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OBITUARY FOR NOVEMBER. 



On Sunday the 13th, died, at Cambridge, in his 78th year, the REV. 

 CHARLES SIMEON, A.M., Senior Fellow of King's College in that University. 

 Mr. S. had held the living of Trinity Church in Cambridge 54 years, and is 

 well known to have exercised a very powerful influence over the Church of 

 which he was a distinguished member during that long period. The number 

 of young candidates for orders who attended his public ministrations was 

 immense, and increased rapidly during the latter years of his life, and after 

 the cessation of the opposition that was raised against him in his earlier days. 

 This was no doubt excited in some measure by eccentricities of character 

 which it would be vain to deny ; and there was to the last a singularity not 

 to say a grimace of manner about him, both in the pulpit and in private, 

 which impeded his usefulness ; but no one who knew him could doubt for a 

 moment of his piety as a Christian, or of his untiring zeal in whatever he 

 deemed essential to the best interests of the Church. His writings are volu- 

 minous, comprising, we believe, 26 volumes 8vo., and are chiefly confined to 

 illustrations of important passages in Scripture, which he entitled " Helps to 

 the Composition of Sermons" " Horce Homileticce" and an " Appendix to the 

 Horcs :" these are all works of great general merit, and have been and are 

 much prized and studied by a large body of the ministers of the Church, es- 

 pecially of those who were students of his own university. Mr. Simeon ap- 

 pears to have been the acknowledged head or organ of a society established 

 some years ago, for the purchase of livings in influential situations, in order 

 to place in them ministers of what are termed evangelical principles. With 

 this view Cheltenham advowson was obtained by Mr. S. several years since, 

 and he lived twice to nominate incumbents to the living. His last acts, in 

 reference to this society, were, we believe, the purchase of the Abbey at Bath, 

 and of the Old Church in the populous manufacturing district of Macclesfield. 

 He was emphatically a good man, and is now gathered to his reward. Mr. S. 

 was uncle to Sir Richard Simeon, Bart., M.P. for the Isle of Wight. 



SINCE our last number appeared, GEORGE COLMAN the younger has been ga- 

 thered to his fathers. He was born on the 21st of October 1762, and lived 

 seventy-four years. In very early life his convivial talents recommended him 

 to the society not only of the distinguished bon vivants of the time, but to the 

 notice of George the Fourth, then Prince of Wales, and the unthrifty, perhaps 

 we may add dissipated conduct of his earlier years, may be mainly attributed 

 to his having been received and welcomed by a class of men whose means 

 were above his own or whose pride did not hinder them from living at the ex- 

 pense of their tradesmen. He was not long unknown to the public. The 

 success of " Inkle and Yarico," aud " Ways and Means/' secured him their 

 patronage in his character of a dramatic author, and he followed up his first 

 triumphs by a series of plays each of which seemed to be an improvement of 

 the last. Many of them were written with a view of favouring the peculiar 

 merits and capabilities of individual actors, but they have not proved so ephe- 

 meral as must necessarily be every corps dramatique which of course breaks 

 up as the members die off. The only one which was not well received on its 

 first representation was the " Iron Chest." He afterwards at the Haymarket, 

 when Elliston played Sir Edward Mortimer, it proved a most favourite piece. 

 The first condemnation was attributed by its author to John Kemble's inade- 

 quate personation of the principal character, and to the first edition was pre- 

 fixed a most virulently abusive preface, which in his cooler moments Colman 

 regretted and apologized for having written. However that may be, the "Iron 



