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Hely Hutchinson died, and the mother of Lord Donoughmore had also departed this life, the Catholics of Ireland presented an address to the late Lord Donoughmore, congratulating him upon his accession to his family honours and distinctions. His answer was, that in whatever estimation people might hold honours and rank, he valued none of them so highly as being styled the hereditary defender of the rights of his countrymen. In fact, the life of Lord Donoughmore was an abridgment of patriotism, for his views were incessantly devoted to the service of his country. At one period in his country's history, when an attempt was made to crush the right of petitioning; when public courage seemed to have lost its energy, and public wisdom to have forgotten its inspiration; when the storm was raging, and the vessel going down - the enemy bearing upon it with all their fury — and all hands seemed to have despaired; at that eventful moment, the late Lord Donoughmore, who was, in fact, but a passenger on board, was the first who had the courage to nail the colours to the mast. Not alone was his life devoted to your service he died in defence of your cause to the letter. When he was about to come over the last time, he was told by the physicians attending, and all his near relations, that the journey would be his death. His answer was, 'I can meet no death so honourable or so agreeable.' His very last effort on our behalf was made within these walls. At that time I, as an intimate friend, ventured to advise him not to go abroad, but he rejected the advice, and you must all remember his last exertion - his speech on that day must ever live in your recollection. With shattered frame his physical powers quite exhausted, he went into the country, and surrendered himself in quietness and resignation to the will of his Maker. A short time before his death he wrote me a note, requesting me not to forget to have the resolutions of the peers published, and adding, that there were twelve other noble friends of ours who were anxious to have their names added to the honourable list. Thus it was that he justified the appellation of hereditary advocate of the Catholic claims.'

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His life began in your service, was dedicated without interruption to promote our cause, and he died in its support. Am I, then, asking too much, when I solicit your support to this resolution; namely, That we deeply lament the death of the late Earl of Donoughmore, as a calamity to the Catholic cause; that the title of its hereditary advocate,' given to him by general consent, has been fully justified by his adherence to the line of Catholic politics adopted by his ancestors, in times of the most violent prejudices and opposition; and by a persevering zeal and firmness in support of our just claims, which not only excites our present feelings, but must secure the grateful remembrance of Catholic posterity. This our regret, however, is softened, if regret at such a loss be susceptible of modification, by a knowledge that the spirit lives and governs in our respect every surviving member of his family.""

The resolution was seconded by Mr. Witham, and carried unanimously; as was also a subsequent resolution, "That a letter of condolence, with a copy of the above resolution, be transmitted to the Earl of Donoughmore, in the name of the British Catholics."

"Debrett's Peerage," the "Royal Military Calendar," the "Parliamentary Debates," the Irish and London newspapers, and some valuable communications from a near connection of the deceased nobleman, are the sources whence this memoir has been derived.

BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX

OF DEATHS,

FOR 1825.

COMPILED IN PART FROM ORIGINAL PAPERS, AND IN PART
FROM CONTEMPORARY PUBLICATIONS.

A.

divine was born at Leicester, April 3,
1750, the son of the Rev. Gerrard
Andrewes, Vicar of Syston and of St.
Nicholas, Leicester, and Master of the
Free Grammar School in that town.
His mother was Isabella, daughter of
John Ludlam, Esq. of Leicester, whose
uncle, Sir George Ludlam, was Cham-
berlain of London from 1718 to 1727.
Under Syston, in Nichols's history of
the county, is given a pedigree of the
family, at the head of which stands the
name of Thomas Andrewes, of Weston
Baggard, county of Hereford, who died
in 1615, at the age of 114, and who is
said to have been a beau among the
six Herefordshire couples, who enter-
He tained King James the First with a
Morris-dance, when one with another
they averaged a hundred years in age.
It is remarkable that Dr. Andrewes's
father was one of fifteen children and
his mother one of seventeen; yet he
was the only remaining male of either
grandfather.

ALEXANDER, Samuel, of Need-
ham Market, Suffolk; Dec. 15,
1824; in his 76th year. Mr. Alexander
was one of the Society of Friends.
Having retired early in life from the
toil and bustle of business, he devoted
his time most indefatigably to the wel-
fare of the sect of which he was a zeal-
ous member. His purse was generally
open to those benevolent institutions
which did not interfere with his religious
scruples. His charity for those who
differed from him in sentiment was well
worthy of imitation; and by the poor,
to whom he was a liberal benefactor,
his loss will be felt most sensibly.
was the author of the following publi-
cations: "Brief Remarks on the Dis-
cipline amongst Friends, particularly
as it relates to Tithes, and to those who
pay them. York, 1818," 12mo. "An
Address to the Members of the two
Monthly Meetings, constituting the
Quarterly Meeting of Friends of the
County of Suffolk. Ipswich, 1812,"
12mo.-Gentleman's Magazine.

ANDREWES, the very Rev, Ger-
rard, D.D. Dean of Canterbury, and
Rector of St. James's, Westminster;
June 2; at the Rectory House in Pic-
cadilly; aged 75. This distinguished

Dr. Andrewes, as his father had been,
was educated at Westminster School,
where he was elected a scholar in 1764,
and whence he was elected a fellow of
Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1769.
He proceeded B. A, 1773, M. A. 1779,
S.T. P. 1807. In 1772 he returned to
Westminster as an Assistant Master,
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and such he continued till 1784. One of his first clerical duties was that of an occasional Assistant Preacher at St. Bride's, Fleet Street; he was afterwards engaged at St. James's Chapel, in the Hampstead Road. In 1780, when his friend Sir Edm. Cradock Hartopp served High Sheriff of Leicestershire, Mr. Andrewes acted as his Chaplain. In 1788 he was presented by Lord Borringdon, whose tutor he had been, to the Rectory of Zeal Monachorum, in Devonshire. On the 1st of Dec. in the same year, he was united to Elizabeth Maria, daughter of the Rev. Thos. Ball, Rector of Wymondham, Leic.; by this marriage he had three daughters, the eldest of whom was married to a son of John Baker, Esq. formerly M. P. for Canterbury, the second died an infant, and the third died unmarried; his youngest child and only son married a daughter of Dr. Heberden.

His

In 1791 he was chosen alternate Evening Preacher at the Magdalen; and in 1799 at the Foundling Hospital. In the latter year he preached" in St. Paul's, at the anniversary meeting of the Sons of the Clergy, a sermon which he afterwards published. efforts in the pulpit having excited the admiration of Lady Talbot, and obtained her esteem, she presented him, in 1800, to the Rectory of Mickleham, in Surrey. He was offered the Rectory of Wormley, Herts, by Sir Abraham Hume, Bart. but the kind proffer was declined. was most unexpectedly collated to St. James's, Aug. 10, 1802, by Bishop Porteus, who, though personally unac'quainted with Mr. Andrewes, had the uncommon fortitude to advance merit in opposition to the concerted intrigues of interest, and the formidable demands of power. His Rectory of Mickleham having become vacant on his preferment, he was again presented to it, and instituted Sept. 7, 1802.

He

In 1804 he published a plain, energetic "Sermon, preached at St. Nicholas, Deptford, June 6, 1803, before the Trinity Brethren." The substance of seven lectures on the liturgy, which he delivered at St. James's, in February and March, 1809, occupies thirty-four pages of "The Pulpit, by Onesimus," vol. 1. 8vo. 1809. In that year, through the influence of Mr. Perceval, then Prime Minister, he was elected Dean of Canterbury; and he thereupon finally left Mickleham. In 1812, on

the translation of Bishop Sparke, he was offered, by Lord Liverpool, the Bishopric of Chester, but declined on the plea of his advancing years.

Enjoying vigour of talent and maturity of experience, alike estimable for soundness of doctrine and purity of living, Dean Andrewes was justly considered one of the most eminent members of our ecclesiastical establishment.

"In the pulpit he was argumentative but not impassioned, conclusive but not eloquent, a good rather than a great preacher. He was often striking, but seldom moving. All that human information suggests or human ingenuity can devise, in aid of truth elucidatory, or confirmatory, presented itself readily to his mind, and was impressed by him on the minds of his hearers. He was therefore fond of illustrating the evidences of religion; and of enforcing, from motives of propriety or expediency, the practice of the moral duties. Sometimes he rose into considerable animation; and he uniformly secured attention." In all the relations of society he practised in their purest sense the doctrines it was his anxious endeavour to instil; while the closing scene was one which best evinced the excellence and sincerity of his life and manners, and his firm reliance on a future state of never-ending reward. His remains were interred in a vault at Great Bookham, in Surrey; those of his wife and daughter were removed thither from St. James's early on the day of his funeral. The hearse with his own corpse followed about eight o'clock. The principal shops in the parish were closed, from respect to his memory.

The above sketch of Dr. Andrewes's life we have extracted from " The Gentleman's Magazine." The following is his character as delineated in a sermon preached after his funeral by the Rev. Edward Repton, A. M. at St. Philip's Chapel, Regent Street; on Sunday, June 12, 1825.

"In manners gentle and conciliating; in temper cheerful, equal; in domestic life a practical exhortation to his children, a living pattern to his dependants. To all men kind and considerate; ever ready to listen to the tale of sorrow, prompt and unhesitating to relieve it; liberal without ostentation; charitable without reproof. Strict and uncompromising in his sense of reli

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gious duties, though a stranger to the unnatural gloom of fanaticism; shunning the dissipations and vanities of the world, but ever rejoicing in the joy of others, and sharing with cheerfulness the rational amusements of society.

"Such was this good man in private life, and they who knew him best, will know that I have not passed the boundaries of truth. But his public life is known to all. His zeal-his earnestness-his simplicity-his unaffected and peculiarly impressive manner need no comment. You have heard him, you can bear witness to them-you have felt their power upon your hearts. May their influence be testified in your lives!

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"In doctrine as in life, he was the same followed, courted, praised to a degree almost unprecedented and unequalled, he seemed, as it were, unconscious of the voice of flattery; aiming solely to impress upon his hearers those great truths, which formed the basis of his own belief and practice. For a long period his effective powers were exerted in behalf of two public institutions, which, for the benevolence of their design, and the extensiveness of their benefit, rank amongst the foremost in this great centre of national philanthropy. They who had no earthly parent to nourish and protect them, found in him a spiritual father, who conducted them to the knowledge of their God. And she who had sought refuge from the perfidy and scorn of man, in the retreat of penitence and reformation, was encouraged by his soothing assurances of reconciliation with her God, and confirmed in the renewal of her soul.

"Called by a discerning patron from these and other duties still more arduous, to the charge of this extensive parish, his ministry among you was conspicuous, from its commencement to its close, for the strict discharge of all its various duties. No one was left unfulfilled, and each was conscientiously performed as it became a faithful minister of Christ.

"In the language of St. Paul to the Thessalonians, we have a character which you will recognize; For yourselves know, brethren (says the Apostle), that our entrance in unto you was not in vain. For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile;

* The Foundling and Magdalen Charities.

but as we are allowed of God to be put in trust with the Gospel, even so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, which trieth our hearts. For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness, God is witness: nor of men sought we glory, neither of you, nor yet of others.'

"It was under such conviction as this, that the instructor we have lost, could rejoice in the testimony of his conscience, which reminded him of the

simplicity and sincerity' of his earthly conversation-it was under such conviction as that, that he could look forward to the change which hourly he expected, with humble but fearless resignation.

"Seldom, indeed, can we expect to meet with so instructive a lesson of piety and holy hope, as was exemplified in the calm composure of this good Christian; seldom may we hope to witness so beautiful a scene, as that which closed his earthly labours.

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Happy, cheerful, animated beyond his gradually decaying strength, he suffered not the cloud of despondency in those around him to overcast the brightness of his hopes: but confirmed their firmness, and cheered their painful anticipations.

"In him his parochial charge has lost a zealous and a conscientious pastor, In him the church has lost one of its brightest ornaments; and they who knew him as I knew him, have lost in him a counsellor, a guide, a friend.

"But he is gone to receive the recompence of a well-spent life; we will not sorrow then as men without hope,' but rejoice rather in the full assurance of his spiritual triumph—and that through the merits of his Redeemer, bis own imperfect services will entitle him to the glorious reward of them that die in the Lord.'"

ARLISS, Mr. John, in Gutter Lane, Cheapside. Mr. Arliss was celebrated as one of the most elegant printers of his time. He likewise possessed considerable taste in embellishing juvenile works with wood engravings, and in conjunction with Mr. Whittingham, may be said to have largely contributed to the revival of that beautiful art. few years since, when residing in Newgate Street, he established the Pocket Magazine, which attained, and still enjoys, a large circulation. Besides his concern in Newgate Street, he had previously been engaged in business in

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