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justly appreciate distinguished worth, genuine piety, and enlarged and active philanthropy, there can surely be but one opinion that Dr. Buchanan was a burning and a shining light," and a signal blessing to the nations of the East. We may, indeed, safely leave his eulogy to be pronounced by future generations in Great Britain and Hindostan, who will probably vie with each other in doing honour to his memory, and unite in venerating him as one of the best benefactors of mankind; as having laboured to impart to those who in a spiritual sense are "poor indeed," a treasure,

"Transcending in its worth

"The gems of India”

But if it were possible that men should forget or be insensible to their obligations to this excellent person, he is now far removed from human censure and applause; his judgment and his work are with God; his record is on high, and his witness in heaven. He has entered into peace," and will doubtless stand in no unenvied lot "at the end of "the days;" when they that are wise shall shine as the "brightness of the firmament, and they that turn many to "righteousness as the stars for ever and ever."

MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS.

In sure and certain hope

of a blessed resurrection unto eternal life,
was deposited here the mortal body of
MARY,

the beloved wife of the Rev. Dr. CLAUDIUS BUCHANAN,
of Moat Hall,

and youngest daughter of Henry Thompson, Esq. of Kirby Hall, who died on the 23d day of March 1813,

in the 36th year of her

age.

By the grace given unto her, this excellent woman
adorned by her conduct the doctrine of the Gospel.
Sincerity, honesty, and simplicity,

were the characters of her mind, and she
delighted to serve God,

"who desireth truth in the inward parts."

Exercised by personal and domestic suffering, she was
early weaned from the love of the world:
her affections were set on things which are above,
and she was enabled to overcome the world,
for she was born of God.

"For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and
this is the victory that overcometh the world,
even our faith." 1 John v. 4.

Close by her side lie her two infant children,
CLAUDIUS BUCHANAN,

aged three days,

born 28th Dec. 1810.

And his infant brother,

who lived and died the 27th Feb. 1813.

Thrice happy infants!

That saw the light, and turned their

eyes aside

From our dim regions to the eternal Sun.

CLAUDIUS BUCHANAN, D. D.

Late Vice-Provost of the College of Fort William in Bengal,
whose eminent character as a Christian,

zeal for the cause of his God and Saviour,
and unwearied endeavours to promote it in the earth,
deserve to be had in everlasting remembrance.
He was a native of Scotland,

but educated at Queen's College, Cambridge.
During the twelve years of his abode in India,
"his spirit was stirred in him,"

while he beheld millions of his fellow subjects,
under a Christian government,

as sheep without a shepherd, and perishing
for lack of knowledge.

To excite the attention of the British nation to this sad spectacle,
he devoted his time, talents, and a
large portion of his income.

By his "Christian Researches," and other
valuable publications,

he pleaded the cause of neglected India, nor pleaded in vain :
Britain was roused to a sense of her duty,
and sent forth labourers to the harvest.

Though gentle and unassuming,

he was bold and intrepid in this work of faith and labour of love; and exhibited mental vigour to the last,

amidst great bodily debility and severe affliction.
In social and domestic life he was holy and exemplary,
full of mercy and good works:

Yet in lowliness of mind, he renounced all dependance upon the excellencies which others saw and admired in him, and looked for eternal salvation through the obedience unto death of Christ.

He departed this life February 9, 1815, aged 48,
At Broxbourne, in Hertfordshire;

where he was superintending an edition of the Syriac Scriptures; and was buried near the remains of his amiable wife, whose virtues he has recorded on the adjoining stone.

"They were lovely and pleasant in their lives,
"and in their death they were not" long " divided."

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trance upon things unseen and eternala." Such an interval, however, so precious to the generality of mankind, and usually so important, the Divine Wisdom did not see fit to grant to the subject of these Memoirs. Neither, indeed, can it be said to have been necessary. The readers of the preceding narrative have already observed Dr. Buchanan in India, upon what he strongly, though erroneously, believ ed would prove his death-bed; and they have witnessed the deeply penitent, yet resigned and peaceful frame of mind, which he then exhibited. Such, as we are evidently authorized to conclude, only of a more mature and heavenly nature, would have been his testimony and his feelings, had he been allowed again to express them. In the absence, however, of any such opportunity, we must be contented to recur to that scene; and, together with the recollection of his subsequent work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of "hope," endeavour to enter into the full meaning of the following brief sentence, which occurs amidst a few other "private thoughts," and in which its author appears plainly to have anticipated the probability of some final stroke, which should impede the exercise of his faculties, and prove the prelude to his departure. “If," said he, " my mind and "memory should be affected by illness of body, I shall look "to my head, Christ. I am but a member." From any painful infliction of this kind, Dr. Buchanan was mercifully spared; and, after having paid the last sad tribute of affection to the friend and benefactor of his early years, was removed almost contemporaneously, and reunited to him, and to other kindred spirits of the "just made perfect," in regions where sickness and sorrow, change and separation, are for ever unknown.

In consequence of a wish he had expressed to Mrs. Thompson, not long before his death, the remains of Dr. Buchanan were removed from Broxbourne to Little Ouseburn, in Yorkshire, and deposited near those of his second

a See the exquisite defence, by the pious and learned Hooker, of the petition in the Litany against "sudden death." Ecclesiastical Polity, vol. ii. p. 175.