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[342] in Eustace Street, in that city. In this connexion he continued during the remainder of a life protracted to the advanced period of eighty-three years, universally and deservedly respected.

Of another grandson, the late excellent Mr. John Taylor, of Norwich, an interesting and de. tailed memoir from the pen of his son, Mr. Edward Taylor, will be found in the Monthly Repository for 1826. A third, Mr. Meadows Taylor, late of Diss, in Norfolk, is commemorated in the Christian Reformer for 1838. It is needless to advert more particularly to many others who still worthily maintain the character of the name they have inherited, and will, doubtless, one day receive from survivors the meed of grateful praise for eminent talents and valuable services.

Late be the hour, and distant be the day!

Dr. Taylor's zealously attached friend, the learned Dr. Edward Harwood—himself eminently qualified by his attainments to estimate rightly the extent and value of those which he saw displayed in others—preached and published a sermon on the occasion of his death, which is more than usually particular in reference to the character and biography of its subject.

This sermon was written under the influence of feelings strongly excited by the unhappy disputes before adverted to, which renders it probable that the representations it contains of the conduct of some parties connected with the institution are, at least, considerably exaggerated. We have already expressed our unwillingness to enter further into this subject; but, as failings in temper and spirit have, in consequence, been imputed to Dr. Taylor, which were wholly alien to his true

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