£799. ] 
Courts.turn ; for, though certainly irregu- 
jar, the fettlement of thele petty difputes, 
in a fummary way, has been found {o ad- 
vantageous to all partics, that the prac- 
tice of commiflioners interfering in thefe 
ynatters, feems, by univerfal confent, to 
be univérfally adopted. The impreffion 
upon my mind, therefore, being that thefe 
fubordinate tribunals are of much greater 
importance as links of the-great chain of 
eauies and confequences, as integral parts 
of the general fyltem, than is commonly . 
imagined, I muft give to them a warm, 
though qualified, approbation, inafmuch 
as I conceive them to be intimately con- 
nected with the exiftence of fociety, the 
jurifprudence and politica] economy of the 
country: yet I muft alfo obferve, in con- 
clufion, that I fhould be happy to fee a 
greater uniformity in their operations, a 
{yQematic arrangement of bufinefs, and 
ftrong yet regular principles of aétion in 
fluence the whole. I remain, Sir, 
Your obedient, humble fervant, 
JoserH Moser. 
Smith Street, Weftminfter, 
OGober 7th, 1799. 
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To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
OTWITHSTANDING the lauda- 
ble attempt of your correfpondent 
G.D. to fupply fome account of the 
learned Mr. Upton, Iam tempted to offer, 
for your Mifcellany, a fuller article to the 
memory of that great {cholar; for which 
¥ am particularly furnifhed by the com- 
munications of his grandfon, Robert 
‘Tripp, Efq. barrifter ; and from which it 
was my defign to have formed a memoir 
in the fupplement to my <‘* Hiftory of 
Taunton ;” but as that publication has 
been poftponed, and probably may not 
appear for feveral years, it is but a proper 
re{pect to the information which that gen- 
tleman politely afforded, and to the name 
of his worthy anceftor, to give it to the 
call of your correfpondents. It will, I 
hope, be deemed excufable, if fome cir- 
cumitances already ftated by G. D. be re- 
peated, 
-James Upton, M. A. was the fourth 
fon of a gentleman of Chefhire, and born 
at Wimflow, in that county, December 10, 
1670. Hewas educated-at Eton, and be- 
came a Fellow of King's College, Cam- 
bridge. He afterwards, at the requett of 
Dr. Newborough, the head mafter, re- 
turned to Eton, where he was tutor to the 
famous Sir William Wyndham. Heé mar- 
ried a lady of a refpe€table family in that 
Account of Fames and Fohn Upton, by Dr. Toulmin. 
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neighbourhood, of the name of Proétor. 
From Eton he removed to Ilminfter, in 
Somerfetthire, upon the invitation of feve- 
ral refpectable gentlemen of the county, 
and particularly of the Earl Pawlet, to 
whom he was afterwards chaplain, and all 
whofe fons were under his tuition at 
Taunton. He remained a few years at 
I]minfter, and taught the learned lan- 
guages there, till he was eleéted to the 
care of the Free Grammar School in 
Taunton: which he conduéted with the 
higheft reputation, and raifed to be the 
largeft provincial fchool at that time ever 
known in England. ‘The number of his 
pupils amounted to more than 2003 and 
many of them were from the firft farnilies 
in the Weft of England. He ferved for 
many years the church of Bifhop’s-Hul}, 
in which parih the {chool is fituated.. So 
early as 1711 he was in pofleffion of the 
rectory of Brimptom, near Yeovil, in the 
prefentation of.the Sydenham family. In 
the year 1712 he was prefented to the rec- 
tory of Monkfilver, 14. miles from Taun- 
ton. He died Auguit13, 1749, aged 79. 
In 1696 he publithed, at Cambridge, 
an excellent edition of Ariftotlé de Arte 
Poetica, with notes. In 1702, at Eton, 
Dionyfius Halicarnaflenfis de Structura 
Orationis. In t711, a revifed and cor- 
rected editionof Roger Aicham’s ‘¢ School- 
Matter,” with explanatory notes. In 
1726, his Tosxsan Ioogse 5 Save Nowus Eiifia- 
riarum Fabellarumque Deledius: a very 
ufeful and much approved feleGtion of 
paffages from Greek authors, witha Latin 
Tranflation. He was alfo the author of 
feveral fingle fermions. 
With the name of Mr. JAMES Upton. 
ought to be preferved that of his fon, Mr. 
Joun_Upton, B. D. who received his 
claffical education in his father’s {chool, at 
Taunton, from whence he went to Exeter 
College, Oxford, where he became a fel- 
low; and afterwards tutor to the fons of 
Lord Chancellor Talbot, and one of his 
chaplains. ‘This nobleman prefented him 
to a prebend in the cathedral of Rochefter; 
he had alfo the reftory of Riffington, in 
Gloucefterfhire. He never married; and 
died at Taunton, December 1760, aged 
53: leaving the reputation of a gentlernan 
of diftinguifhed claflical learning. 
His publications were’ an edition of 
Arrian’s Epictetus, with notes, and a 
Latin Tranflation, two vols. 4to. 1739: 
Dr. Harwood calls this ‘¢ an incompara~ 
ble edition, and the moft perfeét that was 
ever given of a Greek ethical writer :”° 
and Harris, in his ** Philological £n- 
quiries,”’ reprefents it w the firft edition. 
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