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speech 'on Sir George Rodney's vic- 

 tory, -was an admirable proof how 

 much he was superior to the idea of 

 professional jealousy : he took infi. 

 nitc pains to make the tiaral excel- 

 lence of Rodney intelligible to 

 land-men. This indeed ^vas but 

 conformable to his habitual temper; 

 lor he utterly abhorred every spe- 

 cies of detraction. He would never 

 allow that admiral Byn;];had behaved 

 like a coward ; yet he by no means 

 asserted, that Byng had his wits suf- 

 ficiently about him at the most cri- 

 tical moment. Lord liowt's par- 

 liamentary st)'le was comjiendious, 

 strong, pointed, and to the purpose. 

 His speakina; resembled his iiuhting: 

 jio idle j)reludc: close action -was 

 his aim. His manner was confes- 

 sedly particular, and not ill imitated 

 in tlie well-known pamphlet — " An- 

 " ticipalion." 



Lord Howe's most material speech- 

 es in the house of peers were, that 

 on the peace in 1783, his defence of 

 the superannuation of captains, spo- 

 ken in 1788, and lastly, in his 72d 

 3'ear, those on the mutiny. 



The whole tenor of his parlia- 

 mentary conduct, either as a com- 

 moner or peer, Mas in (he highest 

 ilegree irreproachable. He was per- 

 haps as free as ^vas possible to con- 

 t'eive, from all bigotry of party pre- 

 judice. 



Though most deservedly popular 

 V ith seamen, he had no spice of the 

 tar in his personal behaviour anv- 

 Mhcre. His domestical manners 

 Merc unassuming, candid and friend- 

 ly : they evinced too, that he was 

 habitually attached to piety and tem- 

 perance : justice swayed all his deal- 

 ings ; and his fortitude was blazoned 

 over the world. 



Upon tlie whole, the departed 



earl Howe might undoubtedly hare 

 claimed eminent rank among too of 

 those classes of worthies, whom Vir- 

 gil has imaged to be roaming with 

 supreme delight through the fragrant 

 laurel-groves, that over-hangs full 

 streaming water-falls of Elyzium's 

 EndameS. 



Accmint of the Life and Writings of 

 the lute Dr. Beattie. 



James Beattie, LL. D. was born 

 on the dth of November, in the year 

 1733; the parish of Laurencekirk, 

 in the County of Kincardine, iu 

 Scotland, having the honor of en- 

 rolling his name among those of se- 

 veral other literary characters, 

 which that remote part of the island 

 has produced. 



Dr. Bcattie's father was a man of 

 very considerable abilities, of the 

 strictest probity, exact in taking 

 account of the manner wherein he 

 spent his time; and at his leisure 

 hours he cultivated the muses. A 

 journal kept by him, as well as 

 some specimens of his poetry, are 

 still in the possession of his de- 

 scendants. This last circumstance 

 is the more worthy of notice, &s it 

 proves that Dr. Beattie derived his 

 poetical turn from his father. 



Tiie subjedl of this memoir was 

 deprived of his father at a very ten- 

 der age, being then only ten years 

 old. The hopes of the widow and 

 her helpless olfspring were imme- 

 diately fixed upon the senior, and 

 only brother of the doctor. In him 

 they were not disappointed. Da- 

 vid Beattie, at the time of his fa- 

 ther's death, was eighteen years old, 

 prosecuting his studies at school. 

 His father, in consequence of the 



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