blacksmith, and in this opinion we feel inclined to concur. How truly may be applied to him the aphorism Faber quisque fortunæ suæ ! "He that makes himself famous by his eloquence, justice, or arms [and let us add by his piety or learning] illustrates his extraction let it be never so mean; and gives inestimable reputation to his parents. We should never have heard of Sophroniscus but for his son Socrates; nor of Aristo and Gryllus if it had not been for Zenophon and Plato*.

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Strong as necessity Waugh starts away,

Climbs against wrongs, and brightens into day+."

He was educated at Appleby School and Queen's College, Oxford, where he in time became a Fellow. In 1708 he was Rector of St. Peter's, Cornhill, London. In 1718 Prebendary of Lincoln. In 1720 Dean of Gloucester. In 1723 Bishop of Carlisle. For eleven years he watched over the ministry of his diocese with no less zeal than ability, with no less advantage to the Church than credit to himself. He died, in 1734, in Queen's Square, Westminster, and was buried in St. Peter's, Cornhill, near the altar there.

Dr. John Waugh, Chancellor and Prebendary of Carlisle, Rector of Caldbeck in Cumberland, and Dean of Worcester, was the Prelate's son. He died in March 1765, and was buried in the south aisle

* Seneca.

+ Savage.

of the cathedral at Carlisle, behind the Bishop's throne*.

The Bishop is said to have published eleven occasional sermons, but we have never seen them.

He, like the good Barnaby Potter in St. Paul's Covent Garden, lies in St. Peter's Cornhill, without even a mark to indicate his resting-place! Will no kind soul lend a helping hand to a work of common justice?

* Jefferson's Hist. of Carlisle.

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N these days of Red Republicanism we often hear the threadbare phrase, "Nature is favorable to democracy!" Without stopping to examine into its truth or falsehood, we must content ourselves with saying, that the subject of the present memoir was not of that self-satisfied order, but of the ancient house of Le Fleming of Rydall Hall; and by his virtues proved himself worthy of the name and arms he bore.

He was born in the hall of his ancestors in 1667; and was the fifth son of Sir Daniel Fleming, Knt.,

afterwards Bart. He seems to have had his school

From school he went to

After leaving the Univer

education at Appleby. Edmund Hall, Oxford. sity we find him under the fostering wing of that noble and generous soul Dr. Thomas Smith, Bishop of Carlisle, who made Fleming his domestic chaplain; then Vicar of Aspatria; and, in 1700, Prebendary of Carlisle. His great patron died, as we have elsewhere recorded, in 1702; but Dr. Smith was happily succeeded by the learned Dr. Nicholson (afterwards Archbishop of Cashell) and Dr. Waugh. The former, in 1705, raised Fleming to the Archdeaconry. The latter in 1727 promoted him to the Deanery, upon whose death, in 1734, he was consecrated to the see of Carlisle.

He, in his turn, was the patron of Edmund Law, the father of Lord Ellenborough. Thus was true merit called forth and rewarded within the diocese of Carlisle in days that are past!

William Fleming, Archdeacon of Carlisle (1734), was the Prelate's only son. He married a Wilson of Dallam Tower, and left several daughters*. He died (in 1743) before his father, and was interred in the cathedral there.

Sir George Fleming, Bart. died at Rose Castle, July 2d. 1747, in the eighty-first year of his age, and in the thirteenth of his consecration. He was

* See Burn, 172.

buried in the Cathedral at Carlisle, where at the top of the south aisle are two marble monuments, the one to his memory, and the other to that of his wife Catherine, daughter of Mr. Thomas Jefferson of Carlisle. The inscription to the memory of the aged Prelate seems a faithful summary of his life and death :—

Here is deposited till a general resurrection
whatever was mortal of

the Right Revd. Father in God

SIR GEORGE FLEMING, Bart., late Lord Bishop
of Carlisle,

whose regretted dissolution was July 2, 1747,

in the 81st year of his age and the 13th of his consecration. A Prelate

who by gradual and well merited advancement,
having passed through every dignity to the Episcopal,
supported that

with an amiable assemblage of graces and virtues
which eminently formed in his character
the Courteous Gentleman and the Pious Christian,
and rendered him a shining ornament

to his species, his nation, his order.

His deportment

in all human relations and positions

was squared by the rules of morality and religion. Under the constant direction of a consummate prudence,

whilst his equanimity

amidst all events and occurrences,

in an inviolable adherence to the golden medium