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The Case of HEZEKIAH considered as a Ground of Consolation, and a Motive to Union in Prayer, at the present alarming State of the King's Health, and of the British Empire; in a Sermon preached at Woburn Chapel, on Sunday, February 24, 1804, by the Rev. G. A. THOMAS, LL.D. Minister of the said Chapel, &c. &c. 8vo.

THOUGHTS on the Calvinistic and Arminian CONTROVERSY, by G. STANLEY FABER, B.D. Svo.

OBSERVATIONS on the Correspondence between Mr. ADAM and Mr. BOWLES; with the Correspondence subjoined. By JOHN BOWLES, Esq. Svo,

A Serious ADDRESS to the Inhabitants of BRISTOL, on the Subject of the Multiplicity of Religious Distinctions which prevail in that City; with some cursory Strictures on the principal Sect. 12mo.

The Economy of the COVENANT between GOD and MAN, comprehending a complete Body of Divinity; by the learned HERMAN WITSIUS, D.D. with his Life. Faithfully translated from the Latin; with fine Portrait of the Author. 8vq. 14s.

An ESSAY on the CIIRISTIAN SABBATH: by Joseph HUGHES, A. M.

Eight DISCOURSES on Theological and Literary Subjects, by the late Professor ARTHUR, of Glasgow, with an account of some 'Particulars in his Life and Character; by Professor WILLIAM RICHARDSON, Svo. boards.

The GUIDE to IMMORTALITY; or, Memoirs of the Life and Character of Christ, by the Four Evangelists; digested according to the Order of Time and Place in the Words of the established Version; illustrated with Notes, by RICHARD FELLOWES, A.M. 8vo. boards.

SERMONS and other Miscellaneous Pieces, by the late HENRY HUNTER, D.D. Minister of the Scot's Church, London Wall; to which are prefixed a Biographical Sketch of his Life, and a critical Account of his Writings, Svo.

A brief Statement of the Public BENEFITS which will probably result from the Establishment of an ASYLUM for OUTCASTS; with a concise Account of the Institution proposed.

SERMONS selected and abridged chiefly from Minor Authors, from Trinity Sunday to the 25th Sunday inclusive ;' adapted generally to the Epistle and Gospel, or first Lessons; or to the several Seasons of the Year: together with Eight occasional Sermons on important Subjects, and an earnest Exhortation to attend Public Worship, &c. &c. addressed by a Clergyman to his Parishioners. For the Use of Families. By the Rev. SAMUEL CLAPHAM, Vicar of Christ Church, Hants, &c. Vol. IId. Svo.

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ECCLESIASTICAL AND ACADEMICAL PREFERMENTS,

The Rev. Henry Plimley, A.M. Vicar of St. Leonard, Shore← ditch, and Chaplain to the Right Hon. Lord St. Helens, is instituted by the Lord Bishop of Salisbury to the living of Windsor, on the Presentation of the Lord Chancellor.

The Lord Bishop of Chichester has been pleased to collate the Rev. J. W. King, Rector of Nuthurst, to the Vicarage of Fittleworth, both in the diocese of Chichester.

His Grace the Duke of Devonshire has presented the Rev. William Doncaster, A.M. Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, to the Vicarage of Normanton upon Trent, Nottinghamshire.

The Rev. Richard Williams, M.A. late of Christ's college, Cambridge, rector of Bulphan in Essex, and vicar of Puddington, Bedfordshire, is appointed one of the domestic Chaplains to the Right Hon. the Earl of Moira.

The Right Hon. Lord Carteret has presented the Rev. John Davis, Fellow of St. John's college, Cambridge; to the Rectory of Kilkhampton, in the county of Cornwall.

The Rev. Daniel Lancaster is instituted to the Rectory of Patney, Wilts, on the presentation of the Lord Bishop of Winchester.

The Lord Chancellor has been pleased to present the Rev W. Hooper, B.D. Fellow of University College, to the Rectory of Moremonkton, in the county of York.

The Rev. Edward Willis, M.A. has been inducted to the Rectory of Morley, Derbyshire, on the presentation of Hugh Bateman, and E. S. Sitwell, Esqrs.

The Rev. Charles Sloman LL.B. has been instituted by the Right Rev. the Bishop of Peterborough, to the Rectory of Marston Trussell, in Northamptonshire, vacant by the death of the Rev. John Bullivant.

The Rev. John Lowthian, M.A. Chaplain to the Lord Bishop of Chester, and late Vicar of New Windsor, has been instituted to the Vicarage of Thatcham in Berkshire, on the presentation of John Thomas Hope, Esq.

OXFORD.

Feb. 29. The Rev. Thomas Cox, A.M. of Worcester College, and Rector of Munsley, in the diocese of Hereford, was admitted Bachelor and Doctor of Divinity.

Vol. VI.Churchm. Mag. March, 1803,

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The same day Mr. James Campion Hicks, of St. Mary Hall,

was admitted Bachelor of Arts.

March 1. Mr. John Woodfield Compton, A.M. of St. Mary Hall, was admitted Bachelor in Civil Law. The Rev. John Turner, B.A. of Trinity College, was admitted Master of Arts.

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Mr. John Woodfield Compton, LL.B. of St. Mary Hall, was admitted Doctor in Civil Law.

-5. Messrs. Richard Gooch, and Richard Berens, of Christ Church, were admitted Bachelors of Arts.

-9. Messrs. James Hamer, and George Leigh Cooke, A. B. of Corpus Christi College, were admitted Masters of Arts. Alexander Powell, Esq. of Exeter College, was admitted Bachelor of Arts, Grand Compounder.-Messrs, Hollyn Peter, of Exeter college, and John Mitchell, of Christ Church, were also admitted Bachelors of Arts.

Mr. Charles Henry Hodgson, A.B. of Queen's college, was elected a Junior Fellow of Hertford college, by the Reverend the Principal and Fellows of that Society.

CAMBRIDGE

March 9. The Chancellor's two gold Medals, for the best Classical Scholars of the Year, are adjudged, the first to Mr. Kaye, of Christ's College, who was the Senior Wrangler of the Year; and the second to Mr. Monk, of Trinity College, who was the Seventh Wrangler. This is only the third Instance in the Annals of this University, of the senior Wrangler having obtained the first Classical Medal.

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The Rev. George Howes, M.A. Fellow of Katharine Hall, is elected into the Divinity Fellowship at Trinity-hall, va→ cated by the promotion of the Rev. John Vickers.

23. The Rev. Edward Daniel Clarke, Fellow of Jesus College, was admitted to the degree of Doctor in Civil Law, by Royal Mandate.

Messrs. Hunt and Hoste, of Trinity College: Martyn and Jones, of St. John's College; Newcome and Shepherd, of Queen's College; Gwilt, of Gonvile and Caius College; and Baines, of Christ's College; were admitted to the degree of Master of Arts; and Mr. Thomas Woodhouse, of Gonvile and Caius College, to the degree of Bachelor of Physic.

Messrs. Jack, Hunter, Gosling, and Birch of St. John's College, are elected Fellows of that Society.

OBITUARY

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N the 26th of January, at the vicarage house of Orston, in the county of Nottingham, the Rev. Jonathan Fell, aged 56 years, and more than 31 years curate of that parish. With a slender income, arising chiefly from that curacy, and a small farin he rented of the vicar, he brought up creditably a family of eight children, five sons and three daughters, who have to lament the loss of a most excellent father. He has left a widow whose virtues as a wife and a mother have rarely been equalled, never celled. His remains were interred in the north aysle of Orston church, on the 30th of January, attended to the grave by his widow and his whole family; his eldest son twenty-four years of age, and his youngest eleven. A great number of his relations followed in the procession. The Rev. Edw. Robson, the vicar, performed the last duties to his faithful friend ---no easy task;-for his feelings were powerfully excited by the affecting scene which surrounded him. "The righteous shall be had in everlasting remembrance."

FEBRUARY 2. At Mrs. Bristow's, in New-street, Spring Gardens, aged 51, suddenly of an apoplectic stroke, the Rev. Bartholomew Lutley Sclar ter, M. A. of Ashford, in Middlesex, vicar of Whittingham, in Northum berland, and rector of Sherfield English, in the county of Southampton: In the year 1769, he was elected from Hartlebury School, into a Scholarship of Worcester College, Oxford, where he proceeded to the degree of B. A, and was from thence elected Fellow of Oriel College, where in 1776, he was admitted to the degree of M. A. In his friendship he was warm and active, in his spirit, firm and independent; his piety was sincere; his faith was Orthodox, and his honesty most inflexible: To the prosperity and honour of the Church of England, he was attached, not from mechanism of habit, or the prejudices of education, but from the more sure and steady guidance of principle; and therefore, he inculcated her doctrines with unabated fervour, and conformed to her discipline with

exemplary and conscientious exact.. ness the integrity of his heart was equal to the soundness of his understanding; his talents were very respectable, and he employed them from the best motives to the best ends-for the diffusion of every useful truth, and the encouragement of every momentous duty, for the glory of God, and the happiness of mankind. The justness of this character no man will dispute, who knew him, and who had the happiness of knowing him, as the writer of this article had for upwards of 35 years, The equanimity of his temper and the excellence of his disposition, was such, that few mortals have it in their power to boast the like." Multis Ille Bonis Fiebilis Occidit." He was buried at Feltham, in Middlesex, of which parish he had been vicar, and was followed to the grave by many of his neighbouring brethren, by whom his loss is severely felt and justly lamented. R. B. C.

---20. The Rev, Cha, Belgrave, aged 63, of Ridlington, in the courtty of Rutland, of which place he had been rector above 30 years.-The Living is in the gift of Gerard Noel Noel, Esq.

21, At Kirchbergh, after a very short illness, Frederick Edward, the reigning Prince of Hohenlohe, and a celebrated General in the Im perial service. It is very remarkable, that the Princess his consort, expired exactly at the same hour. His Highness had reached the 67th, and the Princess her 69th year.

--24. Aged 72, at Potton, in Bedfordshire, the Rev. Mr. Woodhouse, rector of Moor Monckton, in Yorkshire, and perpetual curate of Dunton, Bedfordshire,

--27. At Elberfeld, in Germany, Lady Sykes, wife of Sir Francis William Sykes, of Besaldon Park, Bart, neice to her Grace the Duchess of Chandos, grand-daughter to the late, and niece to the present Lord Henniker. Through her amiable disposition, and motherly care of an infant son, afflicted with the scarlet fever, her Ladyship fell a victim, to the great grief of her family, relatives, and friends. Lady Sykes was in her twenty-fifth year,

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At Oxford, the Rev. A. Litchfield Rector of Noke, and of Wadhurst, Sussex, and formerly fellow of Wadham College, Oxford.

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- 28. At his house in Rutland Place, Swansea, in the 85th year of his age, the Rev. Robert Wills, A,M. Rector of Penmaen and Ilston, in the Deanery of Gowar, and formerly Fellow of Exeter college, Oxford, MARCH 1. At Kinharachy, in Scotland, in the 51st year of his age, the Rev. John Cruickshank, Presbyter of the Scotch episcopal church.

5. At Bath, the Rev. John Howlett, Vicar of Great Dunmow, Essex. The Bishop of London is patron of the vicarage.

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-9. At his house in Harley Street, in the 84th year of his age, the Right Reverend George Lewis Jones, Lord Bishop of Kildare, and Dean of Christ Church, in Ireland. His Lordship was formerly of King's College, Cambridge, where he proceeded B. A. 1746; M. A. 1750; D. D. 1772:

At the Rectory-house, Fretherne, Gloucestershire, the Rev. J. Hawkins, B. A. many years curate of that parish,

The Rev. Charles Chauncy, Rector of Ayott St. Peter's, Herts, and formerly of Pembroke Hall. Cambridge; B. A. 1757; M. A. 1786.

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-10. In consequence of a duel the Rt. Hon. Thos. Pitt, Lord Camelford. The cause of quarrel between his Lordship and his antagonist Capt. Best arose about a Mrs. Simmons who has lived a long time with the former, and who represented to him that Capt. B. had used him very ill, and spoke to her in disrespectful terms of Lord Camelford. His Lordship in consequence went on Tuesday in search of Capt. Best, and meeting him in the afternoon at the Prince of Wales's Coffee-house, Conduit Street, addressed him in the public room in terms of strong reproach and abuse, charging him with ungentlemanly conduct. Captain Best positively denied the charges, and endeavour ed but in yain to convince his Lord ship of his mistake. A challenge was given, and both parties met next morning at Mr. Doratt's, Surgeon in

Bruton Street, but did not find that gentleman at home. They then went to the place of rendezvous near the White Horse public house at the end of the lane leading to Holland House on the Uxbridge road. Having crossed the hedge they took their station, but even then, Capt. B. endeavoured to avoid the fatal issue, by again urging Lord Camelford to retract his harsh expressions, but his Lordship only said "Best, this is no child's play" and immediately they took their position, and fired at the same time, Lord Camelford fell, and directly advised Capt. B. and the seconds to make off, which they did. Some persons hearing the firing hastened to the spot, and found his Lordship on the ground bleeding very much, They were about to take him to the public house, when Mr. Ottey, clerk at the Navy Office, who lives near the place, came to the spot and caused his Lordship to be removed to his house and put to bed. Mr, Ottey instantly sent for some surgeons, who having probed the wound found that the ball had entered the upper part of the right breast and was lodged in the vertebræ of the back. When questioned as to the names of the gentlemen who had accompanied him, his Lordship declined giving any satisfaction, but persisted in asserting himself to be the aggressor. His Lordship languished in great agony till Saturday night at Mr. Ottey's and then expired. It should be mentioned for the honour of his character, that though from romantic notions of honour he thought it proper to conipel Capt. Best to enter the field, he previously determined not to fire at him, knowing, though he was too proud to confess it, that himself was in the fault. His Lordship and the Captain were reckoned the best shots in the kingdom. While he lay at Mr. Ottey's, Lord Camelford made his will, in which he leaves the bulk of his fortune to his sister Lady Grenville, and directs that his friend Capt. Barrie's debts shall be immediately paid, and 2007. year to be allowed him for his life, He has also bequeathed several considerable sums to charitable

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