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by the pen of Mrs. Barbauld, was often their visitor. Tlie Doctor 

 alluded to the circumstance in his memoirs, bestowing a high 

 compliment on the talents and taste of Mr. Bentley. Brindley, 

 the civil engineer, was anothor of Mr. B.'s visitors, and the 

 only particulars of the life of that distinguished man are from 

 Mr. Bentley's pen. They are given in Knight's Gallery of 

 Portraits, a work of great interest, but in which, strange to 

 say, the name of Wedgwood does not appear, as it ought 

 certainly to have done, along with those other 'makers of 

 countries,' Arkwright and Watt. In a future edition of the 

 work the omission may be supplied, materials being available, 

 including a fine portrait by Reynolds. 



" Doctor Turner, an eminent chemist, and a great wit, with 

 Mr. Chubbard, a painter of considerable merit, were of Mr. 

 Bentle/s circle. These gentlemen designed and executed the 

 stained glass window in St. Anne's Church, in Jjiverpool : and 

 it was the former who caused much merriment at the time, on 

 remarking that George the Third might console himself on the 

 loss of his American colonies, as Herschel had just discovered 

 a world in nubibus, alluding to the planet which he had named 

 Georgium Sidus. Mr. Bentley was one of the most active of 

 the projectors of the ' Liverpool Library,' and his name ap- 

 pears in the list prefixed to the valuable catalogue lately pub- . 

 lished. Some of the books now in the library were gifts from 

 him. Mr. B. was also one of the founders of the congregation 

 of Dissenters who erected the handsome chapel, afterwards St. 

 Catherine's Church, situated in Temple-court, but taken down 

 to give place to the Tire police Station. 



" The intention of the founders was, to unite those who pro- 

 fessed a liturgy, and yet had scruples with regard to the 

 Athanasian Creed, with its damnatory clauses, and other parts 

 of the Common Prayer which either savoured of Catholicism 

 or did not allow a sufficient latitude of opinion. Although 

 the services of a learned and eloquent minister (a Dr Clayton, 

 of London) were engaged, and who numbered among his 



