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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1804 Excerpt: ... the intentions of his father. Mr. Prettyinan was also his private instructor, and a better choice could not have been made, as far as classical and mathematical knowledge were concerned. For eloquence he could not look up to either of his instructors; but his father's example and precepts required no further assistance on that head. In Cambridge he became a model to the young nobility arid fellow-commoners; and it was not doubted that, if the privileges of his rank had not exempted him from the usual exercises for the bachelor's degree, he would have beeli found among the first competitors for acffdVifiical honours. On his admission, according to custom, to his master's degree, the public orator found it needless to search into his genealog3r; or even to . dwell much upon the virtues of his father, for the eyes of the university were fixed on the youth; the enraptured audience assented to every encomium, and each breast was filled with the liveliest presages of future greatness. To the honour of Mr. Pitt it must be spoken, that he has been duly sensible of the care taken of his rising years. His tutors have received repeated marks of his acknowledgment. Dr. Wilson, his first instructor, is now canon of "Windsor; and one of his sons has a lucrative sinecure in Jamaica. The worthy Dr. Turner is Dean of Norwich; Dr. Prellyman has received the Bishopric of Lincoln, and theTJeanery of St. Paul's, and will, doubtless, not be overlooked in future promotions. Mr. P. was afterwards entered a student of Lincoln's Inn, and made so rapid a progress in his legal studies, as to be soon called to the bar, with every prospect of success. We are informed, that he went once or twice upon the Western circuit, and appeared as junior counsel in several causes. He was, however, ...
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