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inconsistent with the plainness and simplicity of the Dissenters. How did they ever imagine that it could be supported, in the present age of extravagance and expence? The rich Dissenters, being generally Merchants and Tradesmen, send their sons to boarding-schools or private schools, where they continue till they are fourteen or fifteeu; where they learn nothing, being sometimes better fed than taught, when they are taken into the counting-house or put behind a counter. The sons of the poor or middle class of Presbyterians are educated for Ministers, for whose support a fund is necessary. None of the rich Families bring up their sons for Presbyterian Parsons: they have too much sense, or too much worldly wisdom. What the rational Dissenters will now do, in the education of their sons for the Ministry, I know not. I am a few years past threescore, and have seen wonderful revolutions with regard to Dissenting Academies. The Academy at Kendal in Westmorland, kept by Dr. Rotherham, a learned and intelligent man, perished at his death. The Academy at Taunton, kept by Mr. Grove, and afterwards by Dr. Amory, was discontinued upon his removal to London. The Academy at Warrington was completely ruined, by building several stately structures, by being not able to raise money adequate to the pomp of them, and having no fund to assist the Students. The late Academy at Exeter, kept by the ingenious and pious Mr. Towgood and Mr. Merrivale, is now no more. The Academy at Daventry, Northamptonshire, is also broken up. I am a moderate and candid Dissenter; though above twenty years ago I was extremely ill-used by a very small Society, whose subscription, though I had a wife and numerous, family, was continually diminishing. The Presbyterians neglect their Scholars. To say nothing of myself, they treated infamously Dr. Taylor of Norwich, the immortal Author of the Paraphrase upon the Romans, as may be seen in my Funeral Sermon occasioned by his death. With what disrespect and neglect they used the great and good Dr. Lardner, is fully manifested in Dr. Kippis's Memoirs of his Life. The Dissenters are too generally governed by the vox et præterea nihil. With regard to the speedy dissolution of the New College at Hackney, the old adage has proved too true, Quos Deus, &c.-those whom God is willing to ruin, He first blasts their understanding. This is absolutely the very last paper I shall send to your useful Miscellany, as I do not expect to live from one week to another, and cannot get out of bed, or get into it, without help. Yesterday I have been deprived of my left side for eleven years. I am your obliged old friend, in much affliction and distress, EDWARD HARWOOD." Hyde-street, Bloomsbury, Nov. 5, 1793.

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MR. URBAN,

More last dying Words from Mr. Baxter! The Spectator humourously observes, that, upon finding a very rapid sale for them (for Baxter, in his day, was infinitely more noted and eminent than any Dissenter is in our times), the next day they cried,More last dying Words of Mr. Baxter!"

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"By the arrival of my eldest son, who has for many years been a Surgeon in his Majesty's Navy, and who, to his great honour and my infinite satisfaction, was appointed Surgeon of the Providence, Capt. Bligh, after my anxiety and uneasiness on his account, I find myself greatly animated and invigorated.

"I have now lost the use of my left side above ten years, and these three last months have been entirely confined to my bed, from which I cannot rise unless I am lifted out while it is eased; yet have preserved my life by temperance and regularity. I am now sixty-four; but, upon reviewing my past life, I am sure that no person now living has enjoyed such advantages for the acquisition of classical and sacred literature as myself.-I was first put by my good Father under the care of Mr. Belsborrow of Darwen, one of the scholars of the famous Clarke of Hull, who was an excellent Grammarian, but a very severe Disciplinarian; constantly, when he was drunk, which was not infrequently, beating the best Scholars in his School. I learned Lilly's Grammar, which, as improved by Ward, is the best Grammar of the Roman language ever published. I was reading Ovid's Metamorphoses with him in the year 1744, when Pope died. In the year 1745, when the Northern Counties were greatly terrified and alarmed with the invasion of the Scotch Rebels, I was put under the care of the Rev. Mr. Thomas Hunter, some time afterwards Vicar of Weaverham, Cheshire, who had the best School, at Blackburn, Lancashire, of any gentleman in the county. This most worthy, Preceptor. began and concluded every day in his School with some select parts of the Liturgy. This most learned and worthy Clergyman, in the year 1748, wished to place me at Queen's College, Oxford, to which he belonged; but my Father, who was a stiff Presbyterian, I believe would have died if he had seen me in a surplice. I was then removed to one of Coward's Academies, where I continued five years, the only blank in my life; for, what Systems of Ethicks and Divinity I learned, I afterwards took pains to unlearn them all; it was "Markii Medulla," a gloomy heavy Dutchman's Divinity, which was taught us, and which was only Calvin's Institutes epitomized. In the year 1750 I taught a Boarding-school at Peckham, Surrey, and devoted myself to the study of the Greek and Roman Classicks; and, preaching occasionally for Dr. Benson at his Meeting in Crutched-friers, I became intimate with that great man, and with Dr. Lardner, who always shewed me very great respect. Afterwards, in the year 1754, I removed to Congleton in Cheshire, where I taught a Grammar-school, delivered up to me by one of the most ingenious and learned men I have ever known, the Rev. Mr. William Turner, with whom I lived in friendship and harmony for seven years, preaching alternate Sundays to two small Societies, Whitelock in Cheshire, and Leek in Staffordshire. In 1765, I was invited to take the charge of a very small Church in Bristol; but, upen publishing a second Edition of "The Supremacy of the Father," written by one Williams,

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Williams, I was constantly every week calumniated, in the Bristol Paper, as an Arian, a Socinian, a Deist, and worse than a Deist. On account of this public abuse, my salary diminished every year; and the last year, though I had a numerous family, it fell eonsiderably. In Bristol, in the course of five years, I read carefully the Greek Fathers of the three first centuries; the Greek language, after many years study, being as familiar to me as the French is to any English gentleman, having had no occasion to consult a Lexicon for twenty years. I immediately, at the desire of some Friends, came to London, and applied for a place then vacant in the British Museum; and it was happy that I was too late in my application; for, a month afterwards, I was in a situation more profitable. God knows, I mean no reflexion on the Merchants and Gentlemen of Bristol; I always found them to be a generous and hospitable people. But the lowest class of people in that city is a century behind the improvement of the rubbish of St. Giles's. Since the year 1772 I have lived, on the whole, extremely happy among my old Friends in London, by literary industry procuring a sufficient maintenance for myself and family.-I have written more books than any one person now living, except Dr. Priestley; have never spoken evil of Dignities, but have lived on the best terms with the Established Clergy, who ever respected me as a Scholar. After expending a great deal of time in discussing the subject, I am neither an Athanasian, Arian, or a Socinian; but die fully confirmed in the great Doctrines of the New Testament, a Resurrection, and a future state of eternal blessedness to all sincere Penitents and good Christians. I am your obliged old friend, in much affliction from the palsy,

E. HARWOOD."

After 14 years of miserable confinement from the palsy, he was released from his sufferings, Jan. 14, 1794.

The following Epitaph for him was communicated by his Son: "H. S. E.

Edvardus Harwood, D. D.

Vir summo ingenio præditus,
qui literas sacras, æquè ac humanas,
mirâ felicitate coluit, et ornavit.

Ob. 14 Jan. anno 1794, ætatis suæ 65.

Reliquiæ ejus uxoris, filiæ minoris natu S. Chandler, D. D. juxta hunc tumulum sitæ sunt.

Ob. 21 Maii, anno 1791, æt. suæ 58.
E. H. Fil. pos."

He published an Introduction to the Study of the New Testament, 1767, 8vo; a Translation of the New Testament, 2 vols. 1768, Svo; "Five Dissertations: 1. On the Athanasian Doctrine; 2. On the Socinian Scheme; 3. On the Person of Christ; 4. On the Rise, ·Progress, Perfection, and End of Christ's Kingdom; 5. On the Causes which evidently conspired to produce our Saviour's Agony, 1772,"8vo; "The Life and Character of Jesus Christ delineated, 1773, 8vo; Miscellanies of the late ingenious and celebrated

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M. Abauzit,

M. Abauzit, on historical, theological, and critical Subjects, translated from the French, 1774," Svo; "A View of the various Editions of the Greek and Roman Classicks, 1775," 8vo, which went through several editions; an Edition of the New Testament in Greek, with English Notes, 2 vols. 1776, 8vo; Sermons, 1776, 8vo; "The great Duty and Delight of Contentment, 1783," 8vo; his Case, 1784; "The melancholy Doctrine of Predestination exposed, and the delightful Truth of universal Redemption represented, 1778," 8vo; Letter to Mr. Badcock, 1784; Discourse on St. Paul's Description of Death, 1790, 8vo.

P. 342. Dr. William George was born in London, and admitted at King's College in 1715; B.A. there 1719; M. A. 1723; D.D. (Com. Reg.) 1728. He was Assistant and many years Head Master of Eton School. He married Miss Bland in November 1728, a daughter of Dr. Bland, his predecessor at Eton. He was also Chaplain to the King. In an accurate knowledge of the Greek language he was eminently skilled; and his Latin "Ecclesiastes," preserved in the "Musæ Etonenses," on the Camera obscura, and Omnia Vanitas, are entitled to high commendation. In 1732 he preached before the House of Commons, and printed his Sermon; as he did several others on particular occasions. At his election to the Provostship there was a very hard contest (see before, p. 252); and he obtained it (January 30, 1742-3) only by a few votes against his competitor Dr. Chapman. In 1748 he became Dean of Lincoln; in which year he printed a Sermon preached before the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel; and died August 22, 1756.

P. 406. The Rev. William Salisbury was of St. John's College, Cambridge; B. A. 1725; M. A. 1729; B. D. 1737. He was presented by his College to the Rectory of Moreton in Essex, 1752; and by the Governors of the Charter-house to that of Little Hallingbury. He was the Author of "Two Grammatical Essays; first, on a Barbarism in the English Language; second, on the Usefulness and Necessity of Grammatical Knowledge in order to a right Interpretation of the Scriptures, 1768," Svo; in a copy of which, belonging to the late Dr. Loveday, before the Second Essay, the following words were written by the Author: "See many of the following Observations confirmed by the learned Bishop Pearce in his Comment, printed in 1777." Mr. Salisbury published, in 1779, a Sermon preached at the Bishop's Visitation; and in 1776 an octavo volume was published (the Subscribers to which were desired, by Advertisement in the News-papers, to apply to the Editor at Moreton Pursonage), intituled, "The History of the Establishment of Christianity; translated from the French of Professor Bullet by William Salisbury, B. D. With Notes by the Translator, and some Strictures on Mr. Gibbon's Account of Christianity and its first Teachers." He was for many years a Correspondent in the Gentleman's Magazine; and died Jan. 31, 1796, aged 90.

P. 460.

P. 460. The Rev. John Gooch, youngest son of the Right Rev. Sir Thomas Gooch, bart. Bishop of Ely, by Hannah daughter of Sir John Miller, bart. of the county of Sussex, was born in the Lodge of Caius College, Cambridge, of which his father was then Master; and was entered thereof; B. A. 1749; M.A. 1753; D.D. 1765. Early in life Dr. Gooch married Miss Sayer, daughter of John Sayer, esq. who survived him; and by whom he had three sons, who died in their infancy, and two daughters, Mary and Rachel; the former married to the Rev. Dr. Radcliff, Archdeacon and Prebendary of Canterbury; and the latter to the Right Rev. Dr. Richard Beadon, at that time Public Orator of the University of Cambridge, Archdeacon of London, and Rector of Stanford Rivers and Orsett, Essex (afterwards Master of Jesus College, and successively Bishop of Gloucester and Bath and Wells). With the gravity of a Clergyman, Dr. Gooch united the easy manners of a Gentleman, and was very greatly esteemed by a numerous and respectable acquaintance. Having resided all his life in or near Cambridge, and kept up a constant connexion with the place, he was more generally known in the University than perhaps any man for so long a time, of whatever rank or character. He was a cheerful and pleasant companion; his disposition and habits were friendly and hospitable; and his house was frequently visited by persons of most consequence, old or young, in the University. In many instances he entertained at his table the father, sons, and grandsons, in succession, as they became Academicks, of the same family. Five or six years before his death he had a sickness of some continuance without immediate danger, which left behind it a debility of mind and body, whence it too evidently appeared that his constitution had sustained an injury from which it was in vain to hope he would ever be relieved. Towards the end of November 1802 he was found by his servant on the floor in his room, unable to rise; and could give no account how long he had lain, or how he happened to be in that situation. Medical assistance was immediately procured, and it was found that one leg was greatly swelled and inflamed, with every appearance of a speedy mortification. Little hopes were entertained that it could be prevented, and his life was pronounced to be in the most imminent danger. But, by the medical skill and unremitting assiduity of his Physician and Surgeon, Sir Isaac Pennington and Mr. Thackeray, a cure was effected, which did them great credit. But no skill or care would have been sufficient without the tender and affectionate attentions of his daughters, who, as soon as they heard of his danger, flew with pious haste to comfort him by their presence, and to relieve their distress by the performance of every office required or suggested by filial love and duty; nor without the solicitous and persevering vigilance of honest and faithful servants. From this time his daughters never both left him; and; as soon as he was fit to travel, he was removed from his home, that he might have the benefit of their

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