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the functions of that office, in his parochial relations, with great attention. The zealous care with which he watched over the charity-fchools in his parish, was very becoming. One of them is a school of high character, RAINE'S HOSPITAL I mean; into which young girls are tranfplanted out of the ordinary parochial school, and are taught all forts of useful household work; and then, after having lived five years in fervice, and bringing teftimonials of their good behaviour, they are intitled to draw lots for a marriage portion of one hundred pounds; and are married to fome induftrious mechanic, a member of the Church of England. Dr. Mayo was treasurer of this excellent foundation. I faw him, laft May-day, in the prefence of a numerous affemblage of the trustees and others, among whom were both the members of parliament for the county of Middlefex, deliver a purfe, containing one hundred pounds, to one of the young women who had been married by him that morning; whilft another stood by, who had just drawn a prize of a fimilar portion. The good old man gave the new married pair a fuitable charge, in a most affectionate way. His infirmities, it is true, impeded his fpeech not a little; he seemed to feel it was the last he should make on fuch an occafion; but I affure you, Gentlemen, there was an eloquence in his very paufes, and fomething fo touching in the tears which trickled down his cheeks, that they must have had hearts of ftone who could hear them unmoved.

I hope I fhall not hurt the feelings of his family, (a wife, two fons, both married, and two daughters) who furvive him, when I fay, that never man was happier in all his domeftic relations. His children were all pro

vided for in his life-time. He was a faithful steward for them. His ar bition was to educate them at his own coft, without breaking in upon what was to come to them. His eldest son is a most respectable phyfician, fettled at Doncaster; and was, before he quitted London, phyfician to the Middlesex Hospital. His younger fon is well known to the learned world, Mr. Charles Mayo, the late profeffor of the Anglo-Saxon tongue, in the univerfity of Oxford; the firft-appointed profeffor upon Dr. Rawlinson's foundation. Both these gentlemen were fellows of St. John's College, Oxford.

Dr. Mayo was a man of true frugality. But as his frugality never funk into parfimony, fo it was in fome measure fubfervient to his generofity. He has walked, leaning upon my arm, with no fmall perfonal inconvenience to himself, through the streets of London, to fave the expence of a hackney-coach'; but then I have seen him give to the fon, the orphan fon of a clergyman, before he reached home, the half-crown which he faved. No man better understood the economy of charity. There are few public charities to which he was not a contributor, from Chrift's Hofpital downward. His known probity procured him the office of executor to many. Many have acknowledged the fervices he has done them in quality of truftee and guardian. The management of the property which he held in truft for others, often called him to the Bank of England. He has been thought to be bufied there on his own account; but whenever this has been objectingly hinted to him, he has only anfwered with a smile.

A fmile he had, of peculiar benignity. He was a man of great good humour; and often indulged in a fpecies of chaftened pleasantry;-but his delight was in that fort of wit which diftinguifhed fome great men at the beginning of the last age-Punning. Dr. South himself was not fonder of a pun than Dr. Mayo.

He was bleffed with a long feries of uninterrupted health. Rainy days,

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or inclement feafons, never ftopped him in the career of duty. parish prieft of the old fchool; of the fchool which bred John Waring, curate of Spitalfields and Bifhopfgate, and, laft clerk in orders at St. James's, Piccadilly; Mr. Hallings, the curate of Aldgate, late fecretary to the Society for promoting Chritian Knowledge; Dr. Markham, late rector of Whitechapel; Mr. Southgate, the curate of St. Giles's, and Mr. Richards, the curate of St. Sepulchre's.

Dr. Mayo was in politics a tory. His religious principles were truly ORTHODOX. One of the newspapers faid fomething about his liberality towards Diffenters of all denominations." This is a fort of fashionable phrafe. Liberal and kind was he to all; but he had none of that mawkish liberality which is mere latitudinarianifm or indifference. The proper Prefbyterian, who differs from our church only in matters of difcipline, he knew how to value juftly. The members of the Kirk of Scotland he regarded as perfons living under an outward eftablishment of religion, recognized by the conftitution of the country. But as for the herd of ordinary Diffenters, whofe principles are no where fet forth authoritatively, and who can give no rational reafon of the hope that is in them, no clear account of the faith which they profefs; whilft he pitied them fincerely, no man lefs approved of their difunited condition, and difuniting tenets, than Dr. Mayo. He had no good opinion of thofe "who turn religion into rebellion," (to ufe the language of our Liturgy) and faith into faction.

Thus much I have thought it but right to fay, and thus much I have faid with truth, refpecting fo excellent and exemplary a clergyman as the late worthy rector of St. George's, Middlesex. I am, Gentlemen, Your moft obedient fervant,

Jan. 11, 1802.

A LONDON CURATE.

GLEANINGS. NUMBER III.

OR SELECT THOUGHTS, ANECDOTES AND EXTRACTS.

Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be loft. JOHN vi. 12.

AN ORIGINAL LETTER BY MR. ADDISON.

THE HE following letter was written by this great man when he was fecretary to Lord Sunderland, viceroy of Ireland, on receiving a bank bill for three hundred guineas, which he returned.

June 26, 1715.

SIR, I FIND there is a very strong oppofition formed against you; cafe but I fhall wait on my Lord Lieutenant this morning, and lay your before him as advantageously as I can, if he is not engaged in other company. I am afraid what you say of his grace does not portend you any good.

And now, Sir, believe me, when I affure you I never did, nor ever will on any pretence whatsoever take more than the stated and customary fees of my office. I might keep the contrary practice concealed from the world, were I capable of it, but I could not from myself; and I hope I fhall always fear the reproaches of my own heart more than thofe of all mankind. In the mean time, if I can ferve a gentleman of merit, and fuch a character as you bear in the world, the fatisfaction I meet on such an occafion, is always fufficient, and the only reward to, SIR, Your moft obedient humble fervant,

J. ADDISON.

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ANECDOTES of the FATHER of ROBERT BARCLAY, the Quaker. David Barclay, of Mathers, in Scotland, ferved as a colonel under Guftavus Adolphus, king of Sweden, and when the troubles broke out in Charles the Firft's time, he did not remain neuter. In that fluctuating period he became a quaker, and when he retired to live upon his eftate, wifhed to improve his perfonal farm. But as he knew nothing of agriculture, he was obliged to truft all to his fervants. Having difcovered that he had an unfkilful ploughman, he was at much pains to recommend better methods of ploughing, from what he had obferved among his neighbours: but the fellow was obftinate, and would go on his own way. Thou knoweft, friend, (faid Mr. Barclay) that I feed and pay thee to do my work in a proper manner, but thou art wife in thine own eyes, and regardeft not the admonitions of thy employer. I have hitherto poken to thee in a style thou understandeft not, for, verily, thou art of a perverfe fpirit; I wish to correct thy errors for my own fake, and for thine, and therefore thus tell thee (coming over his head at the fame time with a blow which brought him to the ground) that I am thy mafter and will be obeyed." Though the weapon was carnal, this was the demonftration of power, and had the defired effect; the ploughman became tractable and quiet as a lamb.

Of however little value we may think the property of a few hundred yards of a barren mountain, in former ages great disputes have arifen, and much blood has been fhed, in regard to the march-line of the different proprietors, which is commonly marked out by cairns, or large ftones, the bearings of which are laid down in writing, and in cafe of encroachments, the ground is perambulated by the oldeft people in the neighbourhood. A difference of this kind arofe between Colonel Barclay and a neighbour of his, who had built a fheeling beyond his line. A theeling is a temporary hut, for those who attend cattle in fummer time. Mr. Barclay fent the gentleman notice to remove the hut, fignifying that if he did not, he would come and throw it down; no regard was paid to the meffage, on which the colonel called together a few of his tenants and went to the spot. The other gentleman had heard of his intention, and came alfo, ready to oppofe force by force. When the belligerent powers, at the head of their respective corps, armed with fpades, pitch-forks, fwords, and rufty mutkets, had got within the precincts of death, a halt was commanded on both fides; and the chiefs having advanced between the front lines in fullen filence faluted each other. Friend (faid Mr. Barclay) I have long ago, renounced the wrathful principle; and with not to quarrel with any body; but if thou haft a right to build within the march-line between us here, it is but extending that right, to build within my arable-fields, which are also uninclosed; let our people ftand by, while thou and I throw down this hut, injurious to my property and of no confequence to thee."

The other affirmed that he had a right to build the hut where it stood, that his neighbour's claim to the ground was unjust and ill-founded, and that he would be the death of the first man who fhould dare to touch it. "Friend, (faid the colonel) the time was, when thou wouldest not have dared to talk to me in this ftyle; but though I am only the withered remains of what I was once,' thou had'ft better not ftir up the old man with me; if thou do'ft he will foon be too much for thee. Be thy threats unto thyself, I fhall throw down the firft ftone, and do you, my people, level this unjust encroachment of my neighbour." The hut was thrown down without the least oppofition: and both parties returned in peace to their respective abodes. Vol. II. Churchm. Mag. Jan. 1802.

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AUSTIN

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AUSTIN THE MONK.

Our hiftories tell us, that when Auftin, the Monk, came into Britain, from the Pope, to fettle the religion; and when fome of the British Chriftians, confulted with a grave, prudent man, whether they fhould join with him, and submit to his rules, "Yes (faith he) if he be humble, do; but if he be proud, he is not of God.”

DR. LIGHTFOOT.

In the character which the honeft Mr. Strype has given of this profound scholar and excellent divine, we meet with the following remarks, which deferve to be attended to in thefe times.

"He fet himself especially against such as made use of religion to fuperfede the duties of morality; and who upon pretence of higher attainments in Chriftianity, overlooked truth, honefty and righteoufnefs. He could not bear fuch as made religion a pander to fin. And fuch fects there were that fhewed their faces in his time. There were fome that had refined religion to that degree, that they went all upon illuminations, revelations, and spiritual raptures, and talked ofnothing, but of their being acted upon by the fpirit of God, and doing all by fome mighty influences of that spirit: poring fo much upon thefe fancies, that they measured their own, and others, religion, according as they were endued with thefe enthusiastical flights in the mean time made little or no account of moral duties; and were much addicted to unpeaceableness, covetoufnefs, fraud, lying, deceiving, flandering, and fuch like."

ADDISON.

Mr. Addifon having received certain hints, which it was impoffible to mifunderstand, from a married lady, the wife of his friend, he fent the following letter.

Madam,

It would be ridiculous in me, after the late intimation you were pleased to favour me with, to affect any longer an ignorance of your fentiments, however oppofite an approbation of them must be to the dictates of reafon and juftice. This expreffion, I am fenfible, may appear inconfiftent in the mouth of a polite man, but I hope it is no difgrace to a fincere one. In matters of importance, delicacy ought to give way to truth, and ceremony must be facrificed to candour. An honeft freedom is the privilege of ingenuity, and the mind which is above the practice of deceit, can never ftoop to be guilty of flattery upon fuch a point.

Give me leave, madam, to remark, that the connexion fubfifting between your husband and myself, is of a nature too ftrong for me to think of injuring him in a point, where the happiness of his life is materially concerned. You cannot be infenfible of his goodness, or my obligations; and fuffer me to observe that, were I capable of fuch an action, how-muchfoever my behaviour might be rewarded by your paffion, I must be defpifed by your reason, and, though I might be efteemed as a lover, I fhould be hated as a man. Highly fenfible of the power of your beauty, I am determined to avoid an interview where my peace and honour may be for ever loft. You have paflions, you fay, madam; give me leave to anfwer, you have understanding alfo; you have a heart fufceptible of the tenderest impreffions, but a foul, if you would chose to awaken it, beyond an unwarrantable indulgence of them; and let me intreat you, for your own fake,

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to refift any giddy impulfe, or ill-placed inclination, which fhall induce you to entertain a thought prejudicial to your own honour, and repugnant to your virtue.

I too, madam, am far from being infenfible. I too have paffions; and would my fituation, a few years ago, have allowed me a poflibility of fucceeding, I fhould legally have folicited that happiness which you are now ready to bestow. I had the honour of fupping at Mr. D.'s, where I first faw you, and I fhall make no fcruple in declaring, that I never faw a perfon fo irrefiftibly beautiful, nor a manner fo exceflively engaging; but the fuperiority of your circumftances prevented any declaration on my fide, although I burnt with a flame as ftrong as ever fired the human breaft. I laboured to conceal it. Time and abfence at length abated a hopelefs paffion, and your marriage with my patron effectually cured it. Do not, madam, endeavour to rekindle that flame; do not deftroy a tranquillity I have begun to taste, and blast your own honour, which has been, hitherto, unfullied. My best esteem is your's; but, fhould I promise more, confider the fatal neceflity I should be under of removing myself from an intercourse fo dangerous. In any other commands, difpofe of, Madam,

Your humble fervant.

ALCHYMY.

This vifionary pursuit is well defcribed by M. Baillie: "Alchymia eft capta meretrix, omnes invitat, neminem admittit, eft fine arte ars, cujus principium eft fcire, medium mentiri, finis mendicare." The study of alchymy may be compared to a coquet; the fmiles invitation to every one, but grants her favours to no one. It is an art without rules, whose beginning holds out a semblance of knowledge, whofe middle is falfehood, and whose end is beggary.

N. COPERNICUS.

Nicolas Copernicus, whose researches afcertained the principle upon which the Newtonian Syftem of Philosophy refts, died at Thorn, the place of his nativity, in 1543. He is faid to have expreffed himself in the following manner juft before his death.

Non parem Pauli gratiam requiro,
Veniam Petri neque pofco; fed quam
In crucis ligno dederat latroni,
Sedulus oro.

These lines, which are engraved on his tomb, are not without fault as a compofition; but the deep piety they display, as it deferves to be long admired and remembered, fo will it I trust be imitated by other Chriftians.They may be tranflated thus,

I feek not equal grace with Paul,

Nor Peter's pardon crave;

But what the thief gained on the crofs,
That, that I pray to have.

TRANSLATION OF A MOTTO.

R.

The pious and elegant turn given by Dr. Doddridge to his motto, dum vivimus vivamus, in a few verses, is probably known to many of your readers. The perufal of thefe lines fuggefted to a gentleman the idea of making fome on his own motto, fanguis et vulnera. He wrote the following, which have never been printed and may poffibly afford a pleasure to fome of the many perfons who perufe your valuable magazine.

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