... during the last sixteen years of his life, and he entertained his friends at the rectory with great hospitality, nearly all the Whig magnates and host of literary and social celebrities being among his guests then. The living, which is worth about £4OO a year ...

... The Choice of a Leader, satirical poem contributed to the Courier , and afterwards republished nnder the title of The New Whig Guide, he introduces Sir James Macintosh heaping condemnation on the Tory Government of the day— But scarcely less vile than ...