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REV. DR. PARR.

DIED, at Hatton Parsonage, near Warwick, on the evening of Sunday the 6th inst., in his 79th year, the Rev. Dr. Samuel Parr, Prebendary of St. Paul's, Rector of Graffam, in Huntingdonshire, &c., after an illness of about two months' continuance; during which the affectionate sympathy of his friends was not less assiduous than the prayers and supplications of his parishioners, for the prolongation of the life of their most valuable friend and pastor.

Rarely does it fall to the lot of men in general to witness such a splendid combination of talent, learning, and moral worth as the character of Dr. Parr presented. In intellect, he was a giant, revelling and glorying in that strength by means of which he was enabled to defy opposition, to overthrow all competitors, to break them to pieces, and to trample them to dust, if they besought not that forbearance which he refused to no man. Occasionally, he might be thought, by some persons, to wanton in power-to assume the sceptre, and put on the purple; for, enthroned in intellectual might, he dreaded no rivalry :-but let all remember, that he was incapable of the slightest feeling of jealousy at other men's claims, or victories: he rejoiced in their powers, and aided their triumphs; and seldom, indeed, has the world possessed a man who has contributed so frequently, so essentially, and with so much delight, to the success of all who sought his aid. He was not to be vexed by ignorance, irritated by dulness, or provoked by folly: for he always made unasked allowances for every man's situation, circumstances, capacity, or want of capacity; and it was only when ignorance presumed to teach-when dulness pretended to be wit, or folly domineered, that his ire was kindled; and he inflicted unforgotten, unforgiven wounds upon the self-love of persons, who neither knew him nor themselves.

The majesty of mind beamed in his eye, and was stamped upon his forehead, and required none of those external indications of coronets and mitres, which supply the absence of realities in the "litte great;"-exhibiting the shadow without the substance the attestation without the signature.

His knowledge of the human character, in all its varieties, appeared to have been intuitive. He marked the eye; he read the countenance; and the prophet of old did not more fully comprehend the hand writing upon the wall, than he all the latent, as well as all the obvious, features of the mind.

Endowed with that indispensable requisite to literary eminence which is found in a memory at once retentive and exact, he attracted the pure ore from all that he read, and all that he heard. If any mind might be pronounced magnetic, it was his.

Possessing, in the stores of his capacious mind, the essence of all that the fathers' wrote; profoundly skilled in all the best comments upon Jewish history and Christian doctrine; master of all systems of divinity; versed in all creeds, as well as in the decisions of councils and synods; and equally well acquainted with the great controversies which have agitated the Greek, the Latin and the Protestant churches; as also those which have, at various periods, divided the literary world; being a most learned philologist, erudite classical scholar, and profound metaphysician. skilled in general science, and more especially in the principles of legislation; deeply read in ecclesiastical and general history, as well as in the systems of ethics

and philosophy, of all ages and nations; the "spirits of the mighty dead" might be said to come at his call; and the poets, the orators and philosophers of antiquity mentally appeared at the invocation of a genius transcendant as themselves. To estimate his acquisitions to their full extent was impossible; knowledge in him was an ocean, the boundaries of which no one ever discovered-the depths of which no one ever fathomed.

Such a man, enjoying unabated vigour of intellect, and undecaying firmness of purpose, though almost on the verge of his eightieth year, was a spectacle sublime as that of the polar sun blazing at midnight, and pouring forth floods of light when the ordinary laws of nature decree darkness.

That such talents and such learning should be accompanied by a commensurate kindness of heart and urbanity of manners, is not more than thinking men would expect, nor less than good men would desire. He was the personal friend of his humblest parishioners; and to them he was an expounder of Scripture, alike able, zealous and faithful: and whilst he taught them to abhor every species of hypocrisy and fraud, they witnessed that his practice and his precepts were in exact accordance. Religion in him had no taint of superstition, or bigotry: he believed that the fold of Christ included all that have faith in his mission, and obey his precepts; and the rest of his fellow-beings he presumed not to judge. He soothed the afflicted, advised the friendless, consoled the widow and the fatherless, and sought to lighten the captive's fetters: he was, indeed, the friend of those "who had none beside to help them.” His conversational intercourse was instructive and delightful, almost beyond parallel: the hospitality of ancient times prevailed at his table, and his hourly liberality proved his contempt for riches.

Dr. Parr was born at Harrow: his father was a surgeon of that place; and his paternal grandfather was rector of Hinckley, in Leicestershire. He was at the head of Harrow school in his fourteenth year; and would, on the death of Dr. Sumner, who strongly recommended him as his successor, have been appointed to the head-mastership, had it not been for the immaturity of his age. At Harrow, he contracted a friendship with Dr. Bennet, late Bishop of Cloyne, and the celebrated Sir Wm. Jones. When he removed from Harrow, to establish himself as a teacher at Stanmore, almost all the boys of the upper school accompanied him. He became successively master of the Grammar Schools of Colchester and Norwich; and was preferred, in 1780, to the rectory of Asterby, in the diocese of Lincoln. This, in 1785, he exchanged for the perpetual curacy of Hatton, in Warwickshire. In addition to the benefice above mentioned, the Rev. Dr. Parr held the living of Graff ham, in Huntingdonshire, which was presented to him by Sir Francis Burdett. Through the present Earl of Dartmouth's grandfather, he also obtained from Bishop Lowth, a prebend of St. Paul's Cathedral. Dr. Parr was twice married-first to Ann, of the ancient house of Mauleverer, in Yorkshire; and afterwards, to Mary, sister of the late Rev. James Eyre, of Solihull, in War. wickshire. By his first wife, he had several children, all of whom died in their infancy, except Catherine and Sarah, both of whom he survived; the first married to John Wynne, Esq., of Garthmillis, in Denbighshire, and left two daughters, now living-Catherine and Augusta; the eldest of whom is the wife of the Rev. John Lymes, Rector of Elmley Levit, in Worcestershire.

Dr. Parr was not doomed to experience liberality where it ought to have been most exhibited. He was never patronized by the government; but derived his preferments, and that competence, which so happily gilded the sunset of his life, and which he so nobly united with mental independence, from his own exertions, and those of private friendship. Distinguished as Dr. Parr was for his moral character, his persevering exercise of all the duties of his station as a parish pastor, and his zealous and enlightened attachment to our civil and religious constitution, this neglect of him, by the ruling powers, is obviously traceable to the known independence of his character. The secret, indeed, may be explained by an extract from his admirable work "On the Character of Mr. Fox;" in which he states, that "from his youth upwards he never deserted a friend, nor violated a public principle; that he was the SLAVE OF NO PATRON, AND THE ORGAN OF NO PARTY; that he formed his political opinions without the slightest regard, and acted upon them with total disregard to personal emolument and professional promotion!"

MRS. ANNA LÆTITIA BARBAULD.

Died, at Stoke Newington, on the 9th instant, in the 82d year of her age, Mr. Anna Lætitia Barbauld, daughter of the late Rev. John Aiken, D. D. and widow of the Rev. Rochmont Barbauld.

This distinguished lady, whose fame is second to none of the female writers of her country, was born at Kibworth, in the county of Leicester, on June 20th, 1743. She was indebted to her learned and exemplary father for the solid foundation of a literary and classical education; a boon at that period rarely bestowed upon a daughter. In the year 1756, she accompanied her family to Warrington, in Lanca shire, where her father was appointed one of the tutors of a dissenting academy. She published, in 1772, a volume of poems, which immediately gave her a place in the first rank of living poets. The next year, in conjunction with her brother, the late John Aiken, M. D. she gave to the world a small but choice collection of miscellaneous pieces in prose.

On her marriage, in 1774, she went to reside at Palgrove in Suffolk, where her Early Lessons, and Hymns in Prose, for Children, were composed-masterpieces in the art of juvenile instruction-monuments at once of her genius and of the condescending benevolence which presided over its exercise. In 1785, Mr. and Mrs. Barbauld quitted Palgrove, and after a tour on the Continent, and some months passed in London, they settled at Hampstead.

Some pamphlets on public topics, printed anonymously, but marked for hers by a style of almost unrivalled brilliancy and animation; and a Poetical Epistle to Mr. Wilberforce on his exertions for the abolition of the Slave Trade, were the prin cipal efforts of her pen during many succeeding years.

In 1802 she and Mr. Barbauld fixed their abode at the village of Stoke Newington, whither they were attracted by her affection for her brother, and desire of enjoying his daily society. A Selection from the Guardian, Spectator and Tatler, introduced by an elegant essay; another from the MS. correspondence of Ri chardson, with a Life of the Author, and a view of his writings prefixed; and a Collection of the best English Novels, with biographical and critical prefaces, served in succession to amuse her leisure; a higher effort of her power was the splendid poem entitled Eighteen Hundred and Eleven, which appeared early in the ensuing year.

This was the last of her separate publications, but she continued ocasionally to exercise her poetical powers, which she retained in undiminished vigour nearly to the latest period of her life.

She sunk by a gradual decay, without any severe bodily suffering, and with per fect resignation and composure of mind.

The moral qualities of this admirable woman reflected back a double lustre on her intellectual endowments. Her principles were pure and exalted, her senti ments on all occasions mild, candid and generous. No one could bear her facul ties more meekly: neither pride nor envy had the smallest share in her composi tion: her beneficence was proved by many acts of bounty, and her courtesy, kind. ness, and indulgence to others were unbounded. Her society was equally a benefit and a delight to all within her sphere. She possessed many and warm friends, and passed through a long life without an enemy.

Mrs. Barbauld has left behind her many unpublished pieces both in verse and prose; and a complete edition of her works, with a selection from her correspondence, may be expected to appear under the superintendence of her family.

While inserting, with a melancholy satisfaction, this brief memoir, with which a correspondent has favoured us, of one of the greatest benefactors to the present generation, from the lead taken by her in improving the system of early domestic education-it would be, upon our part, a want of that gratitude which is the very heart of moral justice, if we did not particularly notice the obligations of the Monthly Magazine to Mrs. Barbauld, to whose pen are to be ascribed several of the most pleasing and interesting essays and poetical effusions which graced its

earliest numbers.

DR. TILLOCH, LL. D.

It is with feelings of deep emotion that we have to announce to our readers the death of Dr. Alexander Tilloch, the founder and editor of the Philosophical Magazine.