in the house now occupied by Thomas Avery, Esq.

Mr. Leighton died when young.

Dr. Rutherford who had a very numerous and respectable school in the house now occupied by Mrs. Ede, on Uxbridge Common, resigned his office as minister in the year 1788, and afterwards returned to Scotland, his native country, where it is supposed he is now living. He published a charge delivered at the ordination of Mr. (now Dr.) Rutledge, and a View of Ancient History.

The present pastor is the Reverend T. E. Beasley, who has for many years conducted a considerable and respectable Seminary for Young Gentlemen.

SECTION 9.

THE INDEPENDENTS.

A very neat and substantial Meeting-house for the dissenters of the Congregational order, who had for many years worshipped in a large room in the George Inn Yard, was built in 1796,

by Mr. Job Arnold Glover, It is capable of containing from four to five hundred persons, and is, with its adjoining burial ground, vested in trustees in the usual manner, to secure the exercise of religious worship, according to the intentions of the donor.

There is a large Sunday School for boys and girls, and another for adults, managed by the members of this congregation; also a society for the relief of sick persons of all denominations, called "THE CHRISTIAN FRIEND SOCIETY", and a Ladies' Society for the purpose of supplying the poor with clothes, called "THE DORCAS SOCIETY."

Lysons in his Historical Account of the Out-Parishes, is incorrect in calling this place of worship "a Chapel for the Methodists." The Author of "The Beauties of England and Wales" falls into the same error.

The first Pastor of this Congregation was the Rev. Mr. Freer. He removed to London in the year 1811, and was succeeded in the following year by the Rev. George Redford, A. M.

CHAPTER IV.

CHARITABLE AND BENEVOLENT INSTITUTIONS.

SECTION 1.

SCHOOLS.

EDUCATION is at once the basis of public

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virtue, and the bulwark both of civil and religious liberty. We speak not of the mental refinement or science of the higher classes of society, which has been eloquently compared to the elaborate ornament at the top of the column, but to that more elementary and useful knowledge, which being diffused generally through all orders of men, affords them at once the means both of pleasure and improvement; and thus confers solidity on the lower parts of the structure, thereby uniting the whole more firmly together. Hence it will be seen how powerfully the influence of universal education must be felt through every rank and gradation of society, and how closely it stands