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fered from him in matters of religion, had a respect for his exemplary character, and revered his Christian virtues; insomuch that many called him the primitive Christian. His public spirit was always active, and he took a great part in any institution for the common benefit. Though the propagation of the Christian Religion was his chief object, and occupied his mind in preference to all other objects, he approv ed and encouraged, as much as he could, the culture of sciences, in those with whom he was connected; and he even paid a monthly salary to an honest and skilful Bramin, for the benefit of Indian literature. In offering and rendering good services, he took very great pleasure, and he never declined any, which he found himself able to perform, even though attended with great difficulties. Many addressed themselves to him, in their urgencies, and requested his oral, or written, recommendation, mediation, or assistance; which had often cost him much time, great exertions, and not seldom considerable expences, and loss of money, besides his vast and expensive correspondence. His charity was boundless. Though the various concerns, which were entrusted to him, as a man on whose conscientiousness and exactness all could rely, and some generous rewards for his good offices, might have made him rich, he observed the utmost frugality, that he might have to give to the needy. To go into a detail, or to mention only the various branches of his abounding charity, were impossible; many of which had come to be disclosed only by accident. Many widows and orphans, helpless, afflicted, and oppressed, bewail, with flowing tears, the loss of their benefactor, father, guardian, advocate, defender, and comforter. To his brethren, he was the most tender friend and brother, never assuming as a senior, but always the first and most ready to take upon himself the heaviest burdens, to alleviate, and comfort, and assist his Brethren. He was indeed a shining light, whose gentle rays enlightened, warmed, and enlivened. His counsels, and advices, were maturely premeditated, and he never insisted upon his own opinions, nor was in the least offensive, in his paternal admonitions on errors, but rather indulgent, silent, and patient, when the common cause was not materially injured. He never complained of personal offences, and when his conscience and duty urged him to complain, in order to avert imminent dangers, he did it with the utmost reluctance, and the most affecting anxiety, for his tender heart was full of love towards his neighbor.

DEATHS.

Nov. 26. At Bath, aged eighty-two, the Rev. Dr. ARCHIBALD MACLAINE,

forty-eight years Minister of the English Church at the Hague. His funeral sermon was preached by Dr. Gardiner, of Bath, who stated many particulars, which strongly indicated the truly christian frame of mind in which this venerable minister of the Gospel departed this life. Dr. Gardiner observed, as we have been told, that in retiring to his bed Dr. Maelaine thanked God, that while the Heathens, naming Socrates in particular, were so much in the dark about their future state, he who had been a grievous sinner, had, through the mercy of God, such a blessed hope, and added, “I know in whom I have be lieved." Dr. Gardiner represented the Doctor to come as a penitent sinner to the throne of grace, leaning only on the cross of Christ, filled with gratitude to God: that Christ Jesus and eternal salvation were his constant theme, and that he was filled with the hope of glory. His last words to his friends were, "Weep not for me, O ye of little faith."

Nov. 15. In Great Portland-street, in the eighty-fifth year of his age, JAMES HERBERT, Esq.

Lately, at Shottesbrook House, Berks, ARTHUR VANSITTART, Esq. in the seventy-ninth year of his age.

Nov. 15. At his seat in Derbyshire, Sta HENRY HUNLOKE, Bart. in the eighty-first year of his age.

Nov. 20. In her seventy-first year, Mrs. IDLE, mother of Messrs. Idle, in the Strand.

Nov. 23. At Bath, in his ninetieth year, the Rev. RICHARD GRAVES, Rector of Claverton, author of the Spiritual Quixote, and various other works.

Nov. 27. At Alderbury, Wilts. the Rev. Dr. SYNDERCOMBE, late of Symondsbury, Dorset.

Lately, at Shipdham, in Norfolk, the Rev. COLBY BULLOCK, fifty-one years Rector of that parish.

Nov. 28. In the eighty-sixth year of his age, the Rev. SAMUEL MAUZY, one of the Chaplains of his Majesty's French Chapel at St. James's, and upwards of half a cen tury Minister of the French Church of St. Martin Orgar, Martin's-lane, Cannon

street.

Dec. 1. At his seat at Berrington, in Herefordshire, after a long and painful illness, in the seventy-fifth year of his age, the Right Honourable THOMAS Harley, fourth son of the Earl of Oxford, senior Alderman (or Father) of the City of London.

Dec. 4. In the Crescent, Bath, the LADY of Sir Francis Baring, Bart.

Lately, at Einberton, Bucks, the Rev. ROBERT POMFRET, upwards of fifty years Rector of that place.

Lately, the Rev. RALPH FORSTER, Rector of Great Warley, in Essex.

Dec. 2. At Mount Clere, Roehampton, in his eighty-fifth year, Sir JOHN DICK, Bart.

Dec. 5. In Chandos-street, Cavendishsquare, the Rev. THOMAS VYNER, LL. D. of Eathorpe, Warwickshire, and one of the Prebendaries of Canterbury.

Dec. 6. At Kedleston, in Derbyshire, in his seventy-eighth year, the Right Hon. NATHANIEL LORD SCARSDALE.

Dec. 12. Aged eighty-six, Mr. Aldermau BOYDELL.

Lately, at Baldock, of an apoplexy, the Rev. CALEB HILL, M. A. Chaplain to the Earl of Salisbury, and thirty-one years Rector of Baldock.

Lately, the Rev. GEORGE JAMES EDMONDS, Vicar of Chunn, in Shropshire.

Lately, at Wolverhampton, in her sixtyseventh year, Mrs. CATHERINE NICKINS, a maiden lady, and great great granddaughter of that truly distinguished character, Lord Chief Justice Hale.

Dec. 16. In London, after a tedious illness of twelve months, the Bishop of A&RAS, in the seventy-second year of his age.

Same day, in Chesterfield-street, in her eighty-fourth year, Lady HULSE, widow of the late Sir Edward Hulse, Bart. of Breadmore-house, in Hampshire.

Dec. 18. In Edward-street, Cavendishsquare, CHARLES NEILSON COLE, Esq. in his eighty-second year.

Dec. 19. At Hillingdon-house, near Uxbridge, the MARCHIONESS OF ROCKINGHAM, widow of the Minister of that name. She has lived in retirement since the death of her husband. Her death was so sudden that there was no time to call in medical assistance.

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

We must begin with apologizing to many of our correspondents, for the delay which has occurred in the insertion of their pieces: a delay which we hope they will have the - goodness to attribute to its true cause, namely, their own liberality in contributing to the work. It is our wish to fulfil all the promises which have been given, and we have sometimes enlarged our ordinary limits in order to oblige correspondents. But as this cannot be often done, without a considerable pecuniary sacrifice, we must intreat their indulgence for the delay which, with respect to a majority of the coinmunications transmitted to us, is absolutely unavoidable.

The interesting narrative of COLONUS, and the Poem of A. B., will appear in our next.

We feel the importance of the discussions suggested by an UNDER GRADUATE and TITUS, but as they are likely to run to a great length, we wish for a season of more leisure before they are introduced.

The Monthly Epitome, which we recommended, was dropped soon after it was set up.
If another work has appeared with the same name, we know nothing of it.

We have been as anxious as N. T. D. can be to review the book to which he alludes,
although we have hitherto been crossed in our design. We still persevere in it.
A PARTICULAR; URBANUS; QUERIST; and A PROTESTANT will be inserted.
GALLINA, A CONSTANT READER; and A FRIENDLY ENQUIRER, are received.
The following are under consideration, viz. OSIANDER; W. TYNDAL; THEOPHILUS;
A Paper on Church Music; HUMANIA; THEODOSIUS; and J. P.
The Article for the Obituary, sent by R., will appear in our next.

We cannot discover whether H. S. be in jest or carnest.

Besides Russell's Collection of the Apostolic Fathers, there is another and a better Collection by Le Clerc.

Mendham's Exposition of the Lord's Prayer seems to us to supersede that which has been sent to us.

We approve of the sentiments contained in the Paper of APELLES; but we are not aware that the error which he, combats has an existence in this country. We are afraid of awakening any farther discussion on the controverted passage which forms the subject of his other paper. We believe that the tract which he mentions is private property: it may be had, however, in any number which may be wanted. We beg to inform L. P., that it is certainly our intention to reprint the Two First Volumes of the Christian Observer, if we find sufficient encouragement from Messieurs the Booksellers to do so.

On the 31st of January, will be published, Price One Shilling, the First Number of the Fourth Volume of the Christian Observer; and prefixed to it, Price Sixpence, an Appendix to the Volume of the present Year : the whole making One. Shilling and Sixpence.

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West Indian
of the Slave Trade............ 547
ib.
from Gilpin's Western Tour
Anecdotes, Religious, on the injudi-
cious Selection of

29

16

452

Annual Review
Answers to Correspondents 64, 128, 192,
260, 324, 388, 452, 519, 583, 648, 715,
780

Antinomianism .........
Apostolic Fathers, Enquiry respecting 210
355
Aqua kali puri, good for Bites of ve-
nomous Animals.............................
Arminian Controversy, see Calvinis-
437
tic.
Articles, Subscription to... 171, 421, 491
Asiaticus, his Account of Theophilus 82,
211

Assurance, on the Doctrine of ... 337, 484
Astrachan, Account of its Commerce 242
Asylum for Infant Poor, Account of... 769
Atheism, ou

Athanasian Creed..........

Atmospherial Refraction, Effects of
Augustinian, on substituting the Term
for Calvinist

Calcutta, State of Religion in
Calvin's Opinion of Liturgy
Calvinistic Controversy 28, 146, 301, 303,
357, 421, &c. 468, 480, &c. 627, 679,
Camelford, Lord, Death of .........186, 452
&c. 116
Cape of Good Hope, Mission to 246, 575,

613

65

193

Carbery, Lady, Account of
Capel, Lord, Execution of...
Carlyle, Rev. J. D. Death of
Celsus's Reasoning against Christians 35%
........ 256
Changes in the Life and Opinions of
Chambers, Mr. William, Account of 687
Sobrius

Charge of Bishop Fell to his Clergy in
607
1685.....

28

Charity Schools, on the best Means
Charity, Mutual..
of conducting 408, 541, 598, 663, 737
Chaucer, Strictures on Godwin's Life
Chedworth, Lord, Death of
713
Chepewyan Indians, Notions of
of
Christian Courtesy, its Nature and
Effect exemplified....

215

605

82
..... 293

Covenant, Terms of........
Observer, Remarks on the

286
64

570

79

Atonement........

751

Auricular Confession......................................

216

Baptist Mission in Bengal.-See Mis-
sion.

Balaam's Story, Explanation of......... 43
Bank of England Notes...........
Baptism....

109

479, 565

Conduct of.......... .............. ..24, 703, 740
Churches in London, on the Number
-, Abuse of..........699, 763
Church, Nature of.......... .....
of.......
411
Clarendon, Lord, Character of......... 561
.28, 351, 481
Clerkenwell Election..........
Cockburn, Mrs. Death of

644

712

Coffee, a Substitute for......

242

Barclay's Apology, a Test of Quaker
Principles

71

Coming to Christ

Comfort, Religious.......

51

225

300

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