1803. ] 
stitutional principles of a British whig, dis- 
tingutshed himself almost singly among his 
reverend brethren in refusing to sanction by 
his signature an address ‘to’ his. Ma‘esty in 
approbation of the céJebrated proclamation 
Account of Mrs. Harrifin, 
G67 
qman, herconduct was exemplary. One in- 
stance, in particular, deserves to be record- 
ed: Inthe spring of the year :754, a typhut 
fever was brought into the village of Catte- 
rick by a travelling pauper, who died of it 
there. 
The woman at whose house he ladg= + 
ed, caught the infection, and died also; and ' 
ina few weeks the contagion exte:ded itself 
>in every direction ; scarcely a familv escap- ” 
-ed; many of those who survived were left 1m - 
‘a ‘state of.extreme weakness, from which ’ 
agaist. seditious writings, issued by the Ad- 
ministration ia May. sco2z, which address 
was brought, forward by the Bishop of Dur- 
ham for the subscription ofthe clergy of, his 
diocese at the visitations‘held by his :Lord- 
shipin the subsequent monthrof July. Nor 
a 
amidst the various.changes of political epi- 
nion which have:s:nce occurred, did he ever 
swerve feom a firm adherence to those prin- 
ciples on which the Revolution of 16-8 and 
the Act of Settlement were founded, and 
by which. alone ‘the “Constitution ‘of this 
country can be properly maintamed. Asa 
parochial minister, his conduct was equally 
deserving of applause. ~He was liberal in 
all his-transactions with his parishioners on 
theamportant subject of tythes, and respect- 
able in every.otherparticular as a clergyman 
andi man. His tamily andcoppexions.alone 
~can justly .estimate his loss. He was.of an 
open and ingenuous character, urbane in his , 
ordinary behaviour towards all his acquain- 
tance, and particularly warm and decided in 
Supporting what he conceived to’ve the inté- 
yest of ‘his more immediate - associates and - 
friends. Originally of a very delicate.con- 
-Stitution, his kealth for. the last two. years 
had been visibly uponthe decline... After re- 
siding several morths at:Exmouth and other 
places in the west of England, he lately ar- 
xived at London on his return to the narth, 
wiiere the progress of his disease terminated 
his life after asudden and violent iliness of a 
few days. > ; ti we 
. Mrs, Sarah. Harrison, the subject of this me- 
moir, was born Qctober oth, 1746. She. was 
the 5th daughter of Edmund Winn, younger 
brother of the first Sir Rowland. Winn, 
Bart. of Nostel, in Yarkshire. Her «mo- 
ther was the niece of Sir,Patience Warde, 
the particular friend.of the eminently vir- 
tuous Lord William Russel, and one of 
those who had the honour .of-conducting the 
Hlustrious ‘King William ‘to this country. 
Well does the writer of: this article fecollect, 
when a child, hearing sher: grandmother-re- 
late the various particulars of the:-King’s.first 
arrival in London; of the hopes and. fears 
that alternately agitated the. public mind ; 
and she always.concluded with saying, that 
herself and her sister, then girls, had money 
given them by their uncle to throw among 
the populace. fhe subject of this memoir 
was early distinguished for*her amiable, 
chearful temper, and -uncommenly active 
Benevolence. Her mother being left a -wi- 
‘dow with a numerous family, her power of 
being generous and charitable was not equal 
to her wish. Money she had little to bestow, 
but she used, when yet a girl, to rise very. 
arly in « morning (at four o’clock in sum- 
mer) to make clothes for poor people, and to 
do them any other little services that were 
within her power. In 1742 she married the 
Rev. Jeremiah Harrison, M.A. then vicar of 
Long Preston in Craven, and who was after- 
wards the predecessor of the Rey. Theophi- 
dus Lindsey in the living of Catterick, in 
orkshire. As the wile of a country clergy» 
some never entirely recovered; and mre — 
thin’fo:ty persons, many-ot them fathers of. 
families, fell victims to its fury. What, in 
this distre:sful exigence, was the conduct of’ 
the faithful pastor of the stricken flock ? Did - 
he and hisbefovedcompanion seek their own 
safety in 2 pusillanimous flight ? No, they - 
resolved to do their duty, and for the rest to ’ 
put their trust humbly in God. They watch- 
ed the ‘couches of ‘the sitk and dying ; ‘not 
one of them was there that the sub ect of this” 
memotr ‘did not repeatedly visit, sapplyinz, 
and administering in ,persan, the cordials | 
and restoratives which ‘from time to time 
were prescribed for:them by.a neighbouring 
‘physician. -By means such as these, the” 
panic, which at first was extreme, gradually 
s\‘bsided ; the most fearful were reassured’5 
no one wasineglected or deser,ed; and many . 
lives were saved which must otherwise ine~ 
vitably have been lost. ‘Itis a-singular fact, 
that the family at the vicarage was almost 
the only family-in the village that.entirely” 
escaped infection ; -not‘one even of ‘the-ser- 
vants, who, as wéil.as ‘their master and mis- 
tress, attended upon’ their sick and dying 
neighbours, suiferea in any respect : 
«© Why drew Marseilles’ good Bishop purer 
ap ety Samet lag seu ae 2 sy tay 
When Nature sicken’d, and.each.gale was 
i Ran ee death BPP time fe ie 
About a year after"this the subject of this 
memoir had the affliction of seeing her be- 
loved trusband in a declining state of health. 
His recovery continued for eight years 10.be 
the constant object of her alternate hope-and 
despair ; till at length, on thé 22d’of July, 
1763, She had the unspeakable affliction, of 
being left awidow. Hercircumstances were 
not affluent; and the education of her only 
sen, who: was intended-for the church, and 
then at Cambridge, not being completed, 
she found it expedient 10 adopt a plan of the 
strictest econoriy. Afier spending the en~ 
suing Winter among her own relations, she 
took a very smal! house in a neighbouring 
town, which unstéd the convenience of a 
market with the privacy of a village. Here. 
she evinced, in. the whole of her conduct, 
that in the virtue of self-denial sne was un= 
equalled. She kept but one servant, and al- 
mest denied herself necessaries, in order to 
assist her son, and that she might still have | 
something to give-to others.” In this darling 
son she was di-appoinied At Cambridge 
ke had not learned the virtues which’so emi- 
nently distinguished his mother. Having 
been led, by family cuunections and other 
promising circumstances, to expect Consi- 
derable church preferment, and in which he 
was disappointed by the death of one patrom 
and the dereliction of some others, he could 
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