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months. Before it had extended so far, also, the author 

 was engaged in an occupation which required the greatest part 

 of his time, and all the attention he could command. The work 

 is now no longer to be found: the separate numbers, which 

 obtained no great circulation, have, it is thought, perished long 

 aw , with few if any exceptions: and the volume in which they 

 were afterwards reprinted collectively, was stifled by an accident 

 in its birth ; — some cause of delay had intervened to prevent its 

 publication, and the whole impression was found in the book- 

 seller's warehouse, so injured by the damp that not a single copy 

 could be made up for sale. By this time, however, Mr. C.'s 

 fears respecting the success of his work had begun to predomi- 

 nate over his hopes ; and he afterwards confessed to a friend, 

 that he was never more delighted in his life, than when this 

 accident so completely put an end to both. 



The next occurrence to which the history of Mr. Clarke's life 

 conducts us, is his connexion with the family of the late Lord 

 Uxbridge ; a connexion formed, it is uncertain under what 

 auspices, or upon what terms, but eventually not less honourable 

 to Mr. Clarke, than satisfactory to many members of that family, 

 to whom, in the course of his engagement, he became intimately 

 known. The first object of his care was the youngest son of the 

 family, the Honourable Brownlow Paget; a boy of tender age, 

 and of a constitution so very delicate, as to render it advisable 

 that his education should be commenced as well as continued 

 at home. In this view an engagement of some standing with 

 Mr. C. was contemplated by the family ; and rooms having been 

 expressly prepared for their permanent residence together, at 

 Beau Desert, the seat of Lord Uxbridge, in Staffordshire; he 

 joined his pupil at that place, in the autumn of 1796. In the 

 following spring, however, Mr.Paget's health, which had hitherto 

 been considered as only delicate," began visibly to decline, and 

 before that season was far advanced, his disorder arrived at a 

 fatal termination. Mr. Clarke's connexion with Lord Uxbridge, 

 though interrupted, was not broken, by this unhappy blow. The 

 family had too much regard for his past services, and were too 

 sensible of his many excellent qualities and talents,— which had 

 been displayed in a manner endearing to them when his services 

 as a tutor had ceased to be of any use to his pupil,— when 

 the exercise of his kindness as a friend was alone available, 



not to desire to profit by them, so long as any occasion 



should remain; and, on the other hand, Mr. Clarke was 

 too deeply impressed with the value of their friendship, not to 

 acquiesce readily in any similar arrangement which could be 

 proposed. Happily, in a few weeks, an opportunity offered itself 

 for gratifying the vvishes of both. The next youngest son of the 

 family, the Honourable Berkeley Paget (now one of the Lords 

 of the Treasury), had finished his education at school, and had 



