promoting Christian Knowledge; and a more judicious choice could not have been made; since they pourtray, in the clearest manner, the tendency of virtue to happiness, and of vice to misery, and are eminently calculated to enliven our faith, to confirm our hopes, and to invigorate our charity. Such are the rude outlines of the life of the Rev. Sir James Stonhouse; and of such a life who would not rejoice to hear that the conclusion was characterised by calm resignation and sincere devotion? He died, at his house at the Hot-wells, Bristol, on the 8th of December 1795, in the 80th year of his age, blessed by the good, and lamented by the poor. The title of Baronet devolved to his eldest son Thomas, then in India. As a Preacher, Sir James Stonhouse was almost without a rival. His eloquence was simple, grand, and energetic. He convinced the mind, while he warmed the heart. His style, though plain, was adapted to his subject; and, though never tricked out in glaring and gorgeous decorations, was yet marked by chaste imagery and elegant diction. But, above all, so solemn was his delivery, and so impressive his manner of awakening the feelings and commanding the attention of his audience, that the traces he made upon the mind were such as could not easily be obliterated. In "The English Orator," Book IV. which treats of the Eloquence of the Pulpit, Mr. Polwhele has thus characterised him: "The musick of a Stonhouse gives

To each pathetic sentiment new soul:
While every fine inflexion of a voice

Distinct and sweet, to his nice-judging ear

Attun'd, in melting modulation flows!"

To great quickness of apprehension, and to great nicety of discrimination, he united a lively fancy and a vigorous intellect, He was naturally fond of society; and his manners were as affable and polished as his conversation was brilliant and instructive. These qualities received an additional value from the lustre which they borrowed from his superior excellencies; from morals correct and exemplary; from benevolence, which was extended to every sect and denomination of men; and from religion, which was neither inflamed by enthusiasm nor soured by superstition.The celebrity of this venerable Divine, both as a Preacher and the Author of several Religious Tracts, is well known. A numerous acquaintance, of all ranks, from the Peer to the Peasant, will long retain his memory in their affections, as a warm friend and an agreeable and instructive companion. That love to God and man, which is the essence of Christ's Religion, was so shed abroad in his heart, and so influenced his actions, that his energetic strains in his public addresses, even till within a few months of his decease (notwithstanding his great age and many infirmities) had suffered but little diminution; nor had his liberality any other restraint than that of genuine prudence. To all good men (those at least whom he believed to be such), whatever religious names they were distinguished

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by, he cheerfully extended the right hand of Friendship; and a real indigent person, however strange his face, or futile his claim, never applied to him in vain for relief. Many Public Charities bear respectful testimony to his support; and many more of a private nature severely feel and lament its extinction, and especially those in his own parishes, where he had left a commission with a confidential friend (ever since his complaints obliged him to non-residence) to dispense books, medicines, and money, to the sick and poor, according to their exigencies. But what manifested the sincerity of his professions, and the real dignity of his character, much more impressively than can the description of words, or a retrospective view of his life, were his dying moments, in which he displayed a calm resignation of his soul to Him whom he loved and honoured, in the exercise of true Christian faith, yet without presumption, and in the enjoyment of hope full of immortality.

A plain oval Monument in All Saints Church, Northampton, immediately under that of his first Wife, is thus inscribed.

"Sacred to the memory of her affectionate husband, Sir James Stonhouse, Bart. Doctor of Physick; the Projector, Friend, and Physician of the County Infirmary, established in the year 1743;

where the lame walk, and the sick are healed. Afterwards he was for many years Rector of Great and Little Cheverel, Wiltshire, and exemplary as a Minister. But, in that immortal state on which he is now entered, how dim is human excellence!

Reader, it is his superior honour at this period that he was
partaker with her in the Christian character with
whom he was united in the conjugal relation.
He died the 8th day of December, 1795,

in the 80th year of his age."

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P. 701. The Rev. Charles Hawtrey, M. A. of Christ Church, 1756, brother to Stephen Hawtrey, Esq. Recorder of the City of Exeter, and one of the Portionists of Bampton, died at Bath, June 26, 1796. He was Author of "A Letter to Lord Stanhope, on the Subject of the Test, 1790," 8vo, and Thoughts on Liberty and the Revolution in France, 1790," Svo. P. 702. The Rev. Benjamin Blayney was first of Worcester College, where he proceeded M. A. 1753; afterwards Fellow of Hertford College, where he took the degree of B. D. 1768, and of D. D. 1787; Canon of Christ Church, and Regius Professor of Hebrew in the University of Oxford, 1787. He was also Rector of Polshot, co. Wilts; and a Whitehall Preacher. He distinguished himself greatly as a Scriptural Commentator and Translator; having published "A Dissertation, by Way of Enquiry into the true Import and Application of the Vision related Dan. ix. 20 to the End, usually called Daniel's Prophecy of Seventy Weeks; with occasional Remarks on Michaelis's Letters to Sir John Pringle on the same Subject, 1775," 4to; "Jeremiah and Lamentations,

Lamentations, a new Translation, with Notes critical, philoso phical, and explanatory, 1784," 8vo; "The Sign given to Ahaz, a Discourse on Isaiah vii. 14, 15, 16, delivered in the Church of St. John, Devizes, at the Triennial Visitation of Shute Lord Bishop of Sarum, July 26, 1786; with a proposed Emendation of a Passage in his Dissertation on Daniel, 1786," 4to; "Christ the greater Glory of the Temple, a Sermon, preached before the University of Oxford, at Christ Church, Nov. 9, 1788," 4to; "Zechariah, a new Translation, with Notes critical, philoso phical, and explanatory; and an Appendix, in reply to Dr. Eveleigh's Sermon on Zechariah i. 8-11 (to which is added, a new Edition, with Alterations, of the Dissertation on Daniel), 1797," 4to. In this Dissertation on Daniel the study and criticism of this learned Divine produced a Translation very different from that in the common English Bible, as well as from that of Michaelis. It is less liable to objection, particularly as it has no recourse to that ingenious but uncertain and unsatisfactory method of computation by Lunar years; it extends also to those verses of the chapter which Michaelis seemed to give up as inexplicable, almost in despair of ever attaining a probable solution of the difficulty. The Translation of Jeremiah and Lamentations is on the plan of Dr. Lowth's Isaiah, and does credit to its Author both as a Translator and a Critick. The same may be said respecting the Translation of Zechariah; and it may be added, that the candour and liberality which Dr. Blayney opposes, in this instance, to the intemperance and acrimony of his Antagonist, do him great honour. The Doctor also took uncommon pains in correcting the text of the Edition of the common Version of the English Bible, which was printed at the Clarendon Press, in 4to, 1769. He made a great number of additional references in the margin, and produced the most correct Bible in our language; but, unfortunately, a large part of the impression was soon after burnt at the Bible Warehouse in Paternoster Row. He died at Polshot, Sept. 20, 1801, aged 73.

P. 708. Dr. John Randolph was descended from a family of some standing and respectability in Kent. He was the younger son of Dr. Thomas Randolph, formerly President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, one of the ablest Divines of his time; every step of whose promotion was the honourable reward of some display of zeal and talent in defence of the doctrines of the Church; who died March 24, 1783, after presiding over the College for the long space of 35 years, and was buried in the Cloister; and whose wife was the sister of Sir John Honywood, great-grandfather of the present Baronet. Of the President's two sons, Thomas, the elder, was a Kentish Rector, of plain sense and quiet and unambitious habits, who closed in 1808 a life spent amid the love and respect of the neighbourhood where his ancestors had sprung. John, the younger son, was born July 6, 1749; became a Student of Corpus Christi College, Oxford; M. A. 1774; B. D. 1782; D. D. by diploma 1783; Præ

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lector of Poetry 1776; Proctor 1781; Regius Professor of Greek 1782, and in the same year a Prebendary of Salisbury; Canon of Christ Church, Regius Professor of Divinity, and Rector of Ewelme, 1783; elevated to the Bishoprick of Oxford in 1799; translated to that of Bangor in 1807; thence to London in 1809; and was elected F.R.S. in 1811. He passed a great part of his life in the University of Oxford, and enjoyed a considerable reputation for learning and strong sense; and it is generally understood that, when he was elevated to the See of Oxford, the University was complimented with the nomination by the Crown, and that he owed his place on the Bench to their high opinion of him. He was called to the See of London, as it were, by the general voice; and administered the affairs of it with unshaken firmness, impartiality, and fidelity. He married, Sept. 20, 1785, Jane daughter of Thomas Lambarde, esq. of Sevenoaks; and left several children. He died in consequence of falling from his horse in an apoplectic fit; and his remains were interred at Fulham, amongst his venerable Predecessors, by the side of Bp. Gibson, whom he resembled in zeal for the Church, as well as in great talents for business and indefatigable industry. In his Epitaph his character is thus ably delineated: "Under this Tomb is deposited all that is mortal of that eminent Prelate, John Randolph, who was born July 17, 1749; and died July 28, 1813, too soon for the Church and his Country, and lamented by all who have any respect for high resplendent talents and qualities. It was his lot to be placed in various and arduous stations; but he shone conspicuous in all. His learning was deep and accurate; his taste correct, his judgment sound; his industry indefatigable:

his piety sincere, his firmness unshaken;
his integrity uncorrupt.

"At Oxford, where he filled the Chairs of Poetry, the Greek Language, and Divinity, his name has long been enrolled amongst the most illustrious of her Sons. His Theological Lectures were so admirable, that, if the laborious discharge of his other sacred duties had not deprived him of leisure to revise them for publication, they would have constituted the most durable monument of his fame.

"At the age of 50, being raised to the Bench, he governed in succession the Sees of Oxford, Bangor, and London, having declined a still more exalted station in Ireland. Nor did he disappoint the great and general expectations that were formed of him. No man knew better than himself the Doctrine, the Discipline, the Rights, and the whole Constitution of the Church of England; and no man in these times was more watchful, more courageous, or more able to defend them.

"In him, therefore, the Church has prematurely lost an undaunted

undaunted champion of Orthodoxy, and one of her firmest bulwarks against innovation and change.

"Such was the Divine Will!

May those who were directed and animated by his counsels whilst he was alive,

persevere in the same principles,

and still reverence his example and authority,

now that he is dead!"

The Bishop's Library was sold by auction, by Mr. Evans in Pall Mall, in April 1814.

P. 708. The eventful life of Orion Adams would occupy a volume of more than ordinary dimensions. He was a native of Manchester, and son of Mr. Roger Adams, the original Proprietor and Publisher of "The Chester Courant;" to which property he would, by right, have succeeded, had not his instability and eccentricities prevented it. For the last fifty years his life had been a lamentable scene of chequered events. In Birmingham (with his partner Boden), and at Manchester, Chester, Plymouth, and Dublin, he may be remembered as a Master Printer; and there are very few London or Provincial Printing-offices in the Kingdom where he has not occasionally worked as a Journeyman. For several years he practised a kind of itinerant or pedestrian pilgrimage; and frequently, after he had attained his 70th year, walked from London to Chester and back, with a heart as light as his pocket; for, under all adversities, his temper was cheerful, obliging, and friendly. He was intimately acquainted with many of the first Characters of the Stage; particularly Barry, Mossop, Ryder (with whose Father, as a Printer, he was in partnership in Dublin), and many others; and, at the memorable Stratford Jubilee, Orion Adams was distinguished as a brilliant Character from Birmingham, in his own carriage, though, a few months after, such was the versatility of his fortune, he sunk into the humble character of a Distributor of Play-bills to an itinerant Company. He died, in a very obscure lodging near Chester, in April 1797, aged SO, and in great poverty.

P. 714. Mr. Thomas Aris settled at Birmingham, as a Printer and Bookseller, in May 1740; and published No I. of "The Birmingham Gazette; or, The General Correspondent," Nov. 16, 1741, at the price of three halfpence. This News-paper (after various advances in price) is still published, under the title of "Aris's Birmingham Gazette."

P. 717. The following Entry from the Journals of the Company of Stationers is equally honourable to Mr. Henry Baldwin, at that time Master, and to the Company at large. Dec. 12, 1792, at a Special Court of Assistants of the Worshipful Company of Stationers, the Master informed the Court, 'that he had called a Meeting of the Members of it, with a view to take into consideration the propriety, at this moment, of concurring with other Public Bodies, by declaring their perfect satisfaction in the Constitution of this Kingdom, under the Government thereof

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