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A Subject's Tribute to the Memory of George III. By J. Everett. 8vo. 28. Sermons. In the Parish Church of Stoke by Nayland, in Suffolk. By Francis Fortescue Knottesford, M. A. 1s. 6d. SATURDAY NIGHT. On the similarity of Character between our late Most Gracious Sovereign and H. R. H. the Duke of Kent: preached at Chellesworth, Suffolk. By J. G. Smyth, A. M., Rector of the Parish, and Domestic Chaplain to H. L. R. H. 18. By Gilbert Beresford, M. A., Rector of St. Andrews, Holborn. By John Stedman, A. M., Head Master of the Royal Grammar School, Guildford. By W. Green, A. B., Curate of St. Martin's, London. In Aberford Church, Feb. 13. By James London, B. D., Vicar of Aberford and of Aymestry. POETRY. The week is past! its latest ray The week is past! and has it brought Some beams of sweet and soothing thought And has it left some mem'ry dear And who would sigh for its return? We are but pilgrims "born to And moments as they onward flow A. HYMN. How dark, how desolate, O God! to heav'n and Thee! Life is a prison cell We are doom'd to occupy; Pines, pants for liberty. And sometimes streaks of light They shine so bright They needs must come from Thee. Say shall a morning dawn When "prison-days" are o'er ; That night can cloud no more? Blest hope! and sure as blest! Life's shades of misery Shall soon be past, And joy at last Waft us to heav'n and Thee! A. The following VERSES were written by ELIZA DAYE, of Lancaster: she had visited a sick Friend, who requested her to return on the following morning, but before that morning came she had been released by death. Yes! in the morning I will come, When risen from my earthy bed; And thou hast left thy prison's gloom, The chambers of the dead. Yes! in the morning I will come ;— When he who liv'd and died to save Shall break the, fetters of my tomb Victorious o'er the grave! Till then, farewell! my Anna dear, Hope views thee in a happier state; For stormy was thy voyage here, Thy duties painful! sufferings great. THE WOES OF WAR. Intense the bane of War, though all its woes Survey'd appalling on the battle plain, O'er-scatter'd with the limbs and trunks of slain, And welt'ring wounded, in half dying throes Panting for death to numb their writhing pain; Fell griefs, alike to nature shuddering, swell The direful sum, black catalogue of hell! Horrors that waste, and miseries that remain : Not age, meek chastity, nor infant smiles, Stay the fierce Fiend, steel'd proof against remorse, But plunders, ravishments, stabs, burning piles, And mournful want, mark War's infernal course. Christians, when men to arms with fury rush, Let not the sun upon your silence blush. R. F. Kidderminster, May 8, 1820. ODE For the Anniversary Meeting of the Jews' Hospital, for the support of the Aged, and for the Education and Employment of Youth; His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, Patron; held at the City of London Tavern, on Wednesday the 15th of March, 1820. RECITED BY ONE OF THE GIRLS OF THE INSTITUTION. I. How sad our pilgrimage would be, To guide our steps, and soothe our She hastens with maternal smiles, II. O! how your throbbing hearts would grieve, Ye, that on tender parents wait; Their grey and rev'rend heads to leave Unshelter'd, to the storms of fate! If from your children ye were torn; In us, and in those mourners old, If from your own, ye would remove The sorrows we are doom'd to share, Renew once more, your gifts of love, And save, O! save us from despair. OBITUARY. 1819. Nov. 28, Rev. JABEZ BROWN, of Stowmarket, Suffolk, in his 84th year. He was 28 years pastor of the Baptist Church, Yarmouth; and 22 years pastor of a Church of the same denomination at Stowmarket. 1820. March 14, at his house at Knightsbridge, in his 83rd year, MICHAEL UNDERWOOD, M. D., senior Physician to the British Lying-in-Hospital, and who had the honour of bringing into the world the late lamented Princess Charlotte, and of being the intimate friend of the late Rev. Mr. Toplady, whom he attended in his last moments, and whose "Dying Avowal," he was instrumental in publishing. March 24, at Caermarthen, his native place, sincerely beloved and lamented, Mr. WILLIAM MORRIS, late of Manchester. He bore his long and severe illness, which lasted between nine and ten years, with such patience, fortitude and resignation, as became an enlightened man, and a sincere Christian. He was in the stricter sense a Unitarian, and for some time a worthy member of the Unitarian Church at Caermarthen. Of his conversion to that faith he gave the present writer the following account, which is now extracted from his funeral sermon: "Before my illness, though I was too thoughtless, yet the principles of a good religious education never forsook me. Thinking highly of religion, I would have given the world to be in the state of certain professors whom I knew. But I always expected a sudden change, or effectual, supernatural calling, according to the popular idea of conversion. After my illness came on, a sense of the necessity of religion became more pressing. I did not expect to live a month. I could not promise myself a day. I had seemingly nothing to do, but prepare to die. I, as regularly as I could, attended religious worship; but the doctrine was, that the first step in religion was the supernatural and effectual conversion, which had kept me back so long-a conversion which I had not felt and could not effect. I most earnestly prayed before going to meetings, that I might experience this operation of the Spirit. While there, I continued praying, and most attentively watching every emotion in ex pectation of such a call or conversion. I stayed behind during the communion service to wait and pray for it: but all to no purpose! I often cried in the most inexpressible agony, ' What can a poor creature like me do-threatened with death at every moment, and with eternal death if I do not experience a change, and such a change as I have not felt and have not the power to produce?'” All this my friend said with great solemnity and emphasis, and then added, "O preach against that cruel doctrine of partial and irresistible calling, which has been the means of deferring the reformation of thousands to their final ruin !" After he became thus perplexed and dejected, and almost thought all religion a farce, he happily met with some Unitarian books; and among others, some sermons of Price and Priestley's, and the latter's "Institutes of Natural and Revealed Re ligion." The force of truth soon overpowered his prejudices. He read, he compared, he approved. "All," he said, "appeared to me now in a new light: all seemed marked with the simplicity and consistency of divine truth." He daily improved his acquaintance with Unitarians, expressed a thankful satisfaction with their faith, and lived exemplarily and died peacefully in their communion. His tranquil and pious state of mind may be seen from the dying benediction with which he closed some directions to his affectionate relatives. "I have now only to pray that God may bless every individual of my family that I leave behind me; and that he may be graciously pleased to lead them to, and keep them in, the paths of virtue and religion, the only certain and lasting means of happiness here and hereafter. So that when all the families of the earth shall be gathered together in the presence of the great Father of mankind; we all may, through his mercy, as humble and faithful followers of Jesus Christ, be admitted to that glorious kingdom which we have in promise; when God will set up his tabernacle with men, and will dwell with them: when he will wipe away all tears from their eyes: and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain.' Amen! Amen!" JOHN EVANS. April 5, at his uncle's house in St. Petersburg, in his 20th year, Mr. JOHN VENNING, eldest son of Mr. Wm. Venning, of Holloway Place, Middlesex. This amiable and much-regretted young man fell a victim to the severity of the late Russian winter (the first of his residence there); and the progress of his disease was so rapid, though in all its stages without pain, that in about three weeks he was no more. His family are greatly consoled by knowing that the religious principles in which he had been educated, had their full influence on his mind, by producing an entire resignation to the will of God, which was evinced throughout his illness. He was often found in the attitude of prayer; and about three hours before his death, when he was no longer able to raise himself in his bed, he requested his friends to pray for and with him, and then, without the smallest symptom of pain, and even without a sigh, expired. Thus does the providence of God display its attestation to virtue even here; for this amiable youth was never the cause of one moment's pain, by any illtemper or conduct, to his parents, who, with a melancholy satisfaction, pay this tribute to his memory. April 5, in Union Street, Deptford, in his 74th year, JOHN HUGHES, Esq. May 2, at Walthamstow, Essex, in his 72nd year, JOHN WANSEY, Esq., one of the lay Trustees of Dr. Williams's Library, and one of the oldest members of Dr. Rees's congregation in Jewin Street. 9, at her house, at Hackney, in her 85th year, Mrs. MARY DAWSON, relict of the late Thomas Dawson, M. D. of that place. [See Mon. Repos. V. 324.] Mrs. Dawson had resided in Hackney seventy-six years, and was the oldest member of the Gravel-Pit congregation. She was buried on the 18th inst. in the same grave with her husband, in the parish Church of St. Michael Royal, College Hill, London. Lately, at Brompton, near London, aged 42, THOMAS BROWN, M. D., Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh. He was the author of "Observations on Darwin's Zoonomia," 1798, 8ve.; "Poems," 2 vols. 1804, 12mo.; "A Short Criticism on the Terms of the Charges against Mr. Leslie in the Protest of the Ministers of Edinburgh," 1806, Bro. The following list of his works is just published: "The Paradise of Coquettes, a Poem,” 2nd Ed. "The Bower of Spring, with other Poems." "Agnes, VOL. XV. 28 a Poem, in Four Parts." "Emily, with other Poems." "Inquiry into the Relation of Cause and Effect." 3rd Ed. 8vo. Agriculture, in Sackville Street, aged 81, Dr. MILNER (see p. 245) was born near Leeds, of parents who had to boast of neither wealth nor pedigree. While he was a boy, his father, who was a weaver, died, leaving a widow and two children, Joseph and Isaac. The young Milners were obliged to be at the spinning-wheel by break of day in summer, and in winter they rose by candle-light, for the purpose of maintaining themselves and their aged parent. Such a course of unwearied application to a laborious calling might seem very unfavourable to study, and yet these youths devoted all the spare hours they could gain from their business to a few books which chance threw in their way. This disposition for literary pursuits, added to their sobriety and industry, made them the subject of general conversation; and at length a subscription was formed, by which the eldest was enabled to quit the loom for the grammar-school. Here Joseph applied to the classics with such diligence as to be soon qualified for proceeded to the degree of M. A. On the University of Cambridge, where he entering into orders, he obtained the curacy of Trinity Church, Hull, and was appointed Master to the Grammar-School in that town. [There is some account of Mr. Joseph Milner in Mr. Rutt's memoir of the late Mr. Dewhurst, Mon. Repos. VII. 730-732, and some further particulars in the same gentleman's stric entitled Gibbon's Account of Christianity tures on a publication of Mr. Milner's, considered, &c., VIII. 14-17.] In the mean time, Isaac continued at the weaving business; but when his brother was established at Hull, he became anxious to follow the same honourable course. Joseph complied with his wishes, and took him for his assistant; after which he sent him to Queen's College, where he made a rapid progress in the mathematics, as well as theology and the learned languages. In 1774, he was senior wrangler, at which time he also gained the first mathematical prize. In 1782, he served the office of Proctor; and In 1783, being then M. A., he was nominated one of the Taxors of the University, and also Professor of Experimental Philosophy. At the University, he formed a close friendship with Mr. Wilberforce, which proved the occasion of an intro duction to Mr. Pitt; and these three eminent men, about 1787, made a tour together on the continent. In 1788, Mr. Milner was elected President of Queen's College, on which occasion he took his Doctor's degree. The same year he was advanced to the Deanery of Carlisle, and in 1792, served the office of Vice-Chancellor. In 1798, the Doctor was made Lucasian Professor of Mathematics on the death of Dr. Waring; and the duties of that chair, as well as those of every other station, he continued to discharge with equal diligence and ability. The Dean has published some papers in the Philosophical Transactions; the first, dated Feb. 16, 1778, concerning the communication of motion by impact and gravity; another, dated Feb. 26, treats of the limits of algebraical equations, and contains a general demonstration of Des Cartes' rule for finding the number of affirmative and negative roots; another in the following June, on the precession of the equinoxes; and "Animadversions on Dr. Haweis's History of the Church of Christ," 1800, 8vo.; and "Strictures on some of the Publications of the Rev. Herbert Marsh, intended as a Reply to his Objections against the Bible Society," 1813, 8vo. [This last publication is reviewed, Mon. Repos. VIII. 609-613. Some account of the Dean's opinions may be gleaned from the Review. Notice is there taken of his boasting of effecting by his exertions, when Vice-Chancellor, in 1792, the banishment of Mr. Frend from the University.] He published also a continuation of his brother's Church History, which is much extolled by the Calvinistic party, but which is imperfect, being brought down only to the Refor mation. Dean Milner died in his 70th year. He is succeeded, we understand, as President of Queen's College, by the Rev. H. Godfrey, B. D., one of the Senior Fellows. Deaths Abroad. At Polock, in Poland, in his 72nd year, Father THADDEUS BOGOZOWSKI, General of the Order of the Jesuits. Father Perucci, who resides at Rome, is spoken of as his successor. With great regret we learn the melancholy death of JOSEPH RITCHIE, Esq., at Mourzuk, in Africa, about 400 miles south of Tripoli. He was a native of Otley, and was a young man of great abilities and enterprise; he was employed, under the auspices of the African Association, to make discoveries in the interior of Africa, and particularly to endeavour to penetrate through the great desert of Tombuctoo. The death of this enterprising young man is particularly to be lamented, as we are afraid a knowledge of the interior of Africa will scarcely be accomplished in our days. How many men of science have fallen victims to their thirst for knowledge! Of six persons who accompanied Nehrbur, the Danish traveller, in his tour through Arabia, he alone survived. Since then, Hornnman, Mungo Park and Burckhardt have also fallen a sacrifice to a climate which seems peculiarly obnoxious to European constitutions. (Month. Mag.) REGISTER OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS. Address of the Body of Dissenting Ministers to the King on his Accession: with the King's Answer. [The following Address was unanimously voted at Dr. Williams's Library, Red-Cross Street, soon after the late King's death; but the illness of his present Majesty for some time hindered its being carried up to the Throne. Opportunities there were of delivering it into the hands of the Secretary of State, or even of laying it before the King by deputation: the Body of Ministers, however, did not for a moment lose sight of their ancient privilege of presenting addresses to the King upon the Throne, and especially upon an Accession; and his Majesty, upon being made acquainted with their wishes, immediately signified his desire that they should be complied with. The ministers accordingly awaited * The etiquette of the Court has been, that when the Dissenting Ministers address by deputation, they are received in the closet, and when they address in a body, are received upon the Throne. In either case, they read their own address and receive an answer from the King. The importance of this must be apparent to every one. The privilege of being received upon the Throne is enjoyed as a custom by only a few public bodies; by the City of London, the two Universities, the London Clergy, and the London Dissenting Ministers; and, we believe, no others. It is not certain at what time the privilege, as far as regards the Dis |