parted at Manchester with sentiments of mutual kindness; and putting your worth into the balance against your infirmities, I shall continue to esteem, regard, and to respect you. It is probable that you and I shall never see each other again, and for this, which I really consider as a privation of happiness, the responsibility lies with you alone. But I beseech you to remember in your calm and serious moments, that such men as you and I ought not to trifle with the delicacies or duties of friendship, and that among the changes and chances of life, or in the awful moment of a death-bed, the violation of them may inflict upon us the most poignant anguish.

Supposing that your estrangement from me has not produced any discourtesy to our common acquaintances, I beg the favour to present my best compliments and best wishes to Mr. and Mrs. Greg, to Mr. and Mrs. George Philips, to Mrs. Barrett, to Mr. Hawkes, to Peter Ewart and his lady, to Tom Kershaw, to the excellent William Henry, his wife and aunt, and to our hospitable friend Mr. Faulkner Philips and all his sons and daughters. I feel satisfaction in looking back to the agreeable hours I have spent with them, nor shall I dissemble the regret which I suffer from the conviction that with the same worthy persons I shall no more experience the same social enjoyments. I thank you for your intelligence about the books, and have written proper directions to Mr. Ford. I shall very soon put up the books you lent me in a box, and have them forwarded to you, together with the Ibis and the little collection of Greek poems. As to the inscription for Mr. Lloyd,* I told you before, and I tell you again, that I meant to put up the memorandums when I left Manchester, but upon opening my papers I could not find them; that I wished you to look for them; and that upon your not finding them, I should be glad to receive from your memory and your taste such notices as would enable me to say what was right for your much-respected friend. If those notices come to me I will write the inscription, and if they do not, I cannot write it, but must leave Mr. Lloyd to employ you or somebody else. It was for your sake that I undertook the task, and for yours I am now ready to execute it, when the means are in my power. I have sent to Mr. Percival† the inscription for his

* George Lloyd, Esq., Barrister, of Manchester, who died at Bath, Oct. 12, 1804, in the 55th year of his age. Dr. Parr wrote an English inscription for his monument, which is preserved in his Works, IV. 660, 661.

This was probably Dr. Edward C. Percival, who was Dr. Parr's correspondent respecting the inscription in memory of his father. Dr. Parr, in fact, composed two inscriptions in memory of Dr. Percival, both in Latin (Works, IV. 603, 604),-one for the monument in the parish church at Warrington, the other for the walls of the rooms of the Literary and Philosophical Society at Manchester. The following passage is part of a letter from Dr. Edward Percival to Dr. Parr, dated Manchester, May 21, 1805:—“No higher gratification could be conferred upon me than to have a memorial on the walls of the Society from your pen. Dr. Holme joins me in the same sentiment. * * * The Literary and Philosophical Society originated in the stated weekly meetings for conversation which my father held at his own house. These meetings becoming gradually more numerous, the members at length formed themselves into a tavern club, which in the year 1781 was constituted a regular society, and denominated the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester.' Of this institution my father was appointed joint President with another gentleman, at whose death he became sole President, a situation to which he was ever afterwards annually

father, and have altered it in conformity to some suggestions which he lately made to me. I return Miss Lloyd's letter to you, and am, Dear Sir,

Your sincere well-wisher and obedient, humble servant,

To Dr. Holme, Manchester.

S. PARR.

The following memorandum, without date, appears to contain notes of an interview with Dr. Parr,-probably at Kendal, where Dr. Holme's sister lived,—by some friend of the Holme family.

"Some people buy books to look at; Ned* buys them to read. I love Ned. I have him here," putting his hand to his heart. "I have a small book Ned lent me; I was to leave it with his sister; as she is not at home, you will perhaps take care of it?"

Speaking of his eldest daughter, he observed, "She was one of the finest women in England; I educated her myself."

"Then you made her a liberal, Doctor?"

"I made her a Christian, Sir!"

He mentioned having given away all his plate, worth £1700. The Dr. intimated a wish to go to church next morning. I told him I had some acquaintance with the Mayor, and would speak to him for a sitting in the Corporation pew. He asked if I could not go with them, and wished me to mention his name to the Mayor. He did not choose to walk in the procession, nor to go late. I intimated a wish to (hear?) him preach. He said it was not usual with him when he travelled. We set off in good time, and when we got into the churchyard he seated himself on a tomb-stone. Wishing to hear the bells, he inquired of the sexton the weight of the tenor bell. We then followed the Corporation, and were seated on the front bench of their pew. He inquired where he could most easily call on Mr. Brougham. I told him from Penrith. I asked him if he meant to return this way. He said they should return by York.

"If Charles Fox had lived, and had [it?] in his power, I should have been a Bishop. I shan't ask for it, but if offered should not

refuse."

Hatton, July 8, 1819.†

Dear Dr. Holme,-Your letter was most friendly and most interesting. I shall bring with me the Medical Magazine, and I have no

elected. His attendance at the meetings of this Society was rarely prevented by any other cause than the interruption of health; his contributions, both literary and philosophical, were frequent and various; whilst his earnest zeal, not less than his candour and moderation, seemed peculiarly to fit him for the leading office which he sustained. The resolution of the Society to erect a monument to his memory was passed unanimously, very shortly after his death."

* Dr. Holme.

† Amongst Dr. Holme's papers was found a letter from Dr. Parr of a previous date, "July 16, 1813," detailing at considerable length some of his reasons for breaking off his intimacy with Sir James Macintosh previously to his sailing to Bombay. Though painfully interesting, we think it due to the memory of both these eminent men not to avail ourselves of the permission granted us to print this letter.

other book of yours. In truth, the subject which is strongly impressed upon your mind is seen very distinctly by my own. I will state to you my opinion. You knew the man well. You loved him much. Collect your own thoughts. Select such as seem to you the most apposite, and throw the matter into a rough form of Latin. Then let me read again the general materials, and I shall be able to correct. There seems to me no other practical method, so far as I am concerned.

I shall bring with me Bentley's Correspondence. His arrogance is most odious. He treated no man so ill as he treated Le Clerc; and if the choice were given me to have Bentley's knowledge or Le Clerc's, I should, after some hesitation, decide not for Bentley's. Still, as an Editor of Menander, Le Clerc was out of his element, for he has no nice tact for verbal emendation. He was not quick-sighted in Atticisms and Ionicisms, and he knew very little of metre. he was a very great man in much greater things.

But

But I

Now, my dear Sir, my travelling companions are not here. can say positively that we shall reach Manchester on the 19th in the evening. I shall rest there for one day, which day is the 20th, and the next day I must leave you. Mine is a very extended and a very diversified plan, in the execution of which I must often surrender my own wishes to the convenience of my comrades. They on the 20th will employ the morning in going to the Collegiate church, to your Town Library, and to George Philips's manufactory, if you can get leave for them to see the latter, and somebody must point out to them the Town Cross where the Jacobin (Jacobite) rebels were executed.† They, dear Sir, will take up their abode at the Bridgewater Arms. shall, in conformity to your kind request, cause myself to be set down in Brown Street.

I must be excused, if possible, from calling upon any one whatsoever. I hear from many quarters of your professional activity, which

* Established by the highminded Lancashire Puritan, Humphrey Cheetham, who died 1653.

In the rebellion of 1715, after the defeat of the rebels at Preston, numerous trials and condemnations took place. About seventy prisoners were tried by a special commission at Liverpool. Thomas Syddal and four others were, for the sake of example, removed to Manchester and there executed. Their heads were exhibited on the Market Cross. Syddal was a peruke-maker and a violent Jacobite. At his instigation, in 1714, a furious mob attacked and destroyed the Dissenting meeting-honse (at that time the only one in Manchester) in Aca's Field, now Cross-Street chapel. For this crime Syddal was arrested and committed to Lancaster Castle, but he was rescued thence by the Scotch rebels on their southward march through Lancaster. The Cross seen by Dr. Parr's friends was not the original structure, but a rebuilding of the date of 1752. The original Cross was then removed to High Street, but has long ceased to exist. The son of Syddal took part in the rebellion of 1745, and held the rank of adjutant in the Pretender's army. He was executed for this treason, in 1746, on Kennington Common. His head and that of Captain Deacon and another were brought down to Manchester and exposed upon the front of the Exchange, within a few yards of the spot where his father's head had been exhibited thirty years before. Capt. Deacon was the son (one of two who fell in this rebellion) of Dr. Deacon, a Nonjuring physician and bishop of some celebrity. The Dr. was the first to visit the mutilated remains of his son, on which he gazed with intense reverence, and expressed his joy that he had a son who could firmly suffer martyrdom in the cause of his Sovereign.

must necessarily lead to professional eminence, and to those pecuniary advantages which you slighted so long, and which you so amply deserve. I therefore shall joyfully accept of your invitation to dinner. But I entreat you, dear Sir, again and again, to make no expensive preparation. You can always furnish a banquet for the mind. Pray have no salmon, nor any costly fish; and I hope lobsters, of which I am immoderately fond when they are warm, should not be considered as costly, and if they are, I interdict them.

Remember my fondness, as I remember yours, for veal cutlets, with dainty and very copious sauce. You will permit me to bring my two comrades to dinner, and desire Mr. Hawkes to assist them in seeing the town, and to procure a ticket for Philips's manufactory. My acquaintance with George † has ceased; but he has some good qualities, and I am very much pleased with his Parliamentary conduct. I continue to esteem his wife. Now as to the party, it must not be large, because I shall be very much fatigued. Let us have Dr. Henry, Tom Kershaw, Faulkner Philips, and my brother Hawkes, whose sterling good sense I shall ever admire. I am afraid to mention after his late misfortune. He is no common man, though his excellencies are a little obscured by the peculiarities which more or less adhere to all Nonconformists. Parson Hawkes is more exempt from these imperfections than any conventicle preacher I ever saw. I wish that he or his vestry folks would give me a copy of the printed Service used in the Unitarian chapel. I read it attentively, and I have publicly mentioned it with approbation as to its spirit before some crowded and enlightened congregations. Your letter came to me last night. In the morning I had a visit from Mrs. Waddington, who has lost a little of her beauty, but retains her vivacity and ingenuity. She desired me to look at a very learned and a very argumentative book written by her son-in-law, Mr. Busens (Bunsen?), Secretary to the Prussian Legation at Rome. I charged her to encourage Busens in correcting, enlarging and republishing his admirable work, De Jure Atheniensium Hereditario. It is replete with history, jurisprudence, ethics and philology. He was a scholar of Heyne. His Latinity is now and then involved in the German way, and I told her my wishes for him to disentangle his meaning from the lengthened and intricate swathes of his sentences. I thank you for your polite attention to Mrs. Parr. She often rambles in the neighbourhood. But she does not accompany me upon any long tour, and I told her plainly my opinions and determinations upon this subject before I married. I honour your sister for her patriotism and her heroism. I hope that your prudent and professed neutrality does not amount to apostacy. Events justify your real tenets and my own. Keep aloof from the ultra-Reformers; but do justice to the Constitutionalists, and disdain to enter into a holy alliance with the Tories of our days. Pray, dear Sir, do not ask more persons than I have mentioned. I am grieved not to have Dr.

Rev. William Hawkes, the minister of the second Presbyterian congregation in Manchester, worshiping then in Mosley Street, now removed to Upper Brook Street.

+ Mr., afterwards Sir George Philips, M. P. for Poole, father of the present Baronet.

Smith* with us, and the Norwich Unitarian parson. But the party will be too large. I think that you may admit Robert Tweddell. Choose for yourself. Remember me to all my friends. Some I shall see for the last time, and others I shall see no more. But such is the lot of man. God bless you!

I am truly your friend and respectful, humble servant,

SAMUEL PARR. P.S. I shall very much wish to sleep at your house. My trusty servant Samuel will sleep at the inn.

Hatton, Sept. 2 (probably 1823). Dear and learned Dr. Holme,-I am going to ask a favour which you can hardly refuse to me. When I was with you at Manchester three years ago, you permitted me to read, and for a short time to take away, a duodecimo work of Dr. Lawrence upon the Dropsy. I felt the same charm that you do from the matter and the style, and I pointed out one mistake, of which there are two instances in the Lectures of Lawrence upon the Brain. I carefully returned your book. I cannot get it in London. I must entreat your aid. Pray, dear Sir, put the book into the hands of your respected schoolmaster Dr. Smith, and permit one of his boys to transcribe the contents under the immediate inspection of Dr. Smith. I have written to Dr. Smith, and we can depend upon his vigilance to preserve the book from being hurt. When the manuscript is finished, cast your keen and discerning eye, so as to ascertain the correctness of the transcriber. When the thing is done, I should wish you to make up a parcel, to direct it first for me, and then over it to put an envelope, and direct that envelope to Dr. John Johnstone, the Monument House, Birmingham; and pray write two or three lines to Dr. John, and tell him that the parcel is for me. This is the best mode of conveyance.

I hope that you are acquainted with Mr. Calvert, your new Warden. He is a Tory, and he is a Johnian; but you will find in him good sense, various information, polite manners, and qualities to sustain the dignity of his office, without the violence, intolerance and severity of the priesthood.-I hear of you often; I cannot hear too often. Now, Dr. Holme, pray be careful in remembering me respectfully and kindly to the following worthies. Faulkner Philips, George Philips and his lady, the excellent Mr. Philips,§ who bought an estate in my neighbourhood, and all his family, Mr. Wood || and his daughter, my old Scotch sweetheart, Mrs. her most accomplished,

Jeremiah_Smith, D.D., of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, elected High Master of the Free Grammar-school, Manchester, 1807; also Rector of St. Ann's church, Manchester.

+ Rev. J. G. Robberds. "Mr. Robberds, of Manchester, had a classical education in Norwich school. He is an excellent writer of English prose."-Dr. Parr's letter to Archbishop Magee, 1823.

This fixes the date of the letter. Thomas Jackson Calvert, D.D., Rector of Wilmslow, was on the death of Dr. Blackburne appointed, by the influence of Lord Liverpool, Warden of the Collegiate church, and was installed March 8 in that year.

§ The late Robert Philips, Esq., of the Park, near Manchester.

The late Ottiwell Wood, Esq.