COL. GEORGE WASHINGTON FLOWERS 
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ERRATA. 
 
 P. 15, last line in the Note, after, unhandsome expression'' 
 
 —insert— and unwelcome Pvlemento. 
 P. 46, line 3, in the Note, for, first"— read— F/r^/. 
 P. 79, line 14, for, '^z^zM^rry*— read-— in Mercy. 
 Ditto, line 18, for, " bad purpose"— read— bad a purposes 
 
FACTS 
 
 RELATING TO THE 
 
 REVEREND DR. WHITE'S 
 
 BAMPTON LECTURES. 
 
 Whatever efFe6l the following publi- 
 cation may have upon the literary character 
 of Dr. White, I entertain, and shall be ever 
 ready to avow, the sincerest respeft for his 
 talents and his attainments. 
 
 I am convinced that the credit of the 
 Church of England has been supported, and 
 the general interests of Christianity pro- 
 moted, by his illustrious labours in Oriental 
 literature. 
 
 I give him most unfeigned and ample 
 credit for the brilliant d-splay of his inge- 
 nuity and taste in the Barapton Lectures — 
 A 1 and 
 
 244324 
 
4f FACTS RELATING TO THE 
 
 and it is with the greatest relu61ance that I 
 bring forward such evidence, as may even- 
 tually deprive him of a part of that fame 
 which he has hitherto enjoyed. 
 
 By motives of ill-will to Dr. White, I 
 never was actuated. I am conscious of hav- 
 ing endeavoured to extricate him from some 
 difficulties, in which he was involved with 
 the sister of the late Rev, Mr. Badcock ; and 
 for the failure of those endeavours, I cannot 
 take any blame to myself. 
 
 If I should be asked then, what are my 
 reasons for addressing the publick ? I answer 
 without hesitation, that they immediately 
 and intimately concern myself — and that I 
 come forward, not with any harsh and wan- 
 ton design of injuring Dr. White's reputa- 
 tion, but for the indispensable and honour- 
 able purpose of vindicating my own. 
 
 I am too conscious of my own slender 
 abilities to feel any emotions of envy at the 
 exalted rank which Dr. White holds in the 
 republick of letters — I am too sensible of the 
 delicacy which is due to the claims and 
 merits of a dignified ecclesiastic, to depre - 
 ciate them without substantial proof, or to 
 
 arraign 
 
ilEV. DR. WHIT'i^'s BAMPTON LECTURES. ^ 
 
 arraign them without real and mortifying 
 provocation. But, as a man, and as a clergy- 
 man, I know what is due to my own honour ; 
 and I shall always be ready to prote6l it 
 against the clamours of the credulous^, and 
 the insinuations of the malignant. 
 
 That honour has been again and agaia 
 insulted in the publick newspapers ; and it 
 surely deserves some consideration, that from 
 my peculiar situation, every attack that is 
 made upon my integrity, is not only offen- 
 sive to my feelings, but may be dangerous 
 to my own interests, and to those of my 
 family. 
 
 Every clergyman must know too, that the 
 efficacy of his preaching, very much depends 
 on the purity of his moral character, and 
 therefore he will be anxious to defend it 
 from unjust assaults. 
 
 ' I can say, and I do say too, not without 
 honest pride, that my acquaintance are nu- 
 merous and respeftable — that I have always 
 endeavoured to merit their good opinion — 
 that I have hitherto been fortunate enough 
 to obtain it — that I am very anxious to pre- 
 serve it — that I am in no danger of forfeit- 
 
 244324 
 
e FACTS RELATING TO THE 
 
 ing it from private whispers, and dark sur-« 
 mises — but, that I feel it alike my duty and 
 my interest to reftify those impressions which 
 may be made even upon the best minds, 
 when accusations are publickly produced, and 
 are not publickly refuted. Silence in such a 
 case would amount to an implied confession 
 of guilt ; and patience, under the unprovoked 
 and reiterated attacks of anonymous slan- 
 derers, would betray a weak, and even cri- 
 minal indifference to reputation. 
 
 With the charges that have been brought 
 against me in the newspapers, I disdain to 
 contend, in detail. Many of them are too 
 vague, and too obscure, to admit a direfh and 
 specifick answer ; and most of them, probably, 
 proceed from writers, whom confutation 
 would not put to the blush. 
 
 I am v/illing to persuade myself, that Dr, 
 White has no concern in the fabrication of 
 these calumnies ; but, as the Do6tor has not 
 thought proper, either to deny their truth, 
 or to shelter me from their injurious conse- 
 quences, he can have no right to be offended 
 at my determination to do open and full 
 justice to myself. I, as well as he, have a 
 
 chara6ler 
 
REV. DR. white's BAMPTON LECTURES. 7 
 
 chara6ler to support, in the University, ia 
 the Church, and in the World. 
 
 I am not ambi dous of being considered as 
 a man of great learning, but I cannot stoop 
 to the infamy of being represented as a liar, 
 and of giving efficacy to the representation 
 by cov^ard'y acquiescence. 
 
 Upon the degree of provocation, I have 
 only to say, that it is such, as puts me under 
 the absolute necessity of revealing the whole 
 truth. In this opinion every unprejudiced 
 man will concur with me, when he reads the 
 gross and cruel charges which have been 
 brought against my candour and my vera- 
 city — against that candour which for a long 
 time induced me to suppress what I knew 
 about the history of the Bampton Le6lures 
 — against that veracity which has steadily 
 adhered to fa6l in every thing which I have 
 said about them, 
 
 I mean not to gratify the curiosity of my 
 readers, but to appeal to their justice, when 
 I entreat them to peruse what has been 
 written against me. For this purpose I have 
 collefted from the publick papers, a -^'number 
 
 * I have heard of many more paragraphs in different pa- 
 pers to the same purpose, but I have here inserted those only 
 which I have seen myself. 
 
 of 
 
8 FACTS RELATmC^ TO THE 
 
 of slanderous paragraphs, and I now present 
 them to the mind of the reader, in one view, 
 and in all their coUefbive force, whether of 
 argument, or of inve6tive. 
 
 From the Morning Post, June 4, 1789. 
 
 Professor White has raised himself into 
 so much notice and distinftion by his cele- 
 brated Bampton Lect ures, that the heavy 
 drones of the church, who are unable to 
 serve religion and morality, and at the 
 *^ same time signalize their own talents with 
 equal success, are circulating a variety of 
 *^ reports in the vain hope of depriving the 
 «^ author of the credit which those admirable 
 " compositions have procured him, 
 
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^ 
 
 " Finding, therefore, that the fame of Pro- 
 " fessor White could not be wounded by 
 
 f In this and some other paragraphs, parts of which are 
 here republished, the name of Dr. Parr is introduced ; but 
 I have omitted almost every passage which relates immediately 
 to Dr. Parr, as foreign to the purpose of this publication. 
 
 means 
 
REV. DR. white's BAMPTON LECTURES. 9 
 
 " means of * * * the enemies of the in- 
 genious Professor have, with more pohcy, 
 but it will eventually prove with as little 
 " success, tried to avail themselves of the 
 maxim, that ' dead men tell no tales and 
 now assert that the late Mr. Badcock was 
 in reality the chief instrument employed 
 in fabricating the Bampton Lectures. 
 Mr. Badcock was undoubtedly a man . 
 *^ of learning, but his genius lay in a very 
 " narrow compass ; and he was much better 
 " adapted for the cold office of a reviewer, 
 " than the animated province of original 
 " composition. 
 
 " Professor White is a man whose learn- 
 ing and ability are only to be equalled by 
 " his modesty and diffidence ; and therefore 
 " the anonymous defamers of such a charac- 
 " ter are doubly contemptible, in having se- 
 le6led so meek and unoffending a man as 
 *^ the objeft of their malice and obloquy.'' 
 
 B 
 
 From 
 
10 
 
 TACTH KELATING TO THE 
 
 From the World, July S, 1789 ; and from the 
 
 PUBLICK ADVERTiSER, July 1789. 
 
 Professor White, Dr. Parr, Dr. Badcock^ 
 and Dr. Gabriel. 
 
 White's Bampton Lecture Sermons, 
 " which were and ever will be so celebrated^ 
 
 have just occasioned a new bustle. 
 
 " Badcock being dead, his papers, MSS. 
 
 &c. &c. were sold to Dr. Gabriel, who 
 " has bought the 06lagon Chapel at Bath. 
 
 " Dr. Gabriel found aiTiong the papers, a 
 
 letter or tv^/o, which mentioned, on certain 
 " conditions, some literary aid to be given 
 " by Badcock to White, and for which 
 
 White gave a promissory note for 500 1. 
 
 " It was a common promissory note, Vv^hich 
 
 Dr. Badcock's sister has since demanded^ 
 " and Mr, White has since paid, with other 
 " notes of lOOL each. 
 
 As to the aid in question. Dr. Gabriel, 
 
 why We knov/ not, states, that it was for 
 «^ the Bampton Lecture Sermons ; Mr. 
 «^ White's account, more likely to be true, 
 
 says, 
 
REV. DR. white's BAMPTON LECTURES. 11 
 
 says, it was for his long-promised history 
 
 yrgy|-y^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ 
 
 ¥^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ¥^ ^ ^ ^ ^ 
 
 From the World, July 20, 1789. 
 
 " Professor White, Dr. Parr, and Bad- 
 cock, — The statement at large given in a 
 former World, seems now confirmed by 
 general opinion. 
 
 " The fa6l is. Parr and Badcock's com- 
 munications might together form in bulk 
 about two sermons of the volume. 
 " The remainder, from the known powers 
 of V/hite, and his acknowledged great 
 general learning, there cannot be a doubt 
 with any body but Gabriel, were White's. 
 " And indeed, as to Dr. Gabriel, his single 
 doubts are heard no more/' 
 
 t -^ee Note, p. 
 
 Front 
 
FACTS RELATING TO THE 
 
 From the General Evening Post, July 
 25, 1789. 
 
 Dr. Gabriel has threatened a pamphlet 
 " on the subje6l of Professor White's Lec- 
 " tures ; containing the proofs of that Gen- 
 " tleman's obligations, in the composition of 
 " that work, to the late Mr. Badcock. 
 
 " ^iid dignum tanto feret hie promlssor hlatu 
 
 Fmn Vv^ooDF all's Diary, Aug, S, 1789. 
 
 A Hint* to Dr. Gabriel. 
 
 As Dr. Gabriel seems hurt at some ex- 
 " pressions in the newspapers, in which his 
 
 name 
 
 * The Letter to which this hint refers, I here republish. 
 To the Printer of the Oracle. 
 
 SIR, 
 
 As some anonymous, inaccurate, and fallacious represen- 
 tations have lately appeared int he publick papers, respecting 
 the Bampton Lectures, preached and published by Dr. 
 White, in which my name has been t)rought forward in a 
 very unbecoming and unwarrantable manner ; I find myself 
 under the disagreeable necessity of contradiding such parts 
 
 as 
 
REV. DR. white's BAMPTCN LECTURES. 13 
 
 " name has been used, a correspondent begs 
 " leave to ask, by what means his name was 
 " ever brought into question? and from 
 " whom, except from himxself or Hutton, 
 <^ the report so injurious to Dr. White first 
 originated ? This report has been indus-' 
 triously propagated for some months, and 
 " yet no proof whatever of its foundation 
 " has been produced : the Do6tor insinuates 
 <^ that he has proofs ; but if he has, why 
 " not bring them openly before the world, 
 " and let the publick judge for themselves ? 
 
 It surely argues a very bad cause, when 
 " a simple circumstance requires so much 
 time to find arguments to support it. If, 
 however, the Do6tor, in his intended dis- 
 
 as more immediately concern myself ; though I disdain to 
 contend with dark and officious scribblers of paragraphs, 
 having sufficient proofs in my possession, to justify the opi- 
 nion I have ever entertained, of Dr. White's particular obliga- 
 tions to Mr. Badcock. But as I think the subjefl too delicate 
 and important for discussion in a newspaper^ I must desire 
 the publick to suspend their judgment, till they see proofs 
 brought forth, in a more regular, and in a more respedable 
 fofm, authenticated by my name. 
 
 Harlington ReBory, R. B. GABRIEL. 
 
 July Zl, 1789. 
 
 play 
 
14 FACTS RELATING TO THE 
 
 play of proofs, proposes to bring forward 
 " a very essential one, that Mr. Badcock 
 " was capable of writing those sermons, it 
 " will be no matter of surprize if the publi- 
 " cation be delayed for some months, per- 
 " haps years longer. It will certainly re- 
 " quire the utmost stretch of Gabriel's in- 
 *^ genuity, to produce a similar piece of com- 
 " position to those sermons in all the avow^ed 
 " writings of Mr. Badcock (and the writer 
 of this will venture to assert, if he cannot) 
 that self-importance, which disdains tore- 
 ply to a paragraph-monger, will not be 
 sufficient to convince the publick that Mr. 
 B. whose writings in general betray but 
 " very slender abilities, could ever so far 
 " exceed himself, as to compose the Bamp- 
 TON Lectures/' 
 
 From the World, Sept, 9, 1789. 
 
 " An Oxford friend gives us this gratify- 
 ing intelligence, that Dr. White's fame 
 " is no longer likely to be annoyed by any 
 " vague reports from Badcock^ Parr, or Ga- 
 briel." 
 
 From 
 
KEV, DR. white's BAMPTON LECTURES. 15 
 
 Fmn Woodfall's Diary, Sept. 9, 1789. 
 
 " Of tlie affair between Dr, Gabriel and 
 Dr, White, this must be the decision of 
 every impartial man. If the charge be 
 " true, the Gentleman against whom it is 
 
 « brought . — — • — ~ * ; if false, the 
 
 *^ person who makes it is guilty of a mean, 
 " cowardly, and malicious slander. But since, 
 " whether true or false, it casts some slur on 
 " Dr, V/hite's reputation, and certainly 
 " lowers his chara61er, however unjustly, in 
 " some degree in the general opinion, it was 
 " cruel and illiberal to prefer such an accu- 
 «^ sation, without proving that it was founded 
 by the producing some immediate and con- 
 " vincing evidence — which evidence has 
 " certainly not been produced/' 
 
 Upon the foregoing paragraphs of my 
 accusers, I forbear making any other com- 
 ment than this — -that no man who regards 
 his honour, and is conscious of having spoken 
 
 * In this extra£l from the newspapers, and in several others, 
 I have omitted, as far as I could, every unhandsome expres- 
 sion relating to Dr. White. 
 
 truth p 
 
IG FACTS RELATING TO THE 
 
 truth, and of being able to support it by 
 evidence, such as I possess, would tamely 
 and for ever submit to such injurious and 
 aggravated indignity. 
 
 From the General Evening Post»* 
 To Dr. Gabriel* 
 Rev. Sir, 
 
 " You have asserted in the publick prints, 
 that you could prove the particular obli-- 
 " gations T)i\ White was under to Mr.Bad-^ 
 cock. The world, Sir, now calls upon you 
 " loudly for the proof. The rumour is be- 
 " come general that Mr. Badcock is the real 
 <^ author of the Bampton Lectures, pub- 
 *^ lished under the name of Dr. White. 
 
 ****** 
 
 ** * ******* * *^ 
 
 * The reader will agree with me in thinking, that as the 
 two following letters call upon me to publish, they ought not 
 to be omitted— and that as they are written in a polite and 
 liberal manner, they ought: to be separated from the slander- 
 ous paragraphs quoted above. 
 
 f See the Note in p- 15. 
 
 Say 
 
REV. DR. white's BAMPTON LECTURES. 17 
 
 " Say no longer. Sir, that you disdain 
 
 anonymous writers. The most powerful 
 " motives, the interests of truth and litera- 
 " ture, compel you to detefh so base an im- 
 
 position on the learned world. If you 
 " continue silent on this important subjecl, 
 
 it will, I fear, be suspefted that you have 
 " rashly commenced an attack on the charac- 
 *^ ter and abilities of the Laudian Professor^ 
 " which you have not the power to sup- 
 " port. 
 
 " Come forward then, Dr. Gabriel, come 
 forward with your proofs. ^ ^ ^ ^ 
 
 I am, Rev. Sir, 
 
 A Friend to Merit^ 
 
 From Woodfall's Diary, Sept. 17, 1789. 
 
 To the Printer of the DiAry. 
 Sir, 
 
 " Much has been said in youf paper, aS 
 " well as in other morning and evening 
 
 f See the Note, p. 15;, 
 
 C papers. 
 
18 
 
 FACTS RELATING TO THE 
 
 " papers, respefting the attack upon Dr. 
 
 White, by Dr. Gabriel ; in which also no 
 " little scurrility has been made use of 
 
 against the latter. It is not by any means 
 " generous to suppose, that a character like 
 " that of Dr. Gabriel, so zealous in the sup- 
 " port and encouragement of merit as he is 
 " acknowledged to be, would either ma-^ 
 " liciously invent, or wantonly disseminate 
 
 reports, disgraceful to the literary emi- 
 
 nence of the Arabic Professor. And very 
 
 careful ought the publick to be, in the 
 " degree of credibility they give to so fla« 
 
 grant a charge of plagiarism, or it may 
 " be said, imposture. Dr. White has long, 
 " and they say, meritoriously enjoyed, not 
 *^ only the good name of the publick, but 
 *^ the reverence of the literary world : not a 
 
 little may be advanced in his favour ; but 
 «^ why did he not smother the undermining 
 " scintillations of rumour before they burst 
 " out into a general conflagration of enquiry ? 
 
 ^ * * * * * ^ * 4* 
 
 t See the Note in p. 15* 
 
 " But 
 
REV. DR. white's BAMPTON LECTURES. 19 
 
 " But let Dr. Gabriel speak for himself. 
 " No man can be imagined to possess more 
 " authentick testimonies of the assertion now 
 held forth against the Bamptonian Lec- 
 tures, than *him whom Mr. Badcock left 
 as executor -f to his will. And let not our 
 unwillingness to believe, condemn the 
 " credibility of the evidence which is pro- 
 " duced. Let not our veneration for a 
 " chara6ler, * thought ever so eminent, swell 
 " us into an opinion of its infallibility. In 
 " the mean time, Sir, candour demands us 
 " to withhold that judgment, which the 
 " novelty of the circumstance, and the seri- 
 " ousness of the accusation, might excite us 
 *^ to pronounce. And then, audi alteram 
 " partem, ought to be the law of justice in 
 " literary, as well as in civil contentions. 
 " And let it not be forgotten, that two 
 Ecclesiastics of dignity and respeftabiHty 
 " are concerned ; that they each claim a 
 " tenderness and regard from the publick 
 " situation of their charafters ; that much 
 " depends upon the importance of truth, 
 
 * See the original, 
 f This is a mistake. 
 
 C 2 in 
 
20 
 
 FACTS RELATING TO THE 
 
 in the discussion of the subjeft in dispute ; 
 and, I confess, these are the only reasons 
 which incited me to trouble you with this 
 
 " letter, who am equally at a distance from, 
 and independent of both Dr. W. and Dr, 
 G. but who feel myself somewhat inte- 
 rested in the decision of so weighty a 
 
 " question^ as a Divine, even though 
 
 A COUNTRY CURATE. 
 
 I am confident, that no man of corre6l 
 judgment and delicate feelings can require 
 me to answer, particularly and minutely, 
 what has appeared in the newspapers — but, 
 as I stand engaged to produce that evidence, 
 upon the strength of which, I have asserted, 
 that Dr. White was under particular obliga- 
 tions to Mr. Badcock, this pamphlet will 
 shew, that I do not shrink from the per- 
 formance of my engagement. 
 
 I now bring forward, parts of the Corres- 
 pondence from Dr. White to Mr. Badcock; 
 — but it is proper for me to observe, that 
 from the first part of the evidence to be pro- 
 duced^ 
 
REV. DR. white's BAMPTON LECTURES. £1 
 
 duced, I conclude that Mr.Badcock was ma- 
 terially concerned in the Bampton Lectures ; 
 and in making that conclusion, I think m.y- 
 self neither precipitate nor uncandid ; but 
 as to the precise degree in which he assisted 
 Dr. White, I shall insist upon nothing in the 
 way of inference from such parts of the Lec- 
 tures as are specified in Dr. White's Letters ; 
 — neither will I suggest any presumptions 
 about Mr. Badcock's share, be it greater or 
 less, in the remaining parts which are not 
 specified. — Every reader of discernment and 
 impartiality, will determine upon these deli- 
 cate points for himself. My business is to 
 produce the evidence of which I am possessed, 
 and I am answerable only for producing it 
 faithfully, and to such an extent, as to justify 
 the language I have used about Dr. White s 
 particular obligations to Mr. Badcock. 
 
 ' Oxford, Nov, 27, 1783. 
 
 ' Dear Sir, 
 * After expressing my grateful acknow- 
 
 * ledgments for the politeness and hospi- 
 
 * tality with which you did me the honour 
 
 * to receive me in the country, I must beg 
 
 * your 
 
FACTS RELATIKG TO THE 
 
 ' your pardon for troubling you with a 
 ^ very hasty scrawl ; as my attention has 
 ' been wholly engrossed this morning by 
 
 * some particular College business. 
 
 * Your friendly offers of literary assistance 
 ' have relieved my mind from a great load 
 ^ of anxiety ; and if, when the Leftures are 
 ^ finished, a draft of fifty pounds, and 
 
 * \vhatever can be produced by the sale of 
 ^ the copy, will not be beneath your accept- 
 
 * ance, I shall with sincere gratitude transmit 
 
 * it to you. As I am personally acquainted 
 
 * v/ith Cadell and Bathurst, and can besides 
 
 * have the warmest recommendation from 
 ' Dr. Johnson to the former, and Dr. Parr 
 
 * to the latter, I think 50 or 100 pounds 
 ' may be expected to arise from the sale of 
 
 * the copy. 
 
 * The parts I particularly wish you to 
 
 * undertake, are, Le6lures 1. VII. and VIII.* 
 ' Of the first I have nothing further to say 
 
 ' than to desire, if it can be done with pro- 
 
 * What is here called the Vlllth Leaure, may be the IXth, 
 which in the second edition is printed in two parts. 
 
 Dr. White is well known to have preached an additional 
 Leaure. R. B. G. ' ^ ' 
 
 ' priety. 
 
KEV. DR. white's BAMPTON LECTURES, £S 
 
 ' priety, that some elegant compliment may 
 
 ^ be paid to the University. Le6lure th@ 
 
 ' Vlllth*, I leave v/holly to yourself. The 
 
 « Vllth, (or the different efFefts of Christianity 
 
 ^ and Mahometism) I shall send you some 
 
 ^ time hence a large skeleton of. The fol- 
 
 * lov/ing is a Prospe6lus of it. 
 
 PART I. 
 
 * Opens with a view of the present state 
 ^ of Christian and Mahometan countries ; 
 ^ the liberty, learning, &c. of the one, con- 
 ^ trasted with the slavery and ignorance of 
 ^ the other. From this view it is natural 
 
 * to enquire. Whether there are any per- 
 ^ manent causes, in the nature of the two 
 
 * religions of these effefts. Division of this 
 
 * enquiry into their influence on the charac- 
 
 * ter of the individual and that of nations. 
 
 ' I. The influence of any system of re- 
 
 * ligious opinions, on the charafter of the 
 
 * individual, is to be estimated by its tendency 
 ^ either to improve, or debase the powers of 
 
 * his mind. Division of these into his intel- 
 
 * See the Note, p. 22. 
 
245 FACTS RELATING TO THE 
 
 ^ ledtual and jnoi^al powers, and view of the 
 ^ efFe6ls of these two systems of Religion upon 
 
 * these pow^ers. 
 
 PART IL 
 
 * The three great features of national v/el- 
 
 * fare are, (i.) Freedom, (2.) Peace, (3.)Sci- 
 
 * ence. It will therefore be the obje6t of 
 ^ this part to explain the tendency w^hich 
 
 * Christianity has to promote these ends, 
 
 * and that w^hich Mahometism has to pre- 
 
 * vent them. Conclusion in favour of Chris-* 
 tianity, as affording every possible motive 
 
 * which religion can afford, to the improve- 
 
 * ment and dignity of the human charafter, 
 
 * and to promote national w^elfare, &c. &c. 
 
 * &:c. &c. &c. 
 
 ^ Our correspondence must be a profound 
 
 * secret : the world suspects that my journey 
 
 * has not been a mere excursion of pleasure. 
 « — ^You will therefore please to direft your 
 ^ letters to me^ thus, To John Richardson^ 
 
 * Esq. TVadham College, Oxford, ' — Mr« 
 
 * Richardson has been member of our Col- 
 
REV. DR.- WHITENS BAMPTON LECTURES. 2<5 
 
 lege, and now lives in London ; and I shall 
 give strift orders to the Porter to bring all 
 letters thus addressed, immediately on re- 
 ceiving thein, to me. The letters I send 
 to you, I shall myself give into the hands 
 of the post-man, as he goes out of Ox- 
 ford. 
 
 * Dear Mr. Badcock, your great learning, 
 your great understanding, your great -vir- 
 tues, have not produced a more warm ad- 
 mirer, or a more faithful friend, than you 
 have in m^e. — speak truth only, v/hen I 
 assure you, that I shall rank your friend- 
 ship among the very first honours, and 
 happiest events of my life. God bless 
 you. 
 
 J. W. 
 
 ' The only persons to whom I have com- 
 municated the plan of my Lectures, are. 
 Dr. Parr, the Archbishop of Canter bur}^, 
 Mr. Stinton, and yourself/ 
 
 * 7b the Rev, Mr, Badcock.' 
 
 D 
 
 Oxford, 
 
FACTS RELATING TO tll^ 
 
 ' Oxford, Dec, 9, 17^3, 
 
 ^ My Dear Friend, 
 ' Your Introduclion to Le6l. I. (dated 
 ^ Dec. 6,) gives me the most perfe6l satis- 
 
 * faction. It is extremely ingenious, and 
 
 * incomparably excellent. I did not think 
 ' it possible for my remarks to have been 
 ^ introduced with such perfe6l propriety. 
 
 ^ I have also been successful^ and have hit 
 ^ on a method of introducing the Christian 
 ' doctrines of atonement, &c.&c. in a happy 
 ' manner. The detail of my ideas, on every 
 ' part of my pkn, you may expect to re- 
 ^ ceive from me soon. This day, unfortu- 
 ^ nately, I happen to be very particularly 
 
 * engaged. 
 
 ' I am very sorry to hear you have been 
 
 * so much indisposed : and earnestly exhort 
 ^ you to use more exercise, and to take all 
 
 * possible care of your health. 
 
 * Your's, very affeftionately, 
 
 ^ J. WHITE/ 
 
 The Rev. Mr-. Badccck^ 
 Sjuth Molimij Devon ! 
 
 ' My 
 
ELV. DR. white's BAMPTON LECTURES. £7 
 
 * My Dear Friend, 
 
 * I have received four franks, containing 
 the whole of Lecture II. as far as I had 
 finished it, when I v/as at S. Molton. 
 Dr. Parr is at present employed in revising 
 this Lecture, and has already sent me his 
 revision of the first half, executed in a nias- 
 terlv manner. The Lefture, as I have now 
 altered the latter part, concludes with a 
 view of Mahometism durino; the three or 
 four first centuries after the death of Ma- 
 homet, &c. cvC. &c. The substance of this 
 I shall send you hereafter, wdth a view to 
 the Christian contrast. 
 ' Of Lefture III. or the history of Ch-is- 
 tianit}^ (which is to exhibit a striking view 
 of the various obstacles that opposed the 
 first promulgation and the progress of our 
 relip'ion, up to its final establishment) I 
 have alread}' sent you two small parts in 
 two letters. The fir t part began with 
 these words :— Text, A6fs i. ver. 4.8. ' In 
 a former discourse upon these words, it 
 was my endea\'our to point out the falla:y 
 D2 'of 
 
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 of an argument which has been often ap« 
 plied/ &c. The second part ended with 
 these words — ^ Took him and began to re- 
 buke him^ saying, Be it far from thee. 
 Lord, this shall not happen unto thee/-— 
 These two parts, constituting the Exordium 
 of Le6t. in. I presume, you have ; and I 
 request the favour of you to undertake the 
 subject from this place, and to continue 
 it up to the final establishment of Christi- 
 anity. I devolve the whole business on 
 yourself. The object is to shew, that there 
 were such apparently insuperable obstacles 
 to Christianity through its whole progress, 
 that it would have been impossible for it 
 ever to have succeeded wdthout the divine 
 interposition. — Heads that m_ay be enlarged 
 on in the first part of what rem.ains to be 
 written Flumble birth, poverty, and 
 meanness of Christ's appearance totally- 
 opposite to the expeclations of the Jews— 
 consequent improbability of the success of 
 his preaching— State of religion am.ong 
 the Jews— their zealous attachment to the 
 ceremonial law— held by them of eternal 
 obligation-— diiferent opinions of the Pha- 
 
 * xmes 
 
REV. DR. white's BAMPTON IECTUKES. 29 
 
 risees and Sadducees — united however in 
 a fierce opposition to the gospel-*-State 
 of the Roman empire- — its greatness and 
 the accuracy of its policy— -The state of 
 science and general intelligence—Spiritual 
 nature of Christianity — ill fitted to the 
 minds of men accustomed only to the gross- 
 est opinions in religion — Humility and 
 meekness of Christian chara6ter, very un- 
 like the fierte and pride of Roman charac- 
 ter— ^consequent improbability of its suc- 
 cess among a people proud of conquest 
 and national dominion, and devoted to mi- 
 litary honour — Despised character of the 
 Jews — of all nations the most unlikely to 
 give opinions to the people of Rome/ &c. 
 &c. 
 
 * I sent by the coach last Monday two 
 Trafts — one by Jortin, and the other by 
 West— -both written with great elegance 
 on this subje6l. They may be useful to 
 you. Concerning the obstacle which op- 
 posed the progress of Christianity from 
 the Apostolic age, up to its final establish- 
 
 * N. B. This * is in the original. 
 
 * meat, 
 
30 FACTS RELATING TO THE 
 
 * ment, I have no hints to suggest to you, 
 ' and you need none. The part where we 
 
 encounter Gibbon, ought to be brilliant ; 
 
 and the conclusion of the whole must be 
 
 animated and grand . 
 
 ' You need never return me any papers I 
 send you. I have a copy of the Exordium 
 of Le6l. III. If the first part of this Lec- 
 ture has miscarried, it is not ver}^ material. 
 Its contents w^ere only, ' An account of the 
 state of Judea — of the general expeftation 
 of a Messiah — erroneous notions of the 
 Jews concerning the character of the Mes- 
 siah — carnal interpretation of the prophe- 
 cies — hopes of a temporal prince/ 
 * I most earnestly in treat you to finish 
 this third Le6lure, as soon as it suits your 
 convenience ; and to adapt your manner 
 of writing, as much as yow possibly can, to 
 the style of my printed sermon. Your 
 scripture allusions are extremely happy ; 
 but in the sermons which I have already 
 preached before the University, I have 
 used these allusions but sparingly. Will 
 it not be right for us to approach as nearly 
 as Vv^e can to former specimens } I will 
 
 ' certainly 
 
REV. DR, white's BAMPTON LECTURES. 31 
 
 ^ certainly sejidyou by next Saturday's post 
 ^ the Analysis of the five last Leftures. 
 
 * Your's, most sincerely, 
 
 ' J. WHITE/ 
 
 Jan. 8, 1784. 
 
 < P. S. In future your letters, addressed 
 ' to Mr. Parsons, will be pun<5lually brought 
 
 * to rne unopened. By this means the ex- 
 
 * pence of double postage will be avoided, 
 
 * and the same end answered/ 
 
 * To the Rev. Mr, Badcock, 
 South Molton, Devon.' 
 
 *■ OXFORD;, July 14, 1784, 
 ^ My Dear Friend, 
 * At length the whole business of preach- 
 ^ ing is over ; and I have the satisfa6lion of 
 ^ informing you, that the last sermon (on 
 ^ the Propagation) was as well received as 
 ^ the first. Your most valuable communi- 
 ^ cations, during the course of these Lee- 
 
 * tures^. 
 
32 
 
 FACTS RELATING TO THE 
 
 tures, have contributed very greatly to 
 give them the celebrity they possess ; and 
 your ardent, and unwearied zeal to serve 
 me, at this important crisis, will be always 
 remembered by me with the most heart- 
 felt gratitude. 
 
 ^ I am not a little embarrassed at present 
 about the mode of Dublication. A Gentle- 
 
 A. 
 
 mail has seriously offered 200 1. for the 
 right of copy, and engaged to supply me 
 besides with the thirty books which it is 
 necessary for me to distribute amongst the 
 Heads of Colleges. Some advise me to 
 accept, others to reje6l this offer. In this 
 dilemma, I have written to Murray and 
 Cadell, desiring to know whether they 
 would chuse to make me any proposals, on 
 the idea of sharing the expences and profits, 
 I expect their answer this w^eek ; and I re- 
 quest the favour of you to inform me ex- 
 plicitly which of the two modes you your- 
 self prefer, as you are solely concerned in 
 this part of the business. ^ * * 
 
 f The close of this letter contains some private matter, not 
 conneded with the Bampton Ledures, and therefore is not 
 produced. ^ ^ ^ 
 
REV. DR. white's BAMPTON LECTURES. S3 
 ^ * * ^ * * * 
 * * * * * * ^ 
 
 ^ I am, my dear Mr. Badcock, 
 
 « Your'S;^ most sincerely, afFe6lionately, 
 * and gratefully, 
 
 ^ J. W. 
 
 To the Rev. Mi\ Badcock, 
 ^ South MoUon, Devon! 
 
 ' Oxford, July 27, 1784, 
 ^ My Dear Friend, 
 
 ' Oxford is at present a scene of confusion, 
 on account of the races. All our friends 
 from the neighbourhood are visiting us. 
 
 * I have therefore only time to acquaint 
 you, that the second Sermon (on the His- 
 tory of Mahometism) is to be put to press 
 on Monday sev'night. My Notes on the 
 Mahometan History will be copious ; but 
 I want some Remarks on the Christian part, 
 which I here send you. Send me every 
 % thing 
 
54 FACTS RELATING TO THE 
 
 * thing you can, by way of Annotation, as 
 ^ soon as possible ; and keep this copy by 
 
 * you. I shall send you the remainder of 
 ' this Sermon, and Le6ture in. by the coach 
 ^ this week, with the same view. The nu- 
 
 * merals in red are meant as points of refe- 
 ' rence for the notes, and for any emenda- 
 
 * tion of the text that may be proposed. 
 ' My own copy is marked in the sam^ 
 ^ manner. 
 
 ' I am much disappointed in not being 
 
 * able to visit you the beginning of next 
 
 * month. I fully expe6led that the Vice- 
 ^ Chancellor would have paid me Mr.Bamp-= 
 
 * ton^s money, as soon as the Sermons had 
 
 * been preached, before printing. I must 
 ^ therefore defer my visit till the Sermons 
 f are published. 
 
 * Your's ever faithfully, 
 
 ^ J. w; 
 
 ^ To the Rev. Mr. Badcock, 
 ' South Molton, Devon.' 
 
 ^ Oxford^ 
 
EEV.DR. white's BAMPTON LECTURES. 35 
 
 ' Oxford, Dec. 2, 1784. 
 
 ' My Dear pRiENDy 
 * I am very sorry it is not in my power 
 ^ to maike another remittance just at present : 
 
 * though I hope to do it before long. * * 
 
 « I have, however, some better news to 
 
 * acquaint you with : My friends have paid 
 
 * Prince's bill (101 .1.) for publishing the Ser- 
 
 * mons : and the clear profits of the edition, 
 
 * which are calculated at 90 1. will conse- 
 
 * quently come into my hands. The book 
 
 * sells most rapidly, and meets here with 
 ' universal approbation. It is the opinion 
 
 * of every one, that it must come to a second 
 
 * edition this winter. Permit me again to 
 
 * return you my most grateful acknowledg- 
 
 * ments for the very friendly and essential 
 
 f I have left an hiatus, because the original in this place 
 contains a passage, which 1 keep back from motives of deli- 
 cacy ; and from the same motives I shall not produce the 
 P. S. of this letter-. 
 
 E 2 ' seVf 
 
55 FACTS RELATING TO THE 
 
 ^ services you have done me on this occasion: 
 
 * without you, the work could not have been 
 ^ produced, and all my prospefts must have 
 
 * been for ever closed. 
 
 * Yours, with the sn cerest respe6l 
 * and affeftion, 
 
 ' J. W. 
 
 ' To the Rev. Mr. Badcock, 
 * South Moltoriy Devon* 
 
 In the foregoing letters, I have confined 
 ftiyself stri6lly to the subje6l of the Bamp- 
 TON Lectures ; and, I leave the evidence 
 which they furnish, to produce its proper 
 effect, without endeavouring to facilitate or 
 increase that efFeft, by precarious conjeftures 
 or invidious comments. One requisition, 
 however, I must make to Dr. White — He 
 cannot forget the contents of other letters, 
 which have fallen under my notice ; and he 
 ought to acquit me of a disposition to injure 
 him, when he considers, that I have hitherto 
 produced nothing but what relates to the 
 
 Bampton 
 
REV. DK. white's BAMPTON LECTURES. S7 
 
 Bampton Lectures only; and that, even 
 this evidence is published for no other pur- 
 pose, than to vindicate myself from the im- 
 putation, of having judged of his application 
 to Mr. Badcock uncharitably, and having 
 spoken of it untruly. 
 
 Possessed as \ was, of clear and authori- 
 tative evidence, in Dr. White's own hand- 
 writing, I was under no necessity of racking 
 my invention to multiply aggravations, or 
 of attempting to ' display any ingenuity' in 
 colle6ling arguments. The truth of all I 
 have said, and the propriety of all I have 
 done, depend not on doubtful and circuitous 
 reasoning, but upon plain and indisputable 
 fa6ls. — I have long known those fafts, and 
 if I have been long in bringing them forward, 
 the delay is to be imputed, not to distrust 
 in my own cause, but tenderness towards 
 the reputation of Dr. White. I might have 
 produced without provocation, what provo- 
 cation alone,has now compelled me to produce. 
 But I suppressed truth, till I found myself un- 
 der the necessity of confuting falsehood . I left 
 the publick in a state of ignorance, till, it be- 
 4:ame my duty to rescue them from a state 
 
 of 
 
ss FACTS RELATING TO THE ] 
 
 i 
 
 of delusion. I 'spared Dr. White, till the i 
 
 advocates of Dr. White did not spare me. ] 
 
 As to vague and general conjeclures about | 
 
 what Mr. Badcock could not do, I think it in- ^ 
 vidious for other men to state them, and not 
 
 very necessary for me to refate them^ be- '\ 
 
 cause I have undertaken to shew, generally, ^ 
 
 what he has done. For the sake, however, of \ 
 
 mere curiosity, I will enquire a little into the \ 
 
 reasoning upon which those conjeftures seem ■ 
 
 to be founded, for the purpose of shewing, ; 
 
 that the same reasoning v/ill be followed by ; 
 
 the same conclusions, whether applied to Mr. \ 
 
 Badcock, or to Dr. White. Much stress then \ 
 has been laid, .upon the disproportion that 
 
 subsists between the acknowledged publi- : 
 
 cations of Mr . Badcock, and the distinguished j 
 
 excellence of theBampton Le6lures. Now, ] 
 
 Mr. Badcock is known to have been of an i 
 
 aftive mind, and much in the pra6iice of com- | 
 
 posing sermons . Dr . White is generally sup- ■ 
 
 posed, to be rather of an indolent turn : and | 
 
 they who, like myself, allow that he can j 
 
 write well, will not be hardy enough to ^ 
 
 maintain, that he has been in the habit of i 
 
 writing much, Mr „ Badcock was iodispu- -j 
 
 tably I 
 
REV. d^Vwhite's eampton lectures. S9 
 
 tably brilliant in conversation, in which Dr, 
 White, with all his powers and all his attain- 
 ments, seldom attempts to excel. Mr. Bad« 
 cock has written largely and ably upon Theo- 
 logical subje6ls, in ppposition to. Dr. Priest- 
 ly, and to Mr. Madan,— and I believe, that 
 the publick curiosity Vv^as never excited more 
 powerfully, nor gratified more fully than by 
 his Criticisms on the Thelyphthora, and on 
 the History of the Corruptions of Christianity^. Dr, 
 White also, previously to the Bampton Lec- 
 tures, published a sermon on the Septuagint, 
 which abounds withjudicious remarks, and is 
 written,in a very perspicuous and elegant style, 
 yet, the criticisms of Mr. Badcock, and theser- 
 
 * I do not press any argument that may be drawn in Mr. 
 Eadcock's favour, from a Charity sermon which he printed at 
 Bath in the year 1787, and for the matter of which, he is said 
 to have been indebted to some composition of a dignified 
 clergyman in the church of Exeter. I use the word matter» 
 because I consider the style as Mr. Badcock's own, and be- 
 cause I see in this hasty production, some marks of the same 
 brilliant language, which appears more frequently in many 
 parts of the Bampton Leclures, upon which he probably 
 bestowed more labour. I mean not to extenuate the supposed 
 plagiarism of Mr. Badcock, but I may be permitted to say 
 without offence, that in my presence at Bath, he did-ated a 
 considerable part of this sermon to an Amanuensis, and did 
 not consult any book, or manuscript^ while he was diClating. 
 
 mon 
 
40 fACTS REIATING TO THE 
 
 mon of Dr. White, stand perhaps below the 
 degree of excellence which is found in the 
 Bampton Le6lures — and therefore, every 
 iiference drawn from the inequality of their 
 former publications, is no less applicable to 
 Dr. White, than to Mr. Badcpck, unless it 
 should be contended, that the Reviews writ- 
 ten by the one, have shewn less ability, than 
 the Sermon of the other. — For my part, lad- 
 mire both ; I have no desire to degrade either 
 by comparison with the other — but, if a pre- 
 ference were to be given, it Would not be so 
 decisively in favour of Dr. White, as t6 prove 
 that He was exclusively able to rise to higher 
 excellence, when he treated of different sub- 
 jefts, and employed a different style. — After 
 all, investigations of this kind, are in the 
 present question altogether superfluous ; and 
 I must say, without reserve, that the insi- 
 nuations thrown out against Mr. Badcock> 
 ability to write, are the effeft, either of the 
 weakest prejudice, or the grossest injustice. 
 Dr. White, I am sure, will not countenance 
 them now, because he has himself confuted 
 them before. — He confuted them, when he 
 desired Mr. Badcock to assist him— -when 
 
 he 
 
REV. DR. white's BAMPTON LECTURES. 41 
 
 he accepted that assistance with the strongest 
 professions of gratitude— -and, when he ac- 
 knowledged, that he was in a very high degree 
 indebted to it, for the ' celebrity of his work,'' 
 Whatever may be the ignorance of Dr, 
 White, in the ordinary affairs cf the world, 
 he undoubtedly has the gift of extraordinary 
 discernment, in estimating the interie6ti;al 
 powers, and literary acquisitions of his 
 friends. — On a subjedt so interesting to his 
 immediate reputation, and contingent pre- 
 ferment, as the B AMPTON Lectures, he would 
 not have condescended even to consult the 
 opinion, much less to accept the aid of Mr. 
 Badcock, if he had not been previously con- 
 vinced of Mr. Badcock's Erudition, Judgment, 
 and Taste. Indeed, the acknowledgements of 
 the Do6lor, respecting his intention to em- 
 ploy Mr. Badcock, in a part of the Egyptian 
 History, incontestibly prove, that he gave 
 him credit for such a degree of talents, as 
 would not have disgraced the language of 
 the Hampton Lectures. Mr. Badcock's 
 claims, therefore, to literary excellence, are 
 established, by the decisive testimony of Dr. 
 White himself — by the testimony which he 
 
 F grave 
 
FACtS- KELATIKG TO THE 
 
 gave to Mr. Badcock, in his Correspondence 
 about the Leclures—by the testimony v/hich 
 he has given to his ov/n friends, in conversa- 
 tion about the History, I am confident 
 then, that Dr. V/hite will find himself obliged 
 to vindicate his ov/n judgment, and his own 
 veracity, by repelling every attempt which 
 has been made to depreciate the abilities of 
 a m^an, whom he had honoured with such 
 high praise—- whom he had admitted to such 
 unreserved confidence— and whom he had 
 deigned to employ in one work that had 
 gained, and in another that was likely to 
 gain, such an uncommon share of publick 
 attention, and publick approbation. Again 
 let me say, that I mean not to make any in- 
 vidious, and impertinent determinations upon 
 their comparative merits ; but while I allow 
 that Dr. White is entitled to respeft, I can- 
 not suffer the vague and malicious sugges- 
 tions of luiknown v/riters to persuade the 
 world, that Mr. Badcock was not a man of 
 very great abilities. 
 
 The force of Dr. V/hlte's concessions, is 
 not to be explained away, by hazardous, and 
 unwarrantable presumption, that his grati- 
 tude 
 
REV. DR. V/HITE's BAMPTON LECTURES. 4S 
 
 tilde overpowered the suggestions of his 
 judgment, and that he gave Mr. Badcock 
 much more praise, than he seriously supposed 
 Mr. Badcock to deserve. After, every de- 
 dudiion that can be made for the ardent, and 
 exaggerated language of friendship, they 
 who read Dr. White's letters must allow, that 
 in Dr. White's opinion, Mr. Badcock was 
 capable of writing for the Bampton Lec- 
 tures ; and therefore, th^y will resist the 
 calumnies of Dr. White's advocates, some of 
 whom have confidently pronounced, and 
 others have impertinently insinuated, that no 
 proof existed in favour of Mr. Bad cock's ca- 
 pacity ; and indeed, that he was utterly in7 
 capable of rising to that force of thinking, 
 and that splendor of diftion, which the pub- 
 lick justly admire in the volume, to which 
 , Dr. White's name alone is prefixed. 
 
 In addition to the written evidence, which 
 has been laid before the reader, I shall now 
 bring forward, some circumstantial and sub- 
 ordinate proofs. — They relate to what has 
 passed in conversation among some of Mr. 
 Eadcock's friends ; and to prevent any mis- 
 takes, I shall lay before the reader, an ex- 
 
 tra6l 
 
44 
 
 FACTS RELATING TO THE 
 
 tra6l from a letter, wMch Mr. Hutton sent 
 to me, and from which I have Mr„ Hutton's 
 express authority, to quote the following 
 words : — 
 
 ^ Broad STAiRs,^^^rRAMSGATE, Sep. 10. 
 
 5*C sjc 9^ sjc 
 
 ^- * * c y[^^ Badcock plainly and 
 ^ expressly declared to Mr. Hutton, that he 
 ^ was the author of a very considerable part 
 ^ of the work™at the same time, he said, 
 ^ that there was some other assistant, and 
 
 * asked Mr. Hutton, if he could guess from 
 
 * what other quarter White procured that 
 
 * aid, which was not supplied by Badcock? 
 
 ' He mentioned his own assistance to Sir 
 ^ John Chichester, in such terms as plainly 
 ^ implied, that he was the Author of a con- 
 ^ siderable part of the Bampton Lectures/ 
 
 * * * , 
 
 ^ Your's, most sincerely, 
 
 ' Rev. Dr. Gabki^l./ 
 
 I will 
 
REV. DK. white's BAMPTON LECTURES. 45 
 
 I will now relate what passed between 
 Mr. Badcock and myself. — In consequence 
 of some offence which Dr. White had given 
 to Mr. Badcock about a Sermon (on Prov, 
 viii. 17.) which Dr. White had obligingly 
 lent to me, (and, I have lately heard, to 
 others) as an Original written by himself, 
 and testified to me as such, by his own hand- 
 writing, but which I accidentally discovered 
 to be thesole produ6lion of Mr. Badcock, the 
 latter told me, peremptorily and indignantly, 
 that this very Sermon was his own produc- 
 tion, and lent by himself to Dr. White, 
 with an express injun6lion, that it should 
 not be lent by the Doftor to any other per- 
 ton ; and, he added, without requiring any 
 secrecy from me, that Dr. White lay under far- 
 ther obligations to him for assistance in the 
 Bampton Lectures ; that, in consequence of 
 such assistance, he had received certain pecuni- 
 ary promises from him, not one of which he had 
 ever fulfilled — that he had not only delayed 
 theperform.anceof these promises, but that he 
 now, and for some time past, had the * as- 
 
 * I distinaiy remember Mr. Badcock's use of this strong 
 word — and, indeed, the whole conversation made a most 
 deep impression on my mind, 
 
 surance 
 
46 
 
 FACTS RELATING TO THE 
 
 surance to treat him in the most disdain- 
 ful manner, by declining his correspondence, 
 and even neglecting to answer his letters.— 
 This conversation took place on the £6th day 
 of March, 1788, not long after my acquain- 
 tance commenced with Mr. Badcock. I con- 
 fess, that I was astonished, and, for a time, 
 provoked at this information. — So rooted 
 was my respe6l for the talents of Dr. White, 
 and so sincere rny conviftion about the com- 
 plete authenticity of the Sermons v^hicli 
 bore his name, that I resisted Mr. Badcock's 
 assertion to Mr. Badcock's face — He imme- 
 diately subdued my scruples, by shewing 
 me, in his own hand-writing, different parts 
 of the * Seventh Lecture, which correspond- 
 
 * I do not know, that any other parts of the Bampton 
 Lectur.es now exist in Mr. Eadcock's hand-writing, except 
 one half sheet of the first Ledure, with which I have been 
 very lately favoured. — It was sent to me by Mr. Hutton, who 
 received it from a very respedtable friend of Mr. Badcock. 
 Upon comparing it with the printed Ledture, I find here and 
 there a few variations. 
 
 Mr. Badcock, it is very well known, generally wrote his 
 Sermons in short hand ; and this circumstance is, perhaps, 
 to be lamented, as it prevents his friends from selefljng and 
 publishing such Discourses, as might have done credit to his 
 inemory, and at the same time might have been advantageous 
 to his Sister. 
 
JREV. DR. writer's BAMPTON LECTURES, 47 
 
 ed, almost verbaim, with the printed Lec- 
 ture ; and which appeared to have beea 
 preached by Mr. Badcock, in the presence 
 of his own congregations, at Barnstaple, and 
 South Molton. There was no date, but the 
 Sermon bore every mark of having been 
 written, ^long before I saw it. My opinion, 
 doubtless, was fixed in favour of Mr. Bad- 
 cock's veracity, when he appealed to a testi- 
 mony so apposite and dire6l ; but I never 
 proclaimed the opinion itself, to the possible 
 prejudice of Dr. White, while Mr, Badcock 
 was living— and my motives for proclaiming 
 it afterwards, arose from some circumstances, 
 which happened about a Note of Hand, 
 when Mr. Badcock was dead. 
 
 It is necessary for me to remark, that in 
 this endeavour to justify myself, I do not 
 think it incumbent on me, to stand forward 
 as the panegyrist, or even the advocate of 
 Mr. Badcock. Whether he was right or 
 wrong, in revealing to his friends, the share 
 which he had in the Bampton Lectures, 
 
 * N. B. Mr. Badcock had entirely quitted his situation 
 at Barnstaple, as a teacher, before Dr. White introduced 
 kms$lf to his acquaintance, 
 
 must 
 
4S 
 
 FACTS KELATING TO THE 
 
 must be left to the determination of others. 
 Let me, however, be permitted to suggest^ 
 that in his conversation with me, he was in- 
 fluenced by motives of just resentment, rather 
 than vanity; and that he did not betray Dr. 
 White, till Dr. White, as he thought, had 
 deceived and injured him. — But with Mr. 
 Badcock's motives, I have no direfl: concern ; 
 and I state my own opinion about them 
 only upon the authority of what he told me 
 about Dr. White's behaviour to him. He 
 may be blameable for speaking truth itself ; 
 but he certainly is not to be accused of hav- 
 ing told a falsehood. Others may reproach 
 him for w^ant of delicacy ; but it happily is 
 in my power to rescue hira, from the impu- 
 tation of want of veracity. 
 
 If Mr. Badcock were living, it is possible 
 at least, that he might explain his condu6l 
 to the satisfaction of Dr. White's friends ;— 
 and, as he is dead, his own friends will not 
 lose sight of his talents and his virtues, in 
 consequence of accusations which come forth, 
 when he has lost the power of confuting 
 t^em. 
 
 In 
 
KEV. DR. white's BAMPTON LECTURES. 4^0 
 
 In the beginning of this pamphlet, I have 
 stated the reasons, which induce me to pub- 
 lish the evidence I had obtained, either 
 from Mr. Badcock's conversation, or Dr. 
 White's letters. I have next brought for- 
 ward the evidence itself, for the purpose of 
 shewing, that I was neither rash, nor unjust 
 in maintaining, that Mr. Badcock was m.a- 
 terially concerned in the Bampton Lectures. 
 — It now remains for me, to explain what 
 has passed since Mr. Badcock's death, in re- 
 lation to a Note of Hand for 500 1. sub- 
 scribed by Dr. White. 
 
 The absurd and false reports which have 
 gone abroad on this subje6l, make it neces- 
 sary for me to trespass on the patience of 
 the reader ; and as Dr. White's conduft 
 towards Miss Badcock, and injurious lan-^ 
 guage to me, were the first, and indeed the 
 only motives, which induced me to say, in 
 private conversation, that he was assisted by 
 Mr. Badcock — it is proper for me to shew, 
 that this very conduct, and this very lan- 
 guage, were such, as to justify me in telling 
 my acquaintance of the services^ which Dr. 
 White had received. 
 
 G I do 
 
£0 tACTS RSlATING TO THE 
 
 I do not think it incumbent upon me to 
 prove, for what purpose this note w^as origi- 
 nally drawn up by Dr. White. Miss Bad- 
 cock> w^as firmly of opinion, that it was given 
 for services a6lually performed in the Bamp- 
 TON Lectures: Dr. White, explicitly main-* 
 tains, that it was for services hereafter to be 
 performed in the Do6lor's intended History 
 of Egypt* Whatever opinion I may think 
 the more probable upon this disputed point, 
 I shall abstain from all decision upon it* 
 That the note was valid for some reason or 
 other, 1 had no doubt ; and the reader caa 
 have none, when he finds that Dr. White, 
 who had in some stages of the business,hung 
 off from the payment, has since agreed to 
 pay the w^hole, and a6tually has paid a con- 
 siderable part. 
 
 Now, whether the note was, or was not, 
 obligatory in point of law, I do not venture 
 to decide ; and upon farther consideration, 
 I suspect that it was not, because it makes 
 no mention of ' value received but I did 
 conceive it binding, in point of honour ; for 
 if it were not so. Dr. White would hardly 
 have employed me to negotiate with Miss 
 
 Bad- 
 
REV. DR. WHITE S BAMPTON LECTURES. ^1 
 
 Badcock the payment of money, to which 
 she was not entitled, either in honour, or in 
 law. Dr. White, it is true, did obje6l to 
 the legal validity of the note, because it 
 was not payable to order — a circumstance in 
 which he triumphed, because, as he said, 
 Mr. Badcock was dead ; but, upon which I 
 laid very little stress, so far as it affefted the 
 rights and the interests of Mr. Badcock's 
 Sister, who was living. But the second legal 
 objection arising from the omission of ^ value 
 received,' did not then occur to the Doftor, 
 or myself — and, as to the point of honour, 
 I saw no other difficulty than what proceeded 
 from the * Egyptian History. The improba- 
 bility of any man's engaging to pay 600 1. 
 for a work neither finished, when the note 
 was dated, nor likely to be finished, from 
 Mr.Badcoclis declining state of health, pre- 
 vented me from considering this objeftion 
 as of much weight. But I stated it, as will 
 hereafter appear, to Miss Badcock, who still 
 persevered in her former opinion, that the 
 note was given to her Brotlier, for services 
 
 * The reader will have this farther explained to him 
 hereafter. 
 
 G 2 ' very 
 
3^ FACTS RELATING TO THE 
 
 very little conne6led with the Egyptian His- 
 tory. I did not then, and I do not now, 
 contradi£l Dr. White's assertion ; but, as I 
 was not fortunate enough to believe it, I was 
 not disposed to urge it very strongly in my 
 conversation with Miss Badcock. 
 
 In what follows, I think it necessary to be 
 very minute. 
 
 On the 28th day of May, 1788, receiving 
 intelligence of Mr Badcock's death, I the 
 * next morning hastened to London to en- 
 quire into the particulars of it, and with the 
 friendly desire of having his remains depo- 
 sited in my Parish Church at Hanworth in 
 Middlesex : I no sooner arrived in Town> 
 than I called at the house of a very respectable 
 and particular friend of Mr. Badcock, who 
 told me that he had been dead more than a 
 week, and was already interred in the 
 parish of St. James, Westminster, in which 
 he died. His friend then asked me, if I 
 knew his circumstances, and mentioned a 
 Note of Hand, for 600\. subscribed by a 
 Mr. White of Oxford, which was found in 
 his pocket book, at Sir John Chichester's, at 
 whose house he died— but, he added, that 
 *it was imagined the Note was of no real va- 
 lue 
 
REV. DR. white's BAMPTON LECTURES. S5 
 
 lue, as the circumstances of Mr. White, 
 were reported to be by no means competent 
 to the payment of it. I told him, that I 
 was utterly unacquainted with Mr. Bad- 
 cock's circumstances, but I took it for 
 granted, that they were not affluent —that 
 I had not long since a hint given me re- 
 spefhing the Note from Mr. Badcock him- 
 self ; that I knew Mr . Professor White, of 
 Oxford, very well ; and that he was daily 
 expected in Town, to wait upon the Chan- 
 cellor, who had, (out of mere respeft to 
 his great literary merit, as I had been in- 
 formed) just presented him to a Prebend, 
 in the Church of Gloucester ; and that, with 
 his permission, I would mention the disco- 
 very of the Note to the Professor on his ar- 
 rival in Town, who, I had no doubt, would 
 readily discharge it, as soon as it was in his 
 pov/er. 
 
 Mr. Badcock's friend, in answer to this, told 
 me, that I might mention to the Professor 
 the subjeft of our conversation, and added, 
 that it would be doing a very essential ser- 
 vice to Mr. Badcock's Sister, who was, as he 
 understood, far from being in good circum- 
 stances. 
 
S4f PACTS RELATING TO THE 
 
 Stances.— I then took my leave of this Gen- 
 tleman, and promised to do what I could in 
 the behalf of the Sister of my late and much 
 lamented Friend-— but I desired him, at the 
 same time, (notwithstanding, as it may be 
 supposed, / could not be satisfied with the 
 Professor's late conduft) not to mention what 
 had passed between us, lest any thing should 
 transpire concerning the Note, to the pos- 
 sible prejudice of Dr. White's reputation. 
 
 Hearing the Professor was arrived in 
 Town, I went thither the week following, 
 (the 4th of June, 1788) when I mentioned 
 to him, what I had heard respefting the 
 Note of Hand. He received the intelligence 
 with apparent confusion and displeasure — 
 and at first even attempted to disprove his 
 having given such a Note ! — but recoUefk- 
 ing himself, he urged, that if he had given 
 it, yet it was not payable to order — and, that 
 Mr.Badcock was now dead— that it was not 
 given for the Bampton Lectures, but for 
 another work,which he soon intended publish- 
 ing, viz. the History of Egypt. I told him 
 plainly, that, in my opinion, it was given for 
 services he had received from Mr. Badcock 
 
 in 
 
kEV. DR. white's bampton lectures. S5 
 
 in the Bampton Lectures, and I gave him 
 my reasons for thinking so, by relating to him 
 the whole of the * conversation between Mr, 
 Badcock and me, on the 26th day of March, 
 1788. I took this opportunity also, of re- 
 monstrating with him, for having deceived 
 nie, with respe6l to the Sermon which he 
 had himself borrowed of Mr. Badcock, who 
 w^as the author of it ; but, which he had lent 
 to me (so long ago as the year 17§5) as his 
 own composition : I also spoke very freely 
 to him on the indelicacy and injustice of his 
 having mentioned to a Clergyman, and mu- 
 tual friend, the literary obligation he had 
 conferred, with the addition of such terms, 
 as my friend thought he could not, with 
 propriety, conceal from me — because, if the 
 accusation was just, I could no longer be 
 worthy of his esteem— if otherwise, I might 
 have an opportunity of proving the illibe- 
 rality of his reflections. 
 
 I must here do the Professor the justice 
 to say, that in consequence of this con- 
 versation, he did not hesitate to make a 
 full and ample apology for his behaviour ; 
 but, without any precise explanation for hi>s 
 
 * Seep, 45. 
 
 conduct. 
 
S6 FACTS RELATING TO THE 
 
 conduct, or suffering me to enter into any 
 vindication of mine. Agreeably to his own 
 proposal, we dined together on Friday, 
 June 7, 1788, at the Oxford Coffee-House in 
 the Strand ; and he there added the follow- 
 ing P. S. to a letter I was writing to the 
 friend in question. 
 
 (COPY.) 
 
 S. * Oxford Coffee-House, June 1, 1788. 
 
 ^ Dear Sir, 
 
 * The ideas I suggested to you (in haste) 
 
 * concerning Dr. Gabriel, were very ill 
 
 * founded. I was wrong, and have begged 
 
 * his pardon. I believe there does not exist 
 
 * a more friendly, or more worthy character. 
 
 ' Your's ever, 
 
 < J. WHITE. 
 
 ' 7he Rev. , 
 
 But to return to our previous conversation 
 about the note — I told him, that the pub- 
 lick 
 
REV. DR. WHITENS BAMPTON LECTURES, ol 
 
 lick in general would think with me— -that it 
 was given for the Bampton Lectures — if 
 the story went abroad. I took the liberty 
 also of pointing out, and even urging, the 
 dangerous consequences, which such a story 
 might produce, to the Professor^s reputation : 
 and I added, that I could not see the probabili- 
 ty of his representation of the matter, when 
 he spoke of the Note, as given for the Egyp- 
 tian History. He contended, that it cer- 
 tainly VN^as given for that History ; and that 
 as Mr. Badcock had not furnished the ex- 
 pe6ied assistance, he did not think himself 
 bound to pay the Note. He then said, that 
 he could shew me some witten DocumentSy 
 (I quote his own words) from which it would 
 appear to m.e, that the Note was given really 
 and solely for the History : but, as Miss 
 B. was not in good circumstances, he de- 
 clared himself ready to m.ake her some pe- 
 cuniary acknowledgment. 
 
 It was agreed between us, that I should 
 go down to South Molton ; and that in my 
 way thither, I should receive the Documents, 
 which were intended to prove, that the Note 
 did not relate to the Lectures, but to the 
 H History, 
 
FACTS I?.ELATIKG TO THE 
 
 History. At the same time I was com- 
 missioned by Dr, White to shew the I)ocu^ 
 merits to Miss Badcock, and to make the best 
 bargain I could for both parties. 
 
 I went down to Exeter, in my way to 
 South Molton ; and at Exeter, instead of 
 being furnished with the Documents, I received 
 the following letter, which renewed the au- 
 thority, and enlarged the powers^ of my 
 commission. 
 
 * Bath, June 15, 178S. 
 
 ^ Dear Sir, 
 
 * Havino; a little business to transact at 
 ^ Bristol to-morrow, I came hither to-day 
 
 * solely to pay a visit to you. 
 
 * I wished to have shewn you some papers^ 
 ^ in the hand-writins; of a deceased friend, 
 « which, I think, would have cleared up all 
 
 * difficulties with regard to the Note. 
 
 * As, unfortunately, I have not the plea- 
 
 * sure of finding you here, I must beg you 
 
 * to present my respe6ls to Miss B. and to 
 ^ assure her, that though the meaning of the 
 ^ Note has been misunderstood, yet I wish 
 
 ' to 
 
KEV.DR. V/HITE's BAMPTON LECTURES. 59 
 
 < to settle matters with her in the most 
 ^ friendly manner. I have no doubt but she 
 
 * has behaved with stri6l honour, in a point 
 « of such delicacy. 
 
 « If a personal interview is necessary,- I 
 
 * am ready to meet Miss B. (with the proper 
 ' Documents ) either at Bath or Exeter, when- 
 *^ ever she pleases in July ; if she refers the 
 ^ matter to you, as a common friend, per- 
 ^ haps I may have the pleasure of meeting 
 ^ you at Oxford, during our week of Com- 
 ' memoration. I leave every thing to your 
 
 * discretion, and shall acquiesce in every 
 ^ thing you may think proper to do on this 
 
 * occasion ; and remain, 
 
 ^ Dear Sir, 
 
 ' Your's, very sincerely, 
 ' J. W. 
 
 ' P. S. Please to dire6l to me at Oxford.-— 
 * I hope I shall have finished my business 
 ' at Gloucester by this day se'nnight. 
 ' To the Rev. Dr. Gabriel, (of Bath) 
 
 ^ At the London Inn, Exeter, 
 ' To be left till called for. 
 
 ' (U?ider Cover, sealed) 
 ' To the Rev. Dr. Gabriel, of Bath.' 
 
 After 
 
BO FACTS RELATING TO THE 
 
 After receiving this letter, I went to South 
 Molton, and related to Miss B. Dr. W/s 
 objeclions to the payment of the Note; 
 but I was still impressed v/ith the im- 
 probability of the transa6lion— and that 
 impression, was confirmed by Dr. White's 
 delay in sending the Documents, which he had 
 promised to send to Exeter ; and which, if 
 I had received them, would have been of 
 considerable im.portance in the negotiation 
 with Miss Badcock. As they came not, I 
 suspected that they had no existence.— I re- 
 lated also, all that had passed on the subjefh 
 between the Professor and myself in London. 
 
 Miss Badcock produced the original Note, 
 of v/hich the following is the copy. 
 
 ' Wadham College^ Oxford^ Aug. 7^ 1786. 
 ^ ' £500. 
 
 * I promise to pay to the Rev. Mr. Samuel 
 
 * Badcock, of South Molton, Devon, the 
 
 * sum of five hundred pounds, at or before 
 
 * N. B. This promissory Note of Hand was formally and 
 legally written upon a shiiling stainp. 
 
 ' the 
 
REV. DR. white's BAMPTCN LECTURES. 61 
 
 ^ the times hereafter specified, viz. fifty 
 ^ pounds in the present month, one hundred 
 ^ pounds in the next Oxford Lent Term, 
 ^ and three hundred and fifty, in July or 
 ' August 1787. 
 
 ^ Witness my hand, 
 
 * JOSEPH WHITE/ 
 
 I prevailed on Miss B. not to insist on 
 immediate payment, but to receive the 
 money in five different sums of 100 1. each, 
 on, or within a week after, the 3dth of No- 
 vember, annually, till the whole was paid. 
 
 After this, I proceeded to Oxford, in con- 
 sequence of Dr. White's letter — and I went 
 thither, with the fullest convi6lion that I 
 had settled the business in such a manner, 
 as to satisfy the Doftor, no less than Miss 
 Badcock — but, in this expe6tation, I was 
 unfortunately disappointed. 
 
 I met Dr. White at Oxford, in St. Mary's 
 Church, on the 26th day of June 1788, and, 
 after Sermon, he engaged me to dine with 
 
 him 
 
62 FACTS RELATING TO THE 
 
 him in his room, at Vv^'adham College, the next 
 day .-—I went,and imexpe6ledly met the Rev. 
 Mr. Griffith, Fellow of Hertford-College ; in 
 his presence I did not presume to bring 
 forward the interesting conversation which I 
 intended to have with Dr. White — and, it 
 is rather remarkable, that Dr. White himself 
 did not start the subjeft. The next day I 
 called on the Professor, when he was alone ; 
 I opened the business, and I not only found 
 him dissatisfied at the result of a journey, 
 imdertaken at his request, and performed 
 at my own expence, but I was accused of 
 being in league with Miss B. to pick his 
 pocket, (I remember the very words.) In- 
 censed at this charge, I declared that if he 
 persisted in it, I would lay his whole con- 
 duct before the University ; and I gave him 
 till the next m.orning to re-consider the 
 matter. I called at the appointed time, but 
 the Do6lor, during a long and warm conver- 
 sation, neither retra6ted the charge, nor apo- 
 logized for the alfront,-— and therefore, I 
 mentioned the matter among my Friends 
 at Oxford— a consequence of which I had 
 forewarned Dr. White the preceding day, 
 
 and 
 
REV. DR. white's BAMPTON LECTURES. 65 
 
 and v/hich, he did not endeavour to avert, 
 at our second meeting. To this luimerited 
 indignity offered against myself, and to 
 the appearance of something like evasion 
 with Miss Badcock, must Dr. W. impute 
 all the effecls of Vvhat I had avowed my in- 
 tention to say, and afterwards did say, in 
 the University. My Friends told w4iat I 
 had said to others ; and the story, ox course, 
 soon became publick. 
 
 In this second conversation, the Professor 
 still seemed unwilling to fulfill his engage- 
 ment with Miss Badcock ; he talked, indeed, 
 of miaking her a visit, and managing the 
 business for himself, but he gave me no clear 
 and distinct account of the ?nanner in which 
 it was to be managed. He suddenly re- 
 sumed, and m.ost firmly supported his for- 
 mer objecSlion, founded upon the circum- 
 stance of the Note's not being payable to or- 
 der, and told me, that he had taken Coun- 
 sel's opinion on the subje6l ; (permitted I 
 must be to say, that in this plea, I found 
 rather the sagacity of a welUmanaging At- 
 torney, than the sim.plicity of an Academi- 
 cal Recluse, or the liberality of a Gentle- 
 man. 
 
64. 
 
 ^ACTS RELATING TO THE 
 
 man) He again maintained^ in terms moref 
 peremptory than before, that the Note of 
 Hand was given for the Egyptian History 
 only ; and he told me, that among his papers, 
 I should find a clear proof that it was so. 
 The only paper I found, which could pos- 
 sibly refer to it, was as follows, in Mr. Bad- 
 cock's hand-writing, and which I had the 
 Professor s express perm^ission to copy. 
 
 ' South Molton, Sep, 2, 1786/ 
 
 * ^ ^ ' You have required secrecy 
 ^ as to a Memorandum, inclosed in a former 
 
 * letter ; yet I must say, that it will never 
 
 * be made any use of by me, or by any one 
 
 * for me, living or dead. It shall be return- 
 
 * ed at demand, and therefore let it never 
 
 * give you one moment's pain/ ^ ^ ^ 
 ^ ^ ^ ^ 
 
 Whether the word Memorandum did, or 
 did not, mean the same as Note, can be 
 known only to the parties themselves ; but 
 I have, since that interview, found among 
 
 Mr, 
 
REV. I>R. white's BAMPTON LECTURES. 65 
 
 Mr. Badcock's papers, a letter from Dr .White, 
 in which the same Memoi'andum (as I novo 
 suppose) is referred to, and from which it 
 plainly appears, that some negotiation was 
 passing between him and Mr. Badcock, re- 
 specting the Egyptian History. 
 
 ' Hatton^ near Warwick, Sept. 6, 1786. 
 
 ^ My Dear Friend^ 
 ^ I have received 3^our's of the 2d Inst. 
 
 * and thank you most sincerely for your 
 ^ kind offers of assistance with respeft to 
 
 * my Egyptian History. I am at present 
 ' engaged more than two thirds ot the day 
 
 * in completing my Latin work, which is a 
 ^ Prodromus to the English, and requires 
 ' great care and attention. This will em- 
 
 * ploy me, I think, about a fortnight, or 
 
 * three weeks longer. 
 
 ' When the Latin is finished, I shall form 
 
 * the plan of the English work, as exa6tly 
 ' and fully as I can, and immediately trans- 
 
 * mit it to you. I shall likewise give you a 
 
 * list of all the best authors, who have writ- 
 ' ten on the differ parts of the subje6t. 
 
 I ^ In 
 
66 
 
 FACTS RELATING TO THE 
 
 ^ In the mean time, I am amusing myself 
 
 * with drawing up that Le6lure, which eon- 
 
 * eludes the Dynasty of the Ptolemies, and 
 
 * exhibits the reign and death of Cleopatra. 
 ^ When I have finished it, I shall have the 
 ^ pleasure of sending it to you, and hope 
 ' for a few touches from your admirable 
 
 * pencil. 
 
 * In genera], I request the favour of yoii 
 
 * to turn in your mind that part of the 
 
 * Jewish History, which is connected with 
 
 * Egypt. The Mosaic chronology is to be 
 
 * ably defended against the accounts given 
 
 * us of the high antiquity of Egypt, by the 
 
 * Egyptian Priests, &c. and the cbje6lions 
 ' of Bolingbroke, Voltaire, &c. &c. to the 
 
 * authority of Sacred History, will merit some 
 
 * reply. The history of the Jews, from the 
 ' arrival of Joseph into Egypt till the Exodus, 
 « will furnish copious matter for argumen- 
 ^ tation and eloquence. The characters of 
 « Joseph and of Moses, would, I conceive, 
 ^ be highly proper in this part ; and no man, 
 f I am certain, could draw them better than 
 f yourself, 
 
 ' When 
 
kfev. DR. white's bampton lectures. 67 
 
 « when I have a few moments leism'e, I 
 
 * will write to you again. All I meant with 
 ^ regard to the Memorandum, was to guard 
 ^ against Hutton's seeing it, in case you 
 
 * happened to receive the letter and open it 
 < in his presence. I have not the least ob- 
 « jedlion to your Mother or Sister's seeing it, 
 
 * Your's^ 
 
 ^ most sincerely and gratefully, 
 
 ' To the Rev. Mr. Badcock, 
 ' South Molton, Devon! 
 
 As Dr. White contends, that the Note for 
 .5001. respefhs a future payment for a future 
 service, I am at liberty to suppose that the 
 following letter, which is of a later date than 
 that just now produced, refers either ia 
 part, or in the whole, to pecuniary or lite- 
 rary services already received. 
 
 Oxford, 
 
68 
 
 FACTS RELATIKG TO THE 
 
 * Oxford, Nov. 2, 1787. 
 
 ^ My Dear and Worthy Friend, 
 
 ^ I am this day returned from an excur- 
 
 * sion into Warwickshire, and have only 
 ^ this moment received your Letter. 
 
 ^ I think I can promise absolutely to send 
 
 * you a twenty pound Note within this fort- 
 
 * night ; and if you want fifty pounds more, 
 
 * I will endeavour to procure it for you. I 
 
 * understand, the Tythes of my Living, for 
 ^ the first year, are to be paid me about the 
 ^ 10th. Make yourself per feftly easy about 
 ^ pecuniary matters. 
 
 ^ Your's^ most faithfully^ 
 
 • J. W. 
 
 « You will hear from me again soon» At 
 
 * present I am very particularly engaged, 
 
 'To the Rev. Mr, Badcock, JVest Sandford, 
 near Crediton, Devon' 
 
 When 
 
REV. DR. WHITENS BAMPTON LECTURES. 69 
 
 When the terms of the Note were so plain 
 and determinate, and v/hen Dr. ¥/.'s deck-' 
 ration of having agreed to give so large 
 a sum of money for a future service was so 
 improbable, I was for a long time convincedj 
 that the Note respe6led only the Le6lures, 
 As Mr. Badcock was so ill, and as Dr. W. 
 must have foreseen the consequences of the 
 discovery of the Note, I thought it very 
 unlikely that the Professor should not take 
 some efFe6lual step for recovering it from Mr. 
 B. if he had really no right to enforce it. 
 
 Upon examining some papers which have 
 been lent to me, since our interview at Oxford^ 
 I am inclined to believe, that the Note was 
 intended partly as a reward for services 
 done, and partly as an encouragement to 
 future services in the History of Egypt ^ 
 
 But this is merely my private opinion ; 
 and even into this I have been led, not by 
 the one very doubtful Document, which Dr, 
 W. produced, but by various letters, in 
 which there are broken, dark, and imperfeft 
 allusions to the History, and to m.oney con- 
 cerns. In those letters, however, I must ob- 
 serve, that the History and theNote^ are in no 
 
 one 
 
70 FACTS DELATING TO THE 
 
 one passage clearly connefted. But in the 
 letters which Dr. White wrote to Mr. Bad- 
 cock, after the publication of the Bamptom 
 Lectures, there is the clearest connexion 
 between the assistance given by Mr.Badcock 
 in those Lectures, and some money which 
 Dr. White intended, or at least promised to 
 pay to Mr. B. How far Mr. B. had pro- 
 ceeded in his assistance to the History, and 
 therefore earned, in part, the money which 
 Dr. White professes to have offered with a 
 view to the whole of that work, is best known 
 to the Doctor himself. I only know, that 
 the Doftor has displayed specimens of some 
 brilliant passages, in the hearing of several 
 of his acquaintance. But I presume not to 
 determine by whom they were written. 
 
 As to the largeness of the sum, it gave me 
 no difficulty ; for Dr. White had received 
 large payments for his two editions of the 
 Leftures, and had reason to expeft consi- 
 derable preferment, which he has since ob- 
 tained. 
 
 But to return to our conversation at Ox- 
 ford. — Dr. White, as I before said, told me, 
 
 that 
 
REV. DR. white's BAMPTON LECTURES. 71 
 
 that he would go down to South-Molton, 
 and settle the business with Miss Badcoek, 
 for himself, within a fortnight. I then took 
 my leave of the Doftor, 
 
 I find that he went down to South Molton, 
 and came into terms less advantageous than 
 those I had made for him ; for he engaged 
 to pay the whole money, in half the time, 
 for which I had agreed with her on his ac- 
 count, and which appears by the following 
 letter from Miss Badcoek. 
 
 ^ South Molton, July 28^ 1788. 
 
 ' Sir, 
 
 ^ I am extremely obliged to you for your 
 ^ very genteel and friendly letter, and like- 
 ^ wise for the trouble and friendship you have 
 ^ taken, and shewn in my affairs respe6fing 
 
 * Dr. W. I should have answered your 
 
 * last favour sooner, but waited till I had 
 ^ seen or heard from Dr. W. who, on 
 ^ the £2d. instant, called on me, and gave 
 \ me Five Promissory Notes, payable in one 
 ' hundred pounds, at the end of every six 
 ? months, till the whole is discharo-ed. * * 
 
 ' He 
 
7£ FACTS RELATING TO THE 
 
 ^ He has promised me a remittance of 
 ^ * one hundred pounds very soon. I shall 
 
 * see how he will perform that promise, and 
 
 * from, thence judge of his future per- 
 
 * fbrmance.1 
 
 * It is out of my power to accept of your 
 
 * kind invitation to wait on you, as my 
 
 * Uncle is in a very melancholy situation. 
 
 * I hope to pay my respects to you, and 
 « your Lady, when I hear of your arrival 
 ' at Bath. 
 
 ^ I have not received my Brother's trunk. 
 
 * As soon as I receive it, I shall trouble you, 
 
 * Sir, with a parcel. 
 
 I am. Sir, 
 *^ Your most humble 
 * and obedient servant 
 ^ S. BADCOCK/ 
 
 « To Dr.- Gabriel/ 
 
 Having now no immediate commission 
 from Dr. White to proceed in the business, 
 I know not what happened subsequent to 
 July 28th, 1788, except what appears from 
 
HJEV. DR. white's BAMPTON LECTURES. 73 
 
 the following extra6l of another letter from 
 Miss Badcock, dated 
 
 ' South Molton August 26th, 1788. 
 
 ' Sir, 
 
 * I ask your pardon for not answering 
 
 * your last obliging letter sooner. I should 
 ^ have wrote when I sent off the parcel, 
 
 * part of the contents of my late Brother's 
 
 * trunk, but Indisposition prevented it, 
 
 ^ When Dr. White left me, he promised 
 ^ 1 should hear from him in a few days, but 
 ^ I have not heard a syllable from him since. 
 
 * I am, with great respefl, 
 ' Sir, 
 
 ^ Your obliged and most humble Servant, 
 
 ^ S. BADCOCK. 
 
 * P. S. Dr. W. is very much against my 
 ^ coming to Bath.^ 
 
 On November 20th, Miss B. tells me, 
 that she will bring all Dr. White's letters 
 and papers xo Bath, 
 
 K It 
 
74 
 
 FACTS RELATING TO THE 
 
 It may not be improper for me here to re- 
 mark, that whatever evidence Dr. White 
 might have to prove, that the Note related 
 only to the Egyptian History, he had volun- 
 tarily and unconditionally agreed to ratify 
 it, in his visit to Miss Bad cock. He cannot 
 therefore complain of Mr. Badcock's Friends 
 for prevailing upon him either by argu- 
 ment, or persuasion, to pay what he did not 
 owe. By his own aft and deed, he has given 
 to Miss Badcock Five Notes, the validity 
 of which is indisputable, however obscure 
 may be the cause of the original Note, for 
 which they w^ere substituted. 
 
 On Christmas day last, I received the 
 Professor's first Note of Hand for 100 1. in a 
 letter from Miss Badcock, who desired me 
 to receive the money for her. I did receive 
 it, of the Reverend Mr. Richards, Fellow of 
 Exeter College, and I have since received 
 from him, a second payment of the second 
 Note; so that only 300 1. more remain to 
 be paid by Dr. White. 
 
 Long after the story had gone abroad, and 
 after I had pledged myself to the Publick to 
 produce my evidence, I received a letter, 
 
 dated 
 
REV. DR. white's BAMPTON LECTURES. 75 
 
 dated South Molton, Aug. 18, 1789 which was 
 written by a relation of Miss Badcock, whom 
 she commissioned to write to me, as she was 
 herself much indisposed. Inclosed in it were 
 the two following letters, in Dr. White's 
 hand-writing. 
 
 * My Dear Friend, 
 
 * I have not yet prepared my Analysis ; 
 *" if any thing occm's to you, on the subjeft 
 
 * of Egypt in general, be so good as to 
 
 * commit it to paper. I shall write to you 
 ^ soon more particularly, 
 
 * If you receive this note, and the inclosed 
 
 * paper, I earnestly request that you will take 
 
 * no notice of them in any letter you may do 
 ' me the favour of sending me. 
 
 * Your's, most affeftionately, 
 
 * J. W. 
 
 * Superscribed, 
 Private Memorandums. 
 
 * Monthly Review' 
 
 * Oxford, 
 
FACTS RELATING TO THE 
 
 ' Oxford, May 28, 1788-, 
 * ^ Dear Miss Badcock, 
 
 * I have just read in the publick papers, 
 ^ with inexpressible grief, that your good 
 
 * Brother, and my worthy Friend, is no more. 
 ^ ——Nothing could possibly have been a 
 ^ greater shock to me, as I had just formed 
 
 * (only a day or two ago) the plan of com- 
 
 * ing into Devonshire, as soon as Term was 
 
 * out, and of spending a fortnight with him 
 
 * at South Molton, in the beginning of July. 
 ^ But hum.an life, we all feelingly know, is 
 
 * exposed to the most bitter disappoint- 
 
 * ments. 
 
 ^ I most sincerely condole with you on 
 
 * this melancholy occasion. You have lost 
 
 * the best of Brothers — I have lost a most 
 ' sincere and valuable friend— Learning has 
 \ lost one of her brightest ornaments, and 
 ^ Religion one of her ablest defenders. 
 
 * What adds particularly to my concerp, 
 
 * is, that I have not lately been so punctual 
 
 * It is somewhat remarkable, that Dr. White never told 
 me of his having written this letter to Miss Badcock. 
 
 ^ a cor- 
 
REV. DR. white's BAMPTON LECTURES. 77 
 
 * a correspondent to your good Brother, as 
 
 * he had reason to expe6t. This matter I 
 ^ hoped to have cleared up entirely to his 
 « satisfafhion, in my visit in Jul^^ But, alas ! 
 ^ it is now too late. 
 
 ^ I now take the liberty of requesting a 
 
 ' great favour of you. You know there 
 
 « was a long correspondence between your 
 
 ^ Brother and me, in which some things past 
 
 * entirely of a confidential nature. Might I 
 ^ request the favour of you to colle6t toge- 
 ' ther from his Manuscripts all the papers of 
 ' every kind that are in my hand-writing, and 
 ^ to keep them in your own possession till the be^ 
 ' ginning of July, when I shdl be in Devon- 
 
 * shire, and shall wait upon you with what- 
 ' ever I possess belonging to your Brother. 
 ' In doing this, you will render me an infi- 
 ' nite service. 
 
 ' I request the favour of a line from you^ 
 ' addressed to me at Wadham College, Ox- 
 ^ ford, and am. Dear Miss Badcock, 
 ^ Your very obhged, 
 
 ' and most obedient Servant, 
 ' J. WHITE. 
 
 'To Miss Badcock, 
 r (Sister of the Rev. Mr, Samvel Badcock) 
 ' South Molton, Devon/ 
 
 I pub- 
 
78 FACTS RELATING TO THE 
 
 I publish these letters, not only because 
 Miss B. did not desire them to be sup- 
 pressed, but because they were sent in con- 
 sequence of a letter, which I wrote to her, 
 and in wliich I requested her to furnish me 
 with every paper that might lead to my 
 vindication.-— I had received several other 
 papers from her long before, — I know not 
 of any terms which she has made with Dr. 
 White for secrecy. I suppose such terms 
 not to have been made, because Miss B. has 
 had many opportunities for informing me 
 of them, if they had been made ; because, 
 in her correspondence with me, she never 
 mentioned any such terms having been pro- 
 posed to her—- because she readily supplied 
 me with every paper for which I asked — 
 because she has often expressed herself much 
 obliged to m.e for the concern which I have 
 shewn, both for her interests, and for the 
 memory of her brother. 
 
 In the foregoing statement of fafts, then, 
 I have produced several letters, which fell 
 into the hands of Mr. Badcock's Sister, after 
 the death of her Brother ; which were lent 
 to me at my own request, and which are 
 
 now 
 
KEV. DR. WHITENS BAMPTON LECTURES. 79 
 
 now published with her approbation. Many 
 of them, doubtless, are of a private and 
 confidential nature— nor would they have 
 been produced, if the produ6lion of them 
 had not been necessary to throw light upon 5 
 many mysterious parts in the condu6l of 
 Dr. White — to procure for her Brother some 
 portion of the praise due to his talents — and 
 to assist me in vindicating my own honour, 
 from insinuations which I have not deserved, 
 and from reproaches to which I ought not 
 to submit. 
 
 It has lately been said by one person, 
 whom, in Mercy , I will not name, that ^ it is 
 
 * easy to steal letters^ to rob a man of his repu- \ 
 
 * tation! 
 
 How easy so bad an aftion, done for so 
 bad purpose, may be, I leave to be deter- 
 mined by others, v^^ho can speak from that 
 experience, which I do not myself profess to 
 have, in such miserable pra6lices. But to 
 most men of common sense, and common 
 honesty, it probably will not appear very 
 easy to steal letters, or to steal reputation. 
 In respeft to m.yself, I have not stolen any 
 letters belonging to the late Mr. Badcock ; 
 
 for 
 
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 for those, which are now pubhshed, were 
 put into my hands by his Sister, the only 
 legal owner. I have 7iot attempted to rob, 
 nor to deprive Dr. White of any degree of 
 reputation, which is properly his own. I 
 suppose too, that the Professor does not wish 
 to deprive his late friend Mr. Badcock, of the 
 praise, which may be due to him for his 
 share in the Bampton Lectures. 
 
 I know not, whether Dr. White thinks it 
 easy for himself, or any other Scholar, to 
 steal reputation : but they who are acquaint- 
 ed with the Do6lor's negligence about pa- 
 pers, iiMy suppose it really easy for some 
 of his visitors to steal letters in the Doctor's 
 possession. — Will the Doftor then say, that 
 I took away any of the papers which he 
 authorized me to inspect at Oxford ? Has 
 he forgotten their contents, or can he charge 
 me now with officiously laying before the 
 publick roery particular, which, at our inter- 
 view, I was permitted to read, and which, be- 
 ing an injured man, I, perhaps, am not 
 strictly obliged to conceal ^ In reality ^ I have 
 suppressed nothing wliich may lead to his 
 
 vindica- 
 
REV. DR. white's BAMPTON LECTURES. 81 
 
 vindication ; and I may not have told all 
 that I know of another kind. 
 
 Upon the siibje6l of Letter-stealing, I must 
 beg leave to remind my accuser, that Dr. 
 White was under stronger inducements to 
 run some risques in endeavouring to pre- 
 serve his own reputation, than I could be, if 
 I had been disposed without provocation 
 to attack it. He knew of his own letters 
 to Mr. Badcock, long before I had seen or 
 even heard of them. In the very first letter 
 which he wrote to MissBadcock,after the death 
 of her Brother, he expressed a wish to obtain 
 some papers which were in her possession. 
 He, probably, was conscious of having much 
 to gain by recovering them, whereas it was 
 impossible for me to look forward to the 
 smallest portion of that literary fame, which 
 Dr. White might lose, upon the discovery of 
 his having received assistance from Mr. Bad- 
 cock. Why then should I be accused of 
 doing without temptation, what I have never 
 imputed to Dr. White, who had a great 
 and visible interest in procuring the letters, 
 which I have been said to steal ^ Yet I 
 
 L ought 
 
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 ought not to suppose that Dr. White is ca^ 
 pable of such a crime ; and my Accuser has- 
 no right whatever to represent me, as having 
 been aftually guilty of it. 
 
 The publick, I conceive, are somewhat 
 more interested in knowing the contents of 
 Dr. White's letters, than in tracing out the 
 means, by which I am possessed of them. 
 I do not, however, shrink from any enquiry 
 of this sort ; and accordingly I have laid 
 before the reader the occasions upon which 
 I was permitted to see Dr. White's letters, 
 and the reasons, too, for w^hich they are here 
 published. But if the subject of stealing 
 letters be hereafter resumed, either by the 
 one person, to whom I have before alluded, 
 or by any of his advocates, I shall think my- 
 self at liberty to hold a much stronger lan- 
 guage. In the mean while, I shall content 
 myself with defying all proof of the accusa- 
 tion, and expressing my sorrow for the 
 great indiscretion of him^ who has ventured 
 to allege it. 
 
 Miss Badcock's feelings have been severely 
 w^ounded, from the attacks that have been 
 made upon the reputation of a Brother, 
 
 whose 
 
REV. DR. white's BAMPTON LECTURES. 83 
 
 whose abilities commanded her admiration, 
 and whose kindness merited her gratitude. 
 She persisted in her claims upon Dr. White, 
 because she thought them founded in justice. 
 She conceived, that by abandoning the Note, 
 she was virtually insulting the memory of 
 her Brother, for receiving a promise, of 
 which he had no right to enforce the pay- 
 ment. She was not bound to relinquish 
 those claims, which her Brother might have 
 been disposed to relax, from that knowledge 
 which he and Dr. W. alone, could have of 
 the services for which the Note was given. 
 She is incapable of doing deliberate injustice 
 to Dr. White — and of her sincere and pious 
 regard for her Brother, she has given a clear 
 and honourable proof, by applying a con- 
 siderable part of the m.oney hitherto re- 
 ceived from Dr. W. to the payment of some 
 debts that had been incurred by Mr. Bad- 
 cock, during a long, painful, and expensive 
 illness. 
 
 I shall never be ashamed of avowing the 
 great reverence which I felt for the genius 
 and learning of Mr. Badcock, or the obli- 
 gations which lie upon me to protect those, 
 
 L 2 who 
 
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 who were near and dear to him, from insult, 
 and from injury. — I never saw Mr. Bad- 
 cock till about six months before his death. 
 He was introduced to me at his own request ; 
 and One object of that introdu6lion was, to 
 enquire how far it might be convenient for 
 me to employ him as my Assistant at the 
 Octagon Chapel in Bath. The convi6lion 
 which I felt, of his uncommon endowments, 
 and the respect which I bore to the taste 
 and good sense of my congregation, made 
 me listen to his offer, with more than usual 
 attention and usual satisfaction. But here, 
 alas ! Death deprived me of an able and 
 faithful Assistant---my congregation of a ju- 
 dicious Instruftor — ^and, as Dr. White elo- 
 quently expresses himself, in his Letter to 
 Miss Badcock, " Learning y of one of her bright- 
 est ornaments ; and Religion, of one of her ablest 
 defenders!' 
 
 From my short acquaintance, and intended 
 connexion with Mr. Badcock, and from the 
 access which I have had to his papers, when 
 I was afting for the benefit of his Sister, 
 conclusions have been drawn, by the advo- 
 cates of Dr. White, to the prejudice of my 
 
 repu- 
 
KEV. DR. white's BAMPTON LECTURES. 85 
 
 reputation as a preacher. — It was circulated J 
 at first, in broken murmurs ; and has since i 
 been maintained in mischievous and auda- | 
 cious assertions, that 1 have purchased Mr. I 
 Badcock's Sermons, with an intention to i 
 preach them. To these insinuations, how- ; 
 ever artful — to these assertions, however ] 
 positive — I give the most unequivocal and i 
 solemn denial. I never purchased any pa- | 
 pers of Mr. Badcock, upon any subjeft, i 
 for any purpose. I was permitted to see i 
 them, because, by seeing them, I could be j 
 enabled to serve his Sister, and to vindicate \ 
 myself. Let me not, therefore, be thought ] 
 arrogant, if I disdain to enter farther into ; 
 any vindication of my own character, till \ 
 those who hear me, shall have reason to think, | 
 that I stoop to the miserable arts of delibe- ; 
 rate and habitual plagiarism. Such a charge I 
 ought not to be produced by one Clergyman | 
 against another, unless he that produces it, I 
 is conscious that he speaks truth of a Brother, '\ 
 and that the same truth cannot be spoken of \ 
 HIMSELF. Such a * charge will come with j 
 
 pecu- I 
 
 * I have already told the reader, of my having borrowed '\ 
 a Piscourse from the Professor, before I knew that he had | 
 
 been \ 
 
86 
 
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 peculiar ill grace from the anonymous and 
 officious advocates of a man, who, amidst 
 circumstances of great ecclesiastical advan- 
 tages, and great literary credit, has pub- 
 lished what is not altogether the production 
 of his own genius, and his own learning. — 
 The candid part of tiie publick will, I am 
 sure, treat every accusation of this kind 
 
 with 
 
 been assisted by Mr. Badcock ; and, as to the circumstance 
 of borrowing a Sermon from an Eminent Writer, it is neither 
 so uncommon, nor unbecoming, as to require concealment 
 from a man, who does not ajrec? any extraordinary degree of 
 talents, and v/ho, in the usual course of his Ministry, is 
 obliged to take some pains in preparing what he delivers 
 from the Pulpit, before a most Respedable Congregation, 
 
 It is my du:y to state every instance, in which I even ex« 
 pefted, as well as received, any fa\^our from the Professor.—* 
 On the second day of April,- 1787, when we were on amicable 
 terms, and I supposed him to be the sole Writer of the 
 Bampton Lectures, I sent Dr. W. an invitation to favour 
 me with a visit, and requested of him to oblige me with a 
 Sermon, for the benefit of the Bath Hospital. I received 
 from him the following answer, which I here publish, for 
 reasons well known to Dr. White, and his Friends. 
 
 ' Oxford, Jpnl ii, 17^7" 
 
 ' Dear Sir, 
 
 * Your letter, dated April 2, has only reached me this 
 ' m,oment ; having been absent from Coll: upwards of three 
 < weeks, and having forgotten to leave orders with the Porter 
 
 * to 
 
REV. DR. white's BAMPTON LECTURES. 87 
 
 with contempt. I cannot however forget, 
 that such an accusation, though false, might, 
 if uncontradi6led, be very injurious to my- 
 self—but I defy those who have produced 
 it, to bring forward even the slightest proof. 
 Upon the whole, then, the candid and in- 
 telligent part of my readers will do me the 
 justice to remember, that I have never hinted, 
 that Dr. White had no share in the B amp- 
 ton Lectures — and that I have never pro- 
 fessed to examine, much less to determine, 
 whether his share was not equal, or even su- 
 perior, to that of Mr. Badcock. All 1 con- 
 
 * to forward my letters to me. I came from Warwickshire 
 
 * this morning, and return thither to-morrow. 
 
 * I thank you sincerely for your kind congratulation, and 
 ' am extremely sorry it is not in my power to oblige you 
 
 * with regard to the Hospital Sermon. I am at present very 
 ' particularly engaged; and can neither find a morning's 
 ' leisure to write a Discourse, nor if I had a Discourse writ- 
 
 * ten, could I possibly come to Bath^ to deliver it at the time 
 
 * you mention. 
 
 « I hope to pay my respeds to you and Mrs. Gabriel, Ixi 
 f about two months time, and am, 
 
 ' Your very obliged, and 
 
 ♦ affedionate Friend and Servant, 
 
 ' J. WHITE. 
 
 ' Rev. Dr. Gabriel, 
 *No. 14, Bladud's Buildings, Bath,^ 
 
 tend 
 
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 tend for is, that Mr. Badcock was freouent- 
 ly consulted upon the propriety of such 
 matter as Dr. White himself furnished ; that 
 he was frec[uently commissioned to employ 
 matter of his own ; and that he has written 
 enough to establish his own credit, as a man 
 of great talents, and to justify my assertion, 
 of Dr. White's being under particular obli^ 
 gaiions to Mr. Badcock.-— This, I knew in part, 
 v/hile Mr. Badcock was Kvrag — This I have 
 known more fully, since lie was dead — This 
 I concealed from the publick view, during 
 his life-time—This I mentioned not in pro- 
 miscuous conversation, after his death, till 
 Dr. White had trifled with Miss Badcock's 
 claims, and misrepresented my own well- 
 meant condu6l. This, I should not now have 
 laid before the publick, if my Veracity and 
 Honour had not been rudely and repeatedly 
 attacked, by reports in the University of 
 Oxford, and by paragraphs in the News- 
 papers — by Reports, which never can be 
 supported by Proof ; and by Paragraphs, of 
 which the Authors have npt dared to produce 
 their Names. 
 
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