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would’ mot suffer their character to he 
traduced by any mau, however high, or 
however low.” THe concluded by giving 
notice, that he would ona future day read 
the paper, and make a motion thereon; 
but Mr. C. Townshend having observed, 
“that the reverend prelate alluded to, 
had just met a severe misfortune in the 
death of his daughter,” the notice was first 
waved, and at length wholly omitted. 
Notwithstanding this, on Friday, March 
20, 1794, when the article of the accu- 
sation respecting the acceptance of pre- 
sents came under the consideration of 
the house of peers in Westminster-hall, 
the archbishop took an opportunity to 
remark on the conduct that had been ob- 
served respecting the prisoner at the bar. 
He stated, ‘“ that m his time he had been 
a great reader of ancient history, and the 
present conversation reminded him of the 
case of Cato the Censor, one of the ho- 
nestest and best men that the Roman 
republic had ever produced. Yet that: 
great man, after having filled the first 
offices of the state with the highest re- 
putation, was impeached. He was im- 
peached forty times, and he was attacked 
by a factious demagogue of his day, rela- 
tive to an ziem of an account. 
‘¢ When last impeached, he was eighty 
years of age, and he reminded his prose- 
cutors, that a generation of men, who 
had not witnessed his services, were pro- 
secuting him for trifles. What was the 
ease of Mr. Hastings? Noconsideration 
for his high character, no consideration 
‘for his splendid and important services, 
for the esteem, love, and veneration, 
which he was held in by the millions that 
he governed for sc many years. No, my 
lords, he is treated, not as if he were a 
gentleman, whose cause is before you, 
but as if you were trying a horse-stealer.” 
The lord chancellor on this said, “ that 
there was no noble lord present who felt 
greater respect for the talents and virtues 
of the learned prelate than he did, or 
who was more disposed to consider with 
attention any thing that fell from so re- 
spectable a quarter, &c. But in the pre- 
sent stage of the proceeding, their lord- 
ships were precluded from saying one 
word of the services of Mr. Hastings, and 
still more were they precluded from 
taking them into consideration, They 
Memorrs of the late Archbishop of York. 
[Jan, i, 
were trying the case aliedged, not the 
person of Mr. Hastings.” 
Dr. Markham was tall in point of size; 
in his manners, lofty and commanding. 
The archiepiscopal office lost none of 
its dignity in such a representative. He 
is said to have possessed acertain ‘ Con- 
stitutional indolence,” which prevented 
the display of his talents, in a manner 
calculated to render his name celebrated, 
and his acquirements useful; to his cre- 
dit, however, be it recoliected, that at 
the age of eighty, he attended the exer- 
cises at Westminster school on all public 
occasions, and seemed to take great de- 
light in the progress of the scholars. 
Hle appears to have been peculiarly 
happy in his family. One of his sons, to 
whom we have already alluded, obtained 
a fortune in India, during the admini- 
stration of Mr. Hastings, and closed a 
long and_tedious cross-examination, un- 
der the most pointed questions on the 
part of Mr. Burke, with observing, “ that 
be (Mr. Hastings) was the most virtuous 
man of the age in which he lived.” 
Another, atter serving with the Earl of 
St. Vincent, acted for some time as one 
of the commissioners of the admiralty, 
under that nobleman, and is now a rear 
admiral of the blue, and one of the re- 
presentatives of Portsmouth in the pre- 
sent parliament. 
A third (Mr. Osborne Markham) is a 
barrister at law, was returned twice for 
the borough of Calne, through the influ- 
enee of the Lansdowne family, and now 
enjoys an office under the crown, in ad- 
dition to the piace of clerk of the rules in 
the King’s Bench. A fourth, (George 
Markham, educated at Christ church, 
and created D.D. in 1791,) is dean of 
York, 
The following is the most correct list 
of the archbishep’ s works we have been 
able to obtain: 
1. The Concio ad Clerum. 
2. A Latin speech, on presenting Dr. 
Thomas as Prolocutor to the Conveca- 
tion. 
3. Several single sermons, among which, 
one published before the Society for pro- 
pagating the Gospel in foreign Parts, ex- 
citedmuch attention, and, in the language 
of a writer of that day, was thought of an 
intolerant Complexion, 
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