DR DANIEL, a very learned English divine, was born at 1638, and bred at Oxford; where, in 1664, he was elected perpetual fellow of his college. He afterwards became chaplain to Dr Seth Ward, bishop

(A) Bishop Berkeley was present at these conversations, and from his son we received the account we have given of them. They are likewise mentioned, but not stated so accurately, by Bishop Newton in his own Life. Whitefield, that he made him a voluntary offer of ordination. Immediately after this regular admission into the ministry, Mr Whitefield applied himself to the most extraordinary, the most indefatigable, duties of his character, preaching daily in prisons, fields, and open streets, wherever he thought there would be a likelihood of making profelytes. Having at length made himself universally known in England, he embarked for America, where the tenets of Methodism began to spread very fast under his friends the Wesleyans; and first determined upon the institution of the orphan-house at Georgia, which he afterwards effected. After a long course of peregrination, his fortune increased as his fame extended among his followers, and he erected two very extensive buildings for public worship, under the name of Tabernacles; one in Tottenham-Court Road, and another in Moorfields. Here, with the help of some afflantists, he continued for several years, attended by very crowded congregations, and quitting the kingdom only occasionally. Besides the two tabernacles already mentioned, Mr Whitefield, by being chaplain to the countess dowager of Huntingdon, was connected with two other religious meetings, one at Bath, and the other at Tunbridge, chiefly erected under that lady's patronage. By a lively, fertile, and penetrating genius, by the most unwearying zeal, and by a forcible and persuasive delivery, he never failed of the desired effect upon his ever crowded and admiring audiences. In America, however, which always engaged much of his attention, he was destined to finish his course; and he died at Newberry, about 40 miles from Bolton in New England, in 1770.