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watch, &c. stolen to a considerable amount. Every effort has in vain been employed to discover the thieves, who took a coach from the stand at Kensington, which they kept in waiting close by, and in which, when they had got their booty, they drove off. MARRIED.-Oct. 14, at Kirkcaldy, by the Rev. Dr. Martin, of Monimail, the Rev. Edward Irving, A.M. of the Caledonian Church, Hatton Garden, to Isabella, eldest daughter of the Rev. John Martin, Kirkcaldy.

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THE subject of this notice was born in the city of Westminster, on the 25th of December, 1777. He entered the Old College, Hoxton, when he was about nineteen years of age, and in 1800 he settled over the congregation at South Molton, over which the celebrated Samuel Bradcock, the reputed writer of Professor White's Bampton Lectures, and one of the early writers in the Monthly Review, was formerly pastor. In 1802, Mr. C. was ordained, but he soon after removed, domestic reasons, in which health was concerned, having influenced his resolution to change his situation. He was speedily settled at the New Chapel, Banbury, Oxon, but being strongly opposed to Antinomian tenets, which then too much VOL. IX. No. 6.

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prevailed among the people, after the lapse of four years, he again removed. For a year or two following, he was settled in London, but the place of worship in which he ministered being destroyed, he once more returned into Devon, and for five years preached to an affectionate and united people at Crediton, near Exeter. Circumstances again required his removal; and having resigned his charge, he took up his residence in London, and for about two years appeared as AssistantSecretary to the British and Foreign School Society, and devoted his other time to occasional pulpit labours and literary pursuits. In 1816, he accepted the charge of the congregation of Independents at Lymington, Hants; but prior to entering on his labours, he was seized with a serious illness, which his removal tended to increase, and after a few services, he was obliged to exchange the duties of the pastor for the gloom of the sick chamber. Since that period he has been unable to preach. Mr. C. now officiates as gratuitous Corresponding Secretary of the Home Missionary Society-an institution by no means sectarian, and which is intended to afford moral and religious instruction to destitute villages. Among other blessings which it confers, it already educates nearly three thousand village children in its Sunday Schools, though but in the fourth year of its existence, and its agents have circulated about half a million of tracts.

Mr. C. is the author of the following publications:

I. A Sermon on the Stage, preached at South Molton.

2. A Tract on the Moral Law.

3. A Fast Sermon on Personal Holiness, ached at Orange Street Chapel, and at the ion Chapel, Islington, 1206 .

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