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MARRIED.

On the 29th of December, 1803, Mr. Nathaniel Allen, of Old Fish-street, Doctors Commons, to Mifs Mary Ann Searles, of the Kent Road, Southwark.

At Hammersmith, T. Prince, jun. efq. of the island of Jamaica, to Mifs M. Sanderfon, niece of the late Sir John Hales, bart. of Blashford, Hants.

At St. Anne's, Blackfriars, Mr. W. Freeman, of Aldermanbury Poftern, to Mifs F. Philpot.

The Rev. J. Norman Ord, rector of Wheathemftead, Herts, to Mifs Cockledge, daughter of T. Cockledge, efq. of Bury, in Suffolk. Lately, Major Plunket, to Mifs Gunning. Lieut. C. D. Williams, of the royal navy, to Mifs M. Stable, niece of Lieutenant-col. Sir Daniel Williams, of the 1ft Tower Hamlets militia.

At Paddington, T. Norris, efq fon of Jer. Norris, efq. of Norwich, to Mifs Baker, eldest daughter of J. Baker, efq. of St. George's Row, Hyde Park.

At Marybone, C. Turner, efq. son of S. Turner, efq. of Upper Wimpole-ftreet, to Mifs Athill, daughter of S. Athill, efq. of the island of Antigua.

Mr. W. Deane, of Jermyn-ftreet, St. James's, to Mifs Sims, of Tooley-street.

J. Wood, efq. of New Bridge-ftreet, to Mifs Flint, of Grafton-ftreet.

Mr. W. Meader, of the Land Tax Office, to Mifs Gilly, of Cavendish-fquare.

R. Drinkwater, efq. of Farnham, Surrey, to Mrs. Baldwyn, of Bertley-cottage.

At Bridewell Chapel, J. Le Mefurier, efq. major in the 89th regiment, to Mifs Perchard, daughter of Alderman Perchard, of Chathamplace.

Lieut.-col. Darley Griffiths, of the 1st regiment of foot-guards, to Mifs Hankey, of Fetcham-park, Surrey

Sir Thomas Manners Sutton, folicitor-general to the king, to Mifs Copley, fifter of Sir Lionel Copley, bart.

At Enfield, Mr.' Griffifon, brewer, at Shadwell, to Mifs Philips of the Chace-fide.

At St. George's, Hanover-fquare, Capt. Sydenham, fon of the late Gen. Sydenham, military auditor general at Madras, to Mrs. Bunbury.

Mr. Serjeant Vaughan, to Augufta, fecond daughter of Lord St. John of Bleifoe. Archibald Bruce, M.D. to Mifs White, of Somerset-freet, Portman-fquare.

J. Smith, efq. of Ashlyns - hall, Great Berkhamstead, Herts, to Mifs Pechell, eldest daughter of Auguftus Pechell, efq. of the fame place.

DIED.

At Kentish Town, aged 72,. Fletcher Main, f. He was nearly forty years one of his Majefty's band of gentlemen penfioners, and had refigned that fituation about two years previous to his decease. He reûded almost half a century at Chelsea, where his focial

and convivial qualities obtained for him a large circle of friends, and where his memory will long be respected.

Lately, at her houfe, in Hartford-street, May Fair, Ms. Erians, reli&t of the late H.M.Evans, efq. of Cowley Grove, in Middlefex; a wo man whofe excellent and amiable qualities of head and heart, much and defervedly endeared her to a very numerous circle of friends. The affability of her manners, the equanimity of her temper, and the fociability of her difpofition, will render her lofs long and fincerely lamented. Like her manners, her religion was without hypocrify; her piety without cant; and her friendship without flattery. This teftimony to worth fo eftmable, is equally the tribute of gratitude, efteem, and truth.

At Croydon Grove, Surrey, Lady Bridges, wife of Sir John Brydges.

At her houfe in Wigmore-ftreet, Mrs. Corbyn.

At the Rookery, Woodford, Mrs. Godfrey In Sloane-street, Chelsea, J. André, ejq. late of Bond-street.

Mrs. Walker, wife of Lieutenant-general Walker, of the royal artillery.

Mrs. Toulmin, wife of Mr. W. Toulmin, folicitor, Union-fireet, Southwark.

Mrs. Freeling, wife of Francis Freeling, efq. of the General Poft-office.

Aged 74, Mrs. A. Pierce, a maiden lady, of Portman-ftreet, Portman-fquare.

J. P. Smith, efq. of Cheaplide.

Mr. G. Bethell, of Hanway-ftreet, Oxfordftreet.

At her houfe, in Charles freet, Berkleyfquare, Lady Anne Capel.

Suddenly, Mr. J. Crouch, of St. Giles's, Cripplegate.

At Great Ealing, aged 84, P. Labois, efg At Kenfington, Mrs. M. Leech, of Kenfington-fquare.

Mrs. Pen. Newman, fecond wife of Johnton Newman, efq. formerly counfellor of legation to the Ruffian ambaffador at Lisbon, and late Ruffian conful at Hull.

In Saville-row, the Duchefs of Ancaßter. Mrs. M. A. Watts, of Gower-ftreet. Aged 101, Mr. J. Page, fifty years gardener to the Afylum.

Mrs. Powell, wife of Mr. Powell, comedian of Drury lane Theatre.

At Hampstead, in his 75th year, Adam Beyer, efq.

At Kennington, Mrs. Peppercorne, of Prince's-place.

At her houfe, at Whitehall, Mrs. F. Pelham, the laft furviving daughter of the late Right Hon. Henry Pelham.

At his houfe, in Eaker-ftreet, Portmanfquare, Skip Dyott Bucknall, efq. late M. P. for the borough of St. Alban's.

At Richmond, Mrs. Price, coal-merchant, a very old inhabitant of the place.

At Low Layton, in her 93d year, Mrs. Moyer, widow of the late B. Moyer, efq.

At

At his fon's houfe, in the Strand, aged 80, Mr. Dra. Drury, F. L. S.

At Hadley, in childbed, Mrs. Monroe, wife of Capt. Monroe.

At Hyde-park-corner, Lady Andrews, widow of the late Sir Jofeph Andrews, and wife of Col. Dalrymple.

7 May, efq. of New Ormond-street, late of Twickenham.

At his houfe, in Cleveland-row, R. Drumend, efq. banker, of Charing-crofs.

At his father's houfe, in Newman-ftreet, Mr. G. Richter.

At his lodgings in Craven-ftreet, Strand, Sir Thomas Efmond, of Ballinaftra, county of Wexford, bart. His remains were carried in ftate to the chapel in Warwick-ftreet, Golden-fquare, where high mafs and a folemn funeral dirge were performed in a grand ftyle. The body was removed from thence on its way to the family burial-place in Ireland. Sir Thomas was of an ancient and refpectable family, and poffeffed of amiable and focial manners. During the late infurrection in the fifter kingdom, he ferved as a lieutenant in Capt. Knox's corps, who was killed at the battle of Arklow, and conducted himself with diftinguished honour and propriety.

In Spital-fquare, Mr. J. Browne, grocer, many years one of the common council of Bridge ward.

In Lower Grofvenor-place, Pimlico, Gordon Haliburton, efq.

In Upper Baker-ftreet, Mrs. Lawrence, only fifter of the late R. Williams, efq. of Bracknell, Berks, and wife of the Rev. B. Lawrence, curate of Mary-le-bonne.

At Bush-hill, Edmonton, aged 63, Mr. Haac, a refpectable farmer.

At Limehouse, in his 74th year, J. Cross, fq. many years purveyor of the dock-yard at Woolwich.

At Twickenham, in her 79th year, Anne Lady Mendip.

At Fulham, J. Duncan, efq. of the Old Square, Lincoln's-inn, one of the oldeft folicitors in the Court of Chancery.

In Poland-street, Westminster, in her 58th year, Mrs. Newby, wife of Mr. C. Newby, apothecary.

In Brunfwick-fquare, in confequence of a cold caught in Smithfield, which produced a fatal ulceration on the lungs, Peter Mellifh, fq. an eminent contractor for cattle, and heriff of London and Middlefex in the year 1798. He was treasurer and a zealous pro. moter of the Literary Fund Society. He is computed to have died worth 200,0001.

Aged 76, Heaton Wilkes, efq. brother to the late John Wilkes, efq. alderman and chamberlain of London, and formerly an opulent coal-merchant in Thames-ftreet.

In Colebrook-row, Iflington, aged 75, 7. Smith, efq.

Mr. Spencer, proprietor of the Garrick's Head tavern, Bow-trees, Covent garden. He rofe, at an early hour, in apparent good

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health, with a view of going to Bracknell, in Berkihire, to fetch home his wife, Mrs. Spencer, who had been there on a vifit for fome time. After eating a hearty breakfafty he ordered a hackney-coach to be called, and, at about a quarter before eight, got into it, and defired to be driven to the White Horfe cellar, Piccadilly, whence he was to proceed, in the ftage, to Bracknell. On the coachman opening the door at the White Horfe cellar, he perceived Mr. Spencer motionless, and apparently dead. His perfon not being immediately recognifed, he was taken to the workhoufe in Mount-ftreet, Grosvenor fquare, where medical affiftance was tried, but without effect. It is fuppofed that his death was occafioned by an apoplectic fit. Mr. Spencer was one of the Duke of Cumberland's fharpfhooters, and very lately gave a gold medal, value fifty guineas, to the best hot in that corps. He was formerly celebrated as the Harlequin of Drury-lane theatre; and his houfe was frequented by all the profeffors and amateurs of the drama.

On the 21st of October at Twickenham, Lord Frederick Cavendish, Field Marshal of his Majefty's forces, uncle to the prefent Duke of Devonshire, and to Lord George Henry Cavendish. His Lordfhip was born in Auguft 1729. His Royal Highness Frederick, late Prince of Wales, was his godfather; chufing a military life, he was, in March 1752, appointed Lieutenant, with the rank of Captain, in the fecond regiment of footguards. In May 1758, he was appointed Aid-de-Camp to the King. In November 1760, he was appointed Colonel of the thirtyfourth regiment of foot. In March 176 1, he was promoted to the rank of Major Gene sal, and, in April 1770, was advanced to the rank of Lieutenant-general; then General, and, laftly, Field Marshal. He held his regiment until the year 1797, when it was given to Lord Southampton. When the late Duke of Devonshire was called up to the House of Lords in the year 1751, Lord Frederick was elected reprefentative in parlia ment for the county of Derby, in the room of his Grace; and at the general election in 1754, he was elected member for the town of Derby; and continued to reprefent that town in parliament until the general election in the year 1784, when he retired from parliament; and was fucceeded by his nephew, Lord George Henry Cavendish. Lord Frederick Cavendish was in the action with the French, at St. Cas, on the coaft of France, in the month of September 1758; and was made prifoner there, with feveral other Britisk officers, Sir Charles Gilmore, &c. The Duke D'Aiguillon, who commanded the French army, very politely offered the British officers his permiffion to return to England upon their paroles of honour. Most, if not all, the gentlemen accepted the offer, except Lord Frederick; which furprifed the Duke a good deal; and he fent for Lord Frederick, and

afked

aked his Lordship the reafon why he did not
accept of his offer. Lord Frederick answered,
"That being a member of the British parlia-
ment, he fhould, if in England, attend his
duty in parliament, and yote for the fupplies
for carrying on the war; which might pof-
fibly be conftrued a breach of his parole."
Poh, poh, faid the Duke, we fhould as foon
think of reftraining you from getting a child,
left when it came to maturity, it should con-
quer France.
Thus, we fee his patriotic
heart would not suffer him, when even a pri-
foner, to relinquifh his duty to his country.
He was a gentleman of the moft amiable
manners; mild, humane, and benevolent;
punctual in the difcharge of every engage-
ment and duty; of ftrict virtue, and pure
honour. He was one of the fix English offi-
cers, who, at the beginning of the feven years
war, mutually pledged themfelves to each
other not to marry," until the war was
over; that no domeftic affections might in-
fluence their conduct. General Wolfe was
one of the number, fo was General Monk-
ton, General Keppel, &c.

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Aged 22, Milwood, bricklayer. It appears that fome perfon has wantonly, for fome time pait, attempted to frighten the inhabitants of Hammersmith, by affuming the appearance of a ghost, accofting feveral individuals in a manner highly reprehenfible, &c. Several inhabitants, with the peaceofficers, &c. determined to go out in fearch of him. In this number was a man of the Ame of Smith. He armed himself with a mufket, and took his ftation in Black Lion Lane, one of the places by which the ghoft ufed to make his efcape, when hard preffed by his purfuers. Smith had not been long waiting, when he fancied he faw the approach of the fupernatural agent, and, on his firing, the fuppofed ghost instantly fell. examination, however, the body was difco. vered to be that of a young man, a bricklayer, employed in the new buildings in the neighbourhood, whofe working drefs, a white jacket, fpotted with mortar and lime, reprefented him, to the difordered fancy of Smith, as the object he was in queft of, &c. At the coroner's inqueft, the fifter of the deceafed faid, that her brother left the house between ten and eleven o'clock, and that the, the witness, was almolt immediately ftruck with a prefentiment that fome accident would befal him. She accordingly went to the door, and flood on fome bricks, in order to look out for him. Her brother had not gone above fifty yards, before he heard a voice exclaim-D-n you, who are you? and what are you? Speak, or I'll fhoot!"-The words had fcarcely paffed the lips of the perfon who uttered them, when he heard the report of a gun, and faw the flash. She then called to her brother, who returned no anfwer, Dreadfully agitated, she ran to awake her father and mother, telling them he was MONTHLY MAG. No. 111.

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afraid her brother was hot. They would not attend to her, but faid it was impofliblė. She then repaired to the room of a young man who flept in the houfe, who alio refufed to rife The witness then refolved to go alone, and learn what had become of her brother. When the arrived at Cros-lane, the found him lying on his back, his arms and legs ftretched quite ftraight. She called out, "Brother " but no answer was made. She then stooped down to look at him, and perceived his face was bloody, and enti ely black. She fhrieked, and her cries brought her father and mother, who, when they faw their fon dead, were frantic with grief. The witness said her brother induftriously maintained himself and his wife. He was in his ufual drefs, white jacket and trowfeis, when he went out. She was politive, fpeaking on her oath, that her brother had never perfonated the ghost. Mr. Lock, wine-merchant, in Black Lion Lane, Hammersmith, faid, that as he was returning home from the Plough and Harrow, about half past ten o'clock in the evening, he was accofted by Francis Smith, officer of excife, who afked to fpeak with him. Upon going afide, Smith informed him that he had fhot a man, who he believed was the ghoft, &c. The witness accompanied Smith to the place. The wound was under the left jaw, and the ball had paffed through at the oppofite fide, and the fkin of his face was exceedingly black. Smith did not appear fenfible that he had cone any thing wrong, till the witnefs warned him of the fatal confequences that would attend fuch a frep.-W. Girdler, a watchman, said, that he had a flight acquaintance with the deceased, who was a ferious, fober, young man. That the neighbourhood had been much alarmed, for two months pait, with the rumour of a ghoft walking through Black Lion Lane. That he, the witnefs, went his rounds as ufual, on the evening when this fatal catastrophe occurred. That he had appointed to meet with Francis Smith, in order to go in fearch of the ghoft. When the witnefs came near Mr. Stow's houfe, he heard the report of a gun, and a few minutes afterwards, when going to the White Hart public-houfe, he met Smith, and asked him what intelligence. Smith anfwered, very bad. They then met Mr. Stow, and went to the place where the deceafed lay. Smith faid that he would deliver himfelf; and that he had fpoken to the deceafed twice before he fired, but he would give no answer. On the Thursday preceding, the witness, while going his rounds, faw a tall figure, dreffed in a sheet or table-cloth. When the witness fpoke, the pretended ghoft lifted up his hands, and the witnefs law under the sheet the appearance of a dark coat and metal buttons. The coroner having fummed up the evidence, the jury, after fome deliberation, returned a verdict of Wilful Murder. M

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[The late Mr. Aile, whofe death we an nounced in our laft Number, was employed, when a young man, to make an index to the Harleian Catalogue of MSS.; F. R. S. Edinb. Reg. Scient. Soc. Iland. Soc. Antiq. Caffel. & Sec. Volfcorum Velitris fod. honorar. He was fon of Mr. D. Aftle, keeper of Needwood foreft, Staffordshire, who appears to have been defcended from a family of that name refident at, and lords of, the manner of Fauld, in Hanbury parith, adjoining the feat of Burton the Leicestershire antiqary. Of his fon Thomas, a particular account has been given. Mr. Shaw, author of the History of Staffordshire, had accefs to Mr. Aftle's library, and the ufe of feveral manufcripts, &c. for both volumes of that work; his manufcript library being reckoned to exceed that of any private gentleman in England; and his liberal utility to men of fcience has been abundantly teftihed. M. A. about the year 1763, obtained the patronage of Mr. Grenville, then firft lord nf the treafury and chancellor of the exchequer, who employed him as well in his public as private affairs; and joined him in a commiffion with the late Sir Jofeph Ayloffe, bart. and Dr. Ducarel, for fuperingending the regulation of the public records at Westmintter. On the death of his colleague, Mr. Topham was fubftituted; and both thefe gentlemen were removed by Mr. Pitt during his adminiftration. In 176, Mr. A. was appointed receiver-general of fixpence in the pound on the civil lift. In 1766, he was confulted by the Committee of the Houfe of Lords concerning the printing of the ancient records of Parliament. To the fuperintendance of this work, Mr. A. introduced his father in-law Mr. Morant; aud, on his death, in 1770, was himself appointed by the Houfe of Lords to carry on the work; a fervice in which he was employed till its completion, about five years afterwards. He was then appointed, on the death of H. Rooke, efq. chief elerk in the Record Office in the Tower; and, on the deceafe of Sir John Shelly, he fucceeded to the office of keeper of the records. Mr. A. was feveral times on the continent, chiefly engaged on literary purfuits. His publications were as follows: In the Archeologia, vol. iv. P. 195, On the Events produced in England by the Grant of the Kingdom of Sicily to Prince Edmond, with Remarks on the Seal of that Prince, of Gold, Weight eight Pennyweights, formerly in the Earl of Oxford's Collection, then of James Weft, efq. whence it paffed into that of Guftavus Brander, efq. and was bought in at 181. 2s. at the fale of his collection, by Mr. Gerrard, February, 1790,- Vol. vii. 348, On the Radical Letters of the Pelafgiaus, and their Derivatives-Vol. x. 226, Obfervations on a Charter in his Library, indorfed, in a hand coeval with it, "Hæc eft carta regis Eadgari de inftitutione abbatis Elienfis et duplicatas;" which he fhews not to be fo old as King Edgar--Vol. xii. On the Tenures, Cuftoms, &c. of his Manor of Great Tey, Effex, by onziell, i. e, ungeld, an arbitrary tallage, Vol. xiii. 208, Obfervations on Stone Pillars, Croffes, and Crucifixes, from Mr. Anftis's MS. in id his library.-Ibid. 313, Copy of a curious

Record of Pardon in the Tower of London, 1357, of a Woman indicted for murdering her Hufband, and remaining, without pleading, in Prifon forty Days without Suftenance. The Will of King Henry VII. 1775, 4to. A Catalogue of the MSS. in the Cottonian Library; to which are added, many Emendations and Additions with an Appendix, containing an Account of the Damage fnftained by the Fire in 1731; and alfo a Catalogue of the Charters preferved in the fame Library, was communicated by him to S. Hooper, who published them in 1777, 8vo. The Origin and Progrefs of Waiting, as well hieroglyphic as elementary; illuftrated by Engravings taken from Marbles, MSS. and Charers, ancient and modern: alfo, fome Account of the Origin and Progrefs of Printing, 1784, 4to. See our vol. liv. p. 440. A new edition was published this year, with one additional plate from a mannfeript in the British Museum, merked Nero, D. IV.; and a portrait of Mr. A. painted by Howard, and engraved by Shelton, in which the accidental lofs of an eye when at fchool is concealed. The will of King Alfred, found in a register of Newminster, Winchester, in the poffeflion_of the Rev. George North, and given by Dr. Lort, his executor, to Mr. Aftle, 1769, was printed at Oxford, with the illuftrations of Mr. Manning, under the fuperintendance of Sir H. Croft, 1788, 4to. (vol. lviii. 1089.) An Account of the Seals of the King's Royal Burghs and Magnates of Scotland, with five plates, 1793, fol. (vol. Ixiii. 148.) The Calendar to the Patent Rolls in the Tower of London, reaching from 3 John to 23 Edward IV. containing grants of offices and lands, reftitutions of temporalities to bifhops, abbots, and other ecclefiaftical perfons; confirmations of grants made to bodies corporate, as well ecclefiaftical as civil; grants in fee farm; fpecial licences; grants of offices; fpecial and general patents of creations of peers; and licences of all kinds which país the great feal: and on the backs of thefe rolls are commiffions to juftices of the peace, of fewers, and all commiffions which pafs the great feal. The Calendar of these Rolls, published by his Majefty's command, in pursuance of an addrefs to the Houfe of Commons, on the Report of the Commiffioners for enquiring into the State of the Public Records, is printed from four manufcript volumes procured, in 1775, by Mr. Aftle, for public ufe, from the executors of Henry Rooke, efq. his predeceffor in the office of keeper of the Tower records, collated with two manufcrip s in the Cottonian Library, marked Titus C. II. and III. which feem to have been compiled in the reign of James 1. by fome experienced clerk, who feems to have felected from the records themselves what appeared to him molt ufelul and interefting. They fupply many omiffions and deficiencies in the Tower copy; and, after all, this Calendar, though entitled to great merit, is only a felection, various entries appearing on the Patent Rolls not entered here; and therefore, though this work will be found to yield abundant information, no one is to be deterred from an examination of any record mentioned elsewhere as being on the Patent

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Roll, because it is not mentioned here. Mr. A.'s Report on the ftate of the records under his care will be found in the Report of the Committee above-mentioned. The author of the New Catalogue of English living Authors thus delineates the literary character of Mr. A. In order to treat this fubject (the character and reign of Henry VII.) with advantage, he' has exerted himself to view it on every fide; and it must be allowed that he exhibits it in a very comprehenfive furvey. His learning, which is various, cannot efcape obfervation; and his authorities in general are the best which could be found. His judgment, precifion, and minutenefs, are all to be highly commended. There is even a confiderable spirit of philanthropy in his work; and in fo far he advances himfelf beyond the character of a mere antiquary. He difplays not, however, any fplendour or brightnets of genius. He is fimple and judicious, but not original. He avails himself of the labours of others with an affiduity that could not be wearied; and his collection of facts, being numerous as well as exact, exhibits inftructive openings into the important topics which he treats. His work is chiefly for confultation, and ferves to encourage rather than to fupefede the enquiries of those who have a relish for the diplomatic fcience, and the study of antiquity. We prize. his labour more than his invention; and are more forcibly fruck with his patience than his ingenuity. In his language he is clear; and it is difficult to milunderstand the fentiments he conveys; but he has no where the expreffion of a matter. The drynefs of his manner fuffers no interruption; it is cold, nerveless, and infipid; advances through his performance without riling into any ftrain of animation, and without any approach towards elegance. ] [Mr. Palmer, wbfe death was announced a former Number, was defcended from an ancient and refpectable family, in Bedfordshire, in which county, and in Berkshire, there are no remaining feveral branches of the fame family, poffeffing very confiderable property. The fubject of this memoir, was born at Jekwell, in the parish of Northill, Bedfordshire, it is prefumed, in July 1747, as the certificate of his baptifm, taken from the parish register of Northill, is dated Auguft 16, 1747. After receiving the ufual elementary inftruction, under the Rev. Mr. Gunning, at Ely, he was fent to Eron, where he spent four or five years; and in 1765, he was entered at Queen's College, Cambridge. In 1769, he took the degree of B. A. In 1772, that of M. A. and in 1781, that of B. D. The exact time of his ordination does not appear, but he performed the duties of Curate about twelve months, at Leatherhead, ia Surrey. In a short time after he had taken this laft degree, he became diffatisfied with the doctrines of the Church of England, and farther enquiry convinced him of the proper Unity of God; and that worship was alone due to him at the unrivalled Creator. In the year 1783, be took leave of the College, and with that of his connection with the Church in which he had Been educated. From Cambridge he went Montrofe, in Scotland. His motive for

and he

making choice of this particular place in preference to others, was, that there he might have an opportunity of worshipping God with a Society of Unitarians, who had lately opened a Chapel under the aufpices of Mr. W. Christie, author of fome admirable difcourfes on the Divine Unity, which were delivered to the fociety, at its first establishment. To this fociety Mr. Palmer attached himself, and refided at Montrofe about twenty months, when he removed to Dundee, where there was also a refpectable fociety of Unitarian Christians. At Dundee he remained feveral years, preaching very frequently in the neighbouring towns, and villages: and at Forfar, Edinburgh, and fome other places, he delivered a series of difcourfes in vindication of Unitarian principles. His diftinguished zeal in this caufe made him enemies, who, though unwilling to raife a perfe cution against him on account of religion, were not difpleafed when his politics afforded an opportnnity of injuring his character, and deftroying his peace. Full ten years he exhibited an ardent and noble zeal in defence of the doctrines which he had embraced, in oppofition to those which he had imbibed from carly clucation. As a writer, on thefe fubjects, Mr. Palmer difcovered confiderable talents, and no fmall fhare of biblical learning, in the few pieces which he gave to the world. Of theic, one was entitled, "An attempt to refute a Sermon, by H. D. Inglis, on the Godhead of Jefus Chrift, and to restore the long loft Truth of the First Commandment," This pamphlet is dedicated to the Unitarian Congregations of Edinburgh, Dundee, Forfar, Arbroath, Montrofe, and Newburgh; it difplays much critical acumen, and a train of strong reafoning Mr. Palmer's other Theological 1. An Attempt to prove the Fallen Angels to have been only the Sons of Seth. 2. An Attempt to Explain Ifaiah ix, 6. 3. An Attempt to show that the Cock crowing which Peter heard, was the found ofa Trumpet 4.AnAttempt to Afcertain the meaning of μη βαλτολογσήλε 5, & 6. Attempts to Illuftrate the xxivth Chapter of Matthew's Gofpel, and the first ten verfes of the 3d Chapter of St. John, Thefe, together with Obfervations on fome other Writers in the fame Work, are to be found in the vth and vith volumes of the Theological Repofitory, under the fignature of Anglo Scotus, Such were the labours of Mr. Palmer as a

tracts are,

Theologian and Divine. We are now to view him in another character, as a friend to the liberties of his country, in which his zeal was equally diftinguished, for the fake of which, his fufferings were unmerited and fevere, and at length terminated his life in a foreign land. The exertions made by the friends of Liberty, to obtain a Reform of Parliament, in all parts of this Island, in the years 1792, 3 & 4, are in the recollection of every perion; and the van ous profecutions and perfecutions which the Administration of that period inftitured agai. it

* For an Account of the rife and progrets of this Society, fee an Hiftorical View of the flate of the Unitarian Doctrine and Worlup, &c. by Theophilus Lindley, A. M. 17, M 2

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