IIEXRY Kir.KE WHITE. 



College, and with this he was induced to go to Cambridge. 

 Mr Simeon, from the recommendation which he received, 

 and from the conversation he had wdth him, promised to 

 procure for him a Sizarship at St John's, and, with the 

 additional aid of a friend, to supply him with £30 an- 

 il siallj. His brother Neville promised twenty ; and his 

 mother, it was hoped, would be able to allow fifteen or 

 twenty more. With this, it was thought, he could go 

 through college. If this prospect had not been opened 

 to him, he would probably have turned his thoughts to- 

 wards the orthodox dissenters. 



On his return to Nottingham, the Rev. Robin- 

 son, of Leicester, and some other friends, advised him to 

 ai'ply to the EUand Society for assistance,* conceiving 

 that it would be less oppressive to his feelings to be de- 

 pendent on a Society instituted for the express purpose 

 of training up such young men as himself [ihat is, such 

 in circumstances and opinions) for the ministry, than on 

 the bounty of an individual. In consequence of this ad- 

 vice be went to EUand at the next meeting of the so- 

 ciety, a stranger there, and without one friend among 

 the members. He was examined, for several hours, by 

 about five-and- twenty clergymen, as to his religious views 

 and sentiments, his theological knowledge, and his classi- 

 cal attainments. In the course of the inquiry, it appeared 

 that he had published a volume of poems : their ques- 

 tions now began to be very unpleasantly inquisitive con- 

 cerning the nature of these poems, and he was assailed 

 by queries from all quarters. It was well for Henry that, 

 they did not think of referring to the Monthly Review 

 for authority. My letter to him happened to be in his 

 pocket ; he luckily recollected this, and produced it as a 

 testimony in his favour. They did m.-e the honour to say 

 that it was quite sufficient, and pursued this part of their 

 inquiry no farther. Before he left Elland, he was given 

 to understand that they were well satisfied with his theo- 

 logical knowledge ; that they thought his classical profi- 

 ciencyprodigious for his age, and that they had placed him 



* Mr So»ithey,in a note, rem ark?, that ho had not seen the letter 

 p;ige 210, when he wrote this memoir. * 



