who are married and have families would seldom be able to save any thing: but the single men might save enough to enable them, after a certain time, to marry with ont fear of their families becoming charge. able to the parish. Mr. Rose concluded his observations by stating, that the Institution, while it can be subject to no possible abuse or inconvenience, held out clear, distinct, and certain advantages to the lower orders of the people, whose welfare could not be a matter of indifference to the higher classes, as they are deeply interested in the melioration of the condition of the poor (exclusively of the certain reduction of the rate for eventually maintaining them), not less so politically than morally. This Establishment, in addition to all that had been before referred to, had one of the very best recommendations, that of infusing into the minds of the lower orders a legitimate spirit of independence, promoted at the same time by an improved education, to which happily furtherance is now given throughout the empire,

The Resolutions were adopted, and the plan of the Institution was unanimously agreed to.

We have the pleasure to add, that Institutions on a similar plan have been formed in various parts of the Kingdom.

The Barons of the Exchequer having lately ordered certain repairs on the venerable ruins of the antient Abbey of Arbroath, the workmen employed in clearing out the rubbish from the North-west aile of the Abbey, on Saturday Dec. 2, dug, out a mutilated statue of a Bishop or Abbot in his robes. It is supposed that this statue had been originally placed in some niche in the West aile; that it had fallen down when the Abbey was destroyed, and that the head and bands (which parts have not yet been found) had been broken off in the fall. Both arms are elevated in devotional attitude, and lift from the bottom a splendid robe or mantle, the workmanship of which is elegant and richly cut. This robe is attached to the shoulders by a gold lace collar or tippet; it covers both arms to the wrist, and, falling richly down in mantling folds, gives the whole figure a venerable air of pontifical dignity. The dress had been gilded with gold, but none of the gilding remains except a little in the deep folds of the robe, and the figured work of the lace. It is supposed that the statue, when entire, would have measured five feet nine inches in height. A pastoral staff had rested on the right foot, and reclined on the left shoulder. Several pieces of this staff have been found; and it is hoped that some more fragments of the statue may yet be discovered among the rubbish,

Edinburgh, Dec. 22. On the 18th inst. whilst several young gentlemen were amusing themselves with skaiting upon Lochend, the ice gave way, and several of them were precipitated into the Loch. Lieut. John Gourlay, Royal Navy, instantly fired with the hope of saving the lives of the unfortunates, plunged into the water, and having succeeded in recovering three of them, attempted, as a last effort, the fourth (Robert, the son of Baillie Haddaway, Leith), but, melancholy to relate, both sunk, to rise no more. Every exertion was immediately made to discover the bodies, which unfortunately did not succeed for some time. At length both were found, and conveyed to the adjacent cothouses; but, notwithstanding the professional exertions of a surgeon, who was on the spot shortly after the occurrence of the accident, every means which skill could suggest completely failed in restoring animation. Lieut. John Gourlay, Royal Navy, was the only son of Capt. Gourlay, Royal Navy, Gayfield-square, and returned from the service of his country to the bosom of his friends only two months ago.

Dec. 30. A tremendous flood took place at Manchester, which rose three inches above the marks of the great flood in that town in 1768. Much property has been destroyed. A public-house was undermined, and thrown down by the force of the water; but it having been expected, no person was hurt.

One of the most serious floods took place in the Tyne also that has happened since the great flood in 1777. Great damage was done to the small craft in the river. Two of the arches of Haydon Bridge have been destroyed. Great damage has also been done by this storm on the banks of the Wear and Tees.-Newcastle Paper.

The Carlisle Patriot of Jan. 6, contains long details of the damage done by floods over the whole of the North of England and South of Scotland. The rivers Caldew, Eden, Peterill, Line, Irthing, &c. &c. have overflown or burst their banks. Two or three benighted travellers have lost their lives, some cattle have been swept away and drowned, whole districts inundated, and in many places the inhabitants of houses near the waters compelled to save themselves by taking refuge in the upper apartments, while those be. low were completely flooded.

Jan. 11. This morning, at the Pentre Colliery, near Swansea, by the explosion of fire-damp, two unfortunate men were killed, and five others dreadfully burnt; two of whom are not expected to survive.

An Act was passed in the last Session of Parliament, intituled, "An Act for enabling spiritual persons to exchange the parsonage or glebe houses, or glebe lands, belonging to their benefices, for others of

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DOMESTIC OCCURRENCES. "Windsor Castle, Jan. 5.- His Majesty has enjoyed good bodily health, and has been generally tranquil during the last month; but his Majesty's disorder is not abated." Signed, H. Halford, W. Heberden, R. Willis, M. Baillie, J. Willis.

The public bulletins which have been issued for some months past, have all stated that his Majesty's disorder remains undiminished; and we understand that it is the opinion of the medical gentlemen attending him, that nothing far short of a miracle can bring about a recovery from his afflicting malady. At times, we are happy to learn, he is tolerably composed. The number of persons specially appointed to attend him by the Doctors is reduced from six to two, and his principal pages are admitted, and have been for some time, to attend him, as when he enjoyed good health. His Majesty dines at halfpast one o'clock, and in general orders his dinner; he invariably has roast beef upon the table on Sundays. He dresses for dinner, wears his orders, &c. He occupies a suite of thirteen rooms (at least he and his attendants), which are situated on the North side of Windsor Castle, under the state rooms. Five of the thirteen rooms are wholly devoted to the personal use of the King. Dr. John Willis sleeps in the sixth room adjoining, to be in readiness to attend his Majesty. Dr. John attends the Queen every morning after breakfast, about half past ten o'clock, and reports to her the state of the afflicted Monarch; the Doctor afterwards proceeds to the Princesses, and other branches of the Royal Family, who may happen to be at Windsor, and makes a similar report to them. In general her Majesty returns with Dr. Willis through the state rooms down a private staircase, leading into the King's suite of rooms, appropriated to this special purpose. Sometimes she converses with her Royal husband. The Queen is the only person who is admitted to this peculiar privilege, except the medical gentlemen, and his Majesty's personal attendants. In case of Dr. John Willis's absence, Dr. Robert Wils, his brother, takes his place. The other medical gentlemen take it in rotation to be in close attendance upon the King. The suite of rooms which his Majesty and his attendants occupy, have the advantage of very pure and excellent air, being on

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the North side of the terrace round the Castle; and he used occasionally to walk on the terrace, but we understand he now declines it, owing to the bad state of his eyes, not being able to enjoy the views. -The Lords and Grooms of the King's Bedchamber, his Equerries, and other attendants, are occasionally in attendance at Windsor Castle, the same as if the King enjoyed good health.-Two King's Messengers go from the Secretary of State's Office daily to Windsor, and return to London, as they have been accustomed to do for a number of years past. The Messenger who arrives at noon brings a daily account of the state of the King's health to the Prince Regent and the Members of the Queen's Council.-His Majesty has. never been left since his afflicting malady, without one of the Royal Family being in the Castle, and a Member of the Queen's Council, appointed under the Regency Act. Saturday, Jan. 6.

The Anniversary of the Epiphany was observed at the Chapel Royal, St.James's, as usual-the Court attendants, a party of the yeomen of the guard, &c. attended, as if Royalty was present. Three Gentlemen Ushers descended from the Royal closet, representing the Sovereign, the Lord Chamberlain, &c. who approached the altar, and presented a box containing three gold bags, which contained gold, frankincense, and myrrh, which were received in a large gold dish by the SubDean, while they were in the act of kneeling, as offerings, in imitation of the act of the wise men of the East.

Thursday, Jan. 18.

This being the day appointed for a General Thanksgiving (see p. 73.) at ten o'clock, a grand full-dress parade of the guards took place in St. James's Park, for the purpose of solemnly depositing the two eagles taken at Waterloo, in Whitehall Chapel. The Duke of York, a great number of military officers, and an immense assemblage of ladies and gentlemen, were present; and on the eagles being brought out, they were hailed by loud acclamations. The eagles were then placed in the centre of a guard of honour, composed of grenadier guards, and marched off to the Chapel, where they were deposited with due honours.-The three regiments of guards were on the parade so early as seven o'clock in the morning, and at nine were inspected by the Commander-in-chief, and the Dukes of Kent and Gloucester.-The procession to the Chapel was very grand. The band of the first regiment of guards led the van; then came on foot a detachment of the life-guards who were present at Waterloo. The eagles were borne by two serjeants of the first and second regiments. The three regiments of guards followed in succession.

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THEATRICAL REGISTER. COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE. Dec. 26. Harlequin and Fortunio; a Pantomime.

Jan. 16. Shakspeare's Midsummer's Night's Dream, revived.

DRURY-LANE THEATRE.

Dec. 26. Harlequin and Fancy; a Pantomime.

Jan. 12. Massinger's Comedy of A New Way to pay Old Debts, revived.

GAZETTE PROMOTIONS.

Brighton, Dec. 30. Right Hon. Wm. Pitt Lord Amherst, sworn of the Privy Council.

Jan. 6. Rear-admiral C. V. Penrose, Knight Commander of the Bath, vice Admiral Lord Gardner, deceased.

The honour of Knighthood conferred upon Col. the Hon. Sir R. Le Poer Trench and Lieut.-col. Sir Joseph Cairncross, Knights Commanders of the Bath.

Jan. 8. A. St. John Baker, esq. his Majesty's Consul General in the United States of America.

Whitehall, Jan. 16. The dignity of a Baronet of the United Kingdom granted unto Lieut. gen. Sir Robert Brownrigg, K. G. C. B. Governor and Commander-inChief of the British Settlements in the Island of Ceylon, and Colonel of his Majesty's 9th regiment of foot, and to his heirs male.

Jan. 20. Col. James Bathurst, Lieut.governor of the Virgin Islands, vice Lieut.col. Napier, resigned.

J. R. Mathews, esq. his Majesty's Consul at Cadiz.

CIVIL PROMOTIONS.

Dec. 26. Thomas Le Blanc, esq. LL.B. Fellow of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, elected Master of that Society, vice Right Hon. Sir W. Wynne, deceased.

Rev. Mr. Deane, Principal of St. Mary Hall, vice Dr. Pett.

Rev. Wm. Gray, M. A. Master of the Free Grammar School, Cheltenham.

Rev. Frederick Croker, Master of Lavenham Free School.

Rev. T. Rennell, M. A. Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, Christian Advocate, vice D'Oyly.

ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS. Rev. Robert Walpole, M. A. Tyvetshall St. Margaret, and Tyvetshall St. Mary United Rectories, Norfolk.

Rev. Thomas William Lancaster, M. A. Banbury V. co. Oxford.

Hon, and Rev. William Wodehouse, M. A. Crownthorpe R. Norfolk.

Rev. J. France, B. A. Brandon Parva R. Norfolk, vice Slapp, resigned.

GENT. MAG. January, 1816.

Rey. T. P. Slapp, M. A. Old, Buckenham Perpetual Curacy, vice France, resigned.

Rev. John Thompson, Horton V. with Woodland's Chapel, Dorset.

Rev. John Thomas, M. A. Olleton V. co. Hereford.

Rev. R. H. Whitelock, Chorlton Perpetual Curacy.

Rev. P. Egerton, Tarporley R. Cheshire. Hon. and Rev. Mr. Hobart, Dean of Windsor, vice Dr. Legge,

Rev. William Bruce Knight, B. D. Llantrithyd R. co. Glamorgan, vice Williams, deceased.

Rev. Mr. Darnell, a Prebendary of Durham, vice Zouch, deceased.

Rev. Thomas Watts, Plumpton R. co. Northampton.

Rev. James Stanier Clarke, one of his Majesty's Chaplains in Ordinary.-Gaz.

At Dublin, the lady of Right Hon. Sir William McMahon, bart. a son.-At Dublin, the wife of Major-gen. Airey, a son.

1816, Jan. 5. In Berkeley-square, the Marchioness of Lansdown, a son and heir.

7. At Melbury House, Dorset, the Countess of llchester, a son.-10. In Wimpole-street, the wife of Geo. Ormerod, esq. of Chorlton, Cheshire, a son. - In Keppel-street, Russell-square, the wife of T. R. Buckworth, esq. a son and heir. 12. At Aqualate Hall, Salop, the lady of Sir J. F. Boughey, bart. M. P. a son.At Edinburgh, the Countess of Wemyss, a daughter.

MARRIAGES.

1815, Dec. 2. T. Cary, eldest son of G. Cary, of White Castle, Donegall, &c. esq., to Henrietta Sophia, second dau, of H. J. Kearney, esq. of White Waltham, Berks.

4. Henry Tucker, esq. to Isabella, fourth daughter of James Grant, of Tholey Priory, Essex.

6. Capt. Down, R. N. to Eliza, third daughter of Admiral Patton, of Fleetland, near Fareham.

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the parsonage-house; but it had not been inhabited by any Rector for a long course of years. This Rectory was conferred on the Dean of Westminster on his resignation of the rectory of St. John's Westminster. The Dean had 1000/. allowed for dilapidations, and he expended 2000. and upwards upon the house, making it an agreeable residence; and here he spent six months of every year, during the summer, until his death; often preaching there, and dispensing all the comforts of life to the numerous poor by whom he was surrounded, and to whom he was the common father and friend. Their loss is incalculable. The vicinity of Islip to Oxford enabled the Dean to have all the society he desired. Thus passing his time equally between his

Deanery, the Church of which he brought under the best of regulations, and where he was a constant attendant when his health would permit, and his Rectory at Islip; he enjoyed, surrounded by an affectionate family of children and grandchildren, as many blessings of this life as can fall to the lot of a human being; and died in his 77th year, 21st Dec. 1815, at Westminster, as much lamented as he had been beloved.

He was the means, after be became Dean, of having two enormous monumental masses removed from the Nave of Westminster Abbey; where they had been placed, to the disgrace of those who had fixed them there, and to the destruction of the symmetry and simplicity of that beautiful pile.

1. 1815, Dec. 17. Died, at Sandal, near Wakefield, Rev. Thomas Zouch, D. D. F. L. S. Prebendary of Durham, and rector of Scrayingham, Yorkshire. This venerable Divine was born in 1737, at Sandal, near Wakefield, Yorkshire; and in 1757 removed from the school of the latter place to Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1760 he was elected into one of Lord Craven's scholarships, along with Mr. Joah Bates, celebrated afterwards for his skill in musick. The year following, Mr. Zouch took his degree of B. A. and was classed as the third Wrangler. Having been chosen fellow of his college in 1763, he was appointed assistant tutor, which office he discharged with extraordinary credit; though his assiduity so much impaired his health, that he was obliged to quit the University on which, his college presented him in 1770 to the rectory of Wycliffe in the North Riding of Yorkshire. In this country retirement he continued till 1793, performing the office of a parish priest with great diligence, and augmenting his knowledge of natural history. His botanical excursions, in a pleasant and romantic part of Yorkshire, contributed not a little to invigorate his constitution. In 1791, he was appointed deputy-commissary of the archdeaconry of Richmond; and in 1793 was chaplain to the Master of the Rolls, and rector of Scrayingham. By the death of his elder brother, the Rev. Henry Zauch, in 1795, he succeeded to an estate at Sandal, where he resided till his death. On the demise of Dr. Smith, the Master of Trinity Col lege, one of the most learned mathematieians of his age, he was requested by the Vice-master and Senior Fellows to deliver a Latin Funeral Oration in honour of his memory, which is said to have been much admired for the classical elegance of its

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language. In 1798, Mr. Pitt had an idea of appointing him to the Mastership of Trinity; which design, however, was set aside in favour of the present Bishop of Bristol. But, April 9, 1805, the same Minister gave him the second Prebend in the Church of Durham, and in the same year he took his degree of D. D. In 1808, the See of Carlisle was offered to Dr. Zouch; but, in consequence of his advanced age and retired habits, he thought proper to decline the acceptance. Besides some anonymous publications, he was the author of, "The Crucifixion, a Seaton Prize Poem," 1765, 4to.-" A Sermon preached at the primary Visitation of William Lord Bishop of Chester, held at Richmond, in Yorkshire, August 21, 1789," 4to. Inquiry into the Prophetic Character of the Romans, as described in Daniel viii. 23-25" 1792, 8vo.-" An Address to the Clergy of the Deaneries of Richmond, Catterick, and Boroughbridge," 1792, 4to. "A Discourse delivered to the Clergy of the Deaneries of Richmond, Catterick, and Boroughbridge, within the Diocese of Chester, at the visitation held June 20 and 25, 1793, and published at their request," 4to. -"The good Schoolmaster, exemplified in the character of the Rev. John Clarke, M. A. formerly fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and successively master of the Schools of Skipton, Beverley, and Wakefield," 1798, 4to. "An Attempt to illustrate some, of the Prophecies of the Old and New Testament," 1800, 12mo." A Sermon preached in the Cathedral Church of Durham, at the Assizes holden July 30, 1806," 4to."Memoir of the Life and Writings of Sir Philip Sidney," 1808, 4to. -"Memoir of the Life of John Sudbury, D. D. Dean of Durham," 1808, 4to.

Dr. Zouch was also the Editor of, 1.

***The following particulars, of the correctness of which we are assured, reached us too late to be engrafted with the Memoir in our last Volume, p. 633.

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The Rev. William Vincent, D. D. was of Trinity College, Cambridge. He married early in life Miss Hannah Wyatt, a very accomplished woman, with whom he enjoyed the utmost connubial happiness for a long series of years. She died in the month of February 1807, leaving two the Rev. William St. Andrew Vincent, now Rector of Allhallows, in Thames-street (a preferment for some time enjoyed by his father, and which the latter resigned in favour of his son on bis own promotion to the living of St. John's Westminster), and George Giles Vincent, the present Chapter Clerk to the Church of Westminster. This situation was conferred on Mr. G. G. Vincent after his father became Dean.

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After fulfilling the laborious offices of Usher, Second, and Head Master of Westminster School for about forty years, Dr. Vincent attained bis 63d year without obtaining any office of dignity in the Church strange to say, when it is considered how many men of the first distinction in the State had been educated by him, and when the extent of his own erudition was so well known; to say nothing of the excellency of his character, and his acknowledged abilities as a preacher, and author of learned works.

It was in 1801, on Mr. Pitt's going out of office, that a Prebendal Stall at Westminster, then vacant, was given to him in pursuance of that Minister's stipulation. This was the first favour received from Government.

On this preferment being conferred upon him, he resigned the Head Mastership of Westminster School; and this he must and would have done independently of that circumstance, being unequal to support the fatigues of the Mastership any longer.

It was Dr. Vincent's custom to pass a few weeks in every summer at some residence in the country, for relaxation and benefit of his health; and whilst on one of these excursions, in June 1802, he received most unexpectedly a letter from Lord Sidmouth (then Mr. Addington), announcing that his Majesty had been pleased to nominate him to the Deanery of Westminster, "as a public reward for public services." For this promotion no solicitation had been made by himself or any of his friends. It was generally supposed that the pamphlet which he had recently published, in opposition to, and confutation of, Dr. Lewis O'Beirne, Bishop of

Meath's assertion in his Sermon preached at St. Paul's at the Anniversary of the Charity Children's assemblage there, that Religion made none, or very little part in the education of youth in the public seminaries of this kingdom, was the immediate cause of this preferment. The pamphlet above-mentioned was considered as a most able performance, but the Bishop did not think fit to reply to it. Indeed it was unanswerable, as his Lordship's position had been bazarded without a proper knowledge of facts, and no one was more able to contradict them than he who had so long presided at the first school in England.

Dr. Vincent received this mark of Royal favour with the utmost gratitude, and the manner in which it had been given made its value double, It was particularly pleasing to him, as it removed him from none of his connexions, and suffered him to pass the evening of his days in the society to which he had been so long accustomed. He was often heard to say, that if his Majesty had given him the choice where to fix for his preferment, he would have laid his finger on the Deanery of Westminster.

The union of the Bishoprick of Rochester, a very poor See, with this Deanery, had prevailed for many years. On the present occasion they were separated: Dr. Thomas Dampier, Dean of Rochester, became the Bishop of Rochester; Dr. Vincent, the Dean of Westminster.

Some little time after his promotion to the Deanery, he made his temporary summer excursion for a few weeks to the neighbourhood of Windsor Forest. One morning his Majesty paid him a visit there, and, in conversation, took notice of the separation. of the above-mentioned See and Deanery, adding that it had been done much to his Majesty's regret. The Dean expressed his gratitude for his Majesty's favour already conferred, and a perfect contentment therewith. The King replied," If you are satisfied, Mr. Dean, I am not. The See of Rochester shall be united again with your Deanery, in your person, the first opportunity." But, when Bishop Dampier was afterwards removed to Ely, the Prime Minister nominated Dr. Walker King, Prebendary of Canterbury, to succeed Dr. Dampier at Rochester. : Dr. King was then so ill and infirm that it was long before he was able to do homage. However, he is living still, an ornament to the Episcopal Bench.

The Rectory of Islip in Oxfordshire was in the gift of the Chapter of Westminster. This was the birth-place of Edward the Confessor. The famous Dr. South rebuilt

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