tical enemy. He remained for a considerable time afterwards in an Italian regiment, in which, about 1805, he formed part of "the Army of England." Disgusted with the service, and despairing of his country, he, at this time, first formed the desire of transporting himself, a voluntary exile, to England. This design, however, he for a time abandoned, but he left the army, disliking its commander, and himself obnoxious from the freedom of his politics. He, however, retained his rank as Captain. In 1807, he published at Brescia, his celebrated little poem, I Sepolcri."

In 1809, he was appointed Professor of Literature at the University of Pavia; and opened his course with one of the most splendid and liberal orations ever delivered in Italy, "Dell' Origine e dell' Officio della Letteratura." This oration was immediately followed by one of Buonaparte's decisive measures, the suppression of the professorships of literature not only in Pavia but at Padua and Bologna. Foscolo, therefore, was a professor only two months.

In 1812, he wrote another tragedy, "Ajace," which was politically applied, whether the author designed it or not, and he left the kingdom of Italy for Florence, where several other minor performances were written by him, and particularly a biting satire in Latin against some of those whom he esteemed his rivals or persecutors, entitled "Didymi Clerici Prophetæ minimi Hypercalypseos Liber singularis."

During this period he cultivated the English language, and translated Sterne's Sentimental Journey. He also began and finished insulated portions of the great work for which he was so well qualified, and which should have immortalized his name, the translation and illustration of Homer. The first and third books of the Iliad have been published. Fragments of other books were translated, but the work was, from his extreme fastidiousness, and his enthusiastic admiration (amounting almost to awe) of the original, exceedingly laborious, and therefore taken up only at intervals.

In 1814, he was promoted to the rank of Major, by the Regency at Milan, after the fall of Buonaparte, and he ouce more appeared on the stage of Italian politics, rousing his countrymen by eloquent addresses, and endeavouring in vain to enlist England in the cause of Italian independence. It has been said that he was implicated in a secret attempt to expel the Austrians from Italy on the failure of his avowed scheme: his own account,

however, (and we believe the truth,) was, that he could not bring his mind to swear an allegiance to Austria, which might have imposed upon him military services in her interests. He resigned his employments, (the emoluments of which formed a considerable income,) and went to Switzerland, and thence to England, in a great degree, if not entirely, a voluntary exile.

His reputation secured him a cordial, we might say a brilliant, reception here, from the highest ranks of literature, fashion, and nobility. Nothing could be more fascinating and interesting than his conversation, particularly on literary subjects, and his favourite authors, Homer, Dante, and Shakspeare. He spoke with great fluency, energy, and brilliancy; his erudition was vast; and his memory tenacious in an extraordinary degree. Those who knew him at his cottage (which, from the controversy on the Eolic Digamma, in which he took an active part, he called Digamma Cottage) saw him in the midst of all that exquisite and refined taste could devise to adorn his small but elegant dwelling-where every thing was his own contrivance; and if he afterwards gradually sunk into retirement and comparative oblivion, it was certainly, it must be owned, in a great degree his own fault. He was not the man to cultivate or even endure the patronage of any oue long. He felt himself out of his proper sphere. An exile's life (as he would frequently, after the fervour of political zeal had grown cooler, acknowledge and bitterly lament) is often necessarily one of social and even of moral degradation. Strong passions, ardent genius, and eccentricities, for which it is impossible to expect that adequate allowances will be ordinarily made, often placed him in positions from which his was not a judgment or temper which knew how to withdraw with prudence or dexterity. Yet none who knew him ceased under any circumstances to regard him with respect and esteem, and in his last days of pain and disease the mention of his situation sufficed to bring around him all the consolations which liberality and friendship could minister to his infirmities.

His pen was, during his residence in England, busily employed. Some of his papers in the Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews are well known. The greater part of his literary engagements were on subjects of temporary interest and for the purpose of immediate pecuniary support. His Essays on Petrarch, his Ricciarda (a tragedy), and the first volume

of his Dante, (containing most able in troductory dissertations,) were his only works of a higher character. But it was not to the absence of desire to do greater things and to leave works more durably worthy of his name aud country, that we should attribute the necessity for such an exhortation to nobler attempts as that which lately appeared in the Quarterly Review from the pen of one most capable of duly estimating his great powers. The terms of the appeal were most flattering, but they, at the same time, sharpened the pain of a mind which found itself subdued by the more craving urgency of providing for immediate necessities. In the prosecution of a last and most laborious effort of this sort, conducted under circumstances of great privation and affliction, his constitution gave way, and a few months of inaction ended in his death. He met its gradual approach with perfect resignation, and a feeling long ago expressed in the concluding line of one of his beautiful sonnets, selected by his friends as an appropriate legend for his tombstone, 'Fors' io da morte avrò fama e ri

poso."

One of the subjects on which his memory was well stored, and in which he took the greatest interest, was the politico-religious history of Italy during the middle and immediately succeeding ages. He had made some progress in a histotorical romance, of which Bern. Ochino was the hero, and which was to have led through a series of adventures in various countries of Europe, illustrative of the then state of manners, literature, and religious opinion.

Of some of the valuable information which this distinguished man possessed, we should have been allowed the benefit, had his life been spared. Foscolo, whose curiosity and thirst of information were always active and eager, was one of our readers, and the last book he read was Dr. M'Crie's history of the attempts at reformation in Italy, which he perused with the design of communicating through our pages the result of his own observations on many points, which Dr. M'Crie's imperfect work brought to his recollection, and on various collateral topics, about which our stock of information is exceedingly meagre, while his

own store of materials was most abundant.

MRS. ANN GLAZE. May 11, at Jersey-City, opposite New York, U.S., MARY ANN, wife of Mr. W.

GLAZE, of the glass manufactory, lately established in that new and rising town. Mrs. Glaze was the only sister of the Rev. J. B. Bristowe, of Ringwood, Hants. She was born near Stourbridge, Worcestershire; and, with her family, belonged to the Presbyterian congregation in that town. Some years after her mar-riage, accompanied by her father, and mother, and three young daughters, she set sail from Liverpool to New York, whither her husband had previously emigrated; and for many years the family resided in that city. After the death of her parents, Mr. Glaze, with his wife and daughters, settled at Jersey-City, where this much-respected woman died after a short illness. Her remains were interred in the burial-ground belonging to St. John's Church, New York, near those of her honoured parents. Mr. Ware, the Unitarian Minister, being from home, the Rev. Mr. Jones, lately arrived from, England, performed part of the funeral service in Mr. Glaze's dwelling-house, and then attended the corpse across the river to New York, and concluded the whole at the grave, in the presence of many sincere mourners, most of them, indeed, natives of Great Britain, who voluntarily appeared in black, as a mark of respect to their deceased friend and country

woman.

MR. BENJAMIN CHILLEY PINE. Sept. 10, at his residence, Rock Villa, PINE, in the 49th year of his age. After Tunbridge Wells, Mr. BENJAMIN Chilley serving the usual term of apprenticeship, with the late Mr. Ebenezer Johnston, he entered into business at Maidstone, and established the concern which was after-, wards, and up to the time of his death, carried on under the firm of Pine and Ellis. His extraordinary power of mind and general aptitude for business, joined to the most inflexible integrity, were well calculated to insure him distinction in any path of life however elevated, and contributed much to that success in business by which he was latterly induced to contemplate a partial withdrawment from its more active duties, with a view to the fuller enjoyment of his family, and the cultivation of those less laborious pursuits from which he anticipated gratification in the decline of life. These pleasing prospects, however, were not destined to be realized. The seeds of consumption, early seated in his constitution, developed themselves a few months ago into fatal maturity, and hurried their victim with an awful though not painful rapidity to the tomb.

His children, all of that age at which a father's care and guidance are most pe culiarly valuable, feel with their bereaved mother that they have sustained an unspeakable loss: and his numerous other relatives, with a large circle of friends who knew and appreciated his virtues, will long be deeply sensible of the void occasioned by his death.

In religious sentiment Mr. Pine identified himself with Unitarians, and exemplified in his last illness that placid resignation which it is so eminently the province of genuine Christianity to inspire.

His remains were committed to the earth, with an impressive address, by the Rev. B. Mardon, in the ground at Tovil near Maidstone-a spot most romantically situated, and originally purchased and devoted to the purposes of sepulture by a remote ancestor of the deceased.

that rendered him a worthy member of the intelligent family to which he was allied. During intervals of leisure from rural avocations, he searched the Scriptures, or read the works of Locke, concerning whose Essay he was apt to discourse with fluency and energy in his own native Cambrian dialect.

Without pretending to erudition himself, he fondly anticipated the gradual proficiency of his son, in whom he discerned very promising abilities, and fostered the warmest aspirations to excel. The high-minded youth put forth the "tender leaves of hope," like the blossoms of a delicate plant, that immaturely dies in the shade of its native bower. The name of Thomas Lloyd is enshrined with profound regard in the bosom of all who were ever sensible of his exalted worth. He was reared in the school of the Rev. David Davis, of whom a valuable memoir was communicated in the Repository.

In his academical studies this juvenile professor held himself principally indebted for intelligence and taste, to the favourable auspices of his accomplished tutor, Dr. Kippis. He was deeply enamoured of truth and literature, but, above all, exulted to contemplate the glory of the Homeric Muse, and the dramatic perfection of her offspring, the Greek tragedians. The exercise of his profession at Swansea was attended with pains and hardships, that bordered on severe adversity. His office resembled a penance, like that of raising grapes from wild vines, too old and crabbed to yield "nectarine fruits." The asperities of such labour were not adapted to heal a "soul in anguish," or allay the irritations of a "troubled spirit." Under the insidious ravages of an irremediable disease, which he bore with more than heroic fortitude, he might say, with Christian resignation, "I die daily." From his own example as well as his instructions, he was eminently qualified to inspire the breast of docile and ingenuous youth with enthusiastic love of learning and science, and with the admiration of all that is true, venerable, and lovely, of every virtue and every praise. This liberal, conscientious advocate of free inquiry was exhilarated

* Mi 'nsegnavate come l'uom s'eterna. Dante, dell'Inferno, Canto xv. v. 85. Ego vero te, Carissime, cum vitæ flore, tum mortis opportunitate, divino consilio, et ortum et extinctum esse arbitror. Cicero.

and enchanted, in his views of brilliant discoveries, by the rising eminence of Dr. Priestley in the elevated rank of Natural Philosopher as well as Theological Reformer.

His personal appearance was lofty and commanding, his stature was tall, and his benign, majestic countenance indicated the youthful grace and dignity of his mind. In his public devotional addresses to the Deity, he was singularly impressive and solemn; while from his emaciated frame, he seemed on the eve of his departure from the earth, and in the prime of life to have attained to an extraordinary degree of honourable age. He was a man whose approbation it was happiness to experience; but the renewal of this felicity is probably deferred as one of the celestial enjoyments prepared for the wise and good in the everlasting mansions of the blest, The last evening of his days was clear,

Quod si habitum quoque ejus posteri noscere velint, gratia his supererat : nihil metûs in vultu: sublimior quam decentior fuit.

serene, consolatory to his friends, and instinct with the hope of immortality. He expired at his father's house, in the twenty-fifth year of his life.

In the Memoirs of a Dissenting Minister, the writer, who, perhaps, was best + qualified to appreciate and disclose his superior merits, has sketched his character in a few masterly traits of exquisite fidelity and pathos, flowing from the heart of a dearly cherished associate, who loved him as a brother, and revered him as a benefactor and friend. W. EVANS,

Park Wood, 17th Sept., 1827.

Ως οφελεν ανέειν εν χερσιν εμησι.
Iliad, xxii. ver. 426.

+ Quocum et domus communis: et id, in quo est omnis vis amicitiæ, voluntatum, studiorum, sententiarum sum

Paradise Lost.

Εξ αγαλων αγαθοι. Aristotle. Philosophers of the Socratic school declare, mind to place its affections of love or that right education trains the human hate, joy or grief, on their proper objects: even as the earth is drest in order to nourish and bring forth corn: Προς το καλος χαίρειν και μισειν, ὥσπερ γην την θρέψούσαν το σπέρμα Aristot. de Mor. B. x.

Animæ, quales neque candidiores Terra tulit; neque queis me sit devinctior alter.

K

Bowles, of Yarmouth; and the Rev. James Martineau, who has finished his studies at York, preached from John iv. 35: "Lift up your eyes and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest," &c.-enlarging on the exertions which the present age demands, and facilities it affords for the diffusion of knowledge and truth. On Thursday morning, the Rev. S. S. Toms, of Framlingham, introduced the service; the Rev. E. Tagart, of Norwich, followed; and the Rev. M. Mau

rice, of Southampton, preached from Acts ii. 42: "And they continued steadfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread and in prayer." The sermon was a simple but forcible statement of the pure truth and genuine spirit of the gospel. It was listened to

with earnest attention; and was well calculated to remove prejudice against Unitarian Christianity, as well as to leave a powerful religious impression on all who heard it. At the urgent request of the Society, Mr. Maurice has kindly con sented to allow the sermon to be printed. After the services, an encouraging re

port of the state of the Society was read, in which were embodied interesting communications from Norwich, Yarmouth, and Framlingham, respecting the state of the congregations in those places; and

also an account from Mr. Latham of his labours in the neighbourhood. He stated that the attendance at Bramfield had greatly increased. It was agreed that a Report of the Society should be printed and circulated annually, with a catalogue of the Tracts.

The services at Halesworth were well attended; and, on the whole, there is considerable prospect of raising an Unitarian congregation there. The chapel was lately in the occupation of the Methodists. With the aid of some gentlemen at Norwich, the fixtures were purchased, and the place is hired at a moderate rent for six years. The experiment is, therefore, made without much risk. A few years ago Unitarianism was hardly known in the neighbourhood; now it has several respectable and sincere supporters.

In the afternoon, forty six gentlemen sat down to dinner at the Swan Inn. The Rev. M. Maurice presided on the occasion, surrounded by many of his old friends and former pupils. Appropriate sentiments were given; and Messrs. Maurice, Toms, Latham, Martineau, and Tagart, addressed the Meeting at some length. The thanks of the Society were voted to Lord J. Russell, for his readiness to assist the Dissenters in obtaining a repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts. Several ladies were present after the dinner. The day passed with the utmost harmony, and the meeting separated, confirmed in the opinion that Unitarianism is a system of Christian union and religious improvement.

Norwich.

E. T.

Tenterden District Meeting.

Meeting of the Tenterden branch of ON Thursday, August 2, the Annual

the Kent and Sussex Unitarian Associa tion was held at Tenterden. The ser

vice commenced at three o'clock. The Scriptures, and engaged in the devo Rev. James Taplin, of Battle, read the tional exercises; and the Rev. Edward

Talbot delivered a discourse from Matt. took occasion to insist upon the peculiar v. 16. In his discourse the preacher sequence of the peculiarity of his situa duties of the Unitarian Christian, in con

tion. He observed that it rested with

him to complete a reformation as yet Unity of God, and his dealings with his left very imperfect, both as regarded the fellow-christians, he could not but decreatures; that if the Unitarian loved his sire that the same cheering views of his own chief joy, should brighten the God and his dispensations, which were the name of Christ. hopes of all who called themselves by

But the preacher dwelt particularly upon the obligation of the Unitarian to give publicity to his sentiments, from the certainty that if he did not do so, infidewhilst Christianity is viewed only through lity must widely and rapidly spread; for be rejected by thinking men. its corrupted forms, it must necessarily

After the conclusion of the service, tired to an inn, where they took tea. the friends, to the number of 100, reAfter tea, the Rev. B. Mardon was called Rev. James Taplin as Vice-president. to the Chair: he was supported by the To both these gentlemen the meeting kind and Christian feeling which cha was highly indebted for that flow of racterized it. The Rev. L. Holden, and his newly elected assistant, the Rev. E. Talbot, Mr. Hughes, of Yeovil; Mr. Blundell, of Northiam; Mr. Grove, of Benenden, and other friends, addressed the meeting. About cight o'clock the company broke up.

E. T.

Somerset and Dorset Unitarian As

sociation.

THE Seventeenth Meeting of this Association was held at Dorchester, ou Wednesday, Sept. 5, 1827, og which oc casion the Revds. J. G. Teggin, and E. Whitfield, offered up the prayers of the congregation, and the Rev. W. S. Brown, of Bridgwater, delivered a discourse on Repentance, from 2 Cor. vii. 10.

At the close of this service, the usual