,000 Spanish chesnuts, 102,000 spruce firs, 110,000 Scotch firs,
90,000 larches, 30,000 wych elms, 35,000 mountain elms, 80,000 ash, and
40,000 sycamores, all of which are, at this time, in a healthy and
thriving condition." It is impossible, on this subject, to avoid paying
a grateful respect to the memory of that bright ornament of our church,
and literature, the late Dr. Watson, Bishop of Llandaff, whose extensive
plantations, near Ambleside, have long since enriched that part. The
late Richard Crawshay (surpassed by no being during the whole course of
his very long life, for either integrity or generosity) assured the
present writer, that during an early period of Dr. Watson's planting, he
offered him, on the security of his note of hand only, and to be repaid
at his own entire convenience, ten thousand pounds, and that he (with
grateful thanks to Mr. Crawshay) refused it.

[56] How widely different has the liberal and classic mind of Dr. Alison
viewed the rich pages of Mr. Whateley, in his deep and learned Essays on
Taste, first published nearly twenty years after Mr. Whateley's decease.
One regrets that there is no Portrait of Mr. Whateley. Of Dr. Alison,
there is a masterly one by Sir Henry Raeburn, admirably engraved by W.
Walker, of Edinburgh, in 1823. Perhaps it is one of the finest Portraits
of the present day. One is happy to perceive marks of health expressed
in his intellectually striking countenance.

[57] In Biographical Anecdotes, 3 vols. 8vo. appears a correspondence in
London, with Dr. Franklin, and William Whateley, and Joseph Whateley, in
1774. This relates to a duel with Mr. Temple, by a brother of Thomas
Whateley. In some of the Lives of Dr. Franklin, it appears, that
inflammatory and ill-judged letters were written by George Hutchinson,
and others, to _Thomas_ Whateley, Esq. _private Secretary to Lord
Grenville_, respecting some disturbances in America, concerning Lord
Grenville's Stamp Act. On the death of Thomas, these letters were placed
in the hands of Dr. Franklin, whose duty, as agent to the colony, caused
him to transmit them to Boston. A quarrel arose between William Whateley
and Mr. Temple, as to which of them gave up those letters, and a duel
was fought. Dr. Franklin immediately cleared both those gentlemen from
all imputation. Of the celebrated interview in the council chamber,
between Mr. Wedderburn and Dr. Franklin, an account is given by Dr.
Priestley, in vol. xv. page 1. of the Mon