Nottingham, F.R.S. Advancing years and ill health compelled him to resign, in June, 1803. Mr. Harrison also was induced by the state of his health, in 1789, to relinquish the office of classical tutor, in which he was succeeded by Rev. Mr. Loyd, till the year 1792, when he quitted it, and is said to be now a banker in London. Charles Saunders, B. A. of Queen's College, Cambridge, was then appointed classical tutor, but in 1799, he was succeeded by William Johns, minister of Totness, who held the office only one year.

In the mathematical department, Mr. Davis was succeeded in 1789, by Mr. Nicholls, who after four years resigned his office to Mr. John Dalton, since celebrated for his discoveries in chemistry. When he resigned, in 1800, Mr. Walker took upon himself the whole business of the institution, for three years. The number of students under this succession of tutors, was usually from twenty to thirty, but they were not all intended for the ministry.

Mr. Walker resigned in 1803, when the New College, as it was called, was removed from Manchester, and placed under the care of Rev. Charles Wellbeloved, of York. In the following year, Hugh Kerr, M. A. of the university, of Glasgow, was appointed classical and mathematical tutor. He was succeeded, in 1808, by Theophilus Brown, of Peterhouse, Cambridge, who, on being chosen minister of the Octagon chapel, Norwich, was followed in the academic office by William Turner jun. A. M. John Kenrick, A. M. has been chosen to teach the classics and the belles lettres. Since the removal of the institution to York, the number of the students has never exceeded twenty. The seminary is chiefly supported by the

contributions of dissenters in the vicinity of Manchester, but donations and subscriptions have lately been received from other parts, as it is now the only institution for the education of what are called presbyterians, in the modern and improper application of that term".

The academical institution which we have traced from Gloucestershire, where it was superintended by Mr. Jones, to Carmarthen, continued under the care of Dr. Jenkin Jenkins till he removed to London in 1779. Robert Gentleman succeeded him in 1780, but the orthodoxy of the institution becoming suspected, the independents, who had joined with the presbyterians in its support, instituted an enquiry which induced them to withdraw their aids, lest they should contribute to propagate arminian and arian sentiments. Mr. Gentleman soon after removed from Carmarthen to take the charge of a congregation at Kidderminster, formed by the separation from Mr. Baxter's former flock. He died in 1795. The independents formed another academy at Abergavenny, in Monmouthshire, of which Dr. Benjamin Davies was appointed tutor.

Several ministers, in different parts of the kingdom, educated one or two young men for the ministry; but as they were not constantly employed in tuition for any considerable time, they are not mentioned in this account of academies.

During the reign of George the third the baptists

Private information, kindly communicated by Rev. Charles Wellbeloved, who now presides over this college.

paid increased attention to the education of their ministers. The general association, at the end of the seventeenth and beginning of the eighteenth century, strongly recommended raising of funds for instructing young men in the learned languages with a view to the ministry. Such funds were obtained, and young men received, at Bristol, instruction for a number of years. Edward Terril and Caleb Jope engaged in this service. But an academy for theological and philosophical studies for the ministry, did not exist in England till the reign of George the second. The classical instruction was then accompanied with the theological and other studies, which had always made a part of ministerial education in dissenting seminaries. Mr. Foskett, under whom it is probable it gradually began, was assisted by Hugh Evans.

Mr. Foskett was the son of a gentleman of fortune in Buckinghamshire, and was born near Wooburn, in Bedfordshire, March 10, 1685. After receiving a liberal education he studied medicine, but soon quitted that profession for the ministry of the Gospel, in which he first laboured at Henley Arden. He laboured nearly forty years at Bristol, and died with hopes full of immortality, in the seventy-fourth year of his age. The companion of his labours, during twentyfour years, pronounced him " a man of fine talents, matured by constant and severe studies, consecrated by ardent piety to the service of the church, and adorned by extensive charity and amiable unspotted conduct."

Hugh Evans, A. M. who succeeded Mr. Foskett in the academic chair, had been also formed by him for this important station. He was honourably

descended, for his grandfather, Thomas Evans, passed his examination for the ministry before the triers in the time of the commonwealth, and received a donation to assist him in the work, for which they pronounced him well qualified. He laboured in Wales, his native country, where he was succeeded by his eldest son Caleb Evans, who was the father of the tutor now under our notice. Hugh Evans, after studying under Mr. Foskett at Bristol, was called in 1733, to assist him in his labours. In what manner he filled the pulpit at Broadmead, and presided in the academy during forty years, his son, Dr. Caleb Evans, has informed the world. He peculiarly excelled in the valuable gift of prayer. With copiousness, dignity, and ardour of devotion, he poured out his heart to God on all occasions, and though he prayed without ceasing, he maintained such variety that he was scarcely ever heard to repeat the same expressions. He was an able eloquent preacher, and as his students enjoyed his friendship, as well as instruction, during life, in the approach of death he said, “I am happy to see these young men rising up, I hope, for great and eminent usefulnesss in the church of God, when I and many others shall be here no more."

Caleb Evans, D. D. who had for some time assisted his father, succeeded to his vacant chair. He had been educated in the Homerton academy under Dr. Walker, Dr. Conder, and Dr. Gibbons, and was received into communion with the church in London, of which Dr. Stennett was pastor. Called to assist his father in 1759, both the church and the academy felt the advantage of his talents and influence. With him originated the Bristol Education Society, formed, "not only for the more effectual supply of

ministers to the churches at home, but also for the education of missionaries to be sent to those places where there is an opening for the Gospel."

As the academy was now to be conducted on a more extended scale, James Newton, A. M. minister of the other baptist congregation at Bristol, was invited to assist in the education of the students. Eminently qualified for the professor's chair by classical and Hebrew erudition, as well as for the pulpit by pure religion and theological knowledge, he was too diffident to be popular; but while his discerning friends hoped for the long continuance of his usefulness, he was called away from earth, April 8, 1780, in the fifty-seventh year of his age. Dr. Evans, the companion of his labours, followed him to the place of rest in August, 1791, when he had attained only his fifty-fourth year. Many who are still living bear testimony to the superiority of his mind, the extent of his learning, the ardour of his zeal, and the holiness of his character. A handsome style aided the natural grace and energy of his elocution, which allured great numbers to the pulpit, where he preached" the unsearchable riches of Christ." On the bed of death, he said," as for those who deny the doctrine of atonement, I cannot tell how it may be with them in the near prospect of death; for my own part, I have nothing to rest my soul upon but Christ and him crucified, and I am now unspeakably happy to think of my feeble effort to vindicate that glorious doctrine my four sermons on it."

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After looking around, for some time, in quest of a successor, the society happily fixed upon Dr. John Ryland, who still presides over the academy. Robert Hall, M. A. afterwards of Cambridge, and Joseph,