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Right Rev . ^ ohn Douglas . i > . D . F . R . S . & A . S .
political life of Mr . Burke , -which he has thus finely improved in his speech to the Electors of Bristol on declining the Poll : 4 < Gentlemen , the melancholy event of yesterday reads to us an awful lesson against being too much troubled about any of the objects of ordinary ami ition . 1 he worthy gentleman who has been snatched from us at the moment of the
election , and " in the middle of the contest , ¦ whilst his desires were as warm , and his hopes as eager as ours , has feelingly told us what shadows we are , and what shadows we pursue . " ( Works , 8 vo . Hi . 433- ) May 18 , at Windsor , aged 86 , the Right Rev . JOHN DOUGLAS , D . D . F . R . S . and A . S . Bishop of Salisbury and Chancellor of the Order of the
Garter . Dr . D . was born in 1721 , at Pittenween , a sea-port town in the county of Fife , where his father was a merchant His Grandfather , while the Church of Scotland was episcopal , had held the living of East Lothian , in which he immediately succeeded Bishop Burnet of \ vhom the grandson became the remote
successor in the See of Salisbury . After receiving his grammatical education at Dunbar , Dr . D . at the age of fifteen became a Commoner of St Mary Hall , Oxford , and a years afterwards removed to Baliol College . In 1742 , ' * to acquire a facility of speaking French , ** he passed some time in France and Flanders . On
his return , having been appointed Chaplain to a Regiment of Guards , he revisited the continent in 1 745 , where he
was present at the battle of Fontenoy , on which occasion he was employed in carrying orders from General Campbell to
the English who guarded the village in which he , and the other generals were stationed . " We presume that the spiritual and pacjj 5 < functions of our divine were now unavoidably suspended as the
maxim " silent leges inter arntay * is peculiarly applicable to the laws of the gasf > el . Mr . Pulteney , afterwards Lord Bath , the ^ persevering , and at length successful opponent of Sh R . Walpole , * vas an early patron of Dr . D . whom he appointed to accompany his son on his travels . " Of this tour there exists a jnanuscript account in the Bishop ' * huntl
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writing ^ . relates principally if not exclusively , to the governments and political relations of the several countries through which he passed . " Returning to Eng ' and in 1749 , he acquired two ecclesiastical benefices on the presentation of . Lord Bath . The " Biographical Memoirs ^' of the Bishop * ( attributed to his son , ) of which we have already availed ourselves , give the following account of the manner in which he
nowexecuted an office undertaken on the Candidate declaring tiimself " inwardly moved by the Holy Ghost , " according to the fo . m of ordination . Cl He only resided occasionally on his livings , and at the desire o ! . Lord Bath , took a house in a street contiguous to Bath house , where
he passed the winter-months . In the summer he generally accompanied Lord Bath in his excursions to Tunbridgc , Cheltenham , Shrewsbury and Bath , and in his visits to the Duke of Cleveland , Lord Lyttieton , Sir H . Biding-field , Sec . " We know not how far Dr . D . when
he became a Bibhop might exact or dispense with the residence of his Clergy , but we are persuaded that his celebrated predecessor , the author of u A Discourse of the Pastoral Care , " would have been ill-satisfied with such a performance , not to say neglect , of clerical duty , "where , so far a 3 respects their proper pastor ,
" The hungry sheep look up and are not fed . " We are also of opinion , that this merely occasional residence by which the shepherd so seldom appeared except perhaps at < c the shearer * ** feast , *' as Milton long ago complained * would
do more to promote Methodism than could p ©> sibly be counteracted by Dr . D . ' s opposition from the press , however acute and able . We refer to hLs " Apology for the Clergy" against the Methodists , Sec . followed by an ironical pamphlet on the same subject , entitled " The Destruction of the French , foretold by
Epcehia , " both published in T 755-However unprepared Dr . D . might have been , at least at tliis period , to exemplify " the character of a good parson , " who , according to the poet , " durst not trust another with his care , " he had not neglected his studious pursuits amidst the allurements of fashionable life . Already he hud entered on a career of literature , not unconnected witk
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330 Obituary .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1807, page 330, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2381/page/42/
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