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Rev. P. C. Tucker, Down St. Mary R. Devon.
Rev. E. Turner, Maresfield R. Sussex.
Rev. F. Vane, Blechingdon R. Oxford.
Rev. E. H. Wainwright, Acton Burnell R.
Shropshire.

Rev. J. C. Williams, Farthingstone R. Northampton.

Rev. G. Williams, Barrington V. Cambridgesh. Rev. D. Wilson, Mungrisdale P.C. Cumberland. Rev. H. A. Woodgate, Belbroughton R. co. Worcester.

Rev. F. Woodhouse, Moresby R. Cumberland.

CHAPLAINS.

Rev. J. S. M. Anderson, chap. to the King.
Rev. W. Blackley, to Sir Rowland Hill.
Rev. T. H. Hawes, to the Duke of Argyle.
Rev. R. Gream, to the Earl of Abergavenny.

CIVIL PREFERMENTS.

Rev. C. J. Belin, to be Head Master of Guildford Grammar School.

Rev. J. Hogg, Head Master of Limerick Diocesan School.

Rev. J. Carter, Head Master of Wakefield Free Grammar School.

BIRTHS.

March 9. At Florence, the Hon. Mrs. Irby, a son.-18. At Maidstone, the wife of Capt. Houston, 4th Light Dragoons, a dau.-21. In Curzon-street, Lady Emily Ponsonby, a son.- -22. At Stockholm, the Hon. Mrs. Bligh, a dau.-27. At the Rectory, Warrington, the wife of the Hon. and Rev. Horace Powys, a son.-At Beckenham Place, Kent, the wife of W. Peters, esq. a dau.-28. In Hanover-sq. the wife of Dr. Locock, a son.

-29. In Upper Brook-st. Grosvenor-sq. the wife of Lieut.-Col. Sir John M. Burgoyne, Bart. Gren. Guards, a dau.-30. In Wiltoncrescent, the Lady Charlotte Egerton, a dau. Lately. At Milsted Manor-house, the wife of Sir John Fylden, Knt. a dau.

April 5. The wife of John Tidd Pratt, esq. Barrister-at-Law, a dau.-The wife of Lieut.Col. Codrington, Coldstream Guards, a dau.

-At Richmond, the Lady Muncaster, a dau. -In Chester-street, Grosvenor-place, the Lady Jane Swinburne, a son.-6. The wife of W. T. Copeland, esq. M.P. a son.-7. At Clapham-common, the wife of John Humphery, esq. M.P. a son.-At Camberwell, the wife of the Rev. T. Myers, Head Master of the Royal Naval School, a dau.-12. In Grosvenor-square, the Right Hon. Lady Poltimore, a son and heir.-13. At Orford House, near Stansted, the wife of Lieut.-Col. Chamberlayne, a dau.-14. The wife of Col. Miles, of Theobalds, Cheshunt, a son.-15. At the Duke of Bedford's, Belgrave-sq. Lady Charles Russell, a dau.-16. At her mother's, Lady Young, Woolwich Common, the wife of J. P. Collins, esq. Colonial Secretary, Prince Edward's Island, a son.

MARRIAGES.

March 7. At Leicester, the Rev. J. Moffat Harington, Rector of Chalbury, Dorset, to Mary Rebecca, eldest dau. of the late Rev. H. J. Maddock.-16. At Sudely, Gloucestersh. the Rev. J. Walker Dolphin, to Jane eldest dau. of Mr. Wynne, of Sudely Castle.-At Ramsgate, Capt. Caldwell, 92d Highlanders, nephew to Major-Gen. Sir Alex. Caldwell, to Eliz. eldest dau. of R. Townley, esq.- -22. The Rev. Cha. Cheyne, to Sarah Anne, dau. of the Rev. T. H. Horne, Rector of St. Edmund the King, Lombard-street.-27. At Cambridge, W. J. Bayne, esq. M.D. to Alicia Dela, the only dau,

of Geo. Pryme, esq. M.P.-28. At Trinity Church, Marylebone, John Colyer, esq. barrister-at-law, to Georgiana Frances Amy, eldest dau. of Sir W. Johnston, Bart. of Hiltown, Aberdeenshire. At St. James's, Edward Strutt, esq. M.P. to Emily, youngest dau. of the Right Rev. Wm. Otter, D.D. Bishop of Chichester. -At Creswell-hall, Staffordshire, J. A. Wise, esq. to Mary Lovatt, only dau. and heiress of the late H. Booth, esq. of Claytonhall.-29. At St. Pancras Church, Francis, son of Sir F. M. Ommanney, to Julia Henrietta, dau. of T. Metcalfe, of Fitzroy-sq. esq.

-At St. Margaret's, Westminster, the Rev. R. I. Wilberforce, to Jane, eldest dau. of the late Digby Legard, esq.-30. At Kew, the Rev. Thos. Tunstall Haverfield, Rector of Goddington, Oxfordshire, to Caroline Sophia, relict of the late Edw. Bryant, of Lansdownhouse, Southampton, esq.- -Capt. W. G. White to Louisa Ann, eldest dau. of Michael Gray, esq. of Portland-place, Clapton.

Lately. At Kenilworth, John, second son of John Russell, esq. of the Woodlands, to Eliz. second dau. of W. Collins, esq. M.P.Rev. J. Meredith Williams, of Plas-Dolanog, Montgomeryshire, to Mary, second dau. of the Rev. J. Bright Bright, of Totterton-house, and Vicar of Lydbury North, Shropshire.-The Ven. Geo. Glover, Archdeacon of Sudbury, to Susan, relict of R. Reeve, esq. M.D. of Browndale, Norfolk.

April 3. At Milan, Charlotte L., second dau. of the late Adm. Sir R. Strachan, Bart. to Count Emanuel de Zichy, brother-in-law of Prince Metternich.-The Rev. S. R. Piggott, B.A. of Woodhouse, Leicestershire, to Cath. Eliz. only dau. of Mr. J. Debauter, of Peckham-rye, Surrey.At Stoke-by-Nayland, Suffolk, the Rev. R. Mosley, of Trinity Church, Ipswich, to Susanna Eden, eldest dau. of the late J. E. Leeds, esq. Chelsea College.-4. At St. George's, Hanover-sq. J. P. Barlow, esq. of Doctor's Commons, to Mary Anne, eldest dau. of J. Du Pre Alexander, esq. of Grosvenor-sq.

-At Kennington, Edward, son of Deputy Commissary General De St. Remy, to Caroline, dau. of Lieut.-Col. C. C. Dixon, Military Superintendent, Fort Pitt, Chatham.- -The Rev. John Baillie, Vicar of Lissington, Lincolnsh. to Cecllia Mary, dau. of the Rev. Chas. Haw. kins, Canon Residentiary of York.-The Rev. J. Conroy, of Urney, co. Derry, nephew to Sir John Conroy, to Miss Mary Anne Flood, niece of the late Kev. S. Hamilton, Rector of Strabane, Ireland.-5. At Bath, W. L. Colquhoun, esq. of Clathie, to Louisa, fourth dau. of the late Wadham Locke, esq. M.P. of Rowdeford House, Wilts.-6. At Grittleton, Wilts, the Rev. R. P. Jones, Rector of Charfield, Gloucestershire, to Eliz. Charlotte, widow of the late Capt. K. White, R.N.-At Saint Mary's, Bryanstone-sq. the Rev. St. Vincent L. Hammick, Vicar of Melton Abbot, Devon, to Mary, dau. of R. Alexander, esq. of Gloncester-place.At Brighton, the Rev. T. W. Carr, Incumbent of Southborough, Kent, to Joanna Maria, dau. of the Hon. Mrs. Childers, of Brighton.-11. In the private chapel of Charlton House, Kent, the Rev. Spencer Dod Wilde, Vicar of Fletching, Sussex, to Julia Pellew Holford Wilson, dau. of the late Sir T. M. Wilson, Bart.-At Helston, the Rev. T. J. Trevenen, Rector of St. Ewe, Cornwall, to Susan Angwin, eldest dau. of the late J. Cosserat, esq. of Grove Cottage, Babbicombe.12. At St. Sidwell's, Exeter, the Rev. Richard Brickdale, Rector of Felthorpe, Norfolk, to Elvire Wilhelmine, eldest dau. of the late Chevalier Bancel, M.D. of Bethune.-In London, the Right Hon. Lord Arthur Marcus Hill, to the second dau. of Joseph Blake, esq. of Gloucester-pl. Portman-sq.

OBITUARY.

THE MARQUIS OF BATH. March 27. In Lower Grosvenor-street, aged 72, the Most Honourable Thomas Thynne, second Marquis of Bath (1789), fourth Viscount Weymouth and Baron Thynne, of Warminster(1682), and the fifth Baronet (1641); K. G.; Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of the county of Somerset; D.C.L., F. S. A. and F.L. S. &c. &c.

His Lordship was born on the 25th Jan. 1765, the eldest son of Thomas the first Marquis, and K.G. by Lady Elizabeth Cavendish-Bentinck, eldest daughter of William second Duke of Portland, K.G.

He was returned to Parliament for the borough of Weobley in conjunction with Sir John Scott, the present venerable Earl of Eldon, in 1784. At the general election of 1790, (being then Lord Weymouth) he was returned for the city of Bath; and he was re-elected in 1796. In the House of Commons he supported Mr. Pitt; under whose administration his father was the Groom of the Stole. On the death of his father, Nov. 19, 1796, he succeeded to the peerage as second Marquis of Bath.

His Lordship took no very prominent part in public affairs, but gave his vote generally with the Tory party.

He was appointed Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of Somersetshire, on the death of Earl Poulett, Feb. 9, 1819, and was elected a Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter July 16, 1823.

His Lordship married, April 24, 1794, the Hon. Isabella-Elizabeth Byng, third daughter of George fourth Viscount Torrington; and by that lady, who died May 1, 1830, he had issue eight sons and three daughters: the Right Hon. Elizabeth Countess of Cawdor, married in 1816 to John-Frederick now Earl of Cawdor, by whom she has a numerous family; 2. the Right Hon. Thomas Viscount Weymouth, who married in 1820 Harriet-Matilda, daughter of Mr. Thomas Robbins, but died without issue on the 16th Jan. last; 3. the Most Hon. Henry-Frederick now Marquis of Bath, a Captain in the Royal Navy; he was born in 1797, and married in 1830 the Hon. Harriet Baring, second daughter of Lord Ashburton, and has issue; 4. the Rev. Lord John Thynne, Prebendary of Westminster, Rector of Street, co. Somerset, and Kingston Deverill, Wilts; he married in 1824 AnneConstantia, dau. of the Rev. Chas. Cobbe GENT. MAG. VOL. VII.

Beresford, niece to the Bishop of Kilmore, and cousin to the Marquis of Waterford, and has a numerous family; 5. Lady Louisa, married in 1823 to the Hon. Henry Lascelles, second son of the Earl of Harewood, and has a numerous family; 6. Lord William Thynne, Major in the 7th foot; 7. Lord Francis, who died in 1821 in his 17th year; 8. Lord Edward Thynne, who married in 1830 Elizabeth eldest daughter of the late William Mellish, esq.; 9. Lord George, who died in 1832, in his 26th year; 10. the Most Noble CharlotteAnne Duchess of Buccleuch and Queensberry, married in 1829 to Walter-Francis fifth and present Duke of Buccleuch, and has three sons; and 11. Lord Charles Thynne, born in 1813.

The corpse of the deceased Marquis was conveyed for interment to the family cemetery at Longleat; where the funeral was attended by his sons, his son-in-law the Duke of Buccleuch, &c.

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At the general election of 1820 his Lordship was returned to Parliament for the county of Cork; but he sat only during that parliament until the dissolution in 1826, when he relinquished his seat to his brother the Hon. Robert King.

Lord Kingsborough was much attached to, and a considerable proficient in antiquarian learning, and has left behind him one very extraordinary public monument of his diligence and munificence, having, in 1831, printed six splendid volumes of the Antiquities of Mexico," which were illustrated by fac-simile plates, taken from inedited MSS. preserved in the Royal Libraries of Paris, Berlin, and Dresden, in the Imperial Library at Vienna, the Vatican, the Borgian Museum, the library of the Institute at Bologna,

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together with some, and those of the most curious and beautiful description, in the Bodleian Library, preserved among the collections of Archbishop Laud and the learned Mr. Selden. Of this magnificent work, four copies were printed upon vellum; Lord Kingsborough presented one of them to the British Museum, and another to the Bodleian Li brary, which was acknowledged by the public thanks of the University, unaniThe mously voted in Convocation. work is full of deep research, and displays his knowledge of languages, ancient and modern, as well as his skill as an antiquary.

Cut off in the prime of life, this amiable and talented nobleman has descended He was imprito a premature grave. soned for a debt of his father, for which he had unfortunately become security, and not, as might be supposed, from his own extravagance. It is due to his memory that this fact should be generally known. All must deplore the unhappy misunderstanding and mismanagement that led to his untimely fate; and his loss will be deeply lamented by all who knew him, and valued his highly-cultivated mind and domestic virtues.

His Lordship was unmarried; and is succeeded in his title by his next brother, the Hon. Robert King, late M.P. for co. Cork. His body was interred at Michelstown.

DR. BURGESS, BP. OF SALISBURY. Feb. 19. At Southampton, aged 80, the Right Rev. Thomas Burgess, D.D. Lord Bishop of Salisbury, and Chancellor of the Order of the Garter, F.R.S. F.S.A., V.P.R. S. L. &c. &c.

Dr. Burgess was the son of Mr. William Burgess, a respectable grocer at Odiham, in Hampshire, where the Bishop was born on the 19th of November, 1756. He was educated as a Commoner at Winchester; stood for, and obtained, a Scholarship at Corpus Christi college, Oxford, Feb. 22, 1775, and was matriculated March 14 in that year, being then 18. In 1778 (Dec. 17) he took his B.A. degree; in 1780 obtained the prize for the Chancellor's English Essay, "On the Study of Antiquities;" and he proceeded to the degree of M.A. Feb. 25, 1782. On the 10th Dec. 1787, he was elected Probationer Fellow of Corpus, in the room of Walker King, the late Bishop of Rochester, and was soon after appointed Logic Reader, and then Tutor of the College. Before this period his talents and diligence had attracted the notice of Thomas Tyrwhitt, esq. the distinguished scholar and critic, whose love of learning carried him to the encouragement

and support of young men of promising The circumabilities and application. stances are related in the following interesting letter addressed by the Bishop himself to the late Mr. Nichols :

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"Your additional volume to the Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century affords me an opportunity, which I am unwilling to lose, of communicating to you an instance of Mr. Tyrwhitt's benevolence and love of learning. after I had published Dawes's Miscellanea Critica,' and was entering on the term in which I was to take my Master's degree, I told him it was my intention to take a curacy in the country, till I should be called again to College to serve those offices which are usually held by the Fellows in rotation. He said, You must not leave College. In the country, and with your new duties, you would not have those means and opportunities of pursuing your old studies, which the University possesses above all other places. You shall be my Curate. I will beg you to accept annually from me what will be equivalent to a Curate's stipend.' I accepted his generous offer, and remained at College. I was soon after appointed to the office of College Tutor. But Mr. Tyrwhitt continued his annual present, till the emolument of my office enabled me to relinquish a gratuity, which I knew he would bestow on some protege who wanted it more than myself. The literary advantages which I derived from my continuance at College at that time, and, of course, my obligations to my generous Friend, are greater than I can express to you. I took my degree in 1782. Mr. Tyrwhitt died in 1786. By his will he left me a kind remembrance of his friendship, in a legacy of 100%.

"I am, dear Sir, yours faithfully,
"T. ST. DAVID'S."

It was not long after, that Mr. Burgess found a still more powerful patron in the person of the late Dr. Shute Barrington, Bishop of Salisbury, and afterwards Bishop of Durham; who, in approbation of his literary works, collated him in 1787 to the prebend of Wilsford and Woodford in Salisbury cathedral; and, after his translation to Durham, gave Mr. Burgess in 1791 a prebend belonging to that cathedral, and which was retained by him until his translation from St. David's to Salisbury in 1825.

A well-authenticated anecdote belonging to this period of his life confirms every current statement of Dr. Burgess's inde pendence and manliness of character.During his residence with Bishop Bar

rington, at Mongewell, as Chaplain, an occurrence took place (which it would now be useless and painful to recount) in which Mr. Burgess considered that the late Bishop had not treated him with the consideration due to his rank and character. At that time he had not given up his rooms in college, although he rarely occupied them, except when he came to consult the libraries in the University. Disdaining to notice what he had considered reprehensible in the Bishop of Durham's demeanour, Mr. Burgess mounted his horse, and, riding over to Oxford, quietly resumed his station at Corpus, and resolved, rather than submit to what he considered an indignity, to forego every prospect of preferment, and to rely upon his own abilities and exertions for support; strenuously refusing the advice of all his friends to return to Mongewell, till Bishop Barrington, with a generosity of spirit that did him high honour, expressed his sincere regret at what had taken place, and himself earnestly solicited his return. It will be remembered, that at this moment Mr. Burgess's entire dependence for advancement was upon the Bishop of Durham, and that in vindicating his own dignity, and that of his station as Chaplain to the Prelate, he ran a risk of utterly ruining every worldly prospect. Fortunately for both parties, the one was anxious to repair, the other not desirous to resent, an injury, which was unintentionally inflicted.

Mr. Burgess proceeded to the degree of B.D. May 10, 1791; and resigned his Fellowship Dec. 17 in that year, having been recently preferred to his Prebendal Stall at Durham. His next advancement took place under the administration, of Mr. Addington, (who had been his fellow-student at Winchester and Oxford,) and who, unsolicited, conferred on him, in 1803, the vacant see of St. David's. From the moment of his elevation to the episcopal Bench, the learned Prelate displayed the most devoted and exemplary attention to the concerns of his diocese, and was unceasing in his efforts to benefit those placed under his jurisdiction. With this view, his Lordship planned and formed a Society for the foundation of a Provincial College within the diocese, for the instruction of Ministers for the Welsh Church, who have not the means to obtain an University education. The college at Lampeter now stands an imperishable monument to the activity and benevolence of Bishop Burgess in the Principality.

It is believed that he had repeatedly declined the prospect of removal to a more wealthy diocese, when at length, upon the death of Bishop Fisher, through the

interest of the Bishop of Durham, exercised in his behalf with Lord Liverpool, he was translated to the see of Salisbury, of which he took formal possession on the 6th of July, 1825. Throughout the twelve years during which he has presided over this diocese, he has laboured zealously to improve the means of Divine worship to correct every approach to neglect or irregularity-and, in a word, to increase and nurture the flock committed to his charge. The extended range of his benevolence was attested not only in the munificence of his contributions to public works of charity, but in the unobtrusive deeds of private almsgiving, and in the prosecution of any good and useful work.

His Lordship's studious and retiring habits induced a life of apparent seclusion from public affairs, and prevented him from taking any active part in the House of Peers; but his vote or proxy was never withheld, when any measure affecting the interests of true religion and of the Church, called for the exercise of his Parliamentary privilege, and so strongly did he feel concerned in the defence of the Establishment, that he was persuaded (perhaps rather unadvisedly) to permit his name to be put forth as the Chaplain to the Grand Orange Association. During the whole of his long ministerial life, the laborious and powerful pen of Bishop Burgess was constantly employed in advancing the cause of his heavenly Master, and the true interests of mankind. His first publication appeared in 1780; and within a few months only of his death, the venerable Prelate wrote and published a letter to Lord Melbourne, on the Irish Church measure: the vigorous tone of which letter affords no indication of a decaying mind.

The following are his chief publications: Burton's Pentalogia, seu Tragoediarun Græcarum Delectus, Editio altera, Indicemque Græcum longe auctiorem et emendatiorem adjecit Thomas Burgess. 1780, 2 vols. 8vo.

Dawes's Miscellanea Critica, iterum edita, 1781, 8vo.

An Essay on the Study of Antiquities, 2d edition, corrected and enlarged." Oxf. 1782, 8vo.

Conspectus Criticarum Observationum in Scriptores Græcos et Latinos, ac locos Antique Eruditionis edendarum, una cum Enarrationibus Collationibusque veterum Codicum MSS. et Sylloge Anecdotorum. Leyden, 1788, 8vo.

Initia Homerica, seu Excerpta ex Iliade Homeri, cum omnium locorum Græca Metaphrasi. 1788, 8vo.

Remarks on Josephus' Account of Herod's building the Temple at Jerusa lem, 1788, 8vo.

Tractatus varii Latini a Crevier, Brotier, Auger, aliisque conscripti. 1788, 8vo.

Considerations on the Abolition of Slavery and the Slave-Trade, upon grounds of Natural, Religious, and Political Duty. 1789, 8vo.

The Divinity of Christ proved from His own Declarations, attested and interpreted by his living witnesses, the Jews, a Sermon, at Oxford, 1790, 4to. A Sermon at Llanarth, in 1814; being a sequel to the one in 1790.

Remarks on the Scriptural Account of the Dimensions of Solomon's Temple. 1790, 8vo.

Emendationes in Suidam et Hesychium etalios Lexicographos Græcos. 1791, 4 vols.

Reflections on the Controversial Writings of Dr. Priestley, relative to religious opinions, establishments, and tests. 1791. Gravine Opuscula. 1792, 8vo.

Musæi Oxoniensis litterarii Conspectus. 1792-7, 2 fascic.

An edition of Hooker's Ecclesiastical Polity, Book I. 1793.

Aristotelis ab H. Stephano primum editum, nunc pluribus auctum Epitaphiis, partim nuper editis, partim nunc primùm e Codice Harleiano. 1798, 12mo.

The Spirit of Prophecy the Testimony of Jesus Christ. 1802, 8vo.

Charity the bond of Peace, and of all Virtues, a Sermon, 1803, 8vo.

An Easter Catechism. 1803, 12mo. Initia Paulina, sive Introductio ad lectionem Pauli Epistolarum. 1804, 12mo. Sermon preached at the Anniversary of the Royal Humane Society, 1804, 8vo.

First Principles of Christian Knowledge. To which is prefixed an Introduction, on the Duty of conforming to the Established Church, as good Subjects and good Christians. 1804, 12mo.

The peculiar Privileges of the Christian Ministry considered, in a Charge delivered at his Primary Visitation of the diocese of St. David's in 1804, 4to.; another Charge 1806; another 1814.

Elementary Evidences of the Truth of Christianity, in a series of Easter Catechisms, 1806.

A Sermon preached before the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, in Westminster Abbey, 30 Jan. 1807, 8vo.

Hebrew Primer, 1807, 12mo.

Hebrew Elements; or, an Introduction to the reading of the Hebrew Scriptures, 1807, 8vo.

These two works were republished in 1823, and form the simplest and clearest introduction to the reading of Hebrew without points that has been published.

The Arabic Alphabet; or, an Introduction to the Reading of Arabic, 1809. Motives to the Study of Hebrew; 2 parts, 1812, 12mo.

The first Seven Epochs of the ancient

British Church; a Sermon, preached on the second Anniversary of the Society for promoting Christian Knowledge in the diocese of St. David's, 1812.

Hebrew Etymology. 1813, 12mo.

The Protestant's Retrospect. 1813, 8vo. Two Letters on the Independence of the ancient British Church on any foreign Jurisdiction, &c. 1812, 1813, 2 vols. 8vo.

A Brief Memorial on the Repeal of the Statute relative to the Doctrine of the Holy Trinity, 1814, 8vo.

Tracts on the Doctrine of the Holy Trinity. 1814, 8vo.

The Bible, and nothing but the Bible, the Religion of the Church of England. 1815, 8vo.

Three Addresses to Unitarians in answer to Mr. Belsham. 1815.

Excerpta en Chrysostomi Libro de Sacerdotio. 1815.

Carmen Toghrai, with a Hebrew and Arabic comparative Vocabulary. 1815, 8vo. A Praxis of the Hebrew, Samaritan, and Syrian Alphabets.

A Letter to the Bishop of Durham on the Origin of the Pelasgi, and on the original Name and Pronunciation of the Eolic Digamma, in answer to Moresti's Hora Pelasgicæ. 1815.

Tracts on the Divinity of Christ, and on the Repeal of the Statute against Blasphemy. 1820, 8vo.

A Vindication of 1 John, v. 7, from the objections of M. Griesbach. To the second edition is added a Preface to the Reply to the Quarterly, and a Postscript in answer to Palæoromaica. 1826, 8vo.

A Letter to the Clergy of the diocese of St. David's, on a passage of the second Symbolum Antiochenum of the fourth Century, as an evidence of the authenticity of 1 John, v. 7. 1825, 8vo.

A Letter to Mrs. Joanna Baillie, on the same passage, 1831.

Two Letters addressed to the Duke of Wellington, against the Roman Catholic Relief Bill.

His Lordship was formerly a frequent correspondent of the Gentleman's Magazine, in which in 1814 he had a warm controversy with Mr. Thomas Belsham on the Faith of the Primitive Church. was also an occasional contributor to Valpy's Classical Journal.

He

Bishop Burgess was mainly instrumental in founding the Royal Society of Literature; of which, in 1821, he became the first President; but in 1832, on account of his loss of sight and other infirmities, he resigned the office in favour of the late Lord Dover.

In 1835 the Bishop sunk at the communion table at Warminster in the midst of the office of confirmation. He was then prevented by illness from holding bis visitation, and published an address

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