affectionate brother, a sincere friend, an instructive pastor, and a man of erudition. He was buried within the communion rails in Ludgvan Church, by the side of Mrs. Borlase, who had been dead above three years. The Doctor had by his lady six sons, two of whom alone survived him, the Rev. Mr. John Borlase, and the Rev. Mr. George Borlase, who was Casuistical Professor and Registrar of the University of Cambridge, and died in 1809. Besides Dr. Borlase’s literary connections with Dr. Lyttleton and Dr. Milles, before-mentioned, he corresponded with most of the literary men of his time. He had a particular intercourse of this kind with Mr. Pope; and there is still existing a large collection of letters, written by that celebrated poet to our author. He furnished Mr. Pope with the greatest part of the materials for forming his grotto at Twickenham, consisting of such curious fossils as the county of Cornwall abounds with; and there might have been seen, before the destruction of that curiosity, Dr. Borlase’s name in capitals, composed of crystals, in the grotto. On this occasion a very handsome letter was written to the Doctor by Mr. Pope, in which he says, “I am much obliged to you for your valuable collection of Cornish diamonds. I have placed them where they may best represent yourself, in a shade, but shining,” alluding to the obscurity of Dr. Borlase’s situation, and the brilliancy of his talents.—The papers which he communicated at different times to the Royal Society are numerous and curious. Footnote 30: Dr. Borlase’s MSS. quoted in Lysons’ Cornwall, p. 149. Footnote 31: Lyson’s Mag. Brit. p. 150. Footnote 32: Lyson’s Mag. Brit. 245. Footnote 33: Lyson’s Mag. Brit. p. 306. Footnote 34: Warner’s Tour. Footnote 35: Lyson’s Mag. Brit. for Cornwall, p. 296. Footnote 36: A very fine portrait of Sir B. Grenville, is to be found in Gilbert’s Cornwall. Footnote 37: Sir Richard Grenville, a celebrated military and naval commander in the reign of Queen Elizabeth. He first distinguished himself in the wars under the Emperor Maximilian against the Turks, for which his name is recorded by several foreign writers. In the year 1591, being then Vice-Admiral of England, he was sent in the Revenge, with a squadron of seven ships, to intercept the Spanish galleons; when falling in with the enemy’s fleet, consisting of 52 sail, near the Tercera islands, be repulsed them 15 times in a continued fight, till his powder was all spent: his ship, which sunk before it could arrive in port, was reduced to a hulk, and himself covered with wounds, of which he died two days afterwards, on board the vessel of the Spanish commander. Footnote 38: