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Ten Years' Exile; or, Memoirs of that interesting Period of the Life of the Baroness de Staël-Holstein, written by Herself, during the Years 1810-1813, and now first published from the Original MS. By her Son. 8vo.

The Personal Narrative of M. De Humboldt's Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent, during the Years 1799-1804. Translated by Helen Maria Williams, under the immedate Inspection of the Author. 8vo. Vol. V. in 2 Parts. £1. 48. (Vols. I. to IV. £2. 17s.)

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The First Principles of Christian Bap tism, deduced from the New Testament. By Thomas Eisdell, of Enfield. 1s. 6d.

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tion asserted and illustrated, in Eight DisThe Moral Tendency of Divine Revela1821, at the Bampton Lecture. By John courses before the University of Oxford, Jones, A. M., Archdeacon of Merioneth.

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The Connexion between the Natural Inconveniences and Moral Advantages of an Insular State, preached on Trinity Monday, June 18, 1821, before the Corporation of the Trinity House, in the Parish of St. Nicholas, Deptford. By C. J. Blomfield, D. D. 4to. Is. 6d.

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On the Death of the Queen.

A Discourse, on the Death of the Queen, delivered on Sunday Morning, August 12, by John Clayton, Jun., Minister of the Poultry Chapel.

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Death impartial and inevitable: a Sermon, delivered on Sunday, 19th inst., at the Unitarian Chapel, Sidmouth, on the Occasion of the recent Death, and as a Tribute of Respect to the Memory of Her late Majesty Queen Caroline. By M. L. Yeates.

OBITUARY.

The Queen.

with the Queen's unhappy story, we have not allowed ourselves to express any decided opinion in this work, nor shall we do so now, and therefore we say nothing of the distressing scenes presented to the public on the removal

DEATH has again entered into our in black, and some few funeral serpalaces! Her Majesty Queen CAROLINE mons have been preached; of these, departed this life on Tuesday, August two, as appears in our list of books, 7, after a few days' illness, during have been printed, one by Mr. Fox, and which the hopes and fears of her friends the other by Mr. John Clayton, Jun. were deeply agitated. She appeared Of the political questions connected conscious from the first of her approaching end, and was resigned to the will of Providence. Her death-bed was a scene of great magnanimity, and we trust we may add, of true Christian feeling. From some of her expressions it would appear, that she considered of the Royal corpse from this country: herself the victim of sorrow. A large proportion of the people have proved themselves sincere mourners on this melancholy event. Numbers of pulpits, and in some instances galleries, of churches and chapels have been hung

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but we must be allowed to say, that cold indeed must be his heart, whatever be his opinions, who does not drop the tear of sympathy at the remembrance of the Queen's bitter sufferings.

1821. June 15, MARTHA, wife of Jacob Hans BUSK, late of Chingford, Essex, now of Ponsbourne Park, Herts, Esq., one of the daughters of the Rev. Joseph Dawson, late of Royds Hall, near Bradford, York shire, deceased.

Did not custom demand that a tribute of respect should be paid to departed worth, such a tribute could not have been easily withheld from the truly amiable woman whose decease is here announced. Her excellencies justly claim a memorial distinct from that which sorrowful recollection has engraven on the breasts of her surviving friends. She possessed qualities which are not often found united, and which gave to her character that stamp of individuality which does not always mark even those whom we justly rank among the virtuous and the good. A sound and well-cultivated understanding was in her adorned by pleasing and graceful manners, manners which, by blending diguity with courteousness, seemed to exhibit the emblem of a mind in which heroic fortitude was combined with every thing that is kind and gentle in the female character, with every thing that renders an amiable woman the grace and ornament of human life. Of her fortitude, the afflictive disorder which has prematurely terminated her valuable life called forth the most unequivocal and affecting proofs; and to her gentler virtues the grief of her surviving relatives bears, and will long bear, a mournful testimony. To say that she was a most excellent wife and a most excellent mother were to say what may be said of thousands; but there are few, comparatively, of whom it can be said with truth, that while formed to move in the circles of polished society, they find it no sacrifice to retire into the shade of domestic life, there to discharge duties which, though felt by the world in their effects, are altogether excluded from its observation. But Mrs. Busk's choicest enjoyments were experienced in the bosom of her own family. Her ambition, if ambition she had, was to satisfy the full demands of conjugal and maternal affection, and instead of courting pleasure abroad, she chose to diffuse happiness at home. But no qualities, however estimable, can ward off suffering and death: and this excellent woman, at the very time when her affectionate advice, her prudent instruction and her admirable example would have been of most service to her rising family, has stok under a malady for which no effectual remedy has been found, and which subdues its victim by a more distressing process than almost any other which is allowed to visit the human frame. This malady she bore

with exemplary patience and resignation. That she should have been thus prema turely withdrawn from rational enjoyment and substantial usefulness, places her removal among those severe dispensations of Providence which, at present, we can account for only by referring them to the operation of general laws, and of which we cannot hope to see the specific utility until that time when the grand series of causes and effects shall be unfolded, and when the more calamitous events of life shall be explained, as explained, we trust, . they will be, by the happy issue in which they will terminate.

Sleazer Cogan.

E. C.

July 7, after a long and painful illness, HANNAH, wife of Richard MARTIN, chemist, of Lewes, in the county of Sussex. She was youngest daughter of the late Joseph Marten, (farmer,) of Kingston, near Lewes. Becoming a member of the General Baptist Church of Southover, in the vicinity of the above town, in early youth, she eminently adorned her Christian profession to the end of her life, which terminated in the 26th year of her age. She was very zealous for the cause of truth and piety, and laboured in her sphere, by every means in her power, to promote them. In social and domestic life she displayed many virtues, and conscientiously discharged her duties. She was tried for several years with much bodily affliction, which happily produced the peaceable fruits of righteousness. tu her last protracted illness, (which was a constitutional decline,) she endured the complicated trial of almost constant bodily pain, which was often severe, and the certain prospect of being soon separated from her earthly connexions, to whom she was tenderly attached by the affection of a heart peculiarly feeling and benevolent : she felt, exquisitely felt the trial: Job was keenly sensible to his sufferings; nor did he conceal his feelings: it was so with her; but, like that illustrious sufferer, she was never so affected as to lose her integrity towards God, or her resignation to his will. Whatever she manifested of her feelings, in all this, she sinned not: she ever confided in the essential goodness and unerring wisdom of her heavenly Father; truly believing that He did all things well. She often expressed her confidence in Him, and submission to all His pleasure: and, as the closing scene drew nearer, her piety increasingly prevailed and triumphed.

Her friends are blest with the consoling reflection, that she died in the Lord, and hope to meet her, happy, in the presence of that Saviour whom not having seen, she nevertheless ardently loved,

firmly believing in the record of his divine mission and amiable character, as given in the New Testament.

She was interred in the burying-ground belonging to the Southover Baptist Congregation; on which occasion an appropriate, solemn, and at the same time animating, Discourse was preached by the Rev. Wm. Johnston, of Lewes, to a crowded, respectable and attentive congregation, on the Christian's triumph over death and the grave, from 1 Corinthians xv. 55-57. The service was introduced by the Rev. Mr. Taplin, from the General Baptist Academy, and concluded by a serious, impressive Address, delivered at the grave by the Rev. Wm. Johnston.

July 11, Mr. Tнomas Wiche, of Chiswell Street, after a very sudden indispositiou. He was, the subsequent Sabbath, buried at Worship Street, by Mr. Eaton, who delivered an appropriate Address at his interment. His funeral sermon was preached by Dr. Evans, from Luke xii. 40. The account of the deceased was given by the preacher in the following words:

"My worthy brother-in-law, the late Mr. Thomas Wiche, died on Wednesday, July 11, 1821, in the 64th of his age. Violent spasmodic affections of the chest were the means ordained by Providence for the termination of his mortal course. He was well the preceding day at dinner, and the next morning a breathless corpse. So precarious is the tenure on which we hold not only every earthly possession, but even life itself. He was the eldest son of the Rev. John Wiche, the beloved friend of Lardner, and the much-respect ed pastor of the General Baptist Church at Maidstone, for near half a century. He passed the early part of life with an excellent maternal uncle, Mr. Thomas Pine, but leaving him, he afterwards settled in town. Here, he for several years assisted the late Mr. Field, bookseller to the Society for propagating Religious Knowledge. Him he succeeded, and discharged the duties of his station with singular fidelity. His understanding was good, his disposition benevolent, and in all his dealings, a man of singular honesty. Nothing could tempt him to do what appeared to him wrong. No individual could lead him astray from the path of rectitude. He had his peculiar views and habits, but in every depart ment of conduct, he fexhibited an irre proachable integrity. From his venerable parent he derived enlarged notions of Civil and Religious Liberty. These he cherished throughout life. Nothing gave him greater pleasure than to witness the diffusion of human happiness, promoted by the operation of good government ex

tending its ample wing over all the grada. tions of civilized society. He hated oppression, he abhorred every species of tyranny. And, whilst he lamented the evils attached to the condition of man in the body politic, he welcomed every symptom of reformation, and hailed every amendment that increased the comforts of his fellow-creatures. In this respect, indeed, he was the friend of human kind, the true lover of his country.

"Though he was not a member of any church, yet his mind was strongly inpressed with the truth and excellence of the Christian Religion. He venerated the precepts, and rejoiced in the promises of the New Testament. He often wondered how any human being could speak lightly of annihilation; he deemed it abhorrent from all the best feelings of our nature. A future state, in his opinion, was an invaluable discovery of the gospel of Jesus Christ. It solved the difficulties of Providence, lightened the calamities of life, and was commensurate to the wants, as well as expectations, of intelligent and moral agents. He exulted in the anticipation of a blessed inmortality! A firm believer in revelation, he deplored the prevalence of infidelity, persuaded it arose from corrupt human systems, and not from the study of the Sacred Writings: and he was a regular attendant on public worship, in this place, for upwards of twenty years. He was aware of the force of public example. His views of religious truth were liberal; advocating the right of private judgment, and condemning every approach towards bigotry. With some peculiar notions, he was attached to the great leading truths, and practised the quiet, unostentatious virtues of Scriptural Christianity.

"A Friend, at Maidstone, capable of estimating his intellectual and moral worth, thus writes to his afflicted widow, to the truth of which I can bear testimony: For myself, in particular, I shall never forget the many acts of kindness which I have experienced from Mr. Wiche, nor the many pleasant hours I have spent in conversation with him. Your and your children's loss is, however, by far the greatest; and I most sincerely wish it was in my power to administer consolation. But with the usual, I may say with the only solid grounds of consolation, you are as well acquainted as myself. We are not, like many others, unfortunately at the present period, who, rejecting revelation, have no other grounds of comfort than the necessity we are all under of paying the debt of nature. We believe that when we lose our friends, the separation will not be long; and that when we meet again, it will be to separate no more! To this testimony I have only

to add, that our departed brother was a good husband, an affectionate father, and a faithful friend."

July 21, at Dr. Williams's Library, in Red-Cross Street, London, the Rev. ThoMAS MORGAN, LL.D., in the 69th year of his age. The disease which brought on his dissolution had for many months preyed upon his frame, and was of a most distressing nature; but he supported himself under its irresistible progress with that fortitude and resignation which Christian faith and elevated piety alone can inspire, and his memory will long be dear to those who knew his worth, and shared his friendship.

He was born at Laugharn, a small town in Caermarthenshire, South Wales, Dec. 26, 1752, and was the only son of the Rev. Thomas Morgan, who resided in that town, and was minister to a large congregation of Protestant Dissenters, at a place called Henllan, in its vicinity. After a residence of several years, Mr. Morgan removed with his family into England; and settled first at Delf, in Yorkshire, and finally at Morley, near Leeds, to which place he went in 1763. On the highest ground in this populous village, stands the chapel (formerly an Episcopal church) in which he officiated, and here Mr. Morgan preached to a numerous and affectionate congregation, till a paralytic stroke ended his labours and his life. He was a popular preacher among the moderate Calvinists, and a man of considerable ability and learning. The son was brought up for the same profession as his father-that of the Christian Ministry; and this destination of a revered parent, became the object of his early choice and approval. He received the advantages of an excellent classical education, principally at Batley School, under the Rev. Mr. Hargrave. He was placed here in 1764. Afterwards, he was a short time in the Grammar School at Leeds, the Rev. Mr. Brook, Head Master. When he had nearly attained his 16th year (1768) he was entered a student in the college at Hoxton, near London. This seminary was then under the direction of the Rev. Dr. Savage, Dr. Kippis, and Dr. Rees; gentlemen pre-eminently qualified to fill the several departments of Theology, the Belles Lettres, and Mathematics, to which they were appointed by the Trustees of the late Mr. Coward, who, at that time, supported two Institutions for the education of young men devoted to the Christian ministry, among the Protestant Dissenters. Under the able tuition of the professors in that college, and the truly judicious and paternal superintendance of the resident tutor, Dr. Bees, Mr. Morgan continued six years,

a year having been allowed him in addition to the usual course of academical study. Of this favour he made the best advantage; and leaving the college with ample testimonials to his proficiency and good conduct, he was chosen the assistant preacher to the Presbyterian congregation at Abingdon in Berkshire, then under the ministry of the Rev. Mr. Moore.

The resignation of that gentleman, occasioned by age and infirmities, took place soon after his settlement, and Mr. Morgan was unanimously invited to succeed him in the pastoral office, and was ordained at the chapel in the Old Jewry, by the tutors of his college, supported by Drs. Price, Furneaux and Amory. His services at Abingdon were well received and eminently useful within the circle of that small but respectable congregation with which he was connected. His union with this society did not, however, continue very long; for on the death of Dr. William Prior, the aged minister to the Presbyterian chapel in Aliffe Street, Goodman's Fields, Mr. Morgan was appointed to the vacant pulpit, and he filled it with acceptance and usefulness, till the lease of the place was nearly expired, and the congregation was consequently dissolved.

During the latter period of his connexion with this society, he officiated as one of the Sunday-evening lecturers at Salters' Hall, in consequence of the va cancy occasioned by the resignation of the Rev. Dr. Rees.

In the year 1783, he was elected a member of Dr. Williams's trust; and in the spring of 1804, was appointed to the office of Librarian, on the condition of resigning his place in the trust; the office of librarian being incompatible with that of a trustee.

No man could be a more proper person to fill this honourable and important situation than himself. He was well acquainted with general literature, had a good knowledge of books, was regular and punctual in his habits, and never absent from his station during the hours of business, till a few days before his decease, when he was compelled reluctantly to withdraw to a sick chamber, and lay his head on the pillow of death, In the year 1819, he was presented with the diploma of Doctor in the Civil Law, by the University of Aberdeen; and certainly few persons have better deserved the rank which was conferred upon him by that learned body. This honorary degree, in the scale of literature, was obtained for him by his intimate friends and associates, entirely without his knowledge ; and was so handsomely, as well as delicately, announced to him, that (as the

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