the Duke of Rutland should, luckily for him and the Marquis of Granby, not get over this most dangerous fit of the stone at Bath. For Mr. Jenyns, being rather of a finical and beauish turn, and not at all made for canvassing and caballing at elections, has no other interest in the county than what my Lord Montfort procures him, and indeed would never have been chosen at all, had it not been for the same gentleman and Mr. Sam. Shepheard, who were distressed where to apply to in the country for a proper representative, many of the principal gentry of the country, to whom it was offered, refusing it: and indeed Sir Roger and Mr. Jenyns himself had always been of a contrary interest to those gentlemen, but they conceiving well of this gentleman's good sense and integrity, were thoroughly satisfied in their choice: for he saw that the keeping up of parties was only a political contrivance of a minority, in order to make themselves considerable, and be taken notice of, yet always avail themselves of every occasion that offers itself to serve their own interests. V. Mr. Granger's Catalogue of Engraved English Heads, vol. ii. p. 53.

"A free Enquiry into the Nature and Origin of Evil. In 6 Letters to.... Lond. 8vo. V. Literary Magazine for 1757, p. 171, &c. &c. where is a long criticism on it: probably by the celebrated Mr. Samuel Johnson, who had the direction of this Magazine, the preface to which is evidently of his writing.

"A Review of a free Enquiry into the Nature and Origin of Evil. It is the first article in the first vol. of Miscellaneous and fugitive Pieces, published about 1774, in three 8vo. vols. by T. Davies of Russel Street, Covent Garden, and may possibly be the same criticism mentioned above. V. Critical Review for 1776, p. 200, 232, for 1781, p. 213, 214, &c. for 1782, p. 249.

"A Series of Letters, addressed to Soame Jenyns, Esq. on occasion of his view of the internal Evidence of Christianity. By A. Maclaine, D. D. Minister of the English Church at the Hague. Non tali auxilio.-VIRGIL. Lond./82. 1777, pages 274.

Philosophical Disquisitions on the Christian Religion, addressed to Soame Jenyns, Esq. and W, Kenrick, LL.D. Lond. small 8vo. 2s. V. Critical Review for 1777, p. 394, 236. Sept.

·"Remarks on a Bill presented to Parliament in the last Sessions, intituled, A Bill for preserving the Drainage of the middle and south Levels, and the several Navigations through the same, &c. Cambridge, small 8vo. 1777, pages 3.

"A very sensible and shrewd little pamphlet. V. Granger's Supplement to his Catalogue of English Engraved Heads, p. 297.

In Oct. 1777, dining with him at Botisham, he gave me two of his prints, from a picture by Sir Joshua Reynolds, in folio, mezzotinto, engraved by W. Dickenson, in 1776: he is standing and resting his head on his left hand, in laced ruffles. It is the most flattering likeness I ever beheld; and though it was never like him that I remember, which is near fifty years, yet one can't say it is altogether unlike: the prominency of the eye, though that is much softened, gives it the resemblance.

"Mr. Lort calling here Friday, Jan. 15, 1779, he took a short extract of what he thought proper, to send to Father Wilkes, at the English Benedictines at Paris, who had a mind, or some friend at Paris, to give a translation of Mr. Jenyns's Internal Evidence. I believe Mr. Lort in his hurry had little here to send.

"In Mr. Jones's (of Pluckley in Kent) Observations in a Journey to Paris, in 1776, printed at London, 1777, in 12mo. p. 187, &c. is a favourable account of Mr. Jenyns's Internal Evidence of the Christian Religion.

"Miscellaneous Pieces, in two volumes, vol. I. Containing Poems, Translations, and Essays. Vol. II. A free Enquiry into the Nature and Origin of Evil. In 6 Letters to 4th edit. with an additional Preface, and some explanatory notes. Lond. 8. 1761.

......

"He translated into verse Mr. Isaac Hawkins Brown's Latin poem, De Animi Immortalitate, and said by the editor of the new edition of Biographia Britannica, in 1780, vol. ii. p. 651, to be the best translation of it. It is printed in Mr. Jenyns's Miscella nies, and since published in Mr. Brown's Poems.

"Dining at the Master of St. John's Friday, June 30, 1780, where seeing some curious plate on the side-board, among which was an oblong embossed silver gilt dish, and in a rising in the middle, being a bason, were the single arms of Edw. Villers, Gen.

I think the date, 1671, a very curious cup and cover, silver embossed on a foot of a foot and a half height: several rich cups with handles, and one elegant one of silver gilt and two handles, with the arms of Jenyns, 3 plates on a fesse, given by Soame Jenyns, Esq. son of Sir Roger Jenyns of Botisham Hall, Esq. in 1725. Now supposing he was admitted at College at the usual age of 18, and might stay here three years, he would be 21 years of age in 1725, and might be born about 1704; so that I conceive him now to be about 76 years of age.

"Mr. Mainwairing of St. John's, in his Dissertation at the head of his Sermons, printed at Cambridge, in 1780, in 8°. speaking of the emotions that every feeling hearer of our Lord's dis courses in the Gospel must experience, adds this in a note at p. xxxy. The force of this argument, addressed to the feelings of ingenuous thinkers, and adapted to the reach of every understanding, is greater than mere scholars are willing to allow; and was never represented to so much advantage, as in a beautiful little treatise, entitled, A View of the internal Evidence of Christianity. Yet it should seem from some of the answers to that book, as if the author had betrayed or assaulted the religion he so happily defends. Zealots and bigots, of which the most reformed churches have a competent share, are wonderfully expert in making infidels, but never, I believe, have converted any. One would think, however, that when self-made converts, especially of a class so very respectable, voluntarily engaged in the cause of religion, they would be received with civility at least, not suspected as foes, and excluded from the limits of communion.' V. Gent. Mag. for 1781, p. 31, for 1782, p. 171, 186.

"Disquisitions on several Subjects. Lond. 8vo. 1782, pp. 182. Viz. On the Chain of universal Being. 2d. On Cruelty to inferior Animals. 3d. On a pre-existent State. 4. On the Nature of Time, 5. On the Analogy between things material and intellectual. 6. On rational Christianity. 7. On Government and civil Liberty. 8. On religious Establishments. All very ingenious, and some singular. Brought to me, March 30, Easter Even, 1782, by Dr. Colmen.

"His Disquisitions, 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, and 8, are most excellent.

In the third, his favourite doctrine of the

ward: but his three last please me above measure.

is brought for

"An Answer to the Disquisitions on Government and civil Liberty in a Letter to the Author of Disquisitions on several Subjects. Lond. 8°. 1782, p. 49. Warm whiggish pamphlet, and taking notice only of the 7th disquisition.

"The Dean and the Squire a political Eclogue, humbly dedicated to Soame Jenyns Esq. by the author of the Heroic Epistle to Sir Wm. Chambers. Lond. 4to. 1782, pr. 1s. 6d. 16 pages.

"This flippant republican poet, Mr. Mason, takes liberties, as a free man, to abuse all whom his politics are adverse to, the King, his Abp. nobility, clergy, and gentry. Lord Hardwick, for being the friend of Mr. Jenyns, can't escape his rancour. Indeed whiggery is the bane of good-nature. V. European Magazine, for 1782, first number, p. 189 to 192.

"Candid Suggestions, in eight Letters to Soame Jenyns, Esq. on the respective subjects of his Disquisitions. By B. N. Turner, M. A. Small 8vo. 2s. 6d. Lond. 1782. Crit. Review for 1782, p. 236. V. Monthly Review for 1782, p. 193, 200."

103. George Sandby, Master of Magdalen College.

"On the unexpected death of the late Master, Dr. Ogden and Mr. Elliot of Magdalen College, posted up to town to make interest to succeed him, which was given by the Countess of Portsmouth, the patroness, to her cousin, my worthy friend and acquaintance, the Hon. and Rev. Mr. Frederick Hervey, late of Bene't College, and brother to the Earl of Bristol, about a week before."

This was entered prematurely in my interleaved Carter's History of Cambridge, from the public papers, which said so, and I wrote a congratulatory letter to him on the occasion; but it was a mistake; for the Countess gave it to Mr. Sandby, beneficed and married in Suffolk, and formerly Fellow of Merton College, and one of the three who were sent or returned to the Abp. on the death of the late Warden.

"The Countess, on application from the Duke of Newcastle

for another person, said, That she was sorry she could not oblige his Grace, but that she had given it to Mr. Sandby, in case of a vacancy, by will. This Countess, daughter to Lord Griffin,' was as stately and proud as Lucifer: no German princess could exceed her. I have seen her often at my late worthy friend Colonel Vachel's at Abington, he being in the entail for the estate at Billingbeare, in Berkshire. Dr. Sandby is son to a prebendary of Worcester; took his D. D. degree at the Commencement, 1760, and is a cheerful agreeable man. His mother, a Nottinghamshire woman, very ancient, died at his living at Denton in Norfolk, in 1770. In 1769 he was made Chancellor of Norwich, and has four children, three daughters and a little boy. He took this Mastership on a bond of resignation to a young gentleman, who, it was supposed, before he took orders very lately, would chuse any other profession than the Church being entirely given up to sporting of every kind. The College, about three years ago, was filled with his dogs, pointers, and hounds, and a cow, actually kept on purpose in the College close for milk for them. Milton, March 9, 1773.

"Vice-Chancellor, 1760.

911. I called on Dr. Sandby, Wedn. March 2, St. Chad, 1774, being the day my aunt Cock was buried at St. Clement's Church, when I found both him and Mrs. S. very much chagrined and melancholy, on account of their quitting Magdalen College, which they propose next week, without taking leave of any one. He had been to London the week before, to try his last effort to continue Master; but in vain, as Mr. Wallop had determined to come himself, though more than an equivalent was offered to him by Dr. Sandby's friends. Both the Doctor and Mrs. Sandby were so affected with it, that they actually cried on the occasion: I was very sorry to see them so weak: it would have looked better to

Mrs. S. took occasion to depre

have carried it off more steadily. cate Mr. W.'s person, behaviour, parts; and said he had better have accepted the offers made him, for that he must be ViceChancellor, and that would be a terrible trial of him. I was concerned to see so much ill-judged spleen on an occasion which must have been foreseen for a long time; but it seems they were in hopes he would never have made choice of an academic life for