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" exposed ; and the establishment of a Female 

 "Penitentiary recommended to the Inhabitants 

 "of Hull;" and another, in the same year, 

 delivered in St. Paul's Church, at Leeds, on the 

 death of the Rev. Miles Atkinson, minister of that 

 church. Mr. SCOTT, a most able and learned 

 Divine, was born at Ravtjnstone, near Stoke, in 

 Buckinghamshire. He took his degree of B.A., 

 at Cambridge, in 1799, and became a Wrangler, 

 on his examination. Soon after quitting the Uni- 

 versity, he accepted the curacy of St. John's 

 Church, in this town. As the cause which 

 influenced him in making this place his re- 

 sidence may not be generally known, 1 shall 

 state it in his own words : " It was at a very 

 " early age," says he, " that I first conceived, 

 " from the memoir of William Howard, of North 

 " Ferriby, a veneration for the name of Joseph 

 " Milner, and a wish to become connected with 

 " Hull. When about to enter into holy orders, 

 *' I had accepted a title in a remote part of the 

 " country in Somersetshire : but it was pro- 

 " posed to me, and with some reluctance acceded 

 " to on my part, to receive instead of it a nomi- 

 " nation to the curacy of St. John's, in Hull. 

 " This has fixed my lot in life. A year and a 

 " half afterwards, I was appointed to the same 

 " vicarage of North Ferriby, the same lectureship 

 " in the principal church at Hull, and the same 



