his asso- 
ciates and friends—his tastes prompted him 
to roam over the continent, and his circume 
stances enabled him to indulge his inclina- 
tions to the fullest extent. - His position at 
home gave him the best introductions—he 
had good preferment—was well connected 
—and blessed with admiring friends and 
an amiable family. The wonder is, and it 
constitutes his real merit, that he preserved 
his simplicity, amidst a good deal of adu- 
latory attention; he had a large literary 
acquaintance, and got well be-praised. To 
resist the natural effects of such circum- 
stances shews no common vigour; there 
was no affectation in the man—no fanfaro- 
nade; his aims were direct, and aided by 
no obliquities. India presented to his some- 
what ardent and sanguine imagination, an 
unbeaten field of usefulness, and, invested 
with the episcopal purple, with the mighty 
importance of which he was thoroughly, 
perhaps somewhat extravagantly possessed, 
he went resolutely and strenuously forward, 
and would never have rested as long as 
there were places for churches, or churches to 
consecrate, catechists to confirm, schools to 
establish, or chaplains to ordain. 
There was something about him, how- 
ever, much too elevated—too good, we had 
almost said, absit invidia—for a bishop. 
A bishop is, ex officio, bound to maintain 
certain dogmas, certain forms, certain pri- 
vileges, whatever be the degree of his con- 
yiction as to their utility, or their continu- 
ance. To relax in the enforcement of them 
is to desert his duties—to apostatize. He 
has less freedom than any man in society— 
to take freedoms depreciates him by the 
very act, even in the eyes of those who are 
ready to speak of him with contempt; he 
is supposed to be, and, indeed, must always 
be, in buckram and lawn sleeves—he can 
scarcely give way to any natural feelings— 
his sentiments must always be in print, or 
he runs a manifest risk of being miserably 
calumniated. To join in any of the com- 
mon pursuits of society is scarcely, in the 
most temperate degree, allowable—to play 
at cards—to appear at the Opera—to mingle 
in a dress party—to read poetry, a novel, is 
almost matter of scandal—to pursue science 
to any effective purpose is almost profana- 
tion——to escape it, Watson burnt his books 
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