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most exemplary; noxious only to the profligate, the schismatic, and the disaffected reviler of our excellent Establishments both in Church and State. He married Sarah, daughter of the Rev. Mr. Whaley, late rector of Huggate in the East Riding of Yorkshire; by whom he has left three sons and two daughters. In St. Nicholas lane, Leicester, in his 81st year, John Coltman, esq. By his death the Town of Leicester has lost one of its principal literary ornaments, and Society has been deprived of a most valuable member, whether we consider him as a Scholar of profound learning, as an Antiquary of considerable research, or as a Man and a Christian, distinguished by his simplicity, his candour, his humanity, his love of Truth, and his attachment to the genuine principles of civil and religious Freedom. Nature had cast him in no ordinary mould, and given him no common talents. He was a striking instance of the elevation and triumph of native Genius above the adventitious circumstances of fortune and of situation. Himself engaged in trade, and placed in a Town more remarkable for its Manufactures than for its Learning, he might have trod the common path of thousands, who have lived, grown rich, and died forgotten. Such men are necessary to maintain the state of the world; but of such men Mr. Coltman was not one. Not assimilating with the maxims or the spirit of Trade, he neither followed the one, nor imbibed the other. Hence, when his Warehouse required his presence, he

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was more frequently to be found in his Study, raised above this world by a contemplation of the Works of Nature and of Providence, or by a perusal of the Poets and Orators of Greece and Rome. Absorbed in speculations and in disqusitions, which, whilst they exercised all the high powers of his mind, afforded to him a pure and unmixed delight,his spirit could not stoop to the petty cares, anxieties, and forms, of ordinary men. His circumstances were easy, and riches were never the objects of his desire. He was therefore but little known; and was generally looked upon as a man of an eccentric character, destitute of the knowledge of common life. But if to live be to exercise the faculties thought and of reason, and to employ all the intellectual powers with which we are endowed, and not merely to eat and to drink and to labour, then indeed he knew how to live in a superior degree to most of his contemporaries; for few men were blessed with so clear a perception and so exquisite a relish of the sublime and beautiful, or with so much time and leisure to indulge his favourite taste to the latest period of a long life: The study of the antient Classicks, and of the Antiquities of his Country, were so much his favourite objects, as to justify a hope that he may have left behind him some writings on these subjects in a state to be given to the world. To those who knew him best, this slight tribute of respect from one who honoured him when living, and laments him now that he is no

more, will not be unacceptable; and to those who knew him not, it will convey a faint sketch of one of the "most ingenious, unassuming, amiable of mankind."

At his residence in Lower Brook-street, about 7 inthe evening, Gerard Lake, Lord Lake, Governor of Plymouth, Gentle man-attendant to the Prince of Wales, one of his Council of State for Cornwall, a General in the Army, and Colonel of the 80th Regiment of Foot. At 5'in the morning, alarming symptomsof dissolution appeared; shortly after which, the Prince of Wales, and some other persons of distinction intimately acquainted with his Lordship, were sent for, of whom he took an affecting farewell, and at the time mentioned, the brave spirit of this noble and gallant Officer took its departure" for another and a better world." His campaigns in India established his fame as a skilful and brave

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officer; and for his meritorious conduct there, he was deservedly promoted to the Peerage Sept. 13, 1804, He was many years a widower; and had three sons and five danghters; two of the latter are married: Mrs. Bo

rough and Mrs. Brooke. He is succeeded in his titles and estates by his eldest son, Francis Gerard, a Lieutenant-colonel in the Army. His Lordship was His Lordship was taken ill on the 18th, while attending the trial of Gen. Whitelocke, as one of the members of the Court Martial. By his death the Receiver generalship of the Duchy of Cornwall also becomes vacant; and, being the gift of he Prince of Wales, is expect

ed to revert to Mr. Sheridan," who handsomely resigned that office in favour of Lord Lake on his return from India. In consequence of his Lordship's gal lant and meritorious, services in India, his Majesty has been plea sed to grant an annuity of 2000l. a year to his son and his next heir-male.

The Rev. Philip Duval, D.D. one of the Canons of Windsor.

After a short illness in the 824 year of his age, the Rev. John Barker, D. D. Master of Christ's. College Cambridge, and the next day died in the 76th year of her age, Mrs. Barker, widow of the said Dr. Barker, at Christ College Lodge.

Aged 72, the Rev. Basil Bury Beridge, rector of Alderchurch cum Fosdike, and prebendary of Sleaford in Lincoln Cathedral," to which he was collated' by Bishop Greene. The living is a family advowson of considerable value, and is to be held for his eldest son.

The Rev. John Vinicombe, B. D. Senior Fellow of Pem-broke College Oxford.

At Gloucester, the Rev. Thomas Evans, M. A. vicar of Chipping Norton in that county.

At Kittery-Court near Dartmouth, aged 75, the Rev. Thomas Fownes, B. D. uncle of Sir J. Fownes Luttrell, Esq. M. P. and 53 years vicar of Brixham, Devon...

At the vicarage, West Ham, Essex, the Rev. George Gregory, D. D. vicar of that parish, and lecturer of St. Giles's Cripplegate.

At Gosmore near Hitchin, the Rev. Thomas Dove, rector of Holwell in Bedfordshire, and

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vicar of Kentford cum Gazeley in Suffolk.

Rev. G. H. Larden, M. A. one of the minor canons of Chester Cathedral.

Rev. R. Harbin of Newtonhouse near Yeovil, Somersetshire.

Rev. W. Clarke, vicar of Annesley, Gonalston, and Tytheby in Nottinghamshire.

Aged 82, the Rev. John Dalton, of Pitcombe House near Bruton, Somerset.

At Leire in Leicestershire, in his 76th year, the Rev. George Mason, upward of forty years rector of that parish. At Oxford in the 66th year of his age, the Rev. Joseph Chapman, D. D. president of Trinity college.

At Hempstead Court, co. of Gloucester, after a painful and

lingering illness, in her 28th
year, Mrs. Lysons, wife of the
Rev. Daniel Lysons. She was
elegant in her person and man-
ners; obliging and amiable in
her disposition; pious, humane,
and extensively charitable. As
a wife and a mother, exemp-
plary. She has left four child-
ren to lament her loss; two sons
and two daughters. To quit
this world, when every induce-
ment that can be desired invites
our stay, appears indeed a hard-
ship; but the true Christian
must submit without murmur-
ing to the most awful dispensa-
tions of Providence; and consi-
der death, not as the extinction
of existence, but as the dawn of
that blissful state in which alone
(for those who lived like her)
happiness and immortality are
inseparably united.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

The continuation of the discourse on the "Miffion of the Twelve" is received, and will appear in our next; alfo "Ecclefiaftical Antiquities," &c. &c.

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THE

ORTHODOX CHURCHMAN'S

MAGAZINE AND REVIEW,

FOR APRIL, 1808.

In proportion as a neglect or contempt of Religion groweth amongst us, a dissoluteness of Morals will prevail; and when once this becometh general among a people, true Probity and Virtue, a right Public Spirit, and a generous Concern for the real Interests of our Country will be extinguished.

DR. JOHN LELAND.

Biography.

Memoirs of the Moft Reverend Father in God Dr. THO. MAS SECKER, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury.

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¡N the translation of bifhop Potter to the See of Canterbury, Dr. Secker was appointed to fucceed him in the bishopric of Oxford, in 1737, and the fame year he preached a funeral fermon for queen Caroline, which was greatly admired by the king and royal family.

In February 1742-3, a bill was brought into parliament to take off the high duties on fpirituous liquors, and to lay on others much lower in their room. As it was fuppofed that this measure would have a pernicious effect on the health and morals of the common people, it met with great oppofition in the house of lords, efpecially from the bench of bishops, all of whom voted, and feveral fpoke against it,

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Among the latter were bishop Sherlock and bifhop Secker, and when it paffed, the bishop of Oxford entered his diffent.

The following year died Sarah, duchefs dowager of Marlborough, and was buried at Blenheim by bishop Secker, whom she had appointed one of her executors, with a legacy of two thousand five hundred pounds. This, confidering the violent character of that celebrated woman, and the difference between her political fentiments and those of the bifhop, is certainly a ftriking proof of the high estimation in which his character was held.

Shortly after this, the nation began to be alarmed with the appearances of an invafion. About the middle of February 1743-4, the king fent a meffage to parliament, acquainting them that the Pretender's fon was meditating a defcent upon fome part of the kingdom. The bifhop of Oxford took the earliest opportunity, after this declaration, of signalizing his affection to the government, and of exciting that of others, by compofing a fermon on the occafion, which he preached firft at his parish church and then at both his chapels. This was quickly printed, and was much read and admired, as being one of the best of the many excellent difcourfes published on that fubject.

When the rebellion actually broke out in 1745, the bishop of Oxford fent a circular letter to his clergy, and drew up and promoted an address from them to the king. In the fpring of 1748, Mrs. Secker died of the gout in her ftomach. She had been ill many years, and he conftantly attended her with the greateft care and tendernefs, being always ready to break off any engagement, or ftudy, provided his company could procure her a moment's eafe or cheerfulness.

Not long after this, a moft oppreffive bill came into the houfe of lords, and was afterwards paffed into an act, by which all letters of orders to Scotch epifcopal ministers, not granted by a bishop of the Church of England or Ireland, were difallowed from Michaelmas 1748, whether dated before that time or after. This the bishop of Oxford thought a great hardihip, and fpoke againft it in the houfe. The majority were against it in the committee, but it was carried. in the house against the fenfe and vote of all the bishops. To the honour of Dr. Wifhart, provoit of Edinburgh college, he faid to Dr. Secker, that "he thought the bill was too hard on the epifcopal minifters, and that the bishops had done right."

About two years after this, on the nomination of Dr. Butler to the bishopric of Durham, the lord chancellor Hard

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