July 10, at his residence in Chapel Field, Norwich, aged 85, ISAAC JECKS, Esq., late of Wisbech, Cambridgeshire. The death of Mr. Jecks, though, from his great age, a circumstance naturally to be expected, is severely felt by his large and truly respectable family, and by an extensive circle of friends, to whom he was endeared by many years of affectionate intercourse. Perhaps few persons ever retained so late in life so much philanthropy and genuine simplicity of character, with such openness to conviction upon the most important points, as the subject of this memoir. In early life, a friendship commenced between him and the late Rev. Richard Wright, when both of them held reputedly orthodox views of Christianity; and subsequently, during the change to Unitarianism, which indefatigable and impartial investigation gradually produced in his friend, Mr. Jecks, though for some time unable to follow him in his convictions, invariably extended to him the hand of affectionate esteem, until himself at length embraced the same views, and received from them the support and consolation which they are so eminently calculated to afford. For nearly forty years our lamented friend was a zealous and active supporter of the cause of Unitarian Christianity in Wisbech; and his pecuniary aid to it continued to the time of his death, though that town had, for some years, ceased to be his place of residence.- Mr. Jecks was a remarkable instance of the effect of temperate habits, united with mildness of disposition. Though never particularly robust in appearance or constitution, he is not remembered to have ever been confined to his bed, even for one day, by indisposition. A very prominent trait of his character was benevolence. It was not more that charity which consists in relieving pecuniary distress, than that which "thinketh no evil." Gently scan thy brother man,” was frequently heard from his lips, and it was exemplified in his daily inter

course.

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July 21, at George-Town, Washington City, in the United States of America, Mr. THOMAS CROFTS WRIGHT, in the 71st year of his age. He was a native of England, and the last surviving brother of the late Rev. Richard Wright, the respected and lamented Unitarian

Missionary. Mr. T. C. Wright was a tender and affectionate parent, and a kind and faithful friend. His principal characteristics were soundness of judgment, firmness of purpose, strict integrity, disinterested benevolence, and undeviating perseverance in the pursuit of any known duty. In his religious opinions he was a Unitarian Christian, and his life was consistent with the principles which he professed. For several weeks before his decease, it was evident to his family and friends that his health was rapidly declining; but, about ten days previous to his departure, he had an attack of gout in the stomach, after which, until the day in which he died, he had no interval of ease, except such as could be produced by powerful anodynes. In his last few hours he was perfectly sensible and tranquil, conscious of the great change upon which he was about to enter, and calmly waiting for it. He was followed to his grave by a long concourse of relatives and friends; and succeeding days brought additional testimonies of how much he was valued, and how deeply his friends sympathize with his large family and their widowed mother in deploring their loss.

JOSEPH SWANWICK, ESQ. To the brief notice of this gentleman, which appeared in our last number (p. 727), we are now able to add some further particulars that will interest many of our readers. Born at Wem, in Shropshire, Mr. Swanwick was early placed under the private tuition and the pastoral care of the Rev. Mr. Hazlitt, at that time minister at Wem, and who was father of the celebrated William Hazlitt. Companion of the one and scholar of the other, it was to be expected that both himself and his friends would be anxious to secure for his excellent natural endowments the advantages of more extended education. At an early age, therefore, his parents entered him a student in the New College at Hackney, where he enjoyed the instructions of the late Mr. Belsham, and the other eminent men associated with him in the management of that institution. Although engaged throughout his after-life in business, the traces of this early culture never left him. The stranger was surprised, in conversation with a man apparently immersed in the pursuits of active and pub lic life, to find the number of subjects of

literary, metaphysical and theological interest with which he was conversant, and to observe the evidently classic tone of his mind. When arrived at manhood, he settled in Chester (as a manufacturer). A thorough-going liberal both in politics and religion, he was speedily acknowledged by the Dissenters and Reformers of that city as the head of their party. Hand in hand with them he fought through all those battles which distinguished the career of civil and religious liberty for the first thirty years of the present century. No step of importance connected with the representation, the commerce, the reform, or the philanthropy of the city, was taken without first consulting their hearty and clear-headed friend. And yet what was most remarkable was, that though so earnest and indomitable in his particular views, he was respected by men of all shades of sentiment. An un flinching Dissenter, and of that class too which is theologically the most obnoxious, he was ever treated with courtesy by the bishop and clergy of the city; and though an active Whig, and perhaps something more, no man could have received more consideration from the party opposed to him, or have experienced less of that slanderous and intolerant hatred which so often disgraces the conduct of rival parties to their respective leaders. And the reason was, that his heart was known to be entirely free from ill-will; that he was known to take his stand on certain clearly-defined principles; and that from the advocacy of these on their own merits, he could never be induced to swerve into the rancour of partizanship. Any littleness or meanness, any personal injustice and discourtesy, any thing, in short, unworthy of the great cause of human improvement to which he was pledged, he frowned down in his own party as fearlessly as he exposed and denounced it in his opponents. We have dwelt principally on Mr. Swanwick's political life, but political and commercial reform (on matters connected with both of which he was repeatedly deputed by his fellow-citizens to be the organ of

their communication with Government), formed, in fact, a most leading topic of interest with him, to the injury, in some respect, of his own more private interests. But to those who knew him well in the inner relationships of domestic life, it requires almost an effort to call to mind his character and conduct out of that sphere. Bold and determined in his principles, his manner, voice and bearing corresponding with the energy of the truths he so eloquently advocated, he had yet a power of so tenderly entering into all the joys and sorrows of those with whom he was closely united, that the man of strong public and general sympathies was at once forgotten in the considerate and endearing attentions of the relative and friend. Though throughout his life preferring, as matter of conversation, the wider interests of the race, to the petty talk of particular vicinities, he still ever bore about with him the memory and the consciousness of all that nearly affected the weal and the woe of those he loved. Especially in later years, as sickness debilitated and trial depressed him, was this peculiarity of his disposition increasingly remarkable. So resolute, so full of nerve on general topics, his eye moistened and his voice trembled, when he spoke of the absent or the departed. It is not becoming, perhaps, in a public notice such as this, to dwell on those endearing qualities of private life, which none but those who experienced them could appreciate. But tenderness in a man of the severest purity, of untarnished morals, of resolute character and of high intellectual endowment, we have always thought one of the most subduing and attaching qualities in which the human spirit could be clothed-and this quality our lamented friend possessed in the most fascinating and endearing form. Peace be with him in that happier world whither it is the privilege of his survivors to believe that he is gone! There will his pure heart and his courageous intellect have a wide and happy sphere for their development, while the burden of earth's many cares will be left behind.