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truths of Divine revelation. "When I was employed upon the creation," said Haydn, "I felt myself so penetrated with religious feeling, that, before I sat down to the piano-forte, I prayed to God with earnestness, that he would enable me to praise him worthily;" and many similar instances of devotion are related of Benjamin Carr.

A monument was erected over his remains in St. Peter's Churchyard, by the Musical Fund Society, of which he was one of the founders, in the year 1820, on which there there is the following inscription:

BENJAMIN CARR,

A distinguished Professor of Music,

Died May 21st, 1831, aged 62 years.

Charitable without ostentation, faithful and true in his friendships;
To the intelligence of a man he united the simplicity of a child.
This monument is erected by his friends and associates of
The Musical Fund Society of Philadelphia.

It was designed by Strickland, and executed by Struthers. Mr. Carr was one of the most distinguished organists of Philadelphia; and there are many compositions of his, at this period, used in the Roman Catholic and Episcopal Churches of this city and elsewhere. He at one time conducted a periodical called the "Musical Journal." He was a brother of Sir John Carr, an Englishman of some literary reputation.

ISAAC CATHRALL, M.D.

A PHYSICIAN in Philadelphia, studied in that City and in London, Edinburgh and Paris, and returned home in 1793. During the prevalence of the yellow fever in that year, and in 1797, 1798, and 1799, he remained at his post, and even dissected those who died of the disease. In 1816, he was seized with a paralytic affection. He died of apoplexy, February 22d, 1819, aged fifty-five

years. He was a judicious physician, a skilful anatomist and surgeon, a man of rigid morality and inflexible integrity, and truly

estimable in the relations of a son, husband, and father. In his religious views he was a Quaker. He published "Remarks on the Yellow Fever," 1794; “Buchan's Domestic Medicine, with Notes," 1797; "Memoir on the Analysis of the Black Vomit," showing that it might be safely tasted, 1800, in fifth volume of the "Transactions of the American Philosophical Society; and a pamphlet on the yellow fever, in conjunction with Dr. Currie, in 1802.

THOMAS CHALKLEY.

MR. CHALKLEY, a preacher among the Quakers of Pennsylvania, removed from England to that colony about the year 1701, and lived there upwards of forty years, excepting when the necessary affairs of trade, or his duties as a preacher, called him away. In 1705, he visited the Indians at Conestoga, near the River Susquehanna, in company with some of his brethren, to secure their friendship and impart to them religious instruction. He died at the island of Tartola, in 1741, while on a visit there for the purpose of promoting what he believed to be the truth. He was a man of many virtues, and was endeared to his acquaintance by the gentleness of his manners. The library of the Quakers in Philadel phia was commenced by him. His journal and a collection of his writings was first published by B. Franklin, at Philadelphia, 1749, and New York, 1808.

NATHANIEL CHAPMAN, M.D.

BY S. W. BUTLER, M.D.

PRECIOUS as is the memory of the dead to those who were connected with them in their lifetime by the ties of consanguinity; sacred to them as is every item of the personal history of the departed, the public has a right to share in the possession of these sacred items and this precious memory, when the subject of them,