London Gazette North Briton For FEBRUARY 1766. CONTAINING, More in Quantity and greater Bariery than any Book of the Hind and Price. 1. Life of the late Dr Hoadley, Bp of Winchefter II. Authentic account of the perfecution of M. Rouleau. III. An important difcovery concerning Popish practices. IV. Grievances from Ecclefiaftical and Spiri- V. Account of a fubterranean Gothic church. IX. Brief account of Brigbtbelmftone in Suffex. Lake, with their pilgrimages & pennances. XI. Art of the Egyptiani in fafcinating ferpents XII. Original grants of Edw. Vi, to the city hofpitals with the Londoners intereft therein. XIII. Unanimity among the merchants the great bulwark of trade. XIV. The conformity of language and man- XV. Virtual reprefentation vifionary. mericans. XVII. Account of a non-descript sea-monfter, XVIII Fafcinating power of ferpents denied. vention for taxing the colonies, XXVI. The Conftitutions of the fociety for XXVII. POETRY. The Judgment of Paris. The Power of Riches.-The tender ExpoAtulation.-Prologue.-Epigrams, &c. &c. XXVIII. Lift of Books, wilb Remarks. Ponte ach, an American tragedy;--the Demi rep;--Political Epiftles ;-the Friendly Cution, &c. &c. XXIX. American refolutions in confequence of the ftamp-act. XXX. Hiftorical Chronicle. Remarkable pha nomena of the weather; account of the deceased Chevalier,and the K of Denmark; mifcellaneous Articles, Sheriffs, &c. With a perfpective View of the infide of the Antient fubterraneous Gothic Church in Leadenball Street, lately laid open by the Fire there; alfo a fine Reprefentation of a nondefcript Sea Monfier, caught on the Coaft of France, with eight additional Pages. By SYLVANUS URBAN, Gent. LONDON. Printed by D. HENRY, at St JOHN'S GATE. THE Gentleman's Magazine; For FEBRUARY 1766. Some Account of the LIFE of the late Dr BENJAMIN HOADLY was the second A fon of the Rev. Mr Samuel Hoadly, chief mafter of the pub. lic school at Nor. quich; who, notwithstanding his eminence in critical learning, never obtained any preferment in the church. B C Benjamin was born at Wefterbam in Kent, on the 14th of November 1676, his father being then teacher of a private school in that place. He was educated under his father's care till he was admitted of Catherine Hall, Cambridge, under Mr Ling, afterwards Bifhop of Norwich. He commenced penfioner on the 18th of Feb. 1691, being about 15 years old; and Bachelor of Arts in January 1695 6; he was elected Fellow on the 23d of Augut 1697; and Mafter of Arts at the commencement 1699. As foon as he commenced Mafter of Arts, he be- D came Tutor, and discharged that office two years with great reputation. He appears to have been held in great efteem through the whole course of his academic ftudies; For his Batchelor's degree he was indulged with no lefs than seven terms, ob graviffimam valetudinem, and he had other marks E af distinction conferred upon him in that early part of his life. But though he applied to study with an application that made him eminent, he acquired at the fame time a great proficiency in mufic, to which, however, he devoted not much of his time in the fucceeding part of his life. F While he was Under Graduate, he had the fall pox in a deplorable manner; and had ftill the greater miffortune to fprain his leg fo violently, that he was in the most imminent danger of lofing the limb: it was at first in the hands of a furgeon who treated it unfkilfully, and it was af terwards preferved by Serjeant Barnard, in oppofition to the opinion of feveral furgeons of great eminence, who declared, in a confultation, that it ought to be taken off. This hurt, however, rendered him a cripple alĺ his life; he used a cane when he ap peared in public, and crutches at home: In the pulpit he always kneeled upon a ftool. On the 18th of December, 1698, he took Deacon's Orders, under Dr H. Compton, Bishop of London; and Priest's Orders on the 22d ofDecember, 1700. On the goth of May, 1701, he mar ried Mrs Sarah Curtis, a lady who was a great proficient in the art of painting, having been the fcholar of Mrs. Beale and her fon Charles, who were bred under Sir Peter Lilly. Many of her portraits would do honour to a profeffor of the art, particularly two Imall whole lengths of Mr Hoadly and his brother, and a third of Bp Burnet, from which the late Mr Vertue made an excellent engraving. His Fellowship being vacated by his marriage, he quitted it, and the fame year was appointed to the lectureship of St Mildred in the Poultry; he also officiated for the Rev. Mr Hodges, rector of St Swithin's, during his ab. fence at fea, as chaplain-general of the Fleet, in 1702. In 1704, he obtained the rectory of St Peter le Poor, by the joint favour of Dr Fleetwood and Dr William Sherlock, then Dean of St Paul's. Dr Fleetwood recommended him to Dr Sher lock, and Dr Sherlock to the Chapter which had the patronage of the living. From the time of his coming to London, he published many writings, particularly a book on civil government, which, in the year 1709, produced the following Vote of the House of Commons in his favour : $ Rs. A Refolved, That the Rev. Mr Benjamin Hoadly, Rector of Saint Péter lePoor, London, for having often justified the principles on which her Majeft and the nation proceeded, in the late happy Revolution, hath juftly merited the favour and recommendation of this Houfe. 2. That an humble Address be prefented to her Majefty, that he would be graciously pleased to beftow fome dignity in the church on Mr Hoadly, for his eminent fervices both to the B church and ftate.' The Queen an. fwered, That fhe would take a pro⚫ per opportunity to comply with their • defires.' tive against the principles and practices of the Nonjurors both in Church and State : And on the 31st of March, 1717, he preached before ihe King a fermon on the Nature of the Kingdom or Church of CHRIST; which was immediately printed by special command. The doctrines contained in thefe pieces gave fo great offence to the Clergy, that it was refolved to proceed against the author as soon as the Convocation hould fit: The Lower Houfe accordingly drew up their reprefentation; but before it could be brought into the Upper Houfe, the affembly was prorogued by a fpecial order from the King. This prorogation, however, which was refolved and ordered without theBifhops knowledge, did not hinder the question from being difcuffed; it only remoC ved it from the bar of human authority to that of reafon and fcripture. The reprefentation drawn up by the Committee was published, to which the Bishop foon after published an anfwer; and thus the famous Bangorian Controverfy commenced. D The motion on which thefe Refolutions were founded, was made by Anthony Henley, Efq; father of the prefent Lord Chancellor, without Mr Hoadly's knowledge, or any previous confultation with his Friends. It did not, however, produce any advantage to Mr Hoadly, for which the change that happened foon after in the Queen's Ministry will fufficiently account.But the very inftruments which at this time excluded him from royal favour, procured him preferment from a lady who had never feen him, and whom he had never seen. On the 13th of February 1910, Mrs Hoviland, the widow of an eminent merchant, and grandmother of the last and prefent Dukes of Bedford, the Dutchess Dowager of Bridgewater, and the Dowager Countess of Efex, presented him to the Rectory of Streatham in Surry; to fhew, as the faid, that he swas neither afraid nor ashamed to give bim that mark of her regard at that critical time. As a qualified person to hold this, with his other living, hep was made Chaplain to Wristhefley, then Duke of Bedford. He was fome time after honoured with the degree of Doctor of Divinity, by Abp Wake: E On the acceffion of King George I. he again ftood fair for royal preferment, and on St Thomas's day, 1715, he was appointed to the Bishoprick of G Bangor, and confecrated at Ely chapel on the 18th of March following: With the Bishoprick of Banger he held both his livings in commendam. It was a fingular circumftance, not to his difhonour, that, when he went to court to kiss the King's hand upon his promotion, he did not know the way up fairs; and when he got up tairs, he fat in an outer room, till he was hewn into the prefence. Po 1716, he published 4 Preferva. H In 1720, the Bishop_refigned the Rectory of St Peter's Poor and in 1721, he was tranflated to the See of Hereford. In the year 1723, while he was Bifhop of this See, happened the Trial of Dr Francis Atterbury, the Bishop of Rochester, in whofe fentence he concurred, for reafons which he published in fome letters that were first printed in the London Journal, and afterwards feparately, containing Remarks on Mr Kelly's and the Bishop's fpeeches at the bar of the House of Lords. The fame year he was tranflated to the See of Salisbury; and foon after he' refigned his beloved retirement, the Rectory of Streatham. he On the death of Dr Willis, in 1734 was tranflated to Winchefter. In the year 1740, an attempt was made to defraud him of 8,800%. by one Bernard Fourniere, who forged a promiffory note from the Bishop for that fum, over a blank cover which his Lordship had franked for a letter. This forgery the Bishop detected with an accimen, and preceffion, for which he was always remarkable; and of this detection, he published a particular account, when he was eighty one years of age, that would have done honour to any character in the vigour of life, See an Epitome of it, Vol. xxvii. p. 593, Ou the 23d of July, 1745, he mar ried a fecond wife; when his first wife died does not appear: This Lady then about 38 years of age, was the daughter and co heirefs of John Ne Dean of Chicbeer, On the 16th of April 1761, being at his Palace at Lambeth, he fupped, and was as ufual carried UP to bed in perA fect health: In the middle of the night he was feized with a vomiting, the violence of which abated in about an hour; Dr. Taylor, and Mr. Hawkins attended him as foon as they could be fent to, and the Bishop lay quiet till about 8 o'clock the next evening, when his Lady, who had watched with him. the whole day, found him dead, not knowing the moment of his departure. By his first Lady, he left three fons, Samuel, Benjamin and John, of which the laft only furvived him. A monument is erected to his me. mory near the place of his interment in his Cathedral of Winchefter. Anecdotes relative to the Perfecution of J. J. Rouleau by the Clergy in Neufchattel. Bout the latter end of the year A 1764, Mr. Raufear had clofed with a propotal for the publication of a compleat edition of his works: About the fame time, alfo, came out his Letters from the Mountains; which bro't on the pertecution that followed. fentiment and conduct, to display the value I fet upon the happiness of be. ing united to the church.-Mr. Profellor is defired to communicate this declaration to the venerable affembly. J. J. Rouffeau." This declaration the affembly kept a profound fecret, even from thofe of their own body, who did not happen to be prefent at the time of its delivery. By fome means or other. however, it became known to his Prufhan majefty at Berlin; in confequence of which the king's attorney general at Neufchatel received the following letter from the Lord Marshall: The king is displeased that your fellow-countrymen should be irritated agrinft a man whom he protects; and bath declared that he will highly refent any farther perfecution of Mr. Rousfeau. This I have from his majesty's Cown lips; you may report it to whom you pleafe. D The aflembly of the clergy com, plained both to the adminiftration and the magistracy, against thefe letters; E reprefenting them as impious, fcandalous and heretical; foliciting withal the immediate prefcription of them, the fuppreffion of the projected edition, and of the author's works in general. The civil magiftrate fuppreffed the book; and the ailembly determined to proceed against the author; who, to allay the torm, tranfmitted the foilowing declaration to Mr. Profeffor de Montmellin, the paftor of his church; in order to have it communicated to the affembly "Out of the deference I owe to ProEeffor de Montmellin, my paftor, and the refpect I bear to the venerable affembly of the clergy, I offer, if they will admit of it, to engage myfelf, by a writing figned with my own hand, never to publish any new work relagive to matters of religion; nor even to treat of religion, tho' ever so curforily, in any new work I may hereafter publish on other fubjects: promiling farther to continue, both in F This intimation of the King's pleasure, although immediately made public, was difregarded by the affembly; who precipitately proceeded in open defiance of fuch intimation, as well as in direct oppofition to the laws and conftitution of that country, to pass fentence of excommunication upon him. They were prevented, however, from carrying their fentence into execution, by the remonftrance of one of their own body. This remonstrance occafioned fresh deliberations; in confequence of which the matter of excommunication was referred to the proper convocation, a confiftory of elders of the church at Metiers. The paftor of the church, however, directed the Elders to cite Rouleau before them, and to ask him the following questions: 1. Whether Jobn James Rouleau doth not believe in Jefus Chrift, who died for our fins, and rose again for our jus. tification? 2. Whether he doth not believe a revelation, and refpect the Holy ScripG tures as of divine authority? And he was himself directed by the Affembly, if Mr Rousseau did not make very fatisfactory anfwers to the above questions, to proceed immediately to excommunicate him. The elders were alfo told, that Rouleau was the Antichrift; that the fafety of the country depended on his excommunication; that the different members of the state were for it; that the allied Cantons, particularly that of Berne, had threat. ened to renounce its ancient alliance |