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Two Charges to the Clergy of the Archdeaconry of Richmond, in the Diocese of Chester, in June and July, 1822. By John Headlam, M. A., Rector of Wycliffe, and Deputy Commissary of that Archdeaconry. 8vo. 1s.

Two by Archdeacon Goddard; 1. On the Principle of Moral Obligation, Spital Sermon, Easter, 1822. 2. On the Earliest Heresies, Visitation Sermon at St. Paul's, July 1, 1822.

Two at Preston Guild. By R. C. Wilson, M. A., Vicar of Preston. 2s.

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cesan Association of that Society, July 11, 1822. By Joseph Algar, M. A., Minister of Christ Church, Frome. 8vo. 18.

Co-operation in the Charitable Institations of the Church of England: in the Parish Church of St. Martin's, Leicester, August 16, 1822, the Anniversary of the Association for the Archdeaconry of Leicester. By Francis Merewether, M. A., Rector of Cole Orton. 8vo. 2s.

Internal Union the best Safeguard of the Church in the Parish Church of Storrington, July 11, 1822, at the Visitation of the Venerable Charles Webber, A. M., Archdeacon of Chichester. By Hugh James Rose, M. A., of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Vicar of Horsham. 8vo.

On the best Methods of promoting an Effective Union among Congregational Churches, without infringing on their Independence: preached before an Association of Ministers, Sept. 5, 1822. By John Morison, Minister of Trevor Chapel, Brompton. 8vo. 1s. 6d.

The Root of all Evil; on Covetousness: delivered before an Association. By R. H. Shepherd, Minister of Ranelagh Cha pel. 8vo. 18.

Fraternal Advice, addressed to John Pearce, of Wrexham, on his Ordination over the Presbyterian Church, Jan. 23, 1822. By his Brother, J. B. Pearce, of Clavering, Essex. 8vo. 1s.

POETRY.

A THOUGHT ON DEATH.

[From the Christian Disciple (of Boston, America), for November and December, 1821; and there attributed to Mrs. BARBAULD, and said to be written in her Eightieth Year.]

When life in opening buds is sweet,
And golden hopes the spirit greet,
And youth prepares his joys to meet,

Alas! how hard it is to die!

When scarce is seiz'd some borrow'd prize,

And duties press, and tender ties
Forbid the soul from earth to rise,
How awful then it is to die!

When one by one those ties are torn, And friend from friend is snatched forlorn,

And man is left alone to mourn,

Ah! then how easy 'tis to die! When trembling limbs refuse their weight, And films slow gathering dim the sight, And clouds obscure the mental light,

"Tis nature's precious boon to die!

When faith is strong, and conscience clear,

And words of peace the spirit cheer,
And visioned glories half appear,

"Tis joy, 'tis triumph then to die!

HEAVEN.

Then never tear shall fall,

The heart shall ne'er be cold, And life's rich tree shall teem for all With fruit "more golden far than gold :"

Then those we lost below

Once more we shall enfold; And there, with eyes undimm'd by woe, The burning throne of God behold. There the pure sun-bow glows, Unaided by the shower; No thorn attends the elysian rose,

No shadow marks the blissful hour:
There roll the streams of Love,

Beyond Death's wintry power,
In light and song for aye they move
By many a blest Immortal's bower.
Crediton.

• Sappho χρυσε χρυσότερα.

OBITUARY.

1822. July 22, at the Close in Salisbury, aged 74, Mrs. S. HAYTER. This worthy lady built an alms-house at Fisherton, for six poor old women, and left by will 1000/. to different charitable in stitutions.

August 9, at Lathbury, near Newport Pagnell, Bucks, MANSEL DAWKINS MANSEL, Esq., who destroyed himself with a pistol. He had served the office of HighSheriff of Bucks, and was for many years an active magistrate of that county. And on the 24th, Mrs. MANSEL, his widow, who died through grief at his melancholy fate. They have left a family of five children.

Sir W. Herschel.

25, at Slough, Bucks, in his 84th year, the distinguished astronomer, Sir WM. HERSCHEL, Knight Guelph, LL.D., F.R.S. London and Edinburgh, President Astron. Soc. Lond., and a member of nearly all the principal scientific bodies of Europe and America. This eminent man was born in Germany, November, 1738. His father, who was a musician, educated his four sons to the same profession, and placed William, at the age of 14, in the band of the Hanoverian Foot Guards. Desirous both of improving his circumstances and of rising in his profession, he came over to England in 1757. Here, after experiencing many difficulties, he was engaged by the Earl of Darlington to instruct a military band which that nobleman was then forming in the county of Durham. In consequence of the connexions formed in that part of the country, he, on the expiration of this engagement, spent several years in the neighbourhood of Leeds, Pontefract, &c., where he distinguished himself in his profession, and obtained a number of pupils. In 1776, he was elected organist at Halifax; a situation which he shortly after relinquished for the more advantageous one of organist at the Octagon Chapel, at Bath. Notwithstanding his ardent attachment to his profession, he devoted all his leisure to astronomical studies, to which he was led by having begun a course of mathematical reading while at Halifax. He applied himself to this new pursuit with all the ardour of genius, and unable, fortunately for himself and the world, to purchase a telescope capable of satisfying him, he

determined upon constructing one with his own hands, and in 1774, first saw Saturn, in a five-feet reflecting telescope of his own making. Stimulated by this success, he continued to form larger reflectors, until he produced one of twenty feet. In 1779, he began to examine the heavens star by star, and his zeal and labour were amply rewarded on the 13th of March, 1781, by the discovery of a new priGeorgium Sidus, although it is now more mary planet, to which he gave the name of generally denominated Uranus, and sometimes Herschel, in honour of the discoverer. putation as one of the most eminent This great discovery fixed his reastronomers of the age, and secured for him that royal patronage which enabled him to apply himself entirely to his new pursuit. He now removed to Slough, where he constructed that stupendous telescope, which was a noble severance. monument of his genius, science and per

discoveries are recorded in the TransacHis numerous subsequent tions of the Royal Society. In his observations and calculations he was assisted throughout by his sister, Miss Caroline Herschel. Jointly with his sister he published, in a distinct form, "Catalogue of Stars, taken from Flamsteed's Observations, and not inserted in the British Catalogue, by William Herschel : to which is added, a Collection of Errata, that should be noticed in the same Volume, by Caroline Herschel," fol., 1798.

In 1816, his present Majesty conferred upon him the Guelphic Order of Knighthood. Sir William was, like his nephew, the celebrated Griesbach, an admirable performer on the oboe. He has left one son, a distinguished member of the University of Cambridge, the inheritor not only of his name but of his genius, who is justly regarded as one of the first mathematicians of the age, to whom, in concert with Mr. Peacock, we are indebted for an improved translation of Lacroix's Elements of the Differential Calculus. His remains Church, on the 7th of September. were interred in Upton

Aug. 27, at Colyton, Mrs. ANN Slade. Her father was for many years a chief supporter of the Dissenting cause here. Her mother was the daughter of Mr. Levieux, a Protestant, of Uzès, in Languedoc, who fled from the cruel persecution under Lewis XIV. Mr. Slade was distinguished for his hospitality to numer

ous worthy ministers. Dr. Toulmin, Mr. Bretland, Mr. Howe, and various others were frequent inmates, as I was for the first 11 years of my abode here. Mrs. A. S. always took great pleasure in conversation which might improve her mind, and the above-named, with many others of chief note in these parts, esteemed her highly.

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In early life she was afflicted with severe illness. When about 20 years of age, the great Dr. Fothergill told her, My young friend, yours will be a life of pain, it may be removed from your eye, now chiefly affected, but pain will always remain with you." The endeavours of many skilful physicians and eminent medical men were at different times used, but only temporary alleviation could be obtained.

Being endowed with a clear understanding, a retentive memory and continual endeavours to improve, she enjoyed some comfort in those hours which would otherwise have proved burdensome and dreary. In advancing life, her conversation was very agreeable to such young persons as knew how to value it. The following passage, in a letter from one, contains the sentiments of many: "She was the friend of my childhood, and I must ever remember with gratitude the many hours of delight and improvement which I owe to her cultivated mind and benevolent desire of imparting to others those mental stores which she so eminently possessed."

It was from the promises of Sacred Writ that she derived her chief consolation, reading and endeavouring to understand the Scriptures. To be enabled to administer something to the wants of others, she sacrificed many innocent indulgences which her ill health might have claimed; and the kindness of her heart was apparent to all with whom she conversed. Knowing that every disciple of the blessed Jesus ought to be adorned "with the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit," no one was ever more ready to forgive when she had full reason to think herself slighted. Her inability constantly to attend public worship she lamented, but though prevented for a long while from celebrating the Redeemer's love at his table, she never failed contributing what, if present, she would have given to relieve his poorer members.

Her memory and understanding were unimpaired at the age of 70, but since, for some weeks, both rather failed; yet to the last she was able to express a humble hope of obtaining "that salvation which is by the Lord Jesus Christ to eternal glory."

Her funeral sermon was preached to a very full, attentive audience, from 2 Thess. i. 10: "When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe."

JOS. CORNISH.

Colyton, Sept. 25, 1822.

Banker, of the firm of Jones and Loyd, Aug. 29, at Leamington, Mr. JONES, Manchester and London. He was sitting in the colonnade in front of the pump room, when he suddenly fell back and expired without a groan. His death was occasioned by apoplexy.

September 2, JOHN MAGEE, Esq., for several eventful years the proprietor of the Dublin Evening Post. It would not be deporting ourselves in a manner that would become us as members of the public press, were we to confine the record of the death of this respected gentleman to an ordinary obituary. We trust we may be permitted to speak our sorrow for his loss and our estimation of his character in as many words as our feelings on the occasion will allow.

Mr. Magee is, in some measure, identified with the history of his country. Not only as a proprietor of a journal of considerable eminence and influence, and from the conduct of which, some of the passing events of a long period took, at least, their colouring, if not some of their distinguishing features; but as a person whom it was deemed expedient by the then Government of the country, to make the object of more than one criminal prosecution. It is not our wish, by reverting to this period, to excite unpleasant recollections of any kind, or to awaken passions and prejudices which we must all remember with regret and pain. It is due, however, to this respectable gentleman to say, that he never flinched under the inflictions with which, during the season of domestic discord, it was deemed right to visit him; and that, so far from compromising those principles which the integrity of his mind suggested to him as being sound and patriotic, when all the terrors of the law and the anger of the government were levelled at his person and fortune, those principles never were displayed with greater courage nor fortitude, nor with a demeanour manifesting the possession of more upright and conscientious intentions. But two years and a half' imprisonment preyed deeply on his health and spirits, particularly as, during

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the long tedium of this confinement, and amidst all the privations and personal sufferings which sprung from it, it never was alleviated by the attentions of the leaders of the party in whose cause he had so disinterestedly and heartily embarked. It is true, he took up that cause upon what, on such an occasion as the present, we shall merely describe as mistaken principles, though to him, ingenuous and confiding as he was, they were broad and Irish principles. Still, they were principles to which he adhered with fidelity, with inflexible and manly constancy-and we should not forget that his deepest offences in the eyes of the authorities of the time, were connected with the peculiar advocacy pursued by the Dublin Evening Post in behalf of the proceedings and characters of those persons to whom we have alluded-those persons who afterwards abandoned him in the hour of peril and of suffering.

The public are aware of the return which was made to Mr. Magee, and we shall not, therefore, awaken the recollections that crowd upon us, and many of which must be present to the minds of our readers, over the grave of this estimable gentleman. But we must say, that the manifold sufferings he endured, and the bitterness with which he felt them, preyed upon a spirit naturally confiding, sanguine and elastic, and contributed to hasten that catastrophe which terminated his career in the flower of manhood. Yet never, for a single moment, we understand, did his fortitude forsake him; not for a moment did he waver from those principles which cost him so much. Never for a moment-we speak the fact, inasmuch as it displays the pure honesty and unshaken firmness of his character-did he shrink from their avowal or their advocacy. To the very last hour of his existence a generous patriotism (which we shall not here review in its developement, nor characterize) was his predominant sentiment, his first, last, ruling passion.

In private life, Mr. Magee was generous, frank, liberal, charitable, kind. We had the honour of knowing him, and sin cerely and from our very heart do we offer this testimony to his character. It is only those, however, who knew him still more intimately, that can justly appreciate the warmth of his affections, and the excellent qualities of his nature.

The press of Dublin loses in John Magee one of its most respected members→→→→ and such a member of it could ill be spared.-Dublin Patriot.

Sept. 10, in Union Street, Newcastle, after a short but severe illness, Mrs. SARAH HODGSON, printer and proprietor of the Newcastle Chronicle, aged 62. Possessed of superior qualifications and endowments, she discharged the social and relative duties of her station in an exemplary manner, by which she merited and obtained the respect of all who had the pleasure of her acquaintance, Left by the death of her husband, upwards of 22 years ago, charged with the sole ma. nagement of an important literary establishment, which at so eventful a period of our history, required talents of a superior order for its direction, and also the care, maintenance and education of a young and numerous family, her vigorous and energetic mind struggled with the task and surmounted every difficulty to which she was exposed. In general business she sought not her own advantage by the injury of her neighbour; and maintaining the respectability of her paper on those liberal principles by which it had been established, she studiously avoided those personal quarrels with competitors, by which some have sought a temporary notoriety. As a mother, she discharged the important duties which devolved upon her with extraordinary diligence and assiduity; and the peculiar care she bestowed on the education of her children, secured her the love and respect of her whole family, who will long bewail, with the most affectionate regard, their irreparable loss. Her domestics too, for whose welfare she constantly exercised a maternal solicitude, will doubtless through life continue to cherish the remembrance of her sage counsels, and the many instances of her kindness which they have experienced. The poor in her have lost a generous benefactor. To some of the most important charitable institutions in the town she contributed, not only in a pecuniary but also in a more important way, by the devotion of a considerable portion of her valuable time in their direction and management and in this latter respect, we presume the Lying-in-Hospital, whose affairs she superintended for a number of years previous to her death, will have sustained an important loss. She was also a member of the Ladies' Committee for the management of the Girls' Jubilee School from the period of its establishment, to which institution she also rendered important services.

- 24, at Stanley Hall, near Wakefield, Yorkshire, aged 70, BENJAMIN HEYWOOD, Esq. Exemplary in all the private rela

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Oct. 6, at Margate, after a long declining state of health, Mr. SAMUEL BROOKES, glass - manufacturer in the Strand, well-known in the political world as the Chairman and Secretary of the Westminster Committee for the Purity of Election. He was steady, consistent, active and liberal in his support of the cause of freedom. Mr. Brookes was buried on Tuesday, Oct. 15, and his funeral was attended by the gentlemen of the Westminster Committee and other friends who wished to shew respect to his public character. The pall was supported by six bearers, amongst whom were Sir Francis Burdett, Mr. Hume and Mr. Alderman Waithman.

- 6, in Tryon's Place, Hackney, Miss MARY DAVIES, Second daughter of the late Rev. Philip Davies, (see Mon. Repos. V. 88, 89,) for many years engaged, with other members of her family, in conducting a respectable establishment for

female education. Her life was Christian, and her end in peace.

Oct. 18, in London, where he was a student of the English law, aged 29, Mr. HENRY NUGENT BELL, who was the means of recovering the Huntingdon Peerage, a few years ago, to the present Earl, and whose book in 4to. containing the history of that recovery, is an interesting record of his extraordinary sagacity, industry and perseverance. He had undertaken to recover an estate for a person in England, and had received money on that account: failing in his endeavours, au action was brought against him for the sums advanced; the trial took place on the 18th, and a verdict was obtained against him; and on the evening of that day he breathed his last.

Lately, at Chiswick, in his 61st year, the Rev. ROBERT LOWTH, only son of the late Bishop of London, Rector of Hinton, Hants, and one of the Prebendaries of St. Paul's Cathedral.

Deaths Abroad.

At Paris, after a long and painful ill. ness, Madame CONDORCET, widow of the illustrious Condorcet, and niece to Marshal Grouchy.

At Valparaiso, Capt. THOMAS GRAHAM, of the Doris Frigate, husband of Mrs. Maria Graham, the authoress of several popular works, "A Journal of a Residence in India," &c.

REGISTER OF ECCLESIASTICAL DOCUMENTS.

Addresses to the King on his late Visit to Edinburgh.

ADDRESS FROM THE CHURCH OF

SCOTLAND.

"Most gracious Sovereign-We, the Ministers and Elders of the Church of Scotland, met as a Commission of the General Assembly, and the representative body of the whole Church, beg leave, with profound respect, to approach your Majesty's throne, and to present to your Majesty the strongest and most solemn assurances of our veneration, affection and loyalty.

"We most sincerely and most joyfully

congratulate your Majesty on your safe arrival in Scotland; and we congratulate Scotland on that most auspicious eventan event in which we feel the highest exultation, and from which we anticipate the happiest consequences.

"To this day your Majesty's subjects in Scotland have looked forward with joyful expectation; and to this day they will look back as a day of glory to their native land.

"At the annual meetings of our National Church, we have esteemed it a

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