tian principles and with the aid of those placid feelings which are produced by the presence of retired and beautiful scenery. Nor did he rejoice in giving such recreations to those of mature age only; seldom did he experience greater enjoyment than when surrounded by three or four hundred children from the charityschools with which he was connected. He loved to invite them to come and enjoy their pastimes as an incentive to good conduct. Cheering were the sounds, joyous the sight when they frolicked in all the gaiety of youth, the woods and rocks echoing with their merriment. More soothing were the sounds, deeper the impression, when, assembling after their gambols, they joined in the hymn of praise to their Creator, the author of the beauties they had been surveying, the giver of all their joys; and when their venerable and benevolent friend addressed to them a few words, exhorting them to persevere in the paths of virtuous exertion, which would lead them in peace through this world to eternal bliss in heaven.

Thus did he delight to win the young to virtue, representing her ways as ways of pleasantness, and all her paths as peace. And such did he himself experience them to be; few men have passed a happier life than he, as few have contributed more to the happiness of others. Yet he too had his trials; the heaviest of these was the loss of her who had, for so long a series of years, been the sharer of his counsels, of all his joys and sorrows, with whom his own sentiments were so much in unison that it seemed as if they were actuated by one mind, "Whilst kindred soul was knit to soul, And heart to heart responsive beat." Mrs. Yates died in 1819. Her husband had been long in the habit of speaking of their separation by death as an event appointed by the wisdom of Providence, and to which they ought to look forward with the same confidence as to any other event equally certain. This wise and manly Christian fore-thought enabled him to bear that awful stroke, when it arrived, with exemplary serenity; and when, a few years afterwards, he felt mortal symptoms in his own frame, the same holy and happy principles cheered his mind, and made the close of his life dignified, calm and peaceful. To the members of his family he at various times spoke of his impending dissolution as an event which he looked for with perfect assurance; and by the simple and unaffected fortitude of

these occasional remarks he shewed how well prepared he was to meet it. Indeed, the infirmities of age had so far abated his activity, that to live seemed to be regarded by him as more an act of submission than to die. "Are you come," said he one day to his attending physician, Dr. Briggs, "to patch up a man of snow, after the sun of another world has begun to shine upon him?" It pleased Providence to preserve his powers of understanding almost to the last, and whilst his kind affections were as lively and conspicuous as in his most vigorous days, he was able to converse with great animation almost to the very day when he was confined to the chamber of death. There the appointed change was seen gradually advancing during six successive days, and he at length expired on the evening of the 71st anniversary of his birth.

Mr. Shepherd, who had, at the request of the family, conducted the funeral service at the Park Chapel, preached at Paradise Street the following Lord's-day, from the text, "He was a burning and a shining light, and ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light." John v.35. No one could have been so well qualified to execute the task of delineating the character of his deceased friend and brother; and the crowded auditory shewed how much they were affected by his address. The mourning attendance on this occasion shewed how affectionately Mr. Yates was beloved by all ranks and classes of his hearers, and how highly his piety and integrity, his benevolence and public spirit, were estimated by men of all parties and denominations.

MRS. MARY WREFORD.

Nov. 2, at King's Down Parade, Bristol, aged 54, MARY WREFORD, wife of Mr. R. V. Wreford, and daughter of the Rev. John Reynell, formerly of Thorverton, Devon.

The Author of her nature had given to her a happy constitution of body and mind, which was manifested by an unclouded cheerfulness and a uniform sweetness of temper. The most distinguishing traits in her moral and religious character were true Christian contentment, and an entire trust in the Divine equity and goodness; a disposition to see causes of gladness and pious gratitude in all situations; habitual tranqui lity of mind, united with great warmth and activity of affection; and a fortitude in suffering equal to her capacity of enjoyment. The cheering and enlightened

views of the Divine government which she early imbibed from her excellent father, (she was young when her mother died,) were always present to her thoughts, and enabled her to die as she had lived, thankful and happy. Those who have known her longest and most intimately would find it difficult to say what were her faults. A present reward of her virtues was, that she saw herself always surrounded by a family who loved her as she deserved to be loved. The same trust in God and faith in Jesus Christ which sustained and cheered her in life and in death, are now their great support and consolation.

After an illness of three weeks, the effect of an acute inflammatory attack, she expired without a struggle or a

Nov. 26, at his residence, Highbury, in his 82d year, JOHN NICHOLS, Esq., F.S. A., well known as the author, compiler, or editor of many large and valuable works, and for eight and forty years Editor of the Gentleman's Magazine. We cannot, perhaps, better gratify our readers than by inserting in this place the account of his own life which he has inserted in the sixth volume of his Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century, p. 627.

"John Nichols, son of Edward and Anne Nichols, was born at Islington, Feb. 2, 1744-5, and received his education in that village, at the academy of Mr. John Shield. His original designation was to the Royal Navy, which was rendered abortive by a relation's death [Mr. Wilmot, a maternal uncle, who was à Lieutenant of the Bellona, under Captain Barrington, when in August, 1747, be captured the Duke of Chartres EastIndiaman].

"In 1757, before he was quite 13, he was placed under the care of Mr. Bowyer, who, in a short time, received him into his confidence, and intrusted to him the management of his printing-office. In 1765, he was sent to Cambridge, to treat with the University for a lease of their exclusive privilege of printing. But that learned body having determined to keep the property in their own hands, he, in the following year, (having previously become a freeman of London, and a Liveryman of the Company of Stationers,) entered into partnership with his master; with whom, in 1767, he removed from White Friars into Red Lion Passage,

Fleet Street. This union continued till the death of Mr. Bowyer, in 1777.

"In August, 1778, he became associated with his friend Mr. David Henry in the management of the Gentleman's Magazine; and since that time not a single month has elapsed, in which he has not written several articles in that miscellany; some of them with his name or initials; and others (as is essential to a periodical work) anonymously. But he can truly say, that he never wrote a single line, either in the Magazine or elsewhere, that he would not at the time have avowed, had it been necessary, or that he now wishes to recall.

"In 1781, he was elected an honorary member of the Society of Antiquaries at Edinburgh; and, in 1785, received the same distinction from the Society of Antiquaries at Perth. In December, 1784, he was elected into the Common Council for the Ward of Farringdon Without, whence, in 1786, on a violent collision of parties, he was ousted. In the summer of 1787, he was unanimously re-elected; and received from Mr. Alderman Wilkes the unsolicited appointment of one of the Deputies of the Ward. At the end of 1797, on the death of Mr. Wilkes, he withdrew from his seat in the Common Council; but in the following year, on the pressing solicitation of some of his friends, again accepted of it.

"In 1804, he attained the summit of his ambition, in being elected Master of the Stationers' Company. On the 8th of January, 1807, by an accidental fall, he fractured one of his thighs; and on the 8th of July, 1808, experienced a far greater calamity, in the destruction of his printing-office and warehouses, with the whole of their valuable contents.

"Under these accumulated misfortunes, sufficient to have overwhelmed a much stronger mind, he was supported by the consolatory balm of friendship, and the offers of unlimited pecuniary assistance, till, cheered by unequivocal marks of public and private approbation, (not to mention motives of a higher and far superior nature,+) he had the resolution to apply with redoubled diligence to literary and typographical labours.

"In December, 1811, having completed

Under the signatures, very frequently, either of Alphonso; Eugenio; M. Green; a London Antiquary; J. N., &c.

"I thank God, I had the hope of a "BiChristian; and that supported me.' shop Hough to Lady Knightley, Feb. 2, 1731-2.

the History of Leicestershire,' and made a considerable progress in the volumes, in which this article appears, he bad a final adieu to civic honours; intending also to withdraw from a business in which he had been for 54 years assiduously engaged; and hoping (Deo volente) to pass the evening of life in the calm enjoyment of domestic tranquillity. He was married, in 1766, to Anne, daughter of Mr. William Cradock, of Leicester; and again, in 1778, to Martha, daughter of Mr. William Green, of Hinckley. By the first wife, who died in 1776, he has two daughters living, 1812; by the second, who died in 1778, one son and four daughters. He never affected to possess any superior share of erudition, or to be profoundly versed in the learned languages; content if in plain, intelligible terms, either in conversation or in writing, he could contribute his quota of information or entertainment."

In addition to the facts which Mr. Nichols has recorded, we may add, that he was a Fellow of the London Society of Antiquaries, and long an active manager of that excellent Institution, the Literary Fund. From the list of his publications, which Mr. Nichols has subjoined to this auto-biography, it will be seen that from an early age he was an industrious and multifarious writer. He began his literary career, like many other youths, as the votary of the muses; but he soon abandoned the flowery meadows of Parnassus, for the more rugged fields of antiquarian research. His largest original work is his History of Leicestershire, published in seven parts, and making four thick volumes, in folio. The next, in point of extent, and probably the most interesting of his publications, is his Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century, in 6 volumes, 8vo., a work rich in biographical information. Mr. Nichols had a very extensive knowledge of men and books, and his writings will, on this account, form a valuable store of materials for future biographers and historians. His chief merit as a literary man was that of being an industrious and careful compiler, which qualified him for the duties of an editor, which he so frequently undertook. The Gentleman's Magazine, which he so long and so ably conducted, shews him to have been a High Church

Mr. John Bowyer Nichols, F. S. A., his father's partner in the printing business, a gentleman of very extensive literary information, and of the highest respectability of character. ED.

Tory in his religion and politics. But though he occasionally admitted papers, probably forced upon him by his connexions, which displayed in its worst features the spirit of intolerance, he was himself, we really believe, the Mr. Urban whom he personated. We wish his successor in the editorial office may possess his mildness of temper and be.. nevolence of heart.

MR. PENDRILL.

"MR. PENDRILL, a shoemaker, late of Newgate Street, was buried on Sunday, December 3, at Creed Church, Leadenhall Street, with masonic honours. He was descended from the family of the Pendrills, in Nottinghamshire; one of whom, Mr. Pendrill, of Beskell House, secreted Charles II., and saved him, by making him assume the character of his servant. In this disguise he was conveyed beyond the reach of his enemies. For the services then performed, the family of Pendrill receive a pension at this day from Government. Integrity seems to have descended from father to son as an inheritance; for at a time when a reward of £1000 was offered for the apprehension of young Watson, Mr. Pendrill secreted him in his house in Newgate Street, dressed as a female, watched over him to prevent the approach of every intruder, accompanied him to America, and never left him till he saw him in a place of safety." What bump would the Craniologists expect to find hereditary in this family?

MRS. HARRIET Shore.

"WE have the melancholy task of recording the death of HARRIET, the beloved wife of Samuel SHORE, Esq., of Norton Hall. She departed this life on Saturday evening, December 9, 1826, aged 65. Her loss will be deeply regretted by her family, with whom she affectionately lived in the faithful and active discharge of all her duties; by society, of which she was an ornament; and by the poor, to whom she was a kind and liberal friend. We believe that this lady was the last surviving branch of the Foys, an eminent and very respectable family in the South of England." Sheffield Mercury.

REV. WILLIAM WHITEAR.

December 10, in the prime of life, leaving a widow and four children, at Starston, near Harleston, Norfolk, the Rev. WM. WHITEAR, Rector of the for