ELIM-COURT, FETTER-LANE.-General Baptist.

In a small adjoining devoted to the same

several feet from the ground, the space underneath is formed into a vault for the burial of the dead. yard there are also some other vaults purpose. Mr. Austin is a minister of evangelical principles, and has a flourishing congregation. Besides the regular services on the Sabbath, he has a lecture in the evening, and another on Wednesday.

ESSEX-STREET.

UNITARIANS.

ALTHOUG

LTHOUGH the worship in this place is conducted on a plan very different to that which is practised in most Dissenting congregations; yet, as the society belonging to it was constituted on the principles of religious liberty, and that grand article of Protestant dissent, the unlawfulness of requiring subscription to human articles of faith; and moreóver, seeing it was first formed by persons who were in connexion with the church of England, but renounced her commmunion, and some of them her emoluments; we think it has a fair claim to a distinguished place in a history of Dissenting churches. The founder of this society was the Rev. Theophilus Lindsey, M. A. formerly a minister in the church of England, and beneficed at Catterick, in Yorkshire; but entertaining different views of certain doctrines from those enjoined him in the articles and liturgy of the church of England, he could no longer join in her public service, without violating his conscience. He, therefore, resigned his living, and at the same time his ministry in the national church, in the year 1773, and published au apology for his conduct. Several respectable clergymen followed Mr. Lindsey's exainple about the same time, by resigning their stations in the church. (D) Their objections were

(D) Among these we may reckon the late learned Dr. John Jebb, who left the church about the same time that Mr. Lindsey did, and after resigning his preferments in the church, devoted himself to the practice of physic.-Dr. William Robertson, whom Mr. Lindsey calls, "the aged and venerable father of unitarian nonconformity of our days;" who died teacher of a free-school at Wolverhampton, in his 79th year, May 20,

• Historical View of the Unitarian Doctrine, p. 477.