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Nov. 28, at York House, Bath, of dropsy, DON FRANCISCO ANTONIO ZEA, the Colombian Minister. He had the satisfac tion in his last moments of having his family (from whom during many years of his life he had been necessarily separated) with him, Madame and Miss Zea having arrived a few weeks since from Paris to join M. Zea. M. Zea was between 50 and 60 years of age. He was a native of the province of Autioquia, in New Granada, now part of the Republic of Colombia. Great part of his life has been spent in Europe. Under the former Government of Spain, and previous to the Revolution breaking out in South America, he held at different times several offices under the Spanish Government. The Revolution in his own country drew him to the side of Bolivar, whose constant companion and assistant in the great work of liberating his country he was for many years, until his mission to Europe in 1820. At the time of his quitting Colombia he was Vice-President of the Republic, and he had the satisfaction, before taking his departure, of presenting to the Congress the projet of the Constitution of his country, which was afterwards adopted in all its leading particu. lars. M. Zea was a man of considerable talent, and of scientific and literary attainments of a very respectable class. He possessed great natural acuteness, and a countenance into which he could at times infuse a degree of penetration that few could escape. In his address to the Congress of Colombia, shortly before his leaving that country for England, he has left a memorial of eloquence of no ordinary cast. His manners were those of a gentleman, which, together with the personal consideration due to him on all accounts, procured for him the society and the attentions of some of our most distinguished nobility. His government and his countrymen cannot but have been flattered with the distinguished mark of attention paid to M. Zea at the public dinner given to him on the 8th of July last, at the City of London Tavern, at which the most eminent men of all parties joined in shewing the cordial satisfaction with which the establishment of another temple of freedom, in a beautiful, a rich, and an interesting part of the universe, is viewed in this land of constitutional liberty. M. Zea's address to the company on that occasion was marked by discretion, modesty and good sense. There were no bitter railings again Spain -no assumption of arrogant expectations from others. As to Spain, he said, his country was ready to forget and to forgive; and as to other nations, they merely VOL. XVIII.

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1823, Jan. 1, at his house in Clapton, in his 58th year, SAMUEL PETT, Esq., M.D. Known, esteemed, respected and beloved throughout a very wide circle, his death has produced an impression of grief and distress rarely witnessed. It came upon his friends wholly unprepared for it.

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He had latterly enjoyed a better state of health than usual: his spirits were lively, and he appeared to feel the pleasure which he was in the habit of imparting. On Saturday, the 28th of December, he received a slight and, at the time, imperceptible wound, in performing one of the painful duties of his profession. Gangrene rapidly followed, with its usual consequences. Medical skill and assiduity were in vain. changes, alternately exciting hope and fear, Dr. Pett departed this life on the evening of Wednesday, new-year's day. His mental faculties were entire to the last. His end was calm. And his surviving friends have the consolation of reflecting that after the first few hours of the attack, he endured no positive pain. The shock produced at Hackney, and indeed in the metropolis, by the news of his death, which was carried to numbers of his friends without their being apprized of his illness, can be conceived by those alone that knew his worth. was interred on Friday, Jau. 10th, in a family vault, in the churchyard of Hackney, amidst a concourse of spectators, including very many poor persons, whose

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tears attested their sense of their loss, On the following Sunday morning, a funeral sermon was preached at the New Gravel Pit Meeting-House, in which Dr. Pett had been a sincere worshiper, by Mr. Aspland, the minister, to an exceedingly crowded, highly respectable and The subject deeply-sorrowing audience. was "The Blessing pronounced by Christ At the request of the family of the deon the Merciful," Matt. xxv. 34-40. ceased, and of the congregation, the sermon is given to the public. We reserve for our next number a memoir of this excellent and much-lamented man.

-17, SAMUEL LEWIN, Esq. of Mare Street, Hackney. He was distinguished for his steady uprightness of characterfor his generous virtues-for his ardent and unswerving attachment to the cause of freedom and human happiness. His mind was stored with a variety of knowledge, and was as remarkable for its

strength as for its susceptibility. While he sat in stern judgment on his own con duct-he obtained the affection-the reverential affection of those who surrounded him. He was a fine specimen of the unbending and ennobling spirit of the older time, and dignified all his opinions by consistency and the habitual exercise of benevolence. As a son, he was a model of attentive and solicitous obedience-as á husband, almost unexampled in cour tesy and kindness-as a father, commanding the respect and the veneration of his children. All these links are broken. The virtues which brightened around a pilgrimage of three and seventy years, light the pilgrim's path no longer :-but we will cherish their memory-and patiently look onward to their reward.

J. B.

Jan. 17, in London, in the 72d year of his age, GEORGE EDWARDS, Esq., M. D., late of Barnard Castle, in the County of Durham. He was an eminently patriotic and benevolent man, and devoted his time and fortune to the publication of works on the science of Government, which were less read than from the purity of the writer's motives they deserved. As early as 1788, appeared his "Aggrandizement of Great Britain," in which

among other important plans, that of a Property Tax was first suggested. This plan was submitted to the Government, and the author had many interviews upon the subject with the late Mr. Rose. Mr. Pitt and Mr. Addington afterwards acted upon the suggestion, but, contrary to the author's intention, adopted a tax upor income, instead of property.

Jan. 27, at his house in Bedford Row, 86th year of his age; eminent as a wriCHARLES HUTTON, LL.D., F.R.S., in the ter on mathematics for upwards of 60 years, during 40 of which he discharged the arduous office of Professor of Mathematics at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, with the highest honour to himself and advantage to his country.

While we are engaged in the melancholy task of revising this Obituary sheet, we see announced in the newspapers the death of Dr. JENNER, the discoverer of Vaccination, who expired on the 26th inst. after a very short illness, at his house in Berkeley, Gloucestershire, in the 74th year of his age.

INTELLIGENCE.

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DURING the past year, several efforts have been made to stimulate the Deputies and their Committee to more active exertions in the great object for which they were originally established, The Repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts. After so long an existence for a specific purpose, it seemed to many members high time that the real business of the Society should be undertaken in good earnest; that public attention should be repeatedly drawn to the subject, so as to make its partizans know the justice and strength of their cause; and that the advocates for Religious Liberty should not wait as they have hitherto done, for the lucky chance of some favourable opportunities occurring, but should endeavour to create such opportunities, or at least place themselves in a situation which may enable them to turn a favourable concurrence of circumstances to profitable account. The progress which the Marriage

Bill of the Unitarians made, through mere perseverance and frequent introduction of its claims on public attention, is one proof of the policy of such a course of proceeding. The Legislature is only to be operated upon beneficially by the expression of public opinion; but the best channel for exciting and directing that public opinion is a frequent introduction of the subject in Parliament, however unsuccessful the first efforts must be expected to be, by persons who form a correct estimate of the principles and motives of those with whom we have there to deal. On the General Meeting for receiving the Report of the Committee, two special adjournments took place, and after much discussion the following resolutions were adopted, and we trust that they betoken a steady and active attention to the important cause confided to this body. Resolved, That it is desirable that much more of the active and vigilant attention of this Deputation should be directed to the promotion of

the great object for which it was institated, and to which all the other subjects of its attention, however useful, ought to be considered subordinate: That this deputation is convinced, from parallel cases in religious and political history, that the end in view can be most effectually and honourably accomplished by active and unremitted efforts to enlighten the public mind and concentrate and direct the temperate exertions of those who ought to co-operate in the cause, and by earnest applications to the Legislature, renewed on every favourable opportunity, and urged on the broadest principles of truth and justice :-That every means should be adopted to give effect to such a course of proceeding, by Annual Reports, by correspondence with the country, and by occasional appeals as well to the public as to the Dissenting body, which shall point out the actual state of religious toleration in this country, explain the relief to be sought, and esta blish sympathy and confidence between this Deputation and its constituents: That these Resolutions be printed at the foot of the circular convening the first Meeting of the Deputation for the ensuing year.

Earthquake in Syria.

The following account of this awful calamity is distributed by the Committee for the relief of the sufferers, from the report of JOHN BARKER, Esq., the British Consul at Aleppo. We insert it, in hope of forwarding the work of humanity. "It has fallen to my lot to relate the particulars of an event that has thrown most of the families of this part of Syria into sorrow and mourning, and all into the greatest difficulties and distress.

"On the 13th of August, at half-past nine in the evening, Aleppo, Antioch, Idlib, Riha, Gisser, Shogr, Darcoush, Armenas, every village, and every de tached cottage, in this Pachalic, and some towns in the adjoining ones, were in ten or twelve seconds entirely ruined by an earthquake, and are become heaps of stones and rubbish, in which, at the lowest computation, twenty thousand human beings, about a tenth of the popula tion, were destroyed, and an equal num ber maimed or wounded. The extreme points where this terrible phenomenon was violent enough to destroy the edifices, seem to be Diabekir and Merkab, (twelve leagues south of Latachia,) Aleppo and Scanderoon, Killis and Khan Shekoon. All within those points have suffered so nearly equally, that it is impossible to fix on a central point. The shock was sensibly felt at Damascus,

Adeno and Cyprus. To the east of Diabekir, and north of Killis, I am not well informed how far the effect extended in those radii of the circle. The shock was felt at sea so violently within two leagues of Cyprus, that it was thought the ship had grounded. Flashes of volcanic fire were perceived at various times throughout the night, resembling the light of the full moon; but at no place, to my knowledge, has it left a chasm of any extent; although in the low grounds slight crevices are every where to be seen, and out of many of them water issued, but soon after subsided.

"There was nothing remarkable in the weather or state of the atmosphere. Edifices on the summits of the highest mountains were not safer than buildings situated on the banks of the rivers, or on the beach of the sea.

"Although slight shocks of earthquakes had been from time to time felt in this country, it is certain that for several centuries none had done any ma❤ terial damage, except one twenty-seven years ago, when a single town, Latachia, was partially thrown down. In 1755, an earthquake was felt at Aleppo and Antioch, which so alarmed the inhabitants, that they all abandoned their houses for forty days, but very little injury was sustained, and no lives lost.

"The appearance of some very an cient edifices renders it probable that this country has not suffered from earthquakes since the memorable one recorded by Gibbon, about twelve centuries ago, in which one-third of the inhabitants of Antioch perished, when that celebrated city was supposed to contain a population› of seven hundred thousand to eight hundred thousand souls.

"It is impossible to convey an adequate idea of the scenes of horror which were simultaneously passing in the dreadful night of the 13th of August. Here, hundreds of decrepid parents, half-buried in the ruins, were imploring the succour of their sons, not always willing to risk their own lives by giving their assistance.

"There, distracted mothers were franticly lifting heavy stones from heaps that covered the bodies of their lifeless infants. The awful darkness of the night, the continuance of the most violent shocks, at short intervals, the crash of falling walls, the shrieks, the groans, the accents of agony and despair of that long night, cannot be described.

"When at length the morning dawned, and the return of light permitted the people to quit the spot on which they had been providentially saved, a most affecting scene ensued. You might have seen many, unaccustomed to pray, some prostrate,

some on their knees, adoring their Maker. Others there were running into one another's arms, rejoicing in their existence! An air of cheerfulness and brotherly love animated every countenance.

"In a public calamity, in which the Turk, the Jew, the Christian, the Idolater, were indiscriminate victims, or objects of the care of an impartial Providence, every one forgot, for a time, his religious animosities; and, what was a still more universal feeling, in that joyful moment, every one looked upon the heaviest losses with the greatest indifference. But as the sun's rays increased in intensity, they were gradually reminded of the natural wants of shelter and of food, and became at length alive to the full extent of the dreary prospect before them, for a greater mass of human misery has not been often produced by any of the awful convulsions of nature. A month has now elapsed, and the shocks continue to be felt, and to strike terror into every breast, night and day. The fear that they may not cease before the rainy season commences, has induced those whose business cannot allow of their quitting the ruins of their towns, instead of rebuilding their houses, to construct temporary hovels of wood without the walls; and many families, who thought themselves, before this calamity, straitly lodged in a dozen apartments, now exult at the prospect of passing the winter in a single room, twenty feet square.

"The houses of the public agents and private European individuals at Aleppo, have been entirely ruined. At Aleppo the Jews suffered the most, on account of their quarter being badly built, with narrow lanes. Out of a population of three thousand souls, six hundred lives were lost. Of the Europeans only one person of note, Signor ESDRA DE PICCIorro, Austrian Consul-General, and ten or twelve women and children, perished; but the greater part are now suffering from ophthalmia and dysenteries, occasioned by their being exposed to the excessive heats of the day, and the cold dews of the night. When it is considered, that two-thirds of the families in Aleppo have neither the means of making a long journey, to remove to a town out of the effect of the earthquake, nor of building a shed to keep off the rain, it is impossible to conceive all the misery to which they are doomed the ensuing winter, or ever to find more deserving objects of the compassion and charity of the opulent, whom it has pleased God to place in happier regions of the globe.

"Here planks and fuel are cheap, and the people have the resource of tiles, which they were taught to make by the

crusaders, in their long residence at Antioch; but in Aleppo, where wood is very dear, they have no contrivance to keep out rain but freestone walls, and flat roofs, made of a very expensive cement."

The Committee have already transmitted one thousand pounds through the medium of the Consul General of the Levant Company, at Constantinople, with particular instructions to cause it to be distributed, without regard to nation or religion. They solicit, therefore, the contributions of the benevolent, with an assurance that the utmost attention shall be paid to the distribution of the funds which may be committed to their care, and that an account shall be hereafter rendered of the manner in which they may be appropriated.

Subscriptions continue to be received by John Theophilus Daubuz, Esq., Treasurer to the Levant Company, No. 2, New Broad Street; Mr. George Liddell, Secretary to the Levant Company, at their office, South-Sea House; by all the Bankers in Town and Country; and at the Bar of Lloyd's Coffee-house, and the City of London Tavern.

THE Winter Quarterly Unitarian Meeting of Ministers in South Wales, was held at Aberdår on the 2nd day of this year. In the evening of the 1st, Mr. D. John of St. Clears, preached from Matt. vii. 11. In the morning of the 2nd, Mr. J. Davies of Capel-y-Groes and Ystrad, preached from Jude 3. Mr. T. Evans, the minister at the place, having been called to the chair, the nature and end of future punishment was the subject discussed in the conference. The same subject has been proposed for consideration at the Spring Meeting, which is to be held at Wick, on Easter Thursday, whereat Mr. D. John, of St. Clears, was requested to preach.

MINISTERS have it seems filled up the see of Clogher, vacant by the deprivation of the infamous though Hon. PERCY JOCELYN, by translating from Killaloe Lord ROBERT TOTTENHAM, brother of the Marquis of Ely. We take for granted that Lord Tottenham is an eminent divine, whose episcopal character is of weight sufficient to bear down all the odium raised agaiust the see of Clogher by its late bishop; though we confess

The very name of this see is omitted in the "Clergyman's Almanack" for the present year, and the Dean, &c. are described as of

we have never heard, and doubt whether the intelligence has ever reached this side of the water, of the services rendered by his Lordship to theology in general or to the Church of Ireland in particular.

Bishopric of Calcutta.-The Rev. REginald Heber, who has been mentioned as the probable successor to the see of Calcutta, is a very elegant poet, and deemed by his brethren a purely orthodox minister. He is the editor of the new edition of the works of Jeremy Taylor, to which is prefixed a life of the Bishop, which has been much admired. Mr. HEBER is the brother of the learned member for the University of Oxford, whose renown as a liberal and extensive book collector is diffused throughout Europe.-Morn. Chron.

We have it from authority on which we can rely, that the Rev. REGINALD HEBER is appointed to (and has accepted) the vacant see of Calcutta. Mr. HEBER goes out to India forthwith.-Evening Paper.

Dr. CHALMERS.-This distinguished divine, says the Glasgow Chronicle, has been unanimously elected Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of St. Andrews, and he has notified to the congregation of St. John's his acceptance of the office. Some time since he received fifteen hundred pounds from a lady to lay out in any way he thought proper. Of this sum he gave 500l. to the Rev. Dr. Burns for the purpose of assisting in the erection of a chapel; 5007. to the Rev. Mr. Marshal; 5007, to Mr. Muir for the same laudable purpose. He has also given 5001, out of his own pocket for aiding the erection of a chapel in the parish of St. John's.

Yellow Fever at New York.

(A FRIEND thinks that it may serve the cause of humanity to publish the following extract from a letter to him, written by ELEAZER LORD, the active officer of the Peace Society at New York, and dated from that place Nov. 23, 1822, and we have great pleasure in complying with his wish.)

"Very soon after receipt of the firstmentioned letter and parcel, I left the city, and remained out in consequence of the fever, and returned only a fortnight since. This calamity of yellow fever is of rare occurrence here, and an immediate removal of the inhabitants from the locality in which it appears, renders it

comparatively harmless. We had a slight visitation of the kind in 1819; before that, it was unknown since 1805. The present season about 400 cases were reported, about half which were fatal; its appear ance nearly banishes all other forms of sickness. Accordingly, our bills of mortality for the summer shewed a smaller ratio of deaths than usual. Out of 130,000 or 135,000 inhabitants of the city, 120,000 are supposed to have remained in the city and suburbs during the summer. The part deemed infected' was very circumscribed, compared with the area covered by a dense population. I am persuaded you will pardon these details on a subject not uninteresting to philanthropists of whatever nation or latitude, and which is the occasion of so much terror to the species. I am tempted to add, that two things seem to be settled respecting yellew fever; 1st. that by removal from the infected locality, fatal consequences are prevented. It travels or enlarges its district, only by means of victims. 2d. that beyond such locality the sick do not communicate the infection to their nurses or attendants."

ANOTHER Shopman of CARLILE's, of the name of Tunbridge, was on the 20th inst. found guilty in the Court of King's Bench of "publishing a blasphemous libel on the Christian Religion and the Holy Scriptures, contained in a work called Palmer's Principles of Nature."

We understand that FRANCIS MASERES, Esq., Cursitor Baron of the Exchequer, whose liberal exertions for the restoration of the older mathematical writers are so well known to the mathematical world, has nearly completed a collection of those which relate to Optical Science. Amongst the interesting treatises which are reprinted in this volume are the Optica promota of James Gregory, containing the first publication of the reflecting telescope; the Traité de la Lumière, of Huygens; and the Lectiones Optica of Dr. Barrow, a work which has become This work is edited exceedingly scarce. under the superintendance of C. Babbage, Esq., F.R.S., &c.

1823.

The present threatens to be an eventful year. The horizon is dark on every side, and the gathering clouds must soon burst. The contest that has been carrying on for thirty years between the kings and the people of Europe, is coming to a crisis, and the result will be, either the

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