NATURAL HISTORY. 
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ment, and reduced to the necessity of subsisting on 
the charity of the wealthier Jacobites. Perhaps he 
might have had miseries of a domestic nature besides^ 
but this is now forgotten ; suffice it to say^ that^ after 
witnessing the abortive attempts of \715, and 1745, 
to restore the dynasty he loved, he died in 1748, 
silvered over with the weight and infirmities of 88 
years. "Wordsworth has written a sonnet upon this 
inscription, but apparently without knowing the his- 
tory, and a volume has recently appeared upon the 
same subject. 
The history of the celebrated Bishop Hough, who 
owed all his greatness to the Revolution, furnishes us 
with a singular contrast to the fate of the neglected 
miserrimusr Expelled from his presidency of 
Magdalen College by the arbitrary James, the triumph 
of constitutional principles made his fortune. He 
was restored to his college by William III. and the 
mitres of Oxford, Lichfield and Worcester, graced his 
brow in succession. He was born April 12, 1651, 
and expired at Hartlebury Castle, May 8, 1743, at 
the age of 93. Dr. Nash states that his constant 
beverage after dinner when upwards of 90 years 
of age, was strong beer and sugar. 
Warren Hastings, the celebrated Governor General 
of Bengal and India, may without impropriety be 
inserted in our " Records of Longevity," since he 
attained the age of 86. After exercising the functions 
of a sovereign in India for eleven years, and after 
dearly paying for his past grandeur by a seven years' 
trial, Mr. Hastings retired to his native place, Dails- 
