and committed his thoughts to writing.

It is to

Before the summer of 1804 was ended, he had made considerable progress. In a letter to Mr. Whitaker, as quoted by that gentleman in his reply, dated Oct. 24, he says, "I hope, should God preserve my life, to prosecute my work with vigour during the approaching winter, that it may be ready for your inspection some time in the next summer. your eyes that it shall be first presented, and to your opinion that I shall first appeal; and such is the confidence I have in your judgment, generosity, and candour, that it will be only with your concurrence that I shall submit it to any further appeal." To this Mr. Whitaker subjoins, "I thank you for the compliment, and will engage in the office. I have too great a regard for you, not to engage in any offices of friendship for your benefit."

In the preface to his Essay on the Resurrection, Mr. Drew observes, "It was about the close of the year 1805, that I had, in my own estimation, completed the manuscript; and I fully expected that I should shortly submit it to the inspection of my much lamented friend. For it was a resolution which I had previously formed, that if it possessed any merit, Mr. Whitaker should have the first opportunity of making the discovery of it; and if it had nothing that could render it worthy of preservation, he alone should witness its disgrace.

"But here an unforeseen and unpleasant difficulty arose. Preparatory to his inspection of it, I proceeded to give the whole a cool and dispassionate perusal, that in one view I might take an impartial

survey of the import and connexion of all its parts. In prosecuting this perusal, I had the mortification to find that the arrangements were bad,-that my thoughts appeared confused, and that, in many places, the chain of reasoning had been broken by frivolous digressions and impertinent reflections :— that in some places the arguments were defective; and in others, those which were good in themselves were placed in an inauspicious light. On the whole, I sunk down into a kind of careless apathy, half resolved to touch it no more."

Having conducted the reader thus far in the account of this literary undertaking, we advert to some other points in Mr. Drew's personal history.

SECTION XV.

Mr. Drew delivers lectures on English Grammar and Geography Commencement of the friendship between him and Dr. Adam Clarke· He is elected a member of the Manchester Philological Society - His connexion with Dr. Coke, and relinquishment of business.

HE whose cares centre in himself may regard with indifference the smiles or the buffetings of fortune. Relying on his fancied independence, he may labour awhile to secure some temporary gratification, and, having accomplished his object, sit down, and fold his hands in idleness. But, when a man sustains the endearing relationship of husband and of father, -when he knows that upon his exertions depend the comfort and happiness of many a beloved object, - he feels a new and powerful stimulus to action.

To such a feeling Mr. Drew was not a stranger. Of him, indeed, selfishness or misanthrophy could never be predicated; but those kindly sympathies which, before his marriage, extended to the whole species indiscriminately, were now, without prejudice to the claims of philanthropy, directed especially towards his rising family. He saw that a kind Providence was opening before him a passage into a more respectable sphere than he had yet occupied; and he believed it a duty to himself and his dependants

to tread the allotted path, and embrace the opportunities presented, of employing his talents profitably to himself and usefully to others.

Influenced by these motives, and the solicitation of his neighbours, he commenced, with the year 1804, a course of lectures upon English Grammar. His pupils were either adults, or young persons advanced beyond the age of childhood. These lectures, which occupied about two hours, were delivered on four evenings of the week; two being allotted to each sex separately. The room in which they met being small, each class was necessarily limited to about twelve persons. A year completed the course of instruction; and for this thirty shillings were paid by every pupil. At two or three subsequent periods he delivered similar lectures; to which Geography and the outlines of Astronomy were added, as a supplementary

course.

Possessing the desirable art of blending amusement with instruction, Mr. Drew rendered his seminary a place of entertainment. His exhaustless store of anecdote, which was frequently drawn upon to illus-trate or enliven, and his happy mode of explanation, rendered the barren study of grammar so far interesting, that unavoidable absence from a lecture was deplored as a misfortune. Between the teacher and his pupils a mutual attachment subsisted, which, in after years, when these had become heads of families, conferred upon him a patriarchal character.

In a letter to a gentleman, who, at a later period, wished to place a son under his charge, Mr. Drew thus explains his views, and his method, of tuition :

"I have my fears whether your son be not too young to see the value of that knowledge which might be imparted to him; and whether he will not, consequently, be apt to forget what he learns. The human intellect, undoubtedly, begins to unfold itself at a much earlier period in some than in others; but, generally speaking, from fourteen to twenty-four is the most favourable tide of life. I have, at different times, had youth of both sexes under my care, to whom I have taught the rudiments of grammar and the scientific parts of geography, together with the use of the globes; but I have invariably found, that under fourteen years of age my pupils have not made that proficiency which I could wish. I give no tasks, and only on certain occasions use any book. I deliver lectures, lay down principles, and get them to converse on the various subjects which come under our notice. Having made them acquainted with established rules, I then purposely violate them in conversation, and make my pupils not only correct my errors, but assign reasons for the corrections they give. It is astonishing what proficiency they make, when they begin to reflect and reason on the propriety of things, by this mode of instruction."

In the year 1804, commenced that intimacy between Mr. Drew and the late learned Dr. Adam Clarke, which quickly produced a strong and permanent attachment. Their friendship originated in a spontaneous act of kindness in the latter,. indicative