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revise her collection of hymns. That collection contained several beautiful hymns by him. He was the author of a volume of sermons, and of two poems, published in Dublin in 1761, entitled &quot; Liberty, an Ode,&quot; and &quot; The Judgment.&quot;

��EDWAED PERRONET.

DIED 1792.

ABOUT the year 1750, we find references in Charles Wesley s Diary to one in whom he took a deep interest, a Christian brother and companion in travel, whom he familiarly calls &quot; Ned.&quot; This was his friend Edward Perronet, son of the Eev. Yincent Perronet, a well-known excellent evangelical cler gyman, who was Vicar of Shoreham for fifty years ; and we learn from Lady Huntingdon s Memoirs (Vol. II., page 135), that Charles and Edward Perronet were preachers in Mr. Wesley s Connexion for a short time. &quot; The former desisted for want of health, and the latter from some change in his opinions. Charles Perronet died at Canterbury in 1776, but his brother survived him many years, and possessed equal powers with him, to which was superadded a large fund of wit.&quot; After assisting the preachers the Countess of Huntingdon sent to Canterbury, Mr. Perronet preached there and elsewhere by the direction of the Countess, and with great success. But hig great hostility to the Church system at length gave offence to the Countess, and she ceased to avail herself of his services. For although the son of a clergyman, Edward Perronet was the author of an anonymous poem, called &quot; The Mitre,&quot; which is believed to have been a very keen satire on the national Esta blishment. It was printed, but did not appear, because, it is said, of the intervention of Mr. Wesley. After ceasing his con nection with Lady Huntingdon, Mr. Perronet preached to a small congregation of Dissenters till his death, in January, 1792. He died at Canterbury, and his dying words were,

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