University he removed to the Inner Temple, and was called to the Bar. On the 24th of May 1751, he was appointed Marthall of the High Court of Admiralty in England, which he resigned in July 1753 on being named Secretary to Green wich Hofpital. In March 1763 he was appointed Recorder of Bristol, on the refignation of Sir Michael Fofter; but this office he held but a short time. In 1764 he was promoted to the dignity of a Judge of Caernarvonshire, Anglefea, and Merionethshire, which he exchanged in 1778 for the Chief Jufticefhip of Chefter, Montgomery, Flint, and Denbighshire. This laft preferment he held until the year 1788, when, feeling the duties of the office no longer agreeable to him to execute, he refigned his poft in the most honourable manner, without any pension or ftipulation whatever.

It has been the failing of moft Lawyers to suffer the practice of the profeffion to fwallow up every other liberal purfuit, and to obliterate every trace of polite literature. This obfervation will not, however, apply to Mr. Barrington, who appears, from his writings, to have continued his attention to literature from the time of his refidence at Oxford in 1746 until within a few years of his death. In 1766 he published his "Obfervations on the Statutes, chiefly the moft ancient, from Magna Charta to the 21ft of James the First, Chap. XXVII. with an Appendix; being a Propofal for new modelling the Statutes:" 4to. a work of great learning, utility, and entertainment; the Fourth Edition of which, confiderably enlarged, was publifhed in 1775. A Fifth Edition has been printed fince. In 1767 he published "The Naturalift's Calendar ;" and, in 1770, became the Editor of "The Hiftory of the Gwedir Family; by Sir John Wynne," 8vo. In 1773 he tranflated and published "King Alfred's AngloSaxon Verfion of Orofius," 8vo. 1775 and 1776 he published fome Tracts on the Poffibility of a North-welt Paffage. In 1781 he printed in 4to. his Mifcellanies; containing his Tracts on the North-weft Pallage; feveral Tracts on

In

Natural History, on the Linnean Syftem Accounts of Young Mozart, Charles and Samuel Welley, Young Crotch, and Lord Mornington; on the Deluge in the Time of Noah; the History of the Gwedir Family; Letter on the English and French Writers; Dialogue on antient Tragedies; Ohthere's Voyage illustrated; and a Journal of a Spanish Voyage in 1775. To raife the defponding 1pirits of the nation, Mr. Barrington in 1782 published in 4to. "Proofs that Great Britain was fuccefsful against each of her numeroas enemies before the late victory of Sir George Brydges Rodney."

Mr. Barrington was a Member of the Royal and Antiquary Societies, and Vice-Prefident of the latter. The Tranfactions of both thefe Societies bear teftimony to his attention to science and antiquity. Many papers on various fubjects have been published by him. Among others our readers will recollect his Treatife on Gardening in England, and Archery*; and his Defence of the Authenticity + of Bruce's Travels, which have already appeared in our Magazine.

A few years fince Mr. Barrington was feized with a paralytic affection, which continued to gain ground on him, and difqualified him from attending to either business or literature. He continued, however, to refide in his chambers in the King's Bench walks, and received the vifits of his friends until within a few days of his death, which happened the 14th March 1800.

His remains were interred in the vault of the Temple Church; the funeral fervice was performed by the Rev. Dr. Rennell, Mafter of the Temple; the pall bearers were Sir Pepper Arden, Sir William Scott, Mr. Graham, Mr. Popham, Sir William Wynne, Sir John Mitford, Mr. Graves, and Mr. Champion; his nephew, Colonel Price (fon of his elder fifter by Robert Price, Elq. of Hereford) chief mourner; other mourners-Mr. Stanley, Mr. Aldeney, Mr. Wynne, and Mr. Lafcelles, brother benchers and particular friends.

ACCOUNT

SIR,

UPON to you been fome

PON mentioning to you fome time

practices in Hufbandry, on his Majesty's Farms under my fuperintendance in Windfor Great Park, which I conceived were not generally known; and upon your giving me reafon to think the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, &c. from its laudable defire to communicate to the public every thing that promiles advantage to it, would not be unwilling to allow me a few pages in its next publication; and being indulged with his Majefty's gracious permiffion to Late any matter that I may difcretionally judge proper to communicate; I am in duced to lay before you a few particulars, which fome Gentlemen and Farmers, under fimilar circumftances, may perhaps think deferving notice.

But before I enter upon any particular defcription of what I have to offer, it will not, perhaps, be uninterefting to the Society to know the grounds upon which his Majefty's large iyitem of Agriculture has been founded.

In the year 1791 the Great Park at Windior, about 4000 acres, fell into his Majefty's poffeffion. It might truly be called a rough jewel. The whole, as a natural object, was grand and beautiful, of a foreft appearance; but the parts were crowded and indiftinet. The foil was various, fome parts clay and loam, and fome fharp gravel or poor fand; a great part of the former was covered with rufhes and mole-hills, and the latter with fern and mois.

About 1000 acres of the lightest part were feparated from the reit at one extremity, and formed what is called the Norfolk Farm: about 400 acres more, at the other extremity, of a good leamy soil, were feparated, and called the Fle mifh Farm, both being named from the nature of the husbandry meant to be adopted upon them.

The relt (about 2,400 acres) remains fill in Plantations and Park; and though fo much reduced, yet, from the improvements which have been made upon it, is

the whole food acrys did before. All

now capable of carrying more flock than

the unfound wet parts have been drained by the Elfex mode, fo as to be rendered fim, and productive of an improved herbage. The mole hills have been lewelled, chiefly by dragging, and the coarfe and molly parts fined by repeated harrowing and rolling (being one of the first improvements upon Park Land of this defcription); befides which, a variety of beauty has been laid open, by clearing the valleys and low parts, to give a bolder effect to the woody scenes upon the higher ground; and by making judicious openings, to as to break strait lines, and feparate parts that were in fome places too heavy and famely: fo that the fame extent of land has now not only a much larger appearance, but exhibits a much greater variety of ground. The truth of this, every impartial perfon, who knew the place before his Majefty cauled thefe improvements to be made, must allow. I have only to add, that though prejudice may have taken up an idea that there has been too great a facrifice of timber in effecting thefe improvements, truth will deny it. There has not been a tree taken down, but what was either in decay, or removed either to give room for the growth of others, or to let them off to greater advantage in picturesque appearance.

I come now to the object in view, as before hinted, which is to date the mo tives which I am inclined to think in duced his Majesty to adopt the farming fyftem upon fo large a icale, and next to fhew the refult.-Thefe I conceive were chiefly to create ufeful labour for the induftrious poor in the neighbourhood, and for trying experiments in Agriculture, to excite imitation where fuccefs might encourage it.

The Norfolk Farm borders on that extenlive walte called Bafhot-heath, hitherto confidered too bairen for cultiva tion, though large tracts of a fimilar quality have been long fince rendered uleful to the community in the fouth west

part