1807.) 
On the 6th of May, 1758, the subject 
of this article, who by this time had been 
married and appointed one of the 
King’s chaplains, proceeded B, and D.D. 
In 1762, he was made canon of Windsor, 
and in the course of the succeeding year 
he once more refreshed his mind by to- 
reign travels, having accompanied his 
firm friend and patron, the Earl of Bath, | 
toSpa. Onthe demise of that nobleman, 
in 1764, it was found that he had remem- 
bered himin his wil. The paragraph, in 
which the Doctor was mentioned with 
appositely bequeathed to him the noble 
hbrary at Bath House, as alegacy. This 
was redeemed during the lite of General 
Pulteney, for the very inadequate sum of 
1,0001. and it having reverted once more 
by will to the original legaie>, was after- 
wards given up a second time, at the 
request of the late Sir William Pulte- 
ney, who also paid 1,000]. on the occa- 
sion, 
As Dr, Douylas did not dislike a town 
lite, he very readily acceded to a propo- 
sition, which removed hin to St, Paul’s, 
and we now find him as heretofore, bu- 
sily employed in literary avocations, hav- 
ing undertaken the Introduction, Notes, 
ec. to Cook’s third and last Voyage, 
which, in many respects, may be consi- 
dered as a national work. At length, 
in September, 1787, he received the ini- 
tre, having been elected, or in other 
words, nominated by conge d’clire, to the 
see of Carlisle, on which occasion he suc- 
ceeded Dr, Edmund Law. He was the 
fifty-second bishop, reckoning from Athel- 
wolf, or Athelward, in 1123. 
tred preferment is valued, in the king’s 
books, at 5380]. 4s. 11d; and is com- 
puted at only 2,800]. or ,30001. per 
annum, 
In 1791, his lordship was translated to 
the richer see of Salisbury, being supposed 
to produce the annual revenue of from 
93,5001. to 3,700. Of this, he was the 
87th prelate, reckoning from St. Adhelm, 
bishop of Sherborn. 
This was the last stage of his martal 
career, for the good bishop remained at- 
tached to the see of Salisbury during the 
remainder of his life, which was protract- 
ed sixteen years longer. He was for- 
merly, at times, atilicted with disease ; 
but of late his health had been better than 
heretofore. Indeed, he cannot be strict- 
ly said to have perished by the interven- 
tion of a mortal malady; for, not only 
was he devoid of any specific complaint, 
but his faculties remained clear, uncloud- 
ed, and almost unchanged, to the very 
particular respect, at the same time very - 
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last moment of his existence. Notwith- 
standing this, at the ave of 86, the lam 
of life burns dim, and, accordingly, the 
vital powers were gradually extinguished, 
rather than forcibly destroyed, ou the 
18th of May, 1807, when he expired ia 
the arms of his son, the Rev. Witla 
Douglas, one of the six canons, aud chan- 
cellor of Salisbury, on the 18th of May, 
1807. 
As the bishop of Salisbury was never 
without a book or a pen in his hand, 
when alone, it may be seadily supposed 
that he was addicted to hterary soviety, 
as well as literary disputes. He was, ac- 
cordingly, amember of the club instituted 
by Dr. Johnson, and is frequently allud- 
ed to by name, in Bosweil’s Life of the 
Lexicographer. Dr. Douglas has also 
been twice mentioned by Goldsmith, in 
his poem of “ Retaliation.” 
As the Life of a literary man ought to 
conclude with an account of his works, 
we here subjoin the best list we have 
been able to compile: 
~1. Vindication of Milton ‘from the 
Charge of Plagiarism adduced by Lau- 
Ger, 1750. 
2. A Letter on the Criterion of Mira- 
cles, 1754, principally intended as an 
Antidote against Voltaire, Hume, and 
the Philosophers. 
3. An Apoiogy for the Clerzy, against 
the Hutchinsonmians, Methodists, &e. 
4A. The Destruction of the French 
foretold by Ezekiel, being an Ivronical 
Defence ot those he had attacked in the 
preceding pamphlet, 1754 or 1755. 
5. An Attack on certain Positions con+ 
tained in Bower’s History of the Popes, 
&e. 1756. 
6G. A serious Defence of the Adminis- 
tration, being an [ronical Attack on the 
Cabinet of that Day, for introducing fo- 
reign Troops, 1756. 
7. Bower and Tillemont compared, 
LS 
&. A full Confutation of Bower’s three 
Deitences. 
9. The completeand final Detection of 
Bower. 
10. The conduct of a late noble com- 
mauder (Lord George Sackville, after- 
wards lord G, Germain), candidly consi- 
dered. ‘This was a defence of a very un- 
popuiar character, not only then, bute 
‘throughout life, 1759. 
11. A Letterto two Great Men, on the 
appearance of Peace, 1759. 
12. A Preace to the Translation of 
Hooke’s Nevociations, 1760. ? 
5S. The Sentiments of a Frenchman 
on the Preliminaries of Peace, 1762. 
14. The 
