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tether with the Chapeeilier of the Exchequer, were
Member.. Wheel once the matter was properly Pet
on foot, the Committees would find the wry pretty
well Hewed by a comfit ty of exertion. It
might not he right all in a moment to deprecate
the gin.i of alms in tbe street ; for there were too
ineurcilierts who, if mot relieved to.tlay, would die
toonorrow.--(Heard—So far as funds were con-
cetned.it wee impossible to suppose, that its a case
of stieliwYkrist and paramount distress', ass appeal
would in this Country be made in vein.--(Hase.)—
• Perlmps rose* avastance would be derived by ass
inquiry into the existing parochial fonds, the tardy
administration• of which, owing to the numerous
and complicated inquiries the eacers had to make.
most atiseinent in many iustsoces the evil. This
was 'unavoidable from she present state of the claim-
ants, who beset the officers at their own Moises and
every where else, -and really extort that so which.
often they have uo Ilrhe Committee to be
appointed could co-operate with the parishes, who
• would Itt their turn timouielly swim in the general
work.
Mr. HARRISON retiedietillef 11111164111 made by
the preceding speaker. sod impreared..hlo
lion that its the mod the sell et osendleity, Ida*
had too often beta made steal would be effec.
t molly removal by shot soil* whirell.direeted Affect
so ably erifottsd -by the geutimmin olio had just
spoken. 'FM& evil was now unit-woolly felt, and
he hoped the time was sot fass distant *Wait would
he effettoelly reamed. People of opabenee, re-
make paYtteolarly, were tame 'opined than- any
other elan to the•toost ellfensiro &shanties* ie the
public tenets, as they dome along or slopped in
• Their alevines. Tlliallermilonat of beggarieindd
mint actually desist' froartimir applicatioos to indi-
viduals until they get samsdnog; and in this man-
tier people, who want& wikerwiee administer to real
• wants; Iwasaki disgestevt-...entl relined that aid to
- wind( trite' misery was entitled: '
Mr. Hutto (the East ladle Proprietor) Mt great
pleasure in moving the Reisotatiou fur the appoint-
ment of a Committee, to consider the -beat means
• of currying the object of,,the• Meeting into effect.
Although he bed not the honeur_of being one of
thaw who suggested this Meeting. yet he felt the
importauce of the 'object sit much. that lie called
yesterdey to inquire from the gentlemen engaged
in the basin ens, some informative as to the means
• which they iutended to sanest to remove or miti-
gate the evil. Oa so large,and complicated a sub-
• jeer, it was impossible to expect that any two ylaus
of action wo6ld exactly correspond—there was,
however, same point on which all must agree. mane-
" ly, the magnitude of the evil, and the necessity. if
possible, for its removal.—/Ham.).-That this
great evil was argent end extemilb, they had the
• snort dertmestrative proof. It was of a nature to
baffle all raffia, attempts, and could only be re-
duced by the grades) apphastion of a comprehen-
sire and .fieff-ezecuteil system. Time Cuinusittee
• would see that the subject was a difficult one, from
Ilse fact of its having occupied the tiegirlature for
some years. The Report of the Flame of Com-
mons, drawn up in the year OM. would furiiisls a
..east sties. of information to -the Committee, yet
the difficulties which the Member. viiw iu the pro.
of their inquiry were so great. that in the
.....•=ort they did not even venture to recommend
aliy.speeilic plan for the removal or the growing
• wed. This was, in his opiujoii, • a decisive proof
that time evil was not so easily removed as souse
_gentlemen arenied to think. linked, he thought
a total removal of mesidicity was out of the
• - - entice' ; but whet fee gove this a* his opi-
-:#4* ' he was free to state his belief; that the
• of humanity might do much good by turn-
ing their attention to the subjeet in the way
.Were about to do. and might remove no
blare of the prevailing misery.—(App/asst.)
• They might confer much real benefit cum the cono.
• !soapily by removing. or initigetiug one-half, or two-
.- "thirds of the aggregate mass of sufferiug which was
'mow so conspicuous.—/Hear, hear.)—The Coma.
''mince would, besides the Report to which he had
Jost alluded, have another document befqre them
' also containing a quantity of desirable Informa-
tion—he referred to the Report on time Poor Laws.
In the present stage of the proceedings of the Gen,.
lianas who had convened this Meeting, it would,
• perhape be as well to refrain from details which
!'eoold be better considered at a future period. Ma
would, however, beg leave to throw out a few
-! hints. ow the present occasion.—(Hear, hear.).
In die first place he desired that he should be ces.
entered as one of those who thought that the exist-
ing instituters's, of this country were sufficient to
keep down a vast portion of time evil now complain.
rd of; if they were properly sAnsisiistered.
tHrox.)—lt was with this feeling that he approved
• of the suggestion of co-emending with the pens.
chial officers on a reciprocal system ; not only so
as thatlocal distreesei, should be severally seen and
mitsgeteil, btit also tlutt the matter should. by this
proper appropriation of labour. be brought within
a practicable compass,. It had been truly said. that
one Consniittee would be inadequate to go through
all the cases of distress which mina at once be pre.
seated, and that this beanie's could only be effect-
ed by an srningenieut of Sub.Corainittees. The
plait or-Mt, Martin sues sis.exceedougly good one. as
it would, in the shortest possible time. bring under
the eye of the Head-Committee the whole class of
the mendicants now in the metropolis. That Gest-
tlenian hail. however, in his classification of .oau-
• pens into those who lord and had not parochial set-.
ileintisis, omitted to allude to two descriptions of suf-'
ferers. who were undoubtedly entitled to the utmost
commiseration auil relief. One description were to
be suet with in every quarter of the town, lie meant
those poor natives of the East, the Lateen. who
were brought in tech numbers to this country. Are
imiquiry lino the eases of these poor fellows emellr•
be, perhaps, ell that was wanted. fur in the diptiAT
every one of them, the Mats who brought hies ieset •
was 'obliged to enter into a security of one thole•
sand rupees (half-crowns), for his safe return.
and yet they were to be found starving and iiegleet-
ed. The East India Company had ao establish..
mesa for the Loaders in their employment, and
would, no•doubt, assist in providing and enforcing
the necessary subsistence for the p 610,0116 to wham
1w alluded—and the Committee could effect thus at
Wile or ea expense. There wee another class
omitted—he meant the poor Africans, who were also
to he reels in every quarter of the town, and in whose
intrfelt. to the honour of this country. 60 Mtn+
public IyoSVAtily was excited. Vie African '

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tution, lie wag convinceil, would provide a proper
asylum fcr maity.Of theta people. Indeed he should
have hero glad to have seen its illu.tii President
(his Ruy4ll Highness the Duke of Gloucester) in the
Chair of this Meeting oil the prseitt Decision.—
In this manner two much aggrieved classes of ob.
jeer would berided for, and tit little expense.
It would he el evert of the general duty to trans-
mit suck sailistias shnisld be fouled objects of dim
trees to tint Association already formed, which had
this chess of persons exclusively under its humane
protection. Soldiers also would be easily provided
for—many of them hail pensions of wt. or 141, per
annum, which, with a little addition, would be
found aufficieut ; and in this part of their inquiry
ha knew they could rely on the moist:ince and co-
operation of his Royal Highness the Custitnauder-
in.Chief to relieve this class of. individoida. A
great benefit arialog front proper clits.ification would
be the detection of the large swiss of impostors
. incorporated with the paupers now in the streets,
and thootrit, as he said before, he did not think
wiendicity would be entirely suppressed, yet he had
no doubt, that, from their exertions, its evil
, would be considerably reduced. The Honourable
Gentleman
.again adverted to the advantages to
be derived in the progress of this undertaking
from • proper subdivision of labour ; by which
intuits the exteut of the evil may with facility be
laid open. and a proper ohm arrisitged for meeting
•ite Wrens! parts. A subscription was in the first
instance necessary, to afford ivaisl•nue to the real
:objects who may be before the Connuittee ; and-he
was sure it would be soon found to contain the
names of the first persona in the country, many of
whom •he had no doubt would hive been this day
prevent, were it not for the *lnset notice which had
been given of the Meeting. Ile Iris/tied she public
Papers would /Word the Meeting the great value of
their aid, find give that publicity to their inten-
tions, objects, and necessities, which would Send,
forth to the country at large the undertaking in
which they were engaged, and secure for it exten-
sive rapport mid interest. Ile had •no doubt that
the Committee would derive this. awl from lite
public Press, -in the pursuit of their lab.mrs--and
he concluded by saying, that snitch good must re-
sult from the publication of this day's proceedings.
—1 Applause.)
The Rev. Mr. BUDGE seconded the Resolution.
From his connexion wills a oafish which had ass ex-
tensive populotinit he was fully impressed with the
melancholy stale of the lower classes, and the im-
passibility of their receiving at this time soy thing
like,adrquate relief frosts the parochial funds. With
this impression, he came to that Meeting to co.opt.
rate ii may measures that may appear calculated to
relieve the aufferisigs and disiremes of so large • pot...
tem of starving fellow.creaturett.—( Hier.)
Mr. Touts proposed the names of Gentlemen
for the Committee. The great object, he said,
would he to establish a Cu. 'flee. hawing a sort of
centruf office from which the Sisls.Coi sssss titers op-
pointed 'hookd branch forth. The result of a pro-
per claisdication would, he was convinced, be pee;
ductive of immense benefit to the coininusisty in
every respect. A set of queries could be provided,
arranged so as that when the mimes of peepers were
entered, they would coinprke a registry of their
cases. lit allusion to what hail fallen- from Mr.
Hume. ,he begged to say, that the Lowers had a
provision assigued to them—the Africans certainly
had not. The first thing to be dune, would be to
issue tickets to subscribers, for such persons as
were cousidered proper objects—this consideration,
of course, to be the, result of :111 investigation by
Comilittee. This Alersiug, though not numerous,
was highly regrettable, and he had no doubt would
receive the public support which it •deserved.--
( Heor.)—When they recollected the interest that
attached last summer to a visionary scheme, he was
sure the public would not he found less alive to
one which was practicable. and so full of benefit to
its dearest interests.—(Hear.)
Mr. Fast:ss seconded she appointment of the
names proposed fur the Committee. He said the
evil was ost all sides admitted to be great and
apparent : the only question was as to the remedy;
and the man who iu the course of the inquiry was
found to have suggested the best tow, might, on
his death-bed, say that he had not lived in vain.
Let not the gigantic appearance of the ',inject deter
them fruits undertaking the work. if they were
only able to save from starvation a part of the suf-
ferers, a great object would be attained by their
exertions.—( Hear, hear.)—The road to utilitary
glory was 110 M shut—the Temple of Janus was
closed, lie hoped, for ever. The ranks of humanity
now led to honour, and he hoped they would be
soon filled by an effective force.—(Applause.)
Mr. FiLOD seconded the proposition for nomi-
nating the Chairman to be Treasurer of the Asso-
ciatioo. lii agreeing with those alto considered this
question to bea political one, be could not help
saying. contradictory as it might seem to his ad-
mission, that it was at the same time one of the
!ugliest and mast important politieul ones, nut in-
deed as cawing within the sphere of their little
party bickering., but which went to the root of the
frame of society. It was truly said in Scripture,
that when One of the members was indisposed. the
rest .suffered from the malady: so it was here. So-
ciety was like a pyramid—its lime was formed by
the lower clasoes—and when the strength of these
became diminished, the whole fabric must totter
without timely relief. •
On the motion of Mr. BLUNDELL, Mr. BOD.•
atm was appointed Secretary. .
Mr. Memoir again urges the Meeting to use
every effort to continue the work which they had
now begun. It had nothing in it of political feel..
iug—their great object war nut to brace the causes
from which the prevailing distress grew, bet to
point oat and relieve the objects thus desolate. It
was quite enough bur thentJA secure a remedy with.
out itiquiriug into the nature of the origin from
which the evil sprung. He was happy to see Gen-
tlemen present (the Hum (iesitlerisait alluded to the
.Reporters from the Newspapers) who would put this
point to the public in a better light than he could,
and who would thereby do great service in the
cruse.—(Hear, hear. /=lt loot hero rasa that large
funds would not be howl necessary. He thought
differently ; and he much feared that they would,
on inquiry, find real ohjects• enough for any funds
their most 6:towline expectation could' devise,.
The worthy Gentleman concluded by pioposistg the
Thais's% if the Nlre!isig to Mr. Ottey, the Propries.
for of the ('sues, trod Ai,chot Titian. tior his gra-

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tuitom Wier not ouly of the weal town for the pie-
reept Meeting, 'iota's° of Cotunoittee-Tooloo duriug
their Cotton. buoinesr.

This Nlutiou volts Unanimously cariird.
M►. Toottsliere took occasion to trail the fol-
lowing passage from it parochial document :

" liniledPariihea of Saila A lidrew,Hullburn, above Bare,

and Saint George the Martyr, Middlesex.
" The last observatiou your Committee would press on
the attention of the Board, and their fellow parishioners. is
the mischievous cunarqueuce of beutuwiug their elerrum.y.
wary roce to cum ))))) to street beggars, uiae•teuths at least of
wheat ale gran imtarsto►s; and to the few rentainiug real
objects of charity a serious injury is dune, by the encourage-
ment thus giveu them, and which ham a tendency to aggra-
vate their miseries of 'Mud sod body, by imbuing them to
continue wretched wanderers, exposed to all the inektuen-
cies of the season, instead of their being compelled to have
recourse to the r 1 properly chargeable with their main-
tenauce."

Me. FitExu alluded to the approaching Middle-
sex Sessions. at which, he said, more than 300 un-
provided objects would be set loose. This was a
serious consideration, which ought to meet the eye
of the Government. _ _

Mr. ROWCROFT strongly urged the necemiity of
a general co-operation ; nothing, he said, could be
done o►► a large scale by a single effort, but co►►-
stancy accomplished great things.
A Gentleman stated, that by a continued effort
the paupers in the city of-Bath .were reduced to a
comparatively trifling number.
• Thanks were then voted to the Chairman, who
expressed his acknowledgments fur the favour
conferred upon hint, and hoped that, on a future
day, they should have claimants for the honour of
filling that Chair who would be calculated to do
more justice to the object of the Meeting than it
was in his potter to confer upon it.
The Alerting then separated, and the Committee
is sfiortly expected to submit a specific plan to the
consideration 6r. future Meeting, relative to the
important inquiry Intrusted to them.
'Subscriptions were entered into to promote the
objett of the Meeting.

PO L/C E.

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MANSION MOUSE.
PROPHECY.
A person, describing himself to be David Jeffereoa May-
. ward, Esq residwg at the New Hommuirm coaust_gordeu,
and 'brawl iu fashiosable costume, addreowd the Lord
Mayor, and itifornied his Lordship that there would be an
earthireke to-eight, which would destroy the City, Wed ad-
vised his Lordship to get at the tuber side of Temple-bar,
as dreadful ealognitiee were at hood, which would hereafter
produce a hiyAer monument than that on Ftals.etreetlial, to
record the relasify.
The Lotto MAYOR thanked the Gentleman for big ween-
ies, awl said he would pay all prope► attention to it.
Mr. D. J. %layuard—" I am happy your Lordship is urn.
erosible of your danger." He then left the office, exclaim-
ing, " Take warning! Take warning!"

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now homes was charged yesterday by John Waugh,
one of the Weide sif the Ward uf Cripplegate•Within, with
heists a seepleiees character. He stated, that on Wednes-
day evening be receives* several persons, whom be knew to
he reputed thieves, beiterine abet • package waggon .he-
lunging to Mr. Hone, which was standiug at Loading-wall.
At last oue of them seised a parcel, and was running off with
it, when the alarm was giver, ow which the parcel was drop-
ped, and the witness was prareated by his coofederates keno
Revering the thief. He, however, secured the Prisoner. He
did not see bins lake any tieing, bet he was certain he was
in company with those who atteraptell the robbery.
The Prisoner, iu his defence, said be was a baker, and
resided at No. le, Devossltire-Ortet, Grove-lase, Mile.end ;
he bad been speodiag the evening with a friend, al the Old
Bailey, and was returning home, when lie saw a crowd at
Looduo-wall, and bad just inquired *hat was the waiter,
when be was taken into custody.
Several sespeetatcpersisszedos gave the Prisoner a good clia-
racier, and he was•
now erne/FT.

Several investigations took place at the office duril4
'steamy, and they did nut finish till about half-past ten
recheck at Night, respecting the state of • man who WWI
wounded and bruised in an affray on Timidity night, at a
late Your, which originated at the Ad elphi poblie-huuse
Adam-street, Ade • Varintst statements west brought
to the office respecting the unfortunate man. It was said that
he was knocked down at the door of the public-house, was
kicked after be was down, and stumped upon. At kettle
Mr. Pippard„ the landlord of the public-house, was
brought to the office at ought by Salmon, the constable,
charged with ammonia' William Lyng, who slated, that on
Twelfth Night he supped with bit brother, who keeps a
house within a few doors of Mr. Pappard's public-house, in
Adam-street. He left his loather 's house about twelve
o'clock, accompanied by a friend, John Barton. As they
were passing the house of Mr. Pippard, they heard a
woman *Mein, and they thought she sang so well they
were induced to go into the house for the purpose of hear-
ing her to better advantage. %%len they went into the
house they calkil for a pint of porter, sod proceeded into
the back parlour where the female was singing • song.
Mr. Pippard and some other persons were smoking toil
drinking, and there was • Twelfth Cake ou the table. A
dispute arose soon after between his friend John Barton,
and a man whose same proved to be Isaac Wood,
which coded is their stripping to fight, and they were pro-
ceeding into the street to fight; Mr. Pippard, the landlord,
interfered, and esdeavoured to permed, them to fight in
his house • however, they fought at the door— ulna, observ-
ing that his friend John Banos (who was • much smaller
man than Isaac Wood, the man he was fighting with) was
likely to be beaten, he endeavored to persuade him to leave
off 'gluing, when Mr. rapport!, the landlord, came op Ars
him, and, without the least provocation, knocked him down.
On his recovering himself, he found his friend John Barton
lying in the kennel, enable in move, from the injuries which,
he said, he had received from Mr. Pippard, the landlord, by
his kicking and jemmies glom his body whew he was down.
Several Fermin related the unprovoked ill treatment
which Barton had received from Mr. Pippard, but not woe
of theme saw the traimmeeioe, but they all agreed that John
Barton said Mr. Pippard had kicked sad jammed epos
him, and he was, in cousectueoce, considered to be In 111 d• l.
gerous state.
Mr. Hems, before whom the business was investigated,
very severely censured the coadoet of Mr. Pippard for en-
eouragiag • light is his house, mid, as such, considered him
as improper penmen to keep • polifie-house. His violent and
outrageous isterferenee with the ponies afterwards was still
more cesiamble. Hie assault opens William Lyme was most
• unprovoked, and if he did mot God bail to answer the ems-
plaist at. the Sessions be should commit him, aunt, besides
that, he could mot part with him till be knew the slate of
'John Barton, the injured man.
Mr. Stanton, surgeon of the Weed, who had attended Bar-
ton, was sent for, and on his arrival at the oAicr, he slated,
that he had bees called up between two and three o'clock to
attend a wounded man ; be, is comessioence, went to a lease
in Adam-street, Adel*, whets he examiard, the body 14
John Barton. He famed him auffering.under severe puss,
with a considerable degree of fever, his body was very lam is
hemmed, said motif his ribs were twaskesa. Its the cosine of
Wederteley his fever had so much tocressod, that he lowed
it petrology to call is a physicians Dr. Dunishough, the Phy-
sician to the Furey*, mei the fever eutitinmeii-oje has 1.0
atroag that sight that he could not pronounce him out of
danger.
Barton's statement respecting the viokoce he • had re-
ceived from Mr. Pippard wade communed' to writing, in
the presence of nom al wittiest*, end he signed it.

fIitEItSIXRRND DOCTOR BURNEI.

We have already noticed the death and burial of
this excellent (10111. The fullowing account is
copied from " The aid lure Gtozeite :"

We have now the melancholy; task of recording the death
of thus; distinguished scholar, the Hey. Charles Horsey, D I).
Hu Christmas Eve, after reading to his family the sermon
he had prepared f.w delivery on the succeeding day, he me-
wed to brit is perfect health. About ten o'clock on the fol-
lowing morning, the servant, upon going into his chamber
discovered, that in the act of dresses' himself (probably
while N looping to tie his shoe-string), an apoplectic it bad
seised him, sell he was exteredeslAnnsioslitom
Medical assistance was isamediatirtrpfocered. The fatal
blow bad, however, fallen; and, altbunkit life contioned
till nine i.s7clock on the Sunday morning, there were nu hispei
of recovery fens the 111111111ellt of the attack. He lingered,
almost speechless, till the hoar of dissolutiou.
A few brief sentences have told the circumstances of his
death, and his mortal remota' have been committed to the
grave.
Nut so shall pass away the:sensory of this excellent scholar.
While Loarmisq shall record the acquirements of her chil-
dren—while the virtnes of social life shall he dear to the re.

eullectioo—while a vigorous ■wderstanding, cbasteued by
deep erudition, shall ennoble the name of man, his Dante
shall be And amimgat the must di►tinguished.
The World, by common consciii, has lung etkuowledged
him the first classical scholar of the age. When Nonni died,
the palm became oudispiited; and, though we have still left
amongst us men, whom days of undivided toil, and eights
of undiminished study have rendered accomplished and
profound, even by these the name of Burney will continue
to be adduced, as of owe who dad reached the most eminent
literary ascendancy. ,
The Rev. Dr. Burley was the sun of Charles Burney,
Doctor of Music.

At an early age he diatipm,pisheil himself for his, pro:.
Selene, in elassicallearniugt and as au timeliest to Dr.RIP•e,
at Chiswick, he perfected himself in thou studies, which
in bis later years acquired him the high reputation he oolong
enjoyed.
Upon the Doctor's marriage with Miss Rose, the manage-
meet of the school devolved upon him ; and fur many yaws
at Haessiersseith, and afterwards at Greenwich, the beat
portion of his life was passed in the laborious duties am
schoolmaster.
The eminence to which many of his pupils have risen is
the Pulpit, at the Oar, and in the Senate.. bears sicoug
'patrimony to his unwearied amitluity is thin arduous protes-
t skim.

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lahorimie, indeed, are.the deities of a schoolmaster, and
highly praiseworthy is he who can patiently apply himself
to the instruction of youth.
From the peculiar mortification% attendant npon this
task Di. Burney was not exempt, although he toiled for so
many years, and with so much sneers, in this wearisome
profession. After a period of between 29 and se years de.
voted to his school, he thus steamily, in the Preface to his
Abridgment of Bishop Pearson, speaks the leaguer of ex-
perience:
" During the latter part of this period, the dilEculties,
the toils, and the salacitaile of the schoolmaster's occupation
have been gradually and greatly increased; not so much
bp file eril days in sekiell we are /Wien,' as by those extra-
ordinary aud destructive indulgeenries, with which children
are now gratified, during the seasons at which they arc uu-
der the roof of their parents"
" As long as the domestic system of education preserves
its present form, it will inevitably produce a distaste for
sillily at school, which the active exertions of a master must
cionlist ; • repugnance to regulations which he must vigor-
ously correct, soil a defiance to authority which be mast in-
ressaidly labour to restrain. Let not my lwelhren, however,
though the prospect is gloomy, and their cares are augnieut-
et', shrink (nun the active fulfilment of this arduous task ;
hut let them recollect, amidst watchfulness, which must en-
fel:We'd* stoutest frame, and amidst exertions, which must
enervate the most vigorous understandiun., that no occupa-
tion can be more eminently useful than and in which they
are engaged."
Friw this enervating profession the Doctor, in 1812,
totally retired, leaving in the hoods of bitten's cliarte which
he had himself so long and so lisuotirahly exercised.
In the year 1807, Dr. Burney entered into Holy Orders;
anal has resided, since his retirement from the school, at his
Rectory-house at Deptford. There, in Ike continued pro.:
recution of literary pursuits, were passed his latter years.
SorrOuniird by the ruble library he had collclntil, for enjoyed
in the bosons of his family those pleasures which a cultivated
mind can :thle appreciate.
In the full vogoiar of manhood, with the promise of an ex:
tended life, he was summoned suddenly, but not unprepared,
to the mansions of eternity.
The sorrows of the living are not within our prneitice in
this brief notice Of the dead. May the proud memory lie
tae left behind him be souse consolation to libel! afillietions!
Nu man coedit endear himself to his friends more
thoroughly than the subject of this sketch. His mind stored
with the riclicA trimmers of antiquity, was equally attentive
to the literature of the passing day, aud the lighter orna-
ments of social converse flowed front him with a peculiar
grace and playfulness. To the attainments of the Scholar,
ass edited the polished carriage of the Geolleinau—and in
Isis conversation, the eye could speak what the tongue might
leave unfinished ' His friends will long remember the fasci-
nation, and to those who kuew him nut, the charm is incom-
municable.

Asa Divine, the discipline and orthodoxy of the Chureh
'wield in him a staunch sad steady support... ; ankalthough
be published but few works on religions subjects, those
which he has left are awful and important.

" From him cradle
" He was a Scholar, and a ripe and good one. •
" Exceediug wise, fair spoken, and persuading."

character
—we
pre.
pluhan: onoistrs
inhzimuintdruns.eleidattliyiscrofei:stiyi:ffroiliiiit
Asa husband 4051 a father, he was kind, atectionate, and
indulgent.
Al a sass, be possessed, in ■n enviable degree, those,
qualities which• render . life niopeeinble and happy—his
labile of association with the higher flakes never pirvented,
him from returning with satisfaN' l•t the pleasures of the
His oba•FMslions were drawn from those mielllY soOrees
of instnection—hawks and men; and lie hied seas quality more
remarkalk than bin rapid and natooral transition from the
one to the other, adapting' his Milt(' as each, as the occasion
of the n eeeeee esit demanded
lien friends were unwept the wise and good—his aihnirers,
■ll whir knew him.
Lofty as this praise may seem, it is wit ovtiArnined. Of
him the language of truth mast access:it ilv, tit many re.
sprees, be ibe laagssagv of panegyric—Alas'.
" Case flatteey soothe the dull cold ear of death"
11'e claim not fair his 111C1111.11-y MI exemption fr human
frmiltits—but *lnter., his might have been, they obtruded
not use the world—to that world be has left a imam' eXtlllopte
of talents, incheitry, and learning. And we trues, that in
remitting our Inas amount to the Great and Eternal Judge,
our better wear, with his, may be accepted, our beanies
pardoned.
Farewell, at length, lu life's delusive dream,
White folly ranges through each wide extreme--
Farewell the bury world, its hopes and fears,
And elorquer'd messury of departed years
The alert has sped—the parting shank's o'er,
And what was Varney nett, is new no mine.
And yi t, bow seldom learning shall eneviiiie
So fresh a laurel Ms her sons as tidier—
So long as Science any marsh can claim,
'Fir after sere shall descend sky Milne ;
And still, in Friendship's oohed, shall line the hours
So often pulish'd lay thy *aortal powers—
le humble hope, thy .00il has eased above,
We tract t►y spirit to a Savhiur's love.
3d ✓ntroary, IRIS.

J.-9.

The /stet frigate. the Nimrod •Inop of war, and
Cherokee euu-brig, are now in Crowed)! harbour,
••%:•,t timid, having LOW! ill there Saturday se'nuidht.