rank of admiral of the blue squadron, and died August 16, 1800. Shute, the youngest son, successively filled the episcopal sees of Llandaff, Salisbury, and Durham: for the particulars of his life the reader is referred to the following Memoir.

Of the three daughters, 1. Sarah was married in June 1746 to Robert, only son of Uvedale Price, of the county of Hereford, Esq.; 2. Anne was married in January 1747 to Thomas, only son of Sir Thomas Clarges, Bart.; and, 3. Mary, died unmarried in 1743.

I cannot close this memoir of the first Lord Barrington without recalling to the attention of the reader the various successful fortunes of his sons. William, the eldest, became secretary at war, and chancellor of the exchequer. The third,' John, died a major-general in the army. Daines, the fourth, was well known as a naturalist and antiquary. Samuel was distinguished as an admiral. The sixth, and last, was Shute, late Bishop of Durham. Of this eminent and lamented prelate many brief memoirs were given to the world in various periodical publications at the time of

his death. I trust, however, that I may be allowed to avail myself of this opportunity to pay some slight tribute to the memory of a friend, to whom I am bound by every tie of gratitude and esteem; who called me forth from the retirements of life, to honour me with his confidence, to regard me as his friend, to love me as his child.

Shute Barrington, the sixth and youngest son of the first Lord Barrington, was born May 26th, 1734. He lost his father at the age of seven months. He was educated at Eton, and, in 1752, became a gentleman-commoner at Merton College, Oxford, where he took his first degree in 1755, and in the ensuing year obtained a fellowship. In the following year he was ordained by Bishop Secker, and, in 1757, having taken his master's degree, was appointed by Dr. Randolph, the vice-chancellor, to make a public oration on the presentation of the Pomfret marbles to the University. By the interest of his brother William, the second Lord Barrington, he was named chaplain in ordinary to George the Second. In 1761 he was made canon of Christ Church, and took his degree of doctor of law in the ensuing year. In 1768 he was promoted to a canonry at St. Paul's, which he afterwards exchanged for a stall at Windsor. His elevation to the bench of bishops took place in 1769, when he was

consecrated Bishop of Llandaff. In 1781 he was made Bishop of Salisbury, and ten years after Bishop of Durham. He died, after a short illness, on the morning of the 25th of March 1826.

The Bishop of Durham was twice married. His first wife was Lady Diana Beauclerk, only daughter of Charles, second Duke of St. Albans, who died in 1762, leaving no children. In 1770 he married his second wife Jane, only daughter of Sir J. Guise of Rendcombe in Gloucestershire; by whom he had a son, who died an infant. Mrs. Barrington died at Mongewell in Oxfordshire, August 8th, 1808.

The Bishop of Durham was more distinguished for the exemplary discharge of his duties, for piety and well regulated benevolence, than for eminent talents or extensive knowledge. His remarks on the Greek Testament, inserted in Bowyer's "Critical Conjectures," are characterised by sound judgment and great caution. The Bishop was accustomed to read the Greek Testament in that manner in which every student was compelled to peruse it before the invention of the art of printing; that is, without regard to modern punctuation, or the divisions into chapters and verses. He proposed no alteration in the text itself; but suggested several corrections, many of which were useful and ingenious, arising from changing a

period, and thereby attaching words to the beginning instead of the end of a sentence; or to the end instead of the beginning. He was accustomed to read the Hebrew Bible on the same plan; but has left no criticisms on this branch of study.

The principal publications which the Bishop gave to the world were tracts, sermons, and charges; which are alike characterised by sound judgment, clearness of expression, and fervent piety. His last work was the political life of his brother William, the second Lord Barrington.

In a sermon preached before the House of Lords, on the thirtieth of January 1772, from Prov. i. 32, "The prosperity of fools shall destroy them," an admirable review is taken of the various errors of the several parties which divided England in the reign of Charles the First, and in the time of the Commonwealth; together with their success in attaining power, and their downfall in consequence of their prosperity.

In the year 1775 he preached the sermon before the Incorporated Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. He chose for his subject the passage in the second Psalm, “Ask of me, and I will give thee the heathen for thine inheritance," &c. &c. In this sermon he attempts to prove that the moral weight and

importance of the truths of the Gospel, and the management and conduct of its teachers and professors, were intended to be a more efficient cause of its success than even the miracles of the apostolic age.

In his sermon preached before the House of Lords in 1799, the Bishop demonstrates that the principal cause of the French Revolution was the total indifference to, and contempt of, the Christian religion, arising from the corruptions of Popery, and the identification of those corruptions with Christianity itself.

His charges to the clergy deserve the attentive perusal of every member of the clerical body.

The tract entitled "The Grounds on which the Church of England separated from the Church of Rome reconsidered, in a view of the Romish doctrine of the Eucharist, with an Explanation of the Antepenultimate answer in the Church Catechism," has been generally esteemed among the most valuable controversial pamphlets which have hitherto appeared on this subject. It is well known, as having been admitted on the list of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. Much controversy was occasioned by the publication of this tract, as well as by a sermon which was published in 1806, in which the Bishop again