Fortune fhower

Her Aimfy favours on the fawning crew; While in low Thurcafton's fequefter'd bower,

She fixt him diftant from Promo

tion's view:

Yet shelter'd there by calm Contentment's wing,

Pleas'd he could fmile, and with

fage Hooker's eye, See from his mother Earth God's bleffings fpring, And eat his bread in peace and privacy.

In 1757 he publifhed "Remarks on Mr. David Hume's Effay on the Natural Hiftory of Religion, addreffed to Dr. Warburton," 8vo; a work faid to be compofed from the notes of the perfon to whom it was infcribed. Of this performance Mr. Hume fpeaks with much anger, as being written, to use his own words, with all the illiberal petulance, arrogance, and fcurrility which diftinguifh the Warburtonian School. His next performance was, "A Letter to Mr. Mafon on the Marks of Imitation," 8vo. 1757, which in the fame year was added to the 3d edition of the Epiftles of Horace.

The leifure which the living of Thurcafton had given to its poffef for, foon appeared to have been not idly spent, In 1759 a volume

of Dialogues, Moral and Political, was published in 8vo. ; it contained the first Six Dialogues, and was followed in 1762 by his Letters on Chivalry and Romance. Two Dialogues on the Ufe and Abuse of Foreign Travel iucceeded in 1764; and next year he was called, probably by Bifhop Warbur ton's intereft, to the Preachership of Lincoln's-inn. By the fame affiftance he feems to have procured the appointment of Archdeacon of Gloucefter in August 1767. The abilities of Dr. Warburton began about this time to decline. His friendship had, however, procured a new and more powerful patron for Dr. Hurd in the perfon of Lord Mansfield, through whofe afliftance in 1774 the Mitre was placed, as it always ought to be, on the head of genius and learning. In that year Dr. Hurd was elevated to the See of Litchfield and Coventry, and was from thence translated to the See of Worcester, in 1781; and, as an additional teftimony of royal favour, made Clerk of the Closet to the King.

In 1772 were published Twelve Sermons on the Prophecies concerning the Chriftian Church, preached at Lincoln's-Inn; and in 1773 a Selection from the Works of Cowley, in 2 vols. 8vo. Since this period other volumes of Sermons have been printed, which will not leffen the reputation which their author had before acquired.

On a change which took place in the Royal domeftic œconomy a few years fince (the cause of which is ftill unexplained to the World), Dr. Hurd was called to fuperintend the education of the Heir to the Crown.

Of Dr. Hurd's character little need be faid. Where calumny has not even ventured to infinuate a

fault, and where refpect and re

verence

verence are the conftant attendants on any person, surely it will be unnecellary to expatiate on his good qualities. Were any evidence wanting, the teftimony of Mr. Mason would be fufficient. It was long ago faid by that gentleman, That though his friend was graced with every liberal art, yet that in morals and in the virtues of the heart he had still more excellence. As a writer, his tafte, learning, and genius, are univerfally confeffed. His Sermons are read with more advantage than they are delivered, his manner being cold and unanimated, not calculated to make much impreffion on his hearers. With his friends and connections he has obtained the beft eulogium, their conftant and warm attachment; and with the world in general a kind of veneration, which, in times like the prefent, could neither be ac

quired nor preserved but by the exercise of great virtues.

Befides the pieces already mentioned, Dr. Hurd has been fufpected of being the author of fome anonymous performances; particularly" Difcord: A Satire," 4to. 17- a republication of Dr. Jeremy Taylor's-"Moral Demonftration of the Truth of the Chrif tian Religion," 8vo. 1776; and he has alfo publifhed a Charge to the Clergy of his Diocese, and fome fingle Sermons.

Several of the above efforts of Dr. Hurd's genius and undoubted abilities, will remain monuments of his tafte, erudition, and critical knowledge; for, we may venture to fay, they contain more judgment, accurate diction, and perfpicuity, than perhaps has fallen to the fare of any of our prefent writers. He convinces with ftrength, and inftructs with spirit.

HIS Lordship was born April

2, 1725, and was the second fon of William Anne, fecond Earl of Albemarle, who was married on Feb. the 21st, 1722-3, to Lady Anne, daughter of Charles Lenox, firft Duke of Richmond. This lady gave birth to a family of fifteen children, eight fons, and feven daughters.

Lord Keppel early diftinguished himself in the fervice of his country; he ferved on board the flag fhip of Commodore Anson, in the South Seas, of which mention is made in his voyage; and at the taking of Patna, he was expofed to imminent danger. He wore on this fervice a jockey cap, the peak of which was shaved off by a canhon ball, close to the temple. December 11, 1744, he was promoted to the rank of Mafter and

On

Commander in the Royal Navy,

and was foon after made poft Captain. His activity during this war, was manifefted on a variety of occafions. In 1751, he was made Commodore of a squadron in the Mediterranean; during his continuance on this ftation, he preffed the Dey of Algiers in fo fpirited a manner on account of fome depre. dations committed on an English merchant ship, that he exacted from that Prince this conceffion, “That one of his officers had been guilty of a very great fault, which tended to embroil him with his chiefeft and beft friends; wherefore he fhould never more ferve him by fea or land; and hoped the King of England, his mafter, would look upon it as the act of a feol or mad, man, and he would take care nothing fhould happen again of the