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A friend, who knew him from his first coming to Chelsea, has sent me the following account. Mr. C. not only laboured hard to instruct and reform his parish, but wished to know every person in it: the most miserable cottage was not neglected. He exhorted them all to come to church, and live like Christians. Where he found children unbaptised, he urged their parents to bring them, that they might be initiated into the church. He was very attentive to the charity schools, and was for some years their principal manager. He gave notice that he should publicly catechise the children; and, in order that they might understand the meaning of what they repeated, he delivered extemporary lectures upon the Catechism on Wednesdays and Fridays; which custom he retained to the last year of his life. These lectures he so adapted, as to edify persons of all ages as well as the children.

"The same year he engaged the charity children to attend, giving them Bibles and Prayer Books: during the winter, he gave meat and broth to the poor; and, to prevent their continuing in total ignorance of religion, he insisted upon their first saying the Lord's Prayer, or engaging to learn it against the next time they came. He did not leave the sick to be visited by his curate only, but made it a rule to go often himself. The attention he showed to a poor woman who laboured under a most melancholy and offensive disorder, will never be forgotten by the writer of this letter, who was a witness to the frequency of his visits to this miserable object. He as generously relieved her temporal wants while he afforded her spiritual relief, till she departed in peace."

By another letter, which I received from Mrs. Cadogan, I learn as follows. "In the years 1775 and 1776, he used to rise at five o'clock of a Sunday morning, and go with his servant about the parish to observe what shops were open; and wherever he

found such, after reproving and instructing the owners, he threatened to prosecute them if they offended in future. Several disregarding his admonitions, were fined; and some of them threatened to murder him, but he pursued his course without fear. Hearing that a servant of the late Dr. Thomas, Bishop of Winchester, encouraged this traffic on the Sabbath, he went immediately and informed the Bishop of it, who reproved the servant severely, and threatened to part with him if he offended again. By such perseverance this scandalous custom was in a considerable degree repressed."

His zeal also appears from his conduct towards a set of ringers, who used to begin their entertainment early on a Sunday morning. He took his Bible, went up into the belfry, and told them that as some serious and some sick persons in the parish might find their ringing at such an unseasonable time a great disturbance, he was come to make their early rising more profitable: then opening the Bible, he expounded some suitable scripture for a considerable time. Both the ringing, however, and the expounding ended on that occasion, for the ringers came no more.

Finding the church at Chelsea small and inconvenient for so large a parish, and in a decayed state, he made, as he informed me, a very advantageous proposal for rebuilding it, and thereby assisting hundreds of his parishioners who were prevented from attending at church for want of accommodation. He could not, however, awaken the same zeal in his parish, and accordingly his proposal was rejected.

There are too many places in which any little, dark, damp, and dirty dungeon must continue to serve for a house of GOD: for assessments are high, and money cannot now be easily raised, except for-a house of amusement!

While, therefore, our brother had yet much to learn, and was greatly shackled in his religious pur

suits by his worldly connexions, yet such is the light and energy of truth, though shorn of its beams, that he was the instrument of doing good in various ways, and even of awakening some persons who lived in ignorance and carelessness before he came. One instance of which appears in a Mrs. S-, whom he was induced to visit on her requesting by a note the prayers of the congregation. She lay dangerously ill of a rheumatic fever when he called on her: her friends, however, were so prejudiced against his zeal, or fearful lest he should disturb her mind, that they would not at first admit him to her apartment: but being at length admitted, his visits were so useful to her, that she became an exemplary Christian, and is now living at Chelsea as one of the first, and one of the most authentic seals of his ministry.

Those who have attained to clearer views of evangelical truth than Mr. C. then had, may learn from such facts, not to despise the day of small things, in an honest man; nor to pronounce hastily on the inefficacy of a teacher of some important truths, because he is not yet made acquainted with all, or does not express them in a better way. Every man is too fond of his own peculiarities, not considering that, as "in nature, so in grace, it is the vigour of life, and not the singularity of feature, that constitutes the healthy and efficient man; and that "Grace," as an old writer expresses it, can live where we cannot."

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At Chelsea, however, Mr. C. was not popular, after the novelty of his coming as the son of Lord Cadogan ceased. The train of coaches that first attended his church soon drew off, and the parish in general did not choose to be disturbed.

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No man naturally loves plain scriptural truth plainly delivered it is directed against his idol, self; and there is also a strong man armed, seeking to keep his goods in peace, and fortifying them with prejudices. Till a stronger, therefore, comes, and spoils him of

the armour in which he trusted, and enables the captive to commence a determined quarrel with the grand idol and the usurper, there will be a determined quarrel with the zealous preacher who exposes both. It may be added, that the call to turn and live, will be least welcome in the environs of a great metropolis, where men retire to enjoy themselves, as they term it; i. e. to say to their souls, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years, eat, drink, and be merry. They have, indeed, a gracious invitation to the feast of the Gospel, but they have bought a piece of ground, and therefore they cannot come.

Besides which Mr. C. had not yet fully learned himself, what he afterward so ably taught to others, that though outward reformation should be attempted in every parish, it is, if alone, but washing the outside of the cup and platter. Nor had he yet attained the true secret of producing those fruits of righteousness on which he so strongly insisted. Let us hear from the last sermon he printed, his matured judgment on this point. "Whoever would have fruit, must first plant the tree which is to bear it; and whoever would have the world filled with the fruits of righteousness, must take care to be a preacher of that righteousness which is to produce them." The design of GoD is evidently to honour His Son, as the light of the Gentiles, and the foundation, as well as the builder of their Church. Even he shall build the temple of the Lord, and he shall bear the glory: Zech. vi, 13: and till men bow to this plan, they must labour in the fire at real reformation.

One more remark on our brother in this state of his progress: while he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, he is said to have done it in too harsh a tone. He had light enough to perceive that men were far gone from GOD, but he had not himself sufficiently tasted the sweetness of that dispensation of mercy which furnishes the strongest

argument for bringing them back again. There is a hard, dry, and repelling mode of reproof, which tends rather to shut up the heart than to open it. The tempest may roar and point its hail-shot at the traveller; but he will rather wrap himself closer in his cloak than quit it, till the sun breaks out again.

Let us now accompany him to the scene of his greatest usefulness, and which was, for some years before he died, his principal residence.

Previously to the coming of Mr. C., St. Giles', at Reading, had for a few years, been favoured with a minister of high respectability and distinguished piety, in the Rev. William Talbot. His faithful labours had been blessed with success, and his ministry was attended by a large and devout congregation. The Rev. John Hallward, the present worthy vicar of Assingdon in Suffolk, was his curate, having been ordained from Oxford, and licensed upon this title; a man of the same spirit and views as the vicar, and who, like him, lived in the hearts of a numerous people. He was called to the mournful office of attending his brother and fellow-labourer to his grave, in the year 1774; was continued in the curacy by the churchwardens under the sequestration occasioned by Mr. C's minority; and ordained priest during that period upon the same title, which was readily accepted by the Bishop.

When Mr. C. came to Reading to reside, Lord Cadogan, his father, at that time lived at Caversham, about a mile from Reading. The house is a conspicuous object on the right hand of the Bath road, going from London; but was sold some years ago by his lordship, who has resided since at Downham in Suffolk.

Mr. C. spent much of his time at this family seat; and as he had deeply considered the importance of his ministerial work, he was much engaged in preparation for it. His late curate, Mr. Robinson, tells me