immediately
provided for him a very learned ecclesiastic in his own house, and,
under his tuition, sent him to travel, being desirous to improve, as far
as possible, the education of a person he found worthy of it. With this
tutor he had the opportunity of seeing Egypt, Palestine, and a great
part of the Eastern country.

With lord Paget he returned home, about the year 1703, through great
part of Europe; in which tour he saw most of the courts.

He was in great esteem with that nobleman; insomuch, that in all
probability he had been still more distinguished by him at his death,
than in his life time, had not the envious fears and malice of a certain
female, who was in high authority and favour with that lord, prevented
and supplanted his kind disposition towards him: My lord took great
pleasure in instructing him himself, wrote him whole books in different
languages, on which his student placed the greatest value; which was no
sooner taken notice of by jealous observation, than they were stolen
from his apartment, and suffered to be some days missing, to the great
displeasure of my lord, but still much greater affliction of his pupil,
whose grief for losing a treasure he so highly valued, was more than
doubled, by perceiving that from some false insinuation that had been
made, it was believed he had himself wilfully lost them: But young Mr.
Hill was soon entirely cleared on this head.

A few years after, he was desired both on account of his sobriety and
understanding, to accompany Sir William Wentworth, a worthy baronet of
Yorkshire, who was then going to make the tour of Europe; with whom he
travelled two or three years, and brought him home improved, to the
satisfaction of that gentleman's relations.

'Twas in those different travels he collected matter for the history he
wrote of Turkey, and published in 1709; a work he afterwards often
repented having printed; and (though his own) would criticise upon it
with much severity. (But, as he used to say, he was a very boy when he
began and ended it; therefore great allowance may be made on that
account); and in a letter which has since been printed in his works,
wrote to his greatly valued friend, the worthy author of Clarissa, he
acknowledges his consciousness of such defects: where speaking of
obscurity, he says,

'Obscurity, indeed (if they had penetration to mean that) is burying
sense alive, and some of my rash, early, too affected, puerile
scriblings m