Mr. R. Heron.-E. King, Esq. F. R. S. the Fame, the failure of which involved him in pecuniary difficulties. These probably produced that disorder which terminated his life in the Fever Institu tion." the heart; her zeal was active and under the influence of an informed judge ment; her's was that charity which thinketh no evil, and that seeketh not her own, for she respected and cherished piety wherever she found it while she April 15th, at Edinburgh, in the 89th confined not her benevolence to a party. year of his age, Mr. WILLIAM PEEThose gospel promises which had ani- BLES, Teaching Master of the Orphan mated her in the discharge of religious Hospital in that city for above 48 years. duties through life, were her comfort in During that long period he discharged sickness and in death. Her afflictions the duties of his station with singular were borne with that patience which fidelity and unwearied attention. Redid honour to christianity; her fortitude markable for unaffected piety, gentleness was undeviating; and in the ful: expec- of manners, humility, and self-denial, tation of dissolution she declared, her he was well fitted for training up the hopes of immortal life centered in the youth in religious knowledge, instilling mercy of God.She has left an affection into their minds a sacred regard to truth, are husband and seven children to be- and forming then for early habits of inmoan her irreparable los. Her remains dustry. He shewed the utmost tenderwere attended by the Clergyman of Long ness and affection for the children under Sutton, and two Dissenting Ministers, to his charge, who venerated him as their the Burying ground belonging to the parent. His counsels and example, equalUnitarian Chapel at Sutton, where an ly excellent and impressive, will long be affectionate and impressive discourse was remembered. He lived beloved and redelivered on the mournful occasion, by spected, and died sincerely regretted by the Rev. R. Wright, of Wisbeach. The an extensive circle of riends and acChapel was crowded with a deeply quaintance. His memory will especially affected audience; and it was suppo ed be revered by the managers, and by. more than two hundred persons were every person who has taken an interest unable to get in, who had come to tes- in the institution of the Orphan Hospital. tify their esteem and regret We were happy to find the members of the Establishment, and Dissenters at large, uniting in this tribute of respect to the memory, and regret at the decease of this excellent woman. G. S. April 13th, Mr. ROBERT HERON, author of the History of Scotland, Tour to the Highlanders, and several works of merit." He was a native of ScotJani and bred to the Church, and being a young man of promising abilities was patronized by Dr. Blair, who appointed him his assistant, in which capacity he officiated for some time. He was a man of multifarious erudition, and during his residence in Scotland, wrote, translated, and compiled several reputable works in various branches of literature. His views of church-preferment not answering his expectation, he abandoned his native country and came to London, where his talents soon procured him the countenance of some eminent booksellers as well as the friendship of literary men. He was for some time the Editor of two new papers, the Globe and the Tress. Last year he began a newspaper called Caladonian Mercury. April 16th, aged 72, EDWARD KING, Esq. F. R. S. He was also Fellow, and for some time President, of the Antiquarian Society. Mr. K. was a Barrister of Lincoln's-Inn, but nothing is recorded of him under that character, except that "in his attendance on the circuit he defended a lady from a faithless lover, and successfully offered her his hand." He inherited from his uncle an ample fortune, which enabled him to devote himse f to literary pursuits. His publications were numerous, chiefly on British Antiquities. Many of them appeared in different volumes of the Archeologea. In Theology, he maintained some singular opinions, which he gave to the world in 2 vols. 4to. published in 1788 and 1801, entitled "Morals of Criticism, tending to illustrate some few pa sages in the Holy Scriptures, upon Philosophical principles and an enlarged view of things." The object of the author appears to have been to apply the modern improvements in philosophy, and even the Charles Lawson-Rev. Francis Sherrat.-Florence O'Sullivan.—Miss Eliza Gregory. Rev. John Hodgson-Mrs. Esther Bulkley. more abstruse doctrines of chemistry, duous situation he displayed a dignity in elucidating the language, and ex- and propriety of conduct, and a fixed plaining the allusions and the prophe- principle of action that could not fail tical parts of scripture," forgetting that to conciliate the esteem and affection the sacred writers always adapted of his pupi's, and the warm admiration their language to the popular ideas of his fellow townsmen. The exten and the general prejudices of mankind." sive literary abilities which he possessed, Some of Mr K.'s conclusions are curi- were of a higher class than are usually ous enough. He maintains "that John met with, even in the most distinthe Baptist was an angel, the same who guished of our preceptors.-His colloformerly appeared in the person of Eli. quial talents, and the suavity of his Jah," that the sun is one of the man- manners, were highly conspicuous, and sions of heaven, and because of its near irresistibly endeared him to that numerconnexion with our earth, more im- ous and respectable body of friends, mediately our heaven,"-that "this globe by whom his memory will long be is continually approaching towards the praised, wept, and honoured" sun, and will at length approach so near as to be ignited and become a comet," and that " the place of punishment is the centre of the earth which is the bottomles pit." Amidst these fanciful conjectures is one, which some reflecting persons may perhaps consider as far more rational, that "the day of judgment will be a long period of deliberate arrangement that may last a thousand years." The author of "The Pursuits of Literature," refers to some passages in the "Morals of Criticism" as a most prophetic of political events which have occurred Since their publication. In 1796, Mr. K. amused the public and discovered no small credulity as well as learning by his "Remarks concerning stones said to have fallen from the clouds in our days." In 1798, he published "Remarks on the signs of the Times," continued by a supplenient. In this publication the author endeavoured to shew that "recent discoveries in natural history and philosophy, and the political events then passing in Europe, had literally accomplished some of the obscure and emblematical scripture prophecies." These Remarks called forth the animadversions of Bishop Horsley, in his "Critical Disquisitions on the xith chapter of Isaiah, in a Letter" to the author. April 19, at Manchester, aged 79, CHARLES LAWSON, M. A. some time Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and for more than 43 years the lead-Master of the Free Grammar School, Manche.ter. "In this ar April, at Swanwich, Dorsetshire, aged 95, the Rev. FRANCIS SHERRAT, minister of the Baptist congregation there, nearly 60 years. April, at Beerhaven, Ireland, FLORENCE O'SULLIVAN, aged 111 year. He was born in the reign of King Wil liam, and retained his sight, hearing, and the use of his faculties to the last moment. He was a man possessed of generous tender feelings, and is greatly lamented by 215 nephews and nieces.Cal. Merc. April," at Fril ham, Oxfordshire, Miss ELIZA GREGORY, the elder of two sisters of that name, remarkable for their untaught proficiency in the art of drawing, and particularly in delineating flowers from nature. Their first efforts were made under circumstances unusually depressing, and with the rudest materials. They have long supported, with the fruits of their ingenious labours, an aged, and widowed mother.' " April, at Dunken-hall, near Blackburn, Lancashire, the Rev. JOHN HODGSON, upwards of 30 years Catholic-priest at that place. Having an independent fortune, he made it an indispensible duty to himself, to devote the entire income of his place to charitable purposes, without regard to sect or opinion." 20th April, died, at West-Bromwich, in Staffordshire, in the 87th year of her age, Mr. ESTHER BULKLEY. This lady, on the maternal side, was granddaughter of the pious and learned Mr. Matthew Henry, by his third daughter, Esther, who married Mr. Thomas Bulk Mrs. Pierce-Miss M. Finch. y a native of Lymington, Hants, and a silk-mercer in Ludgate Street, where she was born, November, 1720. Her brother, Mr Charles Bulkley, was well known, for a great number of years, as a dissenting minister of the Baptist denomination in London; and as the author of various theological works, which display extensive 'earning, an acute mind, and solid judgment, as well as a devout and philanthropic spirit. His" Notes on the Bible," 3 vols. 8vo. an unique of its kind in the English language, were edited, after his death, by Dr. Toulmin. His will devolved the care of its publication on th's his only surviving sister. Their father dying in 1727, six children, whom he left behind, were disposed into different connections and situations. The early years of Mrs. Bulkley were marked by various removals, till she became the protegée of near relations in Cheshire and Staffordshire; particularly of an .aunt, Mrs. Brett, an excellent woman, at West-Bromwich. Her mind, it appears, received a strong and lively tincture of piety in the tenth year of her age. For, in a memorandum of the various places in which she had resided previously to that time, she writes, " removed to Epsom, 1730, where," she notes, "divine grace directed the wanderer to take the first feeble, and too often remitting, steps towards Canaan." Her intellect was strong, and her mind well cultivated. Her person was delicate, her eye piercing, her manners easy and graceful. She spent much of her time in practical and devotional reading. She RELIGIOUS. devoted the tenth of a strait income to charitable purposes. Her conversation was cheerful; her deportment and carriage were commanding and attractive. To the la t she retained and shewed, in her conversation and in her letters, a singular vivacity of faculties and vigour of mind, united with a spirit of piety, worthy the descendant of a MATTHEW and PHILIP HENRY. On the 23d of April, about noon, she appeared attack ed with symptoms of a paralytic kind, but not so violent as to prevent eating her dinner. They grew soon more larming, and it became necessary to conduct her to bed, when a drowsiness came on, followed with a sleep from which she never awoke; but calmly breathed her last early on the next morning. The last word, she spoke, before speech and sense were lost, were, "WEL COME the will of God:"-" God is love." J T. a. April 29, at Kingston, Surry, much regretted by her friends, Mrs. PIERCE, relict of Captain P. in the East India service, who, in 1786, was lost off Portland, in his ship the Halsewell, together with two of his daughters, and two other young ladies, his relations. Died, May 10, at Dudley, where she was on a visit, Miss MARY FINCH, second daughter of Mr. William Finch of Birmingham, and grand-daughter of Dr. Priestley. It was the mysterious will of God to call her hence in the bloom of life. She was in the 14th year of her age, and only a few days illness preceded her dissolution. INTELLIGENCE. INDEPENDENT UNION-A proposal having been made for forming a Union between the Independent ministers and churches through the kingdom, in order to the promo.ion of their common cause, a meeting was lately held in London for adjusting the plan; at which a considerable number of mi nisters both in town and from the country were present, as also several gentlemen of the laity, when a commitfee was appointed for carrying the design into effect. The annual Meeting of Ministers of the counties of Nottingham, Derby, York, Lincoln, Leicester, and Stafford, will be holden at the Unitarian chapel, in Mansfield, on the 24th of June.The morning service, which is to commence at half past ten o'clock, will be introduced by Dr. Warwick of Rotherham, or Mr. Whitelegg of Fulwood; and the sermon will be delivered by Dr. Phillipps of Sheffield, or Mr. Piper of Norton. After which the ministers and their friends will dine together at the Swan Inn Mansfield. The evening service will begin at seven o'clock.Mr. Scott, of Cradley, near Stourbridge, GENERAL BAPTISTS' ASSEM The BLY.-On Tuesday, May 19th, the On the has engaged to preach on that occasion. evidence. Their churches and their seYORK ACADEMY-On Sunday,, minaries are the guardians and barriers the 29th of March, a Sermon was of these sacred principles. It is a great preached at the New Meeting in Bir- and beneficial service to the world and mingham, from Ephes. iv. 11, 12, 13, to the care of truth to open and supby the Rev Dr. Toulmin, in favour of port seminaries, which will teach and this Institution, at the request of the disseminate these principles, and upon vestry committee. The collection at them form youth for the pulpit. the doors after service, and some benefactions received since, amounted to £47.18. 8. The aid afforded to this Institution by different congregations and many individuals, doth credit to the class of dissenters, from whence it comes. Eut it should be remembered by them and be held up to the attention of the public, that the youth, educated for the ministry in this seminary, are not, and ught not, to be considered as pledged to support, in future life, a scheme of sentiments which may suit the taste and views of its patrons. They are confident, that no other bias will be given to the judgment of the students in it, by the worthy and liberal president, than what ariseth from the fair, impartial and forcible statement of arguments. They wish that discussion may not be, anticipated, through youthful precipitancy, by hasty and premature decision. They promise then.selves, that the young men, who enter that seminary, free from the shackles of subscription to articles that they have never studied, will be disposed, as well as beat liberty and invited, to pursue their enquiries, calmly and deliberately, weighing the arguments on each side of a question with care, equity and candour. They promise themselves, that the students at the York seminary, will act, in their enquiries, upon the general principles of dissenters and protestants; disclaiming human authority in matters of religion, maintaining the sufficiency of scripture, exercising the right of private judgment, piously solicitous to re over and preserve the uncorrupted purity and glory of the gospel, and adhering to the authority of Christ, as the only lawgiver in his kingdom. These its pations will, with cordial approbation reflect, are the principles, on which their churches and seminaries are founded. These are the principles which evidently tend to enlighten and emancipate the human mind; these are the principles, which give scope to the investigation of truth and to the force of POLITICO-RELIGIOUS. EXTRAORDINARY LONGEVI TY IN RUSSIA —It appears in the coure of last year, 18:6, that among the deaths in that exten ive empire, there were, one between 145 and 150 years of age; one between 130 and 135; foar from 125 to 130; six from 120 to 125; thirty-two from 115 to 120; twentysix from 110 to 115; eighty-six from 105 to 110; one hundred and thi tyseven from ICO to 105; and eleven huadred and forty-four from 95 to 100 years of age. The EMPEROR OF FRANCE having lately heard that two children, a boy and a girl, descended in a direct line from the great Corneille, were living with an auit of their's at Paris, who was in narrow circumstances. he, in the first place, provided for her and the girl, UNITARIANISM IN FRANCE, SIR, and then sent the boy to the Lyceum at Versailles. The FRENCH GOVERNMENT A writer, who signs himself Crito, in AT GENOA, with a view to pre- the Universal Magazine for March, serve the morals of the people against 1807, assert that a Protestant Consistory the influence of some ancient local cus- of Calvinists, at Rouen, in Normandy, toms, has instructed the mayor to order have lately had some unpleasant discus that the theatre and lobbies shall not be sion with a member, upon the subject opened a moment before they are com- of the trinity. The treasurer being ap pletely lighted up, nor any of the lights pointed to answer the e o jections, he, extinguished before the whole of the in the usual high style of these perempcompany have departed. No persons tory gentlemen, treats the inquiring bro are allowed to stop under the piazzas; ther as a heretic, who endeavoured to no fire, no dogs, no smoaking to be per- introduce exploded notions into the mitted. Any actors or actresses, trans- church, and to act contrary to the Congressing the rules of decency, are to be fession of the Reformed Churches. seized on the spot; as a police officer is present, charged with carrying these laws into execution. The KING OF HOLLAND having heard complaints of immoral practices at Middlebourg, in Zealand, has instructed the magistrates to warn the dancing-masters there against admitting both sexes indiscriminately into their rooms. They are to be taught separate ly. M. de HOOGSTRATEN AT AMSTERDAM, has received from one of his friends in England, the sum of 1000 florins, as a cont.ibution towards the relief of the poor sufferers at Leyden in Holland, on the 12th of January last, when a vessel lying in the canal with gun-powder exploded, killed and maimed a number of persons, and de troyed several hundred houses and some public buildings. PECULIARITIES OF THE FRENCH INHABITANTS OF BRITTANY. A Paris paper obse ves, "Among other conscripts lately passing from the we tern to the eastern departments, on their way to the grand army, was a detachment entirely composed of countrymen from lower Brittany. They seemed animated in no smal degree in the cause we are engaged in, and often exclaimed in their old Celtic dialect, Torriben ar Russiens, "Woe to the Kussians." It is we known that the Breton's differ much from the rest of the French nation in their language, cus. toms and manners; and thi exclamation calls to mind what an ancient writer sid of them, Quam terribiles sunt Brittones quando dicunt TORRIBEN. The treasurer's conduct has excited an abler opponent at Paris to take up the pen; and, in that city, where, twenty years ago, a similar publication would have been followed by perpetual imprisonment in the Bastile, the writer ad. vances notions equally repugnant to the faith of both the Protestant and Catho lic churches of France. He contends that the doctrine of the Trinity is an innovation unknown to the primitive ages of the church; that all disputes which harass Christians about the persons, distinctions, divisions, and essences in the Godhead, are all chimerical notions, of which the scriptures take no notice, and that their language is plain, clear and decisive; that one single person only, is God, and that there is no other mediator between him and man, but the man, Jesus the Christ &c. Could Louis the Fourteenth, says the enlightened writer, be raised from the grave, how would he be astonished to read the above paragraph! he who by his crues decree exterminated or drove into banishment nearly a million of his Protestant subjects. This writer lastly observes, that if this spirit of toleration in France brings the Protestants to make the holy scriptures the rule of their faith, instead of being guided by the dreams and freaks of Calvin, the advantage to the country will be immense. If France, he remarks, has advanced one step before us in religious toleration, we wil hope that we shall not long be behind her, and that a laudable emulation may subsist between the two countries in endeavouring to restore the profession of Christianity to the |