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 BROWNE. of punch, the first toast he drank after dinner, from a fall bowl of this liquor, was "The Bishop of Cork and Ross, and God bless i!" Dr. Brown died at the advanced age of eighty, and it was whispered, that some time prior, to his decease, he felt the full force of Dr. Johnson's vitriolic maxim "That marriages that don't find people equal, seldom make them so." PETER BROWNE, D. D. Was a native of Ireland.He was a senior fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, and afterwards provost of it, from whence he was removed to the sees of Cork and Ross, by letters patent, dated the 11th of January, 1709, and was consecrated on the 10th of April, 1710. He had no eccle- siastical preferments before his advancement to these sees, except a lectureship in St. Bridget's parish, Dublin, while he was a junior fellow, and after that the parish of St. Mary's in that city, being appointed thereto by an act of parliament, which created the parishes of St. Paul's and St. Mary's out of the old parish of St. Micham. But he surrendered the same on the 9th of November, 1699 to the dean and chapter of Christ-church (who had the colla- tion thereto) on his promotion to his provostship. He died at Cork on the 25th of August, 1735. He was," says Harris, " an austere, retired, and mortified man; but a prelate of the first rank for learning among his brethren, and was esteemed the best preacher of his age, for the gracefulness of his manner, and a fine elocution. He studied, and was master of the most exact and just pronunciation, heightened by the sweetest and most solemn tone of voice; and set off by a serious air, and a venerable person all which united, commanded the most awful attention in his hearers of all sorts. He was eminent for his critical skill in the Greek and Hebrew, which enabled him to explain the beauty, 'energy, and sublimity of the