Letters, and some Tracts. He owed his preferment to his greatness, and not his greatness to his preferment. His name will therefore live long in the church.

Having known him in the pulpit, I could not leave him in the coffin. I have therefore endeavoured to speak of him, when suspicion cannot attach to my testimony; when all I can look for, as the price of my zeal, is (if such hope there be!) some religious interest in the hallowed breathings of one who is eternally associated with the spirits of just men made perfect!' There now remains little to add.

This truly great and nobly good man, this Christian Prelate, of whom I must cease to write, finally exchanged the pangs of mortality for the joys of eternity, after long illness, early on Sunday morning, May the 14th, 1809, at Fulham House, in the 79th year of his age. He married, many years ago; but he has had no children.

Novelty made no part of his theology. Doctrinal as well as practical, but not less practical than doctrinal, his sermons, instructive

and edifying, conduce alike to the belief e belief and practice of our religion. He built on the rock, and not on the sands.

His religious liberality was great. Some of our ablest divines owe their rise to him. He even promoted Paley, though it was impossible for him to countenance all he wrote; and his regard for merit, especially when connected with theological literature, induced him, against the remonstrances of friends, to confer on a foreigner, the Rev. Mr. Usko, one of the best livings in his gift. While he earnestly contended, both in word and deed, for what he esteemed to be the faith once delivered to the saints, he was nevertheless remarkably considerate of the various christians who, dissented from him on minor points, and often extended personal kindness to them,

Were it not my design to confine myself to the clerical character (especially as to eloquence) of Bishop Porteus, I should gladly enlarge the limits of the present memoir. His works will follow him!

GERRARD ANDREWES, D. D.

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SUCCESS too seldom results from merit. The fate of this able divine, however, forms one felicitous exception to the general experience of men. His deserts have been discovered, confessed, and compensated. He is among the number of those persons of ". pre-eminent merit," whom the late Bishop Porteus, to use his own words, happily" placed in the most distinguished situations."

Gerrard Andrewes, of Trinity College in Cambridge, was formerly an Assistant-Master at Westminster School. He afterwards preached in various chapels belonging to the metropolis, particularly at St. James's in the Hampstead Road; and, for a short time, he was also one of the Evening Preachers at the chapel of the Foundling Hospital.

As he started fairly in the career for clerical preferment, his present eminence is no less gra

tifying to the friends of worth than it is creditable to himself. Let me not be misunderstood in this place. To inculcate the persuasion that undirected abilities will alone insure the advancement of their possessor, that these are uniformly competent to this end, would be only to elate and to mislead. Great as were the talents of Mr. Andrewes, unquestionable as were his attainments, he did not depend wholly on these advantages. Prudence was the hand-maid of his prosperity. He united himself to a lady of some pecuniary property; and his marriage, enriching as it did the store of his private satisfactions, essentially promoted his public progress.

Arduous in his exertions, and religious in his character, Mr. Andrewes at length began to approach the reward due to his labours. His preaching obtained him the notice of Lady Talbot, by whose interest, honorably exerted, he was presented with the Living of Mickleham, in Surry. Some time since, Dr. Andrewes offered to resign this rectory; but his patroness pressed him to retain it.

Circumstances, improbable as unexpected, introduced Dr. Andrewes to the pulpit of which he is now so conspicuous an ornament. His presentation to the Rectory of St. James's, in Piccadilly, was one of those extraordinary transactions which occur once in an age. solicited as unhoped, against the regular intrigues of interest and the more formidable demands of power, he, it is said, received the notification of his appointment to his present valuable station in the church.

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I well remember the former incumbent of this popular rectory. Dr. Parker, never thought to be interesting in the pulpit, had attained to second childhood. He could not preach. His teeth were gone; his sight had waxed dim; his steps were become feeble; his memory failed, and his understanding deteriorated. Discontented hearers and deserted pews, inevitable consequences of inadequate instruction, must, especially when contrasted with the numbers and quality of those who resorted to the same church during his own lectures, have appealed power