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Duke of Rutland wished Mm fa be one of the delegates who wei ^ to meet in London , but this , frorrt ft sense of decorum , he declined ;
Imagining that his refusal proceeded from an apprehension of being ill thought of at court , the duke jocularly said , You must be forced down the king ' s throaty as well as the rest of us .
1 $ the same year , Dr , Watson published a Charge to the Clergy of the Archdeaconry of Ely , at his Piriiaaty Visitation ; J > rincipally intended to recommend art establishment at Cambridge , for the express purpose of translating and printing Oriental
Manuscripts , which was re-published at Calcutta in 1785 » in the first volume of the Asiatic Miscellany . He received a coitiplimtotary letter oil this occasion fttim Dr . Keeiie , Bishop of Ely , iii which that prelate expressed his wishes that Dr . Watson had formed
Ixis character solely upon his learning and ability , and riot on politics . Thte episcopal rebuke provoked our biographer ; especially as Keene had been made a bishop by the Duke of Nfctvcastle * for supporting the Whig
iuterest in the University of Cambridge it * the late reign t he therefore returned him instantly the following an ^ er , which he aays on the review of it , " was no more than his apostacu deseryed : "
" Cambridge , May 28 , 1786 < I 780 ) . J ' Mir Lurt > , u touch flattered by your Lordships approbation of my Charge : my politit \ may hurt my interest , but they will
not hurt my honour . They arfc the politics of Locke ) of Somersy and of Hooker , and in the rfeigti of George the Second they Were the politics of this University . <( I am , Sec . "R . WATSON' '
At thfc instigation of Dr . WaAsrtm * tte' Duke of Rutland offered his brother , Lord Robert Manners , to the coiinty of Cambridge , at the general election , in 1780 * The whole planning and conducting of the election felt upon Di \ "Vf ^ tsdn . It Was
siwrcessful , in a great measure thioogh the support of the Dwsenters , who&e esteem he had gained by his tolerating principles . The electors of Cambrid ££ - diire will not now be disposed to thank Dr . Watson , or the Dissenters hb cb-adftitor ^ , for their putting the lotver members of the Kutlinid family
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upon them . He cashes his liands # however , of the ^ in of making the town of Cauibridj » fc a rtitten borough , the property of the house of Manners . The next year , he received from the Duke the presentation to
the rectory of Knaptoft , in Leicestershire , in his patronage ; and he says with great naivete , thst this favour was given him , he believes , not so much for the service he had
rendered the Duke in the Cambridgeshire election , && far the extraordinary attention he had paid to him during the course of hie education at Cambridge , In return , the Doctor dedicated to His Grace the two first
volumes of his Ghetrifeal Essays , which he wa $ th ^ n printing . He relates i hat in July , 17 81 , he was seized with a dangerous fever , and when the faculty had given him over , and fee was w a st ^ ite of insensibility , his wife saved his life by boldly giving him att ^ ii ce a whole paper of James ' s Pwyder * P .
He published , in 1782 ^ a hasty answer to the seventh of Soame Jenyiis ' s Disquisitions , which he thought glanced at his sermon on the Principles of the Revolution .
At thd suggestion of Lord John Cavendish , the representative of the wishes of the Marquis < rf ^ Rockiftgham just deceased , through the recommendation of the Duke of Grafton , and under the influence of the Duke of Rutland , Dn Watson iVas ,
in 17 & % raised by Lord Sbelburne , the then mintsteir , to the see of Lan > daftV He kissed hands on the 26 th of July in that year , ** arid Was received , as t | ie phrase is ^ very graeioustv ; " tihis was th ^ first ti me at
that ; lie had ever b ^ eni Sij . Jaines ' s . ^ ut » he sayfif , n& had jiq great reason to be proud of his promotion : Lord Shelburne expected that he would Write paniphter * in behalf of the Administration ! jffe happened to piekst a partyt and they made him a
bishtip . Pi 94 i Not thinking that by becoming a b > flh # p he ought to ch&nge the principle which h « had imbibed from t !«* ^ orka of Mr . > Locke , ( m the Bidhop himBelf states the tuatter . ) he ifrtrnediately began to prbprne to Lord Shelburne an ecche ^ mti&d refarm . The Btiinteter caught at tim prop ** al
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\ m It * vietv . --Life 4 f Be Bishop of Landaff .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1818, page 132, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2473/page/52/
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