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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. He
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

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-
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.

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.

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 serinon which he afterwards published. His 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 Forteus, who, though personally unacquainted 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.

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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 establish

ment.

"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 inanners, 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. Jaines'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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"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.

"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, his 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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partnership with Messrs. Whittingham, Huntsman, Knevett, &c.; but, like Didot, the celebrated printer of Paris, the profits of Mr. Arliss's speculations did not keep pace with the approbation of the public. For some years past he had, also, been in ill health; and through this, with other untoward circumstances, he has left a family of five young children totally unprovided for. As a man of genius and taste, Mr. Arliss stood unrivalled; and altogether, he must be allowed to have given many new features to the several branches of the art which he professed.-Monthly Maga

zine.

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BALCARRAS, the Right Hon. Alexander Lindsay, ninth Earl of, co. Fife, seventh Lord Lindsay, of Cummernald, one of the sixteen representative peers of Scotland, a general and colonel of the 63d regiment of foot; March 27; at his seat, Haigh Hall, Lancashire; aged 73.

He was born in 1752, the eldest son of James the fifth Earl, by Anne, daughter of Sir Robert Dalrymple of Castleton, Knt. He succeeded his father in February, 1767, and being of a military family and disposition, entered the army on the fifth of July in that year as ensign of 53d foot, which regiment he joined at Gibraltar immediately after. His lordship obtained two years leave of absence to travel on the continent; was allowed to pass over the rank of lieutenant, and was appointed to a company in the 42d, Jan. 23, 1771, and to a majority in the 53d, Dec. 9, 1775. He served three years in Canada and North America, under the late Generals Sir Guy Carlton and Burgoyne; was present at the aetion of Trois Revieres, June 1, 1776; commanded the light infantry of the army at Ticonderoga and Hughbarton, July 7, 1777; also at Freeman's Farm, Sept. 19, on the heights of Saratoga and Freeman's Farm, with the command of the advanced corps of the army, Brigadier-General Fraser being killed, in the action of the 7th of October. The 8th of October his lordship was appointed lieutenantcolonel of the 24th foot, which regiment he accompanied to the interior of the country, it having been included in the convention of Saratoga. On the death of Lieutenant-General Fraser, the 71st

regiment, consisting of two battalions, was formed into two separate and distinct regiments, viz. the 71st and the 2d 71st, and Lord Balcarras was appointed lieutenant-colonel commandant of the 2d 71st, Feb. 12, 1782; that regiment was disbanded in 1788, and his lordship remained on half-pay six years and a half.

He returned to England, and soon after his return was examined before a committee of the House of Commons relative to the events which led to the unfortunate capitulation of Saratoga. He married June 1, 1780, Elizabeth, only child of his uncle, Charles Dalrymple of North Berwick, Esq., by Elizabeth, only daughter of John Edwin, Esq., by Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Sir Roger Braidshaigh of Haigh, co. Lancaster, Bart. (which estate, on the failure of the issue male of the Braidshaighs, devolved on Elizabeth, Countess of Balcarras.) By this lady the earl had four sons and two daughters: James, the eldest son, late M. P. for Wigan, has succeeded to his father's titles; Charles-Robert, the second, is collector of customs at Agre in Bengal; Edwin, the fourth son, is in the E. I. C. service, at Madras; Elizabeth Keith, his lordship's eldest daughter, was married in 1815, to R. E. Heathcote, Esq. of Longtonhall, co. Stafford; his second daughter, Anne, was married in 1811, to Robert Wardlie, Esq. of Balgarvie, co. Fife.

Earl Balcarras received the rank of colonel, and a special commission to command in Jersey, Nov. 20, 1782; and was charged for one year with the correspondence and communications with the armies of La Vendée and Les Chouans. He was first elected one of the sixteen peers for Scotland in 1784, and had been re-chosen for every parlia inent since that time, except that which sat between 1796 and 1802.

His lordship was promoted Aug. 29, 1789, to the colonelcy of the 63d foot, which he retained till his death; and received the rank of major-general, Oct. 12, 1793. He continued on the staff at Jersey till removed to command the forces in Jamaica in 1794, when he was also placed at the head of the civil administration as lieutenant-governor. He held also a general military superintendance over the St. Domingo districts nearest to Jamaica. He resided in that island during the whole of the Maroon war, which commenced in 1795; on its conclusion the assembly voted