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    $ n * ajble to offer you of the " Curate of Seathwaite chapel ,- " who might have sat to the poet of *< Sweet Auburn" for his " Village Preacher /' Remote * - from towns he ran his godly

    I race , Nor e'er Had chang'd nor wish'd to change his place ; A man he was to all the country dear , ^ n || r passing-rich with Jprty pounds a

    Or , in plain prose , $ , nd according to these documents , with little more than hp . lf of that annual income . Of the death of this extraordinary man , there is the following notice in the Obituary of the Gentleman ' s and the Monthly Magazines , for September . 1 SO 2 .

    ** In a very advanced age , at Seathwaite , near Ulverstonc , the Rev George [ Robert ] Walker , upwards of sixpy years curate of that chapel . This venerable man continued to discharge the' duties of his sacred function till within the last four years , when , his sight failing .

    bis office was supplied by another clergyman . Mr . Walker , upon a small stipend , with great industry and ecollomy , brought up a la ^ ge family in a very decent manner , giving to one

    4 qf his sons , since deceased , an academic education , and bein ? contented m his retired situation , without a wish to change it , be was beloved by his family and respected by all who knew Jlim . " Monthly Magaziney xiv . 189 .

    In the letter wjbicb I have qiipted , $ nd anoth&r written a few months before , Mr . Watson communicatcs to Mr . Whatjey the ? following anecdote ? of Sternjz , with whom they were both ^ yell acquainted .

    ft Jan . XOy T '/ y 6 . ft Shall I tell you what York scandal frays ? viz . that Sterne , when possessed of preferment of 300 L 3 year , would not pay xol . to release his mother out of Ousebridge prison , when poverty ' was feer only fault , and her character so good , that two * of her neighbours clubbed to set her at liberty , to gain a livelihood , a * she had been accustomed to do , by

    taking in washing . Yet this , was .. $ & rnan whose fine feelings gave the world tiie story of JLe Feyre and the Sehtimental Jouraey . Do you not feel as if something hurt you njore than a cut across your finger af reading this ?

    Talking on benevolence , or writing about it , in t | ie most pathetic manner , and doing all the good you can without shew and parade , are very different things *" « June 15 , 1776 .

    " I met with a clergyman , from near York , the other day , who called in upon Tristram oniy two days before his death , He says theie was very little change as to his manner and conversation . A lady was in the room , who withdrew to a window . * Do not go out , Fanhy ; this is an old friend . '— I am glad

    you are to carefully attended / - — ' Had you come sooner , instead of three , thi $ lady and tlie two you met on the stairs , you might J xave seen thirteen . '—Hi « > vife , it seems , died a papist I do not wonder at it , fqr whciL ^ she fetched me from York to Suttpn , fflfe-ead the papers , J thought her a most eccentric woman *

    As to the man , considered as man , I have nothing to say , but that he could work himself up to the most exquisite feelings without iiaving any real feelings at all ; and nothing is more true

    than the story about his mother . But he is gone , and let his blemishes sleep with him . It hurts one , that the body of so extraordinary a genius should not nave been distinguished from common bodies , stolen for the use of the surgeons , till ifc gpt to Oxford , when one , who knew him well , crieel out , * Alas I this is poor Sterne . * *' Having now broughj : together two characters s * o opposite as thq celebrated author ot the " Sentimental Journey / ' the insidious , apd therefore-the more certain per * yerter of youth aqd innoceii c : ^ and the obscure , bute ^ ernpl ^ ry , 4 curate of Seathwaite chapel ;*' t canpot close this letter rnorfe ^ uit ^ ably than in the wprds with whicrli Pr . Priestley ponpjufcles his •* X > fs ^

    scription of a phart of Biography . ^ He ih&tfe obseryes ^ as a' great moral 'beqejit ; , ' ' $$ < : $ ' M Jf ^ Hl . from h \ $ % l > pwr , i ^ . ^ o ^ p iw ^^ bs . 4 . , •'

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    12 £ Original Anecdotes of Sterile * •«

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1808, page 12, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2388/page/12/