18014.) 
fcenery, his famed eftablifhed as a mafter in 
the picturefque, and that whoever can relifh 
the beauties of the New Foreft, will view 
them with greater intcreft after reading his 
account of them, in which accurate defcrip- 
tion, hiftory and anecdote are moft agreeably 
blended. - * : 
‘© Bot not the waving wood, or winding vale,’ 
The {weets of fummer, or the vernal gale, 
Were forn,’d to fetter down the noble foul, 
Beneath the magic of their foft controu! 5” 
And, as thall appear, all this exquifite ta%e. 
was made the amufement, not the grand bufi 
nefs, of life. His publications and his draw- 
ings were al! tendered fubfervient to the 
duties of a pious and humane paftor. Placed 
in an extenfive foreft parifh, he found the 
pécple too generally leading a life higsly un- 
favourable to religion and order, and, being 
feconded by fome liberal gentlemen of the 
Vicarage, he effetted a fyftem of reform, . 
which remains a monument to his memory. 
He firft procured'a heaithy and well-con- 
ducted houfe of induftry, where the children 
Were trained to habits of attivity and order, 
and taught the principles of religion. An 
account of this inftitution, and fome friking 
inftances of réform in abandoned charaéters, 
was publifhed by the Philanthropic Society.— 
His exertions did not reft here. He has fince 
built a fchool-houfe (the fcite and building 
of which are pitturefque, on a high bank or- 
namented with oaks, looking down to Boldre 
Bridge) where ten boys and ten girls are con- 
ftantly receiving education, and where on 
Sundays the children of the parifh more ge- 
nerally receive inftru¢tion. . For the building 
and fetting on foot this fchool he had raifed 
gool, by his various publications, and two 
years ago his drawings were fold in town for 
the endowment of it. He told the writer of 
this article he had the vanity to expect Sool. 
for them, but Chiriftie received 16251. Some 
eminent chara€ters who had been under his 
tuition, when mafter of Cheam fchool, no 
doubt promoted the fale, both from regard to 
him and the benevolent motives of the un- 
dertaking 3; and fuch was the defire to have 
Original fpecimens of his genius, that it was 
not doubted but by making two days fale 
2000]. might have been raifed. In the pre- 
face to the catalogue, was an account of the 
principles on which the drawings were made, . 
with this appropriate quotation= 
-~ me it delights 
To creep and wind through natures walks,” 
Monrnuiy Mase. No, 115. 
*. 
Account of Mr. Gilpin. 
Thus honourably, thus ufefully, was the life 
of this venerable paftor fpent, and at the age 
of nearly eighty, it clofed with only a.f w 
hours pain. He lived ia habits of cord al 
efteem and occafional inter ourfe with men of 
different religious perfuafions, though from 
his love of retirement he kept but litrle of 
what is called company, It is honourabie ta 
the character of both parties, that a catholig ‘ 
gentieman near him entrufted him with a 
handfome donation for the poor during the* 
late times of {carcity—-both becaule it would: 
that way be better diftributed, and at the fame 
time avoid unjuft fulpicions of the motive —* 
His memory lives, and will live, in the ree. 
gard of good men}; and this memorial is write’ 
ten to excite others of his brethren to follow ' 
his footfteps, as he followed his mafler ** who» 
went about doing.good.” Myr. Gilpin firft ate > 
tracted notice as a biographer in 3753, with ° 
_ the life of his anceftor the celebrated Bernard © 
Gilpin*, called the northern apoftle, rector 
of Houghton -le-Spring in the county of Dur- 
ham, a ftriking inftance of the effect of ate: 
tention and perfeverance in an incumbent, ” 
on the reformation of an-extenfive parifh in» 
the northern wilds. This life was followed 
by that of Latimer in 17553 afterwards by 
thofe of Wickcliffe, Hafs, jerome of Prague, 
Tirca, and Archbithop Cranmer. In 1779, he 
printed Lecturés on the Church Catechifm, 
reprinted in 1792. An Expofition of the New 
Teftament 1790, reprinted 2 vols.'8vu. in the * 
fame year. Obfervations relative chiefly to 
Pidturefque Beauty, made in the year 1776, « 
on feveral parts of Great-Britain and the 
Highlands of Scotland; a fecond edition in 
1798. - Sermons to a Country Congregation, 
and Hints for Sermons, 2 vols. 1300. Moral 
Contrafts; or, the Power of Religion exempli- : 
fied under different Charaéters. Amufements 
for Clergymen. Life of John Trueman and 
Richard Atkins, for the Ufeof Servants’-hallg, ’ 
” 
Farm-houfes, and Cottazes. Account of Wil- © 
‘liam Baker of the New Foreft publifhed . 
with the Cheap Repolitory : this account of 
an exemplary character in humble life, is a 
pleating proof of his attention to the people - 
with whom his lot was caft, and thews how ' 
well he knew them, and che pleafure he took 
in encouraging genuine piety and worth. 
; ° 
* From whom were alfo defcended th® 
truly reipetable family of the fame nami¢e . 
now refideng at aod acar Philadelphia, 
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