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•whicli a specimen has just been given, is as follows : " The Hon. Shute 

 Barrington, M.A., Brother to the Lord Viscount Barrington, one of 

 His Majesty's Chaplains in Ordinary, and Fellow of Merton College." 

 He was afterwards a famous prince-bishop of Durham, and an early 

 friend and patron of the late Bishop Phillpotts of Exeter. 



Sir Gerard Napier, Bart., of Trinity College, furnishes some blank 

 verse. Our extract was made for the sake of the adulatory reference 

 to Pitt, who is represented as having begun to form, while yet a student 

 at Oxford, plans " fatal to Gallia's visionary hopes." The elder Pitt 

 had been a member of Trinity College, in that university. He himself, 

 while there, had perpetrated Latin verse on the occasion of a royal 

 death — that of George I. " Allen '' is a river in Dorsetshire, which 

 falls into "the Stour near Blandford. We gather from Sir Gerard's 

 words that certain members of the University had been honored with a 

 request to write on the twofold occasion which Oxford in its loyalty 

 desired to commemorate. He exhibits an affectionate appreciation of 

 Oxford as a place of beauty, and as congenial to the pursuits of science. 

 He thus speaks : 



" This humble strain, near Allen's silver tide, 



That winds with vocal lapse its easy way 



To Blandford's vale, from Rhedycina's view 



Estrang'd, yet mixing with the letter'd tribe, 



Mean suitor, I indite ; nor of her call 



Unmindful, nor of that well-favour'd spot. 



Where late I traced the scientific page ; 



Whose spacious walks and winding alleys green. 



With blended foliage sweetly interchang'd, 



Prompted to woo the solitary muse. 



And calm with noontide breeze intemperate heat. 



Blest haunt ! where once, in speculative search, 



Industrious Pitt indulg'd the lonely step. 



And formed, deep-musing, the commercial plan. 



Fatal to Gallia's visionary hopes : 



Who now his counsel sage with patriot zeal 



Dispenses, and unrivalled still attracts 



His Sovereign's favour, and his country's love." 



The popularity of Pitt, at the time of the composition of these 

 verses, was immense. It was the intention of the Corporation of 

 London, that the bridge over the Thames, afterwards known as Black 

 Friars, should bear the name of Pitt. The following is a translation 

 of the inscription engraved on the plate deposited in the foundation- 



