90 | Effex. 
repeat his fubfeription to-the thirty-nine 
articles for any preferment which he might 
become entitled to from the college patronage, 
er which might be offered to him from any 
other quarcer. Agreeably to and confiftently 
with this ftate of mind, he refigned, at Mid- 
fummer, 1789, the curacies in which he 
was then engaged, and refolved thenceforward 
to decline officiating in the minifiry. Mr. 
Garnham’s health was .never- robuft, and 
during the laft five or fix years of his life. 
fuffered much from ficknefs, which prevent- 
ed his refiding at Cambridge after the death 
of his father, in 1798, and indifpofed and dif- 
qualified him from purfuing his former appli- 
cation to his ftudies. His indifpofition and 
infirmities centinued to increafe, and, in the 
former of 1801, he evidently appeared to be 
much broken. He was long fenfible of his 
generally declining health; and fo lately as 
the fourth of May, a few weeks before his 
death, he exprefied this fentiment in a pri-» 
vate letter to the writer of this fhort memoir 
-—‘© I fhall never again (faid he) be able to 
read through an o€tavo volume 3 and‘I have 
feveral times the laft winter fetioufly thought 
my death was not far diftant. Perhaps, if 
the enfuing. fummer be a favourable one, I 
may raily a little; if not, I fhall defpair, 
and, expect to depart, without either feeling 
er occafioning a prodigious quantity of re. 
gret.””. For fome fhort time he had complain- 
ed of an afthma, and on the Saturday pres 
ceding his death, was attacked with an in- 
fiasemabion ‘on the lungs and breaft. He con- 
tinued till the morning of the following 
Thuriday, June 24, 18c2, when he departed 
this life, in the goth year of his age, and 
was buried in the chancel of Nowton church, 
on Tuefday, the 29th, with all the privacy 
confiftent with cuftomary decency, which he 
enjoined his executors to obferve. Mr. 
Garnham was well qualified, from his ftore 
of general learning, and from his excellent 
judgment, to have shone inthe maft diftin-- 
guifhed fociety ; but his natural temper dif- 
pofed him to retirement from the bufy hum 
of men. He was, therefore, generally re- 
ferved in mixed and numerous companies; 
but he greatly enjoyed the focial intercourfe 
of rational and liberal minds. With his fe- 
le&. and confidential friends,» ‘he was unre 
ftrained in his communications: nor was he 
lcfs confidential in any truft repofed in him, ; 
than he was devoted to fupport every profel- 
fion of friendibip. His attainments, tafte, 
and fuccefs in biblical criticifm, and; gene rally 
in claffical literature, as alfo his acumen in 
theological controverfy may be fatisfactoril y 
afcertained by a reference to his writings. 
Thefe were indeed anonymous; hut the 
means of accefs to them will be made eafy 
by the fubjoined Catalogue 3 and, if an ars 
dour for truth, acutenefs of difcernment, 
foundnefs of judgment, and clearnefs of rea 
foning—if freedom of inquiry, conduéted 
with an happy mixture of wit aad argument, _ 
[ Aug. 1, 
where the fubseCt-er octafion admitted, can 
recommend theological literature, his writings: - 
will be read and ref{pected wherever they are 
known. His private correfpondence was pe-’ 
culiarly marked by accurate obfervations on 
the figns of the times, and happy delineations 
of charaéters which have varioufly figured 
in his day, and whofe movements came - 
within his own knowledge, or were of un- 
queftioned public notoriety. 
Catalogue of bis Writings.—1. Examination of 
Mr. Harrifon’s Sermon, preached in the Ca- 
thedral Church of St. Paul, London, .before 
the Lord Mayor, on May25,17883—1739.—2. _ 
Letter to the Right Rev. the Bifhop of Nor- 
wich (Dr..Bagot), requefting him to name’ 
the Prelate to whom he referred as ** con- 
tending ftrenuoully for the general excellence’ 
of our prefent authorifed tranflation of the 
Bible,” 1789. —3. Lette: to the Right Rev, 
the Bifhop of Chefter (Dr. Cleaver}, on the 
Subject of two Sermons addrefled by him to 
the clergy of his diocefe; compreheading 
alfo a Vindication of the late Bifhop Hoadly,: 
1790,—~4. Review of Dr. Hay’s Sermon, in- 
titled ** Thoughts on the Athanafian Creed,” 
preached April 12, 1790, at the Vifitation 
of the Archdeacon of Bucks, 1790.—5. Oute. 
line of a Commentary on Kevelations xi. 
I-14, 1794.—5. A Sermon preached in the 
Chapel of. Trinity College, Cambridge, on 
Thurfday, Dec. 19) 1793, the Day appoint- 
ed for the Commemoration of the Benefactors 
to that Society, 1794.—Papers in Commenta- 
-ries and Effays, fignead Synercus: 4, Vol. J. 
No. 2,5 p. o4——111, 1784.—2. Vol. I. No. 5, 
p- 467—-s¢9, 1786.—-3. Vol. Hl. No. 1, p. 
I—3, 1787.—-4. Vol. Hl. No. 3, px 123—— 
252, 1790.—5. Vol. II. No. 4s p 253—267,° 
1799-6» Vol. Il, No. 4, p. 268—278, 
1796. —7.Vol. II, No.4, p.279-——3 12, 1796.— 
Papers inthe Theological Repofitory.—1. Vol. V. 
No, 1, p.38—56, 1785, figned EREUNETES,. 
—2z. Vol. V. No. 2, p. 273—238, 1736, 
ditto —3. Vol. VI. No. 1,, p. 60—-78, 1787, 
ditto.—-4.Vol. VI No. 2, p. 135-174, 17875 
figned Iptora.-—§. Vol. Vi. No. 3, p. 244 
—284, 1787, ditto. 
ESRER. - 
Married.] Myr. Rutkin, furgeon, of Pea- 
fen-hall, to Miis Rift, of Sible Hedinghcm. 
—Mr. Jackfon, furgeon, of London, to Milfs 
S.Wyatt, of Eaftwood, near Rochford. 
At Colthefter, Mr. Ruffle, taylor and drae 
per, to Miis S. Clay. 
’ Died.| At Chelmsford, Mr. W.- Towne 
drow, fen. painter and- paar —Mifs M.- 
Hynfdon. 
“At Colchefter, Mr. Pitt, of the Caftle Inn. 
At Leigh, Mr. Pettiken, farmer. 
Aged 73, Mr. S. Lozell, of Bradwell. 
Mits S. Shuttleworth, of Bonalacies —Aged 
799 Mifs Buofey, of Springfield. 
“At Great Baddow, aged 87, Mr. E. Har- © 
vey, black{mith ; he had refided in the parifh 
upwards of 50, years, with the character of 
an honeft Mans. 3-89 
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