of the knowledge they were helping to disseminate would at length, and by regular authority, undermine. Nor was this friendly feeling less conspicuous in the readiness with which Mar Athanasius (the Syrian prelate) attended the service at Bombay according to the English forms, and received the communion at the hands of Bishop Heber.

After an absence of about fifteen months, in October, 1825, he again arrived at Culcutta, where he remained long enough to make his reports to England-to preside at meetings where his presence was requiredto hold an ordination, and, what was of no small importance, to promote the building of a church in the native town at Culcutta, where service might be performed by the missionaries on the spot, or in the neighbourhood, in the Bengalee and Hindostanee languages, according to the liturgy of the church of England. Such a measure had been adopted elsewhere with the happiest effects, amongst the Hindoos, a people remarkably alive to what is graceful and decorous in external worship; and here, it was hoped, might prevent the few right ideas, which the youths had gathered at the schools, or in the perusal of Christian books, from being entirely effaced by the idolatrous practices they were daily condemned to witness.

This done, the bishop hastened to Madras, a presidency which he had reserved for a separate visitation, and wherein it was ordained that ne should end his course. On Good Friday, he preached at Combacouum, on the crucifixion; and on Easter Sunday, at Tanjore, on the resurrection. The day following he held a confirmation at the same place; and in the evening delivered an address to the assembled missionaries, as he stood near the grave of Schwartz, a name which he had ever venerated. He arrived at Trichinopoly on the first of April, 1826.

Next day being Sunday, he again preached and confirmed, a rite which he administered once more on Monday morning in the Fort church. He returned home to breakfast; but before sitting down took a cold-bath, as he had done the two preceding days. His attendant, thinking that he stayed more than the usual time, entered the apartment, and found the body at the bottom of the water, with the face downwards. The usual restoratives of bleeding, friction, and inflating the lungs, were instantly tried, but life was gone, and, on opening the head, it was discovered that a vessel had burst on the brain, in consequence, as the medical men agreed, of the sudden plunge into the water whilst he was warm and exhausted. His remains were deposited, with every mark of respect and unfeigned sorrow, on the north side of the altar of St John's church at Trichinopoly. Thus died this faithful servant of God, in the 43d year of his age, and the third of his episcopacy, labouring to the last in the cause that was nearest his heart, and, like Fletcher of Madely, almost expiring in the very act of duty. The world may honour his memory as it will, though such as were best acquainted with him can scarely hope that it should do him justice; for he had attached himself to no party, either in church or state, and therefore had secured no party-advocates; and of forms by which mankind at large (for the want of less fallacious means of estimating character) are almost compelled to abide, he was not, perhaps, a very diligent observer; but in India a strong sense of his worth has manifested itself, as it were, by acclamation. At Madras, a meeting was held, a few days after his death, in

the Government gardens, the excellent Sir Thomas Munro in the chair, where to say that lamentation was made over him would be a weak word—there was a burst of affectionate feeling, which proves, were proof wanting, how grievous a loss the cause of Christianity has sustained in the removal of an advocate whose heart and head were equally fitted to recommend it. A subscription was forthwith commenced on a scale of Indian munificence, for a monument, to be erected to him in St George's church; and this was taken up with the warmest zeal every where, and among all ranks and conditions of men throughout the presidency. At Bombay it was determined to found a scholarship for that presidency, at the college at Calcutta, to be called Bishop Heber's Scholarship-a testimony of respect the most appropriate that could have been devised; and examples so generous have not been lost upon the capital of Bengal.'

Legh Richmond.

BORN A.D. 1772.-Died A. D. 1827.

THIS excellent clergyman was born at Liverpool on the 29th of January, 1772. In 1789 he was entered of Trinity college, Cambridge. A severe illness, produced by intense application, materially retarded his academical progress. He graduated in 1794, and proceeded to the degree of M. A. in 1797; during which year he married, took deacon's orders, and commenced his pastoral duties as a curate, in the Isle of Wight. He subsequently officiated, for some time, at the Lock chapel, in the metropolis; and, in 1805, obtained the rectory of Turvey, in Bedfordshire, where he died, on the 8th of May, 1827.

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It was in the Isle of Wight that the scene is laid of those popular tracts composed by Mr Richmond, the reputation of which is now so widely diffused. "During his residence in the Isle of Wight," says his biographer, Mr Grimshawe, some interesting events occurred, connected with his ministry, which he first made known to the public through the medium of the Christian Guardian.' These communications having excited much attention, he was afterwards induced to publish them in the form of tracts, of which the first that made its appearance was 'The Dairyman's Daughter.' The Negro Servant,' and 'The Young Cottager, or Little Jane,' successively followed; and, finally, in the year 1814, they were united into one volume, under the title of Annals of the Foor,' with the following appropriate motto, from Gray:

'Let not ambition mock their useful toil,
Their homely joys and destiny obscure;
Nor grandeur hear, with a disdainful smile,
The short and simple annals of the poor.'

His Dairyman's Daughter' rapidly acquired an unexampled celebrity. It was read with an avidity that required successive editions to satisfy the demands of the public, and soon became the most popular tract of

We have abridged this notice from a beautifully written article in the Quarterly Review,' No. LXX.

the day. The author, from the generous motive of insuring to it a more extended usefulness, was induced to present it to the Religious Tract society, by whom it was immediately translated into the French and Italian languages. The writer of this memoir well remembers a circumstance connected with this celebrated tract, which he will here mention. He was taken by Mr Richmond, in the year 1811, to attend a committee meeting of the Tract society, when one of the members rose up, and observed, that as he came with the full intention of subinitting to them the motion in his hand, he hoped he should not violate the delicacy of its author, by proposing that the tract of The Dairyman's Daughter,' the merit of which had been so generally recognised, should be translated into the German, Swedish, and Danish languages. Another member then rose and said, that he trusted he should be excused for adding an amendment to the motion, by recommending that the above tract be translated into all the European languages, as far as means and opportunities might occur for that purpose. The resolution was unanimously carried in this amended form. The tract has since been translated into most of the continental languages. It has also obtained a wide circulation in America: the old and the new world have alike stamped it with the seal of popular approbation. At home, several editions of 20,000 copies each were printed within a very short period, and the copies which have been circulated in the English language alone, to the present time, are estimated at two millions. It has found its way to the palaces of kings, and been seen in the hut of the Indian. Its author was informed of thirty instances in which it was acknowledged to have been instrumental to the conversion of its readers, of whom one was a female convict at Botany Bay. The last instance of its usefulness was communicated to him only within twenty-four hours of his decease; and from its peculiarity deserves to be mentioned. A clergyman, who had conceived a violent antipathy against the Religious Tract society and all its publications, was induced to select The Dairyman's Daughter,' for the purpose of criticising and exposing its defects. In the perusal of it he was, however, so arrested by the interest of the story, and so penetrated by the power of the religious truths which it contained, that the pen of criticism dropped from his hand, prejudice was charmed into admiration, and he was added, as another trophy of that grace which had shone so brightly in the life and death of the Dairyman's daughter. After what we have stated, we may justly inquire, to what are we to attribute the great popularity of this tract? No doubt the happy union of interest and simplicity in the story, the graces of its style, and the beautiful imagery of its descriptions, have rendered it attractive to every reader; but the stamp of truth and reality which marks its details, and the expression of feelings which find a response in every awakened mind, constitute its principal charm. It is needless, however, to prove the excellence of a tract of which four millions of copies are said to have been circulated in the nineteen languages into which it has been translated; or to adduce testimonies to their usefulness, which have been already printed in almost every report of the Tract society, in addition to numerous instances privately received by Mr Richmond, and which are frequently alluded to in his letters."

Archbishop Sutton.

BORN A. D. 1755.-DIED A. D. 1828.

THIS prelate was the fourth son of Lord George Manners Sutton, and was born on the 14th of February, 1755. He was educated at the

Charter-house, and Cambridge. Having entered into orders, he succeeded Dr Richard Sutton, in 1785, in the family rectory of Averham with Kelham, in Nottinghamshire. In 1791 he was appointed dean of Peterborough, and, in the following year, succeeded Bishop Horne in the see of Norwich.

In 1794 the deanery of Windsor was conferred on him in commendam. The new dean had the good fortune to become a favourite with the royal family, and from this period his elevation to the highest dignity of the church, sede vacante, was an understood thing. He reached this elevation in 1805, on the death of Archbishop Moore His good health, fine person, and polished manners, enabled him to discharge the high ceremonials of his office with great dignity and effect; and he was repeatedly called upon to perform the ceremony at the marriage of the members of the royal family.

In the house of lords he seldom spoke, and only upon ecclesiastical subjects. He was a steady opponent of Catholic emancipation; but supported the Unitarian Marriage-relief bill, and the bill for repealing the Test and Corporation acts.

His grace was Arminian in sentiment, and warmly patronized such of the clergy as distinguished themselves by writing against Calvinistic He died on the 21st of July, 1828.

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Bishop Tomline.

BORN A. D. 1753.-DIED A. D. 1828.

THIS prelate was born at Bury St Edmund's. He was the son of a tradesman in that town. At the age of eighteen he was sent to Cambridge, where he was pronounced senior wrangler in his nineteenth year. In 1773 he was elected fellow, and appointed one of the public tutors of Pembroke-hall. In the following year he became acquainted, in his official capacity, with the Hon. William Pitt, who was then only in his fourteenth year. This circumstance laid the foundation of his future fortunes. The youth, who was so soon to wield the destinies of Britain, remained under his tutorial care for a period of seven years; and as soon as he became chancellor of the exchequer, appointed Mr Pretyman his private secretary, and, five years afterwards, elevated him to the see of Lincoln and deanery of St Paul's.

Dr Pretyman's first publication-with the exception of one or two charges and minor pieces-was his Elements of Christian Theology,' published in 1799, in two vols. 8vo. This has been an exceedingly popular book with the Arminian party in the church of England. In 1811 appeared a Refutation of Calvinism' from the bishop's pen,

which was ably answered by Scott, the author of the Commentary on the Bible. In 1821 Bishop Tomline published, in three 8vo. volumes, 'Memoirs of the Life of the Right Hon. William Pitt.' Bishop Tomline died on the 14th December, 1828.

Bishop Lloyd.

BORN A. D. 1784.-DIED A. D. 1829.

DR LLOYD'S father was rector of Ashton-sub-Edge, in Gloucestershire, and head of a well-known private academy at Peterley house. The future bishop was born at Downley in Bucks. He was educated at Eton and Oxford, and took the first place in a severe examination for the degree of B. A. in 1806.

In 1819 he was named preacher at Lincoln's inn, and appointed chaplain to the archbishop of Canterbury. In 1822, on the death of Dr Hodgson, he was appointed Regius professor of divinity at Oxford. On the death of Bishop Legge, in 1827, Dr Lloyd was elevated to the see of Oxford; but he enjoyed his high dignity only two years. He died on the 31st of May, 1829.

Bishop Lloyd's reputation as a scholar stood very high, both in mathematical and classical learning. His most important appearance in his legislative capacity was on the second reading of the Catholic Relief bill, on the 2d of April, 1829, when he delivered an excellent and impressive speech in favour of the measure. The following is the peroration of this address as given in the Mirror of Parliament: "My lords, I hope I have not diminished the dangers of the Irish church: they are assuredly very great; but the question now before us is, not whether the church of Ireland is in danger, but whether the measure now proposed by his majesty's government is calculated to diminish or increase that danger. My lords, after what I have heard with great sorrow from the primate of that church, I will not venture to express a strong opinion on the subject; but this I must say, that I think I can see in this measure some faint gleam of hope, and hail the dawning of a brighter day. My lords, I hope that this measure will carry English capital into Ireland; and that Protestants will go along with it. I hope that those who have hitherto lived out of their country, in consequence of its troubles and disturbances, will, many of them, return thither, and encourage every thing that is peaceable and good. I hope that the Protestant ministers will now find a more willing audience, and their instructions a readier admission into the hearts of those who hear them. But, my lords, I will say no more on that point. This is the only part of the subject which has for some years past pressed on my mind, and made me hesitate as to the propriety of measures similar to the present; and let not, I beseech you, my doubting hopes influence your judgments on this momentous part of the question now before your lordships. Give to the church of Ireland your most solemn and serious consideration. Do not, I entreat you, treat with scoffs, or levity, or disrespect, the fears, perhaps the too just fears, of those who are alarmed and agitated for her safety. In the aristocracy of England the church of England has hitherto found her firmest guardians and supporters;