Forbid it then, that the very excellent Guardians of this Metropolitan Church, who, from the general appearance of the Structure, fully merit the title, should for a moment permit a METEOROLOGICAL JOURNAL kept at Clapton, in Hackney, from the 21st of July to the 14th of August, 1810. Thermometer, highest (since date of last Journal) on July the 25th, 77. Lowest, August the 1st, 464. Barometer, highest, July 23d, 30.21. Lowest, Aug. 13, 20·52. July 21. Moon appears bright; and its edges well-defined. 23. Clouds of the modification of Cirri and Cirro-struti secn. 24. Small meteors, commonly called falling stars, observed. 25. Cirri and spongy Cumuli observed. Distant thunder in the evening. 26, Cirro-strati prevail-very dark night.. 27. High wind in squalls. Aug. 2. The evaporation of water, according to a vapour guage of Mr. L. Howard's investion, very great to day. 6. Cirro-stratus prevails. 9. Fine rows of Cirro-stratus above Cumuli. The moon appears hazy and obscure. 10. Cirri and Cirro-strati precede high wind in squalls. 11. Windy. Swifts, Ilirundines apodes, still common. 12. Windy and small rain. 13. The modification of Cloud called Cirrus prevalent; squalls of wind and flying Cumuli. Some heavy black Clouds came over about 6 . p. m. which threatened rain. 14. Clouded hazy day. At night the moon appeared hazy, and indicated rain, which ensued during the night. The average evaporation of water has decreased very much since last month. Clapton, Aug. 14, 1810. THOMAS FORSTER. Mr. Mr. URBAN, Birmingham, Aug. 4. Tfield Church, Bucks, (See Pinte 1.) was taken from the window of a WILLIAM HAMPER. The late Rev. Dr. Barnes was born at Warrington, co. Lancaster, on what was then called the first, but now the thirteenth day of February, 1747. His maternal grandfather was the Rev. Tho. Blinston, an eminently pious and useful Minister of the Gospel among the Nonconformists, for whom the Protestant Dissenters' present place of worship at Park-lane, near Wigan, was originally built His father, Mr. William Barnes, died when he was young, not more than three years old. His mother, how ever, Elizabeth Barnes, daughter of the above-mentioned worthy Divine, was a very pious and excellent wo man; and, under her tender care and good instruction, he was in his early youth, brought up under very serious impressions of religion. In consequence of the views and feelings which were thus excited in his mind, he soon discovered a strong inclination to the sacred office of the Christian Ministry. He was accordingly educated with a view to this employment; first, at the Grammar-school in his native town, under the tuition of the late Rev. Mr. Owen, who is wellknown to have been an excellent classical scholar; then under the care of the Rev. Philip Holland, who kept a very respectable boarding-school at Bolton, to which place he went in 1761; and bence he removed, in the GENT. MAG. August, 1810. situation. In In May 1780 he removed to Manchester, and became connected there, in the Pastoral relation, with one of the largest, most wealthy, and respectable Congregations among the Protestant Dissenters, of what is called the Presbyterian denomination, in this kingdom; and in this connexion be continued, during a period of upwards of 30 years, to the time of his death. Here also he approved himself a faithful, zealous, and affectionate Pastor, and was held in very high estimation, not only by the people of his immediate charge, but also by the inhabitants of the town in general. His regular duty only called him to perform one public service on the Sabbath; but, not long after his settlement in Manchester, in the winter of 1782, he voluntarily undertook an Evening Service or Lecture, which soon began to be very numerously attended, and which he regularly continued every Sabbath evening in the winter season, till the declining state of his health, in conjunction with the circumstance of his having the whole regular duty of the Congregation devolved upon him, through the indisposition of his colleague, induced his friends, about the middle of last winter, to insist upon his either declining the Lecture, or having assistance procured for him in the other parts of the duty; in which circumstances he chose the former alternative, thinking it the more expedient measure upon the whole, though the Evening Lecture was his favourite service, and that which he thought more useful than any other which he performed. It has for several years past been at tended by an audience amounting to upwards of 2000 in number; consisting chiefly, of respectable, serious, and attentive hearers, of different denominations of Religious Professions. In the beginning of 1784 the subject of this Memoir had the degree of D. D. conferred upon him by the University of Edinburgh, upon the voluntary, and on his part unsought, recommendation of friends, who were well able to appreciate his Literary attainments, and whose testimonial to them, consequently, reflected upon him great honour. Of this measure the late Dr. Percival was the principal promoter. Not long after this, the Rev. Dr. Barnes was induced, by the solicitations of nis friends, to uuder. take, in conjunction with his colleague in the Pastoral office, the Rev. Ralph Harrison, the important charge of an Academical Institution at Manchester; upon which he entered in the summer of 1786, and over which he presided, as Principal, with great. credit to himself, and utility to the publick, till 1798, when he determined to resign it, in consequence of the difficulty which he had for some time experienced, in maintaining, in so large a town as Manchester, where there are so many temptations to dissipation, that regular and strict discipline which he wished to support. His active mind, however, was always ready to embrace every opportunity of usefulness; and, after his retirement from the Academy, he began to take a lively interest in the concerus of the Manchester Infirmary, which continued to be a very favourite object of his attention to the time of his death, and in the conduct of which his assistance has been generally considered, and acknowledged, to be of great use. The Rev. Dr. Barnes undoubtedly possessed both natural abilities, and acquired attainments, which qualified him to have distinguished himself in the Literary world; and he had a considerable taste for those studies and pursuits which might have led to this result: in proof of which it may be mentioned that he was one of the first promoters of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society; and that, for several years, he took an active part in its proceedings, and wrote several papers which were published in the early volumes of its Memoirs; which his friend Dr. Percival, who was certainly a competent judge of their merit, considered to be so far creditable to his Literary reputation, that he repeatedly urged him to revise and enlarge them, and to publish them in a separate volume; but with this recommendation, though it came from so respectable a quarter, he never complied. Some circumstances afterwards arose, which, together with the multiplicity of his other engagements, induced him to discontinue his attendance of the meetings of the Society just mentioned; and since that time he has not taken any farther part in its proceedings. He was a good classical scholar read and studied the New Testament |