1800. ] 
‘and a bottle of wine drains my pocket of 
between five or fix fhillings—for fifteen 
pence I had, in the famifhed country on 
the other fide of the water, my foup, my 
filh, my gigot, and my deffert, and ten- 
pence more*gave me an excellent bottle 
of ciaret.””>. Whatever may have been the 
horrors of Robefpierre’s tyranny at Paris, 
He feems to have left ftarvation for this 
fide of the water. At the fame time no 
one felt more for the injury done to the 
caufe of liberty, by the favage ferocity and 
outrageous anarchy of the French ; but 
well acquainted with the caufes of their 
crimes, with the preflure which they fuf- 
fered from without, andthe treachery which 
was daily nurtured within by foreign 
gold, he diftinguifhed between the’ vices 
of the revolutionary government, and the 
attempt of a whole people, to refcue them- 
felves from the prejudices of birth, the 
tales of prieftcraft, and the antiquated 
remains of feudal oppreffion. He felt, as 
he ufed to fay, like an Englifliman, who 
‘had imbibed his notions of liberty. in the 
days of George the Second, and accuf- 
tomed to affociate together, as in thofe 
good old times, the founds of monarchy, 
‘popery, and wooden ‘thoes ; he could ne- 
ver reconcile himfelf to the new ftyle of 
thinking on thefe fubjeéts, nor think it 
an advantage to this country, that Bour- 
bon politics fhould grow in fafhion, and 
that, becaufe the French run mad, the 
found principles of Englifh liberty fhould 
“be trodden under foot. Hence he was a 
ftrenuous advocate for the reform of par- 
‘Hament, and frequently repeated the pro- 
phecy of thelate Earl of Chatham, fcarce- 
ly permitting himfelf to entertain the moft 
‘remote idea, that thé euthanafia of the 
Englifh conftitution was likely to flew 
the fuperiority in fecond-fight of the Scotch 
hiftorian over the Englifh politician. 
His philanthropy was unbounded. To 
him we are indebted in great meafure for 
the expreffion of national gratitude, to the 
memory of Howard, in St. Paul's; and 
though in a different fohere from that or- 
“nament of our country, he was f{carcely 
lefs ative in the relief of the diftreffed. 
The watch tax afforded ample fcope for 
benevolent exertion; thediftrefs it brought 
uponthe parifh in which he refided, cannot 
be conceived by thofe who are little ac- 
cuftomed to refleét on the effetts of decay 
of employment in an induftrious family. 
‘From a neat and comfortable houfe, by 
‘degrees every article of furniture difap- 
“pears; the tools go next ; a fupply of food 
is wanted by the children, and the parent, 
almost in defpair, is compelled to beg re- 
Memsirs of Dr. Warner. 
gers.” 
lief at a foup-fhop. Dr. Warner was 
the guardian angel to numbers, he affitted 
in all the benevolent plans of his parith, 
and was continually pourine*the oil of 
comfort into the wounds inflifed by an 
act of the Minifter, adopted without con- 
fideration, and fupported by obftinacy. 
To pure benevolence’ Dr. Warner 
added the firmeft integrity; and he was 
endeared to his friends by a difpofition the 
moft cheerful, and by that gaieté du ceur 
which at all times was producing pleafing 
images. No one excelled him in genuine 
humour, and in adapting his ftory to the 
‘courfe tof converfation: full’ of anecdote 
from real life, or from the ftories of ex- 
tenfive reading, he fhone at the feftive 
‘board of mixed and polifhed fociety, bac_ 
ftill more in the retired circle, where, with 
a few literary friends, he could indulge in 
an expanfion of fentiment, and enjoy the 
happinefs of real conviviality. 
He was a great fmoaker, and may in 
this alone- be faid, in thefe days, to have 
been almoft immoderate, for in every 
other refpeét he was frugal and abftemi- 
ous. A pipe, a book, and a friend were 
his great enjoyments ; and in the works 
he has left behind him, appear fufficient 
proofs of original thinking, as well as 
extenfive learning. ‘To him we are in- 
debted for the tranflation of the Life of 
Friar Gerund ; a work tobe read by every 
one who cultivates the eloquence of the 
pulpit; and his Metron-arifton is-now in 
the hands of all the learned*. ‘The doétor 
wifhed to give an Englifh ear fome idea of » 
the fyftem of the ancients. 
much abroad, he could not but cbferve 
the difference between the Englith and 
foreign pronunciation of Latin; and this 
led him to refle&t more deeply on the faults 
which we imbibe in our early years. No 
young perfons are more firictly educated 
in the theory of quantity than the boys of 
Eton and Weftminfter, but to us ~ 
““ $¢ aui digito callemus et aure,”” 
their practice is terrible. ‘The ear is to- 
tally neglected in thefe fchools, and.at the’ 
inftant the boy is telling you the fyllable 
is fhort, he contradicts his cwn affertion 
frequently by his pronunciation. ‘This 
was grating to the ears of Dr. Warner, 
as it is to thofe of every man of tafte ; but 
the evil is perhaps incurable; and we fhall 
fcarcely correét our natural inclination for 
the zrochee and the da&yl, till the Latin . 
language itfelf ceafes to be in fafhion. 

* One of his laf literary productions was 
the Memoir of Major Cartwright, which ap- 
peared in the Work, entitled ** Public Charac- 
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