The Sun.
London, England, 1804-04-07 00:00:00

DEATH OF DR. PRIESTLEY.

,
E Xs(' RACT-ilto M- A LITTER FROM THOMASCOOPER,
E,42• NORTHUMDI,RI.AND, To JAMES wooD-
-1-I‘,USF, PR:'Ffssott CHPMIsTRY IN THE UNI.
VERSiTY or PENN,YLVANIA, DATED FEB. 6.
" Ynir. Ol.h friend 1)r. Pit 1 ESTL ET died this
morning,, vyithout pain, at tjeven o'clock. Hr
would..have been 7j 11:1d he lived till the 24. th of
next oionth. He continued composed and cheerful
.to end. He had been apprised of hits dissolution
for some days."

EXT;ACT FROM A CoMMUNICATION IN THR-PHI-

LADELPH IA GAZETTE.

" Since Ma illness at Philadelphia, in the year
Sot, Dr. PRIESTLEY never regained his -former
state of health. His comnlaint was constant indi-
gestion, and -a difficulty of swallowing food of any
kind. Btit during this period of general debility,
he. Was busily employed in printing his Church
Hiatory,
,and the first' volume of his Notes on the
Scriptures, and in making new and original expo_
riments. boring this period, likewise, he wrote
his pamphlet of 'Jesus and Socrates compared, and
reprinted his Essay on Phlogiston.
" From about the beginning of November 1803,
to the middie of January 180.}, his complaint grew
. more serious : yet, he judicious medical treatment,
40d striel atteastien to Diet, he, after some time,
seemed, if not gaining strength, at least not getting
worse ; and his friends fondly hoped that his health
would continue to improve as the season advanced.
He, however, considered his life as very precarious.
Even at this time, besides his miscellaneous read-
ing, which was at all times very extensive, he read
through all the works quoted it his " Comparison
of the different Systems of the Grecian philosophers
with Chriitianity;" composed that work, and
transcribed the whole of it, in less than three
months ; so that he has left it ready for the pieos.
During this period he composed, in eve- dheo his
Second Reply CU Dr. LINN.
. "In the last fortnight of January, his fits of
indigestion became more alatming, his legs. awell-
ed, and hiS weakness increased. Within two days.
of his death, he became so weak that he could
walk but a little way, and that with great diffi-
culty ; for some time he found himself unable to
speak ; hut, on 'recovering a little, he told his
friends that he had never .felt more pleasantly
during.his whole lifetime, than during the time
he was unable to speak. He was fally-iiniible
that he had nut long to live ; yet talked with cheer.
fulness to all who called on him. In the course
of the day, he expressed his thankfulness at being
permitted to die.. quietly, in his family, without
pain, and with every convenience and comfort
that he could wish for. He dwelt upon the pecu-
liarly happy situation in which it • had pleased • the
Divine Being to place him in life, and the great ad-
vantage he had enjoyed in the acquaintance and friend.
ship of some of the best and wisest of men of the age
in which he lived, and the satisfaEtion he derived
from having led an useful as well as happtlife. He
this day gave iliredions about printing the remain-
der of his Notes on .the Scriptures (a work in the
. completion of which he was much interested), and
looked over the first sheet of the third volume, after
it was corrected by those who were to attend to its
completion, and expressed' his satisfadion at the
manner of its being executed.
" Oa Sunday the sth he was much weaker, but
sat up in an arm chair for a few minutes. He de.
sired that John, chap. xi. might be read to him;
he stopped the reader at the 4.51 h verse, dwelt for
some time on the advantage lie had derived from
reading the Scriptures daily, and recommended
this practice. " We shall all (said he). meet finally ;
we only require different degrees of discipline Suit-
ed to our different tempers, to prepare us for final
happiness." Mr. --- coming into his room, he
said, " You see, Sir, I am still living." Mr. -
observed, that he would always live." " Yes, I
Geheve I shill!; we shall meet again in another and
a better
.world." He said this with great anima.
tion, laying hold of Mr. hand in both his
own. After evening rrayers, when his grand_
children were brought to his bed-side, he spoke to,
them separately, and exhorted them to continue to
love each other, &c. " lam going (added he) to
sleep as well as you ; for deatlois only a good long
sound sleep in the grave ; and we shall meet again."
" On Monday morning the 9th of February, on
being asked how he did, he answered in a taint
voice, that he had no pain, but appeared fainting
away gradually. About eight o'clock he desired to
have three Pamphlets which had been looked out
by his direiftions the evening before. He then dic-
tated as clearly and distindly as he had ever done in
his. life, the additions and alterations which he
wished to have done in each. M-e-- took- down
the substance of what he said, which was tead to
him. He observed, "• Sir, you have put in your
own language; I wish it to be mine." He then
repeated oyer-again, nearly word for word, what
he had heroic said, and when it was transcribed,
and read over to him, he said, I.! That is right ;
I have now done."

" About half an hour after he desired that he
might be removed to a cot. About ten minutes
after he was removed to it, he died ; butbreathed
his last so easily, that those who were sitting'close
to him did not immediately perceive it. He had
put his hand to his face, whiCh prevented them from
observing it.
He was born March 14, 1733."

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PUBLIC-OFFICE, BOW-STREET.--On Thursday
Richard Illadon, a hackney coachman,.was charged
on suspicion of stealing.two trunks and a bani-box,
containing property to the amount of several hun-
dred pounds, the property of Martin Williams,
Esq. The Prosecutor is Cornet, in the Duke of
Cumberland's Dragoons, now at Ramsgate, and on
Tuesday evening his wife arrived at the George
and Blue Boar, Holborn, by the Canterbury coach,
at which place she got into the Prisoner's coach with
her luggage, and drove to her residence in Baker-
street, where she got out, but forgot to tell her
servant to take out her luggage, and the Prisoner
drove off with it. When she recolleded that she
had not got her luggage, it put her into such a vio-
lent agitation as to produce a strong fit, and,
when she recovered, she told her friends the
case. A friend of tier's proceeded to Bow-street,
and gave information of the circumstance, and
by the exertions of Atkins, the Officer, the pro-
perty has all been recovered. The Officer went
to the Waterman belonging to the stand of coaches
in Holborn, from which the Prisoner's coach
was taken, and- treated him with liquor. The
waterman declared he did not know the coachman,
nor whow the coach belonged to, and the best de-
scription he could-give of it was, that the fastening
of one of the doors was broke, and. the door was
fastened by means of a bit of stick and some hay;
by this description the Officer traced the coach to be-
long to Mr. Howel, in Guildford-street, whose wife
stated, that she had got the trunks in her possession,
and that the Prisoner Was cut with the coach. The
Officer then went in pursuit of him, and, after-walk.
ing several hours, and making inquiries at a number
nt stand, recognized the coach, near Middle-row,
Holborn, from the description alone of the doors
being fastened with a bit of stick and some hay.
There being some Ladies in the coach, he did not
stop it, but ran after it till they were set down in
Panton.street. The Officer then took the Prisoner
into custody, and. made hint drive the coach home.
Mr. Huwel, the Prisoner's Minter, said, he had
been our on-Tuesday, evening, and as he waS re-
tutning home, at half past ten o'clock, he met the
Prisoner, with a man carrying the trunks; and, on
his inquiring what they had got, the Prisoner said,
they had been left in the coach, and he was going
to take them to his lodgings ; but Mr. Howel ,
sisted on them being taken to his house.
The Prisoner-was committed for' trial.

jou' ph EA:4517(1n was charged with bigamy. His
first Marriage was not proved, in consequence
Which he was committed for farther examination.
Prisoner did not deny the charge, but said, he did
rot recolle6t he Kral a married man when he was last
married. •

Robert G: ton, who is in-.custody on suspicion
of having committed a number of depredations,
by means of getting into houses under the false pre-
tenee of being sent with biscuits end fruit, and
while the servant is gone in to make inquiries, run-
ning off with the most valuable articles he could lay
hold of, was brought up for examination before Sir
RICHARD FORD and THOMAS ROBINSON, Esq.
and committed for trial.

Neat/ mode of extinguishing Fire.---As the Maid;
servant of Mr. WilbAr, of Lewes, was
kitchen fire last. week, it by some acciden !1'111`.;
ri;cated to her clothes, and instantly burst i"tn.
flame, that in 211 human probability would h
her to death (its the rest of the family were itr-th6ll_,
beds), had she not had the presence Of-mind ,toi rut'
into the yard, arid there plunge herself into a tub°f
water, which effedually•.extinguisbed'.the
The noise occasioned by her :flouncing into the ,tubs'
3woke her master, who, on looking out of the Win;
dow, discovered the poor girl sitting up • to. Ile
chin in water he instantly ran down to her asslsl;
zwce, and had the satisla6tion to find that. she 11,11 -
received no very great injury, although bevel°
was burnt entirely off her back, in her passage r`)
the tub.

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