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viouflj' to the funeral, had been preached by Dr. Tho- 

 mas Whitehead, one of the phjficians to the London 

 Hofpital ; and, on the 13th, the different chapels of 

 his perfiiafion in London were hung with black. 



It has been juftlj obferved of Mr. Weflej, that his 

 labours were principally devoted to thofe who had no 

 inftruftor ; to the highways and hedges ; to the miners 

 in Cornwall, and the coalliers in Kingfwood. Thefe un- 

 happy creatures married and buried among themfelves, 

 and often committed murders with impunity before the 

 meihcdifls fprung up. By the humane and active en- 

 deavours of Mr. Wefley and his brother Charles, a 

 fcnfe of decency, morals, and religion, was introduced 

 into the loweft claiTss of mankmd ; the ignorant were 

 inftruded, the wretched relieved, and the abandoned 

 reclaimed. His perfonal influence was greater, per- 

 haps, than that of any other priv^ate gentleman in any 

 country. — But the limits of this article will not permit 

 us to expatiate further, at prefent, on the charadler of 

 this extraordinary man. 



He alfo extended his views to the poor negroes in 

 the Welt Indies ; and it is probable, that his difciples 

 may do more towards the civilization of thefe poor 

 people, than all the laws that can be made for that ef- 

 fed. 



To the Editor of the Bee. 

 Sir, 

 On reading the fecond number of the fecond volume of 

 your prefent entertaining and valuable publication, 

 wherein you give us a method of railing early pota- 

 toes, it occured to me, that mentioning what I acci- 

 dentally difcovered a few years lince, relative to that 

 fubject, might not prove unacceptable to you, efpecially 

 9$ it might tend to fave even the little trouble which 



