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teacher if he did not posses energy sufficient for the first place, he was, admirably calculated, for the situa tion which was his lot. His prose compositions in Latin were terse and classical, and retained a savour of the school of Freind. His sermons display the compositions of a scholar, and may be read with pleasure and edification.

Dr. Lloyd married a Miss Langton, a niece of Drs. Freind and Bentley, by whom he had a son sufficiently known by his classical and poetical abilities, and by his misfortunes. He had, likewise, three daughters, two of whom are, I believe, still living.

Dr. Lloyd was for some time morning preacher at St. Margaret's: as a preacher, in the early part of his life, he was much admired; his voice was clear and musical, but not loud. When he was.seventy years of age, he was for a little while morning preacher at St. George's, Hanover-square.

The Westminster Election commences on Rogation Sunday annually, and lasts four days: on the Tuesday there is a public dinner in the hall, attended by many who have been, formerly, educated in the school, and others. Upon that occasion a subject is given out to the boys after dinner; and the thesis, as it is called, on that day, was-ad populum phaleras.

Abiit senex. Periit senex amabilis.
Quo non fuit jucundior.

Lugete vos ætas quibus maturior
Senem colendum præstitit;
Seu quando, viribus valentioribus

Firmoque fretus pectore.

Florentiori vos juventute excolens
Curâ fovebat patriâ.

Seu quando, fractus, jamque donatus rude,

Vultu sed usque blandulo,

Miscere gaudebat suas facetias

His annuis leporibus!

Vixit probus, purâque simplex indole

Blandisque comis moribus,

Et dives æquâ mente, charus omnibus,

Unius auctus munere.

Ite, tituli! Meritis beatioribus

Aptate laudes debitas!

Nec invidebat ille, si quibus favens,

Fortuna plus arriserat.

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Placide senex, levi quiescas cespite,
Etsi superbum nec tibi

Vivo decus sit inditum, nec mortuo
Lapis notatus nomine!

The following translation is by their learned author.

Farewel then to the good old man! he's gone,
And has not left a pleasanter behind;
To you of age mature, his worth was known-
Indulge with us the sorrows of your mind.

In manhood now, you trace the scenes of youth,
While yet with spirits, health, and vigor fraught,
He train❜d your breast to principle and truth,
Warn'd like a friend, and like a father taught.

You knew him too, when ebbing to decay,
Releas'd at length, and all his labors past,
He join'd the pleasures of this festive day,
Courting the Muse, and cheerful to the last.
Pure were his manners, and his life appear'd
Smoothly, in one calm, even course to run;
Good-humor'd, gentle, mild, to all endear'd;
Protected, cheer'd, and honor'd but by One.
Go, titl'd Pomp, where Virtue calls you, go,
Where happier merit claims you for her own.
He envied none, what fortune could bestow,
Pleas'd if she smil'd on worth, and worth alone.
Peace to thy Spirit then! the peace of Heav'n,
Thou good old man, and quiet to thy shade,
Tho' to thy living worth no rank was given,
And dead, no marble tells where thou art laid.

MR. MUNTON.

I LAMENT that my materials for the life of this excellent man are so very scanty. Mr. Munton was born at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and after receiving his school education at his native place, was sent to St.

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John's College, Cambridge. He took the degree of M.A. in 1752. He became second Master of the Grammar-school at Newcastle by the appointment of the Corporation, and was Curate of St. Andrew's Church. He died in the middle of life, Jan. 1755. He married the niece of John Stephenson, Esq. Alderman of Newcastle, and of Sir William Stephenson, Alderman of London; and left three sons, one of whom was posthumous. After his decease, the sermons which compose the volume were selected by the Rev. Hugh Moyses, M.A. Head Master of the school, and published by his widow.

Mr. Munton was a man of primitive manners, and exemplary character; diligent in the discharge of his professional duties, and greatly respected by his townsmen, and his congregation. He delivered his discourses with a plain and easy familiarity, and engaged the attention of his hearers.

The Critical Reviewers give this character of his sermons. These discourses are almost all of a practical nature; but have little either in regard of language or sentiment that can recommend them to the discern

ing reader." Oct. 1756.

With submission to these learned critics, some of Munton's sermons would be pronounced truly excellent by every dispassionate judge. His vindication of the doctrines of the Atonement, and the Trinity, may not entitle him to the commendation of critics who reject these doctrines; but if simplicity, zeal, and affectionate address, constitute merit in a preacher, Munton's claim cannot, easily, be overlooked.

MR. NEWLIN.

TO the obliging communications of the late Rev. Dr. Hutchinson, Fellow of Magdalen College, and

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Vicar of Beeding, I am indebted for the following account of Mr. Newlin-the only one which could be obtained.

Thomas Newlin, ætat. 17. Civ. Winton, was elected Demy of Magdalen College in July 1706. He was admitted to the degree of M.A. in 1713. He became an actual Fellow in 1718, and was presented to the living of Beeding, in Sussex, 1720. In 1727 he became B.D. He died in the year 1743, aged 56, and was buried at Beeding. On his monument is this inscription.

"In a vault on the other side of this wall, are in"terred the remains of the Rev. Thomas Newlin, "B.D. late Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, "and Vicar of this parish. His works are a lasting "monument of his great worth and shining abilities:

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nor was he more admired by the judicious for his "compositions, than he was esteemed by the good for "his simplicity of manners, and integrity of life. He "was a prudent and zealous defender of the Constitu❝tion, and Liturgy of the English Church, an able "and discreet pastor, and a truly Christian divine. "In his conversation he was polite, lively, and im"proving, and as singularly modest and humble, "as he was learned and knowing. He was an indul

gent husband, an affectionate brother, a generous " and charitable neighbor, and a sincere friend.”

I have appropriated very few of his sermons, considering their uncommon excellence. There is a zeal and pathos in them which rank them among the most useful sermons and elegant compositions in the language.

DR.

DR. OGDEN.

I EXTRACT an account of Dr. Ogden from that given of him by the late Bishop Halifax.

"Dr. Samuel Ogden was born on the 28th day of July, in the year 1716, at Manchester, in the county of Lancaster, and educated at the free-school there.

In March 1733, he was admitted in King's College, in Cambridge, and in August 1736, he was removed to St. John's College, in the same University; where, in 1737, he took the degree of B.A. and in 1739 was elected Fellow.

He was ordained Deacon at Chester, in June 1740, and Priest at Bugden, in November 1741. In this year also he took the degree of M.A. In 1744, he was elected Master of the Free Grammar-school, at Halifax, in Yorkshire, and by Dr. Leigh, the late Vicar there, was appointed first to the Curacy of Coley, and afterwards to that of Elland, both in the neighborhood; which latter Curacy he continued to hold to the end of the year 1762.

In 1748, he became B. D.

In March 1753, he resigned his school at Halifax, and went to reside at Cambridge, and at the ensuing commencement in July, was created D.D. The late Duke of Newcastle, Chancellor of the University, happening to visit Cambridge at the last of the above times, Mr. Ogden was fixed upon to perform, before his Grace, the exercise appointed by the statutes for the degree of Doctor of Divinity. The question proposed by Mr. Ogden, and on which he made his Thesis, was Christum ipsum insontem, a Deo ad mortem datem esse pro sontibus, est credibile.

That chosen by the Professor Dr. Green, the late Bishop of Lincoln, was,

Præscientia divina, et future improborum pœnæ, cum recta ratione non pugnant.

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