Dr Conyers, a very celebrated English divine, the son of a clergyman in Yorkshire, was born at Richmond in 1683. He distinguished himself, while fellow of Trinity college, Cambridge, by his controversy with Dr Bentley his master, relating to some mercenary conduct of the latter in that station. He afterwards had a controversy with the whole body of physicians on the dignity of the medical profession; concerning which he published De medicorum opus veteres Romanos degenitum conditione dissertatio; qua, contra viros celeberrimos Jacobum Spinius et Richardum Medium, servilem atque ignobillem eam fuisse ostendi; and in the course of this dispute much resentment and many pamphlets appeared. Hitherto he had stood well with his clerical brethren; but he drew the resentment of the church on him in 1729, by writing "A Letter from Rome, showing an exact conformity between Popery and Paganism," &c.; as this letter, though politely written, yet attacked Popish miracles with a gaiety that appeared dangerous to the cause of miracles in general. Nor were his Objections to Dr Waterland's manner of vindicating Scripture against Tindal's "Christianity as old as the Creation," looked on in a more favourable point of view. In 1741, came out his great work, "The history of the life of M. Tullius Cicero,"