At Brompton, aged 72, Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, formerly Countess of Waldegrave. At Oxford, aged 78, after a painful illness, which he bore with Christian resignation, Mr. Richard Blenkinsop, for nearly forty years Clerk of the Schools in that University, whose punctual attention to the duties of his situation, and obliging manners will long be remembered. He was an affectionate husband and parent, a man of strict integrity of character, and of general benevolence. At Falmouth, a few days after his return from Oporto, of hæmoptoe, William Clarges, esq. Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, son of the late Sir Thomas C. and brother to the present baronet. This amiable young man, who had not completed his 25th year, was distinguished for his talents and attainments, as well as for a disposition and manners which engaged the affections of all who knew him. A principle of genuine and unaffected piety had produced, in the earliest disclosure of his character, the most noble and generous sentiments, a mingled sweetness and dignity of deportment, a cheerful and well-regulated conduct, and views of the most enlarged and considerate benevolence. The influence of this principle, confirmed by his maturer judgment, 'exhibited its most impressive effects in the composure and resignation, in the animated faith and confidence in God, which supported him under the trying circumstances of an illness which, from its first symptoms, was at tended with alarming danger, when he was at a distance from his relations and country, exciting the esteem of all who saw him, and engaging from strangers every office of kind attention. Aged 49, on board his flag-ship the Canopus, off Alexandria, of an inflammation in his bowels, after a short but very painful and severe illness, Sir Thomas Louis, bart. of Chelston, Devon (so created Mar. 29, 1806), Rear Admiral of the White, Knight of the Order of Maria Theresa, and of St. Ferdinand and Merit, whose long and faithful services to his country were as valuable in a public point of view, as his virtues were in the esteem of all those who had the honour and pleasure of his acquaintance. He was on shore walking, and complained to some of those around him of a little pain. On his return on board, he ate his dinner with his usual appetite, and went to bed in very good spirits, having felt much relieved during the evening, and expected a good night's sleep. Unfortu nately, he was again attacked about four in the morning, and medical advice, both from the Army and Navy, was sent for, his attendants being apprehensive of danger. The Physicians and Surgeons quitted the Canopus, and went on shore about noon, leaving the Admiral, in their opinion, free from all dangerous symptoms, and without any apprehension of an inflammation taking place. About three o'clock, however, a great alteration for the worse was perceived, and the Faculty were again immediately sent for to repair on board the Canopus. On their arrival, at four o'clock, they gave over all hopes of the Admiral's recovery, as the mortification in his bowels had already taken place. He remained sensible, except a little wandering at times, to the last half hour, and at ten that night expired, in the presence of Capt. Shortland and Mr. Nicholson, his captain and secretary. His body was conveyed to Malta on board his Majesty's sloop of war Bittern, where Sir Alexander Ball, his friend and companion through the service, and Capt. Schomberg, saw his remains deposited with all the honours due to his rank, by the side of the gallant Abercromby. By his death, his country has to lament one of its naval heroes, who, in concert with the immortal Nelson, obtained the glorious battle of the Nile; a victory which, as it will ever be the pride and glory of Englishmen, must render the more dear to them the names of those brave men by whose valour it was achieved. His wife has to bewail the loss of a tender husband, his children affectionate parent, all his connexions an endearing relation, and society one of its brightest ornaments; for his exemplary conduct in all those relative duties were no where to be surpassed. He has left Lady Louis, with four sons and three daughters, the eldest of whom, Sir John Louis, bart, a captain in the Royal Navy, has succeeded to his title. Their situation, from this distressing event, is as difficult to be describ ed, as the value of their loss is to be recorded. At Bath, aged 47, the Hon. Juliana Hartopp-Wigley, the very amiable wife of Edward Hartopp Wigley, esq. of Little Dalby, co. Leicester, and daughter of George fourth Lord Carberry, who mar ried Juliana third daughter of Baptist, fourth Earl of Gainsborough. Her Ladyship fell a martyr to the measles, which she caught through an unintermitted attendance on the sick bed of a deservedly favourite son, who survives to lament the loss of a most affectionate mother. Her remains were interred in the family vault at Dalby. The funeral retinue, superbly decorated with the escocheons of the family, attracted at Leicester the attention of an immense concourse of spectators. At Castle-Hedingham, Essex, of which he was curate, aged 70, the Rev. George Caswall, many years rector of Sacomb, Herts, in the gift of his nephew, the lord of the manor, who has presented to it the Rev. Mr. Lloyd, rector of Fordwich, in Kent. Mr. C. was of Trinity College, Cambridge; B. A. 1760. TO CORRESPONDENTS. The Communications of LL. D. will be acceptable. The Sermon he mentions has not come to our hands; nor do we know where to apply for it. The Friend who sent us the Yearly Epistle of the Quakers for immediate insertion, must surely have made a mistake in the direction, or have intended to pass off a grave joke upon us. U. B. P; the Letter of " a Poor Curate" and several other favours, which came too late for insertion in the present number, shall appear in our next. THE ORTHODOX CHURCHMAN'S MAGAZINE AND REVIEW, FOR SEPTEMBER, 1807. Since it is impossible, where Scriptore is ambiguous, that all conceits should run alike, it remains, that we seek out a way, not so much to establish an unity of opinion in the minds of all, which I take to be a thing likewise impossible, as to provide, that multiplicity of conceit trouble not the Church's peace. JOHN HALIS's Golden Remains. Biography. The Life of WILLIAM SANCROFT, D.D. Archbishop of Canterbury. HIS most excellent and confcientious prelate was born THIS at Frefingfield in Suffolk, January 30, 1616. He had his education in the grammar-fchool of St. Edmundíbury, and, while a youth, was remarkable for his piety and great progrefs in learning. On attaining his eighteenth year, he was removed to Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and took his degree of A.B. in 1637, and that of mafter in 1641. The year following he was elected fellow of his college. His accomplishments in all human literature became furprifing; for he was not only mafter of the whole circle of the fciences, but also an excellent critic, and perfectly well verfed in poetry and history: all which knowledge was free from vanity and ostentation, a qualification not always found among the learned*. In 1648, he took the degree of B. D. It is fuppofed that he never took the covenant, and yet it is certain he continued * His Life prefixed to his Sermons, 8vo, p. 12, Y Vol, XIII. Churchm, Mag. for Sep. 1807. unmolefted unmolested in his fellowship till the engagement was pressed upon him in 1649, when, for his refufing to take it, he was ejected. On this he went abroad, where he profecuted his ftudies with indefatigable diligence, and became intimately acquainted with the most eminent of the loyal exiles, by whom he was greatly beloved for the fingular modefty and affability of his temper, as well as for his great attainments in all kinds of learning, About the beginning of the restoration, he returned to his native country: the fame year he was chofen one of the university preachers; and soon after Dr. Cofin, who had known him abroad, being promoted to the bishoprick of Durham, appointed him his chaplain, gave him the rectory of Houghton le Spring, in the county of Durham, and the ninth prebend in that cathedral. In 1661, he affifted in reviewing the Liturgy, particularly in rectifying the calendar and rubrick. By virtue of the king's commendatory letters to the university of Cambridge, the fame year he was created D. D. and not long after he was chofen mafter of his college, which he governed with great pru dence, and the moft obliging deportment to every one of its members. In the beginning of 1664, he was promoted to the deanry of York, and in ten months afterwards was removed to that of St. Paul's; in confequence of which he refigned his mastership and the rectory of Houghton. On his coming to St. Paul's, he fet himself with unwearied diligence to repair the fad breaches which had been made in that venerable edifice, by the frantic zeal of the pretended reformers. And after the dreadful fire in 1666, he gave 1400l. towards rebuilding it, befides what he procured by his interest and affiduous folicitations and endeavours. He alfo rebuilt the deanry, and improved the revenues belonging thereto. In October 1668, he was admitted archdeacon of Canterbury on the king's prefentation, which dignity he refigned in 1670. He was alfo prolocutor of the lower house of convocation, and in that ftation he was, when king Charles II. advanced him unexpectedly, and without the leaft inclination of his own, to the archiepifcopal fee of Canterbury, to which he was confecrated January 27, 1677-8. He behaved in this high station with fingular prudence and integrity, though the times that enfued were moft difficult and critical: and it was reckoned a great happiness for the Church of England, that in the furious attacks made upon her in the latter years of king Charles II. and the whole reign of James II, fhe had fo fteady a pilot at at the helm. His large revenues he did not waste or hoard, but bestowed them prudently and liberally in hofpitality and charity; and in the diftribution of preferments he acted with the greatest judgment, always giving the preference to fuch men as were distinguished by their piety, learning, and zeal for the church. On the 23d of August 1678, he published fome excellent Directions to the Clergy, concerning Letters Teftimonial to Candidates for Holy Orders. He attended king Charles II. when he was upon his death-bed, and made a very serious exhortation to him, in which he ufed a good degree of freedom, which he said was neceffary, fince his majesty was go. ing to be judged by one who was no refpecter of perfons. In 1686, he was named the firft in king James the Second's commiffion for ecclefiaftical affairs; but he refused to act in it which behaviour of his, though fo highly to his honour, is yet made an article of reflection against him by bishop Burnet, who takes every occafion to blacken the character of this good archbishop, for not being as great a latitudinarian as himself. About the fame time his Grace fufpended Dr. Wood, bishop of Litchfield and Coventry, for refiding out of, and neglecting his diocese; another inftance of his great care and concern for the church, and fufficient to vindicate his memory from the foul afperfions which certain writers have caft upon it. As one of the governors of the Charter-house he refused to admit Andrew Popham, a papift, upon that foundation, though the man came with a royal mandate; and this is another proof that the archbishop was not, what the author just alluded to fays he was, a mere tool of the court." But one of the greatest actions of his life, was his going with fix of his brethren, in 1688, with a petition to the king, ftating their reafons why they could not caufe his declaration for liberty of confcience to be read in churches. For this petition, which the court called a libel, they were committed to the Tower, and being tried for a misdemeanour the 29th of June, were acquitted, to the great joy of the nation. This year the archbishop projected a comprehenfion with the diffenters, in which he had the concurrence of fome other excellent prelates of the church, particularly bifhop Patrick. On the 3d of October, accompanied by eight of his brethren the bifhops, he waited upon the king, who had requested their advice in the great exigence of his affairs. Among other counfels which thefe pious prelates gave his majefty, were Y 2 thefe : |