own confession, Bishop Watson had a clerical income from his bishopric and professorship of divinity at Cambridge of 2,000_l._ a year; in return for which, the work he did in either of these capacities was, from his own showing, really next to nothing.  In fact, in many respects he seems to have been an exceptionally lucky man.  He was appointed to two professorships at Cambridge when by his own admission he was totally unqualified for performing the duties of either.  In 1764, when he was only twenty-seven years of age, he ’was unanimously elected, by the Senate assembled in full congregation, Professor of Chemistry.’  ’At the time this honour was conferred upon me,’ he tells us with charming frankness, ’I knew nothing at all of chemistry, had never read a syllable on the subject, nor seen a single experiment in it; but I was tired with mathematics and natural philosophy, and the vehementissima gloriae cupido stimulated me to try my strength in a new pursuit, and the kindness of the University (it was always kind to me) animated me to very extraordinary exertions.’  A few years later the University was kinder still.  At the early age of thirty-four he was appointed ’to the first office for honour in the University, the Regius Professorship of Divinity.’  Then with the same delightful naivete he tells us, ’On being raised to this distinguished office I immediately applied myself with great eagerness to the study of divinity.’  One would have thought that his theological studies should have commenced before he undertook the duties of a divinity professorship.  But, happily for him, his ideas of what would qualify him to be a theologian were on the most limited scale.  ’I determined to study nothing but my Bible, being much unconcerned about the opinions of councils, fathers, churches, bishops, and other men as little inspired as myself.’  If troublesome people wanted to argue on theological questions with the Regius Professor of Divinity, ‘I never,’ he tells us, ’troubled myself with answering their arguments, but used on such occasions to say to them, holding the New Testament in my hand, “En sacrum codicem."’ This was a simple plan, and it must be confessed, under the circumstances, a very convenient and prudent one, but it scarcely justified the strong claims for preferment which the Bishop constantly founded upon it, as if he had rendered an almost priceless service to religion.  The compendious method of silencing a gainsayer or satisfying an anxious inquirer by flourishing a New Testament in his face, and crying ‘En sacrum codicem,’ seems hardly likely to have been very effective.  For the first few years of his professorship he attended to its duties personally, after the fashion that has been described; but for the greater part of the long time during which he held that office he employed a deputy.  When he was appointed to the bishopric of Llandaff he found there was no residence for him in his diocese, and he does not seem to have particularly