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flippancy of controversy, called the 
author of The Philolentherus Lipsi- 
enses and detector of Phalaris aut 
Coprimulgus aut fossor, his genius 
has produced those living witnesses 
that must for ever put that charge 
to shame and silence. Against such 
idle ill considered words, now dead 
as the language they were conveyed 
in, the appeal is near at hand: it 
lies no further off than to his works, 
and they are upon every reading 
man’s shelves; but. those would 
have looked into his heart, should 
have ‘stepped into» his house, and 
seen him in his private and-domes- 
tic hours; therefore it is that I ad- 
duce these little anecdotes and tri- 
fling incidents, which describe the 
man, but leave the author to ue. 
fend himself, i 
*¢ His ordinary style of conversa. 
tion, was. naturally lofty, and his 
frequent use of thow and thee with 
his familiars, carried with it a kind 
of dictatorial tone, that savoured 
more of the closet than the court; 
this is readily admitted, and this on 
first approaches might mislead a 
stranger; but the native candour 
and inherent tenderness of his 
heart could not long be veiled from 
observation, for his.feclings and af- 
fections were at ounce too impulsive 
to be long repressed, and-he was too 
careless. of concealment to attempt 
at qualifying them. - Such was_ his 
’ sensibility towards human sufferings, 
that it became a duty: with his. fa. 
inily to divert the conversation from 
all topics of that sort; and if he 
touched upon them himself he was 
betrayed into agitations,. which if 
the reader ascribes to paralytic 
weakness, he will very greatly: mis- 
take a man, who to the last hour: of 
his life possessed his faculties firm 
and in their fullest vigour ; I, there. 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1806. 
fore, bar all such misinterpretations 
as may attempt to set the mark of 
infirmity ‘upon those emotions, 
which had no other souree or ori- 
gin but in the natural and pure be- 
nevolence of his heart. 
‘6 He was communicative to all 
without distinction, that sought in- 
formation, or resorted to him for 
assistance ; fond of his college al- 
most to enthusiasm, and ever zealous 
for the honour of the purple gown 
of Trinity. When he hekl examina- 
tions for fellowships, and the modest 
candidate exhibited marks of agita- 
tion and alarm, he never failed to in- 
terpret candidly of sueh symptoms ; 
and on those occasions he was never 
known to press the hesitating and 
embarrassed examinant, but often. 
times on the contrary, would take 
all the pains of expounding on him- 
self, and credit the’ exonerated can- 
didate for answers and interpreta- 
tions of his own suggesting, If this 
was not rigid justice, it was, at least 
in my conception of it, something 
better and more artinhles 3 and low: 
Jiable he was to deviate from the 
strict line of Justice. by his partia- 
lity to the side of mercy, appears 
from the ancedote of the thief, who 
robbed him of his plate, and was 
seized and brought before him with 
the very articles upon him: the na- 
tural process io. this 
pointed ont the road to prison; 
my grandfather’s process was more 
summary, but not quite so legal. 
While commissary Greaves, who 
tras’ then present,‘and of counsel 
for the oollege ex officio, was expa- 
tiating om the crime, and prescrib- 
ing the measures obviously to be 
taken with -the offender, doctor 
Bentley interposed, saying, ** Why 
tell the man he is-a thief ? he knows 
that. well. enovgh, -without thy in- 
; formation 
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man’s case, 
