Jan. 7. In Holles Street, Cavendish Square, in the 79th year of her age, Mrs. ANNE HUNTER, widow of that distinguished physiologist, John Hunter. She was the eldest daughter of Mr. Robert Home, an eminent surgeon, first in the army and latterly at the Savoy. To her we are indebted for many popular lyric effusions -the stanzas "On November, 1784," (inserted in our XIVth Volume, p. 636,) "Queen Mary's Lament;"" the Deathsong of Alknomook, the Indian Warrior," &c. When Haydn passed a season in London, Mrs. Hunter became the Muse of that celebrated composer; and his beautiful Canzonets were composed on words which she supplied. Most of these are original, and particularly the pathetic song of "My mother bids me bind my hair;" first written as accommodated to an air of Pleydell's; and then beginning with what is now the second stanza, ""Tis sad to think the days are gone." The elegant authoress collected her poems in a small volume, published about twenty years ago. She lived in retirement, but enjoyed select literary society. Her character is highly, and we believe deservedly eulogized, by such as had the honour of her acquaintance.

Feb. 2, at Taunton, in the 83rd year of her age, Mrs. ELIZABETH HURLEY. In early life she was connected with the Calvinistic Baptists, but on subsequent reflection was induced to forsake their communion, and became a decided Unitarian. She was, during a long course of years a regular attendant on the ministry of the Rev. Dr. Toulmin. Her religious faith was adorned by a consistent life, and numerous were her acts of disinterested kindness and generosity; but to publish her virtues now would be little consistent with her wishes and the modest retirement of her life. record is on high." May those who have had the benefit of her example, emulate her virtues; and may he who has ever experienced from her more than parental kindness, and who now pays this humble but sincere tribute of respect to her memory, fulfil the pious wishes and prayers of her who was his best, his earliest and his dearest friend.

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-7, in his 55th year, at Lichfield, the venerable and Rev. EDMUND OUTRAM, D. D., Archdeacon of Derby, Chancellor and Vicar-General of the Diocese, Canon, Residentiary Prebend, and Treasurer of the Cathedral, Lichfield, Master of St.

John's Hospital, Domestic and Examining Chaplain to the Bishop, a Magistrate for the counties of Warwick and Stafford, and Rector of St. Philip's Church, Birmingham. Whilst conversing with a pensioner of St. John's, he was suddenly seized with an affection in his head which baffled the aid of medical skill in the space of half an hour. The general regret expressed on this melancholy occasion is the best testimony to the distinguished worth of this excellent man, for it may with great truth be said, that few persons have possessed, in so high a degree as Dr. Outram, the cordial esteem and respect of every class of his neighbours and of every variety of religious denomination among us. To the attainments of an excellent scholar were added the urbanity of the gentleman, and the mild and conciliatory spirit of the Christian minister: though decidedly attached to our established institutions in Church and State, he appears to have acted under the influence of that divine injunction, "If it be possible, as much as lieth in you live peaceably with all men," and, therefore, on all occasions he manifested a due respect for the temperate and conscientious expression of opinions from which his principles compelled him to dissent. In the maturity of his years, possessing high and influential stationsready, as far as his health would allow him, to every benevolent work-beloved and venerated by his parishioners, and deeply lamented by all. The public and personal virtues of such a man as the late Dr. Outram will long be remembered in this place; they are his best relicts, and they will then be most honoured by his survivors when contemplated by them as models for imitation.

9, in his 60th year, the Rev. Dr. NICOL, upwards of 25 years minister of the Scots Church, Swallow Street.

11, at Richmond, aged 90, Mr. ADAM WALKER, the late celebrated lecturer in experimental philosophy. His ingenious mind was ever active in the pursuit of science, and his original invention of that beautiful machine the Eidouranion or Transparent Orrery, and the Celestina, the great revolving lights on the Isle of Scilly and Cromer, by which, under Providence, thousands of lives and property have been saved, the warm airstove under the House of Lords and Italian Opera-house, the present mailcoach, &c., still remain as proofs.

DOMESTIC.

RELIGIOUS.

ductory devotional services, and the Rev. Mr. Elliott, of Rochdale, preached the sermon, from Psalm cxli. 5. The preacher

Ministers in South Wales.

THE Quarterly Meeting of Unitarian Ministers in South Wales was held at Aberdar, Glamorganshire, on Thursday the 28th of December, 1820. Two discourses were delivered at the place of meeting in the evening of the day preceding; one by Mr. J. Griffiths, of Llandy-faen, Carmarthenshire, from 2 John 9; and the other by J. James, of GelliOnnen, Glamorganshire, from 1 Tim. i. 15, and the introductory service of reading and praying was conducted by Mr. Wm. Williams, of Blaen-y-gwrach, Glamorganshire. The hymns were all given out by the minister of the place. Mr. Thomas Evans. Mr. J. Davies, of Capel-y-Groes and Ystrad, introduced on the 28th, and Mr. J. Thomas, of Pant-ydefaid, both in Cardiganshire, preached the sermon from John i. 4, and concluded with a short prayer, when the meeting was converted into an open conference, by the unanimous call of Mr. Evans, the minister of the place, into the chair. The question proposed from the chair was, Whether the Person of Christ consisted of two natures? Mr. David John, of St. Clears, spoke at some length, and with general and great approbation, in defence of the negative side of the question, and several others made short observations on the same side, but no one opened his mouth in support of the doctrine of two natures forming the one person of Christ. The meeting was respectably attended, and appeared to afford general satisfaction.

The next meeting is to be held at Wick, Glamorganshire, on Thursday the 26th of April next; Mr. J. Davies, of Capel-yGroes and Ystrad, Cardiganshire, to preach the sermon, and the Nature and End of Sacrifices is the subject to be discussed at the conference.

J. JAMES.

January 19th, 1821. Quarterly Meeting of the Presbyterian Ministers of Manchester. THE Christmas Quarterly Meeting of the Presbyterian Ministers of Manchester and its vicinity, was held at Manchester on the 4th of January, in the Chapel of the Rev. John James Tayler. The Rev. Mr. Brooks of Hyde, performed the intro

duty of administering reproof; and particularly enforced its obligation, as a most important, but much-neglected branch of the pastoral character. A select number of friends afterwards dined together, and the afternoon was passed in pleasing and instructive conversation. A new interest seemed to be excited in the support of these meetings, which, it is to be regretted, have been for some time upon the decline, but which, conducted and supported with proper spirit, might be rendered eminently serviceable to the cause of truth and of rational Christianity.

W. H., Sec.

A List of the Committee of Deputies appointed to protect the Civil Rights of the Three Denominations of Protestant Dissenters, for the Year 1821.

William Smith, Esq., M. P., Chairman, Philpot Lane; Joseph Gutteridge, Esq., Deputy Chairman, Camberwell; James Collins, Esq., Treasurer, Spital Square; Edward Busk, Esq., Pump Court, Temple; James Esdaile, Esq., Bunhill Row; W. A. Hankey, Esq., Fenchurch Street; David Bevan, Esq., Walthamstow; Joseph Bunnell, Esq., Southampton Row, Bloomsbury; John Bentley, Esq., Highbury; William Titford, Esq., Turner Square, Hoxton; James Gibson, Esq., Lime Street, Fenchurch Street; John Christie, Esq., Hackney Wick; William Freme, Esq., Catherine Court, Tower Hill; Robert Wainewright, Esq., Gray's Inn Square; Samuel Jackson, Esq., Hackney; Benjamin Shaw, Esq., London Bridge-foot; Henry Waymouth, Esq., Wandsworth Common; Thomas Wood, Esq., Little St. Thomas Apostle, Queen Street; William Marston, Esq., East Street, Red Lion Square; Joseph Stonard, Esq., Stamford Hill; George Hammond, Esq., Whitechapel; B. P. Witts, Esq., Friday Street; Robert Winter, Esq., Bedford Row; Joseph Benwell, Esq., Battersea.

We are informed that the Annual Sermon, recommending the Society established for the relief of the Necessitous Widows and Children of Protestant Dissenting Ministers, will be preached, on Wednesday the 4th of April, by the Rev.

W. J. Fox, at the Old Jewry Chapel, (removed to Jewin Street, Aldersgate Street). Service to begin at Twelve o'Clock.

ECCLESIASTICAL PROMOTIONS. The Right Rev. C. M. WARBURTON, D. D., Bishop of Limerick, to the Bishopric of Cloyne.

The Rev. T. ELRINGTON, D. D., to the Bishopric of Limerick.

Dr. KYLE appointed the new Provost of the University of Dublin. He was previously a resident fellow of Trinity College.

The Rev. HENRY PHILLPOTTS, Prebendary of Durham, has been presented to the living of Stanhope in Weardale, in that diocese, vice Hardinge, deceased; and the Bishop of St. David's (Dr. BURGESS) succeeds to the first prebendal stall, void by the cession of Mr. Phillpotts; and the Rev. JOHN BIRD SUMNER, M. A., of Eton, to the vacant prebend.

The Rev. H. H. Norris, Curate of St. John's at Hackney, to a prebendal stall at Landaff.

The Rev. R. STEVENS, M. A., to be Dean of Rochester in the place of Dr. W. B. BUSBY, deceased.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Proceedings of Royal Society. SIR HUMPHRY DAVY was lately elected President of the Royal Society, in the room of Sir Joseph Banks, deceased. Lord COLCHESTER, the late Speaker of the House of Commons, was a competitor with Sir Humphry, but the latter obtained a great majority of votes. The Society consisted of 1066 members at the time of Sir Joseph's death.

SIR HUMPHRY DAVY took the chair as President, in the sitting of Dec. 7, and delivered an able and elegant discourse on the objects of the Society, and its relation to other scientific institutions, which he concluded by expressing his confidence that the Fellows of the Royal Society, in all their future researches, would be guided "by that spirit of philosophy, awakened by our great masters, Bacon and Newton; that sober and cautious method of inductive reasoning, which is the germ of truth and of permanency in all the sciences. I trust," he said, "that those amongst us who are so fortunate as to kindle the light of new discoveries, will use them, not for the purpose of dazzling the organs of our intellectual vision, but rather to enlighten us by shewing objects in their true forms and colours. That our philosophers will attach no importance to hypotheses, ex

cept as leading to the research after facts, so as to be able to discard or adopt them at pleasure; treating them rather as parts of the scaffolding of the building of science, than as belonging either to its foundations, materials or ornaments :that they will look, where it be possible, to practical applications in science; not, however, forgetting the dignity of their pursuit, the noblest end of which is to exalt the powers of the human mind, and to increase the sphere of intellectual enjoyment by enlarging our views of nature, and of the power, wisdom and goodness of the Author of nature."

Horton Academy.

THIS important institution for the education of ministers in the Independent connexion, educates forty students. Its managers have made an appeal to the public, on the ground of "great inadequacy of funds." They say that " during the last three years, thirty-six valuable ministers have been sent out; and nineteen have, within the same period, been successful in raising new interests in considerable towns, in which uew chapels have been, or are soon to be, erected."

Ireland.

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AN unusual calm has prevailed for some time it this country, so long agitated with fierce storms and destructive tempests. To what is this owing? part, we believe, to the wisdom and liberality of the government, and especially to the temper and conduct of the Right Hon. CHARLES GRANT, Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant, and the acting minister for Ireland. This gentleman is the object of virulent abuse to the High-Church party in that country, and a Letter has been addressed to him by a writer under the signature of Anglo-Hibernus, arraigning him of the high crime of associating with the open or insidious enemies of the Established Church, of encouraging all the institutions of the sectaries, and of stretching out the hand of patronage to the Roman Catholics and their priests. The revilings of this Letter, which are eagerly repeated by the Antijacobin Review, are in the highest degree honourable to Mr. Grant. But for them, the attention of the English public would not perhaps have been drawn to his enlightened, liberal policy. In proportion as bigots hate and traduce, candid and impartial men will respect and honour him, and we feel ourselves doing only an act of justice in challenging the gratitude of our readers on his behalf, as one of the benefactors of Ireland.

LITERARY.

Royal Society of Literature.

THIS is a new and somewhat singular institution. More, we suspect, is meant by it than meets the eye. There has been a complaint of the talents employed by the press in opposition to ministers, and this may be an attempt to enlist literature in the service of what is so facetiously called loyalty.

The Society is professedly instituted "for the Encouragement of Indigent Merit, and the Promotion of General Literature," and is to consist of honorary members, subscribing members and associates.

The class of honorary members is intended to comprise some of the most eminent literary men in the three kingdoms, and the most distinguished female writers of the present day.

An annual subscription of two guineas will constitute a subscribing member. Subscribers of ten guineas, and upwards, will be entitled to the privileges hereafter mentioned, according to the date of their subscription.

The class of associates is to consist of twenty men of distinguished learning, authors of some creditable work of literature, and men of good moral character; ten under the patronage of the King, and ten under the patronage of the Society.

His Majesty has been pleased to express, in the most favourable terms, his approbation of the proposed Society, and to honour it with his munificent patronage, by assigning an annual sum of one hundred guineas each, to ten of the associates, payable out of the privy purse; and also an annual premium of one hundred guineas for the best dissertation on some interesting subject, to be chosen by a council belonging to the Society.

Ten associates will be placed under the patronage of the Society, as soon as the subscriptions (a large portion of which will be annually funded for the purpose) shall be sufficient, and in proportion as they become so. An annual subscriber of ten guineas, continued for five years, or a life subscription of 100 guineas, will entitle such subscribers to nominate an associate under the Society's patronage, according to the date of their subscription.

The associates under the patronage of the King will be elected by respected and competent judges. The associates nominated by subscribers must have the same qualifications of learning, moral character, and public principle, as those who are elected, and must be approved by the same judges.

Every associate, at his admission, will choose some subject, or subjects, of literature for discussion, and will engage to devote such discussions to the Society's memoirs of literature, of which a volume will be published by the Society from time to time; in which memoirs will likewise be inserted the successive prize dissertations.

From the months of February to July, it is proposed that a weekly meeting of the Society shall be held, and a monthly meeting during the other six months of the year.

His Majesty, says the Gentleman's Magazine, has intrusted the formation of this Institution to the learned and eminent Dr. THOMAS BURGESS, Bishop of St. David's. Other branches of the Royal Family have become subscribers; ministers give their aid; many of the most distinguished among the clergy concur in promoting the plan; and the leading members of both Universities are among its friends. The funds are already considerable; and his Majesty may be considered as the personal as well as Royal Founder and Patron of the Society. The first Prize Questions are as follows:

Premiums for 1821 and 1822.

1. The King's Premium of One Hundred Guineas, for the best Dissertation on the Age, Writings and Genius of Homer; and on the State of Religion, Society, Learning and the Arts, during that period, collected from the writings of Homer. 2. The Society's Premium of Fifty Guineas, for the best Poem on Dartmoor. 3. The Society's Premium of Twenty-five Guineas, for the best Essay on the History of the Greek language; of the present language of Greece, especially in the Ionian Islands; and on the Difference between Ancient and Modern Greek.

THE United Body of SCOTCH SECEDERS have commenced a magazine at Glasgow, under the title of "The Christian Recorder." The Prospectus is altogether a manifesto of the church militant. The worthy Scots who compiled it thus speak of a portion of their brethren: "We are sorry indeed to be under the necessity of adding, that those usually known by the name of English Presbyterians have long ago forsaken the faith of the gospel, and drunk deep at the streams of the Arian and Socinian heresies." These infallible Presbyterians further promise "the friends of truth" regular bulletins of "the position and strength of the enemies' forces, whether under the designation of Heathen Idolaters, Deluded Ma