quent occafion in those observations, that our humble Taylor has proved his Lordship to be in the wrong in feveral of his quotations and affertions in that work. This was the first piece of Mr. HILL'S, that was ever printed (1753). The next thing the fame gentleman employed him about, was to write a paper against the Papists, whofe emiffaries were then very bufy in those parts, in which Mr. HILL endeavoured to fhow, that feveral of the most important and favorite doctrines of

the

the church of Rome are novel inventions; and confequently, that it is they, and not we, that are the innovators. About the fame time, or rather in the interval between thefe two, HILL wrote, The Character of a few; when the bill for naturalizing that people was in agitation: This he fays was the best thing he ever wrote, and was the leaft approved of. And laterly, he has written Criticisms on JOB, in five fheets; which, I think, is the largest of all his works.

According to his own account, Mr. HILL was taken up

feven years in getting Latin ; and twice as long in getting Greek: But as to the Hebrew, he fays, he himself would now engage to teach it to any body of tolerable parts, and with very moderate | application, in fix weeks.

He fays he has read, he believes, twenty Hebrew

gram

At an hour, each morning; and another,

each afternoon.

mars;

mars; and is now writing one himfelf: In which fort of fubject he feems likely to fucceed better than in any other; because it has been the most general study of his life. Mayr's grammar he thinks much the best of all he has read: He therefore intends to build his chiefly upon Mayr's; as Mayr himself did on that of Cardinal Bellarmine.

He thinks, he could teach the Hebrew language, even at a distance, by way of letters;

that

that fix, or feven, would be fufficient: And that even the pronounciation of it, as it is a dead language, might be taught the fame way.

It was the worthy clergyman who firft employed and encouraged him (1753), who informed me of him as a great curiofity: And on my expreffing how glad I fhould be to fee and talk with him, was fo good as to invite him to his house, when I was to dine there. I found him a modeft good fort

of