the Divine Legation of Moses Demonstrated, the Commentary on Pope's Essay on Man, and some other minor works, which procured for their author while living, fame, friendship, and patronage, and which, if implicit reliance may be placed upon the assertion of Bishop Hurd, will secure for Doctor Warburton an immortality of reputation. Warburton was made dean of Bristol in 1757, and in 1760 was advanced to the mitre, by the illustrious Chatham. He enjoyed his preferment as bishop of Gloucester nineteen years, and died at the advanced age of eighty one, on the seventh of June in 1779. "He was, says Doctor Johnson, a man of vigorous faculties, of a mind fervid and vehement, with a wonderful extent and variety of knowledge, which had neither depressed his imagination, nor clouded his perspicuity; and to every work he brought a mind full fraught, with a fancy fertile of original combinations, exerting at once the powers of the scholar, the reasoner, and the wit."* The mansion designed for the residence of the deans of Bristol, was anciently denominated the Dove-house; and was very considerably repaired by dean Creswick, in 1734, and nearly rebuilt by Warburton in 1758. In addition to the revenues of the bishopric, which are to be appropriated to the respective members of the Cathedral, the statutes of the foundation appoint, that twenty pounds per annum shall be given to poor house-holders, and that an equal sum shall be annually expended in the repair of the highways. These circumstances are stated, not on account of the magnitude of the sums assigned to these purposes, but for the importance of their object. It is thus, that the external exercises of religion, and the exertions of active benevolence should be inseparable. For to lessen the mass of human infelicity, or to increase the sum of human happiness by the activity of beneficence, is to co-operate with the Divinity, and is, beyond all comparison, the most acceptable service which can be offered to the Deity. History of the Church of St. Augustine the Less, its Monuments and CHAPTER THE FOURTH. FROM the history and description of the Cathedral, a transition to similar accounts of the other ecclesiastical structures of the city, is essential to the completion of the History of Bristol. In pursuing this plan, however, the limits assigned to our work compel us to be as concise as possible; we shall therefore principally confine ourselves to such circumstances, as either from their interest or their novelty, seem peculiarly entitled to attention. The Church of St Augustine the Less was originally erected by the abbots of the monastery, for the better accommodation of such inhabitants, as had removed beyond the ancient boundaries of the city, |