Yesterday fe'nnight was taken from his labours to his re-
ward, the Rev. Mr. Catcott, Vicar of Temple, in this city,
and Chaplain to the Earl of Buchan.—He was a man of
confiderable learning, and great piety; as a minifter indefa-
tigable in the various functions of his pastoral office, univer-
fally belov'd and now fincerely lamented by his Parifhioners,
to whom he indiscriminately paid unwearied Attention,
watching over their fouls as one who muſt render an account.
—His charity to the poor was unbounded; it not only ex-
tended to the more diligent care of their ſouls, but alſo to
their temporal wants, which he reliev'd to the utmoſt in
his power. He was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame;
and the bleſſing of him that was ready to perifh came upon
him. He was a cloſe imitator of his bleſſed Maſter going
about doing good. His diſcourſes were full of pathos and
inſtruction; but his life was his beſt ſermon; in which were
ſtrikingly delineated the doſtrines that he taught; and in
his death was diſcovered that chriſtian fortitude and reſigna-
tion, which amounted to a full evidence that he had not
recommended to others an UNKNOWN GOD.—He
has left his collection of ſossils, ſhells, and other natural cu-
rioſities, procured from diſtant countries at no ſmall expence,
together with a number of valuable manuſcripts and nearly
200 volumes of his books, on the ſubject of natural hiſtory,
to the corporation of this city, to be depoſited at the Library
in King-ſtreet, for the uſe of the public.—June 26, 1779.