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GERARD, HAMILTON, AND TRAILL. 1173
him," said the doctor, "so as I would give all I am worth in the
world to change places with him.”
Near his close, he said, that "death was like putting off an old
coat to put on a new one ;" and after noticing that he was sinking
comfortably, he died quietly in his own house on October 17, 1780.
Mr. Cookworthy was the discoverer in England of the ingredients
ofporcelain, and the founder of the British Porcelain Manufacture, as
is proved in the following publication : "Relics of William Cookworthy,
discoverer of the Cornish China-clay and stone, about 1755 ; founder
of the British porcelain manufacture, about 1760; and an eminent
minister of the Society of Friends," collected by John Prideaux,
London, 1853.
NOTE 220.
PROFESSORS ALEXANDER GERARD,
ROBERT HAMILTON, AND ROBERT TRAILL.
Of the three Scotch professors, who were recipients of the
letters from Dr. Messiter contained in Document 260, only the first,
viz. Prof. Alexander Gerard, seems to have been known to fame.
The two other professors belonged to well-known and highly honoured
Scotch families, which have produced several philosophers, men of
science, and theologians ; yet concerning the particular Prof. Robert
Hamilton, who filled the chair of divinity in the University of Edin
burgh in 1769, we could find no information in Scotch bio
graphical collections. The only thing which we came across was a
sermon of a certain Robert Hamilton, D. D., preached at the in
terment of J. Boydell, London . Equally unfortunate were we in
our researches respecting Prof. Robert Traill, who filled the chair
of divinity in Glasgow University in 1769. He is probably the
author of the following sermon which we have likewise come across,
viz. "The Qualifications and Decorum of a teacher of Christianity
considered, a sermon preached before the Synod of Aberdeen in
1755 by the Rev. Robert Traill, minister of the Church of Scotland."
Alexander Gerard, an eminent divine of the Church of Scotland,
was born on February 28, 1728. In 1750 he became assistant pro
fessor of philosophy in Marischal College at Aberdeen, and in 1752
ordinary professor. He was member of a literary society at
Aberdeen, consisting of Drs. Blackwell, Gregory, Reid, Campbell,
Beattie, and others, which met regularly every fortnight during the
winter, when the members communicated their sentiments with the
utmost freedom, and received mutual improvement from their literary
discussions, and hence originated those well known works: Reid’s
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