"I did not think there was any perfon left of our name, till lately I found in a news-paper, that a Merchantman came to one of our Ports, commanded by a Captain Fortin, from the West Indies."

"I have twice perufed Bacon's ingenious Hiftory of Life and Death. It recommends abundance of things to be taken, and a variety of rules to be observed, with a view to make life healthy and long. But of these prescriptions many are too dear, and almost all too troublesome; and a long life is not tanti. Few perfons could procure all thefe Subfidia; A Lord Chancellor, or a Lord Bishop, might;-a poor parfon could not afford a hundredth part of the expenfe. of the expense. But, for their comfort, I will be bold to tell them, that they may fare as well without his regimen. As to myfelf, I never obferved any of his rules, or any rules

Moft probably in the year 1770, as the above is the last entry found in the Author's Adverfaria.

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at all, except the general ones of Regularity and Temperance. I never had a ftrong constitution ; and yet, thank GoD, I have had no bad ftate of health, and few acute diforders." *

"Archbishop Herring and I were of Jefus College in Cambridge; but he left it about the time when I was admitted, and went to another. Afterwards, when he was preacher at Lincoln's Inn, I knew him better, and vifited him. He was at that time, and long before, very intimate with Mr. Say, his friend and mine, who lived in Ely House; and Mr. Say, to my knowledge, omitted no opportunity to recommend me to him. When he was Archbishop of York, he expected that a good living would lapfe into his hands; and he told Mr. Say that he defigned it for me. He was disappointed in his expectation; fo was not I; for

Dr. Jortin lived to his feventy-fecond year; and died in his Parish of Kensington, A. 1770.

I had no inclination to go and dwell in the North of England. When Mr. Say died, he asked me of his own accord, whether I should like to fucceed him in the Queen's Library: I told him that nothing could be more acceptable to me; and he immediately used all his intereft to procure it for me; but he could not obtain it. A perfon, who is not worth the naming, was preferred to me, by the folicitation of it matters not who.

"The Archbishop afterwards affured me of his affiftance towards procuring either the preachership, or the mastership of the Charterhouse, where I had gone to school. This project also failed; not by his fault, but by the oppofition of it matters not who.

"In conjunction with Bishop Sherlock, he likewife procured for me the preaching of Boyle's Lectures. He alfo offered me a living in the country, and (which I efteemed a fingular favour) he gave me leave to decline it, without taking it amifs in the leaft; and faid, that he would en

deavour

deavour to serve me in a way that should be more acceptable. He did fo, and gave me a living in the city. * Afterwards he gave me a Doctor's Degree. I thought it too late in life, as I told him, to go and take it at Cambridge, under a Profeffor, who, in point of academical standing, might have taken his first degree under me, when I was Moderator. I was willing to owe this favour to Him, which I would not have asked or accepted. from any other Archbishop.

"That fome perfons, befides Mr. Say, did recommend me to him, I know, and was obliged to them for it. But I must add, that on this occasion, they did only σπευδονία ὀρύνειν, four the free courfer s and that he would have done what he did without their interpofition."

Thus far from the Author's private papers. In the Journal Britannique, published at the Hague,

amongst many other notices taken of Dr. Jortin's different writings as they occurred in publication, the following is placed at the head of his Six Differzations upon different Subjects; - a work, of whofe merit the learned need no information.

Ces Differtations ont pour auteur un homme, qui fe diftingue également par fes connoiffances, et par fes vertus. Litterateur du premier ordre, il n'eftime l'etude des Mots que ce quelle vaut, et qu'autant qu'elle conduit à la fcience des Chofes. Verfé dans la lecture des anciens Auteurs, et dans les recherches de l'Antiquité, il ne se fait point une gloire de décrier fon fiécle, et de donner une injufte préférence à ceux qui l'ont précédé. Confacré par etat à l'inftruction des hommes, il leur préfente une Religion fimple, et deftinée a les rendre contens de la Vie, et preparés a la Mort. Plus jaloux de trouver le Vrai, que d' inventer du Neuf, il ne s' attache à aucun fyftême; n' affecte point la fingularité; promet rarement des demon

In 8vo. printed for Whifton and White,. London. 1755.

ftrations,