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patriot, even for the most hazardous sacri- 
fices ; and that he who has even preferred 
the terrors of the axe and the scaffold, to 
the betrayal of what he regards as the public 
cause, if he escape the snare, has thence- 
forward to calculate, not upon honourable 
repose, but fresh demands of sacrifice. 
His persecutions did not end here. In 
April 1799, he was again arrested on a 
pretence of treasonable practices, and 
committed to Cold-Bath Fields prison, 
then generally known by the name of the 
Bastile, where he remained six months. 
He was then removed to Chester, where 
his imprisonment was rigidly protracted for 
eighteen months longer; and. whence he 
was finally liberated without trial or specific 
accusation.* 
To his last hours, John Baxter re- 
mained unshaken in his principles; and did 
not, upon his death-bed, neglect to testify 
his confident respect and affection for those 
still surviving partners in his severest trials, 
whom he knew to have been actuated by 
the same honest motives with himself. He 
was buried on the 7th, in Lady Hunting- 
don’s Burial-ground, Spa-Fields: Mr. Gal- 
loway, and five other friends only, attend- 
ing him to the graye. He would have com- 
pleted his 67th year on the Ist of July next ; 
and had been married fifty years. He has 
left a widow who is 74 years old, but still 
active in body and mind ; and, considering 
the economical habits which both the de- 
eeased and survivor had been used to, it is 
hoped that he has left behind him sufficient 
for her comfortable subsistence. He had no 
surviving children. The house, in which he 
died, was held by him at a ground-rent, on 
a lease of ninety-nine years. 
REV. JOUN WHITEHOUSE. 
At Dorking, 36, the Rev. John White- 
house, Minister of West-street chapel, 
* The victims of this inquisitorial system of rigid 
imprisonment, on mere suspicion or false suggestion, 
were at that time very numerous. Among others, we 
might instance Mr. Alexander Galloway, engineer, 
who endured, on that occasion, forty months’ impri- 
sonment, under precisely similar circumstances :— 
only that he had, voluntarily, surrendered himself, 
when he learned that he was accused, and refused to 
be liberated at the time when others were, because he 
would not accept of any but an unconditional release; 
insisting upon either being brought to trial, or en- 
larged without bail, real or nominal; being resolved, 
that if he could not obtain indemnity for the past, he 
would be no party in any precedent for the justifica- 
tion of future similar oppressions. 
Obituary of the Month.—London Incidents. 
287 
in that town. ‘Mr. Whitehoise, although 
not a man of splendid talents, was never- 
theless a zealous and faithful pastor of his 
church. He was tender and warm-hearted, 
and sincere in his professions, which he 
illustrated by his unceasing attention to the 
spiritual and temporal wants of the poor, 
and by his co-operation with his philan- 
thropic neighbours as an executive patron 
of the many useful institutions of his parish. 
MR. BENJAMIN PRICE. 
In Westminster, Mr. Benjamin Price, 
many years secretary to the Westminster 
library, and well known in the literary cir- 
cles of the metropolis. Mr. Price had at 
various times been engaged in contributing 
to periodical journals, and occasionally to the 
obituary of the Monthly Magazine. About 
three years since he attempted to revive 
the Westminster library, in Charles-street, 
St. James’s; but after many fruitless at- 
tempts the society was dissolved. He pos- 
sessed a thorough acquaintance with mo- 
dern books, and hence his qualifications as 
a librarian were considerable. He contri- 
buted largely to “ Public Characters of alk 
Nations,” 3 vols., and has assisted in the 
editorship of many other compilations. 
: MR. JOHN ARLISS, 
In Gutter-lane, Cheapside, Mr. John Ar- 
liss, celebrated as one of the most elegant 
printers of his time. Mr. Arliss likewise 
possessed considerable taste in embellish- 
ing juvenile works with wood engravings, 
and in conjunction with Mr. Whittingham, 
may be said to haye largely contributed to 
the revival of that beautiful art. A few 
years since, when residing in Newgate- 
street, he established the Pocket Magazine, 
which attained, and still enjoys, a large cir- 
culation. Besides his concern in Newgate- 
street, he had previously been engaged in 
business in partnership with Messrs. Whit- 
tingham, Huntsman, Knevett, &c.; but 
like Didot, the celebrated printer, of Paris, 
the profits of Mr. Arliss’s speculations did 
not keep pace with the approbation of the 
public. For some years past, he had, also, 
been in ill health; and through this, with 
other untoward circumstances, he has_ left 
a family of five young children totally 
unprovided for. As aman of genius and 
taste, Mr. Arliss stood unrivalled; and al- 
together, he must be allowed to have given 
many new features to the several branches 
of the art which he professed. 
INCIDENTS, MARRIAGES, anp DEATHS, in anv near LONDON, 
With Biographical Memoirs of distinguished Characters recently deceased. 
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CHRONOLOGY OF THE MONTH. 
FEB. 27.—A fire broke out at No. 218, Holborn; 
which, with the house adjoining (the Sun and Punch 
bowl), were entirely consumed. 
Feb. 2%—The Excise took stock of all the wine 
merchants throughout the kingdom, by special or- 
der of the Board. This was done in order to allow 
the reduction of duty on the stock of wine in hand. 
Feb. 28.—The Hon. F. A. Cooper, son of the Earl 
of Shaftesbury, and a son of Colonel Wood, colle- 
glans 
