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they might not have feen Mr. Secker’s 
pleafing letter concerning Mr. Jones, not 
many years ago prefenred to the public, by 
that good Chriftian Dr. Gibbon, in his 
© deo, ir. Watts. 
Let us hear the atniable youth, for fuch 
he appears to have been, thus {peaking 
of his preceptor, the Rey. Mr. Samuel 
Jones : 
“ Mr. Jones,”” fays he, in a letter to 
Dr. Watts, ** I take to be a manof real 
piety, great learning, and an agreeable 
temper; one who is very diligent in in- 
ftructing all under his care; very well 
qualified to give inftruétions, and whofe 
well-managed familiarity will always 
make him refpected. He is very itridt 
in keeping good order, and will effec- 
tually preferve his pupils from negligence 
and immorality. -And accordingly, J be- 
lieve, there are not many academies freer 
in general From thofe vices, than we are. 
We fhall have gone through our couife in 
about four years’ time, which, I believe, 
no one that once knows Mr. Jones, will 
think too long. We pafs our time very 
agreeably, between ftudy and converfa- 
tion with our tutor, who is always ready 
to converfe freely on any thing that 1s 
ufcful, and allows us, either then or at 
leéture, all imaginable liberty of making 
objections againft his opinions, and pro- 
fecuting them as far as we can. In this, 
and every thing elfe, he fhows himfelf fo 
much a gencleman, and manifefts fo great _ 
an affection and tendernefs for his pupils, 
as cannot byt command refpeé and love.” 
The future archbifhop gives a fhort 
account of Mr. Jones and his plan, in 
the fequel ; and it is impoihble not to 
think highty of the preceptor, and to la- 
ment, that he fhould be fpoken of as an 
obfcure perfon, {carcely worthy of mention 
in the life of his {cholar, afterwards the 
moft diftinguifhed primate. of his time 
in Chriftendom, : 
** | believe it to haye been 3 very happy 
circumftance for Mr. Secker, that he 
was educated in a Diffenting academy, 
and under fo good atutor. 1 attribute 
much of his future eminence to this 
circumftance, as well as to the connec- 
tion he fortunately formed there; that 
purity, that dignity, that decency of 
character, which enabled him to fill the 
great offices of the church, with fingu- 
‘lar weight and efhicacy. There may 
have been deeper fcholars, or greater 
divines, but there has feldom been a 
prelate of more perfonal authority, and 
in whom ecclefiaftical dignity fhone with 
brighter effulgence.” 
Rev. Mr. Fones. 
‘preachers. 
AS 
Tilt 
_ Dr. Chandler, Dr. Gifford, the Rev. 
Mr. Pearfall, and many other eminent 
divines, among the Diffenters, received 
their academical learning under the tui- 
tion of Mr. Jones. 
At Painfwick, about feven, miles SE. 
from Gloucefter, there was a diffent- 
ing academy, fuperintended by the Rey. 
Cornelius Winter. From this academy 
have gone forth fome popular and ufeful 
About three years fince, Mr. 
Winter thought proper to retire from his 
employment as a tutor, and fince there 
has been no academy in this country, be- 
longing to the Diffenters, but that” of 
Brittol. 
The Briftol academy is open only to 
thofe ot the Baptilt denomination. Be- 
fore the commencement of the prefent 
century, the Rev. Mr. Chomas educated 
fome. young men for the miniftry; bur 
no permanent foundation was laid for an 
academy in Briftol, till the year 1717, 
when a confiderable donation was ob- 
tained, which had been given fome years 
before, for the education of young men 
for the miniftry, by Mr. Edward Terrill ; 
fince which period,- they have had a fuc- 
ceflion of worthy tutors, to fuperintend 
the academy. The Rev. Caleb Jope, 
who received his education under Mr. ° 
Jones, of Tewkefbury ; Rev. Bernard 
Fofkett ; Rev. Huezh Hyans,M.A.; Rev. 
Caleb Evans, D.D.; and Rev. John Ry- 
land, D.D. the prefent tutor. Befides 
this feminary belonging to the Baptifts, 
they have two exhibitions for ftudents to 
be educated at Aberdeen, given them by 
Dr. Ward, of Grefham College. 
Wareham, March 19, 1797. Bur. 

To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SfR, 
few attempts for meliorating the 
health of a great town have been 
more important than the late eftablifh- 
ment of a Board of Health, and a Hoxfe of 
Recovery, in Manchefter, I prefume you 
will feel a fatisfaétion in making the fuc- 
cefs of that meafure knowa to your read- 
ers. By a report made at the fecond 
annual meeting of this inftitution, on 
May 26, 1797, it appears that it has 
almoft entirely fupprefed the fever which 
long made fuch ravages among the poor 
manufacturers of that place. The 
board of the infirmary teftities that the 
number of home patients admitted fince 
the opening of the Houfe of Recovery 
is not half what it was before that period. 
The Stranger's Friend Society ftates that 
the feyer. which, at their laft report, 
Q. 2 was 
