which the convention of Cintra was reprobated, and resolutions were passed for an address to the king to call his parliament on this occasion. The address was couched in very strong language; and the right of petitioning asserted with due weight. A resolution was also passed, that the correspondence between the sheriff and the secretary of state on the presentation of the address, should he published; in consequence of which appeared the letter in the papers from the latter to the former, asserting that the address had been presented to the king.

This latter resolution was occasioned by a circumstance, which was asserted with great confidence, namely, that several addresses had been put into the hands of the secretary of state, for the time being, which had never reached the king. This fact is of great importance, and deserves as rigid an enquiry as the convention of Cintra: for, if a secretary of state can withhold petitions and addresses, how is the sovereign to become acquainted, in a legal manner, with the wishes and sentiments of the people. It is

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a great excellence of the constitution of this country, and it was particularly insisted upon, in the Revolution of 1683, and on which depends the right of the sovereign to allegiance in this country, that the subjects have a right, in a legal manner, to address the throne. This right is of equal importance to the sovereign and the people. It ought to be equally regarded by hoth. It is the only mean to prevent the sovereign from being kept in ignorance, by wicked and depraved courtiers, of his true interests. In all despotic countries the access to the throne is strictly guarded. Is free countries there should be a free communication between sovereign and subject. If any petitious have ever been kept back in the office of the secretary of state, it is incumbent on the crimi nal or criminals, who have been guilty of so flagrant a misdemeanor, to give an account of their conduct in a national court of justice. If this is not done, continual jealousies will prevail, and the secretary of state becomes the lord over both king and people.

OBITUARY.

CORRECTIONS OF OBITUARY IN THE LAST NUMBER.
To the Editor.

SIR,

place of rest, as Lord Chesterfield somewhere calls the House of Peers.

CORRECTOR.

In your Obituary, (P. 570 ) Douglas is described as Mr. Home's only publi- In the Obituary of Mrs. Cath. Allication. I have a 12mo volume, printed bone, (p. 572. col. 2.) instead of " she by Millar 1760 and entituled "The dra- had attained somewhat beyond" read matic works of John Home." The she was approaching unto that period;Tragedies of "Agis" and " The Seige for "Catherine" read Catharine-and of Aquileia" follow Douglas, as "acted in the Obituary of Professor Porson, (p. a: Drury Lane." In both the latter, 574. col. 2.) for “doubtful precedent,” Garrick spoke the prologue, and bore a read doubtful prudence, principal part.In the same Obituary (P. 571.) you have, with all the peri odical prints, been led into an error respecting Lady Dacre, to whom so many singularities are attributed. I apprchend she was the widow of a Baronet of that name. She certainly was not Baroness Dacre, the mother of Mr. Brand, whose fds, especially those among the freeholders of Herts, are by no means desirous of his removal from an active station in the House of Commons to a

On the 12th of August, died at Tenterden in Kent, much lamented by the beloved partner of his bosom, by his relations, and by all who had the pleasure of being acquainted with him, Mr. WILLIAM ́MACE, who had practised as a surgeon in that place and its neighbourhood, with increasing repu tation and success, for nearly twenty years.

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Mr. Joseph Eedes.

er both in natural and revealed religion. this, he continued with us till his death. His opinions, particularly as applying to the great and sole object of religious worship, were decidedly in agreement with that part of the Christian world which is distinguished by the name of Unitarian.

From circumstances, into which it is not necessary here to enter, he was induced, contrary to the convictions of his own mind, to conform to the ecclesiastical establishment of his country but some years before his decease, returned to a society of Unitarian Christians, who meet for worship and instruction, in the place where he practis ed. This was an event wholly unexpected by his friends, to whom he had not previously communicated his intention; and equally so to the person who conducts the public services of that society. It took place in the following

manner.

He attended the morning service; and was observed by the writer of this memoir, to have a countenance full of anxiety, expressive of a mind which had been long burthened and unhappy. After the service was finished, to the writer's great surprise, he entered the vestry of the place of worship, and after the usual salutation, addressing him by his name, made to him the following declaration.

He passed through a very painful ill ness with great fortitude of mind; and we may be assured, so far as the power of recollection and reflection was continued, closed his eyes upon the world, with that composure, peace and hope, which are the fruits of bowing to the sacred voice of conscience, and the pure and perfect will of a God of truth, that all discerning Being, whose we all are, and to whom we are bound, by the highest and most commanding motives, to offer the sincere and pure ho mage of our understandings, hearts and lives. L. H.

Died of a consumption, on the 9th of September, at Saffron-Walden in Essex, in the twenty-first year of his age,-Mr. JOSEPH EEDES, only son of Mr. Eedes of that place, a young man of examplary piety, attended with an amiable disposition, that rendered him respected and beloved by all his friends and acquaintance. He early applied his mind to the study of the Scriptures, to find out truth, and to direct him aright through this world, that he might be fit for the happiness and employment of another. He embraced the Unitarian doctrine, as he believed it to be the religion of Jesus of Nazareth, and such was its happy effects on his mind, that he found it productive of christian virtues Although I have been induced to in life, and it afforded him comfort in withdraw from you, the sentiments of death. Though he had the fairest pros my understanding, and the affections of pects before him in life, possessed an my heart have been ever with you. I ample fortune, and was on the point of have indeed thus, for some years, con- marriage with a most amiable and enformed to the church against the convic. dearing young lady, of a respectable fa tion of my mind; but I can do this no mily; yet, during an illness of some longer. It is my desire and resolution months he was never heard in the least to re-unite myself to this society; and if te murmur, or repine at the painful disagreeable to you and to them, to sit pensation of divine providence, in his down with you this afternoon at the early dismission from this world, but Lord's table." calmly acquiesced both in this, and the pains he long suffered by the disorder that terminated his end His remains were deposited in the ground belonging to the General Baptist Meeting at Walden, and by his own desire, (after a funeral oration at the grave) a sermon was preached by his Minister, Mr. Stephen Philpot, to a numerous and affected audience, from Psalm xc. 12.-- So teach us to number our days, that me may apply our bearts unte wisdom The memory of the just is blessed. Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way, but by taking beed thereto according to thy word? S. P.

The reception he met with from the writer, it is unnecessary to describe. Such a testimony of personal attachment, and of the power of conscience, could not but be unspeakably gratifying, As the just effect of a resolution so commendable, in the afternoon service, the before this anxious countenance, was all serenity and peace; and the change in his whole appearance, so strongly marked, as to make an indelible impression on the mind of him, who had the best opportunity and the strongest reason to observe it. After

Miss Ann Coveney,

Rev. James Nasmith, D. D.

Miss Ann Edney.

October 2, died at Tenterden in Kent, and William of Worcester;" and a Tract on the Leonine verses, from the above manuscript; in 1787, a new edition of Bishop Tanner's "Notitia Monastica.” To these he has added several Sermons, and Charges as a Magistrate. In this latter situation, he was eminently conspicuous for his correct knowledge of the laws; and he filled the office of chairman at the sessions of Cambridge and Ely with moderation, justice, and impartiality, at once distinguishing himself as the gentleman, the lawyer and G. M.

at the early age of sixteen, MISS ANN COVENEY, the dau hter of Mr. Jos. Coveney, grazier of that place. In the autumn of last year, in consequence of a cold, the symptoms of a decline began to appear; and continued to undermine an apparently strong constitution, until they terminated in death. With the most promising appearances of being long a blessing to her parents, and of maintaining an amiable and respectable character in the world, she was thus carly called out of a state of trial.

Her course of reading had been directed to those subjects, which tend to inform the understanding, and to mend the heart; she had particularly read the Unitarian tracts; and from those sentiments of God and religion which are there to be met with, and these as grounded on divine revelation, she directed her hopes to the great and universal parent, expressed her entire resignation to his will, and with a fortitude, uncommon at her age, met an event, which for the last fortnight she had fully expected.

Let her early removal be considered as one more compassionate call to the young, from the gracious and tender father of mankind, to give themselves up to the counsels of his holy will; that by a practical remembrance of him as their Creator, their Benefactor, their Ruler and their Judge, they may prepare for death; or if life shall be continued to them, lay a' foundation for future respectability and true personal enjoyment, for being a ble sing to society, and for living eternally, to what must ever constitute their highest happinesseven to the praise of Him who made them.

L. H.

October 16, 18c8. in his 68th year, the Rev. JAMES NASMITH, D. D. rector of Leverington, in the Isle of Ely. He was formerly of Bene't College, Cambridge, where he proceeded B. A. 1764, M. A. 1767, D. D. 1797. His early application to literature was rewarded by repeated academic honors; and his many valuable publications will endear his memory to the learned. In 2777, he published his "Catalogus Librorum quos Collegio Corporis Christi et B. Mariæ Virginis in Academia Cantabrigiensi legavit Reverendissimus in Christo Pater Mathæus Parker, Achiepiscopus Cantuariensis;" in 1778, "The Itineraries of Symon, Son of Simcon,

the divine.

October 19th, MISS ANN EDNEY, aged three years and four months, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edney, and grand-daughter of Mr. John Marsom of Holborn.

Seldom has the vanity of earthly expectations been more strikingly exemplified, than in the death of this amiable and interesting child, whose appearance a few weeks previous to her disselution, exhibited the bloom and stability of confirmed health; and in whose animated countenance, and various intelligent and engaging words and actions, her friends read the flattering assurance of future years distinguished by mental, as well as corporeal growth and improvement. It was the awful and adorable will of Divine Providence to disappoint these hopes.

"Fair was the promise of the flower, But short, alas! its destin'd hour. The blight of death its bloom withstood, And nipt at once the bursting bud." The mournful impression left by her sufferings and death on the minds of her relatives, can only be counteracted by the persuasion thus expressed in a letter written on the occasion, by the Rev. John Simpson of Hackney, who delivered the address at her interment in Worship-street burying-ground. How cheerOf such is the kinging the thought, "dom of Heaven! Our little ones are not lost; nor shall we be eternally se"parated." They are al-o deeply sen'sible of the wisdom and goodness of the divine administration, and desirous of co-operating with its gracious designs in this afflictive dispensation.

A funeral Sermon was preached on the occasion in the Meeting-house at Leather-lane, Holborn, Sunday 30th ult. by the Rev. John Evans, of Worship-street: from 2 Kings iv. 26. Is it avell quith the child?-and she answered, It is well.

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Rev. Theophilus Lindsey.

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On the 3d of November, died at his house, in Essex Street, between the hours of six and seven in the evening, in the 86th year of his age, the Rev. THEOPHILUS LINDSEY, formerly vicar of Catterick, in Yorkshire. This living he resigned in the year 1773, from a conviction that the service of the church of England, as far as it involves the doctrines of the Trinity, is repugnant to the precepts of our Saviour and his apostles, and particularly to the great command of God solemnly promulgated to the Jews, and urged with the strong est emphasis by our Saviour-Thou shalt have no other Gods but me.-In consequence of this conviction, and the ineffectual attempts to obtain redress for the clergy in the subscription of the thirty-nine articles, having resigned his living, and quitted Yorkshire, he came to London; and in the year 1774, encouraged by the application of several persons of high respectability, who were earnest in the same cause, he opened a room in Essex-house for the worship of the only true God, in which he performed divine service, according to the liturgy of the church of England, reformed by the celebrated Dr. Clarke, with some variations adapted to his own improved views of the subject. Four years afterwards he preached a sermon on the opening of the chapel in Essex-house, which has since that time been dedicated to Unitarian worship. Here his services as a minister were most acceptable to a numerous congregation; and whatever disapprobation his opinions might excite among the uninformed of different denominations, even they could not. but esteem a character of such benevolence, honesty and integrity. The attachment of those who were intimately acquainted with his virtues was unbounded, for seldom is to be found a man, who has fixed so deeply in his heart the grand characteristics of the Christian religionlove to God and love to man. He lamented the divisions among Christians, owing to the unreasonable adherence of many to tradition, merely of human or political authority, in opposition to the language of revelation. The whole tenor of his preaching was benevolence, and the easy yoke of Christ, ardour in the study of the scriptures, humility in the sight of God, and the rejection of that false piety, which lays undue stress en external circumstances. In these

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useful labours he was engaged to the 70th year of his age, when he resigned his pastoral office, dedicating the remainder of his life to the great objects of promoting scriptural truth, in which service he continued occasionally to employ his pen. No man was a more sincere friend to civil and religious liberty, no one more attached to those principles which placed the Brunswick family upon the throne. To these principles he never failed, when a proper opportunity offered, of bearing his testimony with consistent firmness and characteristic mildness; for mildness, benevolence and humility, founded on piety, and entire resignation to the will of God, and combined with habitual cheerfulness, were the striking features in his character. During the latter part of his life, the infirmities of his age gradually pressed upon him, but he bore them all without a murmur, and his favourite maxim, on which he dwelt emphatically almost in his last moments, and when utterance became difficult, was-What God wills is best.

On the Friday in the following week, the remains of this venerable pastor were deposited in his own vault in Bunhill-fields. The funeral was, according to his directions, private. A hearse carried the body and one mourning coach followed it, but at the burial ground several of his friends had met, to pay their last tribute of affection and respect to him who had been their much loved friend or pastor, or the chief instrument in their conversion from a false, worship to that which is ordained by the scriptures. On the Sunday following, the pulpit and reading desk in Essex Street chapel were covered with black, and a funeral sermon was preached by Mr. Belsham to a very numerous congregation, a very great majority of whom attended in mourning upon the occasion. Perhaps never was a sermon, in which reigned so great a sympathy between the preacher and his hearers. The great cause for which the deceased was so powerful a champion, was most ably set forth, and the effects of his pious zeal were manifest in the solemn and impressive attention of the audience.

At Hackney, also, the pulpit of the Unitarian church was arrayed likewise in black, and a funeral sermon was preached on the following Sunday by Mr. Aspland, who paid 4 N

a most eloquent tribute to the me- without insulting reason or commoa mory of this great confessor. Both sense. He has shewn that true Christithese sermons we are happy to say will anity is an easy yoke. Alas! for those be printed, and as they will find their churches which would not listen to him, way to many of our Trinitarian brethren, but preferred vain and idle traditions to it is to be hoped that they will not be the solemn call he made to them. He read without effect. Funeral sermons is gone to his reward: happy are they were also preached in various other who follow his example, and trust in the churches; at Birmingham by Mr. Kent- scriptures. AMICUS. ish and Dr. Toulman, at York by Mr. Wellbeloved, at Chester by Mr. Lyons. The occasion indeed justified this and every other token of respect, for Mr. Lindsey was not a common man. He was a great teacher of the true scriptural religion, and he has given to England a decisive proof that its worship may be carried on

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The Rev. Dr. Rees's Address on laying the first stone of the Old Jewry Chapel, in Jewin Street: delivered September 5, 1808; Being St. Bartholomew's Day. O. S.