all locked in our respective apartments for the night. Two guards are always placed over us; and every note or letter we send away is placed in the end of a split cane, and, without being touched is carried to be fumigated; and afterwards it is forwarded. "I am arrived here in good time: the Chaplain of the Factory is just dead: the Clergyman, who does the duty for a time, is anxious to go to England; and there is every probability of my obtaining an opportunity of exercising my ministry publicly here. I can say nothing now of Leghorn, having only seen it from a distance while on board; but, from all that I hear, it is a desirable place. Some of the merchants have been to the barrier, to converse with me; which is allowed, in the presence of a guard, and through a wire grating, like a bird-cage. These precautions are, no doubt, wise and proper; but it is no pleasant thing, I assure you, to be the inmate of a Lazaretto. -We are, thank God! all in health; and the weather here is most delightful. I trust we shall not have come so far in vain.” Mr. Neat's labours, among "the Lost Sheep of the House of Israel" in those parts, are recorded in the Reports and other Publications of the London Society, during the period of his connexion with them. Combined with those labours, and at the request of the British Residents at Leghorn, Mr. Neat undertook the duties of the Factory Chapel, at first pro tempore, and afterwards as a permanent engagement. But the failure of health obliged him, in 1831, finally to withdraw from these arduous exertions in a climate uncongenial with his constitution, and to return to England. The Curacy of Stoke by Guildford was the next scene of his ministry, until July 1835, when he removed to Hatfield. There he laboured as Curate, with much acceptance, for nearly three years; when, having formed an engagement with the Church Missionary Society, to act as Visitor to their Associations, he travelled into the West of England; and it was while occupied, with his wonted faithfulness, simplicity, and zeal, in that sacred cause, that the mournful event took place, detailed in the following Letter: 66 66 DEAR SIR "St. Ives, Cornwall, July 4, 1838. It is my painful duty to state, that the Rev. Charles Neat, on his way to this place, and about one mile and a half from it, was thrown out of the vehicle which he was driving, and, falling upon his head, fractured the base of the scull, and received The ac other injuries of a very serious nature. cident occurred about five o'clock; and within a quarter of an hour, I was present with him. He was removed to the neighbouring inn at Halse-town, and received every necessary attention. He was insensible nearly the whole time; and at half-past one o'clock this morning he breathed his lastcalled from his labours of love, to enter into the Heavenly inheritance.-The only words he articulated were, "O HEAVENLY FATHER, forgive my sins, for JESUS CHRIST's sake, our LORD!" This mysterious dispensation has been received by the inhabitants of this place, more particularly the numerous persons who were assembled, expecting his presence at our Missionary Meeting, with becoming submission. I have taken care that every requisite for the interment of his remains is properly provided.—Praying the Great Head of the Church to sanctify this bereavement to all, "I remain, Dear Sir, yours faithfully, 66 66 "W. J. HARVART, PERPETUAL CURATE OF ST. IVES." "To the Secretary of the "Church Missionary Society." EXTRACT FROM THE MINUTES OF THE CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY, JULY 9, 1838. "Resolved, That the Committee record the death of Mr. Neat, while employed in furthering the Society's object in Cornwall, with mingled feelings of deep sorrow, and humble submission to the will of ALMIGHTY GOD; and that they deeply sympathize with his afflicted Widow under her bereavement, and earnestly pray that, in her affliction, she may abundantly experience the support and consolation of the Gospel of CHRIST." The following Extracts from a Sermon preached in Hatfield Church, by an affectionate friend, who had shared with him in the ministrations of the parish, will best serve to show the estimation in which our departed brother was held there: 66 The Grave will soon close over the mortal re"mains of One who always had you in his heart, "and whose last parochial labours were dispensed It is not sinful to weep, 66 among yourselves. "while we bend over the tomb of those we love :— 66 66 66 and who can help it, when he remembers that the lips of One so faithful to his trust-those lips from which we have so often heard 'the truth as it is in 66 JESUS'-are now closed for ever? It is indeed a "mournful satisfaction to be allowed to point you to "the bright and shining path of life, which he trod "with so much perseverance, and pursued with so "little deflexion. You, who heard him speak to you, "know with what earnestness he set before you the "CRUCIFIED SAVIOUR; how it was his first and last "endeavour to show forth CHRIST THE SON OF GOD"CHRIST THE SAVIOUR OF SINNERS-CHRIST THE HOPE OF 66 GLORY. There are probably few among you, "who cannot recall some act of kindness, or some "labour of love, either in sickness or in health, or 66 some word of consolation which cheered you in "your distress; or, still more, the honour which GOD "put on his ministry, by bringing it home with power to your heart. . . . Our tears are for ourselves, not "for him. As far as Man may be allowed to form an 66 66 opinion, we could not perhaps fix upon any one more prepared for so sudden a termination to a life of prayer, praise, and ministerial usefulness. It was "his often-expressed wish, that Death might find him engaged in doing the work of his Heavenly Master; " and the God who heareth prayer, answered it! 66 66 Those of you who were admitted into the "closest intimacy with him, know how the Glory "of God was the star by which his whole life was in |