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knowledged, that. M. Mallet du Pan has 
from the commencement of this unex- 
ampled confliét, .been indefatigable in the 
employment of his talents, which were 
unqueftionably enwiable for their brilliancy ° 
and variety. Nor ought we to arraign him 
for the tendéncy of his labours, if they were 
direéted, as he affirmed, to the fupport of 
focial order and the defence of national rights : 
‘for what good citizen would not join in an 
endeavour to maintain the doétrine of the 
independency of ftates. If he believed the 
peace of Europe to bein danger from the 
machinations of Jacobins, then may he be 
excufed for his intemperate fallies at times, 
and for the inveterate hatred he has uniform- 
ty manifefted againft every a@ bearing the 
name or even jufpicion of Jacobinifm. - Mr. 
Flood, the Irifa Grator, ‘fome years ago 
was called over to England to aid an Englith 
eppohtioa 3 he failed. M..Mallet du Pan, a 
Swifs writer, was invited. to England alfo 
to filence the political reformers of the pre- 
fent day: thofe who allured him here mut 
have faid with Ulyfles uibi fe peritura 
refervant. JAcoBINS. How happily or fuc- 
cefsfully he might haves compleated the 
defign of his coming, had he lived longer, or 
what fhare of praife is due to his memory, 
for what he has a¢tually performed, it is.im- 
pofiible ‘to fay, becaufe of the number of 
his. well deferving rivalsin the tafk. Asa 
gentleman he was, we believe much refpected, 
and in nothing can that refpe€t be more fin- 
<erely ‘fhewn than in the provifion now 
making for his widow and four children,who, 
as it fhould feem, are left unprovided for 
by his death. M. Mallet du Pan has exhi- 
bited in the laft part of his life one of thofe fin- 
gular circumftances which has fomething para- 
doxical in it: for, tho’ born a republican, and 
bred a proteftant, he has been enrolled thefe ten 
yeats paft with thofe fighting for the reftora. 
tion of a Monarchy, and the maintenance of 
theRomanCatholicReligion.It may be thought 
not lefs remarkable that M. Mallet du Pan 
was acquainted with Voltaire in the latter 
days of that great man’s life, and had often 
exprefled the higheft) admiration for his 
Writings. | His friend M. Malouet, the cele- 
brated orator in the affemblée conjlituente, was 
with him at his death, and with the fol- 
lowing perfons of diftin&tion attended his fune- 
ral, vizi..The Prince de Poix, formerly 
captain of the body guards to Louis XV, and 
Lord Sheffield, pall-bearers. M. Rigaud and 
his eldeft fon, chief mourners. M. Fagel, 
Greffier to the ftates general of the United 
Provinces, and the Hon. Mr. ‘Tsevor, 
formerly the Britifh Envoy Extraordinary and 
MinifterPlenipotentiary at the Court of Turin; 
Sir John Macpherfon, and Mr. Whitfhead 
Keene, members of the Houfe of Commons ; 
and the Count de Lally Tolendal, deputy to 
the ftates general of France in 1789. The 
Corpfe was followed by two lines of Swifs 
and Genevefe, and by a confiderable num- 
ber of English and French gentlemen: among 
the former were Mr Baron Maferes, Mr. G. 
Penn, Mr, Ryser, Mr. Reeves, Mr. Bowles, 
Mallet du Pan—Dr. Phillips 
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Mr. fohn Gifford, Mr. Flint, the Rev. 
Meffrs. Sparrow, Youngand Wollafton. He 
was buried on’ Thurfday the rath of May in 
tlte New Church Yard, Richmond, andas we 
are informed feveral Swifs gentlemén have 
fignified their intention of erecting an unadorn- 
ed monument over the grave of their cele- 
brated and eloguent countryman. 
[The Rev. Daniel Phillips, of Havton, in 
the county of Norfolk, whofe death was an- 
nounced, page 40g, in our Magazine for May, 
was the fon of the Kev. Daniel Phillips, a 
diffenting clergyman, who refided at Gwin- 
fryn, near Pullheli, in North Wales. He 
received his elaffical education in the fchool 
at Pullheli, from whence he \was removed 
by his father tothe academy at Caermarthen. 
He finithed his ftudies with Dr. Latham, who 
conducted, for many years at Finbern, near 
Derby, a feminary devoted to the education 
of young men for the minifry, amongft Pro- 
teftant-diffenters, with diftinguifhed and de- 
ferved reputation. On leaving this academy, 
Mr, Phillips accepted the office of paftor to a 
{mall congregation. It was here, that he 
firft reje€ted a very liberal offer in the eftas 
blifhed church, which was made by a near 
relation, and which was afterwards repeated, 
both for himfelf, and with-a view to his fon. 
On thefe occafiohs, he might have exchanged 
the narrow income of five and thirty pounds 
per annum, which he received as a minifter 
among the diffenters, for two hundred and 
fifty in the eftablifhed church ; but he could 
not conform, with an approving confcience. 
He had the gteater merit in relinquifhing all 
profpeé of preferment' in the church, on ac- 
count of his circumftances in life, for he had 
a young and numerous family ; and when the 
patronage of his friend was preffed upon him 
for the laft time, he had loft the greater part 
of his wife’s fortune by. a bankrupt. From 
Ripley, Mr. Phillips removed tor Eaftwood, 
and afterwards to Sowerby, in Yorkshire, 
where he officiated at minifter, more than 
forty years. On the death of Dr. Stanton, 
he was appointed fucceffor ta that gentleman, 
at Hapton. Here he fpent in retirement 
and independence, the lait twelve years of 
his life. “He was aman of confiderable ta. 
lents, both as afcholar and a divine. His 
knowledge of the Latin and Greek languages 
in particular, was extenfive 5 the former he 
could both write and fpeak with elegance and 
fluency, andafter he had paffed his feventieth 
year, his correfpondence with his fon was 
often carried,on in that language. He was 
much refpeéted in his, neighbourhood by 
churchmen, as well as by diffenters ; for his 
feparatio: from the eftablifhment originated 
not in party principles, but in the conviction 
of his own mind ; and while he exercifed the 
right of private judgment for himfelf, he 
allowed and’ maintained that right to its 
greateit extent, on behalf of others. He died 
at the advanced age of 843 and, till his laft 
illnefs, which was lingering and painful, had 
been rarely prevented from fulfilling the du- 
ties of his profeflion. ] 
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