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ry effort to introduce it failed, until about three years ago the Lord brought a pious family to reside there. Deploring its benighted situation they hired a house, got it licenced for worship; and, notwithstanding much opposition, a congregation has been raised; and the word was blessed to the salvation of sinners.

Thus encouraged, they resolved to erect a place of worship. It is earnestly hoped that the friends of Zion will feel interested in the success of the gospel, at a place so deeply involved in darkness and ignorance, and that they will cheerfully contribute according to their ability towards defraying the remainder of the expense incurred.

WALES.

Feb. 17th, a small neat place of worship in the Baptist denomination, was opened at Machynlleth, Montgomery; Mr. Jesse Jones, and Mr. John James, preached on the occa

sion.

March 28, a new and convenient meeting house was opened at Llandrenis, Montgomeryshire, for the use of the Baptists, which is well attended. Mr. Palmer of Shrewsbury preached on this occasion, from 1 Peter iii. 18. Mr. John Phillips in the evening, from Ps. xxxvii. 39. Next morning, Mr. Palmer again preached, from Heb. xii. 28, 29., and Mr. Phillips in Welsh from 1 Cor. i. 23.

March 29. The Quarterly Meeting was held at Oswestry, Shropshire; when Mr. Palmer preached in the evening, from Job xxvi. 14. On the 30th in the afternoon Mr. J. Phillips preached from Heb. vi. 17, 18. and

Mr. Samuel Edwards of Glywn, in Welsh, from Heb. iv. 14. Many found these meetings "times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord."

NORTH WALES.

We learn by a letter from Wales that in the Island of Anglesea, the Rev. Christmas Evans, and his assistants have baptized, during the last eighteen months, upwards of 500 persons, on a personal profession of their faith in Christ.

Sunday School Union. The Annual Meeting of the Sunday School Union, will be held at the City of London Tavern, Bishopsgate Street, on Wednesday Morning, the 10th of May. Breakfast to be provided at 6 o'clock, and the chair taken at half past six precisely.

The Annual Meeting of the British and Foreign Bible Society, will be held at Free Mason's Hall, Great Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, on Wednesday the 3d of May. The President will take the chair at twelve o'clock precisely. N. B. No Ladies can be admitted.

The Annual Meeting of the Religi ous Tract Society will be held at the City of London Tavern, Bishopsgate Street, opposite to Threadneedle Street, at half past six in the morning, on Thursday, the 11th of May. The, chair will be taken at half past seven, precisely.

On Friday, 12th May, the Annual Meeting of the Hibernian Society, will be held at the City of London Tavern, Bishopsgate Street, at half past six in the morning. The chair will bę taken at half past seven precisely.

BAPTIST ASSOCIATIONS.

Time and Place of their respective Meetings.

Bucks and Herts, at Great Missenden, Wed. May 24.
Essex, at Earl's Coln, Tues. May 30.

In Ireland, at Dublin, Frid, July 14.

Kent and Sussex, at Chatham, Tues. and Wed. June 6 and 7.
Midland, at Birmingham, Tues. and Wed. May 16 and 17.

Norfolk and Suffolk, at Stoke Ash, Tues. and Wed. June 6 and 7.
Northern, at Hamsterly, Tues and Wed. June 27 and 28.
Northamptonshire, at Luton, Tues. and Wed. May 16 and 17.
Oxfordshire, at Fairford, Tues: and Wed. May 16 and 17.
Shropshire, at Shrewsbury. Wed. and Thurs. May 3 and 4. ·
Western, at Salisbury, Wed. and Thurs. May 17 and 18.

York and Lancashire, at Bramley, Wed. and Thurs, May 17 and 18.

Smith, Printer, John Street, Edgware Road.

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Baptist Magazine.

JUNE, 1815.

A MEMOIR OF THE REV. JOSEPH WEBB,

OF BIRMINGHAM, LATELY DECEASED.

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THE life of Mr. Webb does not the causes which induce or obfurnish that variety of incident struct general notice, are often and adventure, which has usu- circumstantial, and adventitious ally given to biography its po- to the sterling and personal pularity and interest. In the claims to notoriety, furnished very outset of his public career, either by the intellect, or the he was arrested by the hand of heart. There are flowers in the affliction, which, in the issue, world of science and of morals, "deprived him of the residue as well as in that of nature, of his years." But, for this, which are "born to blush unhis talents, of the highest intel-seen. lectual order, his unhesitating. Although the life of my deattachment to the truths of the parted friend produced little or Gospel, together with a goodly nothing of the romantic; but, portion of genuine piety, would, eyen in its afflictions, preserved doubtless, have introduced him a distressing monotony; still, it to connexions more productive was that of a man of original of incident than can be ex-genius, who, emerging from the pected in the biography of a man, driven by affliction, to early seclusion, from ministerial engagements.

He, however, obtained celebrity as extensive as the nature of his pursuits and the privacy of affliction would allow. It originated purely from personal character: but his instance furnishes evidence, additional to what has been previously adduced, that it does not fall to the lot of all the good, nor of all the great, to be recognised as such by the popular eye; that

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obscurities of birth, and surmounting the difficulties appended to an education commencing at a date too recent; quietly, and without ostentation, nurtured his mind by studies and meditation, till it attained a growth in learning seldom acquired, even by those who spend a much longer life than his in scientific pursuits.

Disappointed, by sickness, in the ministry of the Gospel, his first and ardent choice, he was induced to engage in the edu cation of youth; and, from this

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circumstance, his attention was principally directed to lingual research. To this he devoted

perhaps, not such marked attention as it deserves.* He began late, but, possessing a

the leisure which his engage-mind which would have excelled ments in the school room, and the repose claimed by an enfeebled frame, would allow. During the last three years of his life, his studies were chiefly directed to a topic, connected with classical literature, that does not receive general, and,

in any pursuit that allowed room for the exertion of its strength, he conducted the study with all that enthusiasm which makes difficulties but the occasion of new exertion and accelerated progress.

But, while Mr. Webb was

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* This was an investigation of the English language in its Anglo-Saxon and Gothic sources. It originated at the suggestion of his physician, whose children were placed under Mr. Webb's care. This gentleman has seen the MSS. prepared by Mr. Webb, on these recondite subjects, and though fully aware that amor scientia, as well as amor patriæ dat animum, has expressed his astonishment that, with a constitution to which grasshopper was a burden," such a mass of materials should have been collected in so short a space of time. It is to be lamented, that they are not sufficiently matured to allow of any thing more than extracts, which will be sent to a miscellany adapted to the subject. The agenda of Mr. Webb (in all the articles of which he had made considerable progress) are subjoined for the gratification of those readers of the Baptist Magazine, who were his companions at the Bristol Academy, or who may be engaged, at present, in classical pursuits.

1. A Grammar of the primitive, intermediate, and modern English Tongue. The primitive, or Anglo-Saxon, and the modern English, to be made as complete as possible. The intermediate to consist, principally, of such notices of the progress and changes of the languages, as may be necessary to elucidate and connect the other two.

An historical introduction, deducing the genealogy of the AngloSaxon: its connexion with other tongues: its dialects: works written in it: the necessity of recurring to it for a full investigation of English grammar.

2. A Dictionary of the Anglo-Saxon.

A methodised work, like Mair's Tyro's Dictionary, with an index; or, a reprint of Somner, Lye, and Manning.

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3. Reprints of Anglo-Saxon works, in English characters.

Saxon Gospels. Heptateuch. Psalter. Laws. Alfred's Works. Chronicle.

4. Orthographical Collections, illustrative of the grammatical history of the English language, from the Norman Conquest to the age of Milton, in two parts.

Part 1. Tracing the language, upwards, to its earliest period, in one volume.

Part II. Tracing the language, downwards, from its earliest period, in two volumes.

The second part subdivided: English before Wickliffe: from Wickliffe to the Reformation: from the Reformation to Paradise Lost.

5. Grammar of the Moeso-Gothic.

6. A Gothic Dictionary.

7. Gothic Gospels, in English characters.

8. The Gothic, Anglo-Saxon, Wickliffe's, and Tyndal's Gospels, in four parallel columns, in English characters; two columns in a page.

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