bound up in a duodecimo volume; but, by some accident, few copies are now extant. Not long after his return to England, Dr. Clarke married Angelica, daughter of Sir William Beaumaris Rush, and being already in holy orders, was instituted to the rectory of Harlton, Cambridgeshire. In 1806 he commenced lectures on mineralogy in the University of Cambridge. In 1808 a professorship was founded for the encouragement of that science, and he was appointed to the chair. These lectures have, if possible, made his name more known and honoured, both in this and in foreign countries, than even his long and interesting travels. Natural History was his earliest and most favourite study, and that peculiar branch of it which refers to the mineral kingdom soon engrossed the whole of his attention. In the delivery of his celebrated lectures, Clarke was without a rival his eloquence was inferior to none; (in native eloquence, perhaps, few have ever equalled him in this country,) his knowledge of his subject was extensive; his elucidation clear and simple; and in the illustrations, which were practically afforded by the various and beautiful specimens of his minerals, he was peculiarly happy. Most of those specimens he had himself collected, and they seldom failed to give rise to the most pleasing associations by their individual locality. We may justly apply to him, in the delivery of his lectures, what is engraven on the monument of Goldsmith, “Nihil, quod tetigit, non ornavit." Of the higher qualities of his mind; of his force and energy as a Christian preacher; of the sublimity and excellence of his discourses, the University of Cambridge can bear honourable testimony, as was evinced by crowded congregations whenever he filled the pulpit. Of the very great estimation in which Dr. Clarke was held by foreigners, we may in the same manner refer our readers to the various honorary societies in which his name stands enrolled; we may safely say, that to no one person has the University of Cambridge been more indebted for celebrity abroad, during the last twenty years, than to her late librarian Dr. Clarke. He has fallen a victim, indeed, to his generous ardour in the pursuit of science; he looked only to the fame of the University; and in his honest endeavours to exalt her reputation, he unhappily neglected his own invaluable health. He has thus left to his afflicted family, and to his surviving friends, the most painful and bitter regrets; whilst to the University itself he has bequeathed a debt of gratitude, which we doubt not will hereafter be amply and liberally discharged. He died, on the 9th of April, at the house of his father-in-law, Sir William Rush. Perhaps no person ever possessed, in a more eminent degree than Dr. Clarke, the delightful faculty of winning the hearts, and riveting the affections, of those into whose society he entered. From the first moment, his conversation excited an interest that never abated. Those who knew him once felt that they must love him always. The kindness of his manner; the anxiety he expressed for the welfare of others; his eagerness to make them feel happy and pleased with themselves, when united to the charms of his language, were irresistible. Such was Dr. Clarke in private life; within the circle of his more immediate friends, in the midst of his family, there he might be seen as the indulgent parent, the affectionate husband, the warm, zealous, and sincere friend. The remains of Dr. Clarke were interred in Jesus College Chapel, on the 18th of March, preceded by the Master (the Vice Chancellor) and the Dean, and followed by his private friends, the Fellows of the College, and many members of the Senate. The service was performed by the Master and the Dean His publications were: 1. Testimony of different Authors respecting the Colossal. Statue of Ceres, placed in the Vestibule of the Public Library at Cambridge, with an Account of its Removal from Eleusis, Nov. 22. 1801. 1803. 8vo. 2. The Tomb of Alexander, a Dissertation on the Sarcophagus, brought from Alexandria, and now in the British Museum. 1805. 4to. 3. A Methodical Distribution of the Mineral Kingdom. 1807. fol. 4. A Letter to the Gentlemen of the British Museum. 1807. 4to. 5. Description of the Greek Marbles brought from the Shores of the Euxine, Archipelago, and Mediterranean, and deposited in the Vestibule of the University Library, Cambridge. 1809. 8vo. 6. Travels in various Countries of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Part I.; containing Russia, Tartary, and Turkey. Part II.; Greece, Egypt, and the Holy Land. Section the First, 4to., 1812. Section the Second, 1814. 7. A Letter to Herbert Marsh, D.D., in Reply to Observations in his Pamphlet on the British and Foreign Bible Society. 1811. 8vo. No. III. JOHN STEWART, ESQUIRE. BETTER KNOWN BY THE NAME OF 66 WALKING STEWART." It has been sometimes enquired, how it happens that men of powerful minds, cultivated to the utmost extent of refinement, possessing the warmest benevolence, the strictest principles of honour, exemplary in the discharge of their relative and social duties, disdaining vulgar pleasures and sordid enjoyments, Christians in the observance of the practical injunctions of the Gospel, should occasionally be found, who systematically oppose all revealed religion? who deny it when living, and, in their expiring moments, not unfrequently preserve their consistency, and brave the possible, and, if possible, then the eternal, punishment of their unbelief? The just reply to this question is, that those individuals have been naturally endowed with amiable dispositions; that from the very frame and constitution of their minds, of a contemplative and abstract nature, which are inconsistent with the turbulence of passion, or the grovelling pursuits of sensuality, they have generally been detached from the active concerns of life; and directing all the energies of their souls to the discovery of moral and scientific truth, apply to this end the severest rules of mathematical evidence: when, therefore, they approach the questions of the reality of the Gospel, they try its pretensions by an inapplicable standard; and instead of requiring that testimony which is alone suited to the nature of the particular case, and which would justly and fairly establish the credibility of the Christian scheme, they demand, and will be satisfied with nothing less than a species of evidence, which is palpable and obvious to their senses, such as they would seek for the solution of a problem in geometry: hence, with persons of this character, the pride of the human understanding, of all species of vanity the most inveterate, is the proximate cause of their unbelief; and when to this perversion of the reasoning faculties we add the obstinacy usually attendant on old age, the case is then too often as lamentable as it is hopeless. Hitherto we have considered the question as it applies to deists; but when we reflect on that metaphysical monster, a speculative atheist, all our respect for the acknowledged virtue and amiable qualities of the individual is required to moderate our indignation and prevent our pity from degenerating into contempt. These observations have been called forth by the recollection of the opinions held by the subject of the following brief memoir, one of the most extraordinary personages of this extraordinary age, the late John Stewart, Esq., who died on Ash Wednesday, 1822, in the 72nd year of his age. He was born at London, in the year 1749, of respectable parents, and descended from an ancient Scotch family. He was sent, at the age of ten years, to Harrow school, but at this celebrated seminary, he gave no proofs of that proneness to the acquisition of knowledge, for which, in after life, he was so remarkable; like an American aloe, it required the lapse of many years to fructify the blossoms of his genius: still a native vigour of mind displayed itself in other forms; in every scheme of frolic, in every manœuvre of insubordination, young Stewart was a distinguished leader, his perseverance equalled his audacity, and his removal from this school to the Charter House, in his thirteenth year, was a matter of joy to all but his daring companions in mischief. At the Charter House, his disinclination for study still continued; yet, amidst his habitual levity, there sometimes appeared an earnest of the talents of the future man; a glimmering spark of that flame which afterwards burned so brightly. Here he occasionally composed moral essays and themes — which were deemed superior to those usually written by youths of his age. Such, however, was his habitual indolence, or rather |