and excellent President, hear his judicious remarks on their architecture and archæological histories, view their sepulchral memorials, and be charmed with his Christian commentaries thereon, or learn how to live and how to die from his interesting memoir of the good, the wise, but persecuted Bishop Ken; and while "the feast of reason and the flow of soul" can be enjoyed with so many good and gifted men as I see around me;--it can never be said that Bath is devoid of intellectual society, or deficient in

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I must candidly confess that, in the course of the foregoing notices, the name of the Rev. WILLIAM JAY escaped my recollection, and I did not think of his useful life till I heard of his lamented death; this ought not to have been, for, as pastor of the Independent congregation, he was eminent. Zealous in his ministry, without being extreme in his opinions, he laboured among his people in this city from the year 1791 until January last! His mind was capacious, his talents considerable, and his publications, which claim for him a place among our Literati, are of a superior cast; and I have reason to think that some of his posthumous works, if judiciously edited, will prove of a very interesting nature to every class of

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readers. The events of his early life, and the griefs of his later days, I leave to his biographer.

Did not inexorable death come daily before us in his various aspects, and with his awful warnings, we might well be startled to reflect, that even since these pages have been passing through the press, five of those whose names I have introduced, and would fain commemorate, have sunk into the grave!

There is a learned divine of our mother church, and one of much literary eminence, lately come among us, who will, no doubt, contribute largely to the advancement of learning in Bath-the Rev. ARTHUR MACLEANE, the head master of King Edward's Grammar School. A good sample of his zeal and energy has been displayed in his exertions to celebrate a tercentenary commemoration of the pious young founder; and I have no doubt but that, under the superintendence of so ripe a scholar, so earnest a churchman, and so accomplished a gentleman, the school will rise to its former eminence, and from the walls of old Broad Street again will issue another John Hales, Samuel Lysons, Sidney Smith, and Edward Parry.

R. E. PEACH (Pocock's Library), Bridge Street, Bath.