had been observed to take place in man under similar circumstances; this entirely original fact, though not yet confirmed, has not been controverted by succeeding experimentalists. Dr. Parry also gave to the world a Treatise on Hydrophobia and Tetanus, in which the histories of these generally fatal diseases are most ably traced from observation.

But the greatest and most characteristic work of this eminent philosopher and physician, is "The Elements of Pathology," published in 1816. This exhibits a great system of original and unexampled depth of observation, accuracy of conclusion and abundance of fact and illustration; it may truly be considered as an almost unparalleled example of great originality and capacity.

The accounts already inserted of Dr. Parry's general genius, demonstrated on a subject not strictly within the pale of professional attention, is enough to prove the extent and versatility of his talents. To those who enjoyed his society this evidence would be superfluous. At the meetings of that useful and enlightened body, the Bath and West-of-England Agricultural Society, his reasonings, remarks and communications were in the highest degree instructive, enlightening and entertaining. To his efforts, the high estimation which this Society possesses is not in a small degree referable, and especially to the joint energy and exertions of his most able and excellent brother-in-law, Sir Benjamin Hobhouse, Bart., lately president of this Institution. Of the various and general talent and knowledge of Dr. Parry, some proofs have already been afforded in these remarks. They are, however, too few to allow of amply expatiating on his general traits, and the limits of this article would not well admit of much more; still we may add, that his astonishing grasp of conception on every subject which he considered, amply fulfilled the phrase, "Nihil tetigit quod non ornavit." He was alike superior in the graver and lighter exercises of the mind; his ratiocinations, though luxuriant and abundant, seemed never to be the result of effort or labour; and his moral, conjugal and parental feelings were exemplary. In a continued series of bodily suffering, his Christian resignation was perfect.

Dr. Parry has left two sons: the first, Dr. C. H. Parry, of Bath; the other, the distinguished commander of the late Northern expedition.-Gent. Mag.

March 16, aged 75, Mr. Joseph WithINGTON, of Chowbent, Lancashire, formerly an extensive nail manufacturer, but latterly retired from business. Having

April 12, in Portland Place, in his 77th year, after a gradual decay, and a short illness occasioned by an accidental fall, Sir NATHANIEL CONANT, Knt. He was born at Hastingleigh, in Kent, of which place his father, the Rev. John Conant, (of Pembroke Hall, Oxford, M. A., 1730,) was Rector from 1734, and Vicar of Elmstead from 1736, till his death, April 9, 1779. He was greatgrandson of the celebrated Dr. John Conant, Regius Professor of Divinity, and head of Exeter College, Oxford, in 1649; afterwards Archdeacon of Norwich, and Vicar of All Saints, Northampton, near which place he possessed considerable property, part of which is still in the family. He was an eminent divine, and a distinguished author of Sermons, of which several volumes were published, and many others, with a Life of him by his son, the Rev. John Conant, of Merton College, Oxford, B. and D. C. L., 1683, remain in the possession of his descendants. Some interesting anecdotes of him may be seen in Chalmers's "Biographical Dictionary;" and an elegant testimonial to the remarkably early learning of the famous Linguist, Dr. William Wotton, in the "Literary Anecdotes," Vol. IV. p. 255. He died in 1693, aged 86.

Sir Nathaniel was brought up at Canterbury School, and intended for business, which, however, he early relinquished, and, in 1781, was placed in the Commission of the Peace for Middlesex. He was the first who suggested the idea of the new establishment of the Police in 1792, and was very instrumental in forwarding the design. He was thereupon appointed one of the Magistrates at Marlborough-Street Office, where he continued till 1813, when he became Chief Magistrate of Bow Street, and received the honour of knighthood, and that situation he resigned in 1820, on account of the declining state of his health.

He married Sarah, eldest daughter of Johu Whiston, of Fleet Street, bookseller, and grand-daughter of William Whiston, the celebrated scholar and mathematician.

April 14, in the 95th year of his age, Mr. JOHN VALENTINE, of Chowbent, Lancashire. He was the youngest son of the Rev. Peter Valentine, who formerly preached at Wharton, in the neighbourhood of Chowbent, but resided at the latter place, and taught a school there. Under his father's tuition he acquired a considerable portion of classical literature. He was, also, well acquainted with history, particularly ecclesiastical history, and with most of the controversial writers of the last age, on moral and religious subjects. Although he was educated in the principles of religion taught in the Assembly's Catechism, yet, on arriving at years of maturity, he began to inquire into the truth of them; and the result was the adoption of Unitarian views and sentiments. These he professed for upwards of sixty years of his life; and in them he found that consolation which supported and comforted him under many severe domestic afflictions, and in the prospect of his own dissolution. During his last illness, which was neither very long nor uncommonly severe, and which did not appear to affect his mental faculties, for they continued almost unimpaired to the last moment of his life, he frequently spoke of death, according to the scriptural representation of it, as a sleep, and as a rest from the cares of this life; that death is as welcome to the Christian at the end of his warfare, as rest is to the labourer after his day of toil. Mr. V. was a member of the Unitarian congregation of Dissenters at Chowbent, about 60 years, and, during this long period of time, was rarely absent from his place of worship, constantly attending twice a day, and in the evening conducting a devotional service in his own family. This practice he adhered to until about the last year of his life, when increasing bodily feebleness prevented his attending more than once in the day, and unfavourable weather confined him altogether at home. It was much to his advantage and happiness, (for he always spoke of it as such,) whilst a young man, to enjoy the friendship of the late Mr. John Mort, whose memory is still cherished here by many, although he has now been dead upwards of thirty years. Mr. Mort, very early in life, became an Arian, and shortly after this a Unitarian. And it was chiefly owing to the encouragement he gave to free inquiry, in his own example, and by the distribution and circulation of books, that Unitarianism

early planted itself here; and Mr. Mort had the pleasure of seeing nearly the whole of the congregation (at that time upwards of a thousand persons) with which he was connected, avowed Unitarians, some time before his death, which happened in the 86th year of his age. It was principally owing to this connexion aud intimacy, that Mr. V. attributed the change in his religious sentiments; a chauge which lengthened years approved and sanctioned. And, in the faith and hope inspired by these sentiments, he went rejoicing to his rest. Chowbent.

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(From the Gent, Mag.) April 17, at Claydon, in the county of Suffolk, the Rev. CHARLES MEIN HAYNES, LL.B. This worthy divine was born at Elmset, in the same county, in 1739, and was the fourth son of the Rev. Hopton Haynes, A. M., the rector of that parish, who was a son of Hopton Haynes, Esq. Assay Master of the Mint, and principal Tally Writer of the Exchequer-a strenuous advocate for Socinianism, and the author of a tract relating to the prerogatives of his office, and of several publications on religious subjects; and an elder brother of Dr. Samuel Haynes, canon of Windsor, the learned editor of "A Collection of State Papers," transcribed from the Cecil MSS., at Hatfield House, 1740, fol.

Mr. Haynes received the rudiments of his education at the grammar-school of Dedham, in Essex, and from thence removed to Clare Hall, Cambridge, where he proceeded to the degree of LL. B. in 1765. In the year following, he was presented by Thomas Pelham Holles, Duke of Newcastle, to the Vicarage of Damerham, in the county of Wilts, as an accommodation to the celebrated preacher, Dr. Samuel Ogden, and in exchange for the Rectory of Stansfeld, in the county of Suffolk, which had been promised Mr. Haynes by the Lord Chancellor, and which was then vacant by the decease of his father. This living he held at his death; and it is a circumstance worthy of remark, that, during the fifty-six years of his incumbency, the Crown presented four several times to the Rectory of Stansfield, while two Dukes of Newcastle passed away without presenting to Damerham.

As a minister of the Established Church, Mr. Haynes was firmly attached to her doctrine and discipline; and for many years officiated as a curate in his native

* For brief Memoirs of both these persons, see Nichols's Literary Anecdotes, II. 140, 141.

county. A scrupulous obedience to the Divine commands, and the keeping a conscience void of offence towards God and man, were the rules that regulated his life. His religion was without bigotry, and his piety without enthusiasm. As his sentiments were distinguished by candour, freedom and liberality, he was a firm and decided advocate for the exercise of private judgment in matters of religion, and on points of doubtful disputation. Of a humane and benevolent disposition, he performed, without ostentation, many generous and charitable actions (particularly to the family with which he resided) that would have dignified a more ample fortune.

In his intercourse with others, his manners were mild and humble, friendly and unassuming; yet his humility was without meanness, and his friendship without dissimulation: these qualities, therefore, ensured him the respect and esteem of his acquaintance. Naturally of a shy and timid disposition, the tenor

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In corroboration of these remarks on his character, I have extracted from "The Monthly Repository of Theology," &c. II. 336, the following conversation which passed between Mr. Haynes and the Rev. Samuel Say Toms, of Framlingham, as detailed by the latter gentleman." Some years since," says Mr. Toms, "visiting at a friend's house near to Witnesham, Mr. Haynes's present residence, I met the old gentleman, and entering into conversation, I mentioned that I had often heard my mother speak of a clergyman of his name at Elmset: he replied, He was my father;' and of Mr. Hopton Haynes; Yes, he was my grandfather;' and said, his writings were very differently thought of now from what they were at their first publication, and some years after. They are now in high repute with many, as giving a just and rational interpretation of the Scripture doctrine concerning Jesus Christ. There were warm contenders on both sides of the question. It became every one to examine and think for himself, and speak and act from conviction; but some were of opinion, that religion was a plain, simple thing, and that it was of more importance to insist on it practically, than to enter upon the minutiae of controversy. He hath shewn thee, O man, what is good, and what,' &c. Thou shalt love the Lord thy God,' &c. The

grace of God, which bringeth salvation, had appeared unto all men, teaching,' &c. On these things hang all the law and the prophets, and those persons think they best preach Christ, who lay the main stress on them."

of his life was retired: he mingled but little in promiscuous company, excepting at particular periods, when he was the life and soul of the party in which he joined.

The powers of his memory were great, and in the highest degree retentive; and whatever had pleased or interested him, either in the perusal of books or the remarks and observations of others, he made his own entirely, and could bring forth his stores, as occasion offered, with the greatest effect. In history and geography, his knowledge was extensive, and his recollection of names, dates and places, truly surprising. The writer of this brief Memoir, who revered his character, and who has been often gratified in his society, heard him, when at the advanced age of seventy-six, repeat, without hesitation, the regular succession of our English Monarchs, with the precise year and month of their accession to the throne, as well as the day and year of their decease; and, what is more surprising, this stretch of memory was followed by a similar recital of the Roman Emperors.

He possessed a strong vein of pleasantry, and a considerable share of humour; and to a pun was by no means an enemy. In all parties, where the company accorded with his taste and inclination, his conversation was animated and amusing; teeming with repartee, and pointed with wit; enriched by anecdote, and enlivened by story. His recitations of passages from various authors, whether serious or humorous, were given on such occasions with great taste and spirit ; and will be long remembered by those who have ever had the pleasure of hearing him. Many pleasing anecdotes respecting him are in the recollection of his friends, to whom his attractive qualities had long endeared him, and whom he had entertained with as many good puns as had ever emanated from the most celebrated wits of the day.

Mr. Haynes departed this life April the 17th, in the 83rd year of his age, in the full enjoyment of his faculties, and of a tolerable share of health, even to the last.

At his particular request, his remains were conveyed to Elmset, his native village, and interred in the churchyard of that parish, under a tree which he had specified; having always strongly decried the indecency of interment in churches, wisely observing, that "the Church was intended for the living, and its yard for the dead."

Mr. Haynes was a bachelor; and his niece, Charlotte Catherine Anne, the sole daughter and heiress of his elder brother, Samuel Haynes, Esq., was married, Ja

6, in Rutland Square, Dublin, at a quarter past eight o'clock, his Grace the Right Hon. and Hon. CHARLES BRODRICK, D.D., Lord Archbishop of Cashel, Primate of Munster and Lord Bishop of Emly. His Grace was translated to the Archprelacy in 1801. He was consecrated Bishop of Clonfert in 1795, and Bishop of Kilmore in the succeeding year. His Grace was brother to Lord Viscount Middleton, was a commissioner of the Board of Education, a treasurer to the Board of First Fruits, and a vice-president of the Society for discountenancing

Vice.

- 12, ISABELLA, the wife of the Rev. B. MARDON, of Glasgow, aged 25, about two days after the birth of a daughter.

13, at Northwood Rectory, the Rev. THOMAS DALTON, D. D., Rector of Caris brook and Northwood, in the Isle of Wight, and Harting in Sussex, aged 88. He was one of the petitioning clergy, and one of the earliest members of the Unitarian Society. [We hope to be able to give further particulars hereafter.]

-13, at Milton House, near Peterborough, after a protracted illness, in her 75th year, the Countess FITZWILLIAM. Her Ladyship was Charlotte Ponsonby, youngest daughter of William, second Earl of Besborough, by Caroline Cavendish, eldest daughter of William, third Duke of Devonshire.

"Codex Theodori Beza Cantabrigiensis, Evangelia et Apostolorum Acta complectens, Quadratis Literis Græco-Latinis," 1793, 2 vols. folio; "The Articles of the Church of England proved not to be Calvinistic," 1802, 8vo. This pamphlet having been remarked on by a writer under the signature of Academicus, drew forth a defence by a friend to Dr. Kipling, supposed to be the Dr. himself. "Certain Accusations brought lately by the Irish Papists, against British and Irish Protestants, examined," 1809, 8vo. Dr. Kipling preached the Boyle's Lectures in 1792, but never printed the

course.

The Gentleman's Magazine, from which we extract this article, has the following paragraph relating to a part of Dr. Kipling's life which has not been thought equally unblameable by all: "This learned divine, in 1793, rendered himself obnoxious to a refractory party in the University, by accepting the office of promoter or prosecutor in the case of Mr. Frend, Fellow of Jesus College, against whom it was deemed necessary to proceed judicially for his attack upon the Established Church. The expulsion of that gentleman for his offence and contumacy, brought upon the deputy professor a shower of abuse from the zealots for innovation, at the head of whom was Dr. Edwards, who took occasion, when the Codex of Beza came out, to assail both the preface and the editor with a virulence which amounted to personal hostility. Dr. Kipling was charged with ignorance and want of fidelity, but though it cannot be denied that the edition is inferior to the magnitude of the undertaking, still no candid person will justify the reward for his labours and some consolascurrility of the Socinian critic. As a tion for the mortifications which he had lic duty, Dr. Kipling was made Dean of experienced in the discharge of his pubPeterborough."

Additions and Corrections.
The Rev. EDMUND BUTCHER.
(See p. 247.)

The Rev. EDMUND BUTCHER was born 28th of April, 1757, at Colchester, in Essex. The family was originally of Feering in that county, of which, about the year 1667, John Butcher was rector, and whose mother suffered extremely during the siege of Colchester by the Parliamentary army. The father of the subject of this short memoir, was a housecarpenter and builder. Unsuccessful in some of his speculations, he was unable to afford his son Edmund those advantages in early life which he wished to have given him. He was a man of ta

lent; a skilful draftsman, whose plans and designs were executed with special accuracy. The kindness of Dr. Stanton, the Dissenting minister at Colchester, supplied the son with the instruction requisite at this period, and the progress of the young pupil shewed that the kindness was not ill bestowed. A little poem of several books, entitled the Brutais, in heroic verse, upon the fabled report of the peopling of Britain by the Trojaus, ornamented with drawings of pen and ink, remains among his papers, a proof of his poetical turn, of his art of designing, and of his persevering industry. He was at this time not more than 14 years of age, capable only of reading and writing, which renders the work an extraordinary performance. I well recollect his producing one day after dinner, this ludicrous specimen of early talent, diverting himself and the company with his epic flights and pictorial representation of the hosts contending with an ensanguined fury!

Soon after, he went to London, and was apprenticed to a linen-draper. During this period he was seldom idle, even at his leisure hours, his pen being employed on various subjects, for the newspapers and periodical works of the day. Whatever profits accrued were transmitted to his father, mother, and only sister, who composed the whole of the family. For the kindness of his parents he always entertained the deepest gratitude, and their coming into the possession of a small estate left by their ancestor, the Rev. John Butcher, already mentioned, which rendered their latter days comfortable, must have yielded him no small satisfaction.

During his residence in London he attended Salters' Hall, and became acquainted with the late excellent Rev. Hugh Worthington, who, discerning his talents, led his views to the ministry. He furnished him with preparatory instruction-when he went to Daventry Academy, conducted by his much-esteemed friend the Rev. Thomas Belsham. Here he laid a foundation for his future reputation and usefulness. He had to acquire the rudiments of a classical education, whilst he assiduously attended to the higher branches of learning. further proof is necessary of the ardent zeal with which he prosecuted his studies for the ministry, a profession towards which his earliest wishes were directed.

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His first settlement was at Sowerby, in Yorkshire, with a congregation who much esteemed him, and regretted his removal from amongst them to a more extended sphere of usefulness in the metropolis. He occasionally preached at Monkwell Street, and at Carter Lane,

Doctors' Commons: but he settled at Leather Lane, Holborn, where he was ordained March 19, 1789, by Messrs. Tayler, Kippis, Belsham, Gillibrand, Worthington, Lindsey and Jacomb. He, in 1790, married a respectable widow lady, Mrs. Elizabeth Lowe, who, with a son and daughter, survive him. And it is at their request that I draw up this imperfect tribute of respect to his memory.

In addition to his stated labours at Leather Lane, he united with the Rev. Hugh Worthington, with myself, and other ministers, in carrying on a Wednesday Evening Lecture at Salters' Hall, which was for several winters most respectably attended. He also not long after bestowed much attention on a Family Bible, in conjunction with Mr. Worthington; a work on an original plan, and of considerable utility. He also edited the latter volumes of The Protestant Dissenters' Magazine, in which he inserted, throughout a series of numbers, The Temple of Faith, an interesting ebullition of his imagination, and no unacceptable present to the rising generation.

He succeeded the venerable Mr. Thomas Pope, at Leather Lane. Here he continued for many years, and the interest being low, he revived the congregation. Though the weakness of his voice prevented his attaining much popularity, yet his sterling sense and piety always ensured him a number of respectable hearers, more particularly that class in the religious world whom it is a credit to please! Here I became acquainted with him in 1792, soon after my residence in London, and our friendship was unabated to the last period of his life! We passed many pleasant hours together, preached often for each other, and when he quitted the metropolis I paid him a visit in the country, as well as corresponded with him till within a few weeks of his decease.

His health becoming very precarious, he was obliged to leave London, and withdrew to Sidbury Vale, near Sidmouth, in Devonshire. His complaint being an affection of the lungs, he soon found relief. Indeed, his constitution was invigorated by his retreat into the country. Providence thus raised him up, as it were, from the dead! Many years were allotted him of enjoyment and usefulness; for in 1798 he was chosen pastor of the congregation assembling at the Old Meeting-House in Sidmouth. He served his little flock with cheerfulness and fidelity. He formed around him a small band of friends who knew his worth and studied his happiness. He and his family were objects of regard to all who had the pleasure of knowing them. Many of the first