ted before the two nouns in the Greek without affecting the sense," adding, as if in anticipation of the vauntings of some modern scholars, "Surely, what is proposed to us as an object of belief, especially in a matter involving a primary article of faith, ought not to be an inference," "hunted out by careful research from among articles and particles, nor elicited by dint of ingenuity, like the answers of an ora cle, from sentences of dark or equivocal meaning." Pp. 117, 118. He takes notice of the article-argument again in his examination of Jude, ver. 4, p. 120. He renounces the modern Ari an notion of Christ being the angel that conducted the Mosaic dispensation, and quotes Heb. viii. 6, to shew that it does not seem to have been suitable that Christ who was the minister of the gospel should also be the minister of the law." P. 122. He considers Isaiah ix. 6, favourable to the Antitrinitarian doctrine, for here Christ receives his name from the Father: he reads "Everlasting Father" Father of the age to come," that is, its teacher, the name of father being often attributed to a teacher." On this and other passages usually brought to prove the eternity of the Son, he reasons thus logically and unanswerably:' "Him who was begotten from all eternity the Father cannot have begotten, for what was made from all eternity was never in the act of being made; him whom the Father begat from all eternity he still begets; he whom he still begets is not yet begotten, and therefore is not yet a son; for an action which has no beginning can have no completion. Besides, it seems to be altogether impossible that the Son should be either begotten or born from all eternity. If he is the Son, either he must have been originally in the Father, and have proceeded from him, or he must always have been as he is now, separate from the Father, selfexistent and independent. If he was originally in the Father, but now exists separately, he has undergone a certain change at some time or other, and is therefore mutable. If he always existed separately from, and independently of, the Father, how is he from the Father, how begotten, how the Son, how separate in subsistence, unless he be also separate in essence? since (laying aside metaphysical trifling) a substantial essence and a subsistence are the same thing. However this may be, it will be universally acknowledged that the Son now at least differs numerically from the Father; but that those who differ nume rically must differ also in their proper essences, as the logicians express it, is too clear to be denied by any one pos sessed of common reason. Hence it fol lows that the Father and the Son differ in essence."-Pp. 133, 134. From a collection of passages relating to the divine honours of Christ, he concludes, (p. 143,)" that when we call upon the Son of God, it is only in his capacity of advocate with the Father." This great writer concludes this most important chapter with a citation of texts, to prove that the doetrine which he has laid down "is alone taught in Scripture, is acceptable to God, and has the promise of eternal salvation;" to which he adds, that "this is the faith proposed to us in the Apostles' Creed, the most ancient and universally received compendium of belief in the possession of the Church." We regret that we have not been able to make larger extracts, as examples of his vigorous mind and accurate scriptural learning, especi ally from those parts of the chapter that are devoted to the exposure of the "Vertumnian distinctions and evasions" by which the reputed "orthodox" church, with her ever "ready subterfuge," makes the Scripture of none effect: but we are not without hope that this, with some other parts of the work, may be reprinted in a cheap form for popular eirculation. The Unitarians would be wanting to their cause if they did not avail themselves of the discovery, proclaimed by Royal authority, that on the one great question between them and Trinitarians, they may now claim as their own, in addition to the mighty names of LOCKE and NEWTON, the not inferior name of MILTON. ART. IV.-Memoir of the Rev. Ben- UCH of our readers as remember the account given of Mr. Goodier in our XIVth. Vol., pp. 69-74 and 142-145, will scarcely be surprised that his friends should devote this volume to his memory, and, we may add, to the service of practical piety. He was an extraordinary young man, excelling equally in virtue and in talents. His example is a beautiful lesson to young men, and especially to young ministers; shewing the degree to which self-improvement may be carried, the tendency of an amiable disposition and pure morals to win esteem and friendship, and the consolation and support which a heartfelt sense of rational religion provides for the sick and dying bed. The "Memoir" is drawn up by a nameless author. It is, however, well OBITUARY. 1825. Oct. 5, aged 54, MARY, the wife of Mr. Thomas RYLAND, of Birmingham, whose faithful and exemplary discharge of the duties of a wife, a mother and a Christian, has rendered her removal no ordinary loss. Those who best knew her will most earnestly assent to the justness of the following observations on this mournfully interesting event:* observations so beautifully descriptive and appropriate, as to supersede not merely the necessity, but perhaps even the propriety, of any additional expressions of that sorrow and regard which was so sincerely felt by those who were acquainted with the real excellence of their lamented subject: "The sepulchre does not, in general, close over a treasure so rich as what we now consign to it. From a wide circle of kindred and of friends, an individual so practically wise, so kind, so circumspect, so habitually and unfeignedly devout, is not every day torn away.""Examples of the female character formed and adorned by religion, may be removed from our eyes: but they live, nevertheless, in memory and in hope. We think with profound, it may be, yet still with tempered grief on those who ⚫ opened their mouth with wisdoin, and on whose tongue was the law of kindness'-whose manners, the natural expression of their sobriety of mind, and affection of spirit, and firmness of principle, and correctness of understanding, and most perfectly free from vanity or pride, would have graced the highest circles, while they spread ease and pleasure and secured admiration and esteem wherever they appeared; on those who gave unostentatiously to religion their hearts, * By the Rev. J. Kentish. and voices, and lives, neither disregarding the form, nor being strangers to the power of it those whose children rise up and call them blessed." Oct. 21, at Chowbent, Lancashire, in the 82nd year of his age, Mr. WILLIAM CANNON. He was born in the parish of Kells, in the upper district of the Stewartry of Galloway, Scotland, and was the third son of a large family, which had resided for nearly a century and a half, and which still resides, on the soil that gave him birth. Upon his entrance into life, Mr. Cannon made his selection of the trade of carpenter: shortly after the expiration of his apprenticeship, he removed to the adjacent towns in England, where a wider field for improvement in the business he had chosen, presented itself. Having two brothers at Bolton, he was induced to visit that neighbourhood about the year 1772, when the various inventions of Hargreaves, Arkwright and others made their first appearance in that district (being one of the earliest seats of the Cotton Trade in England) : and availing himself of this new era of improvement, he there acquired the art of machine making, as a journeyman, and finally established himself at Chowbent for the manufacture of the various machinery then introduced. Shortly after his outset in this branch, he had to contend with the prejudices which existed against machinery, and the insults of mobs he met and resisted with manly firmness at the risk of his little property aud of his life: his firmness, perseverance and strict integrity then and during the whole course of his life, secured to him the respect and esteem even of his enemies. From his carly connexions he introduced a number of his young country men as his apprentices, who have since settled in Manchester and other parts, and their industry and desire to obtain a knowledge of their business evince the goodness of the example he set before them the intimate friendship which has always existed between him and them bear honourable testimony to the zeal with which he discharged his duties. He acquired in his business as machine maker a comfortable independence, sufficient for his simple and primitive habits, and had prepared for his two sons more extensive operations; but the great Disposer of events in his wisdom bereft him of that part of his family which he had hoped to succeed him-he in consequence retired from business in 1799. His ac tivity and energy never deserted him; he found employment in the discharge of his duty to his neighbour and his friend, In religion he was a decided Unitarian, from a firm conviction that the doctrine he espoused was strictly scriptural, and, like the Puritans of old, he maintained it at all hazards. In politics he was a Whig, and with the same independent spirit he defended his opinious, and to his last moments was an inexorable foe to tyranny, oppression, and intolerance, His protracted illuess he bore with exemplary resignation, and departed this life in the perfect hope of a better and more exalted state of existence. This brief memoir is humbly submitted by one of his few surviving pupils. Oct. 26, at Bridgewater, in the 81st year of his age, Mr. THOMAS Osler, upwards of sixty years an active and valua ble member of the Unitarian congregation in that place. Though exempted to a very late period from the usual infirmities of advanced life, and constitutionally possessed of remarkable cheerfulness of mind, he had long looked forward to his dissolution with steadfast and resigned tranquillity; and finally closed, in devout peace, a long life diligently spent in doing justly, loving mercy, and walking humbly. Oct. 26, in the 57th year of his age, WALTER FAWKES, Esq., of Farnley Hall, Yorkshire. - 29, in the 25th year of her age, of pulmonary disease, MARIA Bennett, second daughter of A. Bennett, minister shire. It can be said with truth, that of the Unitarian Meeting, Poole, Dorsetthe deceased was highly respected by all who knew her, and many tears of affec tion and lamentation flowed on account of her death. In human judgment ber character was virtuous, Christian, and pious, which gives to her parents and friends an humble but confident hope, that the Almighty and merciful God" who gave her life and who has taken it away, will approve her, and make her eternally happy in his glorious presence. She was laid to rest in a vault in the burial-ground belonging to the above Meeting, on Friday, the 4th of Nov., and on the Sunday evening following, to a numerous and sympathizing audience, a very excellent and most impressive discourse was delivered on the occasion by the Rev. J. B. Bristowe, of Ringwood, from 2 Sam. xiv. 14. INTELLIGENCE. DOMESTIC. p. 633.) a land. In the year 1823, he was sta tioned at Malta. I have stated that he was a man of family and of character, and he held the dictates of his conscience but, above all, he was a man of principle, superior to any other mandate. He was directed on a particular day, a day of festivity, dedicated to the patron saint of the island, (for though Malta is under British dominion, it is a Catholic coun Protestant Society for the Protection of Religious Liberty. (Continued from One gentleman has applied for advice to this Society, from a place so distant as Malta. The case I am alluding to istry; and there Catholics enjoy, as they that of Lieutenant Dawson, a gentleman of high character and connexions, of liberal education, who had been in the army from his earliest days, and who had fought the battles of his country in many ought to enjoy, the free exercise of their religious rights and ceremonies,) to pay a salute to the procession of this saint, as it passed along. I, who seek for toleration, or rather I, who loathe toleration, and seek for liberty, complain that a gentleman, a Protestant, who, with the conscience of a member of the Church of England, read in its homilies, and finding there that many of the ceremonies of the Roman Catholic Church, are idolatry, should have been commanded to cause the bells to ring, and a salute to be fired, because a procession moved upon the day dedicated to the patron saint. It was with this order that Mr. Dawson declined to comply, and his captain also refused; the major who commanded, did not in sist on their compliance, but gave the order in their absence, and the bells were rung, and the salute was fired. He yielded to the scruples of those men who had bared their bosoms, and had fought when Eugland waged a war with her enemies. The lieutenant and the captain were how ever summoned before a Court Martial, the president of which was a Roman Catholic; they were found guilty, and the sentence was confirmed by the Judge Advocate at home. The lieutenant and the captain were both cashiered, and the major was severely censured for his lenity. It seems then that, in performing his duty, an English officer must forget the claims of conscience; and that if he be so commanded, he must hail a sacrifice to Budhoo, and sanction the horrid murders committed under the pretence of religion. To the next particular I shall but briefly advert, since it has been frequently be fore the public. It occurred the 29th of July last. On that day, two persons, of decent appearance, dressed soberly in black, with nothing unclerical in their exterior-nothing improper in their demeanour-waited on the Rev. William Marshall, a clergyman of the Established Church, in the town of Newport Pagnell. There these poor people introduced themselves into the presence of the Vicar of the parish, and in the course of their conversation presented to him a book containing the names of subscribers towards the erection of a chapel for the use of the General Baptist Revivalist's Society. They stated to him, 'that they had been deputed by the good people of that Society to collect subscriptions for the purpose stated; and they then came to solicit his aid. In doing this they certainly were not aware that they were in the presence of the clergyman of the parish; but even though they had been apprized of such a circumstance, they, Dissenters as they were, did not imagine themselves guilty of much presumption. Mr. Marshall turned on them as enemies of the Establishment-was astonished at their presumption-inquired their names -declared them to be impostors ;(which term he speedily retracted;) and threatened them with punishment. After such a reception they naturally wished to withdraw; they desired to retire in peace; but even that poor privilege was denied them. No! they had approached too near the lion's den, and having once entered, it was in vain that they attempted to escape unhurt. The constable and the churchwardens were sent for, and although Mr. Marshall admitted that they were not impostors, yet he would have sent them to prison; for, as he said to them, "Some of your people are sup posed to have committed a murder somewhere or other, and you are therefore dangerous persons, and must not be allowed to go at large;" accordingly they were then taken up to the house of the attorney, and there being no magistrate there, and none any where in the neighbourhood, with the exception of a certain clergyman of the Established Church, then engaged at a cricket-match, those very Reverend Divines were in consequence sent for from the cricket-ground, and one of them, a Rev. Mr. Lowndes, being called upon, he forsooth signed the mittimus under which these unfortunate men were deprived of their liberty, and lodged in a common gaol. That at such a place, such tyranny should have been perpetrated is what you, in London, can hardly conceive. You can scarcely form an idea of the scorn and obloquy which in more remote places are heaped upon the heads of Dissenters. In proof that these men were not impostors, and were entirely undeserving of the oppression which they endured, it was shewn that they had signed the declaration, had taken the oaths, and the book which they produced contained a signature, which, to every enlightened and liberal man, would have proved sufficient evidence, that of ROBERT HALL, of Leicester. In this conduct is combined that horrid mixture of malice and ferocity, buffoonery and cruelty, which characterized Nero, who fiddled when Rome was on fire. I will now read to you extracts from the minutes of the examination of these victims to High Church intolerance. Mr. Marshall.-Do you know that you are breaking the law? Horner. No, I do not. Marshall.-I do not wish to enter into any discourse with you, for I believe it is your intention to overturn the Establishment-by so doing you are breaking the law. Edgell. Did you ever see two men more like vagrants? How long have you been a preacher ? Horner -About three years. Marshall.-What were you before you became a preacher ? Horner. A gentleman's servant. Marshall. Who did yon live with? forward. Edgell.-What were you before you were a preacher ? Wood. A mat-maker. - Edgell. There! did you ever see two men more like vagrants in your life? The one a livery-servant and the other a matmaker! What school were you educated at? Horner.-At that school where they teach to speak the truth and tell no lies. To what denomination do you belong? Horner -The General Baptist Revi valists. Marshall. It should have been Revil ists. William White said, "I believe they are collecting the money to put in their own pockets." Mr. Marshall.-I do not think so; but I do believe their intention is to overturn the Establishment, therefore I give you into the hands of the constable. Lowndes discovered that we were deters mined to resist, and likely to resist with” success, he let prudence take the place of passion-he let the men out of goal-he, the committing magistrate, having power to do so. It was long before their papers were returned to them. Yet all this, gentlemen, has been perpetrated in England-in Bucks-not in the remote dis trict of Wales, or of Cumberland, but within a short distance of London, and yet, for my interference in such a case as this, I am called "a meddling Attor ney!" Contrast what has been our cou duct under existing circumstances with what would probably have been theirs had they been placed in our situation. Contrast our forbearanee with their uncompromising severity; observe how they overbear and proscribe the timid and the weak, but how silent and subdued are they when confronted with those who understand their own rights, and are determined on their vindication. When first the committal of Mr. Lowndes came to be questioned, the Establishment took a high tone their conduct was not to The constable now took them into his be animadverted on-all that they did custody, and they were committed to the was to be regarded as sacred-the lustre gaol at Aylesbury, without even being of their high name was not to sullied by apprised that they were entitled to appeal, the disgrace of a prosecution. They subor that they might be held to bail; there scribed largely to escape the threatened they were confined for three weeks, in danger. They, forsooth, would not allow common with the basest felons; amongst Mr.Marshall to be prosecuted. But a short convicted thieves of the most abandoned time sufficed to moderate their haughty character. Nay, more, they were sen- tone; they very soon applied to know tenced to the tread-mill, and kept at hard on what terms we were willing to let labour there, though during the time one Mr. Marshall off. What would induce us of them was afflicted with spitting of to forego the triumph which then awaited blood. Their papers were seized upon, our cause? There never was an occasion their money was taken from them, and that would have proved more tempting by means of it the expenses of sending to an overweening or vindictive spirit. them to prison were defrayed. So soon There never was a time when, if we as my excellent friend, the Hon. ROBERT desired a triumph, we could have obtainSMITH, the nephew of our Chairman, ed it in a more signal and decisive manand the Member for the County, heard ner. But such was not our aim; for we of this piece of ecclesiastical tyranny, he wished to set our enemies a living examimmediately rode twenty miles across to ple of that tolerant spirit which was to Aylesbury, determined that, in his county them unknown. You may, perhaps, at least, no oppression should be practised think that we erred on the side of lenity, with impunity. He went immediately to and betrayed too much kindness and inan attorney, whom he employed; he dulgence to those who had dealt out toused every exertion that was possible, wards us a full measure of harshness and though without being able then to effect severity; but we were determined not to their liberation, but he was determined imitate their evil example, aud therefore that, if possible, it never should be said to release them on terms which you per that in his county tyranny should go haps will consider too mild, viz., That unpunished; that if no other means could Mr. Marshall should apologise-that the be obtained, he would himself defray apology should be in writing-that it every expense which might be incurred should be advertised in the county papers in their liberation and support. Imme--that he should pay the expenses incurred diately on my being made acquainted with the case, I sent a person down to Aylesbury to investigate the circumstances, and my intention, under advice, was to apply to the Court of King's Bench for a writ of habeas corpus. When Mr. by the county attorney-and also present Fifty Pounds to the injured men. [Mr. Wilks then read from the "Bucks Chronicle an advertisement, signed "WM. MARSHALL," which, after stating the particulars of the arrest and imprisonment |