out attended with more good wishes than The last number recorded the death of the mother, [see Obituary of Mrs. Aikin, pp. 623, 624,] of whose funeral service the present number gives some account, [pp. 649-651,] and we are called upon while the melancholy department of our work, allotted to the dead, is passing INTELLIGENCE. DOMESTIC. Ministers in South Wales. THE Quarterly Meeting of Unitarian Ministers in South Wales was held at Rhyd-y-Park, Carmarthenshire, on the 18th of October last. There was service at three o'clock in the afternoon of the 17th, when Mr. Evan Lewis, a student in his last year at the Carmarthen College, introduced, and Mr. J. Thomas, of Pant-y-defaid, Cardiganshire, preached from Psalm c. 3. On the 18th, J. James, of Gelli-Onnen, Glamorganshire, introduced, and Mr. Evans, of Aberdâr, not being present, D. Rees, M. A., of Merthyr, preached from Isa. xliv. 6. After the service, in an open couference, the Nature and End of Future Punishment was proposed, and most of the ministers present delivered their sentiments, and were unanimous in thinking all punishment inflicted by a good Being to be corrective. The friends of Unitarianism who were present, were highly pleased with the work of the two days. The next Meeting is to be held at Llan-dy-fân, Carmarthenshire, on the 27th of December next. Mr. D. Jones, of St. Clears, to preach; and the Use of Reason in Matters of Religion, to be the subject for discussion at the Conference. November 17, 1821. J. JAMES. Testimony of Respect to the Rev. A Monthly Association of Ministers, was held at the Old Meeting-House in Birmingham, on Tuesday, Nov. 6, when the Rev. James Hews Bransby preached, from 1 Cor. iii. 9, 10, 11, on the comprehensive nature and supreme importance of the principle that Jesus is the Christ, considered as the basis of what the apos "Birmingham, Nov. 6, 1821. "The ministers accustomed to meet together in the monthly and other periodical* associations, beg leave to assure the Rev. ROBERT KELL of their affectionate esteem, and of their grateful sense of the pleasure with him; to offer their fervent wishes which they receive from their intercourses for his health and welfare; and to make it their earnest request that he will continue to favour them with his company and services on these occasions." notice of his intention, early in the month The Rev. GEORGE HARRIS has given of July next, to resign his situation, as the Minister of the Unitarian Congregation, Renshaw Street, Liverpool. Lancashire, desirous of forming another A number of individuals in BOLTON, Unitarian Christian Congregation, in which the great principle of Christian equality should be fully recognized, have lately purchased the chapel in Moor Lane, capable of seating from 800 to 1000 perCalvinistic Baptists; which will be opened sous, and now occupied by a society of for the worship of the Oue God, even the Father, in the spring of 1822. H. day in the Whitsun-week, and that at Bad Spirit of Lancashire Quakers. A periodical publication conducted at Liverpool, entitled "The Christian Reflector," he charged the Friends of that town and neighbourhood with some proceedings very unfriendly to the Unitarians, and which, if they be correctly reported, are little short of persecution. They are said to have given public warning to their members, in the course of this year, that none of them must attend the Unitarian worship at Renshaw Street, Liverpool, or read Unitarian books, on pain of disownment. This is sufficiently scandalous, but another measure surpasses this in active bigotry. Under the patronage of the Lancashire and Cheshire recently-formed Unitarian Association, the Rev. George Harris and some friends engaged a room adjoining and belonging to an inn at the town of St. Helens, for public worship, The room was taken for three months, and was registered in the Bishop's Court, and public notice given of its opening on a particular day. Before the day arrived, however, the landlady informed her new tenants that she was compelled to violate her contract with them. Her inn, and the lands and premises about it, belonged to the Quakers, (whether as a body, or as individuals, we are not informed,) and they had given her peremptory notice not to suffer the Unitarians to enter her door. It is further stated, that the matter was discussed at a Monthly Meeting of the Friends of the district, and that though some individuals pleaded on behalf of charity, or rather of justice, the majority came to the above memorable decision.We know the publication from which we have gathered these particulars to be in the hands of honourable men, or we could scarcely give credit to the statement. We republish it, that if incorrect it may be contradicted, that if correct, or substan. tially so, the Quakers amongst our readers may see how their body is fallen, and to what a degree the disciples of William Penn have imbibed the worst spirit of the world. LEGAL. We are sorry to see that a respectable man, Mr. ISAAC Cox, of Honiton, attor ney at law, has been brought before the King's Bench for a libel. He wrote a paragraph in a western paper reflecting upon a young man for supposed inhumanity in killing a horse. It turned out on the trial, that the circumstances of the case (which was still a shocking one) had been exaggerated to Mr. Cox by his informants. He was therefore found guilty at Exeter. On the 23rd inst., he was brought up for judgment in the Court of King's Bench. Mr. Cox put in an exculpatory affidavit, and stated in Court, that the costs had already exceeded £600. The respectability of his character was admitted even by the adverse counsel, and Mr. Justice Bayley said that the evidence proved that his motive had been pure humanity; he had, however, been hasty and unguarded, and, taking all the circumstances into consideration, the sentence of the Court was, that he pay a fine of 507, and be discharged. Nov. 15, MARY ANN CARLILE, sister of Richard Carlile, who was convicted a few months ago (July 24th) of a libel upon religion, by selling one of Paine's works, was brought up for judgment, (after an ineffectual attempt of Mr. Cooper, on the 13th, to obtain a new trial, on the ground of her being interrupted in her defence,) and the sentence was imprisonment for a year in Dorchester gaol, a fine of 5001, to the King, and sureties for her good behaviour for five years, herself in 1,0007, and two other persons in 1007, each, and further imprisonment until the fine be paid and the sureties provided. Nov. 23, GEO. BERE was brought up for judgment in the Court of King's Bench for having sold, as the servant of Richard Carlile, a libel upon the King. Mr. Cooper pleaded in mitigation, and Mr. Justice Bayley pronounced the judgment of the Court, that the defendant be confined 6 months in Winchester gaol, and find security for his good behaviour during 7 years, himself in 5001, and two sureties in 50%, each. BLACOW, the Liverpool clergyman, who was convicted at the last Lancashire Assizes of preaching a scandalous and malicious libel upon the late lamented Queen Caroline, has received sentence, in the King's Bench, to 6 months' imprisonment and a fine of 100%. The wretched defendant had stood in the same situation of a convicted libeller once before. No one, then, can pronounce his sentence vindictive, or accuse the Court of being actuated in determining it by strong political resentments. On the 14th inst., Mr. Scarlett moved for a Criminal Information against the proprietor of the Durham Chronicle, for an alleged libel, in that paper of the 18th of August, upon the clergy. The paragraph in question relates to the conduct of the Durham clergy in not suffering the bells of the churches of that city to be tolled on the decease of the late Queen. It arraigns that body of hypocrisy, worldly-mindedness and political subserviency, and warns them of the decline of their influence, and even of their odiousness in the eyes of the people, and foretels that the system under which they prosper cannot last. There is, however, no irreligion in the article, but the contrary; and the writer testifies unmeasured contempt for conventicles and fanatics. It is a curious case, and its decision will shew how far the character of the clergy, as a body, may, according to law, be brought under inquiry and into discus sion. LITERARY. In the Press, and speedily to be published, (price to subscribers, who are requested to give in their address, Half-aGuinea,) An Analytical Investigation of the Language of Scripture concerning a Devil; in which every Passage where the words Satan, Devil or Devils, the Evil One, Prince of this World and of the Power of the Air, &c. &c., occur, are examined and explained agreeably to Scripture Phraseology; with an Inquiry into the Nature of Christ's Temptation in the Wilderness: and an Examination of the terms Sheol, Hades, and Gehenna (translated "Hell" in the Common Version of the Old and New Testaments): in a series of Lectures, delivered in High-Street Chapel, Ports mouth, during the Winter of 1820-21, by the Rev. RUSSELL SCOTT. The Rev. Dr. EVANS, of Islington, has in the press a small volume, entitled, Recreation for the Young and the Old an Excursion to Brighton, a Visit to Tunbridge Wells, and a Trip to Southend; with an Alphabetical List of all the Watering places in the Kingdom. The sum so liberally given for Lord Waldegrave's Memoirs has awakened out of the dust of the family scrutoirs, "Memoirs of his own Time by Horace WALPOLE;"-Mr. Murray has purchased them at a magnificent price; they are in the press, and will shortly be given to the world. We confess we expect Memoirs from Horace Walpole with much impatience.-Quarterly Review. LADY JANE GREY AND HER TIMES, with illustrations of the manners, and numerous anecdotes of the distinguished persons and events of that period, and embracing the earliest records of the Reformation, drawn from sources for the most part hitherto unexplored, will appear in a few days. Professor MONK has been occupied for three or four years in preparing a Life of Dr. BENTLEY, a work which, it is expected, will be sent to press early in the He has industriously ensuing spring. sought for documents which may throw light upon the events of those days, or tend to elucidate the character, the conduct and the writings of Bentley. He has omitted no means in his power of obtaining a sight of Bentley's letters, which are in private hands, having made applications to all quarters where he thought that such deposits were likely to be found. MISCELLANEOUS. IRELAND is still plunged in distractions. The papers abound in accounts of atrocities committed in some of the counties, and particularly Tipperary. The causes lie deep and almost hidden, but are, no doubt, to be found in the wretchedness of the people. Military law may stop the outrages for a moment; it will not, however, heal the disease of the body politic, of which they are merely the symptoms. Wise and temperate legislative measures are evidently required; and these are not so easy or tempting to vulgar statesmen as Royal visits and martial proclamations and executions, which tend only to delude or exasperate. The Irish gentlemen in England have called a meeting of their countrymen here to consider of an address to the King, praying for an immediate reference of the state of affairs to Parliament. Whatever be their resolution, it is too clear what will be the result. Ecclesiastical Preferments. The Rev. HENRY LAW, to the vicarage of Childwall, in Lancashire, by the Bishop of Chester. His Majesty has been pleased to establish by Letters-Patent the Archdeaconry of Quebec, in Lower Canada, and the Archdeaconry of York, in Upper Canada. We are informed that the Lord Bishop of the Diocese will collate the Rev. Dr. MOUNTAIN to the former Archdeaconry, and the Rev. G. O. STUART to the latter. The ancient family of the celebrated reformer, JOHN WYCLIFFE, became extinet a few days ago, by the death of Thomas Wycliffe, Esq., whose ancestors have been settled at Richmond, in Yorkshire, ever since the reign of Edward I. DISCOVERY SHIPS.-Letters have been received from the Discovery Ships, dated the 16th of July: they were then at Resolution Island, in Hudson's Bay. They had met with some heary icebergs, and considerable obstructions from the ice, which was then melting fast, but were past these inconveniences and pursuing their voyage of discovery up the inlet at the north of the Bay. The officers and men were all in the highest health and spirits; well and most amply found in every kind of provisions and comforts, and delighted with the security and excellence of their ships; which, though so deeply laden, had proved themselves most lively and obedient seaboats. J. COATES, Esq. a native of Newcastleupon-Tyne, has lately presented the Literary and Philosophical Society there, with an Egyptian mummy, in the highest state of preservation. He procured the rarity, as he returned through Egypt recently, on his way to England from India. The late Rev. FRANCIS GISBORNE bequeathed the residue of his property, to the public hospitals of Sheffield, Derby and Nottingham; the amount is estimated at 5,000/, each. It is now discovered that Mr. Gisborne was the anonymous donor of three sums of 10,000, 3-per cent Consols, to each of the above institutions, about 15 years ago. FOREIGN. ITALY. On Sept. the 10th, the POPE issued a Bull against the sect of the Carbonari, as an association whose object is the subversion of the Catholic Religion, of Christian morals, and of all sacred and legitimate authority. His Holiness interdicts any person, under pain of excommunication, from becoming a member of the society, affording any of them an asylum, or countenancing them in any way whatever. The celebrated sculptor CANOVA, is now at Passagno, his native place, superintending the building of a beautiful church (erecting at his own expense) in honour of the Holy Trinity. It is said that it will in form resemble the Pantheon of Rome, and that, like the Parthenon of Athens, it will be ornamented with a portico, the pillars of which will be of the same dimensions as those of the Pantheon. The interior will be decorated with sacred sculptures of this great artist's, and will also contain a picture of his composition, representing a dead Christ. Passagno at this moment is a place of rendezvous for all foreigners. Canova is the father and benefactor of his native country, which (thanks to him) appears to have received new life. GREECE. THE Greeks still make head against doubtful success. A strong feeling in their oppressors, but with various and their favour is rising on the continent of the old governments with regard to all of Europe, notwithstanding the jealousy insurrectionary movements. Subscriptions are in some places opened for the Greek insurgents; and companies of mifitary men (one it is said from Ireland) are gone or going to their assistance. fered on behalf of the Greeks, but it is England does not appear to have interlittle anxiety for the monuments of antisomething that her government feels a bassador at the Porte, learning that the quity at Athens. Lord Strangford, amOttoman troops were on their march to that city to retake it from the insurgent patriots, presented an official note, signifying " that it would be highly agreeable to His Majesty the King of Great Britain, if orders were given for the protection and preservation of all the ancient edifices and temples, and other ornaments of antiquity, which are in the city and the environs of Athens, and which hare always been so highly interesting to the learned of Europe." The Grand Vizier has accordingly given directions to this effect to the Governor General of the Morea, grounded on the statement that "his Britannic Majesty is full of friendship towards the Sublime Porte," and that "the cordial attachment and confidence between the two Governments daily increase." The war assumes a religious character. It is said that the Jews, whose condition in Turkey is more degraded than that of the rest of their nation in other countries, have taken part with the Mussulmans, and that consequently they are the objects of the vengeance of the Greeks. These insurgents march under the banner of the Cross and the benedictions of their priests. SOUTH AMERICA. continent is apparently about to terminate, The struggle for liberty in this vast and in a way that the friends of humanity have always contemplated with hope. LIMA, the great capital of the rich state of CHILI, has fallen before the IndepenMARTIN.-CARTHAGENA has also been dent army under the command of SAN captured by the Independents of COLUMBIA. Spain now retains her hold of South spectable Journal) in a few weeks must America by a thread, which (says a reparated from her for ever. be snapped asunder, and the whole se Monthly Repository. No. CXCII.] DECEMBER, 1821. [Vol. XVI. Original Letters from Mr. (afterwards Dr.) S. Chandler, to Mr. John Fox. From Mr. Chandler. DEAR FRIEND JOHN, I LITTLE dreamt that the first let ter I was to receive from you, was to begin with a reproof from the Apocrypha. You know that can have but little weight with a man that believes and studies his Bible. However, I am content, since it was the best you had, especially when I found you had so good an opinion of it, as to think I could not possibly find fault with it. And it is true, indeed, I cannot find fault with the doctrine; though I think my friend wrong in the application of it. I think it was not without just ground, that I a little resented your writing to Secker first, whose friendship with you was later than mine, not to say I was the instrument of making you friends. It would have been but a kind part, if you had given me but a few lines, and told me that you did sometimes remember one, that will always remember you, and take pleasure in thinking of you. To hear of your welfare could not be a greater satisfaction to Mr. Secker, than it would have been to me. I am sorry you should think me inferior to him, in good wishes on your account, for whose welfare I am as truly concerned as for my own. However, as I never thought myself worthy to be a first-rate friend, so 'twas not without a great deal of pleasure, that I find you will allow me a share at least in your friendship, which I shall endeavour to cultivate by all the good arts I am master of, and shall place it amongst the happy circumstances of my life, if I can contract any intimacy with so valuable a correspondent. As for that freedom and sincerity of conversation you recommend, you may rest assured, that as nothing is more agreeable to my principles and temper, so nothing will be more carefully guarded against than the contrary; and did you know but my real sentiments of Mr. Fox, you would not say that I was wanting in affection. I shall not make any fine speeches on this head, though I could say much with a great deal of truth, least yout should already think me inconsistent with my promise; but shall only say, that as your company was one of the best entertainments I met with in London, so the loss of it hath been a very great inducement with me to leave it. You can somewhat make up that loss, if you'll let me often see your heart in writing, though I cannnot talk with you as a man talketh with his friend, face to face. It will not, I presume, be disagreeable to you to hear that I am just on the brink of matrimony. The mar riage contract is not yet signed, but I suppose it may be consummated next week. When I have tried I'll tell you how I like. 'Tis not safe to pass a judgment before trial. I heartily sympathise with you on the account of the hard treatment of that dear one you love so tenderly; however, I hope your sorrows are not so great as to hinder you from rejoicing in your friend's welfare. Mr. Baker is chosen at Salters' Hall Lecture. Jerry Burroughs had but about 18 or 19 votes. This morning, about ten, dear King George came publicly through the city for the Tower, in order to go for Holland. I saw with the usual satisfaction that good and great man. He looked well, and smiled upon his people. As for the fine things I told you in St. James's Park, I have entirely forgotten them. Let me know what they were, and you will find him as good as his promise who is, Dear Friend, Yours sincerely, From the Same. [We cannot allow ourselves to print the following letter, without observing, that the doubts which the writer throws out were the random impulses |