shade of privacy makes a pause, as it were, before his departure from this world; His anxious day to husband near the close, Thus, to proceed in the language of the Poet, he prepares himself Angels around befriending virtue's friend; This envied portion of human felicity was not granted to Mr. Clarke. The evening of his day was overcast with the dark clouds of despondency and mental depression. An uninterrupted application to the duties of his office had impaired his health; and his constitution, naturally tender, discovered symptoms of decay in 1758. An unfortunate incident accelerated the approach of accumulated indisposition. He was desired by a sick clergyman to undertake the care of his church at Rothwell, near Wakefield. As the frost was severe, he thought it safer to walk, than to ride. Overheated, he entered a damp church, and put on a damp surplice. His perspiration, in consequence, sustained so severe a check, that the next morn ing he was seized with an alarming stroke of an apoplexy, from which he never perfectly recovered. In the beginning of 1759 he suffered a second attack, which rendered him unable to pay any attention to his scholars. When he found himself under the necessity of relinquishing his employment, the Governors of the school generously presented him with an unsolicited and seasonable benefaction of fifty guineas. A picture still more unpleasing now obtrudes itself upon our view. His mental powers were nearly worn out by continual exercise; the frame of his body became shattered and debilitated; the exertions of reason were paralysed; the memory surrendered it's ample stock of sprightly ideasthe fire of genius went out! Surely so forlorn a state must excite sentiments of compassion. How humiliating this to the pride of Science, and the parade of Learning! In a letter written to me by the apothecary who attended him, his situation is described to have been so melancholy, that I cannot read the narrative but with anguish of heart. Yet, to gild this scene of sorrow, some faint gleams of brightness were observed occasionally to burst forth. In his short intervals of convalescence, he amused himself with reading the works of Greek authors, and particularly the Moral Characters of Theophrastus. Though the impressions of the preceding moment almost instantaneously faded away, the events of more remote days, the discussions of criticism, and the refinements of philological disquisition presented themselves at those intervals to his mind. This is no uncommon phenomenon in the history of human life. After the resignation of his school he removed from Wakefield to Tadcaster, where he resided two years. Thence he went to York, and was afterward received into the house of his brother Mr. Francis Clarke at Scarborough, where he died; having survived his wife, by whom he had no issue, about eleven months. He was buried in the Church of Kirby-Misperton, the place of his nativity, February 11, 1761. Several of his scholars, desirous of paying a * The List of them, as subjoined to the Resolutions unanimously adopted at Wakefield, August 29, 1793, at a Meeting summoned by advertisement to consult about some mode of commemorating "their late worthy Master," will prove that he was as largely concerned, as his own preceptor (the Rev. Thomas Clark) had been, in educating the sons of the principal gentry in the county of York,' as well as those of other counties and countries. GENTLEMEN educated at SHIPTON, BEVERLEY, or WAKEFIELD SCHOOLS. Acklom, Jonathan, Esq. Wiseton near Bawtry. Ambler, Charles. Amcotts, tribute to his memory, caused an elegant monu Amcotts, Wharton, Esq. Kettlethorpe, Lincolnshire. Appleton, Teavil, Esq. Beverley. Barker, Henry, Esq. Six Clerks' Office. Barker, Thomas, Esq. Chapel Town near Leeds. Becher, Rev. William, Southwell, Notts. Bell, Ralph, Esq. Thirsk. Bethell, William, Esq. Rise near Beverley. Birch, T. Esq. Fulham near London. Birch, Rev. James, Wishford near Salisbury. Blayds,, Esq. Hull. Blanchard, Dr. William, London. Bowman, Rev. Thomas, Beverley. Bradshaw, James, Esq. Darcy Lever near Manchester. Broadley, Robert, Esq. Hull. Brooksbank, Mr. J. Wakefield. Buck, Samuel, Esq. Leeds. Buckley, Capt. Scriven near Knaresborough. Bucktrout, Mr. Jer. Wakefield. Burton, Robert, Esq. Lincoln. Burton, Thomas, Esq. Norwich. Burton, Leonard, Esq. Ringstead near Thrapston. Burton, Lieut. Col., ditto. Burton, William, Esq. Somerby near Horncastle. Butler, Cant, Rev. Ireland. Leicestershire. Cartwright, Charles, Esq. Marnham near Tuxford. Cartwright, Rev. Edmund, Doncaster. Cayley, Sir George, Bart. Brompton near Scarborough. Cayley, George, Esq. ditto. Cheetham, Thomas, Esq. Exchequer. Collins, James, Esq. Knaresborough. Coltman, Thomas, Esq. Hagnaby near Spilsby. Constable, Marmaduke, Beverley. Constable, Rev. Archdeacon, Sigglesthorne. Cooke, ment to be erected in that church (executed Cooke, George, Esq. Streethorpe near Doncaster. Cotterell. Courtney, John, Esq. Beverley. Cracroft, John, Esq. Hackthorn near Lincoln. Field, Joseph, Esq. Heaton near Barnsley. Fowler, John, Esq. Ketsby near Horncastle. Gee, Rev. Richard, Beverley. Gibson, Rev. Joshua, near Gainsborough. Gill, Rev. William, Sherborne, Yorkshire. Goodricke, Rev. Henry, York. Goundrell, George. Greame, Robert, Esq. Sewerby near Bridlington. Green, William, Esq. near Wakefield. Heald, Richard, Esq. Horncastle. Hepworth, Rev. John, Graffham near Huntingdon. Hewit, Rev. near Richmond. Hudson, Rev., Scarborough. Ingram, F. Esq. Wakefield. Kenyon, Sheffield. Langton, Bennet, Esq. Lonsdale, Rev. J., New Miller Dam near Wakefield. Lumley, Rev. Thomas, Dalby near Malton. Mackenzie, Robert, Esq. Maddison, |