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      the death of his father , was appointed his successor at the Museum . In 1774 , he \ was elected a Fellow of the Royal $ pciety ; shortly afterwards he conducted its foreign correspondence ; and in 1776 , was appointed its Secretary . On the death of Dr . Morton , in 1799 , he was raised to the office of Principal Librarian

      of the Museum , an office of which he discharged the duties with great approbation to the time of his decease , M r . Planta was intimately acquainted with all the principal modem languages . He was the author of a History of Switzerland , in 2 vols . 4 to . ; an Essay on the Runic or Scandinavian Language ; and a Catalogue of the Cotton Manuscripts in the Museum .

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      Mr . Meadows Martineau . Dec . 18 , at Brighton , at Dr . Morell ' s School , in his 15 th year , Meadows Martineau , son of Mr . John Martineau , jun ., of the City Road . < May the many hearts which the loss Of this most amiable and engaging boy has filled with mourning be enabled to give up their mortal hopes for him with

      perfect resignation to the Divine will , grateful for recollections which no lapse of time can diminish or impair ; recollections , of a character , a countenance , and a voice , which could scarcely be observed , even by a stranger , without emotion , and which , in the circle of his own friends and connexions , were irresistibly engaging and attractive .

      Beloved by all who knew him , he is gone to his early grave ; but the blessing pronounced . upon the " pure in heart , " is gone with him , and the blessing of those that mourn must be the portion of all who have truly felt the influence of his gentle and heavenly spirit .

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      Rev . James Scott . » Dec . 19 , at Cradley , Worcestershire , aged 59 , the Rev . James Scott , during thirty-eight years minister of a society of Protestant Dissenters in that place . On the preceding Lord ' s-day he preached twice in his own simple , unaffected , serious manner . Towards the close of his sermon in the afternoon , his voice faltered , he became inaudible , and it was soon evident that he had been seized

      with apoplexy . He was carried to hit * house , where he lay in an apparently unconscious state till his death ; so that he may be qaid > to have been catted at once from the scene' of duties iii which he delighted to that of his great reward .

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      How he lived and what spirit he breathed may best be learnt from the awful void which his removal has occasioned , and from the tears and the regrets in which his memory is embalmed . " His mind was a thanksgiving to the Power That made him ; it was blessedness and love . "

      J . H B . We hope that some friend will favour us with a Memoir of this estimable man , for insertion in a future number .

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      Helen Maria Williams . Lately , at Paris , where she had resided for about thirty-five years , Mrs . Helen Maria Williams , well known by her works on the French Revolution , and other publications . We shall give some further account of this lady in our next number .

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      Thomas Addis Emmet . Lately , at New York , ( U . S ., ) Thomas Addis Emmet , Esq ., a distinguished member of a high-minded but unfortunate family , who became fatally involved in the political troubles of Ireland , at the close of the last and the beginning of the present century . Thomas Addis was the eldest sou of Dr . Emmet , who for

      some time held the appointment of State Physician to the Lord Lieutenant . Having , in 1797 , enrolled himself with the "United Irishmen , whose original object was the laudable one of promoting the cause of rational liberty in their country , he was arrested and imprisoned under a charge of high treason . The government , however , dropped proceedings against him on his pledging himself to become an exile from Ireland for life .

      On his expatriation he went to America and settled at New York , where he pursued the profession of the law , and in a short time raised himself , by his fine talents , to the first eminence at the American Bar . He held , for a considerable time , the office of Attorney-General for New York . He was the warm promoter of the charitable institutions of this city , and was the founder and chief supporter of the Society of St . Patrick ' s established there .

      It was of Robert Emmet , the unfortunate brother of Thomas , who perished On a scaffold for the part he acted in the Irish insurrection of 1803 , that Moore , his friend and fellow-student at Trinity College , Dublin , wrote - the following

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      6 Q Obitmry . " > -Rev . J . Scott . —> Mrs . fFilliams . TA — . . Emmet , Esq .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1828, page 60, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2556/page/60/