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H. Petty announced his intention of substituting for the duty on pig iron, has been relinquished. Its place is to be supplied by an addition to the assessed taxes of 10 per cent. on their present amount. An abatement, however, is to be allowed, in the case of persons having families of more than two children and whose

assessed taxes do not amount to £.40 per

aunum, of 4 per cent. for each child. This is intended as a substitute for the abatements under the property tax.

The Mutiny bill establishing the principle of limited service, as detailed in a former number, has passed into a law.

A Bill brought into Parliament for the purpose of facilitating the intercourse between America and our West India Islands, has given rise to much debate in Parliament, and to much clamour out of it. It does not appear to us however that the measure is one which would have excited public attention, had it not furnished a convenient occasion for promoting party pur

poses.

The Bill for training the mass of the penple to the use of arms, is now making its way through Parliament. We are truly rejoiced to find that a clause has been introduced into it prohibiting Sunday-drilling, except in cases of necessity. This formal recognition of the sanctity of the sabbath, reflects honour on his Majesty's Ministers,

and must afford heartfelt satisfaction to every friend of religion.

Sir John Newport, we are happy to observe, has carried through the House of Commons a bill for regulating the schools in Ireland, the funds destined for which have, it is to be feared, lately been the subject of great abuse.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

The blockade of the river Traves has been countermanded; and orders have been issued directing ships of war and privateers to make no prizes, and to detain no vessels within the Baltic.

The Pique frigate has taken in the West Indies two French men of war brigs after a sharp contest.

In the West Indies, a squadron of four

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On the 11th inst. the Peers assembled in Westminster Hall to declare their judgment on the charges of impeachment which had been preferred by the Commons against Lord Viscount Melville, when after a scru

tiny of the votes he was pronounced to be acquitted of all the charges. The numbers were as follows. First article, Not guilty 120, Guilty 15.-2d Not guilty 81, Guilty 54-3d Not Guilty 83, Guilty 52.-4th Not guilty unanimously.-5th, Not guilty 131, Guilty 3.-6th, Not guilty 88, Guilty 47.-7th, Not guilty 85, Guilty 50.-8th, guilty 121, Guilty 14.-10th, Not guilty Not Guilty 121, Guilty 14.-9th, Not 124, Guilty 11.

It is understood that considerable differences of opinion exist between Government and the East India Company with respect to the administration of India. The appointment of Sir George Barlow to suc

ceed Lord Cornwallis as Governor Gene ral gave great satisfaction to the latter, and the success which he has since had in the auspicious work of pacification, seems to justify fully the expectations which were formed of his conduct. He has however been recalled by the King's sign manual. In his place it was proposed by Government to substitute Lord Lauderdale; but to the nomination of: this nobleman the Court of Directors, as well as the great body of proprietors, have shewn a decided repugnance; and, agreeably to the act of Parliament, his appointment cannot take place without their concurrence. The matter still remain anadjusted.

Rumours of negotiation and approaching peace with France have raised the funds two or three per cent. These rumours are more probably the consequence than the cause of the rise. The cause may póssibly be that in the contemplation of the change which thas taken place in the Government of Holland, cousiderable sums of money have been transmitted thence to be vested in our funds.

ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS.

Rev. Charles Trevanion Kempe, M. A. Cherichayes St. Michael, St. Stephen, and St. Denys R. co. Cornwall; and the Rev. Thomas Bennet, M. A. Boconinoć and

Broadoake RR. in the same county; vice Forster dec.

all

Rev. Charles Baillie, Cleveland archdeaconry, founded in York cathedral; and

the Rev. Thomas Newton, Husthwaite perpetual curacy, with Carlton chapelry annexed; all vice Peirson, dec.

Rev. Henry Tilney, M. A. Hockwold cum Wilton R. Norioik, vice White, dec.

Rev. Edward Mansfield, Bisley V. co. Gloucester, vice Hawkins, dec.

Rev. Hugh Jones, Talgarth curacy, co. Brecon, vice Morgan dec.

Rev. John-Thomas Fenwick, M. A. Northfjeld R. with Crofton-Hackett chapelry annexed, co. Worc. vice Jervoise, dec,

DEATHS.

ON Thursday June 12, aged 23 years, at her father's house, Eltham, Kent, Mrs. HENRY BUDD, wife of the Rev. Henry Budo, Chaplain of Bridewell Hospital, and Maister of Bridewell Precinct. Casting all her care upon her Saviour, she endured a lingering illness with patience, and finished her short course with a fortitude, resignation, hope, and peace, which nothing but true Christian principles can inspire.

At Waterford, in Ireland, of a dropsy in his stomach, the Rev. JOHN BROWNE, a descendant of Sir Anthony B. (ancestor of Viscount Montague).

At Bishop-Auckland, aged 77, Peter Bowlby, LL. D. registrar to the Dean and Chapter of Durhaın.

Rev. JAMES DOUBLEDAY, of Calton, in Staffordshire.

At Cerney, co. Gloucester, on her birthday, in her 38th year, and after an illness of only two hours, Lady MARIA PRICE, wife of Barrington P. esq. daughter of the late and sister of the present E. of Strath

more.

Mr. J. GANN, of Exeter Street, in the Strand, returning home from his club, in the evening, suddenly dropped down in the street, and expired without a groan; leav ing a wife and five infant children.

Aged 90, the Rev JAMES KETTLE, 40 years pastor of the Dissenting congregation in High-street, Warwick.

After going to bed in perfect health, Mrs. TOVEY, wife of Mr. George T. of Abbot's Leigh, co, Somerset.

At Exeter, the Rev. C. B. PYE, son of Mr. Pye, attorney, of Norwich.

At Clapham, Surrey, aged 95, Dame CATHERINE WALDO, relict of Sir Thomas Waldo.

In Norfolk-street, Birmingham, in her 104th year, Mrs. MARIA-TERESA TWISS; who retained her faculties to the last.

At Bath, aged 81, the Rev. SIMON ADAMS, of Laundon Grange, Bucks, and rector of Ousden, Suffolk.

At Egton, aged 71, the Rev. RICHARD ROBINSON, M. A. minister of Egton, Glass

dale, and Goatland, near Whitby, chapels in the gift of the Archbishop of York.

Aged 71, the Rev. NATHAN HAINES, D. D. prebendary of Southwell, vicar of St. Mary, in Nottingham, rector of Cotgrave, and perpetual curate of Sneaton, co. Nottingham; perpetual curate of Tong, co. York; and first domestic chaplain to the Earl of Manvers.

Rev. JOSEPH WATSON, Vicar of Godmanchester, near Huntingdon; also vicar of Weston under Wetherly, co. of Warwick.

At Allenhead, co. Northumberland, in his 60th year, the Rev. JOSEPH CARR, B. D.

Aged 86, the Rev. THOMAS SALT, M. A. rector of Hildersham, co. Cambridge, vicar of Nazing, in Essex.

The Rev. RICHARD MOUNTFORD, rector of Stockton, co. Salop.

Rev. WILLIAM DRAPER, M. A. of Corton Denham, co. Somerset, rector of Orchard and Weston-super-Mare, in that county.

At Bareges, in France, the Rev. JORN CRAUFURD, Tector of Elvaston, near Derby.

At Wicklow, in Ireland, the Rev. Mr. HowSE.

At his parsonage-house, Drummore, co. Derry, aged 74, the Rev. GABRIEL STOKES, D. D. chancellor of the cathedral of Waterford, a prebendary of the cathedral, of Elphin, and Rector of Desertmartin, in the diocese of Derry.

At Ballyconnel, the Rev. Dr. DILLON, a Roman Catholic bishop.

At the manse of Glenisla, in Scotland, the Rev. ALEXANDER PEAT.

At Swansea., the Rev. EDWARD ALLEN, M. A. fellow and late tutor of Worcester college, Oxford.

Rev. Mr. PYEFINCH, rector of the first portion of Westbury, near Shrewsbury.

At Faldingworth, near Lincoln, the Rev. Mr. DAVIS, rector of that parish.

At Bristol, the Rev. HENRY JACKSON CLOSE, M. A. formerly rector of Hitcham,

Suffolk, and of Carleton St. Peter, Nor◄ folk.

After a few hours illness, aged 45, the Rev. JOHN FLAMANKE, Vicar of Saxthorpe, co. Norfolk.

The Rev. SAMUEL-SIMON LAWRY, M. A. of Queen's college, Oxford; rector of Blunham, co. Bedford.

At Kingsbury, Berks, the Rev. THOMAS FOWLE, rector of Hampstead-Marshall, in the same county, and of Allington, Wilts. At the same place, on the 12th of February last, his youngest son, Charles F. Esq. barrister at law, and commandant of the Hungerford Volunteer Infantry.

At Farley, co. Stafford, the Rev. JOHN BILL, rector of Draycot, in that county, and formerly of Christ College, Cambridge.

Rev. JOHN W. HARRISON, M. A. Rector of St. Clement's Shrewsbury, and a minor canon of the Cathedral Church of Worcester.

By a blood-vessel bursting in his head, while he was driving his niece in a gig, the Rev. WILLIAM BUTTS, rector of Little Wilbraham, and vicar of Granchester, both in Cambridgeshire.

Suddenly at the Admiralty, in his 58th year, Sir MICHAEL LE FLEMING, bart. It appeared from the evidence of Lord Ho

Rev. FRANCIS MEREWETHER, rector of wick, and several gentlemen at the AdmiFoxcote and Combhay, co. Somerset.

Aged 82, the Rev. GEORGE THOMAS, vicar of East Dereham, Norfolk, and brother of the late Dr. T. bishop of Rochester.

Rev. H. J. JEFFERIES, rector of Minchinhampton and Rodborough, co. Gloucester.

At Dalby, aged 75, the Rev. THOMAS LUMLEY, LL. B. of Jesus College, Cambridge, rector of Dalby, and 40 years rector of Brandsby, both co. York.

ralty, before the Coroner's Inquest, the next day, that the deceased, who was Member of Parliament for the county of Westmorland, visited Lord Howick to solicit the preferment of a protégé of his, an officer in the Navy, and at the moment of repeating "We are apt to speak well of those we are partial to," he felt, and, in an instant, expired, without a groan.

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

W. H. desires us to inform our readers, that the quotations given in his paper on the "Means of promoting the prosperity of the Established Church," (No. for April, p. 212) from a publication entitled "Pluralities indefensible," had been quoted by the author of that work from a treatise written in defence of pluralities. They are therefore to be considered as historical facts, allowed by two contending parties, and applied by him to a subject of a different nature.- -The paper of W. H. will

appear.

We are truly rejoiced to be able to inform W. W. that the object of his paper, viz. the prohibition of Sunday drilling, has been attained.

We must decline inserting the lines of W. C.

The letter of an ABECEDARIAN will probably be inserted. We would suggest, however, to our correspondent, that it is not a very liberal mode of arguing a point, nor, as far as respects us, is it likely to be very effectual, to declare that, if our opinion on the subject of his letter shall prove different from that which he has expressed, he will withdraw his order for the Christian Observer. He is certainly at liberty to do so without the formality of a previous notice.

G. M.; M. M.; R. Q.; LYDIA; S. C. W. Jun.; G. B.; and a paper on the Miracle of restoring sight to the Blind, are under consideration.

8. N. C. has probably read with care the work to which he alludes. Some account of it from his own pen might therefore be desirable. It will obtain from us a candid consideration.

CHARTOPHYLAX; and F. H.; will appear at some convenient season.

ERRATA in the present Number.

P. 329, col, 1, 1. 11 and 12, for the question read these questions.

P. 345, col 2, 1. 14 from bottom, for offer read affix,

3, from bottom for loose read love.

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THIS HIS distinguished reformer and martyr of the English church is universally allowed to have assisted Cranmer in framing the articles of religion which appeared in the reign of Edward the Sixth, and which, with a few trifling variations, were confirmed by Queen Elizabeth, and have since continued to be the acknowledged rule of our faith. He was a man of extraordinary erudition, and whose learning was sanctified by religion to holy uses. His whole life evidenced the since. rity with which he embraced the doctrines of the reformation. And whether we consider his varied attainments in knowledge, the unblemished purity of his life, the suavity of his manners, the moderation which always marked his conduct, his ardent yet well regulated zeal in propagating and defending the truth, or his calm yet immoveable courage in adhering to the path of duty; we must give him a chief place among those eminent servants of the Lord Jesus, "of whom the world was not worthy," and who for their master's sake, "loved not their lives unto the death."

"We shall seldom meet with an instance," observes the author of his life, except in the great exemplar whose steps our blessed martyr followed, of one who in the article of death was so regardless of his own sufferings, and so recollected and solicitous for the good of others. Let the delicate, the selfish, and the uncharitable, read and wonder!

CHRIST. OESERV. No. 55.

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"The fire being given to them, when Ridley saw it flaming up towards him, he cried with an exceeding loud voice, Into thy hands, O Lord, I commend my spirit. O Lord receive my spirit.' But the fire was so ill managed by piling too great a quantity of faggots over the furze, that the fire first burned beneath, being kept down by the wood. Which when Dr. Ridley felt, he desired them for Christ's sake to let the fire come to him. His brother hearing his earnest request, but not understanding well the reason of it, with an ill advised kindness to rid him out of his pain, heaped more faggots upon him, quite covering him with them; which made the fire smouldering beneath so intense, that it burned all his lower parts before it once touched the upper. This made him leap up and down under the faggots, and desire them to let the fire come to him, saying, 'I cannot burn.' Which indeed appeared too true; for after his legs were consumed, he shewed that side toward the spectators, clean, shirt and all, untouched with the flame. Yet in all this torment he forgat not to call upon God, hav ing still in his mouth, Lord have mercy upon me,' intermingling between whiles, Let the fire come to me, I cannot burn.' Thus he continued crying without relief, till one of the standers by with his bill pulled off the faggots above; and when the tortured martyr saw the fire flame up, he wrested himself to that side. And when the flame touched

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the gunpowder, he was seen to stir no more, but burned on the other side; and either from the chain loosing, or by the overpoise of his body after his legs were consumed, fell over the chain down at Latimer's feet.

"Thus died this worthy martyr and the glory of the English reformation." Ridley's Life of Ridley, p. 668.

But I now return to what is my more immediate purpose, which is to give the readers of the Christian Observer, a succinct view of the sentiments of Ridley on the main points of our holy faith. And here it might be deemed sufficient to refer at once to the articles which he assisted in framing, and to the homilies, which, if he did not assist in framing them, he nevertheless cordially approved. In the present divided state of opinions, however, respecting the fair import of those articles and homilies, as applicable not to points of an abstruse and incomprehensible nature, but to the leading facts and fundamental principles of Christianity, (such as the depravity and helplessness of man, salvation by grace, justification through the blood of Christ by faith only, regeneration and sanctification by the power of the Holy Spirit, &c. &c.) it will be necessary to go farther, and to shew by less disputed, though not less disputable evidence, what were in reality the sentiments of this venerable prelate, as they may be collected from other sources.

The first point on which I mean to touch, and to which indeed, I shall confine myself in the present sketch, is the view which Ridley entertained of the nature of

THE CATHOLIC CHURCH.

In a conference between Ridley and Latimer, in which they considered a number of objections supposed to be advanced against them by the papists, there is much on this subject, and on the kindred points of unity and schism. "You know," it is supposed to be objected "how

great a crime it is to separate yourself from the communion or fellowship of the church, and to make a schism or division." To this Ridley replies, "I know that the unity of the church is to be retained by all means, and the same is necessary to salvation. But I do not take the mass for the communion of the church, but a popish device, whereby both the commandment and the institution of our Saviour are eluded, and the people of God are miserably deluded. The sect of the Anabaptists, and the heresy of the Novatians, ought of right to be condemned, forasmuch as without any just or ne cessary cause, they wickedly separated themselves from the communion of the congregation, for they did not allege that the sacraments were unduly administered, but turning their eyes from themselves, wherewith according to St. Paul's rule they ought to examine, them. selves, and casting their eyes upon others, either ministers or commu nicants, they always reproved some. thing in them for which they ab stained from the communion as from an unholy thing."-" If it were any one trifling ceremony, or if it were some one thing of itself indifferent, (although I would wish nothing should be done in the church which doth not edify the same) yet for the continuance of the common quietness, I could be content to bear it. But, forasmuch as things done in the mass tend openly to the overthrow of Christ's institution, I judge that by no means either in word or deed I ought to consent unto it."

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