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Biographical Memoirs of Eminent Persons. 



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also wrote, and preached at Christ Church, 

 Bath, "A Sermon on His Majesty's Call 

 for the United Exertions of his People 

 against the threatened Invasion." In 

 1605, his " Charge delivered at the Primary 

 Visitation of the Rev. the Archdeacon of 

 Sarum," attracted much notice by the ex*- 

 cellent sense, and correct feeling which it 

 throughout displayed. We cannot resist the 

 inclination of transcribing from it the fol- 

 lowing paragraph respecting the behaviour 

 of a clergyman: " It is a remark not un- 

 commonly made, that what my be done 

 by a Christian without offence, may also, 

 without impropriety, be done by a clergy- 

 man ! But this remark is certainly founded 

 in error ; an error which, in its application 

 to our present stabject, may be productive of 

 most important effects. The example of the 

 clergy is at all times necessary to enforce 

 the precepts they inculcate. A minister of 

 Christ, therefore, should abstain from appa- 

 rent, no less than from positive evil, be- 

 cause his influence on the public mind should 

 be preserved in as unimpaired a state as pos- 

 sible. Should therefore his indulgence in 

 pursuits and amusements, in themselves in- 

 different perhaps, when considered with re- 

 spect to others, tend in any degree to lesson 

 that reverence for his character, which is 

 essential to the effectual discharge of his 

 important office ; should he riot be able to 

 restrain himself from temporary gratification 

 that is to be enjoyed at such an expense, 

 with what grace will he preach to others the 

 necessary practice of self denial on still 

 more important occasions. To all such 

 cases, the doctrine of expediency, on the 

 authority of St. Paul, strictly applies. For 

 in matters which may affect the salvation of 

 others, admitting that they are allowable in 

 themselves, the charity of our religion calls 

 on us to respect even the scruples of our 

 weaker brethren. It is the position of St. 

 Paul, that when we sin against the breihrep, 

 and wound their weak conscience, we sin 

 against Christ." 



Dr. Danbeny, if we mistake not, was one 

 of the chief theological contributors to the 

 Anti- Jacobin Review. Independently of his 

 discussions with Mr. Overton, we have rea- 

 son to suppose that he was also concerned 

 in the Blagdon Controversy ; a controversy 

 in which Mrs. Hannah More, as one of the 

 patronesses of what is termed the Evangeli- 

 .cal Sect in the Church of England, was im- 

 plicated, and which excited considerable at- 

 tention in the religious world, about four or 

 five and twenty years ago. 



Through the combined influence of a tran- 

 quil disposition, unremitting abstemiousness, 

 and studious habits, Mr. Daubeny retained 

 his intellectual vigour unimpaired till the 

 close of his earthly existence. He had re- 

 cently committed a controversial production 

 to the press ; and, at the earnest recommen- 

 dation of a literary friend, he had made con- 

 siderable progress in an auto-biographical 

 work. It is much to be wished that what- 



ever may have been written of the latter 

 may be given to the public. 



Possessed of extensive erudition, inflexible 

 integrity, and sterling worth, it is not sur- 

 prising that Dr. Daubeuy should have been, 

 on royal suggestion, under three successive 

 administrations, selected, as he was qualified, 

 for the episcopal church. Through inter- 

 vening contingencies, however, he was un- 

 fortunately suffered to remain unrequited 

 with prelacy. 



The parochial district entrusted to Dr. 

 Daubeuy ; s care will transmit to posterity 

 extraordinary indications of his pastoral re- 

 gard. He was the founder of an elegant 

 chapel of ease at Road, and of two alms- 

 houses at Bradley, with three official manses. 

 He also became a parochial benei'actor to 

 the amount of 10.000Z. superadded to aug- 

 mentation of incumbency, by surrender of 

 his personal interest in the rectorial tithes, 

 with an annual donation of 100/. to the 

 poor. Christ Church, Bath a structure, the 

 lower aisie of which was intended solely for 

 the public of every description, and was 

 thence generally called the Free Church 

 owes it existence to Dr. Daubeny. 

 . This truly Christian pastor completed an 

 archdeaconal visitation the week before his 

 death ; and he delivered an address to his 

 congregation at Road, only forty-eight hours 

 before he was summoned to surrender bis 

 important charge. It is hardly necessary to 

 add that Dr. Daubeny was a decided oppo- 

 nent to the doctrines of Calvinism, and also 

 of what is termed Catholic Emancipation. 

 His decease, at the present eventful crisis, 

 will consequently be regarded in different 

 lights by different religious and political 

 parties. 



Dr. Daubeny's kindness, no less than his 

 munificence to every branch of his family, 

 was exemplary. He died universally re- 

 gretted at his vicarage, North Bradley, on the 

 10th of July. 



SIGNIOR SAPIO. 



Signior Sapio, the father of Mr. Sapio, 

 the distinguished tenor of Coveut Garden 

 theatre, and of Mr. A. Sapio, a bass singer, 

 attached to the Royal Academy of Music, 

 was a celebrated Italian professor of sing- 

 ing. At Paris, he was chapel-master ; he 

 was the instructor of Marie Antoinette, 

 the unfortunate queen of Louis XVI. ; and 

 he had the honour of being preferred to 

 Piccini,Sacchini, and Gluck, his rivals at 

 the French court. He had married a 

 French lady ; but, from the nature of his 

 connexions, he was under the necessity 

 of emigrating- with his family at the com- 

 mencement of the Revolution. He came 

 over lothis country ; aud so widely had his 

 lame spread, that, immediately on his arri- 

 val, he was appointed sing-ing- master to 

 the Duchess of York, and afterwards to the 

 Princess of Wales. These appointments 

 g-ave him additional eclat j he was courted 



