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    ^ . Richard Corrie 9 £Tq , —Rev. ' Y. Sc...

    Mr , _Hettrty HoMen . —Afr . Benjamin Nvurto

    that venerable _Christian who «? in full age and hoary holiness , ' * is cow waiting the call of his great Master to enter upon the rewardi of eternity . Mr . _Undsey after a long and anxious in * _quiry had found himself no longer able to comply with the terms of conformity . Unlike some later Unitarian

    Ctergymen , who yet would be thought confessors , if not martyrs , he resolved to resign his living , and corresponded on the subject with his diocpsan , by -whom he was treated with great kindness and liberality . Indeed he must have been a

    _tnost careless guardian of the Church , who would not have endeavoured , by every possible _means , to retain in her communion such an exemplary _parishpriest as was the Vicar of Catterick . It is needless to add that the arguments of the bishop were of no avail .

    In 1777 , Dr . M . was translated to the See of York . The ill-advised and as illconducted American war was now raging . In ij $ o the freeholders of Yorkshire , among whom Saville , and the Rev . Mr , W conspicuous * took the lead Sir George yvlUwere tn opposing

    the further prosecution of that war and the increasing influence of the crown , to which war , as courtiers _wellknowiis _peculiarly favourable . That meeting at which some very courtly sentiments weie avowed by one of the freeholders , a sub-governor d £ thc _« Prince , was followed by a charge from the Archbishop . _Jrle took this opportunity to reprove his

    clergy for their interference in politics , _And gave occasion to the following declaration from a number of them , that " a Clergyman by entering the church , does not abandon his _civii rights . '* In 1780 , our prelate appears to more ad-Vantage . From a liberal disposition towards the Catholics , imputed to him by the enthusiastic Protestant Assosiation . he was the first member of

    Parliament singled out for their vengeance , and narrowly escaped from that misguided rabble . The latter years of the Archbishop , have acquired no pubHcity . He scarcely ever spoke in the House of Lords . Once indeed * he expressed himself on some much agitated topic with so much Warmth * that a peer who opposed him , reminded the prelate that they were _ja *> t _« ow _imdcr his rod He had not

    ^ . Richard Corrie 9 £Tq , —Rev. ' Y. Sc...

    the characteristic of a primitive bishojr _, being < fi apt to teach , " for he seldom preached a sermon , and never exhibited any taste for theology , no rare occurrence , we apprehend , on the episcopal

    bench . . His classical fame is celebrated by Dr . I _* arr , a most competent judge , _Dfcho names the Archbishop in his Spital Sermon ( p . _io- _; , ) among € t the cloud of witnesses in favour of the plan of education in the English Universities . "

    As a Diocesan , where no courtly questions interfered , and in private life he appears to have been blameless and amiable . His long possession of the lucrative See of York , enabled him to enrich a large family , who are doabtless persuaded that the Church . of England * s the best constituted Church in the

    world , whatever those labourers in the vineyard , tfte poor curates of the province might be tempted to object , 'i he archbishop is said to have lately presented ioool . each to 47 Grand-children , and to have left by will 100 , 000 ! . a goodly portion of the ecclesiastical revenues which have been modestly _calfed the " pittance of the Church /'

    Thursday , Nov . a 6 , Mr . HENRY HOJLDEN , son of Joseph Holden , Esq . _$¥ JLonibard-Street , in the 23 d year of his age , after an illness of three weeks . He was modest , affectionate , faithful and obliging . He was exemplary in his attendance on the _rsuhlic _dntiPA of _rrlicriori _* tendance on the public duties of religion , and wholly untainted by t _, he vices wkich so frequently sully the reputation and destroy the usefulness of young men at his critical time oi life . He promised to be a comfort to his family and friend * , and a sincere supporter of the cause of religion : but the Wise Disposer _of

    events ha ? been pleased to close the term of his _probation , and to remove him from this scene of trial and of danger . May his young companions imitate his excellencies , and be instructed by his unexpected death in the uncertainty of life , and the necessity of intellectual , moral and Christian industry . A .

    On Tuesday , Dec . i 7 at Plymouth-Dock , in a decline , without a sigh or groan , in his skq _> , Mr . BENJAMIM NEWTON , 30 -years of age , a JMcrcer and Draper in that town : a man of peculiar mildness of temper , and possessed of excellent _qualitir _* , $ i * wtfr

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1807, page 664, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_02121807/page/44/