1803. 
them from injury by the external air. As 
an amateur, connoiffeur, and indefatigable 
protector of the fine arts, his lordfhip, died, 
as it were, at his poft, furrounded by artifts, 
whofe talents his judgment had dire@ed, and 
whofe wants his liberality had relieved. His 
love of the fciences was only furpafled by his 
' public fpirit, and by his generofity to the un- 
fortunate of every country. Neither rank 
nor power efcaped his lordthip’s refentment 
when any illiberal opinion was thrown out 
againft Englifhmen. Atadinner with the 
date King of Pruffia and the Prince Royal 
of Denmark, at Pyrmont, in the year 17975 
he boldly feid, after the conyerfation about 
the aéfive ambition of England had been changed 
into enquiries about the delicacy ofa roatt- 
ed capon, that fe aid mt Ike NEUTRAL 
animals, \et them be ever fo delicate. In 
1798, his lordfhip was arrefted by the French 
in Italy, and confined in the cafile of Milan ; 
“here he was plundered by the Republicans of 
a valuable and well-chofen colietion of an- 
tiquities, which he had purehafed with a 
view of tranfmitting to his native country. 
He was likewife betrayed and defrauded by 
many Italians, whofe benefactor he had 
been, But neither the injuftice nor the in- 
gratitude of mankind could change his natu- 
ral difpofition; he no fooner recovered his li- 
berty than new benefactions forced even 
the ungrateful to repent, and the unjutt to 
acknowledge his magnanimity. His lordfhip 
was one of the greateft Englifh travellers 
{a capacity in which his merits have been 
duly appreciated by the celebrated Martin 
Sherlock’ 3 and there is not a country ia £u- 
rope where the diftreffed have not obtained 
his fuccour, and the oppreffed his proteétion. 
Letters from Swifs Patriots and French Emi- 
grants, from Italian Catholics and German 
Proteftants, prove the noble ufe his Lord- 
fhip made of his fcertune, incifcriminately, 
to the poor, deftitute, and unproteéted of 
all countries, of all parties, and of all reli- 
gion.] 
| [The following brief fhetch contains fome addi- 
tional particulars relative to the laie Rev. Rad- 
chfje Scholeficld, whofe death was announced in a 
former number. He was the only fon of the 
Bev. Richard Scholefield, and Mrs. Elizabeth 
Dawfon, fecond daughter of the Rev. Jofeph 
Dawion This pious and learned divine was 
born at Rochdale in Lancafhire on the 21. 
of December 1733. Before he had fuily 
compleated his feventh year, he had the mif- 
fortune to lofe his father, under whom, how- 
ever, he had already evinced an ardent zea] 
for learning. The young pupil at that early 
age, could read Englith fluently, and had 
€viii become an adept in the Latin Grammar, 
Theie promifing talents were cultivated with 
affiduous care at the fchool of the Rev. S.. 
Dawfon; and this produced an attachment 
betwixt the mafter and the fcholar which ne- 
veF abated till death deprived him of this fe-) 
cond guide, -At this period the twig might 
Mr. Scholefield, 
£79 
be faid to have keen bent, the tree inclined 3 
endowed with fo much natural excellence, 
and fo diligently trained upin the path of 
virtue, it might be now rationally taken for 
granted, that he would continue in the fame 
unto his life’s end. Though yet in his jn- 
venile years, Mr. Scholefield’s inclinations 
induced him to commence a courie of {tudies 
on the imott ferious and important of all fub- 
jeGs, divinity. With this view he entered 
at the academy of Northampton about the 
year 5749, and under the celebrated Dr. Dod- 
dridge. Onthe deceafe of that worthy mi- 
nilter and tutor, the academy was foon after 
removed to Daventry, where, Mr. Scholefield 
profecuted his theological purfuits under the 
tuition ef Dr. Afhworth and Mr. Clark 5 and, 
at the age of twenty was judged fully com- 
petent to take upon him the minifterial 
charge: but his own diffidence prompted him 
to attend fome of the lectures a fecénd term, 
which he did with peculiar fatisfaction. In 
the year 1754 he quitted the academy, not 
without the moitt fatisfaftory teftimonials of 
his abilities, learning, and moral conduét, 
The fincere purport of thefe recommenda- 
tions was evinced by the correfpondeace with 
which his tutors afterwards honoured him, 
and by the univerfal efteem of his fellowe 
ftudents. No fooner had Mr. Scholefield 
emerged from the feclufion of academic tui- 
tion, than he was unanimoufly invited totake 
charge of a numerous diffenting congregation 
at Portimouth. His fentimen‘s, on fome 
points, differing from thofe of his inviting 
friends, he withftood’ the temptation, and 
thus facrificed temporal advantages at the ale 
tar of conicious integrity, Such merit was 
not likely to remain long in obfcurity. Mr. 
Scholefield, {oon after, accepted the place of, 
alliftant to the Rev, R. Altey in White- 
hayen; but that gentleman dying in the 
courfe of a few months, Mr. Schoiefield was 
elected fole paftor; and, whilft performing, 
the duties thereof, auring a {pace of fevea- 
teen years, acquired the regard and efteem of 
all parties. ‘lYowards the latter part. of that 
period, feveral of the moft refpeCtatle gen- 
tlemen in the tewn, thongh moftly of the 
eftablifhed church, prevailed on this worthy 
diffenting minifter to undertake the education 
of their fons; and this was the inftitution . 
of that feminary, which, for a feries of 
nearly twenty fubfequent years, Mr Sciolé- 
ficid conduéted with fo much iatisfa@ion to 
his friends, and pleafure to himielr. His ob- 
jet in educating a limited number of young 
gentlemen, was not fo much a lucrative em- 
ployment, as the gratification.or his philan- 
thropic ming by an attempt to difiufe a jut 
fenfe of religion, and a love of learnings. 
amonyft afew, at leait, of the rifing genera. 
tion, and a wifh to ftudy human nature in its 
leait corrupted ftate: to him it was truly a 
** Delightful tafk to rear the tender thought, 
And teach the young idea how to shoot :” 
3C,2 His 
