of brilliant talent with sober judgment,

and was especially distinguished by Christian humility, which no applause could disturb, no success abate. He cheerfully resigned prospects of eminence at home, in order to become

the chief Missionary of Christianity in the East;
and having, in the short space of 3 years,
visited the greater part of India,

and conciliated the affections and veneration
of men of every class of religion,

he was there summoned to receive the reward of his labours, in the 43rd year of his age, 1826.

Thou art gone to the grave, but we will not deplore thee, Though sorrow and darkness encompass the tomb; Thy Saviour has passed the portals before thee,

And the lamp of his love is thy guide through the gloom. Thou art gone to the grave, but we will not deplore thee, Whose God was thy ransom, thy guardian and guide; He gave thee, he took thee, and he will restore thee, And Death has no sting, for the Saviour has died.”

FRANCIS ATTERBURY, D.D., bishop of Rochester, was sentenced in 1723, to perpetual exile for a treasonable correspondence, and he died in Paris, Feb. 15, 1731, aged 68, his only daughter having expired in his arms immediately after her arrival in France to see him. He was privately buried in Westminster Abbey, and the following epitaph written for him by Pope :

"SHE.

Yes! we have lived-one pang, and then we part! May Heaven, dear Father! now have all thy heart: Yet, ah! how once we lov'd, remember still,

Till you are dust like me.

HE.

Dear Shade! I will:

Then mix this dust with thine-O spotless ghost!
O more than fortune, friends, or country lost!
Is there on earth one care, one wish beside?
Yes-SAVE MY COUNTRY, HEAV'N!

He said, and dy'd."

MILES COVERDALE, bishop of Exeter, who produced the first entire translation of the protestant Bible in the English language, died in February, 1568, aged 81, and was buried in the church of St. Bartholomew, by the Royal Exchange. The present church was built by Sir Christopher Wren, in 1679, on the site of the old one; but Stow, in describing the ancient structure, records a certain Latin inscription, which he tells us "is on a fair plated stone, on the ground in the chancel." The following is a translation of the Latin inscription :—

"Epitaph on the Right Reverend Father in God,
MILES COVERDALE, an Octogenarian.

This Tomb which at last offers repose, and a
termination of his labours, holds the
bones of COVERDALE !

Who, as Bishop of Exeter, distinguished himself
by the exemplary probity of his life.
He liv'd to the good old age of eighty-one,
Too long an innocent exile from his native country.
After undergoing a variety of troubles,
He is here received into the friendly bosom
of the grave.

M."

There is no account or appearance of any interment in Lambeth Palace Chapel, except of Archbishop PARKER, who died in 1575, aged 71, and who desired by his will to be buried there. The spot where his body now rests is marked by the following words, cut on a slab immediately in front of the communion rails :—

"Corpus Matthæi Archiepiscopi,
Tandem Hic Quiescit."

Dr. JOSEPH HALL, bishop of Norwich, who died there in 1656, aged 82, he being an enemy to burying in churches, directed that his body should be buried in the churchyard.

In St. Paul's Cathedral is a monument to Bishop MIDDLETON. His lordship is represented as confirming two Hindoos. The inscription is :

"THOMAS FANSHAW MIDDLETON, D.D.

First Protestant Bishop in India,

Consecrated to the See of Calcutta, May 8th, 1814, died July 8th, 1822.

This monument was erected by the joint contribution of Members of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge,

and the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel."

REGINALD POLE, archbishop of Canterbury, under Queen Mary, died Nov. 18th, 1558, aged 58, and was interred with great pomp on the north side of Thomas à Becket's chapel in Canterbury Cathedral. Over his grave was erected a tomb, on which were inscribed only these three words, as sufficient to his fame :—

"Depositum Cardinalis POLI."

The following is inscribed on the tomb of the Rev. Dean DRELINCOURT, in the Cathedral church of Armagh :

"Such was the second DRELINCOURT! a name
Victorious over death-and dear to fame.

The Christian's praise by different measures won,
Successive grac'd the father and the son,
To sacred service, one his wealth consigned,
And one the living treasures of his mind.
'Twere rash to say whose talent did excel,
Each was so rich, and each improved so well.
Nor was the charity delay'd till death,
He chose to give what others did bequeath,

Much tho' he gave, and oft, yet more he meant,
Had life proportioned to his will been lent;
But to complete a scheme so well design'd,
Belongs to her who shar'd his bed and mind:
Whose pious sorrows thus to future days,
Transmit his image, and extend his praise."

In St. Mary's churchyard, Gloucester :-
"JOHN HOOPER, D.D.
Bishop of

Gloucester and Worcester,
was burnt on this spot,
on Saturday,

February IX, MDLV.
For his steady adherance
to the

Protestant Religion."

Over the tomb of Pope ADRIAN VI., who died in 1523, was placed his own exclamation :

:

"Let a man be never so good, how much depends on the times in which he is born."

In the epitaph on the monument of Dr. WM. WYNNE, in Mold church, in Flintshire, are these words :"In conformity to an ancient usage, From a proper regard to decency,

And a concern for the health

of his fellow creatures,

He was moved to give particular directions for being buried in the adjoining churchyard And not in the church."

Dr. SAMUEL PARR, the learned divine and critic, died without pain, Jan. 6th, 1825, aged 80. He was buried in Hatton churchyard, where a monument is erected to his memory, with the following beautiful quotation from the Scriptures, selected by himself:

"What doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God."

On Dr. THOMAS PARNELL, the divine and poet, who died at Chester, 1717, aged 48 years (by Oliver Goldsmith) :—

"This tomb inscribed to gentle PARNELL's name,
May speak our gratitude, but not his fame.
What heart but feels his sweetly-moral lay,
That leads to truth through pleasure's flowery way.
Celestial themes confess'd his tuneful aid;
And Heaven, that lent him genius, was repaid.
Needless to him the tribute we bestow,

The transitory breath of fame below :

More lasting rapture from his works shall rise
While converts thank their Poet in the skies."

On Dr. PLAYFER, Margaret Professor of Divinity, who died about 1607-8 :—

"Who lives with Death, by Death in Death is lying,
But he who living dies, best lives by dying:
Who life to truth, who death to error gives,
In life may die, by death more surely lives.

My soul in Heaven breathes, in schools my fame,
Then on my tomb write nothing but my name."

On the Rev. CHARLES WESLEY, of London, who died March 29, 1785, and was buried in the churchyard of St. Mary-le-bone. The lines were written by himself, on the death of one of his friends :

"With poverty of spirit blest,

Rest, happy saint in Jesus, rest!

A sinner sav'd, through grace forgiven,
Redeem'd from earth to reign in heaven.
Thy labours of unwearied love,
By thee forgot are crown'd above;
Crown'd through the mercy of thy Lord,
With a free, full, immense reward."