1804. 
vourite project of giving a complete edition 
of the New Teftament in Greek, which was 
fo contain not only the varjoug readings col- 
lected by Mill, Bengeliys, Weftein, Grief- 
bach, and Matthaei, but alfo thofe of more 
than thirty Greelc manufcripts which he had 
collected during his refidence and trayels in 
the Turkith empire, together with a new 
and accurate collation of the Syriac and other 
ancient verfions. With his Differtation on the 
Troad, and Obfervations made during his 
Tour through Leffer Afia, Syria, and Egypt, 
the public may hope to be gratified. During 
the fhort period of his refidence at Newcaftle, 
his extreme fufferings from a painful and dif- 
treffing malacy haye prevented'his engaging 
in general intercourfe; but the few friends 
who have had the happinefs occafionally to 
vifit him, have feen enqugh of the extent of 
his acquirements, the vivacity of his conver- 
fation, and the ardour of his literary purfuits, 
fo render the unlooked-for event of his death 
a fubject of their moft fincere regret. 
Febn Whitehead, M. D. an eminent phyfi- 
cian, a celebrated preacher among the Me- 
thodifts, and author of a valuable Life of the 
late Rev, John Wefley. An excellent fune- 
ral fermon was preached on the occafion, by 
the Rev. Mr. Renfon, at Mr. Wefley’s chapel, 
on his deceafed brother, who, in 1790, in 
the fame pulpit, had preached Mr. Wefley’s 
funeral fermon, and was interred in the fame 
vault, on the 44th of March. Born of honett 
induftrious parents in the country, Mr. White- 
head, at an early age, exhibited proofs of ge- 
Mius; as, before twenty, he was a proficient 
in the Latin and Greek languages. Early 
in life he was conneéted with the Mefirs, 
Wefley, and preached at Briftol. He left 
them, however, and fet up as a linen-draper 
in that city, but failed in bufinefs; after 
which, he became a Quaker, anda fpeaker 
in the congregations of that refpeétable body, 
who, by their beneficent friendfhip, fet him 
up ina large boarding-fchool at Wand{worth, 
where many of their children were educated. 
Mr. Barclay, withing his fon to travel, pro- 
pofed Dr. Whitehead to be his companion, 
paid all his expences, and fettled on him 
tool. a year for that purpofe. They went 
to Leyden, and Mr. Whitehead’s thirft for 
Knowledge induced him to attend the ana~ 
tomical and philofophical le€turethip ; and, 
about 1790, he had arrived to fuch a pitch of 
medical knowledge, that his correfpondence 
with Dr, Lettfom induced that truly refpec- 
_ table character to bring him forward; fo that, 
even while at Leyden (Dr. Kooyftra, phyfi- 
cian of the London Difpenfary in Primrofe- 
ftreet, dying) the Doétor introduced him to 
that moft excellent charity. After he had been 
in London about two years, the Quakers made 
ahard pufh to bring him into the’ London 
' Hofpital, Mile End, which was only loft by 
one vote, occafioned by giving a draft on a 
_ banker for payment the following day, in- 
ftead of the prefent,’ at the time of the elec- 
Deaths in and near London. 
389. 
tion. In about three years, the Doétor united 
himfelf again to the Wefleys; agreeably to 
the with that Mr. Wefley teftified in thefe 
words to Mr. Ranken: ‘* Do what you can 
to unite Dr, Whitehead with us again.” He 
fucceeded; Dr. Whitehead preached very 
often, and was highly efteemed both as a phy= 
fician and preacher; fo much fo, that he at- 
tended Mr. Wefley in his laft illnefs, and (as 
has been already ftated) preached his funeral 
fermon. He afterward publifhed *¢ The Life 
of the Rev. John Wefley, M.A. fometime 
Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford, colle&ted 
from his private Papers and printed Works, 
and written at the Requeft of his Executors.”* 
Of this work, which profeffedly forms ‘¢ a 
Hiftory of Methodifm,” the firft volume ap- 
peared in 1793, and the fecond in 1796. In 
reviewing it, a candid writer in the Britifh 
Critic fays, *‘ Dr. Whitehead is certainly ene 
titled to the grateful acknowledgments of all 
thofe to whom Mr. Wefley’s memory is dear.” 
The authors of the Monthly Review alfo 
{poke of it in the higheft terms; faying, that 
they had never formed fo favourable an opi- 
nion of Mr. Wefley till his Biographer ap- 
peared. But this occafioned a rupture be 
tween Dr. Coke and his affociates, who were 
ftyled ** The Conference,’”” and Dr, White- 
head, as they intended themfelves to publifh 
a Life; and the publication caufed much 
party-difpute among the Wefley-methodifts, 
fo as to exclude the Doctor from preaching ; 
but a reconciliation afterwards took place, and 
he was again admitted to the pulpit. We 
have only to add, that, for three months be- 
fore his departure, Mr. Whitehead faid his 
glafs was nearly run, and behaved with great 
refignation and Chriftian fortitude. 
greater part of the above particulars were 
communicated to Mr. Benfon by Mr. Pawfon 
and Mr. Ranken, who were in the ftriéteft 
habits of friendfhip with the deceafed from 
their early lives. 
{ Further particulars relative to the late Lord 
Camelford, whofe death was announced in our 
lafi, — The principal part of his Lordfhip’s 
fortune he bequeathed to his fifter, Lady 
Grenville, to be entirely at her own difpofal; 
her Lady thip is alfo appointed fole executrix. 
Among the other bequeits, his Lordfhip, after - 
exprefling the higheft regard for his friend, 
Capt. Barrie, direéts that all his debts may be 
immediately paid, and an annuity of 2001. per 
annum fettled on the Captain during his life. 
Among other legacies is one of 1000l, to 
Charles Cowper, efq. of Palace-yard, Wef- 
minfter. He has left feveral fums to be de« 
voted to benevolent purpofes. His fervants, 
though not mentioned in the will, he recom- 
mended in a particular manner to Lord Gren- 
ville, who has undertaken to provide for 
them. Lady Grenville (who is inconfolable) 
went twice to fee her brother; but, on ace 
count of the weak ftate of her health, the 
furgeons thought fuch a meetin= might be 
attended with ferious confequences; and, pe 
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