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P. 669, line 28, for a high degree not only of read not only p. 676, line 11, for attention read affection, p. 681, line 8 from bottom for appears read appear. ⠀ THE ECLECTIC REVIEW, FOR AUGUST, 1812. Art. I. The Life of the Right Rev. Beilby Porteus, D. D. late Bishop of London. By the Rev. Robert Hodgson, A. M. F. R. S. Rector of St. George's, Hanover Square, and one of the Chaplains in Ordinary to his Majesty. 8vo. pp. 319. Price 7s. Cadell and Davies. 1811. THE contemplation of so eminent a pattern of excellence, as it is the aim of the performance before us to delineate, must be ranked among the most interesting and improving of human enjoyments. Worth so fervent and uniform, united to talents so cultivated, and accomplishments so fascinating,-honoured with station, and affluence, and authority-recommending our religion, enriching our literature, and adorning and dignifying even the most elevated institutions of our nation, presents indeed a noble and animating spectacle, amidst the disheartening scenes which on every side surround us. By every man of right feelings, it must be viewed with reverence and affection; and we are anxious, for our own part, now to leave the picture enchased, with all its valuable instruction, within the heart of every individual who may distinguish our pages with his notice. Mr. Hodgson's model in composition has evidently been his patron's Review' of Secker. His arrangement is chronological. In the narrative there is no want of perspicuity; and his remarks and reflections are usually marked with good sense. His long habits of familiar friendship with the departed prelate, gave him peculiar means of intimate observation and of accurate judgement; and from his close family alliance, he has possessed complete access to the most authentic and ample private sources of intelligence and illustration. Mr. H. slightly sketches the prelate's ancestry and education; enumerates the situations and offices in which he employed his protracted life; relates the occasions and the characters of his several publications, and of the various political measures, which, at different times, he recommended or opposed; and then proceeds to adduce some official, and disclose some secret deeds, which more directly exemplified the principles, and embodied the qualities, of his mind and heart. VOL. VIII. 3 R We cannot but notice, however, some serious defects in the course of the work. We are told enough of the Bishop as a peer, and enough of him as a bishop,-if a bishop mean nothing more than an ecclesiastical governor: but to learn the history of his studies, the progress of his mental powers, his habits of composition, or his domestic modes of amusement and relaxation, must be here a hopeless attempt. In short, the public wish to know, and from a nephew of the Bishop's have a right to expect, much more respecting his private life and conduct than Mr. Hodgson has thought proper to furnish. Bishop Porteus was born at York, on the 3d of May, 1731, the youngest but one of nineteen children. His parents were both natives of Virginia, in North America, and respectively descended from good families emigrated from Britain. His father, born to what was there considered an independent fortune, followed no profession, but lived upon his estate, in af fluence and tranquillity, till 1720; when, induced as well by declining health, as by the desire of procuring for his children a better education, he removed to England, and fixed his residence in York. Owing to the negligence or dishonesty of his foreign agents, this removal was succeeded by very considerable injury to his fortune; but he happily accomplished the object first in his ambition, and this rewarded every sacrifice, and amply atoned for all disquietude. Having attended school at York till he was thirteen years of age, and afterwards passed a considerable time in a respectable seminary at Rippon, young Porteus was sent to Cambridge, where, under the judicious superintendance of an elder bro ther, he was admitted a sizer at Christ's College. While under-graduate, his attention was directed, mainly, to mathematical pursuits; and he proved his industry and talent, by taking the station of tenth wrangler, among the honorary degrees of his year. Becoming bachelor of arts, in 1752, he carried off the second gold medal for classical eminence, on the first occasion of their adjudgement, upon the election of the Duke of Newcastle to the chancellorship. In the spring of the same year he was chosen fellow of his college, and from that time resided in Cambridge. He has often declared this to have been one of the happiest periods in his life; being placed precisely in the situation which he most wished and wanted, with leisure, means, and motives to prosecute those studies which were best suited to his disposition, and amidst congenial associates, on whom his heart and understanding could alike repose. From these quiet enjoyments, however, he was soon summoned into Yorkshire, by the sudden death of his mother. Mr. Gray, in his elegant Letters, reminds his correspondent, ith a simple tenderness that we have always felt indescribably |