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    ministers , tbpRw . Mr * SinalJ , now of Coseley > "Staffordshire , and the Rev . IVlr . Wiillace , now of-Tbtnee / Devonshire . * j 6 int- ' " P $ foQfc&HMpitt&s .-l * * 146 .

    The deceptions and decisions that have been detected in these Companies , arid the distress and misery which they have brought upon individuals , will now satisfy the Editor ' s American -friend , fhat his attempt to expose them was not officious nor illtimed .

    << The Honourable and Right Rev . Shale Harrington , D . C L ., Bishop of Durham : ' P . 178 . The late venerable Bishop was the sixth son of John Shute , first Viscount

    Harrington , descended from a respectable Nonconformist family . Lord Barrington was in his day at the head of the English Dissenters , and obtained all his good fortune in consequence of this connexion . He wrote several

    pamphlets in vindication of his party . He died at his seat at Becket , in Berkshire , ( an estate left him on account of his public principles by John Wildman , Esq ., ) December 14 , 1734 , in the 56 th year of his age . " He generally attended divine worship among the Dissenters , and for many years received the sacrament at Pinner ' s

    Hall , where Dr . Jeremiah Hunt , an eminent and learned Nonconformist divine , was pastor of the congregation that assembled there . He had formerly been an attendant on Mr . Thomas Bradbury , but quitted that gentleman on account of his bigoted zeal for

    imposing unscnptiiral teriris upojn the article of the Trinity . His lordship was a discipte and friend of Mr . Locke , bad a high value for the sacred writin gs , and was eminently skilled in them . As o writer in theology he had

    great merit ; and contributed much to the diffusing of that spirit of free scri ptural criticism which has since obtained among * all denominations of Christians , As his attention was ^ uch turned to the study of divinity , be hud a strong sense of the iiuportunee of free inquiry in matters of

    reli gion . " [ Biog . Britann . 2 nd edij wi \ art . Burruigton , I . 627- ] Lord jwriugtotfs principal work was his Miscellanea Sacra ; or , A New Itithod of considering sq much of the C ( ystory of the Apostles as is containi *» Scri pture / ' published in 1725 ,

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    io 2 roJs . Bro . A new edition , in 3 vols , 8 ra , / wafc jptfblished 'M yhis son , the late Bislfop of Durham , ( thea Bishop of liitiddft ) i ) i 1770 ; It desewes to be irifehtioned in h onour of he

    Lord Barrii ^ tbh ; that declares himself decidedly in this work in favour of the right of Unbelievers to state freely their objections to Christianity , and against the use of any weapons on the part of Christians , IC but the sword of the spirit , which is the word of God /* [ Misc . Sue ed .

    1770 , I . 334 , 335 . ] Bishop Barring-ton was born May 26 , 1734 ; had his education at Eton School and the University of Oxford ; took orders in 1756- was appointed Canon of Christ Church in 1761

    took the degree of LL . D . in 1762 ; was nominated Canon Residentiary of St . Paul's in 1768 ; and was raised to the see of Landaff in 1769 , promoted to the see of Salisbury in 1782 , and removed from thence to Durham in

    1791 * In this princely bishopric , which he held for so ni ^ ny yep > rs , he acquired of course immense wealth , especially as he had $ 0 children , though twice married , first to Lady Diana Beauelerc , a daughter of the Duke of St . ALbans , and next to the

    daughter and heiress of Sir John Guise , Bart ., of Gloucestershire ; bul both living and dying he seems to have considered his property as due in a great , measure to public and charitabJe uses . The bishop was , we believe , conscientiously attached to the Church

    of England , but he possessed at least bis father ' s liberal spirit . Though extremely inimical to the Roman Catholic religion , he was the hospitable and generous protector of the French priests driven hither by the storms of the Revolution . His almoner on this

    occasion was Mr . Charles Butler , who is said to have retained the Bishop ' s friendship , notwithstanding his being ; engaged at a recent period in no very amicable controversy with Dr . Phillpotts , and Mr . Townshend , ( the son of an Independent minister , yet living , at

    Ramsgate , ) the Bishop ' s own chaplains . Dr . Barrington filled his important station with decency and dignity . His bestowment of benefices was more directed by a regard to the promotion of literature and theology , than is common amongst our prelates . The unsolicited and unexpected ap-

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    Rfuiew of-the preceding Numbers 0 / this Volume . 705

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1826, page 705, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2555/page/5/