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abode together, and for which the fine climate of Italy is so well 

 adapted, that it must be a matter of surprise to learn, that he was 

 able to do so much for himself. Nor will this surprise be 

 lessened, when it is known, that besides his journal, he left 

 behind him a great number of manuscripts connected with this 

 tour, including some maps of his own construction. 



In the winter of 1793, Lord Berwick having formed a plan of 

 a voyage to Egypt and the Holy Land, and submitted the prepa- 

 rations for it to Mr. Clarke, his whole time and thoughts were, 

 for several weeks, almost exclusively occupied in this project. 

 In the month of November he left Naples for England, on some 

 particular business for his lordship, which he had undertaken 

 to execute, in order to facilitate their journey to the east, and 

 was landed at Dover on the 30th. Having arranged the business 

 in question, he was on the point of setting off on his return, 

 when he received a letter from Lord Berwick, intimating the 

 sudden postponement, or, in other words, the abandonment of 

 the voyage. 



" It would require a very intimate knowledge of the sanguine 

 character of Mr. Clarke," his biographer, Mr. Otter, remarks, 

 " and of his passionate desire for seeing Egypt and Greece, to ap- 

 preciate adequately the effect of this communication on his mind ; 

 but it may suffice to say, that the disappointment was felt by him 

 more bitterly than any which he had ever before experienced in his 

 life ; that for many years it was even breaking out in his letters 

 and conversation, and that it could never be said to be entirely 

 overcome till under other auspices, and at a maturer age, he 

 had been permitted to drink freely of that cup which was at this 

 time unexpectedly dashed from his lips." 



Mr. C. set off on his return for the Continent on the 20th of 

 January, 1794, and arrived at Naples early in March. His 

 residence there with Lord Berwick, however, continued only for 

 three weeks more ; and travelling by Rome, Aosta, and St. Remy, 

 through Switzerland to Manheim, and thence by Mayence to 

 Cologne and the Low Countries, they landed at Harwich on the 

 8th of June. 



In the autumn of the year 1794, at the recommendation of the 

 Bishop of St. Asaph, Dr. Bagot, Mr. Clarke was requested to 

 undertake the care of Mr. Mostyn (now Sir Thomas Mostyn), at 

 that time a youth of about seventeen years of age. He accord- 

 ingly went to reside with Sir Roger Mostyn's family, at Mostyn, 

 in Wales, but, for some unexplained reason, the connexion 

 ended in little more than a year. In the course of the general 

 election of 1796, he was one of a large party assembled at Lord 

 Berwick's seat in Shropshire, at that time a scene of prodigious 

 interest and agitation, in consequence of the contest for the 

 borough of Shrewsbury, between the Hills of Attingham, and the 

 distinguished family of the same name, and of a kindred race, 



