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english church. His wife was Ann Holgate, the heiress of Colne Priory and he held the livings of Earls Colne and Little Yeldham, in Essex and a prebendal stall at St. Pauls. Romney's pictures of him and his wife are famous. Their descendant was Mrs. Gilchrist whose husband wrote the lives of Blake and Etty. Selwyn had a letter from Warner on the 23rd of August, 1790, when he thought it probable that war might be declared by France against England. Four days later he heard that Warner might be expected in England in about three weeks time. In September came the news that he could not leave the hotel de Monaco until the 20th of that month, and that he was full of chagrin at the course which events had taken. Warner as a strong Whig in politics had sympathised with the destruction of the Bastille and, unlike a good many of his associates in politics, he did not allow the excesses that followed to have a material effect upon his opinions. Towards the close of October news came to Anthony Storer, another of the little set that attached them- selves to lord Carlisle, that he had been dismissed from his post. " What was the ground of their misunderstanding " he writes to lord Auckland, " I know not.' ; Definite news on this point soon arrived. He had been deprived of his office because he had delivered from the pulpit of the embassy chapel in the rue St. Dominique a sermon in which he justified the proceedings of the Revolution. Through Selwyn's friendly offices, who knew them both, Warner had long been on friendly terms with Robert Gem, the english physician to the embassy. They were both of them economical in their habits and careful in guarding against the advent of evil days. They were rivals, but friendly rivals, in serving the interests of Selwyn. So far back as 1778 Warner was apprehensive lest Gem should suspect him of endeavouring to divert the favour of Selwyn.