ome down to
posterity, and are often mistaken as just satire, when, after
all, they are nothing but LITERARY QUARRELS, seldom founded on
truth, and very often complete falsehoods!

[187] Dr. Thomas Balguy was the son of a learned father, at whose
rectory of Northallerton he was born; he was appointed
Archdeacon of Salisbury in 1759, and afterwards Archdeacon of
Winchester. He died at the prebendal house of the latter city
in 1795, at the age of 74. His writings are few--chiefly on
church government and authority, which brought him into
antagonism with Dr. Priestley and others, who objected to the
high view he took of its position. With Hurd and Warburton he
was always intimate; his sermon on the consecration of the
former was one of the sources of adverse attack; the latter
notes his death as that of "an old and esteemed friend."--ED.

[188] Dr. Brown was patronised and "pitied" by Warburton for years. He
used him, but spoke of him disparagingly, as "a helpless
creature in the ways of the world." Nichols speaks of him as
an "elegant, ingenious, and unhappy author." His father was a
native of Scotland; his son was born at Rothbury, in
Northumberland, educated at Cambridge, made minor canon at
Carlisle, but resigned it in disgust, living in obscurity in
that city several years, till the Rebellion of 1745, when he
acted as a volunteer at the siege of the Castle, and behaved
with great intrepidity. His publication of an "Essay on
Satire," on the death of Pope, led to his acquaintance with
Warburton, who helped him to the rectory of Horksley, near
Colchester; but he quarrelled with his patron, as he
afterwards quarrelled with others. He then settled down to the
vicarage of St. Nicholas, Newcastle, but not for long, as an
educational scheme of the Empress of Russia offered him
inducements to leave England; but his health failed him before
he could carry out his intentions, irritability succeeded, and
his disappointments, real and imaginary, led him to commit
suicide in the fifty-first year of his age. He seems to have
been a continual trouble to Warburton, who often alludes to
his unsettled habits--and schooled him occasionally after his
own fas