which authorized him to grant an Injunction, till the issue should go to a jury; consequently the Injunction was confirmed. His Lordship, in answer to a question put by Mr. Plomer, observed, that the Injunction would not prevent the Booksellers from exporting Scottish Bibles to foreign countries, though it would restrain the sale of them in this country. They might also be brought to London, for the purpose of immediate exportation.

IN THE EXCHEQUER.

The Attorney General v. John Gregory. Before the Lord Chief Baron and a Special Jury. The Counsel on the part of the Crown, stated to the Court and Jury, that this prosecution was commenced by order of his Majesty's Commissioners of the Stamp Duties, to recover of the Defendant penalties to the amount of 9007., for a too common and injurious fraud upon the revenue, of giving receipts upon unstamped paper. One mode amongst others adopted by the Defendant in giving receipts, was what is too commonly used by most tradesmen at the foot of their shop bills for goods; viz. writing the word "cash" op

posite the sum paid. But he had recourse to another ingenious device, which he supposed would secure himself from any penalty, if his customers were satisfied to accept such receipts; viz by writing "the day of the month and the year" on which the money was paid, and the letters "A. B. C." at the foot of the bills of parcels which he delivered to his customers, as a discharge for the sum paid. These facts being proved, his Counsel said, the case was so fully made out, that he would not trouble his Lordship, and the Gentlemen of the Jury, and requested the Counsel for the Crown to accept a verdict for such penalties as would be a lesson to the Defendant in future, and others guilty of similar practices It was therefore agreed under the direction of the Chief Baron, to take a verdict for penalties to the amount of 1607. which, his Lordship said, he hoped would operate as a caution to others, who were in the habit of defrauding the receipt duty; and he trusted they would not in future, subject themselves to such heavy penalties for so trifling a sum, and which moreover they have a right by law, to charge to their customers.

In the 107th year of her age, at Penzance, in Cornwall, Mrs. SAINT HILL, a widow lady. She was daughter of General Ingoldsby, who nobly distinguished himelf, under the Duke of Marlborough, at the battle of Blenheim.

Aged 103, at Sahurs, in the Department of the Lower Seine, MARIE BULOc;-aged 102, at Carneymuck, Downshire, DAVID JAMISON; who both retained the use of their faculties to the last.

Aged 101, at Amsterdam, HENRY KLOS. In her 100th year, in the Parish of St. Mary the Great, Cambridge, SARAH BROWNE. She had not spoke for two years, except about two hours before her death, when she recovered the use of her speech.

Aged 99, at Clipsham, Rutlandshire, Mrs. SARAH BERRIGE, whose death originated in a scratch on the hand by a pin, which, being neglected, festered, and ultimately proved fatal.

Aged 99, at Warton, near Lancaster, TнoMAS LAWRENSON

In his 99th year, at Glenrinnes, Scotland, Mr. WM. STUART.

In his 98th year, in Whiteclay Dale, near Rochdale, JOHN FIELDING; leaving a bro

ther aged 96, and a sister in her 93d year. Four years since, another sister died, aged 96; and their father, Nicholas Fielding, died in his 101st year. The father and sons had been employed as shepherds.

Aged 96, Mr. JOHN PRICMORE, of Witham, who could read the smallest print to the day of his death.

At Whitworth, W. TAYLOR, called the WHITWORTH DOCTOR; a farrier, who, with his brother of the same profession, acquired such skill as bone-setters, and so much fame by cheapness and singularity of prescription, that thousands of patients from all parts flocked to them. They have frequently bled a hundred persons on a Sunday, and have been known to purchase from their Druggist a ton of Glauber's Salts at one time.

The Right Hon JOHN FITZGIBBON, Earl of CLARE, Lord High Chancellor of Ireland. He died of an hæmorrhage, on Thursday, 28th Jan. at his house in Ely-place, Dublin, after a lingering and painful illness. His Lordship had never recovered the severe accident that befel him last summer in Hyde Park.

At Cadhay, near Ottery, Devon, the Right Hon. LORD GRAVES, of Thankes, in the county of Cornwall, Admiral of the White.

At his house at Twickenham, 2d Feb in his 89th year, the Right Hon. LORD MENDIP. His Lordship was the oldest political charac. ter of his day, and a man of great ability and learning.

At Richmond, Surry, in the 71st year of his age, JOHN MOORE, M. D. Author of many well known productions.

At an advanced age, the Rev. ALEXANDER GEDDES, LL. D., whose new translation of the Holy Scriptures, of which part only has been yet published, is conducted in a daring and licentious spirit of criticism.

WM. JOLLIFFE, Esq. M. P. for Petersfield, walking in a field adjoining his house, at Mitcham in Surry, where a number of labourers were employed upon some improvements he was making, fell into a pit, broke the spine of his back, and fractured his skull in several places. He lay a short time in that situation; but assistance being near, he was conveyed to his house, where he languished a few days, and then expired.

On Sunday, 28th February, as the Rev. Mr. SMITH, Rector of St. Michael's, Winchester, and one of the Minor Canons of that city, was performing his afternoon duty in the Cathedral, and had just read the text of his Sermon, suddenly his voice faultered, and he fell back lifeless. He was immediately taken home, but every endeavour to restore him proved ineffectual.

Miss WILKES, the daughter of the cele brated John Wilkes, Esq invited a party to her house, the corner of South Audley-Street, Grosvenor Square; but in the afternoon she was suddenly taken ill, and at one o'clock she expired.

As the Grand Guard was parading in front of the Government House at Plymouth, the venerable Major LA ROCHE, of the East Regiment of Devon Militia, fell down in a fit of apoplexy, in front of the line, and expired instantly. He was 82 years of age, and had been 44 years in the regiment.

March 2, died at Woburn Abbey, Bedford. shire, in the 37th year of his age, FRANCIS, DUKE OF BEDFORD. His disorder was a stranguled hernia, which it was found impossible to reduce by any other means than a surgical operation. This necessary expedient was not however resorted to, (his friends persuading him to wait the arrival of farther surgical aid from town) until a mortification had begun its fatal progress, and rendered hopeless every idea of relief from human skill.

Much having been said respecting the character of this Nobleman, our readers will perhaps expect from us some observation on the subject. We believe him to have possessed many amiable and estimable qualities; and to have benefited his country, in no inconsiderable degree, by his unwearied assiduity in agricultural pursuits. In an age, indeed, in which attention to religious education is esteemed of so little moment in the higher ranks of society, and in which also infidelity has made so great progress, it would perhaps be unreason

able to expect, that in the eulogium made on public characters, the qualities which distinguish and characterize the Christian should be brought particularly into notice. We were not therefore surprised to find, that in the eloquent and copious panegyric, which was made on the Duke of Bedford, by Mr. Fox, in the House of Commons, the virtues ascribed by him to his political and personal friend, were those which might belong to an age antecedent to the promulgation of Christianity.

There was a period in the British history, when the deaths of our most respectable men of rank were usually marked by some professign of a belief in a life to come, and of confidence in the Mediation of a Saviour. The new philosophy had not yet diffused itself. The Christian hope supported the dying Patriot; and it not only sustained, it also consoled and animated him. It was a refuge, both in pain and sickness, and in the view of death. It reconciled him to separation from the dearest and most affectionate kindred, and it formed a counterpoise to worldly dishonour and degradation. "I have troubled you too long," said Lord Strafford to his Judges, "much longer than I should have done; but for the sake of those dear pledges which a saint in heaven has left me. And now, my Lords, for myself, I have long thought that the afflictions of this life are overpaid, by that eternal weight of glory which awaits the Christian. And so, my Lords, even so, with the utmost tranquillity I submit myself to your judgment, whether that jugment be life or death. will, but thine, O God, be done." "I thank God," said he, as he prepared himself for the block, "I am no way afraid of death, nor am daunted with any terrors; but do as cheerfully lay down my life at this time, as ever I laid myself down when going to repose."

Not my

When that ancestor also of the late Duke of Bedford, to whom Mr. Fox alluded as a martyr in the cause of liberty, was about to die, he sent to Mr. Baxter his hearty thanks for his book of Dying Thoughts; "which,” says he, "have made me better acquainted with the other world than I was before; and have not a little contributed to my support and relief, and to the fitting me for what I am to go through."*

And in his last Speech, when about to be executed, he thus expressed himself, “But the will of the Lord be done, into whose hands I commend my Spirit! and trust that thou, O most merciful Father, hast forgiven all my transgressions, and the sins of my youth, and allthe errors of my past life; and that thou wilt not lay my secret sins and ignorances to my charge, but wilt graciously support me during that small time of life now before me, and assist me in my last moments, and not leave me to be disordered by fear or any other tempta. tions, but make the light of thy coustenance

*Note, Vide Preface to Baxter's Thoughts, by B. Fawcett. Vide also Lady Russell's

Letters.

We now enter on the last sad night of our Redeemer's sufferings. Even then, the contest for greatness appears to have been revived among the Apostles. In vain had a child been held up as a pattern to them. They required that the same instruction should be placed in a new light, and enforced with peculiar energy in the person of the Son of God. Jesus girded himself with a towel, and began to wash the feet of his astonished Disciples, not excepting those of the traitor who sold him. Simon Peter could neither suppress nor conceal his emotions at the sight. But when our Lord came to perform upon him this humiliating office, he exclaimed, Lord, dost thou wash my feet? Language could express no more; and the man who shares St. Peter's feelings is ready to conclude, that humanity could say no less. But the passions, though designed as a source of enjoy ment, and to give energy to action, are not the safest guides of life. In the present instance, they prevented St. Peter from attending to the dictates of good sense and piety, and hurried him into the use of expressions disrespectful to his Master. Even after Christ had mildly reproved his self-will, Peter persisted in his refusal, Thou shalt never wash my feet. Our Saviour, without shewing any warmth at Peter's ill-timed perverseness, calmly addressed to him an argument as tender as it was forcible, Unless I wash thee, thou hast no part in me. To this Simon replied, in the same spirit of ardent but misguided affection, Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head. Jesus saith, He that is washed by me, needeth not save to wash his feet; but is clean every whit. May every Christian, but chiefly the Ministers of the Sanctuary, Christ. Observ. No. 4.

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meditate on this instructive incident: and may all who admire the humility of Jesus, in thus washing the feet of his Disciples with water, recollect that they themselves must perish, unless he wash them from their sins in his precious blood!

No sooner were the Apostles seated, than a general alarm was excited by the declaration of our Lord, that one of them should betray him. Each anxiously inquired, Lord, is it I? and St. Peter, too confident of his own integrity, and impatient to ascertain the traitor, made a sign to the beloved Disciple to put a question, which was answered by Jesus in such a manner, as gave the rest of the Apostles no immediate information on the subject. On the retreat of Judas however, our Lord, freed from the presence of his faithless servant, began to glorify God, and to speak of his approaching sufferings. Having told them, Whither I go, ye cannot come; the zealous Peter asked, Lord, whither goest thou? Jesus answered, Whither I go, thou canst not follow me now; but thou shalt follow me afterwards. Not satisfied with this gracious and honourable assurance, the presumptuous Apostle replied, Lord, why cannot I follow thee now? I will lay down my life for thee. To this confident profession, our Lord opposed his own infallible knowledge, Verily, verily,, I say unto thee, the cock shall not crow, till thon hast denied me thrice. That Jesus should suppose him capable of so base an action could not fail to distress St. Peter, but he remained unconvinced of his weakness, and obstinately confiding in his own strength of mind, gave the lie to the wisdom and veracity of his Master.

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