soon found between the Cambro-Americans and them. Should this take place soon, will not our friend Richards be all impatience to go over the Atlantic?

Saturday brought us Morgan Rhees. He came from Glamorganshire with Mr. Job David of Frome. He preached one Lord's day for David, while he went to preach at some distance from Frome. The last time I saw him was at the Miss R-'s, this day was a week; I carried a letter for him thither. He talk'd of going to Margate to bathe*.

What an easy life you live! You have read Mr. Burke's famous performance-also Counsellor Harding's answer-likewise Mr. Christie's, of whom as yet I can give no account. There is another answer to Burke, wrote by a lawyer of the Temple, a

* Of Mr. Morgan Rhees something shall be said when his correspondence is noticed. Of the Rev. Job David it may be just remarked, that he was a native of South Wales, educated at the Bristol Academy, and was for thirty years the active and zealous Pastor of a very respectable Baptist Church (now under the care of the Rev. Mr. Murch), at Frome in Somersetshire. Mr. David latterly succeeded Dr. Toulmin at Taunton, whence he retired to Swansea on account of an infirm state of health, where he died 1811. He was an intelligent and worthy man; his best publication was an expostulatory Epistle, addressed to Dr. Thomas Coke on his uncharitableness and bigotry. Being very kind to poor Welsh ministers, his death was a loss to the Principality. From him the Author of the Sketch of the Denominations received the account of the Jumpers.—Ho was his friend, and revered be his memory.

most excellent one, I am told, just in Edmund's own florid style! I think the Lawyer's name is M'Intosh.

I say, you live an easy life. I have no time to read, nor yet to write. Am obliged to scribble between the children's lessons. "Tis no wonder then

that you will find so many errors.

them, and then forget them.

First correct

The post is just a-going, therefore I must close this imperfect scrawl. All here join most cordially in best respects with, dear Sir,

Your most affectionate

MORGAN JONES.

DR. MORGAN JONES, however, never quitted this country, but died like an aged Patriarch, in the bosom of his affectionate family at Hammersmith, (where he for many years kept a respectable Academy) 1797, in the sixty-eighth year of his age. Interesting particulars of him and his ancestors will be found in the intended publication of the CAMBRO-BRITISH BIOGRAPHY. The writer of this Memoir knew this good man, sound scholar, and cheerful Christian: he is happy in paying this token of regard to his memory. Thither the reader must also be referred for an account of the ancestors of MR. RICHARDS' tutors, the Messrs. Hugh and Caleb Evans, which according to an intimation, was meant to have been inserted (had there been room) in the second part of this work.

The other frequent correspondent of MR. RICHARDS, was the Rev. M. J. Rhees, a native of Wales, who in 1794 emigrated to America. He

had been a fellow pupil of mine at Bristol in 1784, and was settled at Penygarn, near Pontypool, Monmouthshire. Quitting that situation, he went to France, 1792, and opened a Protestant place of worship at Bolougne. He also formed a society for giving away the New Testament among the French; but the subsequent war put an end to these missionary proceedings. In his plans of benevolence he was assisted by the late William Kingsford, Esq. of Barton Mills, and by my worthy brotherin-law, the Rev. Sampson Kingsford, of Sturry, near Canterbury, in conjunction with the excellent Mr. Sampson Pierce, of Dover, since deceased. After his return he preached throughout the Principality, and circulated a Welsh magazine, of a free and liberal tendency. He at length emigrated to America, and married into a respectable family there. His Letters thence glow with the sacred flame of liberty. He employed his utmost eloquence to persuade his friend Richards to join him. His predominant argument is the prevalence of religious liberality, of which he gives this curious exemplification. Having mentioned that he had just heard WASHINGTON, who had the appearance of "a fine old veteran," deliver his speech to Congress-Mr. Rhees thus writes::

Philadelphia, October 19, 1794.

Happy period-when the white, the copper, and the black skin will unite together in one society of brethren! Good laws have certainly a ten

dency to make mankind better. The noble spirit of Liberty, which the American Constitution breathes, in regard to religion, is fast undermining that abominable bigotry, which must exist wherever the Civil power exalts one sect above the other. As an instance of American liberality, I shall mention the following circumstance:-Last Sunday, as I was preaching in Mr. Vanhorn's Meeting-house, Scots-plain, New Jersey, in came six Friends (Quakers), and took their seats. When I had finished preaching, Brother Vanhorn addressed them thus, "Men and brethren, if you have a word of exhortation to the people, say on." A public Friend, from Carolina, immediately got up and spake for about twenty minutes very affectionately, and the congregation was dismissed very well satisfied with the service of the day. Even a BAPTIST here may preach in an Episcopalian pulpit without polluting it! But you are not to suppose from this circumstance, that perfect liberty has established her throne in every pulpit through the United States. No-much must be done, and perhaps, much must be suffered, even here, before PURE CHRISTIANITY, in its primitive simplicity, will be universally preached and practised. However, the night is far spent, and the day is at hand, when they shall not hurt nor destroy' in any part of the habitable globe!""

Mr. M. J. Rhees, to the deep regret of all his friends, died Dec. 8, 1804, at Somerset, in the meri

dian of his usefulness and activity. I was in Wales when the intelligence of his decease reached me, and paid a tribute of respect to his memory, in his old pulpit at Penygarn, from Daniel, chap. xii. 3. He that turneth many to righteousness, shall shine as the stars in the firmament for ever and ever. His respectable widow and family, now living at Philadelphia, are mentioned, in Dr. Rogers' last letter to MR. RICHARDS, as entertaining an affectionate veneration for his memory. I have many 1 of his letters from America, all breathing the ardour of friendship, and glowing with the love of liberty. The only comfort under these deprivations is, that the Supreme Being is never at a loss for instruments to accomplish his purposes respecting the amelioration of mankind.

MR. M. J. RHEES, Soon after his arrival in America, republished the Sketch of the Denominations of the Christian World. He annexed to the Volume the subsequent outline of a NEW CHURCH, evincing the exercise of that liberality which he, in both the old and new world, ably and zealously recommended to others. "Many of those who lately emigrated from WALES to America, have adopted the following Articles as their RELIGIOUS CONSTITUTION :

1. The Convention shall be called THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH.

2. It shall never be called by any other name, or be distinguished by the particular tenets of any man or set of men.