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London, England, 1845-12-15 00:00:00

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his hands and feet were as cold as clay. When the doctor
came in, and saw him in the chair, leasing upon my breast,
he felt his pulse, and said, He is a dead man.' Mr. Par-
sons said, Ido not believe it; you must do something/
doctor!' He said, • I cannot; he is now near 4is--litst
breath.' And indeed, so it was • for he fetched Initiine
and stretched out his feet, and breathed no more. This was
exactly at six o'clock. We continued rubbing his legs,_
hands, and feet with warm cloths, and bathed him with
spirits for some time, but all in vain. I then put him into
a warm bed, the doctor standing by, and often raised him
upright, continued rubbing him, and putting spirits to his
nose for an hour, till all hopes were gone. The people came
in crowds to see him; I begged the doctor to shut the
door."
Of the funeral he says—
" When the corpse was placed at the foot of the pulpit,
close to the vault, the Rev. Daniel Rogers made a very
affecting prayer, and openly confessed, that under God, he
owed his conversion to the labours of that dear man of God,
whose precious remains now lay before them. -Then he cried
out, omy father, my father,' then stopped and wept, as
though his heart would break, and the people weeping all
through the place. Then he recovered, and finished his
prayer, and sat down and wept. Then one of the deacons
gave out that hymn,
Why do we mourn departing friends,' &c.,
some of the people weeping, some singing, and so on alter-
nately. The Rev. Mr. Jewel preached a funeral discourse,
and made an affectionate address to his brethren, to lay to
heart the death of that useful man of God; begging that he
and they might be upon their watch-tower, and endeavour
to follow his blessed example. The corpse wee then put into
the vault, and all concluded with a short prayer and dismis •
sion of the people, who went weeping through the streets to
their respective places of abode."

PRICE SD.

The Federal-street Church, where Whitfield was buried,
was but a short distance from the house i❑ which he
died, and on my way to it I stopped at the sexton's
house. That functionary was not at home, but a little
boy came up to me with several keys in his hand, and
said he could show me the church, which he did. There
was not much to see, excepting the Whitefield monu-
ment ; and when I had read the inscription thereon, I
asked the boy to show me the vault.
" No one but father does that," said the boy ; "
he won't be here this half hour."

"Is there any one about the neighbourhood
knew Whitefield ?" I asked of him.

" Yes, there's old Sam'! Wilkinson, as lives in
street—he says he seed'un."
And then, in obedience to my reque;t, the lad pilotE
me to the house of a very old man, of whom I inquire
if he had known the great preacher ?
" Yes," said he, " and I was in the room with him
just five minutes or so after he died. I was only six
years old then, and I don't know as I ever went with
the crowds to hear him, but I saw him dead and
buried."

I had further talk with this old man, and then went
back to the church, at the door of which I found the sex-
ton waiting for me. He preceded me through the aisle of
the church, and, opening a little narrow door by the side
of the pulpit, we passed into a dim, dingy room behind it.
and from thence, descending four or five steps, found
ourselves in a brick vault, which lay directly under the
pulpit. It was two or three minutes before my eyes gut
accustomed to the gloom ; but soon objects became dis-
cernable, and I saw three old coffins, two of them ser-
ving as supports to the third, which lay across them.
One of these coffins contained the remains of the Rev.
Jonathan Parsons, the pastor of the church when
Whitefield was preaching here, and another holds the
bones of the Rev. Joseph Prince, a blind travelling
preacher, who died in 1791, and the third was White-
field's.

Just as if he was going to exhibit some common
curiosity, the sexton trimmed his lamp, then lifted the
lid off an old coffin, and holding the flame close to it,
said, " Here, look in and then, pointing to a heap of
bones, gathered together at the head of the shell, said, in
a very business-like tone, _ _

" THAT'S THE MAN."
Yes—there lay the man,or, at least, all that remained
of the once mighty preacher. For all I knew, the heap
of dirt, the skull, and the loose bones, might have been
any one else's. But a strange awe came over me at his
words, " That is the man."
I took the skull in my hands and examined it
narrowly. The forehead was rather narrow than broad—
by no means high. I soon put it back again to the coffin,
for I bethought me of Shakspeare's malediction, and felt
as if I had committed sacrilege by touching the precious
relics. It is said that one of the arm bones was stolen,
and is in England. Philip, in his " Life and Times,"
refers to this with just indignation. For my own part,
did I know the possessor of it, I would print his name,
for the purpose of shaming him into restoration.
There are some other interesting sepulchres in New-
buryport ; amongst them, the grave of 'Thomas Parker,
one of the early ministers. Cotton Mather thus quaintly
and beautifully speaks of him
" He went unto the immortals in April, 1677, in the 82d
year of his age, after he had lived all his days a single man;
but a great part of his days engaged in Apocalyptic studies,
he went unto the Apocalyptic virgins who follow the Lamb
whithersoever he goes."

With as anecdote of Whitefield; which, I believe, is
not generally known in England, I conclude this article:
"In the last visit but one which Whitetield paid to
America, he spent a day or two at Princeton, under the roof
of the Rev. Dr. Finley, then president of the college at that
place. At dinner, the Doctor said, Mr. Whitefield, I hope
it will be very long before you will be called home, but when
that event shall arrive, I should be glad to hear the noble
testimony you will bear for God.' You would be disap-
pointed, doctor,' said Whitefield, I shall die silent. It has
pleased God to enable me to bear so many testimonies for him
during my life, that he will require one from me when I die.
No, no. It is your dumb Christians, that have walked in
fear and darkness, and thereby been unable to bear a testi-
mony for God during their lives, that he compels to speak out
for him on their death-beds.' "

This anecdote was related a few months ago to a gen-
tleman of New York, by'an individual now living, who
was then a student in the college, and a boarder in Dr.
Finley's family. The manner of Whitefield's death ful-
filled his predi6tion. WHIZ.

CALLING OUT OF THE MILITIA.
The following circular in reference to the enrolment
of the Militia has been addressed by the War-office to
the colonels of the different regiments in Great Britain:

" GREAT BRITAIN.
" War-office, December, 1845.
" Her Majesty having been graciously pleased to
signify her commands that the permanent staff of the
several regiments, battalions, or corps of the Militia of
Great Britain shall be completed to the numbers limited
by the Act of the sth and 6th William IV., cap. 37, I
have the honour to acquaint you that the establishment
of the staff of the regiment under your command should
be completed as soon as practicable, so as to consist of
the numbers specified in the margin—
" 1 Adjutant.
" 1 Sergeant-Major.
" 7 Sergeants.
" A communication will be addressed to you respect-
ing the adjutants by the Lord-Lieutenant of the county.
As it appears that there are several vacancies in
the rank of sergeant, and it being highly essential that
those vacancies should be filled by active and efficient
non-commissioned officers, whose former services in the
regular army have rendered them particularly qualified
for the duty of drilling recruits in the modern and im-
proved principle of military instruction, I have caused
to be prepared a list of non-commissioned officers (pen-
sioners of Chelsea Hospital), whose efficiency and ex-
cellent character combine to render them eligible to
supply the existing vacancies; and I beg leave to state
that, upon the expression of your wish to avail yourself
of the facility offered by this arrangement, I shall be
enabled to recommend to you, from among the pension-
ers residing in your district, the number of sergeants
requisite to complete the stefE
" Adverting to the recent inspection of the staff of
your regiment, I have to observe that, although the in-
specting officers have reported that several of the ser-
geants are unfit for the performance of duties, in the
event of the Militia being embodied, for active service,
yet they are not wholly incapacitated from the perform-
ance of local duties incidental to the ballot, enrolment,
as well as the exercise of the Militia, and would be able
to afford valuable information on the first training; upon
these grounds, it is not deemed expedient, at present, to
discharge all such sergeants and replace them by others;
but as there may be some who, from their great age,
long service, and infirmities, are no longer competent to
the performance of any duties whatever, it would be
very desirable that those sergeants should be discharged
and recommended to the Commissioners of Chelsea Hos-
,
pital for the grant of a pension; but before any definitive
measures are adopted upon that point, I should be glad
hnnit obYfleMilEseilitia."
to receive a statement upon the inclosed form, showing
the names and services in all ranks of the sergeants
whom you may desire to select for discharge upon this
occasion, preparatory to the adoption of tdryanteßnßtoirßmT.
ea-
sures respecting them.
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your the
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" Colonel of the

SHIPWRECK.—In a letter from Barra, dated Bth
ult., we have the following:—" A vessel, the crew of 'which
are all spaniards, was lately stranded near Alasdale. She is
Imbedded in sand, so that the amount of injury suffered has
not yet been ascertained. The crew of the unfortunate vess el
were all saved by means of a rope cast from her towards the
shore. Part of the cargo, which consists of fish, has beau
landed, but cannot be sold until the Comptroller of Customs
arrive from Stornoway."—lnverness Courier.
EADVERTISEMENT.]—FEMALE COMPLAINTS AND
HOLLOWAY'S PILLS.—So great are the known virtues of
Holloway's Pills, that a great many titled ladies and others are
purchasing them in large quantities to distribute to poor fami-
lies. These Pills act in so wonderful a manner upon the system
and constitution of females generally (even on infants at the
breast), that whether taken when entering into womanhood,
or at the turn of life, or any other time, a few doses of this fine
medicine will always produce the desidered effect and restore
health when every other remedy has failed. Sold by all
druggists, and at Professor Holloway's F,stablishment, 244,
Strand, London.
THE DEMAND FOR PAROCHIAL RATES ENDER
THE DISTRICT ASYLUMS ACT.—At the Marylebone Vestry,
last Saturday, an order was read from the Central Board of
Management for the District Asylums for 173/. 7s. II d., being
the proportion of the Marylebone parish towards the sup-
icphenwnyasican ltchue-
pound upon 832,3121., the parish rental. The money is to
paotretdoaf
ftt he
re
tNiiVeesrtaetrne
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tihsterticwtentseytlhumpa,
26th inst. to the Hon. Philip Pleydell Bou-
rtanodf ownhe
be paid on the
goods be seized sooner than pay it. At the same vestry,
verie. The parochial authorities are resolved to let their
Mr. Peacock, solicitor to the board, stated that Lord Port-
man had served upon him a notice of action, in consequence
of their surveyor having attempted to remove the gates
erected by his Lordship in Harewood-square. Mr. Peacock
said that he would have to pay the Solicitor. General 100
guineas as a retaining fee in the action. The vestry desired
their attorney to defend the action, and, instead of the Soli-
citor-Gencral, selected Sergeant Talfourd and. Mr. Peacock,
jun., to be their counsel.
A RADII CIRCUMSTANCE.--A goose, the property
of Mr. Spink, farmer, of Wentbridge, hatched, during the
course of last week, seven goslings, which is the second pro-
duce in oze year.