fraud in this instance, might have discovered the forgery of the pundit employed by Mr. Wilford, if the original document had been submitted to the inspection of Sir William Jones. In this country the fabrications of a Chatterton, efcaped for a feafon, the penetration of the learned and acute. In the Poftfcript to the Memoirs, I have omitted to mention in its proper place, that a monument was erected at Oxford to the memory of Sir William Jones, by a fubfcription of the gentlemen refiding in Bengal, who had received their education at the univerfity there and at Cambridge. The inscription on the elegant monument executed by Flaxman, at the expense of Lady Jones, and placed in the anti-chamber to the Chapel of Univerfity College, Oxford, is annexed to the Preface. It has frequently been remarked, that the characters of very eminent men cannot be clofely examined without a confiderable diminution of the refpect, which their general fame has excited. From whatever fource this remark may have proceeded, or to whatever degree of truth it may be entitled, I cannot but express a folicitude, that it may derive no confirmation from the work now prefented to the public. Impreffed with admiration, refpect, and esteem for the memory of Sir William Jones, whether I contemplate his genius, his learning, or his virtues, I wifh to transfer my own feelings to the minds of my readers; but whilst I diftruft my own efforts, I am equally anxious to guard against extravagant expectations in them, and any want of difcernment in myself. TEIGNMOUTH. .S GVLIELMI. JONES. EQVITIS. AVRATI, ÒVI.CLARVM.IN. LITERIS. NOMEN. A. PATRE. ACCEPTVM, MAGNA. CVMVLAVIT. GLORIA. INGENIVM.IN. ILLO. ERAT. SCIENTIARVM.OMNIVM. CAPAX, DISCIPLINISQVE. OPTIMIS. DILIGENTISSIME. EXCVLTVM. ERAT. INDOLES. AD. VIRTVTEM. EXIMIA, ET.IN. IVSTITIA. LIBERTATE. RELIGIONE. VINDICANDA, MAXIME. PROBATA. QVICQVID. AVTEM.VTILE. VEL. HONESTVM CONSILIIS.EXEMPLO.AVCTORITATE. VIVVS. PROMOVERAT, CVM.A. PROVINCIA. BENGALA, UBI.IVDICIS. INTEGERRIMI. MVNVS PER.DECENNIVM. OBIERAT, REDITVM.IN. PATRIAM. MEDITARETVR, INGRVENTIS. MORBI. VIS. OPPRESSIT, VT.QVIBVS. IN. ÆDIBVS, IPSE. OLIM. SOCIVS. INCLARVISSET, IN.USDEM.MEMORIA. EIVS. POTISSIMVM.CONSERVARETVR, HONORARIVM. HOC. MONVMENTVM, ANNA. MARÍA. FILIA. JONATHAN.SHIPLEY. EPIS.. ASAPH. CONIVGI. SVO.B.. M. P..C. |