Northumberland and Durham. 
497 
1311 .] 
^nder that-affliction which arises hrom a 
jnan’s having survived his own fame, and 
from hl« finding himself, in his old age, left 
among strangers, who retained but vague 
ideas of the"feats of his vigour. His conver¬ 
sation, however, inspired respect, from its 
tinge of benevolence and sensibility; and 
from his acquaintance with the literary heroes 
of the last age.’^ From this period his health 
rapidby declined ; and, oppressed by the hea-^ 
viness of a London atmosphere, in the autumn 
©f 1810, he returned by easy journeys to his 
vicarage in Northumberland. In this peace¬ 
ful retirement, amidst his affectionate pa¬ 
rishioners, and attended by two faithtul do¬ 
mestics, he closed his earthly career on the 
14th of September, 1811, and now sleeps with 
ihe remains of his parents, at Cornhill on the 
Tweed; leaving behind him the remembrance 
of his charities in the breasts of the poor, 
and the image of his amiable worth in the 
jftcarts of his lamenting friends ] 
X)INES, addressed to me of the pup'ih of the Itpt^ 
Dk. Raine, of the Charter House. 
1 share yopr grief, and with a heart sincere. 
Breath the sad sigh, and yield you tear lo? 
tear; 
Fpr who can grieve too much, or when shall 
end 
Our mourning fqr the patriot and the friend ; 
Endear’d like him, by worth and manners 
kind, V 
And the rich knowledge of a classic mind ? 
Q ! too sqon sever’d from our iing’ring view. 
Accept dear Raine! this fond,-^chis last 
adieu! 
Till we rejoin thee, far beyond the sky. 
Where evhy tsar is wip’d from ev’ry 
eye,” 
There we shall meet, and in a nobler strain 
Praise the Creator and hi^ works again. 
Elueen's Head lanep JosEPif Baowjr. 
Islington. 
PROVINCIAL OCCURRENCES, 
WITH ALL THE MARRIAGES and DEATHS; 
Affangsd geographjcullj/y or ift Order of the Counties^ from North to South., 
Communicatianf. for thh Department of the Monthly Mngaziney properly au’^ 
thenticatedy ana sent free (f Posf.agey are alwoi/s thankfully received. Those are 
more particularly acceptable which describe the Progress of Local Improvements of 
Any Kind, or which contain Biographical Anecdotes or Facts relative to eminent 
or remai'kable. Characters recently deceased. 
NORTfiUMBfeRI.ANp AND nUSJHtAM- 
rpHE contest in these counties between the 
- church establishment on the one hand, 
beaded by THE 6 oop Bis no?, and the Dis¬ 
senting and Methbdird interests on the other, 
in which each party seeks to educate the 
greatest number of poor children, is highly 
gratifying to humanity. It is in truth the 
only contest in which humanity can be sure 
of being a gainer, and under chat conviction 
We hope it will rage with increased fury and 
never cease. For our parts v/e shaU rejoice 
in the number of •uktms made by its continu¬ 
ance, and shall be happy to inform our readers 
from time to time ot the laurels reaped by 
both parties. 
The following is the address by the Society 
for the Encouragem.ent of Parochial Schools, 
in the Diocsse of Durharp and Ilexhamihire, 
und er the Patronage of the Rishop of Dur¬ 
ham, and the superintendancs qf the Paro¬ 
chial Cl,ER GY; 
“ In announcing the insfltntlon of a society, 
^vhosa sole object is to diffuse the blessing of 
a religious and useful knowledge among the 
children of the poor, it cannot be necessary 
to dwell on the importance of the end pro- 
gootd, or to answer the objections which have 
been sometimes urged against it. The eternal 
happiness of the most numerous class of our 
fellow creatures is a consideration of so high, 
a nature, as alone to demand our utmost ex¬ 
ertions. But, even on worldly grounds, this 
is now no longer a question of doubtful policy^, 
on which opposite theories may contend with 
equal plausibility, and be heard with equal 
indifference. The experience of the last 
twenty years has spoke to us in language 
which cannot be resisted; it has proclaimed 
the awful truth, that, without sound princi¬ 
ples of religion in the mass of the people, 
there can be no stability to government, no 
security for any of the comforts of social life. 
The call was loud, and thanks be to God, it 
has not sounded in vain. The nation sce.ms 
every-where roused to a strong sense of that 
necessity, for which nothing short of a gene¬ 
ral and united effort can provide. Similar 
societies are on all sides forming, that the 
zeal and charity of individuals may be enabled 
to produce the fullest effect, by the co-opera¬ 
tion of numbers, acting in one direction and 
guided by the same views. Happily, too, the 
same age, which has witnessed beyond all 
others, the furious excesses to which an igno¬ 
rant and uneducated populace may be most 
easily 
