1824.] late Rev. Dr. Clarke. 411 



commencing his permanent residence at the University towards 

 the end of the following month. 



For some time Mr. Clarke took no College office, nor was 

 such an employment essential to, or even compatible with his 

 views, for Mr. Cripps still continued with him as his pupil, and the 

 eno-ao-ements arising out of his travels were quite sufficient to oc- 

 cupy all the time he"had to spare : amongst these his first care was 

 to collect and examine the cases and packages, containing their 

 acquisitions in the various departments of antiquity,^ art, and 

 science, which had been awaiting their arrival at the different cus- 

 tom-houses of the country. Mr. C. had sent to England more than 

 seventy cases of his own before he left Constantinople, whilst 

 his companion had upwards of eighty, obtained under his advice 

 and influence ; and considering the' remoteness of the places 

 from which they had most of them been dispatched, and the 

 variety of conveyances to which they had been entrusted, so 

 little had been sustained by them, either of loss or of injury, as 

 to be matter of just congratulation to the collectors. 



Of all these treasures, the first place in Mr. Clarke's mind was 

 given to the Eleusinian statue of Ceres ; and this, not only on 

 account of the high distinction to which the statue was destined 

 in the University, but for the rank he assigned to it, amongst 

 the monuments of the purest age of Grecian sculpture, and the 

 many classical associations connected with its history. By the 

 liberality of Government, it was allowed to be taken out of 

 the custom-house duty free ; and when at last a place had been 

 assigned to it by the University authorities in conjunction with 

 the donors, and the proper preparations had been made for its 

 reception, it was securely placed upon its pedestal, with all due 

 form and honours, in the most conspicuous part of the vestibule 

 of the Public Library, on the 1st of July, 1803 ; and the names 

 of Dr. Clarke and Mr. Cripps were, by the desire of the Univer- 

 sity, inscribed upon the base. The public appearance of the 

 statue was quickly followed by a tract from Mr. Clarke's pen, 

 which naturally grew out of the transaction, and was indeed 

 important to the illustration of it. In this work, which is enti- 

 tled " Testimonies of different Authors, respecting the Colossal 

 Statue of Ceres," the monument in question is clearly proved to 

 be the very individual bust, described as lying at Eleusis, by 

 "Wheler and Spon, Pococke, Chandler, and others, and consi- 

 dered o-enerally as the representation of the Goddess. In the 

 winter of this year a grace was passed unanimously in the senate 

 of the University, for conferring the degree of LL.D. upon 

 Mr. Clarke, and that of MA. upon Mr. Cripps ; and to mark 

 with more distinction the sense of the University, in conferring 

 these honours, a third grace was subsequently carried, to defray 

 the whole expense of Dr. Clarke's degree from the University 

 chest. 



