placed, when a runaway negroe called Cuffee, at the head of about forty of his countrymen, could produce an extraordinary convocation of the legislature, and spread terror and dismay around.

The lieutenant-governor, on the 12th of June, informed the house that he considered the rebellion as dangerous, at the same time he recommended the raising of three companies of trusty negroes, under white officers, and employing the Accompong Maroons, a body of men, who have ever remained faithful to their king and country."

No sooner were the propositions acceded to, than his lordship succeeded in dissipating the insurrection; but the evacuation of St. Domingo, and the triumphant progress of the emancipated negroes under Toussaint, plunged the colony into fresh terrors, which were not a little aggravated by the arrival of black troops, who had witnessed the triumphant career of their brethren in a neighbouring island.

Scarcely were the inhabitants released from these new fears by the conduct and assurances of the licutenant-governor, than they were once more alarmed by the influx of white emigrants and their slaves from St. Domingo, so that his lordship was obliged to interpose in behalf of the former, with all possible discretion and zeal.

These new anxieties were succeeded by the dread of an invasion; and the tortured minds of the planters were kept upon the rack, by intelligence that Citizen general Roome's mission to St. Domingo was principally with a view to make a descent upon Ja

maica, at the head of a body of brigands called the legion diabolique.

At length, however, all their suspicions appear to have subsided, and their torments to have been appeased. The skill possessed, and discipline maintained by the noble lord, the subject of this memoir, doubtless contributed not a little to this end, and it is with pleasure we find him towards the latter part of the session of 1797, mentioning the word happiness, as applied to men in a state of bondage.

"I have nothing particular to recommend to you at parting, (said the lieutenant-governor) except the pursuit of such humane and provident measures, in your respective parishes during the approaching holidays, as are likely to secure the tranquillity of the island, and the happiness of your slaves."

During his residence in Jamaica he purchased a considerable sugar estate, and a report prevailed for some time after his arrival, that he was desirous to return thither in order to reside on his own plantation,

The Earl of B. was elected one of the sixteen representative peers of Scotland in 1790, on which occasion he stood high on the first list, having thirtyseven votes. At the succeeding election, no less than eight of the former members proved unsuccessful can didates, among whom was his lordship; but he was returned for the present parliament.

Lord B. generally passes the winter in London at his family residence in Brook-street, Grosvenor square. Among the festivities of the spring of 1804, those of his countess were not the least conspicuous. The R ball

1804-1805.

ball-room upon this occasion was fitted up with pc. culiar taste and elegance, that and the other apartments being ornamented not with artificial-in the exploded style of ancient days-but with real flowers. The ball was opened by Lady C. Lindsay, the beautiful and accomplished daughter of the noble host, and the national tunes of "Tullock Gorum," the "Cammeronian Rant," &c. were not forgotten; but if the tunes were Caledonian, it ought not to be omitted, that the company consisted of many of the first nobility, and persons of distinction, both of England and Scotland.

His lordship, who is a lieutenant-general in the army, and colonel of the sixty-third regiment of foot, in consequence of an intermarriage with the noble family of Loudon, is presumptive heir to Flora-Muir Campbell, the present countess.

THOMAS JAMES, D. D.

PREBENDARY OF WORCESTER.

IT was well observed by a celebrated * orator of antiquity, that" none deserve better of the community than those who educate and instruct youth;" and if the constant anxiety and fatigue which they must necessarily undergo in the discharge of their duty be considered, no one surely can withhold from them the tribute of gratitude and respect.

The worthy divine, at present under our conside

* Cicero.

ration,

ration, was born at St. Neots in Huntingdonshire, where his father, now near ninety years of age, still resides, and where his ancestors, though not remarkably opulent, have long possessed stations of much respectability. A love of reading and a propensity to study were early discovered in him, which induced his father to send him to Eton school when he was not more than nine years old. He had not been there long before the quickness of his parts became conspicuous, while his diligence and amiable disposition recommended him strongly to his instructors. In due time he was elected upon the foundation, and became one of the brightest ornaments of that distinguished seminary. His remarkable skill in Latin and Greek versification will ever be remembered by those who were his contemporaries at school, and of his ingenuity in that art the public have some very masterly specimens in the elegant selection of Latin and Greek verses, called the "Musæ Etonenses."

Having thus obtained for himself no small credit, he was elected a scholar of King's College, Cambridge, to which place he removed in 1756; and though he was now in a manner provided for, having the certain prospect of a fellowship, he did not remit any of his former diligence in the pursuit of literary knowledge; for to his former accurate acquaintance with the classics, he now added, if not a profound, at least a very comprehensive and creditable knowledge of mathematics, which is not frequently the case with the students of King's, and seems to be left entirely to their own choice, as by their charter

they claim the peculiar prerogative of exemption from all the university examinations in proceeding to their degrees.

In the third year after his election to the scholarship Mr. James was chosen fellow, and proceeded regularly to his degrees of B. A. and M. A. It is not certain how soon he was engaged in private tuition, but some time elapsed before he became one of the public tutors of the college, an office which he held for several years, during which time he established his reputation as a scholar and gave universal satisfaction.

His long residence in the university had given him a deeply rooted attachment to a college life, but the air and situation of Cambridge were not at all congenial to his health. In the year 1776, therefore, Dr. Burrough having resigned the head-mastership of Rugby school, Mr. James's friends unanimously advised him to offer himself a candidate for it at the election, which he accordingly did, and, though not without opposition, succeeded in obtaining it.

When Dr. James came to Rugby, he found the school consisting of little more than an hundred boys, chiefly owing to the remissness of the former headmaster. Immediately, therefore, he began a reform in the discipline and system of teaching hitherto adopted in the school; and instead of the antiquated plan of education which then prevailed, he presently introduced the modern Etonian method. His exertions were soon crowned with the desired success; the fame of the new teacher was spread throughout

the