justify me, not only à la cour, but à la ville; and he has been as good as his word, and behaved himself, on this occasion, with all honour, and with all civility, towards me; so that I look upon that matter as quieted." In a subsequent letter the Bishop adds, “I did not mince the matter to the Magistrate; nor am I at all ashamed of what has happened, or concerned for it. I owned my friendship for Pere Courayer; told them frankly a great deal more than they knew of that matter, as far as I was concerned; and thought there was no reason to wonder at, or blame my conduct. I convinced them of that point, and I believe there is an end of it. I shewed the Lieutenant the picture of Pere Courayer hanging up in my room; told him I had visited him in his retreat at Hanment, while he was in disgrace there; and that he came to take his leave of me the night before he left Paris ; and that in all this I thought I had done nothing that misbecame me." The Lieutenant, who behaved with great politeness, was perfectly satisfied with the Bishop's explanation; but this was not the case with the Cardinal, who was persuaded that Father Courayer's escape was entirely owing to Atterbury; and displayed much resentment on that account.-The Marquis of Blandford, soon after Courayer's arrival in England, made him a present of 501. by the hands of Nicholas Mann, esq. With some difficulty he obtained a pension of one hundred pounds a year from the Court; and, having translated Father Paul's History of the Council of Trent into French, in two volumes folio, 1736, he dedicated it to Queen Caroline, the munificent patroness of distressed merit, in the most elegant strains of gratitude: "Exiled," he says, "into your Majesty's dominions, by those enemies which the love of Truth alone procured me; and the Defence of a Church which you have ever honoured with your esteem and protection; your goodness has been my asylum in disgrace, sustained me under my afflictions, relieved my necessities, and supplied all my wants; oft-times preventing, and exceeding my occasions; while, to crown the grandeur of your beneficence, you have scarce suffered me to thank you for those favours you deemed inconsiderable, though the weight of them overwhelmed me. Delighted with the consciousness of well-doing, more than with all the elogies that naturally attend your benevolence, you refuse to admit even the justest acknowledgments; and, to save those you succour, as far as possible, the publishing their misfortunes, by the recital of your grace and clemency, you seek only the divine satisfaction of solacing the unhappy, without bartering your li berality for applause." The Queen increased his pension to two hundred pounds; and, by the sale of the work, he raised fifteen hundred pounds more. He gave 1600l. to Lord Feversham, for an annuity of 100l. which he enjoyed for fifty years. Thus he rose, by degrees, to very easy circumstances; which were made still more so by the reception which his agreeable and edifying conversation procured him among great people, with many of whom it was his custom to live for several months at a time. He had two sisters, who were nuns; and in 1776 had a brother living at Paris in the profession of the Law, to whom he gave a handsome gold snuff-box, which had been presented to him by Queen Caroline. Courayer's works were many, and all in French. He translated Sleidan's History of the Reformation; and wrote a second Defence in support of his first, against the arguments of the Jesuits, Father Harduin, Cardinal Tencin, &c. In discoursing about religious subjects, he was reserved and cautious, avoiding controversy as much as possible. He never had any good opinion of Bower, who came over hither to write his History of the Popes he accused him of pretending to collect from books which he had never seen; and said he was a dark mysterious man, of a very suspicious character. Soon after his retirement to England (it is said) he went to a priest of the Romish Church for Confession, and told him who he was. The priest dared not take his confession, because he was excommunicated: but advised him to consult his Superior of Genevieve. What was the issue of this application, we know not; but it is certain that, when in London, he made it his practice to go to mass; and, when in the country at Ealing, whither he frequently retired for privacy, he constantly attended the service of the parish-church, declaring, at all times, that he had great satisfaction in the prayers of the Church of England, The Jesuits were his worst enemies ; yet, when that Order was suppressed, his great humanity lamented the fate of many poor men, who were thrown out of their bread, and cast, in a helpless state, upon the wide world. He died October 17, 1776, after two days illness, at the great age of 95; and, at his own desire, was buried in the South cloister of Westminster-abbey; where, directly over the effigies of abbot Vitalis, is the following inscription, the production of the late Rev. John Kynaston*; by whose friendship a more ac * Son of Humphry Kynaston, citizen of Chester (descended from a younger branch of the Kynastons of Bronguin, in the county of Montgomery). He was born at Chester, Dec. 5, 1728; admitted a commoner in Brazen Nose college, Oxford, March 20, 1746; elected scholar on the foundation of Sarah Duchess Dowager of Somerset, in the said college, Aug. 1 of the same year; took the degree of B. A. Oct. 16, 1749; was elected fellow June 14, 1751; and took the degree of M. A. June 4, 1752. He obtained no small reputation by an Oratiuncula, intituled, “De Impietate . Cornelio Tacito falsò objectatâ : Oratio ex Instituto Viri cl. Francisci Bridgman, Militis, habita in Sacello Collegii Enei Nasi Oxon. Festo Sancti Thomæ, Decembris 21, A. D. 1761, à J. K. A. M. Coll. ejusdem Socio;" in which he endeavoured to disprove the false allegations (for such he really thought them) of Famianus Strada (that excellent critic, and most elegant writer) against Tacitus, on that very hacknied topick, his daring impiety, and sovereign contempt of the Supreme.In 1764 he published " A Collection of Papers relative to the Prosecution now carrying on in the Chancellor's Court in Oxford, against Mr. Kynaston, by Matthew Maddock, Clerk, rector of Cotworth and Holywell, in the County of Huntingdon, and Chaplain to his Grace of Manchester, for the Charge of Adultery alledged against the said Matthew Maddock;" 8vo. From the date of this publication (the cause of which operated too severely on his high sense of honour and ingenuousness of heart) he resided, in not the best state of health, at Wigan principally, loved and respected by a few select friends; amongst whom the writer of this article is happy to place himself. Though he curate copy of it than that upon the monument (which was put up too hastily before the author's last revisal) was first presented to the publick in the first edition of these "Anecdotes:" "H. S. E. annis morumque integritate juxtà reverendus de Ecclesià atque Politiâ Anglicana et Gallus ipse, et Pontificius, Huic tali tantoque Viro marmor hoc, amoris sui monimentum, posuêre Amici, In his last will, dated Feb. 3, 1774, proved at Doctors Commmons Oct. 24, 1776, he declares, "that he dies a member of the Catholic Church, but without approving of many of the opinions and superstitions which have been introduced into the Romish Church, and taught in their schools and seminaries, and which they have insisted on as articles of faith, though to him they appear to be not only not founded in truth, but also to be highly improbable." He left 500l. to St. Martin's parish, and 2001. to the parish of St. Margaret's Westminster, in which he died; a handsome sum of money to the poor of Vernon in Nor he never had the pleasure of seeing Mr. Kynaston, he has often been delighted, and his own literary labours facilitated, by his valuable correspondence; particularly in the "Select Collection of Miscellany Poems," where some of the most valuable were communicated by Mr. Kynaston. His charitable attentions to the unfortunate Miss Blandy are noticed in Gent. Mag. vol. LIII. p. 803; and the literary aid he gave at Oxford to Kals, a learned physician, in vol. LV. p. 846.-On the 27th of March 1783, Mr. Kynaston had the misfortune to break his left arm, near the shoulder. The boncs, however, having been properly replaced, he was thought out of danger; but died at Wigan in the June following. mandy, mandy, where he was born; and, after many legacies to his friends in England, the rest and residue to two nephews of his name at Vernon.-The principal part of this article is taken from "Observations in a Journey to Paris," an entertaining little work, in two volumes, small 8vo, 1777, by the Rev. W. Jones, B. A. then rector of Pluckley, in Kent; of whom see vol. IV. p. 161; and the account of Dr. Courayer was communicated to this intelligent traveller by Janes Smyth, esq. of Upper Grosvenor-street. The picture of Dr. Courayer, mentioned in p. 41, was given by Bp. Atterbury's will to the University of Oxford, and is now in the Bodleian Library. There is also a small oval portrait of him by Elizabeth Gulston, from a painting of Hamilton, inscribed," Pierre Francis Courayer, who was banished France for writing in defence of the English Ordination. He was born at Rouen, Nov. 17, 1681, and is still living. Published June 1, 1744." [Mrs. Gulston was the wife of Joseph Gulston, esq. of Ealing Grove, Middlesex, a celebrated collector of British portraits. This Lady etched several other portraits, as may be seen in Bromley's Catalogue, which she gave away to her husband's friends.] Mr. Markland, in a letter to Mr. Bowyer, Sept. 29, 1746, says, "Mr. Clarke has given me Father Courayer's Translation of the History of the Council of Trent; with whose Preface I am so greatly pleased (having just now read it) that if he be no more a Papist in other tenets than he is in those he mentions (which are many, and of the most distinguished class) I dare say there are very few considerate Protestants who are not as good Catholics as he is. If you have not read it, you have a great pleasure to come." Bp. Hare had given that copy of Courayer to Mr. Clarke. Notwithstanding the excellence of Courayer's work, there is reason to regret that an English Translation, which was begun in 1738, and some sheets of it actually printed off, was not proceeded with. This assertion will be readily credited, when I add that it was undertaken by Dr. JOHNSON. The part that was printed has long since been converted into waste paper, and (unfortunately) not a single copy of it is known to have been preserved. An carlier Translation had been published by Sir N. Brent in 1616. See the article of Cave, in the Illustrations of vol. V. No I. Soon after this article had appeared in the former edition, a curious little work was published, under the title of "A Declaration of my last Sentiments on the different Doctrines of Religion. By the late Pierre François Le Courayer, D. D. Author of the Dissertation on the validity of English Ordinations,' and Translator of The History of the Council of Trent,' by Fra. Paolo Sarpi, and of The History of the Reformation,' by John. Sleidan. Faithfully translated from the original French, just published from the MS. of the Author. To which is prefixed, An Account of Dr. Courayer." The MS. of this remarkable tract was given by M. Le Courayer himself to the late Princess Amelia, 1734. Among the other books printed by Mr. Bowyer in this year were, "An Oration, in which an Enquiry is made, whether the Stage is, or can be made, a School for forming the Mind to Virtue. Spoke March 13, 1733, in the Jesuits' College at Paris, by Charles Poree, of the Society of Jesus. Translated by John Lockman *." Amelia, who left it as a legacy to her chaplain, the Rev. William Bell, D. D. formerly Fellow of Magdalen college, Cambridge, and Prebendary of Westminster; who published it as originally written in the French language.-The Translator (now known to be the Rev. Dr. John Calder) says, "The publick undoubtedly is much obliged to the very respectable Dignitary of the Church of England who has favoured them with the original of the following Declaration, and who was induced to the publication by a liberality of sentiment, and upright views of usefulness, that do him great honour, and have distinguished him through the course of his public life. As this gentleman seems very desirous it should be known to the publick that he has no concern in the following translation, the Translator takes this earliest opportunity to meet his wishes, and second his advertisement, by declaring, with the utmost sincerity, that, to the best of his knowledge, he never saw the Editor of the original, nor ever had any correspondence with him on this or any other occasion." * Secretary to the British Herring Fishery. His poetical talents seem not very extensive, as the greatest part of what he has favoured the world with of that sort has been only a few songs, odes, &c. written on temporary subjects, and intended to receive the advantage of musical composition before they reached the publick. Mr. Reed, however, found two pieces of the dra matic kind, both of them designed to be set to music, but only the second of them, he thinks, ever performed. They are intituled, 1. "Rosalinda, a Musical Drama, 1740," 4to. 2. « David's Lamentations, an Oratorio." Mr. Lockman had been concerned in several translations and compilements of very considerable works; particularly the "General Dictionary," and "Blainville's Travels;" but, what is more to his praise, he was a man of the most scrupulous integrity. He died Feb. 2, 1771. -Boswell mentions him as "remarkable for an extraordinary number of occasional verses, not of eminent merit;" and notices a sneer of Johnson's, on his being mentioned in a foreign publication as l'illustre Lockman. "A Prac |