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- . A FATHER'S DEATH-BED. By MATILDA BMUS& • pow solemn is the sick matt, roan, To friends oildadred Hoyt:los need Poring on th t otteertain gloom la silent htlavinese and kar ! Haw sue. ble feeble handle thine. 'rho start of every pulse to share! With painful haste each wish divine, feel the hopelessness of care! ' To turn aside the futl•fraught eye, Lest those feint orbs perceive the tear ! To heir the weight of every sigh, Lest it stould reach :hat wakeful ear ! in the dead stillness of the night, ' tose the faint, faint,sound of breath! To %ten in rwarain'd affright, To deprecate each thoight of death ! Atid when a movement chu'd that fear, Auil gave thy heart-blood kayo to flow, In thrilling awe the prayer to bear Through the clued curtain murtnued lowt The prayer of him, whim holy tonpe Had never yet exceeded truth I Upon whose guardian care had hung The whole dependence of thy youth! Who, t able, dauntless, frank and mild Was fat his very goodness fear'd ; ikSoed with fondness, like a child, And like a blessed Saint rover d. 1 have known friends—but who can feel The kindness such a hailer knew ? I sued him still with tender zeal, But knew hot then how much ! And did not Peanut:ice ordain That we attAild soon be laid as low, No heart could such a s:roke sustain— No reason could survive the blow ! - - - 77117 - ; - LATE RIC.ILIRD Atyproups2. MEETING AT THE BRISfOL GUILDHALL. A numerous and most respectable Meeting of the Inhabitants of the City of Bristol took place on Tester terday s4night, at the Guildhall, for the purpose of forming a Charitable Institution to pelpetuate the memory of the late distinguished Philanthropist RI GUARD REYNOLDS. The Chair wat filled by the worthy Chief Magis trate, Mr. HAYTHoRNR, Who, throughout the whole proceedings, testified the most anxious zeal in pro.l znotipg the object of the Meeting. In moving and seconding the Resetlotions, .--,--- SMIIII, Esq. ; R. H. DAvrs, Esq. M.P. ; Rev. T. T. BIDDULPH ; Rev. W. DAY ; Rev. W. Ttionr ; .1. Bornotwoittu, Esq. M.P. ; H. Batour, Esq. ; the Rev. Mr. COWAN; the Rev. M. 144%1.71110E; Dr. POLE; and Dr. STOCK, severally addressed the Meeting. The second Resolution having been read, the Rev. W.TtionPz rise to second it, and addressed the Chair in nearly the following words : " Mr. Chairman, Sir—Never surely were the inha • bitants of Bristol convened upon a more solemn or a more affecting occasion than the present—to mder a gratefuf tribute of respect to one of the best ortnen, and to perpetu. t..! the memory of a Philanthropist, of simpler and manscendent excellence—Thousands can testify that he was an ornament of our nature—an honour to our City—the glory of the Society to which be belonged—and a blessing to the Empire and the World. When the eye saw him it blessed him— when the ear heard him, it bare him witness—he was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame ; the cauw which he knew not he searched out • he made the widow's heart to sing for joy; and the blessing of the outcast orphan, ready to perish, came upon him. He is now gone to that country 66 from whose bourn 'no traveller returns;"—and while Bristol, with her widows and her orphans, are weeping over his ashes. the whole nation has reason to lament his departure, That departure, however, was attended with Many alleviating circumstances; which, aloough they may deepen our sensibility, are calculated to assuage the violence of our grief. We sorrow not for this righ teous man, as those that have no hope. We enter tain the faith of Christians, and cannot give place to the despair of heathens. , He hath rested from his labours, and his works shall follow him—not to pro cure his title; but to justify his hope of the Tree of Life, and of entrance within the Gates of the Heavenly Jerusalem. We adore that kind and indulgent Pao. vzosscs, which spared his Valuable life for so many years, and thus p.rmitted him to mature those plans which he had projected for the relief of misery, ages after his decease. We congratulate our fellow-citt. seas on the honour they have done 'to themselves, by assembling on this day, to embalm his memory with their tears—to catch with his falling mantle the sacred flame that glowed with such fervour in his bosom—and to do what within them lies to give im mortality to a name, so deal- and so venerable. That we may be enabled with more facility to transcribe his virtues and copy his example, let us review the characters of that benevolence by which he 'was so eminently distinguished. " The benevolence of Richard Reynolds, Sir, was of the highest order. It was liberal, diffaiive, uni versal—NNot narrowed by party prejudice, nor bound ed by the limits of party connections, it embraced the Family of Man—yea, the whole circle of living beings, endowed with a capacity of pleasure or of pain. In its contemplation of the vast, however, it did not overlook the minute; in Its comprehension of the whole, it did not, like the modern philosophy, neglect the parts of which that whole is composed... Its operations were regulated by the respective claims nature, of gratitude, of friendship s of consanguinity, of religious connections , of moral worth, and of the various degrees of wretchedness amongst the unhappy objects upon whom his bounty was bestowed. Proceeding, in the first instance, from compas sion, it was afterwards purified by religious - priuci• ple—and strengthened by a sense of his awtul re sponsibility. to the great LORD of All for the talent with which be was intrusted. Compassion, impro perly cultivated, degenerates into an useless sensibi lity. The pleasure that attends it, soothes and deceives the heart. An inttiesting account,of human wretch edoess.excites its pleasorable . sympathetic emotions; the owe utters the law of kindness ; the man club,' in his virtuoitaescosibility, and thus becomes the , dope of selfelleceZeit . theeivretchedsri e TOMO iseenelebts. and wants, dimaseseenkincolleter loagiertne sights, and ends. offensive smells withinthivery sphere of infection-. to' give time, and thought, and talent, and labour,. and property—this is the substance, and not the slia• dow of virtue; the, pleasure of sensibility may be greater; but greater also is the dagger of self-deceit Death-bed scenes, eloquently deeeribed, delight the imagination ; but they who are most delighted, are not always the first to visit a dying neighbour, and sit up all night, and wile away the cold swear, and moisten the parched lip, and remove the phlegm, and contrive easy postures, and hear with fretfulness and drop the pious thought, and console the departing spirit ! Alt, no l These boasted children of senti= mental benevolence may often repair to the teentle of *virtue, but not to sacrifice. Extreme sensibility is a mental disease ; it unfits ui for relieving the mise table, and tempts us to turn away, like the cold hearted Priest and Levite ; it avoids the sight, and suppresses the thought of pain—stops the ears to the cry of indigence, passes by the house of mourning, and abandons the nearest friends, when sick, to the cue of the nurse and the physician, and, when dead, to those who mourn for hire Land all this under the pretence of delicacy of feeling, and a tender heart 1 le Sea was not the benevolence of the Bristol Phi lanthropist. Those acts of bounty which flow from the influence of sensibility soon fail; like the good seed fallen on stony ground, they soon spring up, and as soon sithet. But the benesolence of Richard Reynolds, purified, strengthened, and animated by Christian principle, was steady, uniform, and per*. vering. Neither ingratitude, nor imposture, nor op• position, nor even the frost of age, could chill its ardours, or 'relax its exertions: e It was active and industrious; his eloquence was mitt that of words, but of deeds. He said little, but be did much. He left others to define benevo lence; he studied the practice of it. While the sickly child of sensibility was weeping, be was extending relief. While philosophers were disputing whether philanthropy arises from selfishness or instinctive ten derness, or modes of education, -or the fotce of early and local associations, or from the combined influence of all those ses—heedless of their contentions, he eias exempllfrng in real life, privately and before the world, the character of the true philanthropist. — Their speculations he reduced to action ; their ab stract notions ht embodied; and to their airy no things he gave net only a local habitation, but a reality, a substance, and a form. Like his beloved I Mesezn, whose spirit he had imbibed, and whose 'example he closely copied, be wen* about continually doing good. " His beneficence was gitided by wisdom and-dis cretion. It was not scattered promiscuously and at random, but bestowed upon such objects, and in such a way, es he deemed (and he was a most excellent judge) the most effective in promoting the individual and the general good. To furnish employment for the healthy and the strong—to supply the wants of the really indigent and necessitous—to ease the aching heart - of the father, who, after toiling the live. long day, finds, instead of rest at home, that he is called to hear, what he is least able to bear, the cries of a numerous family demanding 'breed, when he has none to give ; to assuage the sorrows of poverty, overtaken by sickness, or overwhelmed with misfor tune; to smooth the furrowed cheek, and make the winter of age wear the aspect of spring ; to act the part of a father to helpless orphans, on whom no parent of their own ever smiled ; to supply fhe want of sight to die blind, feet to the lame, and speech to the dumb; to rescue vice from guilt. and infamy, and ruin ; and during the season of reformation, afford a shelter from the fury of the sehrin ; to relieve the distress. and yet spare the blushes of those who have known better days, by administering that bounty, which they, in the time of their prosperity, were ready to administer to others—dise were the employments of Richard Reynolds--these the objects of his beneficence—these were the offices of mercy in which he delighted ! e 4 His heart told him what to do; his conalnce, as the Vicegerent of HZAVISN, reminded him of the claims of moral obligation, and insisted that it must he done. His head deVised the means, and arrang ed the plan of action; and his hands, obedient to the dictates of hi* heart, and the mandates . of conscience, were ever ready to execute the plans which his head had formed. Thos his whole existence was conse crated to the cause of benevolence " If we love the modesty which concealed the hand that bestowed the princely donation, we revere the courage which occasionally stepped forward to avow himself the donor, when his design was to stimulate others to follow his example. His whole conduct was marked by the most consummate. wisdom • and left us at a loss whether to admits most the benevolence of his heart, or the powers of his understanding—the deeds of mercy which he performed, or the manner in which be perform. ed them. le All this prudence and benevolence was adorned with moiesty and humanity. So far was he from being inflated with the pride of wealth, that he spoke the genuine sentiments of his heart, when he said to 'a friend who applied to him with a case of distress, My talent is the meanest of all talents—a little sor did dust ; but the man in the parable, who had bnt one talent; was accountable; and for the talent that I pOssess, humble as it is, I am also accountable to .the great hoed OF ALL.' Hjs bounty was not the result of fear, like the obedience of a slave who trem bles under the scourge of a haughty tyrant. 'lt was not excited by the prospect of remuneration, not extorted by the dread of punishment, nor performed with a view to inn* an inheritance in the kingdom of Heaven. All such sentiments he rejected with abhorrence—placed his whole dependence for eternal life upon the sciveeeign mercy of Gon, through the propitiating sacrifice of his REDO/ a; and it the gates of Heaven had been closed: and the flames of Hell extinguished, he would have loved mercy, and delighted hi acts of charity i He laid claim to no distinctions, anima no airs of stsperierit7, end never attempted to catch the public eye, by an aster tatious display of extraordinary excellence. Hr" goodness often descended in secret, end, like the Petowmsecit of Heaven. co sealed the hand that sent the relief. He was a blaming and a shinenf lk it, and would have no man know of it. Best be amid ,tiot be hid. To hide' goodness lilt, his was impos sible. HOW bare I seen the good men shrink within fit. k flab&• sod his viierstile caiitiersines cakilton!l f tner t *'! ilb.ala —" • Moth of m*stp. when the reelfiell ofhis hail 4 in this place " thiloder of . WO * '. saw has been with a ippiause l . II His charity was of heavenly origin, and bore the impress . of his MAKER'S image. • It was derived ruin . b and as fountain u of nionwaitilit ipiness ; th e aa g reatest of all t ee mind naturally assimilates itsel f p to those objects fr nim an an immediat e d with which it ie familiarly conversant, by immediate intercourse with his GOD. he caught the resemblance of his glory. For GOD is love; and he that died. leth in love dtvelleth in GOD, and Goo in him. H 4 body was the temple of the Max GHOST ; built in deed with a lowly roof, but attended with Cherubim and Seraphim. Tnere an altar was erected to the living GOD, whence the flame of devotion, and the incense of praise, ascended day and night. In that Temple, as in the Jewish Sanctuary, the Shekinah, the visible symbol of a prtsent Dore, was enshrined above.the mercy seat, and occasionally shone forth, and shed a glory all around. In his measure he was tilled with the fulness of Gee. 66 No wonder if benevolence like his was a source of happiness to himself, as well as of relief to others. It was a spring shut up—a fountain sealed—a gar. den enclosed, which the eagle's eye never saw, and the foot of the unclean beast never trod. Enamoured with the c'tarms of virtue, he delighted to behold her native beauties, and to obey her sweet commands. He practised benevolence, for the sake of the plea. sure with which the practice of it was attended. He felt a luiury in doing good, and he determined to enjoy that luxury. ' His own experience taught him, that the GOD of Mercy, who formed the heart of man to be the dispenser of his bounty, has ordained, that like the vital fluid, which goes from the heart, to diffuse lite and genial warmtlethrough the whole system, it should return, in the course of circulation not impoverished, but enriched, to the source whence it flawed. His goodness might sometimes be re quited with evil, but this moved bins not. He knew that no. deed of Mercy could be waned; that some ministering angel is stationed in every department of the moral world, to gather up the fragments that fall from the table of benevolence, that nothing may be lost. Actuated by these noble principles, he held on Atie glorious career, still scattering blessings around him; until he resigned his meek and gentle spirit into the hands of his Ramtemeat ; to enjoy the fulness of his love, and to behold the brightness of his glory, in the regions of eternal day. By relieving the mi serable, he made himself friends of the mammon of unrighteousness, many of whom had gone before him, and have now hailed him as their benefactor, on his arrival into everlasting habitations. " Now, Sir, let u• turn aside, and visit the sacred place where his-remains are deposited until the hea. 'vens are no more. Low lies the hoary head that. was crowned with glory ! Dim, and no more with ar dour bright, are those eyes which once beamed with kindness and with love I Cold and silent as the clod of the valley is that heart, that glowed and beat with the purest affection ! Torpid and benumbed are those feet that carried him to the hovel of anguish and and those hands which su often hushed the orphan's cries, and wiped away the widow's tear ! Ia ruins and desolation lies that temple where Goo took up his dwelling, and shed :abroad the effu signs of his love ! But shall this edifice always lie in ruins ? No ! the Hoei Seiner will rebuild the sanctuary which he once honoured with hi.; presence, in a more glorious form—as the tabernacle in the wilderness WAS taken down, to be erected on a more magnificent scale on the Mount of' Zion. Dot this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of Heaven, neither can corruption inherit incorruption. Behold, I shew you a mystery ! We shall not all sleep, but we si;all all be changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump. For the trumpet shall sound. and the dead shall be raised. Corruption shall put on incorruption, 'and mortality shall puts on immortality. Thus, in. corruptible and immortal, formed and fashioned after the model of the glorious body of his REDEEMER, Shall Reynolds rise from the dust, and, before AMlD bled worlds, be placed at the right hand of the Soya. REIGN JIDOR. Then, be that sicced' upon the Thtone, in his own Glory, and in the Glory of his Father, , with all the angels of GOD around him, will say to the man whom he loved, g Come, theu blessed of my father, and inherit the kingdom prepared for thee frinn before the foundations of the world. For I was an hungered. and thou gayest me meat—l was thirsty, and thou gayest me drink—l was naked, and thou clothedst me—l sets a stranger, and thou I tookedst me in—l was sick, and in prison, and thou visitedst me.' Still adorned with that modesty for which he was so conspicuous, in the vale of sort owe, he replies, 6 Oh, my LORD, when saw I thee hung[) and thirsty, and naked. and a stranger, and sick, Red in prison, and ministered unto thee ?' Then shall the Kew say, ' For as much as thou bast done ;t unto the least of these my brethren, thou halt done it unto me ; enter thou into the joy of thy Lout) I' " This admirable display of eloquence was fre quently interrupted by bursu of applause. The fourth Resolution was moved by Mr. SMITH, and seconded by Mr. BUTTER HOU Ell % M. 1% who spoke to this effect : 's In rising to second this motion, I ought, as a stranger and accidental visitor in this city, to apolo gize for presenting myself te your notice, Sir, and to this very respectable assembly; but the task having been assigned me, 1 could not teluse offering my feeble tribute of respect to so much departed worth as we are met this day te deplore. Ido it the rather although a stranger here, because our late excellent friend was not merely an eminent citizen of Bristol, he was a citizen of the world, and, as far as possible, he extended his benefits to all mankind. But I rise Sir, under peculiar disadvantage 'alter the torreat of eloquence which has been copied forth by my Rev. Friend (Mr. Thorpe), eloquence which was the more powerful and touching, because. it was the language of truth. I observed, Sir, that our departed friend was a citizen'of the world; his benevolente extended far and wide. Na doubt many persons in this large assembly could bear ample testimony to this, and relate abundance of interesting prove' of it, if the time would allow. A • ticular instance having per oc curred uader my own observation, I shall beg [cave to state. When theism subscription was opened to relieve the distress in Germany, I took some part in that Institution: Being in Bristol soon afterwards, I had toms C 0,1111411141014. with gy. Reynqlds on he! r-, 0.4- • , igtrY .. - .. z z........ II vat,' • it o tt i; seat ititriskek alisseevati oes , inquiries es to the nature of th e distress , end the b";.‘ t mode of distribution, which served as valuable It to the Committee in London. He then s ubscribed a moderate sum w i th his nariZiet shortly after the Committee received a bl an k ke tt ;', having the post-mark of Bristol, and rusi os i e . Bank of England Bill fo r five I undy ed po w ( d ipplaxst.) At the first report of the death of IL chard Reynolds, an unanimous sentiment was f e l t; Society, that the public loss was irreparable. H c ; ever, Sir, from the appearance and spirit o f % meeting, it should seem that his mantle has f e t a not on any particular person merel y , but on the 4, city, and we hope, that although a double pett y of his spirirmay not rest on individuals, yet, m g t. tively, it is felt more than one hundred fold by tie inhabitants at large. His example, Sir, will, •excite thousands to tread in his steps, and ' tate his excellencies. Ido on say that they will equal his transcendant merits ; but as much it the particles of the dew, and the dr..ps of tile do more good collectively than any single ri ver , which may adorn and enrich our country-4 u , hope, - that the many drops of benevolence, shall be collectid by this excellent Institution, will,. scend on the poor, and the distressed, in ratio streams of mercy, like tl - .e dew and the rain f t ,., HILAVIDI and do even more extensive geed that noble river whose source is now dried up. meeting, Sir, reminds me of cne of the heroes and patriots of antiquity (Samson) env", was a great blessing to his country , but w hose d ea th exceeded all its former services, by the des, which he then brought upon its enemies. H e , slain many in his life, but it is recorded, • that dead,.which he slew at his death, were still mere, they which he slew in his life.' I quote this, not the character of our deceased friend, who lived , to do good, and not to destroy, but merely to similar language in reference to him, and to this G. stitution, in expressing my hope, that the good. shall be done by his death may even be greatest, elite did in his life. It Las been said, Sir, Mat t i s is not the time to institute a charitable society, ro e trade and commerce are so much depressed, and Is neral distress so much prevails. It etrikes me, k g . ever, that this of all others is the very reason toe, tend the hand of charity, and the reasons AA have been advanced against the Institution areal' itt.favour. If trade were good, and there wen o general distress, but full employment for the psi, there would be less occasion for e. new institatioi their behalf: perhaps in this very time of peed% 'amity, the ALMIGHTY may have seen fit to tisH, Reynolds to his reward, in order to excite an itits tion of his virtues,. and a more extensive spirit i philanthropy throughout the nation. With rid Ito the proposed Institution, it meets my most tor. ' dial approbation, and I beg to express my tharks os the Gentlemen who drew up and signed the Retpt. sition, and to you, Sir, for convening this m etrep In respect to the motion which I have the honour to second, it appears that life subscriptions ale mgt judiciously to be funded, in order that the intend them may continue to do good, when the down Os no more. Cor.s;dcring the shortness and cm. tamty of life, I would recommend all who have de ability to become life subscribers, la order to sic , alter their decease ; and lite subscribers wouli well to continue their annual sub.cripuous, last !tie and spirit of their cl. tray oltuuld prrouttrej expire." Upon seconding the 61: Resqlution, Dr. ?cle,D7. Stock. Mr. Stepl.en Pliest, the IteV. Mr. NisTke,, and Mr. I'. Sander, followed successively, and testimony to the distinguished humanity and fence of this ertitnahle man. irl The town ot Adair pbesented last week a interesting spectacle. Upwards ot 200 children► assembled in a school lately biiiit and endowed it the Hon. Dirt. VsyvointAtil QUIN, and of . ..demote examination in the principles of the Christian i giun, at which the Right Rev. Lord Bishop et memo: presided, and sever..l of his Clergy l'he order and decorum, but particularly the saw, ments of the child, en during the short period' the establishment or the school, surprised the mous and respectable visitors who attended, and , rewarded by the presentation from the hand o! Hon. Mrs. WYNDHAM QUIN ot a number of prayer•boaks, &c. &e. to the different children deserved them. The buldin4, which is of the description, and calculated to accommodate alrea4y contains 250. Sunday, at the Revory, Hastit T ltigh, di* Lady of dt John Baker, of a son. MA'A JELL On Thursday, the 3,1 instant. at Birkinhaad Chattel, 1311 Arpinall, Esq eon of John Attrinall, ksq. of Ctewitr I etiet.hire. to !Jerrie., ttaugt,ter of Wm. Clatles Lakr, tit IlirLiokead Pointy, in t). !Attu county. Tue4dity, at St. Geo+ , Eloosnsbury, George Wilily ° , EN, Captain In the lion. EMI India Company's Naval Serum ►tella.me told daughter of the kee. Dr. Rose, Rsctur s t m, tilt (stow icii. 3he h Id% in nucsngey, Capt. Edward Boy), F. 4 .4 aabetts, t•ltit.st d...uglater et the late let ry Sayer, Lsq. ct strieh Kent. MED. On the 7tit instant, Mrs. Ann ISownas, at Wititbarrow Miltithorpe, Westmuilaud. • On th.t.1341 of July, at lialbadoes, Hannah, the infant' of Dottur Ferphson, Inspector ot 1 Impitals. Sept. s 9, at :Nltooter's-loli, 01.14,1e4 eautetWeliout of the Royal Artillery, in the ot I .r. August Y.B, at Unrtu, aged at .e months, John *lsis, child ut Major Henry Nooth, of his Wjesty'. luth rtzt.of Stuulay seunight, at Shower's Hill, Culuncl Colehroue, Royal Artillery. Same day, at Portsta. lieut. Thomas Vol, Royal NO ' Saturday, Mr. Robert Draper, priwer, of Canter " PRICE OF SI OL I-:A YI.S . II 7 .IIDAY. 9 per Cent. ke.i. I; Slit Boucle .; 7 t. 0 1 90 1)i:to Cons„Gli 6S `lmp. s per Cert.* if 4 per Cents. Exchequer iiiih 9 &AP .5 per Cent. Navy 921 i Ceps. Itar 3CC. CC P, i I.4ng Annuities... , _, 11.o:tary Ticket.; 1,..1.19111. COAL MARKIET."OC3OIIkIR 9 Ship at Market. Ships sold. Price. 411. •• 92 Newcastle 11 495. 6d. to 12 Sunderland 31 1 Stone Coal ' 0 0 0________11...................0. 1 Cinders 1 O Scot:h Coal 0 o Cohn__-...n.4 9 00002 4 1 1. :;: 0 to 4 0 .. od.od. d. ttoo 06•00. lio HIGH WATER TO MORROW A' Morning Afternoon - • LONDON Ball" St min, after .... LONDON , Ptiired by Lay Li. - ke Tr' PybllAirtl tbete, aul a< tUr , 1 ( 3 0 1 14r‘ any partici...at .411• vu Inc steal, t Ind we hope, that although a double pirit'may not rest on individuals, ye t , ltdec. schim it is felt more than one hundred told by ea the' ants at large. His example, Sir, will, I tray f thousands to tread in his steps, aed m 7 1 ., u hr s excellencies. Ido nut say that they 1 - 1 7- i t his transcendant merits ; but as much a l l v a s nicks of the dew, and the drops of the src ire good collectively than any single r i ve 6.1,0 4 may adorn and enrich our country.. y et ~ nor I that the many drops of benevolence, • N. ie collectid by this excellent Institution, will d on the poor, and the distressed, in vati en is of mercy, like 0. - . e dew and the rain f u , , ott , IN, and do even more extensive good d u ow l °hie river whose source is now dried up. 'i l ; og, Sir, reminds me of one of the rep s? and patriots of antiquity (Samson), wne. t a t. great blessing to his country, but whote dash Nita led all its former services, by the de:unclip, he then brought upon its enemies. Fi t h ad many in his life, but it is recorded, • t h at the 'which he slew at his death, were still more d,ae , which he slew in his . life i quote this, not as arum of our deceased friend, who lis t d ohi f good, and not to destroy, but merely to g l o p ar language in reference to hem, and to this In '• ion, in expressing my hope, that the good trr be done by his death may even be greater u m • e did in his life. It Las been said, Sir, that ' l l . * t the time to institute a charitable society, vSe t and commerce are so much depressed, and p. l distress so mush prevails. It atrikes me, his. , that this of all others is the very remelt% the hand of charity, and the reasons ai l a w l been advanced against the Institution man mai 'your. If trade were good, and there wens !rat distress, but full . employment for the put i 41 1 1 : 1 e would be less occasion for a. new initiation r behalf: perhaps in this very time of general's ity, the ALMIGHTY may have seen fit to call 1. nolds to his reward, in order to excite an iais of his virtues,• and a more extensive spirit i e tt - 01 anthropy throughout the nation. With regal SW lie proposed Institution, it meets my most ca. approbation, and I beg to express my chub a Gentlemen who drew up and signed the Ns. in, and to you, Sir, for convening this met.og. • respect to the motion which I have the honour to tad, it appears that life subscriptions ate m' iciuusly to be funded, in order that the intcrestotl m may continue to do good, when the donor' ate more. Considering the :bowies, and car. r oe rty of life, I would recommend all who have tie t o lity to become life subscribers, ia order to do gat ,„t t;:eir decease ; and lite subscribers wool.' di II to continue their annual subscripnoos, last and spirit of their el. trity ohuuld presurerel ai tire." .. Upon seconding the 61: Reslut;on, Dr. ?drip!. 40J )ct:. Mr. Stepl.en Nes!, the Rev. Mr. Merin. D Mr. I'. Sandvr, kilo e. .d successively, and= a timony to the distinguished humanity and becos. ce of this ettimable m.itt. a The town of Adair pbetented last week a a cresting spectacle. Upwards of 200 children , Is ;embled in a school lately built and endowed ft Hon. Mr.. WY:mush* Quin, and uri'dersvesta E amination in the principles of the Christian 3 in, at which the Right Rev. Lord Bishop a! nitre presided, and sever..l of his Clergy a he order and decorum, but particularly the erns of the child.en duting the short period e establishment ot, the school, surprised the s , . us and respectable visitors who attended. Ando" I warded by the presentation from the hand o! is on. Mrs. WYNDIIAM QUIN ot a number of coal'' iler.books, &c. &c. to the different children , ' y 'served them. 'rile Itu'ldin4. which is of the ascription, and calculated to accommodate ready contains 230. 111 R (HA. • Sunday, at the Rectory, HastitTleigh, the Lady of the • dm Baker, of a awn. MAttlt LED. On Thursday, the &I inr.taot. at Birkinhood Chattel, winall, Eel eon of John Aspinall, keg. ot Cletwgir iseAire. tlll Has ric., ttaogt•ter of Wm. Charles Lake, Ei irLisokead Pointy, it tpc !anti county. Tueschty, at St. Gem glooensbury, George W . • sq. Captain In the Hon. EMI India Company's Naval Serest , tcloa,tertuud daughter of the Mee. Dr. Rose, Rector of St. ht Out w icii. * 1 ice y.i h Id% in nuernsey, Capt. F.dwattl P.ce,s, P V to .' albedo. dd. st daughter et the late 1 eery Sayer, Lsti. t4 ll • * , itch. in If ..tot. DIU). On the 7th instant, Mrs. Ann Bownas, at Vi bitbarrow la' ifiltithorpe, Westmuilauti. • On the gflel of July, at lialbadoes, Hanna', the infant of Doctor Fergthson, Isripector of I lar.pitall. Sept. at shooter's-lull, Otlonel eautetWelLure Culett. if the Royal Artillery, in the prim:. ot I.e. August Yoh, at Unrlu, aged to .e months, John Mtreitt, ut Majnr Henry Nooth, of his M:.jesty% 14th regt. o( Sunday se'uoight, a t Shower's MU, Colonel Paget yr • Colehreue, Royal Artillery. Same day, at Portsta. l.feut. Thonias Vol, Royal lisrh Saturday, Mr. Robert Draper, pricier, of Canterbury! ar J. . PRICE OF SI Di YI.S . II 7 .RDAY. 9 per Cent. Rel. -- lt - dia Bolide o; t tr, or 1)i:to Cons.6li 69 Imp. s per Ceut• tit t 4 per Cents. Er's hequer g I e • per Ceot. Nary 92; Cons. nor 3CC. 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