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the mimor eourts of the metropolis. His 
table qualifications led to his promotion in 
the Corporation of London, at a time when 
the Common Conncil were devoted to 
ministers; and his high Tory principles 
recommended him afterwards to the Court 
of Aldermen on the death of Sir John Rose, 
the previous recorder. His strong dark 
physiognomy conferred on him the nick- 
name of “ Black Jack,” by which he was 
generally called at the Old Bailey. His 
conduct in the affair of Eliza Fenning, 
and the levity with which he sometimes 
treated the cases of the victims of our 
severe laws, have often been subjects of 
animadversion ; but we live too near his 
time to enlarge upon them. His chief 
fault consisted in being in mind and policy 
full a half century behind the age in which 
he lived, and in his utter contempt of 
popular opinion and of all proposed 
reforms and ameliorations. In private 
society no man could behave more mildly 
or courteously, and his manners were so 
plausible that no recorder of London ever 
enjoyed more unbounded confidence with 
successive secretaries of state. His dis- 
patch of business on the bench was pro- 
verbial, and he got through double or treble 
the number of trials of any of the judges, 
to the great satisfaction of sheriffs, whose 
expences kept pace with the length of the 
sessions. It however merits notice, that, 
under his administration there were fewer 
executions than under some previous re- 
corders; and there is reason to believe 
that his reports were laboriously drawn 
up, though often governed by private 
information, on the extent and accuracy 
of which he much piqued himself. It 
deserves also to be stated, for the guide 
of other recorders, that in passing his 
judgments he never added insult to seve- 
rity, and never introduced taunting and 
abusive language while he was abridging 
life or liberty. Perhaps, after all, the true 
fault is in the indiscriminating severity of 
our laws, and in the frightful discretion 
which they give to judges, who, however 
amiable and benevolent in private life, 
become insensibly the creatures of habit 
and example in the performance of their 
public duties. 
After a lingering illness, the Very Rev. 
Thomas Kipling, D.D. Dean of Peter- 
borough, Kector of Holme, and Vicar of 
Holme, in Spalding Moor, Yorkshire. He 
was of St.. John’s College, Cambridge ; 
B. A. 1768, M. A. 1771, B.D. 1779; D. D. 
1784; and was elected Deputy Regius 
Professor of Divinity. In 1793, he rendered 
himself obnoxious to an independent party 
in the University, by accepting the office 
of promoter or prosecutor in the case of 
Mr. W. Frend, Fellow of Jesus College, 
against whom it was resolved to proceed 
judicially for his attack upon certain tencts 
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of the established church, The expulsion 
of that gentleman brought upon the deputy 
professor much severity of criticism, at the 
head of whom was Dr. Edwards, who took 
occasion, when his Codex of Beza came 
out, to impugn both the preface and the 
editor. Dr. Kipling was justly charged 
with ignorance and want of fidelity, and 
the edition disappointed his best friends. 
As a reward for his political services, 
and ag some consolation for the morti- 
fications which he had experienced, Dr. 
Kipling was made Dean of Peterborough. 
—His works were, “ The Elementary 
Parts of Dr. Smith’s Complete System of 
Optics,” 1778, 4to.; ‘ Codex "Theodori 
Beze Cantabrigiensis, Evangelia et Apos- 
tolorum Acta complectens, Quadratis Li- 
teris Graco-Latinis,’ 1793, 2 vols. folio; 
“ The Articles of the Church of England 
proved not to be Calvinistic,” 1802, 8vo. 
This pamphlet having been remarked on 
by a writer under the signature of Acade- 
micus, drew forth a defence by a friend 
to Dr. Kipling, supposed to be the doctor 
himself; “* Certain Accusations brought 
lately by the Irish Papists, against British 
and Trish Protestants, examined,” 1819. 
During a voyage to New South Wales, 
Helenus Scott, M. D. lately in the service 
of the Honourable East India Company, 
and first member of the Medical Board at 
Bombay. Dr. Scott entered the India 
Company’s service, on the Bombay esta- 
blishment, in 1782, and retired to this 
country about ten years ago, having ac- 
quired a competent fortune, after active 
and meritorious services of thirty years. 
He was a native of Dundee in Scotland, 
and received his medical education at the 
university of Edinburgh. He correspond- 
ed with the late president of the Royal 
Society; and with that ardent and inde- 
fatigable fellow-labourer in the field of 
science, the late Dr. Beddoes of Bristol. 
Dr. Scott was the author of several com- 
munications on medical and physical sub- 
jects, which afford abundant proofs of his 
attainments in various departments of 
science, particularly in chemistry, in the 
pursuit of which he acquired no ordinary 
reputation. As a physician, likewise, 
his authority was highly estimated, not 
only on the western side of the Indian 
Peninsula, but throughout the whole of 
British India. In Britain, he was more 
particularly known as the author of the 
practice of extensively exhibiting, both 
internally and externally, the nitric and 
nitro-muriatic acids, and other analogous 
agents, in syphilitic, hepatic, and other 
maladies, from the use of which remedies 
pathology and therapeutics have derived 
important advantages ; since, in adminis- 
tering this new class of medicines, consI- 
derable new light has been thrown upon 
their nature, particularly upon the various 
forms 
