"is the Rev. George Walker, dissenting mi"nister at Nottingham, a fellow of the Royal

Society. This gentleman, take him for all "in all, possesses the greatest variety of knowledge with the most masculine understanding of any man I ever knew.

He

"is in particular a mathematician of ṣin"gular accomplishment. His treatise on the "Sphere long since published, and one upon "the Conic Sections, are the vouchers of my "assertions. His two volumes of Sermons

"are pregnant with the celestial fire of ge“nius, and the vigour of noble sentiments. "His Appeal to the People of England upon "the Subject of the Test Laws would not "be much honoured by my testimony in "it's favour as the best pamphlet published "on that occasion; were not this judg

ment coincident with the decision of the "honourable Charles James Fox, who has "declared to a friend of mine the same opi"nion cf it's excellence.

"But these qualifications, great and esti

"mable as they are, constitute but a mean " portion of his praise. Art thou looking, "reader! like Esop in the fable, for a man? "Dost thou want an intrepid spirit in the "cause of truth, liberty, and virtue—an un"deviating rectitude of action-a bound"less hospitality-a mind, infinitely supe"rior to every 'sensation of malice and re"sentment - a breast, susceptible of the “truest friendship, and overflowing with "the milk of human kindness-an ardour,

an enthusiasm, in laudable pursuits, cha"racteristic of magnanimity-an unwearied et assiduity, even to his own hinderance, in public services? My experience can as"sure thee, that thy pursuit may cease, thy "doubts be banished, and thy hope be "realized: for this is the man,

"Who will now stay to compute the de"duction, which must be made from this "sum of excellence, for sallies of passion. "devoid of all malignity, and often excited "by a keen indignation against vice; and

"for

"for vehemence and pertinacity of disputa"tion? I have made the computation, and "it amounts to an infinitesimal of the lowest "order."

The following quotation also from the Rev. James Tayler's sermon published on the occasion of Mr. Walker's death, will prove acceptable to the reader, as accurately descriptive of his character:

"In the moral portraiture of your de❝ ceased pastor, the most striking features to me appear to have been disinterested be"nevolence and genuine simplicity of man

❝ners.

To every sordid, selfish feeling, to every mean artifice and subterfuge, I be"lieve him to have been an utter stranger,

"The benevolence of his heart was dis "played not only in the zeal, with which he "engaged in, and promoted, every grand measure, calculated to advance the present "comfort and the future welfare of his fel"low-creatures, but also, in the overflowing "of good will, which, upon ordinary oc

"casions,

"casions, prompted him to those little attentions, those minuter acts of kindness which, in the man of the world, are the

produce of artificial politeness, but in him "were the unstudied suggestions of Christian "courtesy, of genuine benevolence.

Nor less striking was the unaffected simplicity of his manners, so inexpressibly "attractive!! His full stored and always "lively mind indulged in common to spor"tive sallies of wit and merriment, with "the innocence and playfulness of a child. "Happily he had nothing of that gloomy "gravity, that austere reserve, which often "accompany distinguished talents and at“tainments, and are so repulsive to the free"dom of conversation and intercourse; "while at the same time he never lost sight of the respect which is due to sacred sub"jects, nor ever sanctioned licentious con"versation. Replete with pleasantry, he' "could, on proper occasions, be as strictly "serious as any man. ́·

"His

"His aversion to every thing that bore a "resemblance to guile and dissimulation "was open and avowed; his abhorrence of "deceit he, on every occasion, strongly expressed; and his own uniformly undis

guised, unreserved conduct fully proved, "that he inwardly felt that aversion, which "he outwardly manifested. For no motives "of worldly policy, or selfish regard, could "prevail upon him to have recourse to, or "to countenance in others, those petty ar"tifices, for the accomplishment of even the "best designs, which are too commonly re"sorted to, and thought allowable by many, "who are acknowledged to be, in the main, "upright and well-intentioned persons.

"To him was strictly applicable the cha"racter of Nathaniel, that he was an Israelite "indeed, in whom there was no guile. He

really was the man which he appeared to "be. So that his character was as com"pletely developed by the intercourse of a "few days, as by an intimacy of several