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MONTHLY OBITUARY.

T Gottingen, John Frederic Gmelin, one of its most laborious and learned professors, who was born at Tubingen in 1748. He was the author of several works in vegetable physiology, and the classification of plants, and he also published numerous pieces on the materia medica and chemistry, mineralogy, and every part of natural history. One of the most celebrated, is his edition of the Systema Naturæ of Linæus. He however introduced great disorder into the science, by multiplying the species. Gmelin was likewise the author of a History of Chemistry, forming a part of the history of the arts and sciences, undertaken by the professors of Gottingen. The world is indebted to him for the discovery of several excellent dyes, extracted from vegetable and mineral substances. As a man he possessed unimpeachable integrity; he was mild, modest, and laborious; a good husband, an excellent father, and a faithful friend.

Aged 76, the Rev. John Lake, rector of Lanivet, Cornwall. A gentleman in whom the smile of cheerful benevolence, which uninterruptedly beamed in his countenance and enlivened his conversation, was the pure emanation of a mind in which there was no guile, and from whence every base passion was banished, to make room for the benign and social virtues of humanity and religion.

At Horsewell House, Devon, the Rev. P. Ilbert, archdeacon of Barnstaple, and rector of Farringdon.

At Ferrybridge, aged 66, the Rev. Edward Bowerbank, B. D. rector of Croft and Barningham, in the North Riding of Yorkshire, and prebendary of Lincoln.

John Wm. Clapcott, Esq. gentle man commoner of Wadham College, Oxford.

At his house in Weymouth-street, Dr. P. Russell, F.R.Š.

At Montreal, in Lower Canada, in the 43d year of his age, J. Elmsley, Esq. chief justice of that province.

At Cheltenham, where he went for the recovery of his health, the Rev. Thomas Stace, M. A. one of the fellows and mathematical lecturer at Trinity College, Cambridge,

At Chertsey, suddenly, the Rev. P. Cunningham, curate of that parish.

Aged 78, the Rev. Thomas Rowe, many years minister of Dean Prior, Devon.

Aged 96, Samuel Cooper, who was fifty years porter in Earl Cowper's family, and who retained his faculties to the last.

At Whitehaven, William Woodburn, formerly well known in that neighbourhood by the appellation of the Huntsman of the three Kingdoms, from the circumstance of his pack being composed of English, Scotch, and Irish hounds, with which, in one season, he killed 147 hares, without either changing, losing, or hav❤ ing one of them torn by the dogs. He was a native of London; and, at the time of his death, wanted only two months of completing his hundreth year.

In Davies-street, Berkley-square, the Rev. Edward Brudenell, rector of Hougham and Marston, in Lincolnshire.

Aged 80, Mrs. Dawson, wife of. Benjamin Dawson, LL. D. rector of Burgh.

Suddenly, the Rev. J. Henville, vicar of Rowner, near Gosport.

At Windleham, in Surry, the Rev. R. B. Bell, late fellow of New Col lege, Oxford.

At Lavenham, Suffolk, the Rev. Mr. Mew of that place, and vicar of Yardley, in Worcestershire. As he and his wife were returning in a gig from visiting a friend, the spring broke, and the horse running away,

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they were both thrown out, and Mr. Mew falling on a stone was killed on the spot.

The Rev. John Dale, LL. D. rector of Puddlestown, Herefordshire, and one of his Majesty's justices of the peace for that county.

The Rev. Henry Green, M. A. rector of Earle's Crown, and vicar of Feckenham, Worcestershire, and chaplain to Lady Grantham.

At Bengworth, in the same county, the Rev. J. Beale, A. M. a man whose universal charity prompted him to contribute to the support of all the principal charitable institutions in the kingdom, and whose genuine philanthropy urged him to tread the path of life with his purse open in his hand, that every woe-worn fellow traveller might dip in and be relieved. His principles and practice were so consonant to those of his Divine Master as to enable him to face death with confidence, and to resign his breath in the certain hope of a joyful resurrection.

The Rev. H. Dickenson, A. M. of St. John's College Cambridge, and curate of Church Eaton, Staffordshire.

The Rev. Thomas Alexander Atwood, curate and lecturer of St. Margaret, Westminster.

The Rev. John Skynner, sub-dean of the cathedral of York, and rector of Blatherwick, and of Easton, near Stamford.

At his lodgings in Surry-street in the Strand, the Rev. Robert Waugh, A. M. formerly of Trinity College, Cambridge, and vicar of Bishop Middleham, in the county of Durham.

At Oxford, the Rev. William Fothergill, D. D. rector of Charlton upon Otmore, vicar of Steventon, Berks, and formerly fellow of Queen's College.

Suddenly at Dublin, the Rev. Dr. T. Hume, rector of Ardee, and Glassnevin, eldest son of surgeon Hume of Dublin, and brother of Dr. Hume of Lower Grosvenor-street, London.

At Trinity College, Cambridge, of inflammation in his bowels, in the

21st year of his agé, Mr. FrancisWilliam Edwards, one of the scholars of that society, and eldest son of, John Edwards, Esq. Blackheath, : Kent.

At Dulwich College, William Al-* len, Esq. who had been upwards of fifty two years master of that college, which is named " God's Gift"; and was founded by Edward Alleyn, who was proprietor of a playhouse, in Moorfields, and keeper of the Royal Bear Garden. He laid the foundation of this college in 1614, and completed it in 1617, at the ex-. pence of 10,0001. he then endowed it with lands to the value of 8001. a-year for the maintenance of one master and one warden, who must he unmarried, and of the name of Alleyn or Allen, and also of four fellows, of whom three must be clergymen, and the fourth an organist; besides six poor men and as many women, with twelve boys, who are to be educated till the age of fourteen or sixteen, when they are to be apprenticed to some trade. Edward Alleyn was himself the first master, and died in 1626. His remains were interred in the chapel of the college. The election is in the hands of the fellows.

At Dublin, the Hon. Sir John Dillon, Bart., and a Baron of the Holy Roman empire.

In the 71st year of his age, the Rev. T. King, of Whixley Hall, near Knaresborough, in Yorkshire.

Mrs. Scott, widow of the late Rev. Jas. Scott, and mother to the Coun tess of Oxford.

At Calcutta Henry Kennedy, M. D. late of Cultra, in the county of Down, and physician in the Hon. the East India Company's service. Suddenly cut off in the flower of his age, and in a distant quarter of the world, his loss is the more severely felt by his friends and relations. A sound understanding added to talents of a superior nature, promised fair (had. he lived but a few years) to have raised him to the first rank in his profession. In him his family have sustained an irreparable loss; his profession

profession has lost one who would have been to it an ornament; and society at large a useful and valuable member.

At Northborne, near Deal, in Kent, aged 99 years, Mr. William Scarlet; he has left two sons and five daughters, whose united ages amount to 470 years.

On his return to join the Chatham division of the Royal Marines, at Taunton, Somersetshire, Colonel Trollope, of that corps. In him the Service has lost an active and a brave officer, and an excellent disciplinarian. This gentleman was the brother of the gallant Sir Henry Trol lope, who beat off six large French frigates in the Glatton of fifty guns, during the last war. Colonel Trollope, at the time when the spirit of mutiny caused such a commotion in our fleets, behaved with most manly courage, and admirable presence of mind. When the flame was about to burst out in the ship he was aboard of, as commanding officer of the marines, he went singly into the midst of the mutineers, seized the two ringleaders by the collar, and had them put in irons before the eyes of their companions.

At Droxford, in her 96th year, Mrs. Myngs, widow of Oglander Myngs, Esq. and daughter of Peter Nourse, D.D. formerly rector of the same place, and chaplain to Queen Anne.

Mr. Parkinson, apothecary, of Bingley, and coroner for the Craven

district, in Yorkshire, having been in the neighbourhood of Ingleton on the day preceding, where he took two inquisitions, being then apparently in good health, was found next morning dead in his bed.

Mr. Henry Finch, of East Hanningfield, farmer. Mr. Finch went into his fields in full health on the Thursday preceding his death; and while there, received a sting in the thigh, which he at first imagined to be caused by a nettle. The wound, however, was soon attended by those symptoms which proved it to be the bite of an adder, and terminated in his death on the Sunday following.

At Lisbon, aged 83, Theodore de Almeyda, member of the Royal Academy of Sciences in that city, and of the Royal Society of London. The works published by him amount to forty volumes, exclusive of five volumes of translations. He has left several manuscripts for the publica tion of which he had obtained the permission of the censorship.

At Dublin, Mrs. Catherine Stock, wife of the bishop of Killala.

Of the yellow-fever, on board his Majesty's ship Theseus, on the Jamaica station, William Honywood, Esq. of the royal navy, eldest son of Rev. Dr. Honywood, prebendary of Exeter, and nephew to Sir John' Honywood, M. P. for Honiton. He was a young man whose virtues and rising talents promised to render him an honour to his profession.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Mr. Ludlam's Remarks on Locke's Paraphrase in our next.

The letter signed "Cambricus" is received, and will be attended to. T. C. is informed that we have received some of his communications, which betray too great haste in the composition. On such subjects particular attention is necessary, and a revision expedient. We approve of the sentiments, and hope the author will avail himself of our friendly hint. The Latin verses and translation are inadmissible.

If our friend in the west, who sent us some time since the copy of a letter of Bishop Warburton's, but which was unfortunately mislaid, will favour us with another copy, it will be considered as a great obligation.

The extract from Mr. Polwhele's Scriptural Characters shall appear. We have suspended the anecdotes this month in conséquence of a new arrangement which will take place in our next number, and which will, we believe, afford considerable pleasure to our readers.

ORTHODOX CHURCHMAN'S

MAGAZINE AND REVIEW,

FOR AUGUST 1805.

BIOGRAPHY.

Call to remembrance the former days.

Hebrews x. 32.

THE LIFE OF DR. RICHARD COX, BISHOP OF

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HIS learned Prelate was born at Whaddon, in Buckinghamshire, in 1499; and instructed in the rudiments of learning at Eton School, from whence he was elected to King's-College Cambridge. In 1519 he was, on account of his learning and piety, removed to Oxford, and preferred to be one of the junior canons of Cardinal Wolsey's new foundation, in that university, where in 1526 he took his degree of M. A. He was reputed one of the greatest scholars of his age, and his poetical compositions were universally applauded by the best judges. His piety and virtue were not inferior to his learning, and commanded the respect of all impartial persons; but shewing himself averse to the Popish superstition, he incurred the displeasure of the governors of the university, was stripped of his preferments, and thrown into prison, on suspicion of heresy.

As soon as he was released from his confinement, he left Oxford, and some time after was chosen master of Eton school, which was observed to flourish in a remarkable manner as long as he continued there. In 1537 he commenced D. D. at Cambridge, and was made archdeacon of Ely. In 1549, he was advanced to be dean of the new-erected cathedral of Osney near Oxford, and in 1546, when that see was translated to ChristChurch, he was also made dean there. These promotions he obtained by the interest of Archbishop Cranmer and Bishop Goodrich, to the last of whom he had been some time chaplain, and by their recommendation, he Vol. IX. Churchm. Mag. August 1805.

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was chosen tutor to Prince Edward, whom he instructed with great care in the true principles of religion, and formed his tender mind to an early sense of his duty both as a Christian, and a King.

On the accession of that prince to the throne, he was made Canon of Windsor, a privy-councellor, and the King's almoner. In 1547 he was chancellor of the university of Oxford, and in 1549 Dean of Westminster; and about the same time was in commission to visit the university of Oxford, and to purge it of all Popish superstitions. In 1550 he was ordered to go down into Sussex, and to endeavour by his learned and affecting discourses from the pulpit, to quiet the minds of the people, who had been disturbed by the factious preaching of Day, Bishop of Chichester: and when the noble design of reforming the canon law was in agitation, he was appointed one of the commissioners. Both in this and the former reign, when an act passed for giving all chantries, colleges, &c. to the king, through Dr. Cox's powerful intercession, the colleges in both universities were excepted out of that act.

Queen Mary had not been long in possession, before he was stripped of his preferments, and committed prisoner to the Marshalsea. He was indeed soon discharged from this confinement; but foreseeing the persecution likely to ensue, he resolved to retire to some place where he might be suffered to enjoy the free exercise of his religion, according to the form established in the reign of King Edward. This he thought so pure and perfect an order for the public service of the church, that it was not only an inconceivable grief to him, but also matter of astonishment, to hear of the rash proceedings of the exiles at Franckfort, who had thrown aside this excellent liturgy, and set up a strange form of worship, modelled after the French and Geneva platform: and not content with these innovations, they had condemned several particulars in the English service, as Popish and superstitious; and wrote to the rest of the English exiles at Zurich, and Strasburg, to lay it aside and join in their new-fangled service. They had also sent to consult Calvin's opinion; and having drawn up a pretended abstract of the English liturgy, full of gross and scandalous misrepresentations, and in the close assured him, that they concealed many things, not so much out of shame as pity, they requested him to oblige them with his advice, and judgment concerning it. Cal vin, who was not yet recovered from the mortification of

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