The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-08-11 00:00:00

PASIIIONAIi LE INTELLIGENCE. e

Hi. Excellency Count Lieven entertained a distinguished party
at dinner yesterday, at Ashburnham House.
Prince and Princess Rosutnoffsky and suite left the Clarendon
Hotel, Bond-streetyesterday, on a tour through England, Ireland
and Scotland. J. L. Westcombe, Esq. left ditto for his seat In
Nottinghamshire.
The !Illinois and Marchioness of Chantlos and family wired
yesterdsy at Buckingham House, Pall-mall, from Eaatbourn.
The Duke of St. Alban's arrived in town on Tuesday, from
Worthing; yesterday his Grace and sisters, the Ladies Beau•
clerk, left town for Sir Gilbert East, Burt.'s seat, Hall-place,
Berks.
Lady Isabella Thynne arrived yesterday at her mother's. the
Dowager Marchioness of Bath, in Lower Grosvenor-street, from
the Dyke of Gloucester's.. Ilagshot.
Lord and Lady Berwick and family left town yesterday, for
their seat, Attinghaut Hall, near Shrewsbury, Salop.
The Duke of- Hamilton, the, Marquis of Douglas, and Lady
Susan Douglas, left the Royal Hotel, St. James's-street, yester•
day, fur Paris; Messrs. Shelley for ditto.
The Marquis and 51archioness Cholmondeley sod Lady
Charlotte Seymour left town yesterday, for their villa, Thames
Ditton.
John Moore, Esq. left town yesterday, for Devonshire.
Sir Brooke Brydge., Bart. and the 511y•es Foot, have left
Hohnes's Hotel, Parliament-street, for their seat, Goodneston
Lodge, Kent.
The Hon. William Burrell left town yesterday, for Grimathorpe
Castle, Lincolnshire.
The Hon. Colonel and Mrs. Howard have left Elfrod, Stafford-
shire, for their seat, Milothorpe. Westmorland.
Miss Metcalf arrived yesterday in Albemarle-strut, from her
seat in Suffolk.

Colonel Eyes left the London Hotel, Albemarle-street, yester-
day, on a tour.

LITERARY GLEANINGS.

No. IX.
Da. Joirw TgouAs' a Bishop of Linsoln, 1753-1761,
being at Copenksc •. nd oestaulting au eminent physi..
elan there, near ninety years of age, concerning the best
method of preserving health, had this rule given him
(amongst seven other rules) viz. Last of all said the old
physician,
Fuge omnes medicos, atque (minim& medicaments.
This I hail from the Bishop's own mouth. The other
rules related to temperance, exercise, &c.
Quare. Whether it might not hare been somewhat
apropos to have told his Lordship the following little story
presently after his own, viz. " A very old man, near 90
years of age, being asked what he had done to live so long,
answered, • When *I could sit I never stood ; I married
late, was a widower soon, and never married again.'" The
above Dr. J. T. married four times. The motto, or posy,
on the wedding ring at his fourth marriage was, as I have
been informed,
If I survive,
make them five

DR. YARBOROUGH, Rector of Tewing, Hertfordshire,
who had a long and intimate acquaintance with the late
General Sabine, Governor of Gibraltar, whose country seat
was at Tewing, told me this story which he had from the
Geueral's own mouth, who was a person of great honour
and veracity, and much good sense.
That when he once lay dangerously ill of his wounds
after a battle abroad, and began to recover, as he lay
awake one night in his bed, having a candle in his chamber,
he saw on the sudden the curtains drawn back at his bed's
feet, and his wife, then in England. (a lady whom he
greatly loved) presenting herself to his full view, at the
opening of the curtains, and then disappearing. He was
amazed at the sight, and fell into deep reflections upon
this extraordinary apparition. In a short time after he re-
ceive(' the melancholy news from England that his beloved
consort was dead, and that she died at such a time; which,
as near as he could possibly recollect, was the very time
at which he had seen that strange phenomenon.
This he immediately entered down in his note-book,
continuing ever afterwards fully persuaded of the certainty
of some apparitions, notwithstanding the general prejudice
to the contrary, "which," said he often, " I can, from my
own knowledge in this instance, confidently oppose upon
the strongest grounds."
This is the story, and I here Bet it down as I heard it
from the above-mentioned worthy Doctor, without making
any remarks.
See some other instances of this kind in the late Mr.
Aubrey's Miscellaneous Collections, &c, where, (in my
own ptinted book) I have entered down azveral references,
&c. of the same kind: but determine nothing at present.

ARCHBISHOP Tixtorsox.—John Jones, of London,
Esq. left by his will a very great sum of money to be dis-
tributed to charitable uses, at the discretion of his three
executors: of whom, the most Rev. Dr. John Tillotson,
by his favour and interest, procured towards the rebuilding
of the college of Clare-Hall (of which he had some time
been fellow) the sum of two hundred pounds.—Corn memo-
t•otion-book of Clare-Hall.

Da. WILLIAM LLOYD, Bishop of Worcester, collected,
in the course of many ♦ears, an immense treasure of re-
marks upon the Bible, filling up, from time to time, a large
folio edition of it interleaved and interlaced, even the
margins thereof ; but all in short hand, known to himself
and to his chaplain, the late Dr. B. Marshall. Both have
been for many years dead ; but the original book • is still
(17601 extant, or was lately : in whose bands now lodged
I know not ; I suppose in those of some of the descendants
of the Bishop. I could wish it repositcd in the British
Museum.

Mr. (now Dr.) John Tottie, one of the Canons of Christ
Church, Oxford, told me many years ago, when we were
contemporaries at Worcester college, that he had seen,
amongst the papers of the Bishop, (which had been com-
mitted to the trust of Tottie's father, who hail been chap-
lain to the said Prelate) a letter of Queen Mary, written
with her own hand, desiring Bishop Lloyd to publish his
collections upon the Bible. 'this was never done. The
Bishop was always ready to &diet others with his notices
for the public good, but postponed publishing his own most
elaborate designs.
Mr. Tottlie, whilst he was fellow of Worcester college,
returned very faithfully all the Bishop's collections in his
custody, to his Lordship's grandson. This is all I know
of the matter.

Docroa Sours.—Presenting an officer of note to the
university of Oxford for an honorary degree, began in the
usual style of address to the Vice-Chancellor, Proctors, &c.
" Present° vobis Virum hunc bellicosissimum ." he was
going on, but at that moment some accident obliged the
great warrior to turn about unexpectedly ; the Doctor,
upon the sudden, subjoined, " Qui uunquam antea tergi-
versatus cat."

I suppose the real fact might lx this: The gentleman
not expecting that expression, " Viruni bellicosishimum,"
and perhaps not approving of it, might turn about either
in modesty or in some little resentment, though the Uni-
versity wags were pleased to give the facts another turn.
If we recollect the humour of South, it will make the mat-
ter still more probabi

Ma. WHISTON-4I may, I suppose, be truly said,
though I would not in the least derogate from his real
worth, that he had an hottest heart, without a judicious
head; that he had a (errant seal, without sufficient know-
ledge; and, that he appears by several of his writngs, es-
pecially those of later date, to have had a tinctura of af-
fectation and vanity, which did but ill become a scholar
and a Christian; and which, if I mistake not, will be less
applauded by posterity, than it was indulged by himself,
or than ha seems to have imagined, in his life-time, that it
would.

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I halt a great regard for the man, upon tho account of
his integrity, or what I really believed to be such ; but
could never approve of his positiveness, where I thought
his grounds were defective. i

Jaws' Gee, Minister of Little-cotes, in Lincolnshire,
was educated, as one of his ions informs me (1167), at
Trinity College, in Cambridge; which college presented
him to that benefice. The income there bting but smell,
ho was necessitated, in order to support himself and nu-
merous family, to a:rva two other churches, being curacies,
of small stipend each, and at some distance the one from
the other. With these pittances he made some shift,
though a hard one, to live, and bring up his large family
in a tolerable manner. In his advanced age he continued
to supply those three churches, and generally enjoyed good
health to the last. He died about four year► ago, aged
one hundred, or an hundred and one; his son cannot tell
which.

Soon after hit decease the public papers took notice of
this extraordinary man, saying, amongst other things. that
he had thirty-six children by two wives. His said son
says) this was a 'mistake. Ile had in all thirty-four; and