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excellent discourse of the other, " On the ascen- 

 " dancy and influence connected with age,'* have 

 both been printed. 



Having been led to mention incidentally the 

 names of Mr. Gilbert and Mr. Birt, I should do 

 them injustice, although they have ceased to 

 reside among us, were I not to pay a passing 

 tribute to their merit as men of classical taste and 

 general information. The former published, in 

 1825, a "Memoir of the Life and Writings of 

 " Dr. Edward Williams :" the latter, commenced 

 authorship in 1812, in " An Oration on the in- 

 " convenience and evils arising from a perverse 

 " imitation of the Old (Economy in a Christian 

 " City and Church," translated from the Latin 

 of John Henry Verschuir. The first of his origi- 

 nal productions appeared in 1813, under the title 

 of " The Conversations of Erastus andTrophimus, 

 " on the doctrine of distinguishing Grace j" in the 

 folio wing year, he printed a sermon entitled "The 

 " apostolical method of preaching the Gospel ; 

 " a sermon, preached at the annual meeting of 

 " the Northern-Education-Society, August 31, 

 " 1814;" and, in 1823, after having left Hull, 

 " Lectures on Popery :" all of which works, with 

 the exception of the last, were published here. 

 The respect entertained for Mr. Birt's talents, 

 which were rendered more attractive by a pecu- 

 liar suavity of deportment, was evinced, during 



