e most general applause and
satisfaction. In a short time, he received a pressing invitation from
the most eminent characters at Manchester, to repeat his course in
that town. This invitation he accepted, and, encouraged by the
success he had just experienced, he postponed the idea of leaving his
country. He arrived at Manchester about the middle of January 1796,
and began his lectures on the 22nd of that month. Before his arrival,
not less than sixty subscribers had put down their names, the more
strongly to induce him to comply with their wishes, and many more had
promised to do it, as soon as his proposals were published.
Notwithstanding he was thus led to expect a large audience, and had
procured apartments, which he imagined would be sufficiently spacious
for their reception, he was obliged, for want of room, to change them
not less than three times during one course. With such success did
the career of his philosophical teaching begin, and with such extreme
attention and respect was he every where received, that he used
afterwards to mention this period, as not only the most profitable,
but the most happy of his life. On the 24th of February, his wife was
brought to bed of a daughter, the eldest of the two orphans who have
now to lament the death of so valuable a parent, to deplore the loss
of that independence which his exertions were certain to have raised
them, and to rely on a generous public for protection, in testimony
of the virtues and merit of their father.

After this time Dr. Garnett repeated nearly the same course of
lectures at Warrington and at Lancaster; to both which places he was
followed by the same success.

Whilst he was in this manner exerting himself for the general
diffusion of knowledge, his fame spread with the delight and
instruction he had every where communicated to his audience. The
inhabitants of Birmingham wished to have the advantage of his
lectures; and he also received a most pressing invitation from
Dublin, where a very large subscription had already been formed. It
was his intention to have accepted of the latter invitation, but
previous to his departure for Ireland (from whence he had even yet
some thoughts of emigrating to America) he was informed of the
vacancy of the professorship in Anderson's Institution, at Glasgow,
by his friend the late Dr. Easton of Manchester, who strongly urged
him to become a candidate. As this situation must inevitably destroy
all his future pro