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these errors he must long since have been called to his ac- 

 count, before one who can appreciate those errors better 

 than we can. Though the Accusing Spirit must have 

 blushed when he gave them in, yet, let us hope, that the 

 Recording Angel, out of mercy to his humane heart, and 

 his many good and valuable qualities, may have blotted them 

 out for ever. 



Rev. William Gilpin, who, as Mr. Dallaway, in his Ob- 

 servations on the Arts, observes, " possesses unquestionably 

 the happy faculty to paint with words ;" and who farther 

 highly compliments him in his supplementary chapter on 

 Modern Gardening, annexed to his enriched edition of Mr. 

 Walpole's Anecdotes. The Topographer says he " de- 

 scribes with the language of a master, the artless scenes of 

 uncultivated nature. 5 ' Mr. Walpole in his postscript to his 

 Catalogue of Engravers, after premising, that it might, per- 

 haps, be worth while " to melt down this volume and new 

 cast it," pays this tribute to him : " Were I of authority suf- 

 ficient to name my successor, or could prevail on him to con- 

 descend to accept an office which he could execute with 

 more taste and ability ; from whose hands could the public- 

 receive so much information and pleasure as from the author 

 of the Essay on Prints, and from the Tours, &c. ? And 

 when was the public ever instructed by the pen and pencil 

 at once, with equal excellence in the style of both, but by 

 Mr. Gilpin?" 



Had Mr. Gilpin written nothing more than his " Lectures 

 on the Catechism," that alone would have conferred on him 

 the name of a meritorious writer. His allusion to Plato, his 

 reflections on the Last Judgment, his animated address to 

 youth, and his conclusion of his sixteenth lecture, must strike 

 deep into the heart of every reader. His "Sermons preached 



