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ten years, with credit to myself, and satisfaction to his majesty's
government. During that time I have been requested to solve many
difficult questions, and illustrate many obscurities; in none of which have
I ever failed, though the subjects were such as were by no means familiar
to me, having had little of an antiquarian, and nothing of a forensic
education.
In 1808, Dr. Clarke was prevailed upon to become librarian of the
Surrey Institution; and when he relinquished the office, the managers, as
a mark of respect, constituted him "honorary librarian;" which title he
retained as long as the institution existed. In the course of the same year
he published A Short Account of the last Illness and Death of the learned
Porson, with a facsimile of an ancient Greek inscription, which formed
the topic of the professor's last literary conversation.
In the year 1810, Dr. Clarke projected, in conjunction with the Rev.
Josiah Pratt, a new edition of the London Polyglot Bible. The prospectus
was printed and circulated, but, for want of adequate support, the
important undertaking was abandoned. This he greatly regretted to the
day of his death. It was in the month of July of this year that the first part
of his Commentary on the Holy Scriptures was issued from the press.
This monument of learning and piety we shall afterward notice.
On the 1st of December, 1814, a Wesleyan Methodist missionary
meeting was held for the first time in City-Road Chapel, London. Dr.
Clarke, being that year president of the conference, was called to the
chair; and shortly after published the address which he delivered, under
the title of "A Short Account of the Introduction of the Gospel into the
British Isles; and the Obligation of Britons to make known its Salvation
to every Nation of the Earth."
In 1815, Dr. Clarke removed from London, and took up his residence
at Millbrook, in Lancashire. Here he was relieved from many burdens that
in the metropolis had pressed heavily upon him, breathed a pure air, and
engaged himself in his favourite agricultural pursuits, which had a most