Notwithstanding his devotion to rural pursuits, our author occasionally attended to his duties in the House of Lords, and he made some admirable speeches in that House on questions of engrossing in terest, particularly on the abolition of the slave trade.
In 1813 he was seized with an illness of which he never recovered. He became gradually weaker and weaker, and expired on the loth July 1816, in the 79th year of his age, leaving behind him two sons and several daughters. His eldest son entered the army, and his youngest son was prebendary of Llandaff and Wells.
The following is a list of the works of Bishop Watson.
1. Institutionum Chemicarum pars Metallurgica. 8 Comb. 1768.
2. Experiments and Observations on the Solution of Salts. Phil. Trans. 1770, p.
3. Remarks on the Effects of Cold in February 1771. Phil. Trans. 1771, p 213.
4. Experiment with a Thermometer having its bulb blackened. Phil. Trans. 1773, p. 40.
5. Chemical Experiments and Observations on Lead Ore. Phil. Trans. 1778, p. 863.
6. Observations on the Sulphur Wells at Harrow gate. Phil. Trans. 1786, p. 171.
7. Essay on the Subjects of Chemistry and their General Division.
8. Assize Sermon, preached at Cambridge, 1769.
9. Letters to the Members of the House of Com mons by a Christian Whig, 1772.
10, 11. Two Sermons. 4. 1776.
12. A Brief State of the Principles of Church Authority, 1773.
13. A Fast Sermon, Feb. 1780.
14. A Sermon addressed to the Clergy of Ely, 1780, 15. Apology for Christianity, in a Series of Let ters, addressed to Edward Gibbon. 12. 1776.
16. Chemical Essays, 5 v. 12. 1781-7.
17. A Letter addressed to Archbishop Cornwallis on the Church Revenues, 1782.
18. A Sermon preached the 30th January before the Lords. 4. 1784.
19. Visitation Articles for the Diocese of Llan daft 20. Theological Tracts, 6 v. 8. 1785.
21. A Sermon on the Wisdom and Goodness of God, in having made Rich and Poor, 22. Sermons and Tracts. 8. 1788.
23. An Address to Young Persons after Confir mation. 12. 1789.
24. Considerations on the Expediency of Revising the Liturgy. 8. 1790.
25. A Sermon preached for the Westminster Dispensary in 1785, with an Appendix.
26. A Charge to the Clergy of his Diocese. 4. 1792.
27. Two Sermons and a Charge. 4. 1795.
28. Apology for the Bible in a series of Letters addressed to Thomas Paine. 12. 1796.
29. An Address to the people of Great Britain. 3. 1798.
30. Charge to the Clergy of Llandaff. 31. Second Charge, 1802.
32. A Charge relating to Ecclesiastical Reform, 1802.
33. A Sermon preached at the London Hospital. 1802.
34. Thoughts on the Intended Invasion. 8.
35. Substance of a Speech intended to have been delivered, 36. Sermon preached before the: Society for the Suppression of Vice, 1804.
37. A Charge to the Clergy, 1805. 38. Another Charge on the Catholic Question, 39. Two Apologies, two Sermons and a Charge. 8. 1806.
40. A Second Defence of Revealed Religion, 1807.
41. A Paper on Planting and on Waste Land, 1808.
42. Preliminary Observations on the Agricul tural Report of Westmoreland.
43. Miscellaneous Tracts. 2. 8. 1815.
44. Anecdotes of his Life. 4. 1817, written by himself, revised in 1314. and published by his son Richard Watson, LL.B. Prebendary of Llandaff and Wells.