On the 23rd of January, at the early age of sixteen, ANN, the daughter of Mr. R. CLOUTE, of Tenterden, after a gradual decline of eighteen months, borne with the greatest calmness and fortitude of aind. Her inquiries had been directed, thus early in life, to the great leading truths of religion. Fully convinced of the Unity of God, she was equally a beever in the divine mission of the Lord Jesus Christ; and receiving his instructions as her guide to endless happiness, she dwelt with delight on the fact of our Saviour's resurrection, as the pledge and assurance of her recal to life and immortality. A short time before she died, she said to those around her, that she was quite happy; and with a composure of mind, extraordinary in one so young, requested her mother not to grieve at the loss of her, but to think of the happiness she was going to enjoy, which would never end. Soon after this, she departed without a struggle or a sigh. Her sorrowing parents have requested the insertion of this memorial, more immediately for the sake of the young-not to fill them with uneasy apprehensions, or from a sense of the uncertainty of life, to render them unhappy, but to invite them to what must ever have a valuable tendency, a state of serious thoughtfulness and just reflection; that they may be induced to secure to themselves that, which is appointed to survive the ravages of time and the power of death-a well-cultivated mind-an upright, virtuous and good character, followed with the favour and approbation of their Creator, and the happiness and glory of an endless being.

Tenterden, March 12, 1817.

L. H.

March 3, at his house in Bishopsgate Street, Mr. SAMUEL BARTON, in the 56th year of his age. He had been for some time drooping, but was carried off rather suddenly at last. He is deeply and justly regretted by a wide circle of friends. His character was highly amiable: he was in an unusual degree kind-hearted, hospitable and generous. His religious principles were the result of sincere inquiry, and he held them firmly, though without any uncharitableness towards such as did not embrace them. He made conscience of supporting the various Unitarian societies, and took visible pleasure in the discharge of this duty. No man ever filled up his place with more punctuality in the religious society to which he belonged: nothing but sickness or absence from town had detained him from the Gravel Pit Meeting on a Sunday morning for years. He had for a considerable time been one of the representatives of his Ward in the Common Council of London, and his vote was invariably given in favour of peace, charity and freedom. In him the world saw an edifying example of habitual industry, solid worth and Christian humility crowned with the blessing of Providence, and rendering the subject of these virtues a blessing to his family, to the church and to society at large. He was buried on Tuesday the 11th inst. in the Unitarian burial-ground, Hackney, and a sermon was delivered by Mr. Aspland in reference to his lamented death on the morning of the following Sunday. He has left a widow, and two sons and a daughter by a former wife, who feel much consolation in the remembrance of his character and in the hopes which, with regard to such a character, Christianity never fails to inspire.

DOMESTIC.
RELIGIOUS.

Unitarian Chapel, Tiverton.

THE Unitarian Congregation at Tiverton, having, in the year 1787, lost the services of Mr. Kiddell (by his removal to Hackney College), and being at a very low ebb, generally joined another congregation, in which the worship was conducted upon broad principles, and their own place was sold.

- Of late years the ministers of that eongregation have been of the Calvinistic persuasion; and a small number

of Unitarians have met together for the purpose of religious worship, agreeably to what they deem the directions of the Scriptures. This was long conducted by Mr. George Dunsford; but in consequence of his ill health, it was undertaken by Mr. M. L. Yeates, who resides at Washfield, near Tiverton.

A short time since an opportunity presented itself of hiring a building (in an excellent situation), which was formerly used as a meeting-house, at the inoderate rent of £10 per annum : and several encouraging circumstances concurring, the friends of the object at Tiverton resolved to engage it for three

years certain, with the power of retaining it as long as they think proper, subject to the continuance of two good lives.

They feel the prospect so satisfactory, that they venture to expect that, at no very distant period, they may be able to obtain the services of a regular minister; but till then, Mr. Yeates has declared his willingness to conduct the ́ services, and those who have attended him express their great satisfaction in his so doing.

To fit up the place with the requisite accommodations, they find it necessary (in addition to their own means) to raisc about 80 or 90 pounds; and they solicit the aid of those who desire to promote the worship of God, even the Father, in spirit and in truth.

Subscriptions will be received by the Rev. Dr. Carpenter, Exeter; the Rev. R. Aspland, Hackney-Road; the Rev. T. Howe, Bridport; and by Mr. G. Dunsford, or Mr. M. L. Yeates, Ti

[We copy the following newspaper report of the Bedfordshire Spring Assizes, as another curious instance of clerical zeal and of laws which were made to root out Nonconformists being employed to harrass Churchmen.] The Rev. Edward Drake Free, Clerk, v. Sir Montague Roger Burgoyne. This was an action of a very novel as well as of a very extraordinary description, and excited a considerable degree of interest throughout the county. Dr. FREE, who is Rector of Sutton, appeared in court, dressed in his canonicals, and was prepared to take part in the conduct of his own cause. The action was brought to recover penalties

under the Statute of the 23d of Elizabeth, by the fifth section of which it was enacted, that every person in England absenting himself from divine worship, either at his own parish church, or some other place appointed for public prayer, for one month, for

feited a penalty of £20. This penalty was equally divided into three paris, one of which went to the Queen, unother to the poor of the parish, and the third to the informer. He should be enabled to prove in this case that the defendant had absented himself from his parish church for nineteen months; and having done so, he should be entitled to a verdict for the full amount of the penalties, or in all events for twelve months, which was the period within which the Statute required the action to be brought. Witnesses were then called to prove the case.

For the Defendant, Lawrence Coxall, church-warden of the parish of Sutton, proved that Sutton Church had been shut up from the 25th of June to the 3d of September.

Dr. M'Grath, a medical gentleman, proved the precarious state of Sir Montague Burgoyne's health, from his return from Gibraltar to the present moment, and the danger of his going to church at particular stages of his disorder.

Lucy Carrington, nurse in Sir Montague's family, bore testimony to her master or mistress invariably reading prayers to the family on the Sunday when they did not go to church.

The Rev. Dr. Hughes occasionally visited Sir Montague's family for weeks together, and always read prayers to the family when they did not go to church.

Mr. Baron GRAHAM sunimed up the evidence. His Lordship abstained from making any remark upon the motives by which the Plaintiff had been actuated in this action, but at the same time remarked that no liberal mind could have construed the Statute of Elizabeth in the manner in which it had been construed by him. He left it for the jury to say, whether a reasonable excuse had not been proved for the non-attendance of the Defendant at church, and whether, in other respects, the case of the Plaintiff had not received a complete answer.

The jury without hesitation found the Defendant NOT GUILTY.

Deistical Principles a Disqualification for Parental Duty

We are glad to find that our account of the Chancery case, Westbrooke against Shelley, under the above titit,

in a former Number (p. 60), is not quite accurate: we insert the following correction from the Examiner, Feb. 2. "Besides the paragraph written by the Editor and containing only an allusion, an erroneous notice of the priyate Chancery cause, Westbrooke v. Shelley, happened to get into our last Examiner from the daily papers. Among other mistakes, Sir A. Pigott was not council for the latter: the defence was chiefly made, and in a most impressive and spirited manner, by Mr. Montagu. Sir Samuel Romilly is amongst the gentlemen retained on the other side; but it cannot be supposed that he looks very complacently on the agitation of subjects connected with the remotest doubt of universal toleration: and in fact we understand that this part of the business in dispute is to be abandoned. The cause is again to be heard and privately."

A List of the Committee of Deputies, appointed to protect the Civil Rights of the Three Denominations of Protestant Dissenters. For the Year 1817.

William Smith, Esq. M. P. Chairman; Joseph Gutteridge, Esq. Deputy Chairman; James Collins, Esq. Treasurer; Messrs. Ebenezer Maitland, Joseph Stonard, William Freme, James Gibson, John Gurney, Samuel Jackson, William Alers Hankey, Joseph Luck, Joseph Bunnell, Benj. Shaw, M. P. Joseph Towle, Henry Waymouth, William Shrubsole, James Black, William Dudds Clark, George Hainmond, B. P. Witts, Joseph Benwell, William Titford, Thomas Stiff, Thomas Wilson.

Removals amongst Unitarian Ministers. * Mr. JAMES YATES, late of Glasgow, has been chosen to succeed the late Dr. Toulmin, as Mr. Kentish's colleague, in the New Meeting, at Birmingham.

Mr. THOMAS COOPER, formerly of the Unitarian Academy, who has been two years minister at Moreton-Hampstead, Devon, where the congregation is in a prosperous state, has undertaken to go out to Jamaica, as the religious instructor of a populous plantation, the proprietor of which is desirous of inproducing into his establishment the

PRINCES STREET, WESTMINSTER. The chapel in this place is purchased by the commissiouers for improvements, in order to be taken down, and the congregation are looking out for a convenient spot in the vicinity on which they may erect a new chapel: when the building is finished they will appoint a minister.

SOHAM, Cambridgeshire. This con gregation has been some time destitute of a minister. A young man, with an independency or able to subsist on the profits of an English day-school, might be very useful in this populous village. There are several preaching stations in the neighbourhood.

MISCELLANEOUS.

The Dangers of Education.

We always believed that the ene mies of freedom were the enemies of knowledge. They would not be wise in their generation, if they were not. The zeal, however, of all parties in the gratuitous education of the poor, the race that has been run in this course of charity by the Bellians against the Lancasterians, tended to quiet our suspicions, if not to convince us that we were in error. We

sometimes asked, indeed, Would the High-Church and Tory party have taken up Bell if he had not been opposed to Lancaster? Have they not supported him, not because they like the education of the poor, but because they think that education cramped by the Church Catechism is a less evil than education made religions only by the lessons of the Bible?-But these questions appeared uncharitable and we dropped them. At length, the secret begins to be disclosed. The orator, Mr. CANNING, who is commonly supposed to speak the sense of the worldly-wise men in the country, has discovered that the plots and riots, which were found in the green bag, of seditious and reasonable memory, may perhaps be traced to the education of the poor! And he drops a significant hint that it may be necessary for the peace of the country to throw the mass of the population back again into barbarism! He is thus made to speak in the Morning Chronicle of Saturday, March 15, in the debate the night before on the third reading of the portentous Seditious Assemblies Bill, which, according to Sir Samuel Romilly, is “written in characters of blood:"

"One of the circumstances peculiar to the present times, the increase of the intelligence of the country, was now by incendiaries turned to a source of poiHe knew that by some it was doubted whether the press, to which so great a proportion of the people had been recently admitted, in consequence of the benevolent efforts which had been so largely and so successfully made in our times, from an opinion, that the safety of a state depended on its morals and its morals on its education, was not a source of greater detriment than of advantage, from this liability to abuse. There could not in his opinion be a greater enemy to mankind than he who by taking advantage of the pressure of the distress of the people, and the increased means of knowledge placed within their reach, called it in doubt whether the communication of knowledge had been useful or detrimental to the community. This malignity in exient exceeded every other-it poisoned the well-springs of life-it palsied the efforts of benevolence, and tended to deprive future generations of

one of the greatest blessings which a nation could enjoy."

We have nothing to do with the figures of this orator of the Morning Chronicle; they belong to another department of criticism. We confine ourselves to the sentiment of the passage, the suspicion, the more than suspicion, the rising hostility to education, which it manifests. The press! This is the engine of mischief. The people's press! this is the threatening peculiarity of the present times. "The increase of the intelligence of the country," this is the most alarming omen in the state of Great Britam. As if "intelligence," as if "the press" could be upon the whole unfavourable to any thing but falsehood, imposture and injustice. As if ignorance would make men more quiet under the acknowledged "pressure of distress." As if the poor in proportion to their "intelligence" and familiarity with "the press" were in danger of becoming passive tools in the hands of wicked demagogues. As if at the press the advantage were on the side, not of truth and reason and virtue, but of error and folly and wickedness. As if only bad men could write, and as if in reading the majority of men became weak.

Never in reality was there a more decisive proof, than at the present moment, of the value of the press. The state of the mass of the people is wretched, not only beyond experience, but also beyond belief. A large proportion of the passengers on the roads around the metropolis are beggars, not such beggars as Englishmen formerly knew, but beggars whose looks betray their shame, whose tone reaches to the heart, beggars who are ticketed by famine and forced into a degradation nearly as intolerable as death, by the cries of shivering, breadless, perishing children. Yet, whenever was there seen such patience, such quiet, such respect for the laws! The people cannot be seduced even by hunger into tumults. In circumstances that in other times would have converted the land into one wide scene of riot and outrage, there have been no assemblages of the populace but such as the OLD CONSTITUTION of England invites, and no voice but that which the BILL OF RIGHTS "demands and insists" that Englishmen shall be

at liberty to utter, the voice of Petition to the Parliament and the Throne. Whence this exemplary peace and subordination, but from the press," from "the intelligence of the country." The people know that mobs are worse than useless, that they can gain nothing by doing mischief, that their tradesmen and their - employers suffer with themselves, and that violence would hurt their own cause. They know that the very distress of the country will produce good, that they have only to wait with patience, and that trying as the interval may be they will be in the end rewarded for their sufferings. They know that Providence is bringing good out of evil, that the storm is raging only to purify the political atmosphere, and that when the fury of the tempest is overpast they shall breathe the free air of peace and plenty and Old English Rights. This knowledge saves the country. Could it be obliterated from every poor man's mind at once by the fiat of a prime minister, the vessel of the common-wealth would be an instant wreck.

Duelling.-Cobbett and Lockhart.

It happens in our opinion very fortunately that while a most disgusting account is detailing in the daily papers of the proceedings of two mili tary men, who are thirsting for each others blood and expressing their savage wishes in the most undisguised terms, in defiance of decency, religion and the law, an occurrence which is also made public has thrown contempt and ridicule upon a would-be duellist. We should be justified in the utmost severity of animadversion upon the conduct of a law-maker, who may perhaps have given his vote to bills for making it loss of liberty and in some cases even of life for a poor mau to shoot a hare, and who yet upon a slight offence challenges a fellow-creature to meet him privately to try who shall murder the other. We are too much diverted, however, to pursue a serious strain; we really enjoy the mortification which the nonplussed challenger must feel; and we are inclined to believe that a few cases of this kind would bring the custom of duelling into general contempt, and fix upon every man who endeavoured to bring on a duel a nickname which would be as familiar as the name which his father or god-father gave him.

The case to which we refer was as follows:-At the late Hampshire county Meeting Mr. Cobbett, the Writer, and Mr. Lockhart, the Member of Parliament, were opposed to each other as speakers. Cobbett exposed without mercy a speech of Lockhart's: Lockhart was called upon to come forward in his defence, instead of which he contented himself with charging his opponent with disloyalty, sedition and wickedness: then came the cause of offence; Cobbett. put it to the people whether Lockhart had not been guilty of the foulest_misrepresentation that ever was made by mortal man.