son, was ordained Pastor of the church assembling in the New Road, St. George's in the East. Mr. Ford commenced the service by prayer, &c.; Dr. Winter stated the nature of a gospel church, put the usual questions, &c.; Mr. Collison gave the charge from Mal: ii. 6, The law of truth was in his mouth,' &c.; Mr. Wilks offered the ordination prayer; Mr. Clayton preached to the church, from Col. i. 7, Who is for you a faithful minister; and Mr. Chapman concluded by prayer. 6 Dec. 18, the Rev. T. Wood, late of Reading, was set apart to the pastoral office over the church of Christ in Jewin Street, London, late under the care of the Rev. Timothy Priestley, who, on account of his age and infirmities, had resigned. The service was commenced with prayer and reading the Scriptures, by the late pastor, Mr. Priestley; Mr. Buck gave the introductory address, &c.; and Dr. Winter engaged in prayer for the minister and people; Mr. Burder preached on Psalm cxxii. 9; and Mr. Brooks bank concluded. We have been informed that at Epsom, where the parish church is under repair, the Rev. Mr. Parkhurst (nephew of the Lexicographer) the vicar, or his curate, performs the church service at the Dissenting Meeting-house, morning and afternoon; and Mr. Atkinson, the Dissenting minister, preaches in the same place in the evening. These friendly accommodations are very pleasing to the lovers of peace and unity. Be LOST CHILD. -We are happy to state, that the child mentioned in our last, as stolen, has been found; and that the wom who passed him for her own, is taken into custody. On the 14th of Feb. 1811, a nevolent and Maternal Society' was formed at Lady Huntingdon's Chapel in Spa Fields, for Visiting and Relieving the Sick Poor; and for providing Sheets, Childbed Linen, and other suitable articles of Clothing for the use of Poor Márried Women during the month of their confinement. The concerns of the maternal department are conducted by a committee of Ladies: and upwards of eighty women have been relieved and visited during the first year. Interment of JOHN WILLIAMS, JOHN WILLIAMS was strongly suspected of being the inhuman murderer of Mr. Marr, &c. The fatal maul with which the bloody deed was committed, and which was left in Mr. Marr's house, was traced to him, and was missing from the house where he lodged, from the time of the murder. Many other circumstances concurred to fix the suspicion upon him. He was therefore committed to the prison in Cold Bath Fields, and was to undergo a second examination on Friday, Dec. 27; but during the preceding night he hanged himself, by his neck-handkerchief, to a rail near the ceiling, and was found dead by the turnkey in the morning. It appeared that he must have struggled severely in dying. The Coroner's Inquest sat on the body, and gave the verdict of Feln de se. The coroner (Mr. Unwin) addressed the jury in the following appropriate terms: The miserable wretch, the object of the present inquiry, was committed here on suspicion of being one of the perpetrators of the late alarming and most inhuman murders; and that suspicion is greatly increased by the result which has taken place: for how much augmented is the suspicion of guilt against a man, who, to escape justice, has recourse to self-destruction! All homicide is murder, till the contrary shall be shewn The law ranks the suicide in the worst class of murderers; and this is a case of the most unqualified self-murder. I have applied my attention to the conduct of those entrusted with the custody of this wretched man, as a subject interesting to the public mind, and I leave it with you: I think there is no culpability attaching itself to them. Its only, therefore, remains, that we consign the body of this self-murderer to that infamy and disgrace which the law has prescribed; and to leave the punishment of his crimes to Him that has said - Vengeance is mine, and I will repay. The Magistrates wisely determined to render the disgraceful interment of this monster as affect ing as possible to the public mind, that the ends of justice, though in part defeated by the selfmurder of the deceased, might be answered as far as circumstances could admit. It should be observed, that there was much reason to believe that Williams had also been the murderer of Mr. Williamson, the publican, his wife and servant, as the iron bar, the instrument of that horrid deed, was also traced to him. This second murder was committed only six nights after the former, in the same neighbourhood; and while the most active measures were taking for the discovery of the murderers. If, indeed, he was the miscreant that perpetrated both, as is generally be lieved, perhaps of all offenders in the annals of villany, he must have been the most hardened and atrocious. About 12 o'clock the body of Williams was removed in a cart from the House of Correction in Cold Bath Fields, to St. George's Watch House, Shadwell. It was raised on a platform in the same cart, so as to be visible to the spectators. A boy stood on each side, one holding the maul,-the other the iron crow, the instruments with which this murderer perpetrated the horrid deeds. The cart moved slowly along Rateliff Highway, until it arrived opposite the late Mr. Marr's door, where they stopped five minutes; and a gentleman on horseback read a paper; and from thence it was taken down Old Gravel Lane, along the London Dock Bank, till it arrived opposite to the house of the late Mr. Williamson, when a similar pause was made as opposite Mr. Marr's door. They then went down to the bottom of Canon Street; where he was buried six feet below the surface of the ground, and a stake driven through his body. During this procession, the body of the deceased was clad in the garments he wore when he put an end to his existence. Constables attended on the ground to preserve order; and there were about 50 gentlemen on horseback, with an immense crowd, hooting and expressing a determination to take up the body at midnight and burn it. A quantity of line, we are told, was thrown upon the body after its interment, which prevented all attempts to remove it. The Missionary Collections are unavoidably deferred. Written during a Night of Alarm. The Lord is my salvation, whom shall I fear?-Psa. xxvii. 1. What have I to do with fear, With Omnipotence my friend; One in ev'ry trouble near, Firm and faithful to the end. Tho' convulsions shake the land, Tho' beating billows round me roar; Safe within the Saviour's hand Faith relies, and doubts no more. Why should I the futore dread, Who have liv'd on heav'n'y care; He who gave me daily bread, Will tomorrow's lot prepare, Tho' my portion be but small, Tho' no certain store I see; He, who plenty deals to all, Surely hath enough for me. Tho' the figs untimely fall, Tho' the vineyard's clusters fail, Empty tho' the herdsman's stall, Flockless th.' the sterile vale; Fruitless tho' the labour'd clod, And the blighted olive die; He will all my wants supply. Threat'n ng an o'erwhelming food, Tells me, all shall work for good. Tho' the pow'rs of hell combice, O'er the panoply divine. Where the shades of death appear; What have I to do with Fear! ALIQUIS. [Written by herself, and translated from, the German.] Genuine godliness is not confined to any rank. As all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God,' so all are by nature alike in a moral and spiritual sense, and equally guilty and vile, weak and worthless. Divine grace is a kind of leveller of distinctions, and is no respecter of persons or classes. An apostle has assured us that not many wise, not many mighty, not many noble, are called. Yet, to shew the sove reignty, and power, and riches of Divine Grace, some of every class are saved, demonstrating that the Lord hath in his hand the hearts of all men; and that the high and honourable are within the compass of the plan of redemption, and not less regarded by the God of love than those who are poor and in obseurity. A great portion of the sacred scriptures contains portraits of distinguished females, who would have added dignity and splendor to a crown, and who possessed the bighest nobility, faithfully delineated by the hand of a master. They also exhibit instances of the power of religion in persons of various descriptions, that every station of life may be furnished with suitable examples as well as precepts. These characters are represented with a scrupulous regard to truth, and their actions are related with a simple exactness, which shews that there could be no design to disguise their failings, or to exaggerate their virtues. This is more than can be said of any other history, ancient or modern. The sacred historians were under the immediate direction of the Spirit of Truth, and consequently they related facts as they really happened, and made use of no artifice to conceal the imperfections, the follies, and the crimes of men, but represented them in their native simplicity as being of like passions with ourselves.' The subject of the following Memoir is a striking instance of the grace of God, displayed in a person of the first rank and talents, so as to form a most eminent Christian character. It is the more interesting as, in her own history, we see her very soul; and the design of the whole is, to abase the sinner and exalt the Saviour. This illustrious female, expressly and repeatedly ascribed her goodness to Sovereign mercy, and avowed her firm belief and experience of the truths usually denominated Calvinistic. These are the 6 |