in the last solemn scene; supported by a firm, yet humble, reliance on the hopes and promises of the gospel, which gives to man the joyful assurance of a blessed resurrection!

Mr. John Jervis had been much engaged during the last summer in superintending the building of a new chapel, for the better accommodation of his hearers, in a more central situation. His heart was in the undertaking; and to his indefatigable exertions and perseverance, it owes its final accomplishment. He lived just to see it completed. It was to have been opened on the 29th, two days after the sad event of his death. This has necessarily delayed, and, for a time, thrown a gloom over a circumstance which himself and his congregation had long been anticipating with much satisfaction and a lively interest. But "his purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of his heart." Alas! what are all human projects! Dark and mysterious are the dispensations of Providence. "O God, how unsearchable are thy judgments, and thy ways past finding out!" Thus did this excellent man close the labours of an honourable and useful life, in the active service of God, and the cause of religion. T. J.

Lympston, November 18, 1820.

On November the 9th, aged 35, ELIZABETH, the wife of the Rev. Dr. H. DAVIES, minister of the United congregation at Taunton, lately under the pastoral instruction of the Rev. Mr. Ward and the Rev. Dr. Toulmin. She had been married in the beginning of the year, and, alas! thus soon finished her earthly career in labour, to which both the mother and child fell victims. She was the only child of the Rev. Theophilus Edwards, some time minister of the congregation of the Mint, in Exeter, formed by the revered and renowned Mr. Pierce, now residing at Taunton, whither he, with Mrs. Edwards, followed their only child on her marriage; an event once considered so auspicious, but now followed by lamentation and sorrow. As this is an occurrence in private life of more than ordinary interest, the readers of the Repository will be gratified, and probably edified, by the following short detail. The writer avows himself deeply impressed by sentiments of unfeigned friendship for all the parties, and especially for Mr. Edwards, whom he rejoices to call his own and his father's friend, and to hold in estimation, not far inferior to his talents, his learning and his excellence. Truth, however, will restrain the mere emotions of affection, and respect the delicacy and justice of the reader, as

well as the feelings of the afflicted parents and husband.

There is every reason to believe that the whole course of Mrs. Davies's conduct was truly exemplary in every relation of life. Her temper, her modesty and her piety were such as to secure her "a good report of all." It will be pleasing to peruse the modest delineation given of this lady by her father in the moment that might have justified a more ardent panegyric. On the 11th he thus writes:

"Under our irreparable loss, it is a soothing reflection, that she whose death we deplore was held, and I believe deservedly, in very high estimation by all her old acquaintance at Exeter, and also by her recent ones at Taunton. Greater anxiety and solicitude for her welfare when living, and grief now for her death, have seldom been exhibited towards any person, of any rank or station, within the sphere of my connexion; indeed, I have never witnessed any scene of the kind in which so many characters, of various descriptions, have shewn so much interest and feeling. A better child, through the whole period of a life of 35 years, I believe seldom blessed any parents. Beloved by all who knew her; unassuming and retired in her habits, with an understanding, at least, equal to the generality of her associates; discharging all the duties of her situation with punctuality and fidelity; she is now removed from life's cares and troubles, leaving an almost heart-broken father and mother, and a deeply-affected and distressed husband, to lament her loss; to the two former, irretrievable, and to the latter, occasioning a pang and a wound not very soon to be healed."-" This awful event will greatly contribute to bring her afflicted mother's grey hairs and mine to the grave."

After observing that Mr. and Mrs. Edwards had given their daughter a very exact and ornamental education, and that Mrs. Davies was very highly accomplished, little more than another sentence or two from this interesting letter will complete the account of this amiable and excellent Christian lady.

"When I wrote to you last, it was to communicate information of an event pleasing to myself and to you; but now, alas! how different are my situation and feelings! She who had been for many years the chief contributor to the comfort of her mother and myself—is no more. Providence has laid a very heavy hand on us. Having been for many years one of the happiest little families in the world, we who remain are now reduced indeedbereaved of our only child, the prop and stay of our fast-declining years!"

No words can add to the concern

which, by this time, has taken possession of every heart that deserves the name of heart: and, to moralize on an event that admits no alleviation but from the hand of time, no remedy but from the hope of a re-union in that world into which "no sorrow enters," would be an attempt, a vain attempt, to anticipate reflections that must already have been suggested to every mind. Parents and husband! accept the tears and prayers of a friend, and the sympathy of friends and strangers-it is all they can offer you.

C. Ll.

Nov. 14, at Jesus Lodge, Cambridge, in his 76th year, the Very Rev. WILLIAM PEARCE, D. D. F. R. S., Dean of the Cathedral Church of Ely, and Master of Jesus College: the Dean was formerly Public Orator of Cambridge, and Master of the Temple.

17, at his house in Guilford Street, the Rev. WILLIAM TOOKE, F. R. S.

Death of Professor Young.
(Extract of a letter.)

Glasgow, Nor. 19, 1820. I take up my pen to inform you of an awful dispensation of Providence which has just involved us in astonishment and dismay. Death has struck one of the greatest ornaments of our College. Professor Young is no more. He died yesterday afternoon at 4 o'clock, while taking a warm bath at the George inn. The cause of his death is not yet known. Mr. Jeffray, the Professor of Anatomy, thinks that it is something connected with the heart. From the posture in which he was found, it is thought that he died in a moment. I saw him in the Trongate about a quarter before four; he was possessed of all his usual firmuess and vigour, and the Lectures which he delivered

during the week, were, if any ways al

tered, rather more animated than before. It is rather a strange thing, but in the Junior Greek Class yesterday morning, he was talking very much of the fear of death, though that subject was perfectly irrelevant to the lecture. He said, we all have a fear of death; we do not like the word death, and we are glad to pass it over by availing ourselves of the word dissolution. Several quotations which he made in illustration of his lecture, were likewise on the melancholy topic of death. In defending Homer from the

charge of repetition for the sake of rhyme, he said that we find repetitions in every author, especially in the Holy Scriptures, as, "Thou shalt die, and thou shalt not live."

The family is in the greatest grief; Mrs. Young is quite inconsolable. Charles Young, the son, who is to be his successor to the Greek chair, is in a very bad state of health, and it is very doubtful whether his strength will be equal to the arduous duties of a Greek teacher.

These are all the particulars I have hitherto been able to collect, and I shall leave the melancholy subject with recording my deep-felt admiration of Mr. Young as a Greek scholar.

Pope's Brief on Education. [The following is a literal translation of a Brief lately received from the Holy See by the Roman Catholic Prelates of England and Ireland :-The original is in Latin of the customary species, being something between dog-Latin and lawLatin.]

Right Illustrious and Right Reverend Sir, That forewarning speech of Jesus Christ, our Lord, long since uttered by him, when employing the parable of the husbandman," who had sown the good seed in his field; but his enemy, while mankind were asleep, came, and made an after-sowing of tares in the midst of the wheat corn," (Matt. xiii. 24,) appears to be realizing in our days, particularly in Ireland, to the grievous loss and wrong of the Catholic weal.

For information has reached this sacred congregation, that schools of a Bible Society have been set up in almost every part of Ireland; upholden with the resources and by the patronage of the higher Anti-Catholic gentry; and that, in those schools, under the artificial complexion of charity, the untutored youth of either sex, especially those of the peasantry, and of the indigent class, allured by the cajolement, nay, by affectionate petty presents from the teachers, come to be tainted with the deadly poison of perverse doctrines. It is further stated, that the teachers in those schools, lately described, are Methodists, who make use of Bibles rendered into English by that Bible Society, and pregnant with errors; those teaching having in view the sole object of seducing the youthful population, and eradicating from their hearts

and affections the truths of the orthodox faith.

Considering these things to be certain, your Lordship is already aware, that

great solicitude, application and vigilance, are to be demanded of the shepherds, in sedulously guarding their flocks from the ambuscade of wolves, who come in sheep's clothing. If the shepherds will slumber during the while, quickly will the inimical man steal in, and sow his noxious seed; quickly will the aftergrowth of tares shew itself, and overlay the wheat corn.

Wherefore, it is indispensably requisite to make every possible effort, in order to schools; and to admonish the parents, recal the useful sort from the pernicious that they are not, by any means, to suffer their offspring to be led into error. Howversaries, nothing appears more fitting ever, for avoiding the snares of the adthan the setting up of Catholic schools, wherein to educate the poor and the tion and reputable learning. Perhaps it peasantry, in a course of moral instrucmay be said, that a fund cannot be proAs to this point, you will have naturally gained a lesson from those very seceders from the right faith: for, as we are told, they ask individually, from the people at large, a penny subscription by the week, for the support of those mentioned schools. What should hinder the Catholics from doing likewise?

vided.

Wherefore we exhort, and, by the tender sympathies of Jesus Christ, our Lord, we conjure you, my Lord, to guard with

diligence your flock, in that best manner such persons as insidiously are introduwhich your discretion may suggest, from Christ, with the design of carrying away cing themselves into the sheepfold of from him the incautious sheep; and to exert yourself most carefully, (recollecting the prophecy of Peter, the Apostle, who delivered of old in these words," and amongst you shall there be lying teachers, prevent the corrupting by those men of who shall bring in sects of perdition,") to the Catholic youth. This object I hope you will easily attain by instituting within your diocese Catholic schools. And, in the well-founded hope that in this most important matter your Lordship will exert all your force and resoluteness to prevent the sound wheat from being choked by the tares, I beg of the Holy Divine Majesty to be your protector and safeguard for very many years.

Your Lordship's, in all brotherly affection,

JULIUS MARIA CARDINAL DEDLA SOMAGLIA, Proprefect, C. M. PEDICINI, Secretary. From the Palace of the Propaganda Fide. Rome, 14th August, 1820.

DOMESTIC.

RELIGIOUS.

Somersetshire and Dorsetshire Halfyearly Association of Ministers.

ON Tuesday, October 3, was held at Ilminster, the Fifth Meeting of the Halfyearly Association of ministers and friends residing in part of Somersetshire and Dorsetshire, who are united in the important principle, that God the Father is alone the object of worship. Dr. Southwood Smith, of Yeovil, and the Rev. Dr. Davies, of Taunton, conducted the devotional parts of the service, and the Rev. Mr. Lewis, of Dorchester, delivered an interesting and judicious discourse from 1 Cor. i. 13. Ministers and friends were present from Yeovil, Crewkerne, Dorchester, Bridport and Taunton. Several new members were added to the Society, and the friends had the satisfaction of perceiving that the congregation at Ilminster, so long destitute of a resident minister, has now formed a happy, and, it is hoped, permanent connexion with the Rev. Mr. Bowen, late of Walsall, whose services are much approved, who has already succeeded in establishing a Fellowship Fund, and who is zealously and judiciously exerting himself to make an endowed Sunday School belonging to the congregation, not only subservient to the religious education of the pupils themselves, but to the improvement of the young people generally, by causing them to assist in conducting the plan of instruction.

Law Proceedings.
[From the Newspapers.]

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Oct. 23. Sittings at Guildhall before Mr. Justice

Best and a Special Jury.

THE Court was crowded at an early hour this morning, in consequence of the expected trial of Mrs. Carlile for uttering certain blasphemous publications. This trial, however, was preceded by that of Davison, who was indicted for a similar offence.

The King v. Davison.

The indictment was opened by Mr. Marriott, who said, that it was preferred against Thomas Davison, for uttering certain publications in contempt of the Holy Scriptures and the Christian religion.

Mr. GURNEY stated the case for the prosecution. It had been commenced, he said, by the Society for the Suppression of Vice, who deemed it to be their duty to bring one of the most profane, Christianity before a Jury, to decide impious and abominable libels against whether or not such open attacks upon their common faith, the source of their happiness here, and of their hopes hereafter, were any longer to be tolerated. For a long series of years this Society did not think it necessary to enforce the law upon this subject; as long as these writings were disseminated with caution their situation, as the guardians of public and secresy, they did not consider that morals, called for this description of interference. But of late, Infidelity had arrayed itself in so ostentatious a garb, had so openly displayed its banners, that it had become a question whether the law or the offender was to submit. The defendant carried on business in Duke Street, West Smithfield, and, as if a sort of successor to that man who had been convicted there twelve months ago, took der of these and similar publications. up the trade and occupation of a venWith two of these publications they were then concerned, namely, The Republican and The Deist's Magazine. Of the former of these, if he was to believe the title, the person then convicted was the and to Mr. Davison himself appertained printer, and the defendant the publisher, the distinction of printing and publishing the latter. The Society sent persons to the shop of this defendant who procured copies of these publications, and they were now both included in one indictment, of which the defendant had no reason to complain, since he was saved some expense by this course of proceeding. The first of these publications to which he should call their attention was The Republican, and though every page of the sixteen which it contained was filled with either blasphemy to God, or libelling some of the most illustrious characters of the country, he should not wade through its filthy contents, but bring at once before the consideration of the Jury that part of it which was charged in this indictment. [The Learned Counsel here read an extract from a letter addressed by a person who signed himself "Smith" to Carlile, treating of the lasting benefits that he had conferred upon society by his publications, and of Christianity, too, in language with which we shall not defile the

columns of this paper.]—Was this (continued Mr. Gurney) fair, free, and manly discussion, was it argument or reasoning, was it not rather vulgar scoffing and scurrilous abuse? Whether it originated in gross ignorance or in knowledge perversed mattered nothing; but when the defendant held such language, as, that Christianity was calculated to degrade and to debase mankind, he was answered by those who knew what the state of the Heathen world was before its introduction, what savage acts were then practised, what deeds of atrocity were then committed, and they would beg of him to compare with these times the state of Christendom at the present day. Or he could be answered by those who knowing nothing of ancient history, were yet acquainted with the condition of those countries from which the light of the Gospel was still concealed. The horrors of the Jaggernaut, and the dreadful superstitions that prevail in those countries, must convince every man whose mind was not imbruted, that Christianity was for every purpose, here and hereafter, man's best and surest guide and protection. The other publication, which was printed and published by the defendant himself, was entitled The Deist's Magazine, which commenced, it appeared, in the month of March of the present year, and which was prefaced by an address to the reader, which was not included in the indictment, but it proceeds reviling and abusing Christianity, and endeavouring by every gross and vulgar insinuation to bring it into direct contempt.

Here Mr. Gurney was interrupted by the defendant, who, addressing his Lordship, observed, that a Gentleman who sat immediately behind him had remarked, that he hoped he (the defendant) would get two or three years' imprisonment.

Mr. Justice BEST.-I perceive the Gentleman to whom you allude, and I am persuaded that you are mistaken. No Gentleman in Court feels more for the unfortunate situation in which you are now placed than that Gentleman.

A person who appeared to assist the defendant in the management of his case then observed that he had heard the observation.

Mr. Justice BEST.-I am quite convinced, that, to say the least of it, you are mistaken. If, however, any remarks have been made, I request that they may not again be repeated.

Mr. GURNEY proceeded. He was at a loss to conceive how such a remark, whispered, as it had been, if it were ever uttered, could prejudice the minds of the Jury; and in his opinion the wiser course would have been to have suffered it to VOL. XV.

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pass in silence. He perceived that the defendant attended there to plead his own cause. What he could have to say in defence of those passages which he had read to them, it was indeed difficult to discover; but the usual topics which were selected in these cases were, the right of free discussion, the liberty of the press, the value of private judgment, and others of a similar nature; and no man living appreciated them more highly than himself. But we had the right to write and print good; had we therefore the right to vilify all that was sacred, and to treat as ribaldry all those subjects that were held by those who believed in them as man's dearest possessions, upon which alone he rested his hopes of a futurity? Was it to be tolerated that a man should defame and vilify the country in which he lived, and reprobate those who administered its government? Such was not the liberty of the press. Was it to be tole rated that he should go on and hold up religion itself as ide or worse than useless, as calculated to degrade and debase mankind? No; by their verdict that day they would vindicate the press from its most dangerous enemies, from those who would substitute licentiousness for liberty. He would leave the case to their consideration, fully assured that by their verdict they would, as far as in them lay, preserve the religion of their country from the desolating progress of infidelity and irreligion.

Andrew Thomas Frailey.-A pamphlet was handed to him, which he said was the 9th number of The Republican. He bought it on the 4th of February last, at Davison's, and paid two-pence for it. Davison lived then in Duke Street, West Smithfield. He made a mark on the book, by which he knows it.

In his cross-examination by the defendant, he said that he went there by the desire of Mr. Pritchard; he had a regular employment.

The pamphlet was then given in, and the part charged as libel was read by the Clerk of the Court.

John Branscomb purchased a publication he held in his hand, entitled The Deist's Magazine, on the 1st of April last, at Davison's, 10, Duke Street, West Smithfield, and he paid sixpence for it.

In his cross-examination by Davison, he said that he held a situation in the Hawker's Office; he resided near the City Road; he did not live once in Wellingtonplace; and he never left any house without first satisfying his landlord.

Mr. Justice BEST told the defendant that he had a right to have the publication compared with the record, and the Judge then requested Mr. Bellamy to compare them.