handsomely for him. On making the necessary application to his kinsman, he was asked what preferment would satisfy him? To this home question he readily answered, that about five hundred pounds a year would make him a happy man. 'You shall have it,' said his Lordship, but not out of the patrimony of the church. I will not deprive a worthy and regular divine to provide for a necessitous relation. You shall have the sum you mention out of my own pocket.'

While Lord Thurlow was at college, he was often too licentious with his tongue, and entering once into a dispute with an elective and temporary officer, he was asked, 'Whether he knew that he was talking to the Dean?' 'Yes, Mr. Dean,' replied Mr. Thurlow. and never afterwards saw him without reiterating, Mr. Dean, Mr. Dean,' which set them at variance. When he became Attorney-General, they met by accident; and he addressed his old friend unwittingly, 'How do you do, Mr. Dean?' which so hurt the old cantab, that he left the room without making him any reply. On his obtaining the office of Lord Chancellor, he took an opportunity of meeting once more with his quondam acquaintance, and again addressed him with 'How do you do, Mr. Dean?'—'My Lord,' replied the other sullenly, 'I am not now a dean, and therefore do not deserve the title.' 'But you are a dean,' said his Lordship; and, to satisfy you that it is so, read this paper, by which you will find that you are Dean of and I am so convinced that you will do honor to the appointment, that I am sorry any part of my conduct should have given offence to so good a man.'

It would be injustice here to omit the name of that great philanthropist, Mr. John Howard, who, after inspecting the receptacles of crime, of poverty, and mis

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ery, throughout Great Britain and Ireland, left his native country, and relinquished his own ease, to visit the wretched abodes of those who were in want, and bound in fetters of iron, in other parts of the world. He travelled three times through France, four through Germany, five through Holland, twice through Italy, once through Spain and Portugal, and also through Denmark, Sweden, Russia, Poland, and part of Turkey. These excursions occupied (with some short intervals of rest at home) the period of twelve years.

Never before was such a considerable portion of the life of man applied to a more benevolent and laudable purpose. He gave up his own comfort that he might bestow it upon others. He was often immured in prison, that others might be set at liberty. He exposed himself to danger, that he might free others from it. He visited the gloomy cell, that he might inspire a ray of hope and joy in the breasts of the wretched. Yea, he not only lived, but died in the noble cause of benevolence; for, in visiting a young lady who lay dangerously ill of an epidemic fever, in order to administer relief, he caught the distemper, and fell a victim to his humanity, on January 20, 1790.

Mr. Howard's worth seems to be appreciated by two or three singular circumstances. The first was, that a liberal subscription was opened to defray the expenses of erecting a statue to his honor, while yet alive, and the sum of 1,5337. 13s. 6d. was actually subscribed. But the principles of Howard were abhorrent from ostentation, and when he heard of it, 'Have not I,' said he, 'one friend in England who would put a stop to such a proceeding?' The business was accordingly dropped. Another circumstance was, that his death was announced in the London Gazette, a compliment

which no private subject ever received before.-And a third circumstance deserves to be noticed, that, though a Dissenter, a monument was erected to his memory in St. Paul's cathedral. The inscription tells us with truth, "That he trod an open but unfrequented path to immortality, in the ardent and unremitted exercise of Christian charity.' And concludes, 'May this tribute to his fame excite an emulation of his truly honorable actions.'

Mr. Burke justly observed of this great man, 'that he visited all Europe (and the East,) not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces or the stateliness of temples; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosity of modern art; not to collect medals, or to collate manuscripts, but to dive into the depth of dungeons; to plunge into the infection of hospitals; to survey the mansions of sorrow and of pain; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt; to remember the forgotten; to attend to the neglected; to visit the forsaken; and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries. His plan is original, and it is as full of genius as it is of humanity. It is a voyage of discovery, a circumnavigation of charity; and already the benefit of his labor is felt more or less in every country.'

The late John Thornton, Esq., of Clapham, who was distinguished by his great liberality, disposed of large sums in various charitable designs, with unremitting constancy, during a long course of years. His charities were much larger than is common with wealthy persons of good reputation for beneficence, insomuch that he was almost regarded as a prodigy. He was the patron of all pious, exemplary, and laborious ministers

of the Gospel; frequently educating young men whom he found to be religiously disposed, and purchasing many livings, which he gave to ministers, in order that the Gospel might be preached in those places where he supposed the people were perishing for lack of knowledge. He also dispersed a very great number of Bibles in different languages, in distant countries, perhaps in all the four quarters of the globe, and with them vast quantities of religious books, calculated to alarm the conscience and affect the heart with the importance of eternal things. He also patronized every undertaking which was suited to supply the wants, to relieve the distresses, or to increase the comforts of the human species, in whatever climate, or of whatever description, provided they properly fell within his sphere of action. Perhaps it would even be difficult to name one public or private charity of evident utility to which he was not a benefactor.-May such noble and benevolent characters be found in every age!

BENEVOLENCE.

A CURATE of Mr. C.'s has honorably recorded an instance both of his benevolence and his manners. In the year 1785, this gentleman was afflicted with a nervous fever, which brought considerable trouble and expense to his vicar in supplying his church. During his illness, besides the tenderness and sympathy with which he was treated in other respects, he continued to receive his full salary. To use his own words, 'another quarter was ended with still less service done than the former. The like beneficence was exercised.' The curate, confounded at such repeated and uninter

rupted generosity, exclaimed, 'Dear sir, I have no demand upon you for this sum of money: I cannot receive it; I have only done duty for a few weeks, and how much trouble and expense have I put you to by my illness!' With a tender smile, and a noble dignity of spirit becoming his natural and spiritual birth, Mr. C. replied, 'Take that which is thine own: did not I agree with thee for a penny?'

Our Saviour's journeys were all journeys of benevolence, and nothing could prevent him from prosecuting his design of mercy and love. Who are they that resemble him? What shall we say to a Paul, who was instant, in season and out of season? What shall we say to the faithful missionaries, who, leaving their native country, have gone to the ends of the earth, to carry the tidings of salvation to miserable heathens? What shall we say to a Howard, 'whose activity carried him over half the globe to enter the dwellings of the wretched; to examine debts, and wants, and diseases; to endure loathsome sights and smells; to give time, and thought, and lands, and money,' to the sick, the wretched, and the captive? What shall we say to a Clarkson, who travelled in search of evidence, in order to abolish the slave trade, more than thirty-five thousand miles, which is nearly once and a half the circumference of the globe? These illustrious characters need no monument to perpetuate their fame. While memory holds a seat in the breast of mortals, their benevolence, their activity, their compassion, shall be remembered; and when the universe shall fall, and time expire, they shall be had in everlasting remembrance in a better world.

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