writer of this memoir can attest) he con sidered the medium through which he received the title, to be that which gave it, in his estimation, its greatest value; but his life was drawing to its close, and with it the enjoyment of the honour so deservedly bestowed. His health began to decline, and there is reason to believe that the death of the late Dr. Lindsay, to whom he was strongly attached, gave a shock to his frame which it never recovered, and brought forward into rapid growth, the seeds of that fatal disease which terminated his life.

Dr. Morgan was a man of liberal sentiments in religion, a Protestant Dissenter on principle, but without bigotry; and in his relations and character, as a man and a member of society, he was distinguished for the love of order and peace, which he connected with independence of mind, and a high sense of honour and integrity. As a minister, one who was in the habit of hearing his public discourses, his pastor and oldest friend, who preached the sermon on occasion of his death, has said, "Dr. Morgan was judicious and instructive; but some have thought, that had he been less formal and somewhat more sprightly and animated both in his compositions and delivery; he might have been more acceptable and popular; but none could hear him (unless it were their own fault) without satisfaction and advantage." He adds, “No man ever maintained, more uniformly, a character so consistent with his principles and profession." In the latter period of his life he was a member of Dr. Rees's congregation, at the chapel in Jewin Street, and a constant fellow-worshiper there, and occasionally assisted his venerable friend in his public services.As an author, he is before the public in two separate discourses, which do him credit as a divine and a scholar. The first is a Charity Sermon, preached before the Governors of the School in Gravel Lane; and the second, a Discourse, delivered on the 3rd of November, 1799, at Salters' Hall* But he may be referred to on a larger scale as an historian, in an

* In this Sermon Dr. Morgan has given an historical view of the rise and progress and establishment of Christianity; of the persecutions to which its early professors were exposed under the Roman emperors; of the state of religion in the dark and middle ages in different uations of Europe; of the Reformation; of the various circumstances which led to it; and the trials and sufferings of the Reformers themselves.

extensive work of great value and interest -"The General Biography," in which Dr. Enfield, Dr. Aikin and others, were concerned. The different Lives which he wrote, (and to which he has added the initial of his surname,) will shew with what care and judgment he collected, examined and arranged his materials. He was also engaged as a Reviewer of the Foreign and Domestic Literature, in the New Annual Register, from the time when the late Dr. Kippis resigned his concern with that work, till the year 1800, and was united in forming a valuble collection of Hymns for Public Worship, with Dr. Kippis, Dr. Rees and Mr. Jervis, which has been very generally adopted by the Presbyterian congregations throughout the kingdom. Such was Dr. Morgan, as a man, a Christian, a minister of the gospel, and a writer. A near relation, who offers this memoir of his life to the public notice, and who pays (as he trusts) an impartial and just tribute to the memory of departed worth, will be allowed to close his account by giving the expression of his own feelings, and that of many other surviving friends, in the words of the Roman poet : Quis desiderio sit aut pudor, aut modus Tam chari capitis?

Multis ille bonis flebilis occidit.

HOR.

On Friday the 27th of July, the mortal remains of our departed friend were deposited in Bunhill Fields, in the vault of the late Dr. Williams, the founder of the Library in Red-Cross Street. This was done in consequence of a resolution of the Trustees, passed at their meeting on the preceding Wednesday; and which was communicated to his brother-in-law, recently appointed the executor to his Will. The Rev. Mr. Aspland delivered the Address at his funeral. It was an oration truly appropriate, eloquent, affecting and impressive. Two ministers and two lay gentlemen supported the pall: these were, the Rev. Dr. Rees, his venerable tutor, the Rev. Mr. Coates, J. Young and Joseph Yallowley, Esqs.

The gentleman last mentioned, his near neighbour, as he had it in his power, so he had it constantly in his inclination and will, to visit and assist Dr. Morgan in various ways during his last illness, and he was with him when he died. "There is a friend who sticketh closer than a brother."

The mourners who followed the body to the tomb, were the brother and nephew-in-law of the deceased, with Dr. N. Philipps from Sheffield, a near relation, and G. Lewis, Esq., one of his oldest friends, and others of his former acquain

tance attended to pay their last tribute of respect to his memory.

Nathaniel Philippis

Mrs. CATHArine Cappe.

THE readers of the Monthly Repository, who have been so often instructed and delighted by the productions of Mrs. Cappe's pen, will hear with deep regret that her labours have been suddenly terminated. She died of an apoplectic seizure, early in the morning of Sunday, July 29th, passing, almost without a struggle or a pang, from the cheerful and pious enjoyment of this life to that better world which was the object of her steady faith and hope, and for which she lived in a constant state of preparation. The public will be speedily in possession of a full and just delineation of her character, by one whom the confidential intercourse of thirty years has qualified to speak of its high and various excellencies; and she has left for publication a most interesting biographical memoir of herself, in which she has traced the influences to which she had been exposed from the earliest period to which memory extended, the vicissitudes of her lot, the origin and success of her various undertakings. In the mean time, one who enjoyed her friendship only in the decline of life may, perhaps, be permitted to describe her as she appeared to him, and to record a few circumstances of her personal history for the gratification of those who have hitherto known her only through the me dium of her works.

Mrs. Cappe was the daughter of the Rev. Jeremiah Harrison, M. A., and was born on the 3d of June, O. S., 1744, at Long Preston, in Craven, of which place her father was rector. When she was about four years old, he removed with his family to Catterick, where a considerable part of her early life was spent. By her mother's side, who was a grand-daughter of Sir Rowland Winn, Bart., of Nostel, in Yorkshire, she was related to several families of fortune and rank in this county, and in her youth associated much with them. The polished urbanity which was united in her manners, with the higher charm of genuine benevolence, was no doubt derived from this source, as well as from the influence of domestic example. Both her father and mother were persons of exemplary piety and virtue; Mr. Harrison possessed considerable taste and literary cultivation, and the reader will naturally suppose, that as he could not fail to remark, so he would delight to assist in developing the excellent capacity of his daughter: but very different opinions on the subject of female education prevailed in the middle of the

last century from those which are current at the present day; her literary education was of the simplest kind, and her intellectual improvement was chiefly made at a later period of her life. He died, after being several years in declining health, in 1763, leaving, besides the subject of this memoir, a son, destined for the church, whose conduct did not contribute to the comfort of his mother and sister, and who died some years after. Mrs. Harrison's life was protracted to the age of 88; she lived to see the happiness and honour which the virtues of her daughter procured for her, and received from her in her declining years every kind attention which filial affection and a sense of duty prompted.

The death of her father, in whatever light it may then have been regarded by his daughter, gave the whole colour to the subsequent periods of her life, and under the direction of that Providence which ordereth all things for the best, was the means of bringing to light those endowments which might otherwise have been useless to the world and unknown even to their possessor. She had, indeed, discovered in herself the capacity of being something better than those whom she saw around her absorbed in the pursuit of riches and worldly greatness, or possessed by no higher ambition than that of shining in the ranks of fashion; she felt an earnest longing for intellectual culture and moral improvement, but she had hitherto met with no one to encourage or gratify this desire; she had been taught to regard the fields of literature as forbidden ground to a female, and to repress even the wish of benevolent activity, when it wandered beyond the circle of domestic duties. The time had arrived when she was to be subject to more favourable influences; the successor of her father in the vicarage of Catterick was the Rev. Theophilus Lindsey, who had exchanged a living in Dorsetshire for it, in order to be near Archdeacon Blackburne, Mrs. Lindsey's stepfather. The acquaintance which had previously existed between her and Miss Harrison was soon renewed; her mind, formed for the enthusiastic love of moral excellence, attached itself with a feeling of veneration to the saintly virtues of the husband, and she appreciated the high principle, the energetic character and powerful understanding of his partner, without being blind to her imperfections. Mrs. Harrison and her daughter had fixed their residence at Bedale, a few miles from Catterick, but she was a frequent guest at the vicarage, witnessing the order of their domestic arrangements, their mutual affection and esteem, and the admirable

manner in which they united their talents for the benefit of Mr. Lindsey's charge; and by them she was encouraged and guided in the pursuit of that moral and religious knowledge for which her mind thirsted. The success which attended Mr. Lindsay's catechetical instructions, induced her to attempt something of the same kind at Bedale; the first commencement of those endeavours for the formation and improvement of institutions for gratuitous education, by which she was afterwards to acquire such deserved reputation and gratitude at the hands of her countrymen.

It is unnecessary to enlarge on Mrs. Cappe's connexions with Mr. and Mrs. Lindsey, because she has herself described their character and her feelings towards them, in the Memoirs which she furnished to the Monthly Repository. (III. 637, and VII. 109.) She had never been orthodox in respect to the doctrine of the Trinity, her father having been an Arian; still less could her cheerful, benevolent piety, assimilate itself with the peculiarities of Calvinism. Since the commencement of her friendship with Mr. and Mrs. Lindsey she had studied the Scripture more care fully, and having embraced those opinions which led Mr. L. to renounce his station in the Church, she not only fully entered into his motives, and aided and supported her friends in the trying hour of their removal, but determined herself to leave the Established Church when an opportunity should offer of joining another whose creed and ritual were more agree able to scripture. It is a very interesting coincidence, that her first introduction to Mr. Cappe was occasioned by his defending, under the signature of a "Lover of all Good Men," the character of Mr. Lindsey, which had been virulently attacked by a Dr. Cooper in the public papers. The affairs of her brother occasioned her to reside for several years subsequent to this period in the vicinity of Leeds, and here she appears to have begun to attend Dissenting worship regularly at Mill-hill Chapel. His abandonment of his schemes, after involving his mother and sister in considerable embar rassments, was followed by their removal to York in the year 1782. Soon after her settlement in this city, she engaged, in conjunction with some other benevolent persons, in reforming the manage ment of some of the public charities, and the establishment of others, especially for the benefit of females in the lower classes. Her activity and zeal were so guided by discretion and tempered by mildness, that she triumphed over the difficulties which the undertaking pre

sented, and the opposition raised by interested persons. Such attempts were then novelties; the public mind was not awake as it now is to the importance of those institutions which form the labouring classes of society to intelligence, industry and economy. The subject of the present memoir not only rendered a most important service to her fellow-citizens by her exertions here, but by her publications on this subject, excited others in distant places to follow her example, and assisted them in avoiding the difficulties which she had encountered, gaining for herself an honourable station in that band of philanthropists by whose disinterested labours so much has been done to improve the condition of the poor.

The year 1788 was that of her marriage with Mr. Cappe, whose rare and admirable talents and moral qualities had long attracted her reverence and affection. She was not deterred from this union by the difficulty and delicacy of the situation in which she should be placed by taking the charge of a numerous family; she assumed along with the name the feelings of a parent towards every member of it, and had the happiness to experience the return of cordial affection and esteem. Her greatest delight in this new relation was to assist in preserving from oblivion a record of the knowledge and talents of her husband. To her the Christian world owes it that the eloquence of Mr. Cappe is not already become a faint echo in the ear of his few surviving auditors, and that the labours of his life, in the investigation of the Scriptures, do not remain locked up in an unintelligible short-hand. But the history of this portion of her life may best be learnt in her Memoir of Mr. Cappe, prefixed to his Critical Dissertations, and since separately printed a beautiful specimen of truly Christian biography, to which, we trust, that few of our readers are strangers. With the same zeal and affection with which she had soothed and supported his decline, she endeavoured to do honour to his memory, and promote the diffusion of his works. His fame was far dearer to her than her own; one of the highest gratifications she could receive was to know that his eloquent and powerful defence of the doctrine of Providence had enabled some mourner to exchange the spirit of heaviness for the garment of praise; that some heart, perhaps in a distant land, had been warmed with the love of religion by his animated praise of virtue and devotion; or that some seeker after Christian truth had found in his critical principles, the solution of difficulties in the language of scripture, by

which he had been long perplexed, Desirous that nothing which he had written on this important subject should be lost, she published in 1809 an arranged history of our Saviour's Life, in which Mr. Cappe's Notes were subjoined to the text, and Practical Reflections added by herself to every section. Her literary labours since Mr. Cappe's death have been chiefly confined to the publication of his works, with some pamphlets on philanthropic subjects; but she also maintained an extensive correspondence, not only with persons in this country, with whom she was connected by friendship or community of benevolent pursuits, but also in North America. Her pen was that of a

“ready writer;" and wherever any important object was to be attained by its employment, neither indolence nor the fear of misinterpretation induced her to remain idle.

The decline of Mrs. Cappe's bodily powers, which had been perceptible for some time, had scarcely affected her intellectual faculties, and had produced no effect whatever on the delightful serenity of her temper. Old age had taken away nothing of the warm interest with which she sympathized in the joys and distresses of her friends, rejoicing with those that rejoiced, and inspiring into those that wept a portion of that steady piety, by which she herself contemplated every thing" as from God and for good to all." The young, instead of being repressed and overawed by her, found her ready to enter into all their feelings, to assist them with counsel in the mildest form of friendly suggestion, and to tem per their romantic expectations and visionary plans, by the dictates of her own matured experience. Even her failings "leaned to virtue's side:" if she loved the praises of the good, it was because her own kind and affectionate disposition made her value every indication of her possessing a place in the affection and esteem of others; though she was gratified by reputation, she never made it the object of pursuit, still less sacrificed to it any higher duty. Possessing such qualities of mind and heart, may easily be conceived with what love and veneration she was regarded by those who enjoyed her intimate friendship. Providence will raise up other labourers to carry on and complete the works of public usefulness to which she devoted herself; the cause of gospel truth will be maintained by the eloquence of other advocates, and adorned by the virtues of other confessors; but those who formed the circle in which

Mrs. Cappe was most intimately known, can scarcely hope that the knowledge of any other character, equally excellent, will repair their loss, or lessen the tender regret with which they cherish the memory of their late venerable friend. K.

the Rev. WILLIAM BUTTON, 40 years pasAug. 2, in the 68th year of his age, tor of the Baptist Church, Dean Street, Southwark. He was also for many years Row. He took part in the controversy a respectable bookseller in Paternoster pamphlet on the Duty of all Men to beoccasioned by the late Andrew Fuller's lieve the Gospel, maintaining against that that it cannot be the duty of the nongentleman the Ultra-Calvinistic Doctrine, elect to believe, because it is not within their power.

10, occasioned by the fall of his horse at Kensington, Mr. EDWARD ROWE, second son of Laurence Rowe, Esq., of Brentford, in the 31st year of his age.

13, at Ditchling, Sussex, ROBERT CHATFEILD, Esq., in the 67th year of his age, sincerely regretted by all the inhabitants of his neighbourhood. Scarcely any one could have been removed by death whose loss would be so much felt and deplored; for he was the friend of many little farmers and tradesmen in indigent circumstances. The labourers on his farm, influenced by his own conduct, are steady and industrious, and were for many years in his employ. They mourn his loss as one of the best of masters. He was the founder of the Ditchling Lancasterian School for Girls, that for Boys being founded by his brother, John Chatfeild, Esq., of Stockwell.

In politics, Mr. Chatfeild was a Reformer, in religion a strict Unitarian. He was very regular in his attendance on public worship, and made a point of attending all meetings of the congregation for business, and those held at the library. He enjoyed the full possession of his understanding to the last, and met his approaching dissolution with the utmost fortitude and resignation. He was interred on Sunday the 21st, in the new burying-ground belonging to the Unita. rian Baptist Meeting-house, when an appropriate sermon was preached by the Rev. T. Sadler, of Horsham, from Prov. x. 28: "The hope of the righteous shall be gladness."