MEMOIRS, &c. THESE Memoirs are drawn up from the scanty materials which the Editor could collect from the disconsolate widow, a few intimate friends of the deceased, and his own observations. That only a few particulars of so valuable a character can be collected is to be lamented; but the reason seems evident: the life of Mr. CADOGAN, and that of many other laborious ministers, resembles the service of some invaluable domestics in a family. Such bear the burden of the day, and tread the path of their duty over and over again with fidelity and care; but the history of the week is almost the history of their lives. It is thus the faithful labourer in the ministry, who has an appointed station, perseveres in his course: most sedulously employed when least observed. And it often happens that while some, who are doing little to purpose, stun the house with their bustle; he, intent on the duties of his station, silently performs the business. Besides which, the man, of whom we are about to speak, was peculiarly uniform.— Almost every enquiry I could make was answered with, "What can we tell more of a man who trod so regularly his course of duty, that the path you found him in to-day, you might be sure of meeting him in tomorrow?" What then am I to say of him? "Why, if you say nothing more, tell the world that the Apostle's words, ONE THING I DO, might serve for his motto, and the text, (with your few incidents) will at least furnish matter for useful remark." Indeed it will: for though the lives of some eminent men seem but the course of a week repeated, yet steadily to repeat such a week-to persist through weariness and painfulness and watchings often with the noblest aim;-to tug up the hill of difficult, laborious, and uniform duty with unwearied perseverance; unrefreshed by variety of road, or intervals of rest:-We must say of such a one, "This was a man." The journal of an itinerant may more forcibly strike the imagination, and furnish larger scope for the biographer, but will not furnish a stronger instance of good-will to men, or of piety towards God. Is kingly. Thousands at his bidding speed, MILTON. The Honourable and Reverend W. B. CADO GAN was the second son of the present Lord Cadogan, who succeeded to the title 1776. His Lordship married, 1747, the Honourable Frances Bromley, only daughter of the late Lord Montfort. They had six sons by this marriage; CHARLES HENRY, who is now living, and who was early introduced into the army. WILLIAM BROMLEY;THOMAS, brought up to the navy, and Captain of the Glorieux, a seventy-four gun ship, in which he perished by a hurricane in the West Indies, 1779; -GEORGE, an Adjutant-General in the service of the East India Company, and who was killed by a random shot from our lines while we was reconnoitring;-EDWARD, a Captain in the army, who died at St. Lucia, 1781, of a fever;- and HENRY WILLIAM, who died a youth. Mr. CADOGAN, the subject of this memoir, was born January 22, 1751, at the family town residence in Bruton-street, now inhabited by Lord Roseberry. It was his privilege to have a grandmother and a mother who were both piously disposed, and who instructed him from his infancy in the Holy Scriptures. It is reported by a Mrs. Legge, who was at that time frequently employed in the family, that she heard him read the English Bible into French, and the French Bible again into English, when not more than six years of age. Mrs. Cadogan adds, that while a child he had gotten by heart the 139th Psalm, which he used to repeat with peculiar satisfaction in later life. Mr. C. was placed at Westminster School, July 7, 1757. There he distinguished himself by obtaining several prizes, and was for some time what is termed captain of the school. It appears also that he thought seriously at school of the scriptural instruction he had received at home. I am persuaded, from the impressions made by a pious mother on my own mind, when a child, but which were studiously concealed, as well as from the early impressions of my friend, that very few parents sufficiently aim, or sufficiently hope, in their religious endeavours with their children. Mrs. Cadogan (whose information coming immediately from her husband, I can best depend upon) mentions that his religious impressions were strengthened by his sometimes attending a clergyman of eminence in the neighbourhood, to whose ministry he had been led by a Mr. S-, then his school-fellow, and afterwards his curate. Also that our young scholar received many friendly attentions from a Mr. and Mrs. B—, who lived near Westminster School, and who endeavoured to impress upon his mind the nature and importance of vital godliness; a principle which no man possesses, but he desires to communicate it. Mr. C's. designation to the Church also appears to have originated in part from his own choice, and that from religious motives, at an early period, as I gather from the following anecdote. 66 His father took him one day to visit Dr. Ewer, Bishop of Bangor, and after mentioning to the Bishop his son's wish to be a clergyman, he requested his Lordship to give him some general advice: before the Bishop could reply, Mrs. Ewer, who sat with them, said, Sir, your early and particular inclination for holy orders leads me to hope that your's is a real call of the Holy Ghost to take upon you this office." It is not improbable that something in Mr. C.'s behaviour might lead Mrs. Ewer to make the remark: the effect, however, of her unexpected address, he said, he should never forget. In the year 1769 Mr. C. left Westminster to enter at Christ Church, Oxford. I can procure but little information respecting this period of his history. It is reported that he was considered as one of the first scholars in his college; and it is certain that he received different sets of books, as prizes in literary contests: that he was the reverse of those who are properly termed loungers at the University, I have full evidence; for, besides what appeared in his ministry, his private papers are a strong proof of his early industry. When Mrs. Cadogan imposed this task upon me, she opened his 'scrutoire, in order to examine if he had left any thing that it might be proper to add to what had been already printed; and I |