esteem, she presented him, in 1800, to the Rectory of Mickleham in Surrey. He was offered the Rectory of Wormley, Herts, by Sir Abraham Hume, Bart. but the kind proffer was declined. He was most unexpectedly collated to St. James's, Aug. 10, 1802, by Bishop Porteus, who, though personally unacquainted with Mr. Andrewes, had the uncommon fortitude to advance merit in opposition to the concerted intrigues of interest, and the formidable demands of power. His Rectory of Mickleham having become vacant on his preferment, he was again presented to it, and instituted Sept. 7, 1802.

In 1804 he published a plain energetic "Sermon, preached at St. Nicholas, Deptford, June 6, 1803, before the Trinity Brethren." The substance of seven Lectures on the Liturgy, which he delivered at St. James's, in February and March 1809, occupies thirty-four pages of "The Pulpit, by Onesimus," vol. I. Svo, 1809. In that year, through the influence of Mr. Perceval, then Prime Minister, he was elected Dean of Canterbury; and he thereupon finally left Mickleham. In 1812, on the translation of Bishop Sparke, he was offered, by Lord Liverpool, the Bishoprick of Chester, but declined on the plea of his advancing years.

Dean Andrewes died at the Rectory-house, Piccadilly, June 2, 1825, aged 75. His remains were interred in a vault he had prepared at Great Bookham in Surrey; those of his wife, daughter, and granddaughter were removed thither from St. James's early on the day of his funeral.

Enjoying vigour of talent and maturity of experience, alike estimable for soundness of doctrine and purity of living, Dean Andrewes was justly considered one of the most eminent members of our ecclesiastical establishment. "In the pulpit he was argumentative but not impassioned, conclusive but not eloquent, a good rather than a great preacher. He was often striking, but seldom moving. All that human information suggests, or human inge

nuity can devise, in aid of truth, elucidatory or confirmatory, presented itself ready to his mind, and was impressed by him on the minds of his hearers. He was, therefore, fond of illustrating the evidences of religion; and of enforcing, from motives of propriety or expediency, the practice of the moral duties. Sometimes he rose into considerable animation; and he uniformly secured attention."

Such is the opinion given by "Onesimus" in the work before quoted, vol. I. p. 26. The following is the Dean's character as delineated in a Sermon preached after his funeral by the Rev. Edward Repton, A. M. at St. Philip's Chapel, Regent-street, on Sunday, June 12, 1825:

"In manners gentle and conciliating; in temper cheerful, equal; in domestic life a practical exhortation to his children, a living pattern to his dependants. To all men kind and considerate; ever ready to listen to the tale of sorrow, prompt and unhesitating to relieve it; liberal without ostentation; charitable without reproof. Strict and uncompromising in his sense of religious duties, though a stranger to the unnatural gloom of fanaticism; shunning the dissipations and vanities of the world, but ever rejoicing in the joy of others, and sharing with cheerfulness the rational amusements of society.

"Such was this good man in private life, and they who knew him best, will know that I have not passed the boundaries of truth. But his public life is known to all. His zeal-his earnestness

his simplicity his unaffected and peculiarly impressive manner need no comment.

"In doctrine as in life, he was the same-followed, courted, praised to a degree almost unprecedented and unequalled, he seemed, as it were, unconscious of the voice of flattery; aiming solely to impress upon his hearers those great truths, which formed the basis of his own belief and practice. For a long period his effective powers were exerted

in behalf of two public institutions, which, for the benevolence of their design, and the extensiveness of their benefit, rank amongst the foremost in this great centre of national philanthrophy. They who had no earthly parent to nourish and protect them, found in him a spiritual father, who conducted them to the knowledge of their God. And she who had sought refuge from the perfidy and scorn of man, in the retreat of penitence and reformation, was encouraged by his soothing assurances of reconciliation with her God, and confirmed in the renewal of her soul.

"Called by a discerning patron from these and other duties still more arduous, to the charge of this extensive parish, his ministry among you was conspicuous, from its commencement to its close, for the strict discharge of all its various duties No one was left unfulfilled, and each was conscientiously performed as it became a faithful minister of Christ."

Dean ANDREWES to Mr. NICHOLS †.

"DEAR SIR, April 14, 1800. "I return you the sheet, with no material alterations, except the addition of some descendants of Robert, born in the year 1608, of the name of Charlton, who lived at or near Hexham. I have made a note of my grandfather John having twelve other children besides Elizabeth-Fenn, John born 1702, and my father; because it is remarkable that my father was one of fifteen children, and my mother one of seventeen, and I am the only male remaining from both grandfathers, the present Mr. Ludlam being a descendant of my great-uncle. I have taken the liberty of noticing a date or two, which I conclude are errors of the press. My father was admitted on the foundation at Westminster in 1719.

"As I came to the Magdalen contrary to the wishes of many, I had rather it was said, 'chosen in the year 1791 and 1799 by the governors,' &c. adding nothing after the words, excellent institutions, respecting any of my other chapels. Your in

*The Foundling and Magdalen charities.

+ A letter of the Dean to the late Mr. Cradock is printed in that Gentleman's Memoirs, vol. IV. p. 91.

Of the Andrewes pedigree in the History of Leicestershire.

sertion of any thing belonging to me in your excellent work gives me, I must confess, a kind of consequence to which I have little pretension; and I can only say, and that with great truth, what Ovid has said before me, that in this instance at least, Materiem superavit Opus. I am, my dear Sir,

"Your much obliged servant, &c. GERR. ANDREWES."

JOHN EARDLEY-WILMOT, Esa.

John Eardley-Wilmot, F.S.A. Esq. was second son of the Right Hon. Sir John Eardley-Wilmot, Knt. Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas.

He received the first rudiments of education at Derby and at Westminster schools, at both which places he remained but a very short time. From thence he was placed at the Academy at Brunswick; and having remained there till he was seventeen, he went to University-college, Oxford, where he was contemporary with many men who afterwards distinguished themselves in public and private life. He was at first intended for the Church; and it was for his use that the Bishop of Gloucester, Dr. Warburton, wrote the Directions for a Young Clergyman, since published in his posthumous Works; but, upon the death of his elder brother in the East Indies, and upon the elevation of his father to one of the highest judicial situations, his intended pursuits were changed, and the profession of the law was ultimately fixed upon. From All Souls'-college, of which he had been elected a Fellow, he removed to the Temple, and studied the law under the superintendance of Sir Eardley. He was at the usual time called to the Bar, and went the Midland Circuit.

He soon after married, April 20, 1776, the only daughter of Samuel Sainthill, Esq. by whom he had four daughters and one son, now Sir Robert Eardley-Wilmot, Bart. all of whom survived him.

In 1776 he was chosen M. P. for Tiverton in Devonshire, and he was re-elected in 1780. Though seldom taking an active part in the debates of those times, he was always attentive to the important duties of a Member of Parliament, and constant in his attendance in the House. He uniformly opposed the American war, from the purest principles of liberty, justice, and benevolence; and, though at the termination of that disgraceful contest, when the claims of the American loyalists were to be inquired into and satisfied, it was most natural to suppose that some gentleman on the other side of the House, who had, as it were, drawn the sword in their cause, would have been appointed Commissioner for that purpose; yet Mr. Wilmot's known abilities, integrity, and benevolence, were so universally acknowledged, that his nomination to that arduous office gave perfect satisfaction. How far the labours of himself and colleagues were crowned with success, the universal approbation of this country, and of America, sufficiently testify.

In 1783 he was made a Master in Chancery; and in 1784 he was elected, with Lord Eardley his brother-in-law, Member for Coventry, in opposition to Lord Sheffield and Mr. Conway, afterwards Marquis of Hertford, whither they had gone to add to the triumphant majority, which ultimately secured Mr. Pitt in his situation as Prime Minister, and consequently this country from ruin.

It was in the summer of 1790, that the Revolutionary storm, so long collecting in France, suddenly discharged itself; and an immense number of French clergy and laity took refuge in this country. The subject of these memoirs was then in town; and the continual scenes of distress he was daily witnessing in the streets, added to particular instances of misery which came under his own immediate observation, induced him alone, without previous communication with any one, to advertise for