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the last sickness of Mr. Hey, which were collected by one of his old and affectionate friends.

"It has pleased our heavenly Father to call the happy spirit of our beloved friend to that rest which remaineth for the people of God.' About a quarter before six o'clock in the evening of the 23d (March, 1819), he took his flight to those bright regions of which he was already a citizen (Philippians iii. 20), on which his affections had long been placed, and towards which he has been enabled, through grace, to tread with steady steps from early youth to a venerable old age. His end was peace. "During a great part of his illness, which was attended with much weakness, he slumbered, or was affected by slight and interrupted attacks of delirium. These were of short duration, and his friends had the relief of witnessing many lucid intervals. On Sunday morning, March the 14th, he wrote the following note to his beloved pastor and friend, the Rev. Miles Jackson.

"My dear Friend;

"With unfeigned gratitude, I desire to inform you that I am free from pain, (though extremely weak), except when the hiccough comes on, which is generally excited by any exertion. I desire to be as clay in the hands of the potter, and to have the Lord Jesus for my strength and stay.

"WILLIAM HEY.'

"On Saturday forenoon, March 20, about twelve o'clock, as he came out of a slumber, he inquired, 'Is it day or night? What a clock is it?' When told, he said, 'I should like to know my real state; but I am not anxious about it. I would truly wish to lie as clay in the hands of the potter, from the ground of my heart.'

"I saw our dear friend on the Monday morning, before his death, for the first time; he was in a kind of slumber. Miss Hey mentioned my name. He just said, with a faint voice, 'My friends are all very kind in coming to see me.' He then sunk into his previous state of stupor.

"The Rev. Mr. Jackson called upon him about half-past twelve the same day; he moved his hand out of the bed, and pressed Mr. Jackson's hand with his usual warmth of feeling. Mr. Jackson said, Shall I offer up a short prayer?' He replied, By all means, by all means.' During the recommendatory prayer, he repeated Amen several

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times with considerable fervour; and then added, O God of love, make me make me more - ! and was evidently unable to finish the petition. He said, directing himself to Mr. Jackson, Be with thy servant!-Be with him who hath prayed for me!'

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"After I left him, he revived a little, and said to his daughter, Miss Hey, My love,-you are my love, I must take my leave of you. Farewell! Farewell!' She said to him, Is the blessed Jesus precious to you?' After a pause, he replied, Is it for me to make a confession of my faith?-My trust is in Christ.-He is my Saviour.He is my Redeemer!'-repeating the expressions more than once.

"After a short pause had elapsed, Mrs. Hey came and took hold of his hand. He looked at her, and said with a pleasant voice, "What are you come for, my dear love? To see me before I die ?-My dear wife, you see your hus band laid upon his death-bed ;-you see him dying.'

"At intervals he was heard to say in broken accents, To worship God; to worship the Lord Jesus Christ These expressions were connected with other words, which could not be collected, from the weakness of his voice.

"Some time after twelve o'clock, he said to Miss Hey, 'O let us awake from sin! My dear love, awake to righteousness! I die very soon,' repeating these words several times.

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"I called again on Tuesday morning, March 23, and found him much reduced. Mr. William and Miss Hey expressed a desire that we should offer up our united petitions, commending his soul to God. The family was assembled, and we poured out our hearts around the bed of our dying friend. In the afternoon, Miss Hey and Mr. William Hey only being with me in the room, we rendered our humble supplications at the Throne of Grace.

"About twenty minutes before six o'clock, Mrs. Hey came to the bed-side. She had been informed, I believe, of the nearness of Mr. Hey's departure. Feeble and trembling, I took her by the hand to conduct her to her chair; while I was leading her from the bed-side,

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Mr. Hey made a peculiar kind of shrill of Cowper, and has been extennoise: I thought that it was, probably, sively followed by subsequent methe last effort of expiring nature. When morialists. I had placed Mrs. Hey in her chair, I returned to the bed; looked for a minute or two; but perceived no heaving of the breast. Miss Hey, who was aware of his situation, sat with her hands before her face, near her beloved parent. Mr. William Hey was sitting beside his aged mother. I went to him and said, I think your father breathes no more.

He rose and stood for some minutes

with his eyes steadily fixed on his revered parent, and then, after placing his hand upon the breast, retired. The silver cord was loosed, the happy spirit had taken its everlasting flight." Moral and Social Life, pp. 288-292.

To this and the following paragraphs, carried back to their natural position, we should have been glad also to have seen subjoined the conclusion of Part I. from p. 104: as we do not see the peculiar connexion which such a conclusion had with

the Professional Life of Mr. Hey. The traits of his character are indeed greatly diversified, and have necessarily led to a mass of miscellaneous matter, which required much judgment in the disposition. The outpouring, moreover, of Mr. Pearson's own full mind, added to the many original remarks or documents of Mr. Hey, and notices of personages introduced in very pleas ing variety into the piece-such as Ely Bates, the Jowett family, Dr. Isaac Milner Dean of Carlisle, &c. &c.-all add to the difficulty of arrangement, which we are inclined to think is the only difficulty our able and excellent biographer has not fully mastered. We do not presume to dictate; but our own opinion is, that a chronological series, from the commencement to the close of the volume, or something in approximation to it, is generally the best method of arrangement. An excellent model of this plan has been laid in Hayley's Life

* We may probably find room in some future Number to extract the Memoir of this eminent character, but little known to the public, except through his works,

We cannot 'conclude our notice of the present work without repeating the testimony which we have already given of the high honour which it reflects, as a whole, both on the biographer and on the subject of it. If we contemplate Mr. Hey himself, we see a man of the most firm and unbending, yet feeling and considerate mind, detracting nothing from his exertions in a profession, of which he was one of the highest provincial ornaments, yet finding time and thought for the good offices and undertakings for prosecution of many great and the more general benefit of his fellow-creatures: a most wise and tender father; and, under circumstances of peculiar domestic trial, as well as in the general tone and most devoted piety to God, groundtemper of his mind, exhibiting the ed on a sense of his obligation to his Divine Lord and Saviour, and regulated by a sober and stedfast attachment to established order and public forms. We see him practising a stern, it might be occasionally, as is noticed by Mr. Pearson, a it with the grace and embellishment scrupulous, morality; but adorning of the lighter arts, particularly music, of which he was passionately fond, but which never detained him in the parlour or the concertroom one minute beyond the time he had previously allotted to it. In short, we behold a man faithful-of course, as a human and fallen being, we speak only comparatively -to himself, to his family, to the public, and to God. We see one, who, in language more expressive than that of any human writing, acknowledged "the Almighty God, and walked before Him," and, in the sense alone applicable to human frailty and infirmity," was perfect in his generation.' And if, after such an expression of our honest conviction of Mr. Hey's character, on rising from the perusal of this

Lit. and Phil. Intell-Great Britain. volume, we do not return in a kindred tone of commendation to its author, he will readily feel the motives of our abstinence. Suffice it for Mr. Pearson, that he has rendered one of those important ser vices to mankind which are always conferred by a volume calculated as this is (the professional part we pass over) to promote the virtue and the piety of moral and accountable beings. In conducting his honourable task, Mr. Pearson has truly witnessed a good confession before many witnesses; he bas left a standing and honourable memo

rial to those principles which he holds in common with his late friend Mr. Hey; he has exhibited, in the dress of a masculine and flowing style, the powers of a strong mind, and generally a correct judgment; and, above all, has manifested an example, where such example is likely to be attended with important benefits, of faith without superstition, zeal without heat, church principles without bigotry, and an attachment to the soundest dictates of morality inseparably connected with the glory of God and the spiritual interests of mankind.

LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL INTELLIGENCE,

&c. &c.

GREAT BRITAIN. PREPARING for publication: - Literal Translation of the Odyssey; by an Oxonian; - Journal of a Voyage to Greenland; by Captain Manby;--Life and Times of Daniel De Foe; by W. Wilson.

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In the press:-Memoirs of the Civil Wars; from the papers of an Eye-witness; Abridgment of Blackstone's Commentaries, in a series of Letters from a Father to his Daughter;-Trauslation of Legendre's Elements; edited by Dr. Brewster;-and An entire new View of the Apocalyptic Numbers, intended to "shew that the 666 years of the Babylonian beast followed by his 42 months' power reach from the third of Cyrus to the final desolation in Judea, A. D. 136, which Daniel's vision extended to; then after a thousand years appeared in Rome against the Waldenses, &c. whose souls rest with Christ the present thousand; after which Infidel Gog in the last effort will perish with the beast for ever, and the endless sabbath of rest begin!" by Mr. Overton.

So great has been the extension of po. pular literature in this country during the last few years, that Lord Russell lately stated in the House of Commons, that in the year 1770 there were but four circulating libraries in London, but that there are at present one hundred, and

nine hundred more scattered throughout the country, besides from 1500 to 2000 book-clubs. His Lordship added, that he was informed by the firm of Messrs. Longman and Co., that they sold to the number of five million volumes annually; that they afforded constant employmeut to sixty clerks, and 250 printers and bookbinders; and paid 5,500l. yearly in advertisements. One of the magazines states, that at the present moment there are fewer works in the press than have been known for some years, and that the chief London publishers seem to have determined to diminish their stocks rather than enlarge them further by hazardous speculations. An inundation of books, with no better recommendation than fine paper and printing, has injured substantial lite. rature, and vitiated the public taste. Works are now not unfrequently published at prices exceeding what they could be copied for by a scrivener: thus relinquishing a considerable part of the benefit of the art of printing.

It was lately voted in the House of Commons, on the motion of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, “That au humble Address be presented to his Majesty, to represent to his Majesty that the editions of the works of our ancient Historians are incorrect and defective; that many of their writings still remain in manuscript, and in some

cases in a single copy only; and that an uniform and convenient edition of the whole, published under his Majesty's Royal sanction, would be an undertaking honourable to his Majesty's reign, and conducive to the advancement of historical and constitutional knowledge: that this House, therefore, humbly beseeches his Majesty, that he would be graciously pleased to give such direc tions as his Majesty in his wisdom may think fit, for the publication of a complete Edition of the Ancient Histories of this Realm: and that this House begs leave to assure his Majesty, that what ever expense may be necessary for this purpose will be made good by this House."

A Royal Academy of Music is about to be established, under the sanction of his Majesty, for the advancement of the theory and practice of music vocal and instrumental. Dr. Crotch has been appointed Principal of the Academy,

and the most eminent Professors are engaged in every department of the art.

UNITED STATES.

An American journal presents the following literary details:

"The number of persons employed by book printing in the United States, is estimated at 10,000. Upwards of 400,000 dollars were expended by the publishers of Rees's Cyclopedia, 30,000 reams of paper were used, 12,000 copper-plates were engraved, from which 2,776,060 impressions were taken. It has for fifteen years given employment to one hundred persons daily. It is the largest work in the English language, and the American edition is larger than the English. The foreign books which have been published in the United States within thirty years, exceed 20,000,000, the amount of books manufactured in this country every year, is at least from one and a half to two millions."

LIST OF NEW PUBLICATIONS.

THEOLOGY.

Works of the Rev. Johu Gambold: with an Introductory Essay; by Thomas Erskine, Esq. Advocate, Author of Remarks on the Internal Evidence for the Truth of Revealed Religion. 12mo. 4s. Farewell Discourse to the Congregation and Parish of St. John's, Glasgow; by the Rev. Edward Irving, some time Assistant to the Rev. Dr. Chalmers. 8vo. -1s. 6d.

Practical and Familiar Sermons; by the Rev. E. Cooper. Vol. VI. 6s.

Lectures on Parables selected from the New Testament. 8s.

Testimonies to the Truths of National and Revealed Religion, extracted from the Works of distinguished Laymen; by the Rev. S. Brewster, 12mo. 5s. 6d. Thornton's Sermons on various Subjects. 8vo. 12s.

On the Moral Benefits of Death to Mankind; by D. Eaton. 18.

A Sermon preached at the Auniversary of the British and Foreign School Society; by the Rev. W. Cairns, M. A. 8vo. 2s.

A Country Parson's Second Offering to his Mother Church, in nine Pastoral Sermons. 12mo. 3s.

Scripture Principles, Precepts, and Precedents, in Favour of the Baptism of Infants; by D. Isaac. 12mo. 4s. 6d. Sermons Doctrinal and Practical; by the Rev. H. G. White, A. M. 2 vols. Svo. 24s.

The Influence of Protestant Missionary Establishments in developing the

physical and moral Condition of Man; and elucidating the dark Regions of the Globe; by T. Myers, A. M. 38.

Observations on the metrical Version of the Psalms made by Sternhold, Hopkins, and others: with Notices of other English metrical Versions of the Psalms; by the Rev. Henry John Todd, M. A, F. S. A. 8vo. 4s.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Architectural Antiquities of Normandy; by J. S. Cotman 2 vols. super royal folio, 121. 12s. India paper, 211.

Kentish Writers in English Poetry.

2 vols. 12mo. 15s.

Memoirs of Benvenuto Cellini; written by himself: edited by T. Roscoe, Esq. 2 vols. 24s.

Memoirs of the late Rev. A. Stewart, D.D. of Edinburgh. 8vo. 10s. 6d.

The Life of Willielma, Viscountess Glenorchy; by T. S. Jones, D. D. 8vo. 10s. 6d.

Memoirs and Select Remains of an only Son; by T. Durant. 2 vols. 10s. 6d.

The Exotic Flora; by W. J. Hooker, LL.D. &c. Part I. Royal 8vo.

Chronological Notes of Scottish Affairs, from 1680 to 1701, from Lord Fountainhill's Diary. 4to. 368.

Annotations on Livy; by J. Walker. 8vo. 12s.

Essays on Ancient Greece; by H. D. Hill, D. D. 12mo. 78.

Bivalve Shells of the British Islands; by W. Turton, M.D. 4to. 41.

Domestic Education; by W. J. Hort. 22 vols. 31. 13s. 6d.

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Speech intended to be delivered at the last Annual Meeting of the Hibernian Bible Society; by the Rev. James Dunn.

Inquiry into the present State of the Statute and Criminal Law of England; by John Miller, Esq. 8vo. 9s. 6d.

Speech of the Rev. Dr. Chalmers, on the 24th of May, 1822, before the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, explanatory of the Measures which have been successfully pursued in St. John's Parish, Glasgow, for the extinction of its Compulsory Pauperism.

8vo. 2s.

A Journey from Merut to London, through Arabia, Persia, &c. in 1819, 1820; by Lieut. T. Lumsden. 8vo. 10s. 6d.

RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGA.

TION OF THE GOSPEL.

FROM the last Annual Report of the Society, lately circulated, we copy the following interesting particulars.

The accounts from India state that the buildings of the Bishop's College, Calcutta, will be finished at the conclusion of the present year; by which time, it is hoped, the plans of the Society in that quarter will be in active operation, by the admission of a certain number of students, and the arrival in India of two English missionaries. It is in contemplation to render the Clergy Orphan School in London, at St. John's Wood, near the Regent's Park, available as a nursery for missionaries. The Society invite their friends to contribute to the college library, either by pecuniary donations or presents of books. Ten theological scholarships, and as many lay scholarships, have been founded for Native or European youths educated in the principles of Christianity, and the sum of 1000l. per annum is appropriated to that special purpose. The ordinary age of admission is to be fourteen years Individuals may found scholarships at the college, at the rate of not less than 5000 sicca rupees; the first appointment is to be in the nomination of the founder, under such limitations as may be fixed by the statutes.

The Rev. Mr. Mill, the Principal of the college, writes as follows, on the

duty and safety of promoting Christianity among the natives of India :

"The impulse given to the public mind here, with respect to the obligation of improving the state of the native population, is indeed remarkable; and the conviction, among the more reflecting and religious part of the European society, seems to be gaining ground, that this improvement must involve in it the introduction of Christianity, and should be conducted according to the sober principles, the apostolical doctrine and discipline of our Church. The great difficulty with which we have to contend, is the prejudice which associates every endeavour of this nature with hostility to the Establishment; a prejudice which, though contradicted by innumerable testimonies, both in former times and the present, exists in the minds of many very different classes of persons....Apprehensions of danger from the native prejudices, are, in the judgment of almost every observer here, without foundation. The experience of the Diocesan Schools, and others, where the children of Pagans are instructed, proves that they will admit any thing, provided their errors be not the direct objects of attack; and that while the indolence and sensuality of their native habits bind them most to their superstitions, the hopes of their children's advancement are sufficient to make them consent to the method, which more effectually than any other tends

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