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REGISTER OF ECCLESIASTICAL DOCUMENTS.
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will execute the noble design . We may jalso state , on our own knowledge , that Mr . Mead ley had for some time been making inquiries with a view to a Life of Locke ; with what success we are unable to say . a On the bed of sickness and . severe
suffering , ( says a writer in the Monthly Magazine , No . 322 , p . 86 , from whom these additional particulars have been cliiefly borrowed , ) which he bore with calmness and resignation , his sentiments , jftt all times void of disguise , then shewed the peculiar depth and quickness of his humanity . After a feeling description of
what he supposed the wretchedness to be of a sick bed when aggravated by poverty and want , with which he gratefully contrasted his own advantages , - — * what must it be , ( he exclaimed , ) what must it he then , for those poor creatures , left to meet death , amidst pain and cold and thirst upon the field of battle ! Thauk God , I have ever reprobated war . '
" On the 28 th of November , 1818 , Mr . Meadley breathed his last , amidst the sorrows of a family , who had long loved and honoured him as a kind brother and a dutiful son . He died in the firm hope of the Christian resurrection , and in the sincere faith of the gospel , as he had for many years entertained it , on the Unitarian scheme . " ~
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His remains were interred in SunderLand church-yard , ajid were followed to the grave by the president of the Sunder land Library , of which he was one of the founders , and a very large party of the sub .
scribers and other gentlemen , who did honour at once to the object of their regret and to tbemseJ ves by this mark of respect , thus spontaneously shewn to one , with whom many of them differed essentially both on political and on religious
subjects . Besides the works already mentioned , Mr . Meadley published A Letter and A . Second Letter to the Bishop ofSt ^ David ? s 9 by a Lay Seceder * two small octavo
pamphlets , and a View of the several Schemes of Parliamentary Reform , brought before the Legislature , another small octavo pamphlet , which Mr . Bentham has added to bis book on the same subject .
He was an occasional contributor to the Monthly Repository . To his pen we are indebted for the interesting ^ Memoirs of Mrs . Jebb , VII . 597—604 and 661—672 , and for the account of Mr . Robert Clarke *
X . 533—535 . It may be added , as characteristic of . his heart , that he was the author of the lines in our last volume , XIII . 454 , on " The Little Chjmney Sweeper . "
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Library y Red-Cross Street February 9 th 1819 . At an extraordinary meeting of the general body of Protestant Dissenting' Ministers of the Three Denominations , the following Resolutions were unanimously adopted :
1 . That our strong feelings of attachment to the illustrious House of Brunswick , both as Britons and Protestant Dissenters , excite in us a lively interest in any event which must affect the happiness of our Royal Family .
2- That the death of the late Queen , while it calls for our humble and pious submission to such a dispensation , as the ( appointment of infinite and infallible Wisdom , powerfully claims our cordial sympathy with those who lament the interruption which it occasioned in their enjoy ~ ments of public and domestic life . 3 . That the moral advantages derived to society from her own example , and the
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discountenance which she uniformly and steadily shewed to vice , cannot be too highly appreciated ; and that the loss of such a pattern in an exalted station , must by every frieiad to religion and virtue be deeply deplored .
4 . That though we deem it most expedient and respectful to abstain from such personal communications of our feelings as must revive the painful sensations which have agitated the minds of the Royal Family , we do sincerely condole with the Prince Regent , and the other branches of his Royal House , on the demise of their revered and beloved Parent :
at the same time we are sensible that the poignancy of their grief must be greatly alleviated by the recollection of the exemplary filial piety which they manifested towards her during her protracted illness . Signed , by order of the general body , WILIIAM NEWMAN , D . D . Chairman *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 22, 1819, page 122, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_22021819/page/54/
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