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whom I sent a set, had never the good manners to acknowledgethe receipt of the present, and the Archbishop of York objectedto the collection being given by the associates of Dean Bray toa young divine who was going out as chaplain to a nobleman inCanada . I was not at all mortified by this conduct of the twoArchbishops , for I had but a poor opinion of the theologicalknowledge of either of Their Graces. I lived on good termswith them both; for I did not consider diversity of opinion, asany ground for disrespect towards men in their stations, whichthey filled not eminently but inculpably.

But though this collection seems not to have been in thetaste of the Archbishops , yet it went speedily through two largeeditions, and was held in such estimation, that Doctor Kippis, inhis Life of Lardner (p. 44.) says, “ For the noble, manly, andtruly evangelical preface by which it is preceded, its author isentitled to the gratitude of the Christian world.” It is withpeculiar pleasure that I mention the following anecdote: —-Mr. Lambe was an eminent attorney in Cambridge, and in thelatter part of his life, when I knew him, of a serious turn. Hissuccessor in March, 1801, sent me the following account: —“ Perhaps Your Lordship may not have heard that the lateMr. Lambe bequeathed a great part of his property to a grandsonof the author of “ A Scheme of Scripture Divinity,” which YourLordship thought worthy of the first place in your collection oftheological tracts.”

The impartiality which I had used in putting into the catalogueof books in divinity, printed at the end of the collection of

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