sorrowing family at Badsworth Hall. Capt. Martin Neville who was promoted to the rank of master and commander for his gallantry as lieutenant in boarding and carrying a French corvette in Brest roads, with the boats of the Urania in the late war, in which he received three severe wounds in a personal conflict with the French captain, who fell in the contest. After this promotion Mr. N. sailed to the West Indies in the Port Mahon, of 18 guns, and died July 25th in the Bay of Honduras, of the yellow fever caught from some French prisoners. A beautiful. young lady, a daughter of Mr. Neville, died a few years ago of a fever." To those who knew and could appreciate their worth, the family of the Nevilles, of Badsworth Hall, were amiable in the highest degree of excellence. The feelings of the parents on this last occasion may be easier conceived than described.

At the Vicarage-house, Gresford, Montgomeryshire, aged 72, the Rev. H. Newcome, nearly 40 years Vicar of that parish, Rector of Castle Caereinion, and prebendary of St. Asaph.

At York, aged 77, the Rev. Dudley Rockett, sub-chanter of the Ca, thedral, and curate of St. John's Micklesgate, in that city.

26.] At his seat, Trentham-hall, Staffordshire, the most Noble Gran ville Levison Gower, Marquis of Stafford, Earl Gower, Viscount Trentham, Baron Gower, K. G. born in 1717. He is succeeded by the Earl of Gower, his eldest sop, now Marquis of Stafford, who was married in 1785 to the countess of Sutherland, now Marchioness of Stafford. The late Marquis was first married in 1744, to Elizabeth, the daughter of Nicholas Fazackerley, Esq.-His second marriage was in March 28, 1748, toLouisa Egerton, daughter of Scroop, Duke of Bridgewater. His Lordship was allied to the principal families in Great-Britain, leaving be hind him an offspring of 87 in number. He formerly held the greatest places of honour and trust in his Majesty's gift; was always considered a true friend to his King; a sound Politician; and well known as a father to his family, and a friend to the poor. The loss of so good and so great a man is universally felt, and will long be remembered.-A farther ac count of this venerable Nobleman will appear in our next.

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NSPECTOR; Mr. LUDLAM's remarks on the Confessional; J. W. on the appearance of Samuel at Endor;' Mr. PEARSON, on the observance of the Lord's day.' OBSERVATOR, X. Y. &c. &c. in our next; also the Reviews of the Bishop of Lincoln's Charge, Mr. Churton's Sermon, and many other articles which have been reluctantly but unavoidably deferred."

Philotheus on Original Sin contains nothing new or argumentative. We wish all the friends of our Magazine, to understand that though Orthodox Divinity forms the leading feature of our plan, yet that it is not the exclusive one. Communications of a miscellaneous nature will be always acceptable, provided they are innocent.

We shall be at all times happy to insert genuine memoirs, anecdotes, descriptions of places, moral essays, hints of improvement, scientific observations, and original letters of eminent persons, deceased. Many subscribers have complained, and we are afraid with too much justice, of the extreme length to which some of the articles of our correspondents have been carried. We drop this only as a hint from a wish to give general satisfaction by furnishing as much variety in every number as we possibly can.

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"SECT. III. A Vindication of certain Individuals; an appeal to Experience, and to the Concessions of our Opponents, on the point; and a conclusion, that it is the Strictness, of our morality, which gives offence."

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Be not carried about with diverse, and strange doctrines: for it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace.

HEBREW, XIII. 9.

THE LIFE OF JAMES HOWELL, Esq.

TO THE EDITORS OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCHMAN'S MAGAZINE.

GENTLEMEN,

YOUR correspondent T. would have found a correct account of James Howell in Dr. WATKINS's Biographical Dictionary, and a very long catalogue of his writings in Wood's Athenæ Oxonienses, vol. ii. 381, From those writers I have extracted the following sketch, in answer to the enquiry respecting this ingenious, but voluminous author, whose letters certainly merit the whole of the encomium passed upon them by your correspondent.

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JAMES HOWELL was the son of a clergyman in Caermarthenshire, and born about the year 1594. He received his first education in the freeschool, at Hereford, from whence he removed to Jesus College, Oxford, of which his brother Thomas Howell, afterwards bishop of Bristol) was fellow. In 1613 he quitted the College and was employed as steward of Sir Robert Mansell's glass house, in London, the proprietors of which sent him to Venice, to procure workmen and materials for that concern. In 1622, he went to Spain on a mercantile affair, and in his absence was elected fellow of Jesus College. After his return in 1624, he became secretary to Lord Scrope, who was then appointed Lord President of the north. In 1627 he was chosen member of parliament for Richmond, in Yorkshire. Four years after he accompanied Robert Earl of Leicester, ambassador extraordinary, from king Charles the first, to the Court of Denmark, as secretary to the embassy, in which capacity he distinguished himself by several Latin speeches. At the beginning of the civil war he was made one of the clerks of the council; but in 1643 all his papers were seized by order of parliament, and Howell himself was committed to the Fleet prison, where he remained many years, and gained a scanty subsistence by his pen. Wood, who seems to have been in a more than ordinary ill-humour when he wrote this article, says Vol. V. Churchm. Mag. Nov. 1803. Oo

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of Howell at this period; so that having nothing to trust to but his wits, and to the purchase of a small spot of ground upon Parnassus, (which he held in fee of the muses) he solely dedicated himself to write and translate books; which though several of them are mere scribbles, yet they brought him in a comfortable subsistence, during his long stay there."

Af the restoration of the king he was made Historiographer-Royal, being the first in England who ever held that title. It should seem however, that this place had more honour than profit attached to it; for we find that he was under the necessityof writing and publishing for his support to his death, which happened in November, 1666. His remains were interred in the Temple Church, London, where a monument was erected to his memory; with this inscription. "Jacobus Howell, Cambro-Britannus, Regius Historiographus (in Anglia primus) qui post varias peregrinationes, tandem naturæ cursum peregit, satur annorum et famæ domi forisque huc usque erraticus, hic fixus 1666.”

This monument was destroyed in 1683, when the Temple Church was repaired.

The principal works of this ingenious writer, for such he most undoubtedly was, in spite of Wood's censure, are 1st. Dodona's Grove, or the Vocal Forest, London, 1640, 4to. This work was held in such high esteem among the Royalists, as to pass through several editions. It was also translated into French, by a member of the Academy, which by the by is no mean proof of its merit. 2nd. Instructions for Foreign Travel, London, 4to and 12mo, in which there are many shrewd observations and excellent hints of advice. 3rd. A Survey of the Signory of Venice, London, 1651, folio. 4th. The History of Naples, translated in part from the Italian, but continued and corrected by our author, 1654, folio. 5th. Lexicon Tetraglotton, an English, French, Italian, and Spanish Dictionary, London, 1659, folio. But unquestionably his best work is his Collection of Familiar Letters, which has gone through a number of editions, and not only throws considerable light upon the history of those distracted times, but abounds in excellent moral, political, and religious sentiments, and is agreeably enlivened by numerous anecdotes.

Wood pretends that many of these letters were merely feigned, and purposely published to gain money, to relieve his necessities, but of this he adduces no proof. It is not improbable indeed but that the publication originated in the motive here mentioned, but this is no disgrace, as the sour-faced antiquary would insinuate. The letters themselves are truely excellent, and they carry with them all the internal evidence necessary to convince the most critical reader, that they really did pass in a regular and familiar correspondence. Most of them have real and well-known names prefixed to them, and others have initials of persons which are easily discovered, and applied by any one who is acquainted with the literary history of that period.

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ACCOUNT

ACCOUNT of the Protestant Missions in the EAST INDIES, for the Year 1802.

(From the Annual Report of the SOCIETY for promoting CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE.)

SINCE INCE the publication of the last account, several letters have been received from the Missionaries, the leading particulars of which are included in the following abstracts.

The Rev. Mr. Pazold, in a letter dated Madras, Oct. 16, 1801, details some particulars of his journey into the northern sircars of the Peninsula, which he had been induced to take, chiefly with the view of improving his, and his wife's health, which had been much impaired. Contrary to their wish, they had been compelled to spend seven months from home, in different places. At Jagganapooram, he had found the opportunity of performing divine service, on Sundays, in the spacious house of a Mr. Toppander, both in the Portugueze and German languages; where also he had christened 15 children of different ages. Circumstances are detailed of a Dutch European, at the same place, who had solicitously desired to be admitted to the holy Sacrament; but whose unbecoming conduct, and inimoral habits of life, had been such as to lead the Missionary to remonstrate, and exhort him to repentance, and a change of life before he could become a worthy communicant. There appearing, however, to be no inclination in him to alter his course of life, he was not admitted to the Sacrament. At Samulcottah, he had been applied to by a merchant, to christen his concubine, and illegitimate child. The child was baptized, in the presence of several English gentlemen; but, Christian instruction, and marriage with, or separation from, the person with whom she cohabited, being previously insisted upon, with respect to the woman, the matter was dropped: he had, however, taught her the Ten Commandments, the Creed, and some Prayers, in the Tamulian language, and had given her wholesome advice.

Mr. Pezold states, that he had been requested, by Dr. Knapp, of Halle, to contribute his share towards a life of the late Mr. Swartz, which he had readily undertaken, having from personal intercourse, and credible report, had the opportunity of knowing his attainments, his virtues, his piety, and his labours. He had accordingly drawn up an account of some of the most memorable transactions of this worthy Missionary, in the German language, which, he trusted, would be acceptable to those, who revered the unprecedented labours, and faithfulness, the piety, and heavenly mindedness of a man, whose death must be deemed an irreparable loss to the Mission; and his MSS. had been sent to Halle, and to the Rev. Mr. Ubele, of London.

The Rev. Mr. Gerické, in a letter dated at Vepery, Oct. 15, 1801, mentions a journey he had taken to the southern parts, in April and May, and that at Tanjore he had held repeated conferences with the Missionaries, the country priest, and the other native Assistants, and had regulated the labours, and emoluments of them all, both at Tanjore and in all the congregations dependent on Tanjore Church, as also the expences and conduct of the native schools, and charitable institutions of the late Mr. Swartz. Some rules had also been laid down for regularly keeping

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