$78 The Bifhop 
followed the model prefented by that very 
able profeffor ;| what is not a little remarka- 
ble too, the {cholar on this occafion acguired 
a more brilliant fame than the mafter. This 
publication obtained for Mr. Beattie much 
fame, a fmall penfion, and a large portion of 
friends; among whom are to be reckoned 
Dr. Gregory, of Edinburgh, the, Earl of 
Mansfield, Mrs. Montague, Dr, johnion, 
Lord Lyttleton, and Dostors Hurd and Por-~ 
teus, the bifhops of Worcefer and London! 
Lord Mansfield, then Chief Juftice of the 
King’s-bench, recommended him to his Ma. 
jetty for a gratuity of 200). per annum, from 
the privy purfe; and to make ufe of the lan- 
guage of that day, ‘* it was underftood, that 
thus penfioned, he fhould Jie on the watch, 
and confute every fceptical and profane cpi- 
nion, that fhould, after all that he had writ- 
ten, dare to ftart up in the world.” Having 
obtained fame and independence in his native 
country, Mr, Beattie was now defirous to 
vifit London, and converte with the celebrated 
men of letters in the Englifh capital. Being 
acquainted with Mr. Bofwell, he applied to 
that gentleman in 1771, in his way to Lona 
don, and obtained a very flattering introduc- 
tion to Dr. Johnfon, who n: sduced Mr, 
Beattie to many of his friends, Mrs. Thratfe 
in particular, and ever after {poke of him in 
fuch a manner as to teftify hisefteem. About 
this time he had obtained a diploma from the’ 
Marifchal College, as LL.D vifited London 
once more, in 1773. A long interval of five 
years elapfed, however, before he returned 
thither again. In 173 33, Dr. Beattie pre- 
fented the world wich ‘* Differtations Moral 
and Critica!,” in one vol. 4to. The fubjedts 
treated of in this work, originally formed a 
courfe of prelections ‘* which were read to 
thofe young gentlemen whom it was the au- 
thor’s bufinefs to initiate in the elements of 
moral fcience.”” In 1786, at the recommen- 
Gation of the prefent Bifhop of London, Dr, 
Beattie publifhed §* Evicences of the Chrif- 
tian Religion,” in 2 vois. 8vo. Thus the 
life of our author hath been a laborious one; 
for what with cultivating the belles-lettres, 
ttending’ to the Inftruction of his clafs in 
mera} philofophy, compoling, preparing for, 
and correcting the prefs, but little of his time 
can have Been deveted to the pleafures of 
fociety. He was cheerful, however, and at 
times unbent his mind in the company of his 
old friends, until about ten years fince, when 
a melancholy event occurres that caft a gloom 
around him, and preved too fraught with af- 
fliction, notwithfanding his finge alar p pietyy 
to be borne without the extremity of ih 
miiery. For many years, his eldeit fon, at 
ence his companion and his friend, had con- 
trivuted not a littke £0 cheer his mind,’ and 
promifed to become the delight of his declin- 
ingage. This ftay, this propas it were of all 
his comforts and ail his hopes on earth, was 
fnatched away from him on the rgth oF No- 
vember 1790, when he had attained the age 
of Derry. 
of twerity-two, and difplayed on oné hané 
fuch a virtuous difpofition as the fondeft fa- 
ther might have been proud to behoid, whibe 
on the other his genius and taients began to * 
develope, and afford an early promife of fu- 
ture excellence, The lat fad and melan- 
choly duty on tae part of am unhappy father, _ 
has been the publication of the pofthumous 
works of a fon, of whom he concludes an in- 
terefting account as foliows: ‘I have loft,” 
fays he, ‘‘ the pleafanteft, and, for the laft 
four or five years of his fhort life, one of the: 
moft inftru€tive companions that ever many 
was delighted with. But—Due Lorp 
GAVE} THE LORD HATH TAKEN AWAY: 
BLESSED BE THE NAME OF THE LorD. 
Tadore the Author of all good, who gave 
him grace to lead fuch a life, and die fuch a 
death, as mekes it impoffible for a Chriftian 
to doubt of his having entered upon the in- 
heritance of a happy immortality.” But, as 
if the forrows of our profeffor had not al- 
ready been fufficiently acute, he experienced, 
in 1796, an additional weight of calamity, by 
the death of his younger ay Montagu Beat. 
tie, fo called after Mrs. Montagu. Thefe 
loffes he never was able to recover$ and has 
continued, ever fince, to decline in health 
and fpirits. Dr. Beattie was confidered as an 
amiable man in every department of private 
life. In the charaéter of a hufband his con- 
[ Nov. MI; 
- duét was exemplary, and we have already bes 
held him carrying the affeCtions of a father 
to an extent fcarcely compatible with Chrift- 
ian refignation. His fame nota little con- 
tributed to the flourifhing flate of that unij- 
verfity of which he was the ornaments. 
While his health permitted, no one was more 
eager or more zealous to difcharge the duties 
of his profefforfhip ; and we may venture to 
obferve, that a lapfe of many years is likely 
to enfue before the chair of *¢ Moral Philofo- 
phy’ will be filled by an abler leéturer. As 
a poet, the Doctor muft be allowed to have 
atiained great excellence. His verfification 
is elegant; and in choice of language and 
of imagery he is inferior to none of his cone 
temporaries. Had he continued, like Pope 
and Dryden, to cultivate the Mufes, even in 
his old age, his claffical talents and harmas 
nious mumbers would have enfured Sill 
greater fame. Astohis perfon, he was about 
the middle fize ; end although his afpet was 
pleafing, yet there was nothing. that diftin- 
paid hi from the bulk of mankind, were, 
it not for the vivacity of the poet, which at~ 
times beamed in his eye, and irradiated hig 
countenance to the laft, 
[Further particulars relative to the late Lord 
Bifbop of Derry, whofe death was announced in 
a former Number.—His Lordthip was building 
at his farnily-feat, at Ickworth, in Suffolk, 
a villa on the italian model, by Italian ar- 
chiteéts and artifts of every clafs; to which 
he had appropriated the fum of 12,0001, ane 
‘nually, and the ornaments of which are fa 
very tender as to require covering to preferve 
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