mer appointment he held nine years, and the latter he resigned in the year 1814, assigning, as his reason for relinquishing the duties of the ministry, the decay of his sight. He continued to enjoy excellent health; and at last, after the illness of only a few days, was blessed with a remarkably tranquil and easy death. Mr. H. was greatly respected among his neighbours as a pious and good man, a serious, devout and earnest preacher, a careful and religious father of a family, and an upright, peaceable and benevolent member of society. "His prayers and his alms are gone up as a memorial of him before God;" and it is to "a conscience void of offence both towards God and towards men," and to his faith and hope in Christ, the serenity of his latter end is to be ascribed, and the remarkable coolness and self-possession he enjoyed even to his last hour. He died the death of the righteous, and his last end was like his." June 22, at Hull, aged 36, the Rev. J. HAWKSLEY, late pastor of the Independent congregation in Aldermanbury Postern, London. He was educated at the Independent Academy, Rotherham, and on the completion of his term of four years in that seminary, was associated with the late Mr. Barber in the pastorship abovementioned. On the death of Mr. Barber he became in 1810 sole pastor, and continued in his office until 1821, when illhealth obliged him to retire into the country. Symptoms of decline soon shewed themselves, and he sunk at length under this disease, much respected and lamented. has expired. As a trustee of the pro- don's connexion. £500 to the Baptist Missionary Society. £500 to the Moravian Missionary Society. July 30, at Chatham, aged 80, HANNAH Allen. A cancer in the breast, with which she had been attacked but a few months, was the means of bringing about her dissolution. It is pleasing to reflect, that the burden of affliction was lightened by the attention of friends. The deceased lived in a state of celibacy with another maiden sister who survives, and by whom the parting stroke must be sensibly felt. It is but just to say of her, that she attended the ordinances of God's house closely, that she heard attentively, and has left a good report of acting in all other respects consistently. Her remains were interred near to certain of her relatives in the cemetery attached to the Unitarian General Baptist Chapel, of which place she was, at the time of her death, the senior member; when Mr. Allibone, at the request of the family, delivered an address on the occasion. 29, in Montague Place, Russell Square, in his 71st year, JAMES OLDHAM OLDHAM, Esq., the eminent ironmonger of Holborn. Mr. Oldham had been an active magistrate for Middlesex for many years, and also had filled the office of High-Sheriff for Buckinghamshire some years since. "The occasion of his being so well known," (says the Gent. Mag., with insidious quaintness,) "was his immense wealth-four hundred thousand pounds." Early in life he became connected with the "Evangelical" party in the church, and on the first opening of the late Countess of Huntingdon's chapel in Spafields, was chosen one of the committee of management, which situation he retained to the day of his death. Some years since, he gave to Trustees a freehold estate, for the purpose of its becoming the scite of a 12, by his own hands, at his seat new chapel when the lease of the present near North Cray, in Kent, the Marquis August 1, at Hackney, in the 74th year of his age, Mr. WILLIAM BUTler. - 7, much lamented, after a lingering illness, ELIZA, the eldest daughter of Mr. Thomas GILES, of Woodbridge, Suffolk. of LONDONDERRY, better known to the world as Lord Castlereagh. He was the eldest son of the late Marquis of Londonderry, to whose title he succeeded on the death of his father last year, and of Lady Sarah Frances Conway, sister of the late Marquis of Hertford, and was born June 18, 1769, and was consequently in the 53rd year of his age. He received his early education at Armagh, under Archdeacon Hurrock; and at 17 was entered at St. John's College, Cam bridge. After remaining the usual time at the University, he made the tour of the continent, and on his return commenced his political career in his native country. His family were Presbyterians and Whigs, and his Lordship came out into the world as a patriot. He was elected in 1791, after a keen and expensive contest, as representative of the county of Down in the Irish Parliament; and on this occasion it was that he gave a written pledge to his constituents to support the cause of Parliamentary Reform and Irish Freedom. His first parliamentary efforts were in consonance with this engagement. He favoured the principles on which the Society of United Irishmen was founded at Belfast, in 1792, and was in habits of intimacy with some of the leaders of the Society, particularly the two interesting and unfortunate brothers, the Sheares', if he himself was not sworn in as a member. The first Irish conspiracy failed, and Lord Castlereagh became a member of the English Parliament, and a humble supporter of Mr. Pitt. Under the patronage of this minister, he returned to the Irish Parliament in 1797, and was appointed, in reward of what his former compatriots termed his apostacy, first Keeper of the Privy Seal of Ireland, and then one of the Lords of the Irish Trcasury. His political advancement was promoted by his family connexion with Earl Camden, the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, to whom, on the resignation of Mr. Pelham, the present Earl of Chichester, he became Chief Secretary. He was also sworn of the Privy Council. He continued the office of Secretary under the Marquis Cornwallis. In this situation he was accused of conniving, at least, at many of the worst atrocities that the triumphant faction in Ireland perpetrated; but we know not that any one crime was ever brought home to him. The Union with Ireland was accomplished chiefly by his agency, that is, as manager of the Irish House of Commons, and posterity will probably know the means by which this measure was effected. The Irish Parliament being destroyed, Lord Castlereagh took his seat in the United Parliament, as member for the county of Down; and under the Sidmouth administration, iu 1802, he was appointed President of the Board of Controul, a post which he continued to hold on Mr. Pitt's return to office. He was afterwards made Secretary for the War and Colonial Departments. On this occasion, he was rejected by the County of Down and obliged to come into Parlia ment for a ministerial borough. The death of Mr. Pitt drove him and the other clerks of office (as they were contemptuously styled) from place and power. The displaced party carried on a most harassing opposition to the Fox and Grenville administration, and at length prevailed against them by the "No Popery" cry; although Mr. Pitt, whose memory they affected to cherish and whose policy they pretended to pursue, had been ever friendly to the Catholic claims, and had once resigned the seals of office because he could not carry them; although Lord Castlereagh had, under Mr. Pitt's sanction, held out to the Irish, emancipation as the price of consent to the Union; aud although he himself was at the very time, and continued afterwards to the hour of his decease, an advocate for all the concessions, and more than the concessions, that the Whigs proposed to make to the Roman Catholics. * In the Perceval ministry, Lord Castlereagh filled his former post of Minister of War, and in that office planned the ridiculous and disastrous expedition to Walcheren. This led to the duel with Mr. Canning, and to his expul sion from office. On the death of Mr. Perceval, he was recalled to place by the necessities of his party, and made Foreign Secretary, which he continued to be to the day of his death. The extraordinary events of the close of the French war elevated his Lordship to an eminence to which he could never have expected from his talents, principles or connexions to arrive. He divided kingdoms, parcelled out masses of population, disposed of crowns and determined the fate of dynas ties. With what instruments he worked, It must never be forgotten that the Perceval, Liverpool, Eldon and Castlereagh ministry, which had run down the Fox and Grenville administration on account of their Catholic Bill, afterwards secretly introduced and quietly carried the same measure, only with larger allowances to the Catholics! This is a memorable example of political consistency and integrity. the time may not be yet come for declaring. A little before his death he had commenced a prosecution against Mr. O'Meara for relating in his book of Napoleon's conversations, a statement of the Ex-emperor's that the British miuis. ter had personally partaken of the spoils of France. In private life, the Marquis of Londonderry is said to have been amiable; his public character is known, unhappily for his reputation, throughout Europe. He had talents for business, but in Parliament he had influence with out respect. His speeches were laboured, dull, unsatisfactory and often ludicrous they were so managed, however, as to hide the question, when it was not convenient that it should be exposed, and to confuse the minds of common hearers, and to throw a certain mistiuess upon subjects, under cover of which members might vote without self-animadversion. The manner of his death was shocking. His intellect was no doubt disordered, but the cause of the disorder is not yet sufficiently explained. He has left a widow, Amelia, the youngest daughter of the late Earl of Buckinghamshire. Having no issue, his title and estates descend to his brother, Lord Stewart. He was buried in Westminster Abbey on the 20th inst., and his corpse was received by the populace with indecorous and ungenerous expressions of their feelings. DEATH ABROAD. Abbé Hauy. June 3, was interred, the Abbé (René Juste) HAY, member of the Académie Royale des Sciences. Stauding beside his grave, M. Cuvier, perpetual Secretary of the Académie Royale des Sciences, and Superintendant of the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, in the name of those two institutions pronounced the following oration: My fellow-mourners! By what sad fatality have the arrows of death fallen of late so thickly around us? At the distance of but a few days we have accompanied to their long home, Hallé, Richelieu, Sicard aud Van Spandock. Talents, greatness, active benevolence, all have pleaded in vain against the stern decree. Again the mortal stroke has fallen on genius and virtue; has bereft us of the most perfect model of the philosopher devoted to the study of nature, and of the sage blest in the enjoyment of truth, and of that happiness which is uudiminished by the revolutions and the caprices of fate. "In the midst of humble and laborious occupations, one idea took possesVOL. XVII. 3 v sion of the mind of M. Haüy; and to that luminous and fruitful idea, his time and his faculties were from that period consecrated: it led him to the study of mineralogy, geometry and all the science of nature; it impelled him, as it were, to acquire a new existence. How magnificent the reward granted to his exertions! He cast aside the veil which concealed the fabric of those mysterious productions in which inanimate matter seemed to present the first motions of life, in which it appeared to assume such precise and unvarying forms by principles analogous to those of organization. Our philosopher separated and measured, in thought, the invisible materials forming those wonderful edifices; he subjected them to invariable laws; his scientific eye foresaw the results of their union; and amongst the thousands of calculations which he made, none were ever found defective. From the cube of salt, the formation of which we perpetually behold, to the sapphire and the ruby vainly hidden in gloomy caverns from our luxu riousness and avarice, every substance obeys the same laws; and amidst the innumerable metamorphoses to which they are all subjected, not one exists unforeseen by the calculations of M. Haüy. "An illustrious member of our Society has well said, that no second Newton will be born, because there is not a second system of the Universe: so we may say, in reference to a more limited object, that there will be no second Haûy, because no different structure of crystals exists. Like the discoveries of Newton, those of M. Haüy, far from appearing restricted in their nature from the improvements since made in science, seem constantly increasing in general usefulness; and his genius partook of the character of his discoveries: age detracted nothing from the merit of his writings, the last of them was always the most perfect; and those persons who have seen the work which occupied him in his last moments, assure us that it is the most admirable of all his productions. "How sweet is that life which is devoted to the pursuit of an important and demonstrable truth, one which daily leads to the discovery of other truths connected with it! To him who is worthy to enjoy such a life,-and who was ever more worthy than M. Hauy?—how far do its charms exceed all the splendid offers the world can make! The natural objects that were constantly under the inspection of this philosopher, the precious stones so madly sought in distant climes, at the price of labour, sometimes of blood, had no value in his estimation for that which renders them valuable in the opinion of the vulgar. A new angle in the most common crystal would have been more interesting to him than all the treasures of the Indies. Those jewels in which vanity delight, those diamonds with which kings themselves are proud to adorn their crowns, were continually brought into his humble study without exciting in him any emotion. I may say much more,all the storms of the surrounding world left his soul in perfect peace. He was not agitated either by the threats of ferocious beings who at one time sought his life, or by the homage which, at other periods, men in power thought it honora ble to themselves to pay him. Persons of either description were regarded by him with far less attention than a youth addicting himself to study, or a pupil capable of seizing his own perceptions. Even when his health forbade him to repair to the lecture-room, he loved to see his home frequented by these young men, to pour his counsels into their ear, and to present them with those curious productions of nature so abundantly supplied to his collection by his numerous scientific friends. Valuable as were his gifts and his instruction, to his many pupils, his example was of still greater value: an invariable sweetness of temper, inspiring his family with devoted affection; a piety unostentatious and tolerant, informed by profound speculation, yet rigid in the observance of every useful rite; a whole life, in short, well-spent, calm and judicious in its course, and softened in the final scene of suffering by the noblest consolation that philosophy can give. May his favoured scholars bless the memory of such a master; and may their firm resolve (as they look on the tomb which receives him) to imitate his bright example, rejoice his departed spirit! And let us, my dear colleagues, console each other, even while our tears are flowing for this privation, by saying,-What man has enjoyed purer happiness on earth? What man is more certain of eternal felicity ?" Addenda. Dr. REID. (P. 435.) July 2, JOHN REID, M. D., of Grenville Street, Brunswick Square, late senior physician to the Finsbury Dispensary. This respectable and ingenious practitioner was a native of Leicester, where his family have long been settled in repute. He was, we believe, intended for the ministry among the Protestant Dissenters, but an inclination to the study of medicine over-ruled that intention, and, with the particular encouragement of the late Dr. Pulteney, he pursued that object with great diligence and advantage at Edinburgh. On taking his degree, he settled in London, and obtained the appointment of physician to the Finsbury Dispensary, a very honourable but laborious situation, which he resigned after holding it for several years. Dr. Reid was well known as a popular lecturer on the theory and practice of medicine; and also as the reporter of the state of diseases in the Monthly Magazine, which department he took after it had been conducted through three or four volumes by Dr. Willan. Besides these reports, which would make an interesting volume if collected and enlarged, the Doctor printed" An Account of the Savage Youth of Avignon, translated fram the French," 12mo., 1801; "A Treatise on the Origin, Progress and Treatment of Consumption," 8vo., 1806.-Gent. Mag. THOMAS SMITH, Esq. of Easton Grey. (See Mr. Belsham's note, p. 332.) Mr. SMITH was a native of Cirencester, and bred to the bar; but from an impediment of speech, did not make a public exercise of his profession. He married early in life the daughter of the late Chandler, Esq., of Gloucester, and first resided at Padhill, near Minchin-Hampton; from whence he removed to Bownhams, in the same vicinity; and, lastly, to Easton Grey, near Malmesbury, a seat and manor which he purchased of Hodges, Esq., of Bath. Here Mr. Smith resided till his decease, and was the Mæcenas of his neighbourhood. He had an excellent judgment, much valuable acquired knowledge, an amiable temper, and a benevolent, useful turn of mind. To those who knew him, his loss is not the common-place transient regret, which merely jars the feelings and is then forgotten; but a permanent melancholy, a sensation of a loss not to be repaired. A well-informed, liberal-minded country gentleman, with a fondness for science, brings into estimation judicious modes of thinking in his vicinity, and promotes the improvement of it, while a mere Nimrod or butterfly merely propagates barbarism or dissipation. Such a man as we have first described, was Mr. Smith: a gentleman and a philosopher in his pleasures and habits; a philanthropist and public character in his forms of living and acting.-Gent. Mag. REGISTER OF ECCLESIASTICAL DOCUMENTS. Address of the Presbyterian Synod of Munster, to the Marquis Wellesley. ON Thursday, the 11th inst., the Presbyterian Synod of Munster, consisting of their Moderator, the Rev. Philip Taylor, their Clerk, the Rev. James Armstrong, and their Agent, the Rev. Joseph Hutton, waited upon his Excellency the Marquis Wellesley, at Dublin Castle, with the following Address, which had been unanimously adopted by that Body, at their late Meeting in Clonmel :To his Excellency Marquis Wellesley, Lord Lieutenant-General, and General Governor of Ireland. May it please your Excellency, We, the Ministers and Elders of the Presbyterian Synod of Munster, assembled at Clonmel, gladly avail ourselves of the earliest occasion afforded us by our Annual Meeting, to offer to your Excellency our sincere congratulations on your appointment to the Chief Government of Ireland; and to lay before your Excellency our assurance of affectionate loyalty to our Gracious Sovereign, aud unalterable attachment to the principles of our unrivalled Constitution. We consider the appointment of your Excellency, at such a critical conjuncture, as a proof of his Majesty's paternal regards towards his people of Ireland. We rely with confidence on the wisdom and energy of your Excellency's Administration, that under it the disorders of our country, which we deeply deplore, will meet their effectual and permanent correction-that its unemployed and suffer. ing population will be excited to useful industry-and that all the inhabitants of this island, of every denomination, will be united together in loyalty to their King, obedience to the laws, and love to one another. Should your patriotic exertions effect these most desirable objects, your Excellency's Administration will be recorded with imperishable gratitude in the annals of your native land; and you will have accomplished a work not less eminent than those illustrious achievements by which the name of Wellesley is already so highly distinguished. We beg leave to assure your Excellency, that it is the earnest wish of the Members of our Communion to conduct themselves in such a manner as to deserve the continued favour and protection of our beloved Sovereign, and to justify that good opinion which your Excellency many years since (on an occasion that deeply affected the honour and interests of the Presbyterian Church) so eloquently expressed in the Irish Senate-a circumstance which will ever live in our grateful recollection. Signed, (by order of the Synod of PHILIP TAYLOR, Moderator. JAMES ARMSTRONG, Clerk. To which his Excellency was pleased to make the following reply: WELLESLEY. Your cordial assurances of loyalty to our gracious Sovereign, and of attachment to the principles of the Constitution, are received by me with the confidence due to so respectable a body; and I entertain no doubt that you will continue to merit and to enjoy the countenance, favour and protection of our beloved King. Your kind expressions respecting my conduct and public services demand my gratitude, and cannot fail to animate and encourage me in the discharge of the arduous duties of my station. The occasion alluded to was the debate in the Irish House of Lords, on the Presbyterian Marriage Act, on the 3d of May, 1782. By this Act, marriages celebrated by ministers of the Irish Presbyterian Church were declared to have equal validity with those celebrated by Episcopal Ministers. This Bill being opposed by some of the Irish Bishops, found a warm and strenuous advocate in the Marquis Wellesley, then Earl of Mornington. His Lordship observed on this occasion, that he considered the Presbyterians entitled, above all denominations, to the protection and encouragement of the Legislature and Government, because it is chiefly to them that the British empire owes her civil and religious liberties, and her consequent prosperity. He called them "the life-blood of the country;" and gave his hearty assent to a Bill which might tend to preserve that blood uncontaminated. |