that Work, they are sold separate, 2 vols. 12mo. or on a royal paper 8vo. size, 2 vols.

A new Edition of Hollingshed's Chronicle is in the press, intended to be the first of a Series of English Chronicles.

Mr. Brewster, author of the Meditations of a Recluse, is printing two Volumes of Lectures on the Acts of the Apostles, delivered to his Parishioners at Stockton.

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DISPENSATION has pass ed the great seal to enable the Rev. W. Scott, chaplain to the Earl of Dunmore, to hold the rectory of Broughton, in the county of Oxford, together with that of Willersley, in Gloucestershire.

The Rev. W. Truman, rector of Littleton-upon-Severn, has been instituted to the living of Christon, in Somersetshire, on the presentation of the Rev. Charles Gore, of Basing Park, Hampshire.

The Rev. John Martin Butt, M. A. has been presented to the rectory of Oddingley, in Worcestershire, by the Right Hon. Lord Foley, on the death of the late Rev. George Parker.

The Rev. John Sunderland,M.A. formerly of Trinity college, Cambridge, has been presented by the Earl of Derby, as chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, to the vicarage of Pennington, in Lancashire.

His Grace the Lord-lieutenant of Ireland has been pleased to promote the Rev. H. B. Dudley, chancellor of the cathedral of Ferns, to the valuable rectory of Kilglass, vacant by the promotion of Dr. Charles Warburton, to the see of Limerick.

The Hon. and Rev. Thomas de Grey, second son of Lord Walsingham, and late of St. John's college,

Cambridge, has been presented by the bishop of Winchester, to the valuable living of Fawley, Hants, vacated by the death of the Rev. H. Drummond.

His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury has been pleased to collate the Rev. Montague Pennington, M. A. to the vicarage of Northbourn-cum-Sholden, in Kent, void by the death of the Rev. Edward Barker.

The Prince of Wales has appointed the Rev. Timothy Fysh Foord, M. A. rector of Oke, in Somersetshire, and late of Trinity college, Cambridge, to be one of his Royal Highness's domestic chaplains.

The Rev. E. W. Estcourt is instituted to the rectory of Shipton Moyne, on the presentation of W. Hodges, Esq. void by the resignation of the Rev. W. Bowen.

The Rev. Joseph Stephen Pratt, LL. B. of Trinity-hall, Cambridge, is collated by the Lord Bishop of Peterborough to the vicarage of St. John Baptist, in that city.

The Rev. John Norcross, M. A. fellow of Pembroke-hall, Camhridge, is instituted to the vicarage of Saxthorpe, in Norfolk, on the presentation of the master and fellows of that society, vacated by the death of the Rev. Dr. Flamank.

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T Brighthelmstone, Septem12, the Right Honourable Edward Lord Thurlow. :

This eminent nobleman was the son of the Rev. Thomas Thurlow, vicar of Ashfield, in Suffolk, who died in 1762. His lordship was born at the vicarage of Ashfield, in 1735, and received his education under his father; after which, he was removed to Caius college, Cambridge, under the tuition of Dr. Smith; but his behaviour at the university is stated to have been so irregular, that he soon quitted it without taking a degree. He then repaired to the metropolis, and entered himself of the Inner Temple; but even there his conduct did not promise that elevation which he afterwards attained. And after he was called to the bar, he continued unknown and unnoticed, and consequently unemployed. At length a fortunate circumstance occurred, which gave him an opportunity of shewing to the world, that he possessed powers of the first order. By some means or other he was engaged to arrange the estate of Mr. Archibald, after wards Lord Douglas, in his famous legal contest with the Duke of Hamilton; and this task, which was one of considerable intricacy, Mr. Thurlow executed in a most masterly manner.

About this time he acquired the favour of Lord Weymouth, who brought him into P rliament; and from that moment the path to honour and em Jument, lay plain before him. Uier the patronage of the Duke of Bedford, he was nominated one of the king's counsel,

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and soon afterwards solicitor-general and in a few months more, he succeeded Sir William de Grey, aз attorney-general.

He was twice chosen into Parliament for the borough of Tamworth; and during the time that he sat in the house of commons, he was greatly respected by both sides for the candour and talents which he uniformly displayed. He there became a firin and undaunted supporter of the administration; and no man was ever called upon to defend one more unpopular. But Lord North found his cloquence and resolution of so much service, that in return he gave him the great seal, in June, 1778; at which time he was advanced to the peerage by the title of Baron Thurlow of Ashfield.

On entering upon his high office, he shewed an intrepidity and integrity rarely equalled, and never excelled. It had been usual with some chancellors to make considerable alterations on their advancement, among the officers of their court, with a view of serving their dependants, or to oblige their particular friends: and in particu lar, the commissioners of bankrupts were commonly discharged. the present occasion, hardly any changes were made; and only oue person was dismissed, which was owing to his own imprudence in endeavouring to gain his lordship's favour by improper means.

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The situation of chancellor in the house of lords, as speaker, is not only of great importance, but of peculiar delicacy, and one that requires considerable address. The

hereditary members of the constitution are generally fraught with lofty seutiments, and feel but little. inclination to bend to the authority of a man raised from the inferior courts. Although the powers of the speaker be very great, yet they had been seldom exercised over a debate in restraining the exuberance of the noble orators; in consequence of which they frequently wandered from the question, and committed other irregularities in consistent with the dignity of so illustrious an assembly. Lord Thurlow determined to exert himself in reforming these improprieties, and to shew that a speaker ought to be looked up to with deference, instead of sitting, as had been too often the case, a mere cypher. His interference in the debate to preserve order, and to confine the members inmediately to the point, excited no small surprise and dissatisfaction; at last the Duke of Grafton, feeling himself hurt at a check which he had experienced, protested against it with great asperity. For this he received a correction on the instant, in terms that were pointed ly severe, yet spiritedly decorous: and from that moment his lordship's character and authority rose to a proper level in that house..

During the remainder of Lord North's administration, he continued the uniform and able defender of the measures of government. Indeed, a stronger proof of the universal estcem in which he was held by all parties, could not be adduced, than his retaining the seals at the express request of the new ministry. He never, however, cordially united with Lord Shelburne when that nobleman was at the head of affurs, though he held the chancellorship during his shortlived administration.

On the coming in of the celebrated coalition party, his lordship resigned the seals with becoming

dignity; but when that ministry was dissolved, he was again called to that high office, which he discharged several years with unsullied reputation.

The most remarkable period in his lordship's public life, was the time of the king's first illness. No situation could be more trying; and certainly no man ever conducted himself, in a trying situation, with more fortitude and uprightness than did Lord Thurlow. His speeches on the question of the regency, will ever stand upon record, as valuable memorials of unshaken rectitude; and that declaration which may be said to have electrified the house of peers, "When I forsake my king in the hour of his distress, may God forsake me," ought to be engraven on his tomb.

After having acted with the late Mr. Pitt without any difference, till the late war, some words, it is said, arose between those two great men, at the council board; on. which, his lordship resigned the seals at the feet of his sovereign, in a speech which affected the king very sensibly. From that period, his lordship has led a retired life at Dulwich and Brighton, though on some occasions he has delivered his sentiments in the house of lords, on various questions, with the same vigour of sentiment, the same soundness of legal judgment, and the same independence of mind, which always distinguished him in both houses.

His lordship has left no legiti mate issue, and his title and estates descend to his nephew, the son of Dr. Thomas Thurlow, late bishop of Durham..

Aged 57, the Right Honour able Charles James Fox, secretary of state for foreign affairs. This celebrated statesman was born on the 13th of January, 1749. He was the younger son of Henry Fox, the first Lord Holland, and received his education, first, at Eton,

and lastly, at Oxford; where he was distinguished for his classical taste, and his knowledge of the Greek language. At the age of nineteen, he was returned to Parliament, as representative for the borough of Midhurst, in Sussex, a borough then under the influence of his family. He soon displayed great powers as an orator; and Lord North, then the prime minister, appointed him to a seat at the admiralty board, and afterwards at that of the treasury: but, in consequence of some private differences, Mr. Fox was dismissed with the following laconic note:

His Majesty has thought proper to order a new commission of the treasury to be made out, in which I don't perceive your name, "NORTH."

"The Hon. Mr. Fox."

This dismissal, and the mode of communicating it, was regarded by Mr. Fox, as a high insult, and to it probably was owing the personal asperity of the opposition into which he immediately entered. This opposition introduced Mr. Fox to the intimacy of the illus trious Edmund Burke; from whom, as he has openly avowed, he learn ed his political creed. In conjunction with Mr. Burke, and other eminent men, he vigorously opposed the prosecution of the AmeFican war; and at length succeeded in driving Lord North from his post. Mr. Fox then came into power with the Marquis of Rockingham; but that nobleman dying soon after, the Earl of Shelbure, afterwards Marquis of Lansdowne, form da new administration, from which Mr. Fox was secluded, who again entered the ranks of opposition. He then formed a coalition with Lord North, notwithstanding the violence with which he had repeatedly attacked that great man, This coalition effected the dissolution of the Shelburne administra

tion, but itself was not long-lived. Mr. Fox's famous India Bill gave, equal offence to the crown and the people; and a new ministry was formed in 1784, of which Mr. Pitt became the leader. The opposition of Mr. Fox to that unparalleled statesman, assumed an appearance of hostility and enmity not very unlike to what he had displayed against Lord North.

It would far exceed our limits to give even a sketch of his political career; but we shall content ourselves with observing, that he took the lead in the famous impeachment of Mr. Hastings; and his speeches on that memorable trial, are certainly master-pieces of eloquence, On the famous question of the regency, in the first illness of his Majesty, Mr. Fox's popularity suffered a great declension by the manner in which he asserted the right of the Prince of Wales to the office of regent; in which, however, he proved unsuccessful: and the happy recovery of the king disappointed his prospects of power. The French revolution forms the next remarkable epoch in the political history of Mr. Fox. His unquali fied approbation of that event, and open avowal of democratic princi ples, produced a separation be tween him and Mr. Burke. That great political prophet saw intui tively from the beginning, the poisonous nature of those seeds which were then germinating, and he predicted the consequences with surprising judgment, and in the strongand glowing language peculiarly his own. He warned the govern ment and the country against the doctrines which were then imported from France; and when these new lights met with apologists, in some degree at least, in Mr. Fox and some other of his friends, Mr. Burke withdrew from their side, and proved a formidable opponent to them.

Mr. Fox, however, though he

publicly lamented' this division between him and his old friend, still continued the same vigorous and uniform opposition to all the measures of administration; and at length finding that the majorities in the House of Commons, instead of lessening, increased, he withdrew from his place. This secession from his public duty, gave great offence to many of his most zealous admirers; who conceived, with justice, that a senator is not warranted in neglecting to attend upon his public duties, because he cannot succeed in displacing a minister, or in effecting a change of measures. The ever to be lamented death of Mr. Pitt, at last brought Mr. Fox and several of his associates, into power; and one of his first acts was an offer of negociation with the French government, the termination of which negociation, however, it was not destined for him to see.

His conduct during the short in terval of his possessing the lead in administration, has not tended to. increase his popularity. To consistency he can hardly be said to have any claim, when his two coalitions, first with Lord North, and lastly with Lord Grenville, are considered; but his want of this virtue is still more glaring in his adopting and increasing those very means of taxation which, when out of place, he declared to be so oppressive, that if carried, "this country would not be a place for an honest man to live in !"

We here close our remarks on Mr. Fox's political life. A complication of disorders settled in a dropsy, for which a few weeks be*fore his death, he was tapped; but though the operation was twice repeated, the disease proved fatal at the Duke of Devonshire's house, at Chiswick, the 13th of September.

At Great Glenham, at the advanced age of 107 years, Susan

Páxmau: she had lived in three centuries, and five reigns. She was attended to the grave by her youngest son, who is at present upwards of 70 years of age.

The Rev. W. Edmiston, curate and lecturer of St. Andrew, Undershaft.

Aged 73, the Rev. John Phelps, rector of Christon, uear Axbridge, and curate of Hutton, in Somersetshire.

At Cheam, Surry, in the 31st year of his age, the Rev. Jonathin Payne, M. A. minister of Dart mouth chapel, Blackheath, and afternoon lecturer of St. Ann's, Blackfriars.

In his 70th year, the Rev. T. Greaves, rector of Broughton Astley, and one of his majesty's justices of the peace for Leicestershire.

The Rev. William Windsor Fitzthomas, rector of Arrow, and of Beaudesert, Warwickshire; and formerly of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, LL. B. 1774.

At Pontefract, the Rev. J. Bindloss, A. M. master of the king's school at that place.

Aged 66, the Rev. John Hutton, B. D. vicar of Burton, in Kendal, Westmoreland, and formerly fellow and tutor of St. John's college, Cambridge.

At Rotherham, the Rev. John Holden, B. D. fellow and tutor of Sidney college, Cambridge. His death was occasioned by a fall from his horse the preceding day, as he was taking a morning ride with his niece.

On his way to Bath for the recovery of his health, at the Rev. Dr. Drake's, at Amersham, Bucks, the Rev. John Eaton, LL. D. rec tor of St. Paul's, Deptford, and of Fairsted, in Essex; he was formerly fellow of New college, Oxford.

At Cambridge, in his 72d year, the Rev. James Goodwin, vicar of Lewesden, in Northamptonshire, and formerly fellow of King's col·