much to be wondered at; I know of no place in the whole western country where there is any academy for the instruction of persons destined for the ministry, among any sect; and the supply of ministers from the Eastern States is very precarious, as few congregations think of supporting a minister; even the Baptist ministers all preach gratuitously, except in a very few principal towns.

And now, Sir, I would wish to say a few words upon what will take your attention most, for I am afraid I have already tired you, viz., the probability of Unitarianism making any progress in these extended regions. The chief and almost only ground I have for hope in this respect, is the very general willingness there is amongst all sects to read whatever books you may put in their hands. This may be accounted for thus: 1. Almost or quite all Americans are taught to read, and almost all are without books of any kind to read. A book is a novelty: although I brought but one box of books with me, here it was wondered at as a thing incredible, and universally understood that I meant to sell books, as such a number was thought quite unnecessary for one person. Whenever an American enters your house, if he sees a book, he takes it up and begins to read aloud, and that without any shame, let him read ever so badly. I have several times been accosted, by strangers, when I have been seen with a book, with "holloa! what book is that?" I have endeavoured to take advantage of this trait in the character of a true West countryman, and circulated what books I had that were likely to be the means of doing good. I had but few theological books, and those have been circulated until they are quite worn out. I have received a most kind letter from Mr. Belsham, and since then I received also a small parcel of books and manuscripts he sent me. I am very much gratified to hear that the London Unitarian Book Society have voted me a supply. I hope so to distribute them as to answer the intention of the donors by promoting the cause of genuine, uncorrupted Christianity. I know not of one professed Unitarian in this State who is a native of it, though, undoubtedly, there are

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many such, although not known to each other. An English gentleman, lately settled at Cincinnati, a Mr. Rands, and Mr. W. D. Jones, formerly from South Wales, will zealously cooperate in any plan to make known Unitarian sentiments. The latter gentleman lives near Hamilton in this State, about 80 miles from hence. He has, at his own cost, erected a building for Unitarian worship, and been the means of converting a young man of considerable talent, à Mr. Kidwell, who was a preacher amongst the Universalists, to Unitarianism. He now preaches regularly at their new chapel; they have about 20 regular hearers. This, Sir, is the first attempt at Unitarian preaching in the State of Ohio. Mr. Jones has written to me for a supply of Unitarian books, as he is very sanguine of effecting much good in his neighbourhood. I have no personal knowledge of him; but hearing a most excellent character of him, I wrote to him and have had several letters from him, which bespeak him a man of sound mind, and a good Christian. He has printed and circulated (at his own expense) 500 copies of Dr. Priestley's " Candid Appeal." I hope ere long to be able to go and see him. He has procured me several subscribers to the "Unitarian Miscellany," published at Baltimore, as I had forwarded him several Numbers for perusal. No doubt, Sir, you have seen or heard of that respectable publication which commenced with the last year; it is the Monthly Repository of the United States, and has already a very wide circulation and is doing incalculable good. We had not the means before of knowing any thing that was going forward in the Eastern States amongst religious communities. I have lately had a letter from the respectable Secretary Mr. Coppleton, in consequence, he says, of seeing my name in the Monthly Repository, on what occasion I know not, wishing me to do what I can for the circulation of the work. I should consider it a great acquisition indeed if I could now and then get a Volume of my old friend the Repository. It would recall to my mind so many pleasing recollections, and invigorate my poor exertions in the cause of that excellent work. Mr. Bakewell of Pittsburgh

has succeeded in establishing a Unitarian place of worship at that place. This gentleman's name is not unknown to English Unitarians.-I need not give you any information of the success of the good cause in the Eastern States; no doubt you are better acquainted with it than I am; from thence the communication is so direct with England, that you can get their news and their publications with greater facility and less expense than we can here. The Allegany Mountains are greater obstacles than the Atlantic Ocean to a free intercourse. The "Unitarian Miscellany" announces the intention of Mr. Wright to come over as a Unitarian Missionary to the United States, if he is encouraged thereto by the next general Fund Meeting in London. Upon this subject, Sir, I would say a few words, not as presuming to give advice upon the subject of his coming over, but concerning the best means of travelling, and the most likely route to ensure him candid hearers and opportunities of preaching. I take it for granted that he will not confine his labours to the Eastern States, where Unitarianism may be considered as established, but come out into the woods of the great Western wilderness, and preach the simple, yet grand truths of the Christian religion where they were never before heard of. To do this he must travel on horseback; his friends at Washington or Balti more will know how to equip him. His expenses will average about one dollar and a half per day. He will find the court-houses at all county-towns open to him, and the news of a strange preacher, in a very little time, bring him a numerous audience. If he comes into the West, I should like to be informed of it in time, and I would undertake to escort him through the greatest part of this State, say 200 or 300 miles (we do'nt think much of distance here). Mr. Jones says, he would undertake to travel with him across Indiana, either into Kentucky or the Illinois, as he should think fit. The present governor of the State of Kentucky is a Unitarian, and will, no doubt, be anxious to give any assist ance; and he would meet with a cordial reception at the English settlement in the Illinois, as there are seve

ral zealous Unitarians there. The latter end of August would be the best season to begin travelling on horseback; the great heats then begin to abate, the roads are good and there is more leisure amongst agriculturists; add to which, the weather is generally settled and fine for September and the two following months. If he should come by the way of Pittsburgh, I could meet him in the north-east part of this State, say at Steubenville, Zanesville, or any other given point. I am the more anxious on this account because I well know how wearisome it is to ride alone through the interminable woods, and, to a stranger, how difficult, very often, to hit the right tracts or know where and how to ford a river aright. A strange doctrine, by a strange preacher from a strange country, will no doubt excite much attention; but, above all things, Sir, I recommend the distribution of cheap tracts. They leave a memorial of a preacher and his sentiments. They form a resting-point and defence for those who seem inclined to farther inquiry; for timid characters, who are afraid to encounter the anathemas of the orthodox while they "halt between two opinions," often want such books to encourage their new-formed hopes and to refer their opponents to, in answer either to argument or obloquy. We are situated only 40 miles from Columbus, the capital of this State, a town improving very fast; I could very much wish Mr. W. was to be preaching there when the legisla ture was sitting; the sessions generally commence in November. We have many English families settled directly around us, chiefly from Yorkshire. We have established an inquiring or debating society, which has brought upon us the reproach of many of the preachers about here. It has excited much attention, and when the Unitarian books arrive, I mean to establish a gratuitous circulating libra ry, which I think will be better than giving them away, as I can then see they are taken care of, and I know I shall have plenty of readers, as many are anxious for their arrival. I shall forward about one-half of them to Mr. Jones, for his books also are all worn out; and he is very anxious for a supply. I hope another winter to

have Unitarian worship at my own house, as I am about to build a much larger one than I now occupy, or else at a new school-house which is now erecting in our township. I am so little used now to take my pen in hand that I almost, you will perceive, forget the use of it, which I hope will excuse the inaccuracy of this long epistle. Nothing can give me greater satisfac tion while I live, than being any way instrumental in clearing or opening a new road (to use an American expression) for the advance of religious truth. The "blind guides" here, who lead astray the human mind from reason and Scripture and truth, are so deplorably ignorant, even of the doctrines they pretend to preach, that I have often heard the peculiar doctrines of Calvin and Wesley and Arius, all preached in the same silly rhapsody called a sermon. Oh! my dear Sir, how inestimable are the privileges of Britons in a religious sense! I bless God you are not unmindful of those

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who perish for lack of knowledge, and great, I trust, will be your reward. Next to the success of religious truth, I take pleasure in hearing from any of my old Unitarian friends. Last Spring I sent a large packet of letters and papers, by private hand, all under cover, to Mr. Ludlow; I am afraid they never arrived, as I have heard of the death of the young man who took them out. I should be very thankful for some Unitarian sermons by Mr. Wright if he comes; but I believe the Book Society never published many. May the blessing of Almighty God rest upon your labours, and may love and harmony unite your various societies for the promotion of gospel truth, and the present and future well-being of your fellow-men in every class and every clime, prays

yours in the Christian Faith,
most respectfully,

W. AMPHLETT.

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1822. Mar. 9, in Sion Place, Bath, aged 66, Caleb Hillier Parry, M.D. F.R.S., &c. He received his classical and general education at the celebrated academy of Warrington, and his medical and philosophical instructions in the schools of Edinburgh and London. At an early age he married Miss Rigby, of Norwich, whose brother, Dr. Rigby, has lately terminated an honourable and distinguished professional life. Dr. C. H. Parry, about 40 years ago, commenced his medical life at Bath, from which period, during the first dawning effulgence of his extraordinary powers, and the shining meridian of his matured knowledge, he gradually advanced his character as a great practical physician and medical philosopher, till the fiat of the Almighty destroyed his useful and active powers, by a sudden attack of palsy in the year 1816. The effects of this attack were so complete and universal, as to annihilate his faculties and his usefulness. After this era of Dr. Parry's life, we must look to

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what he had done, not to what his physical disease disabled him from the power of perfecting.

Dr. Parry's first professional public effort was in a communication addressed to the Medical Society of London, on the nature and pathological history of certain, commonly called, nervous affections of the head, for which he recommended compression of the carotid arteries, on a principle which subsequent observations on these diseases have confirmed and extended. Subsequently to this, in the year 1797, he published a treatise on a disease called Angina Pectoris, the leading and essentially importaut part of which was first communicated to him by his old and distinguished friend Dr. Jenner, though it received additional demonstration from his own ob. servations. Dr. Parry's next public work was one that evinced his general knowledge as a natural historian and physiologist, termed "A Treatise on Wool." Afterwards, Dr. Parry, surrounded by incessant occupations, published "Observations on the Pulse," and on a fact not before known, viz., the formation of new arterial branches in quadrupeds, when the parent and principal trunks had been obliterated by ligature, contrary to what