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profligate and idle of both sexes, was also pointed out. That the same time might be worse employed, in the alehouse for instance, formed no justification of the present measure, If it were so employed, unquestionably it would be illegally employed; but, by this measure, the breach of the sabbath was legalized. As the bill then stood, it was further argued, if Sunday be appointed a day of military exercise, those who are to be exercised would be divided into two distinct classes; one composed of such as feel no objection to employing the Sunday in this manner; the other of such as cannot conscientiously exercise on that day, and are therefore exercised separately on a week day. The principal part of this last class in most parishes, in many perhaps the whole, would be composed of Dissenters and Methodists. Whatever might be thought by some gentlemen of the charges of disaffection which have been advanced against these bodies, yet many believed them to be well founded. What then must those, who entertain this opinion, think of the present measure? They must dread the arming and training, in a separate class, a body of disaffected persons, who, being thus brought together, would be enabled to count their numbers and calculate their strength; who, having a community of interest and possessing, in various ways, extensive means of rapid combination, and forming also a nucleus which would be a point of union for even the dissolute and profane who may be disaffected; would be put in a situation to execute the most dangerous designs. But while they used these arguments as likely to affect many minds, they expressed a persuasion that, whatever may have been the case in the earlier periods of the French Revolution, both the Dissenters and the Methodists were as generally bent on the vigorous defence of the empire against French invasion as any class of his Majesty's subjects. All were agreed, that concord and unanimity are particularly desirable at the present moment. Was it then right, was it safe, to introduce regulations which must necessarily lead to invidious distinctions, and, instead of melting down the different descriptions of men in this country into one common mass, in which true British loyalty and patriotism should be the general sentiment, would be apt to excite distrust, suspicion, and even hatred of each other. It was true, the Privy Council and Lord Lieutenants were not obliged by the act to appoint Sunday for exercise. A discretion was left them on this point, but in such terms as to point out Sunday to them as the most eligible day for exercise.

We confess ourselves to be deeply concerned that such a discretion should be left to them; but since it is left, we anxiously wish that they may use it in such a way as to prevent the evils which are appre

hended. If they could be brought to see those evils in their proper light, they would doubtless avoid them, by the uniform adoption, except in cases of real necessity, of some other day than Sunday for the purposes of drilling. Many of the mischievous consequences of the measure would be thus obviated: but the enactment itself would still remain a blot on our statute book; it would remain a monument of our national disregard of that solemn injunction, REMEMBER THAT THOU KEEP HOLY THE SABBATH DAY; and in that view can not recommend our cause to HIM, without whose favour and assistance our strength will be weakness and our wisdom folly.

With the exception of the above cir cumstance respecting the Sunday, the general measure proposed by the Secretary at War, deserves the highest approbation of every one who has at heart the safety of his country, and we trust it will be carried into effect with the universal and hearty concurrence of all classes of his Majesty's subjects.

A great many other useful regulations have been established by act of parlia ment, with a view to the defence of the country, of which it will be impossible to give a minute account. We trust they will be effectual with the divine blessing, for preserving the country from suffering materially by the threatened invasion.

The bill for raising a TAX ON PROPERTY has undergone a great deal of discussion. For seven or eight hours of several days the House of Commons has been employed in a committee upon it, during which time the first talents in the nation were assiduously applied towards perfecting the measure. Mr. Pitt particularly, who has continued to attend his parliamentary duty with unremitting diligence, has, in common with his Majesty's ministers, directed the whole powers of his luminous mind to the object of making, not only the arrangements of finance, but those for the defence of the country, as available and as little objectionable as possible, and many of his suggestions have been readily adopted by ministers. It is on such occasions as these, when in measures of great public concern, the public are, in a great degree, secured" against the possible caprice, ignorance, or obstinacy of ministers, that the advantages of our popular form of government are made most conspicuously manifest.

By the Income Bill as it now stands, all persons having an income of any kind under £.60. a-year, are wholly exempted from the tax. Incomes above £.60. and under £.80. pay two-pence for every twenty shillings; above £.80. and under

.100. three-pence; above £.100. and un der £.120. six-pence; £.120, and not exceeding £.150. nine-pence: in other respects the bill is substantially the same as we stated it to be in our last number. At first

it was proposed not to extend the exemptions to property either in the funds or in land, but this proposition was strenuously oppposed by Mr. Pitt on the ground of its involving a breach of national faith to the stock-holder, and was at length abandoned by the minister.

Two messages from his Majesty have been delivered to parliament in the course of the month; one recommending it to both Houses to make farther provisions for enabling his Majesty to defray the extraordinary expences likely to arise in the course of the year, and to take such measures as the exigence of affairs may require; the other recommending to their liberal consideration the situation of the House of Orange.

We shall only notice at present two other measures which have been introduced into parliament, one by Sir William Scott for encouraging the residence of stipendiary curates, by authorizing the bishops to direct that a salary of £.100. ayear shall be paid from livings of £.400. and upwards, and £.200. a-year from livings of £.1000. and upwards; the other by Mr. Burton. This last has for its object, to render more effectual Queen Anne's Bounty Act for the relief of the poorer clergy, by removing the obstructions arising from the Statute of Mortmain, passed, in the ninth of George II. to the appropriation of bequests and legacies to the purposes of that charity.

We will close our account of the proceedings in parliament with remarking, that there never was a period when a greater degree of unanimity prevailed in it as to the principal measures which it has become necessary to adopt than at the present crisis; a circumstance which must impart cordial satisfaction to every friend of his country, while it tends to strengthen the hands of government, and to damp the hopes of the enemy.

It will appear from our account of the proceedings in parliament, that very vigorous means have, at length, been taken for repelling the threatened invasion of Bonaparte. Government, we are likewise informed, are proceeding with activity in organizing our system both of naval and military defence; and a reasonable hope may therefore be indulged, that the country will be, in no long time, placed on a footing which without materially deranging our internal economy, will insure in all human probability, the discomfiture of any force which can be brought against it.

Various public bodies, and a great many individuals, have come forward with voluntary offers of men, horses, &c. for the service of government. The number and

extent of voluntary associations for the defence of the kingdom, are likewise rapidly increasing.

The conduct of the subscribers to Lloyd's Coffee-house deserves, however, a more distinct mention. On the 20th instant, a large meeting of that body took place, when it was resolved-"That to give more effect and energy to the measures adopted by government, for the defence of our liberties, our lives, and property, and to animate the efforts of our defenders by sea and land, it was expedient to raise, by the patriotism of the community at large, a suitable fund for their comfort and relief; for the purpose of assuaging the anguish of their wounds; or palliating, in some degree, the more weighty misfortune of the loss of limbs; of alleviating the distresses of the widow and orphan; of smoothing the brow of sorrow for the fall of their dearest relatives, the props of unhappy indigence or helpless age; and of granting pecuniary rewards, or honourable badges of distinction, for successful exertions of valour or merit: and that, therefore, a subscription, embracing all these objects, should be opened." And to set an example to the public bodies throughout the United Kingdom and its dependencies, and to their fellow subjects of every class and denomination, the sum of twenty thou sand pounds three per cent. consols. part of the funded property of the society, was voted for that purpose, independently of their individual contributions It was further agreed, that all sums, however small, which shall be offered by the patriotism of the poorer classes, shall be accepted; the cause affecting equally the liberties and lives of persons of every description. A few mercantile houses and even some individuals, have subscribed £.1000. each. Several sums of £.500. and a great many of £.300. £.200. and £.100. have also been subscribed, and there can be no doubt that the subscription will, speedily amount to a very large sum. It is expected to extend all over the kingdom.

Captures of merchants ships continue to be made from the enemy, and the Ambuscade frigate, bound from St. Domingo to Brest, having a large sum of money and other valuable property on board, has been taken by Lord Nelson and carried into Gibraltar. We are sorry, however, to state the loss of his Majesty's frigate La Minerve. She ran aground in a thick fog near Cherbourg, under two batteries, which played upon her with such effect, that she was forced to surrender. A few of our Jamaica ships have also been taken by French privateers.

Mr. Astlett, who, as we related in a former number, had embezzled exchequer bills belonging to the bank, to the amount of £.320,000. has been tried for the crime, and acquitted. The ground of his acquittai was, that in the bills which he had embezzled, and which, in order to be of any value, ought to have been signed by Lord

Grenville, his Lordship's name was signed by a Mr. Jennings, to whom no authority had been given for that purpose in the last as in former acts of parliament. Mr. Astlett is still in custody at the civil suit of the bank.

Capt. George Brisac, who was convicted of having, while he commanded his Majesty's ship Iris, defrauded the victualling office by drawing for provisions which had never been received, and at prices which had never been charged, and of having imposed upon them by false vouchers, has been sentenced to pay a fine of £.300., to

be confined eighteen months in prison, and to stand once in the pillory. The last part of his sentence has since been remit ted by the King.

Stocks have undergone several fluctua tions during the month. Three per cent. consols have varied from fifty-three to fifty-six and a half, and omnium from two and three-quarters to seven per cent. dis count. At present, June 28th, consols are at fifty-one and a quarter per cent., and omnium at a discount of ten and a half per

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OBITUARY.

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In the month of August last died at Sunaa in Arabia, in the twenty-second year of his age, Mr. WILLIAM PEARSON ELLIOTT, Secretary to the late Embassy to the Arab States under the direction of Sir Home Popham, K. B. and second son of Mr. Elliott, of Clapham.

The premature death of this truly amiable and promising young man, may be justly considered as a public loss to the service in which he was engaged, as well as a severe affliction to his family and friends. To superior natural endowments, he united great ardour and perseverance in the pursuit of knowledge, and very uncommon zeal and application in the discharge of every duty to which he was called. He went out about six years since as a writer to Bengal; and after residing for some time in the interior of the country, he returned to Calcutta in the year 1801, for the purpose of entering the newly-established college at Fort William. His previous education had already rendered him a very excellent classical scholar; and such was his extraordinary diligence in the study of the Oriental Languages, that upon the first public examination of the college, within four months after his admission, his name appeared at the head of the first class of students who excelled in the Persian and Hindoostanee tongues, and in Nagree writing. In the month of October following, Mr. Elliott received an offer of being appointed "Seretary to the diplomatic Mission to the

Arabian States," which was the more flattering, as it was expressly made by the direction of the Marquis Wellesley, in had distinguished himself at the college

consideration of the manner in which he

examination. An appointment of so ho nourable a nature, although attended with

much difficulty and hazard, could scarcely be declined. Mr. Elliott accordingly ac cepted it; and sailed with the embassy, at the beginning of the last year, for the Arabian Gulph. As soon as he arrived at Mocha, he undertook the sole conduct of the correspondence with the Imain of Sunaa; and by his activity and address had greatly conciliated his favour, previous to the arrival of Sir Home Popham. He then proceeded with the embassy to Sunaa, the residence of the Imam, which is at the distance of one hundred and eighty miles, or about fifteen days journey from the sea. The extreme heat of the climate had already considerably injured the health of Mr. Elliott and his companions. During the first week of the journey from Mocha, the thermometer was variable from 110 to 95, but the next stage brought them to the cool and cultivated part of Arabia, with the thermometer froin 75 to 55. So sudden a change, however, is seldom known to agree with any constitution; and Mr. Elliott expressed his expectations of suffering some slight fever in consequence of it. Unhappily for his surviving friends, his fears were but too fatally realized. He had no sooner reached Sunaa, the place of his destination, than he was immediately seized with a fever, which in a few days put a period to his existence. One of the officers also, who accompanied the embassy, fell a sacrifice to the same disorder.

Thus suddenly was the early career of Mr. Elliott terminated by the hand of death. Of his intellectual talents and ac quirements, and of his ability in the dis

charge of his public duties, something has already been said; nor are additional testimonies wanting of his various merit. Such had been the propriety and excellence of his conduct as secretary to the embassy, that the Imam of Sunaa not only shewed him the utmost kindness and attention during his illness, but as a remarkable proof of his regard, directed that he should be interred near his palace, an honour never before conferred on any Christian. The letters of Sir Home Popham are, however, the most satisfactory evidences of the estimation in which he was deservedly held. To his relations in England, he has afforded the consolation of assuring them, that as a public and private character, no person stood higher, or promised more." And in a letter to Lord Wellesley, after lamenting that the untimely death of Mr. Elliott had deprived bim of the satisfaction which he had promised himself in recommending him in the strongest manner to his lordship's protection, he adds, "His conduct on every occasion commanded my warmest approbation; and it is a tribute justly due to his memory, to assure your excellency, that the public has lost a servant of the most promising talents, of the highest principles, and the most unbounded zeal and application; and the proper exercise of these qualities, in his situation as secretary to the embassy, had given him a claim to my sincerest friendship.

In the private relations of life, Mr. El liott was equally deserving of esteem. The uniform duty and affection which he manifested as a son, and as a brother, endeared him in no common degree to his own tamily, and serve greatly to increase the bitter remembrance of his loss. But here, indeed,

Quis desiderio sit pudor aut modus
Tam cari capitis?-

Multis ille bonis flebilis occidit;
Nulli flebilior quàm tibi...

One part, however, of the character of this excellent young man yet remains to be mentioned, which is infinitely more important to himself, as well as more consolatory to his relations and friends, than any other which has been already stated. There are strong grounds for entertaining a sure and certain hope, that he was truly a Christian; and, consequently, that he is now partaking of the blessedness of those who die in the Lord." The education of Mr. Elliott had been strictly religious. Great pains had been taken from his earliest years to instil into his mind the principles of real christianity; and he went out to India fully acquainted with them, though not apparently impressed by them so strongly as might have been wished. They were, however, greatly cherished and improved to this important end, by his having fortunately been placed in a retired

and religious family, at Malda, during the first part of his residence in India; and afterwards by the counsels, and the example of the Reverend C. Buchanan, Vice-Provost of the College of Fort William. The circumstances of his death in so distant a country, and unaccompanied by any friend capable of transmitting an account of the state of his mind at that awful period, render it difficult to obtain any satisfactory information respecting it. But this deficiency has been in part supplied by letters from his friend, Mr. Buchanan. In one of them, he thos writes As it does not appear that any Christian was present, we shall not be able to learn the state of mind of your dear William at the time of his death. We must, therefore, collect it from his last letter to me, which was probably the last that he wrote. It was written when he was preparing for his journey to Sunaa," and in perfect health and spirits. "My dear friend," he writes, " be assured that God hath given me grace to remain firm in that faith in which I have been educated. Your fears were at one time just: but here I have retirement favourable to contemplation. The splendid scene which Providence opened to me in early life, the literary honours which have been conferred on me, have not, for a moment, detached my heart from the hope of the Gospel. I think it impossible, that the impressions of my religious education can ever be obliterated: and here, even in this barbarous and darkened land, I yet have the "word of life."

In a subsequent letter, Mr. Buchanan writes as follows: "His loss is much lamented by a large circle of friends who knew and admired him. Mr. Carey" (one of the Baptist Missionaries in Bengal,) "gave me last night some interesting par ticulars of conversations he had with William at different times, and which were more expressive of a serious impression on his heart than even the extract in the inclosed. I know that he was frequently useful among the students at College, by what he said and did in defence of religion; and he has often communicated to me his difficulties in this warfare."

From these interesting though brief communications of Mr. Elliott's respected friend and tutor, the most pleasing hopes may surely be encouraged by those who now deeply lament his death, concerning his present happiness. The writer of this short memoir of his character has only, therefore, to conclude it by a few obvious reflections upon the whole.

1. It is almost unnecessary to dwell upon the view which the preceding account gives us of the transitory nature of human life, and of the extreme uncertainty of all earthly prospects. "As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth; for the wind goeth over it,

and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more." To all human appear. ance, the subject of these observations seemed likely to have been much longer continued in the world. A splendid prospect both of usefulness and honour was opening before him; and in the ardour of youthful expectation, he naturally looked forward to many years of future occupation and enjoyment; but the irrevocable decree went forth, and he was numbered with the silent dead. To the young, how forcibly does this event proclaim, "Boast not thyself of to-morrow:" form no distant plans for futurity, indulge no distant expectations, form one plan, and one only, with solicitude, and let that be to secure the happiness of eternity.

2. The advantages of a religious education may, in the next place, be pointed out from the subject of this article. Had not the mind of this young man been carefully instructed, at an early period of life, in Christian principles and duties, he would, in all probability, have remained ignorant of the way of truth and salvation. The seed which was then sown in his heart, watered and cherished by the favourable circumstances which I have mentioned to have attended his residence in India, was, as it is hoped, through the blessing of God who alone can give the increase, rendered fruitful unto life eternal. "Fathers, provoke not your children to wrath; but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord." "Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it."

3. Lastly. The infinite value of a Saviour, who hath "brought life and immortality to light by his Gospel," may be strikingly illustrated and confirmed by the example before us. In the midst of an uncivilized and inhospitable country, deprived of the public ordinances of religion, and surrounded by the deluded votaries of Mahometan imposture, the experimental knowledge and belief of the "word of life," conveyed peace and salvation to the soul of a young but sincere Christian, Prize we, then, this inestimable blessing, which thus "swalloweth up death in victory;" and in a far distant clime, upon which the sun of righteousness hath not yet arisen, opencth the kingdom of heaven to the true though solitary believer. "Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift."

On Friday, July 1, died, at Belton, in Leicestershire, in the 59th year of his age, the Reverend JAMES GLAZEBROOK, vicar of that parish. This excellent man was born in the parish of Madeley in Shropshire, in the year 1744. After having been curate at Rowley near Birmingham, and Smithsby and Raunston in Derbyshire, he was appointed the first minister

to St. James's Chapel in Latchford, near Warrington, after its consecration in 1781. At this place he laboured with unwearied diligence for many years, besides attending to the concerns of a numerous school, till he was presented by the Earl of Moira to the vicarage of Belton. In doctrines he adhered closely to the articles of the established Church, and his abilities as a preacher were very considerable. About the year 1782, the late Mr. Wakefield, who then resided at Warrington, published his Treatise on Baptism, in which he holds up to ridicule several of the institutions of the Church of England. Mr. Glazebrook undertook to answer this treatise; and it appears from Mr. Wakefield's Memoirs of his own Life, written by himself, that he was not insensible to the force of his opponent's arguments. Mr. Glazebrook's pamphlet obtained the high approbation of so good a judge as Bishop Cleaver, who asked him for a copy of it, soon after he came into the diocese of Chester; and having read it, he wrote the author a letter of thanks in a stile the most handsome and complimentary. As this pamphlet has long been out of print, and was frequently called for by his friends, Mr. Glazebrook had made some progress in preparing it for a second edition; but the design was dropt for want of health. Mr. Glazebrook's nervous system was always remarkably delicate, and his mind was susceptible of the finest impressions. His uncommon labours at Warrington both as a clergyman and in the education of his pupils, laid the foundation of his complaint; and a few years before his death he met with some severe and heavy trials, which he certainly had not expected. The state of his nerves was not equal to the shock, and he sunk into a general languor and debility of body. In this condition, he often endured more than the bitterness of death in the painful expectation of its ap proach: and though he was sometimes strongly supported by the consolations of religion, and even animated with joy and peace in believing, yet his friends had the unhappiness to see that the powers of his mind grew weaker and weaker ander these struggles, till at last, almost without any affliction, except that of general debility, he quietly passed away to his everlasting rest. For a few weeks however, before he died, his mind was composed and comfortable. He spoke much of divine things, and with great force and recollection; and departed in the ful! and joyful expectation of a blessed immortality. Mr. Glazebrook married the eldest daughter of Dr. Kirkland, a physician of considerable eminence at Ashby de la Zouch, whose name is mentioned in the Biographia Britannica. By her he had five children; four of whom, two sons and two daughters, together with his beloved partner, survive to deplore the loss of a most affectionate father, and a

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