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BROWN. 220 the promotion and discipline of the protestant religion. He never attempted to preach but once, and that was on the queen's death, which it is supposed he lamented with great sincerity. Amongst other topics of discourse on this occasion, he observed, "Fatal as the day was for all true lovers of the church and state, still there were no doubts but many would be glad of it: this wish (said the honest blunt zealot) they are now fully gratified in; the day is come, and the d-1 do them good with it." By his portrait, he appears to have been a stout, short, swarthy-looking man; his right-hand extended, and want- ing the forefinger, which was shot off in one of his early engagements with the Spaniards. d r. Brown was in his person a tall, manly, well-looking figure, with a piercing eye, and decisive conntenance. He was in principles a high churchman, and executed the duties of a bishop with that punctuality which demanded obedience from his inferior clergy. He preached more sermons, perhaps, than any dignitary of his time, though we do not know that he printed any, or that he published any thing else, except one or two pamphlets during his contest with Dallas, which, though written forcibly enough in respeet to the subject, bore no marks of superior writing. Though possessed of no great eloquence as a lord of parliament, yet he was a good matter of fact speaker, and was always reckoned useful in the house, which he regu- larly attended in the busy time of parliament. In the recess, and indeed the greatest part of the year, he mostly resided at Riverstown. He bad a social turn amongst intimates, and particularly amongst the ladies, who formed most of his parties; and to whom he always shewed those particular attentions which form so much the characteristic trait of an Irishman. Being so many years Bishop of Cork, he had an oppor- tunity of providing handsomely for most, of the branches of his family, and he was too good a christian " to neglect