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of emigrating to America , where his brother had already gone and settled . After he had gone down to Wales , he Was married , ahem the latter end of last autumn , to a respectable young woman , tvith whom he had been acquainted some years . Since then he was said to be inclined to relinquish his intended
American expedition , and to settle in his native country , on a farm provided for him by his father-in-law , and * where he would have had an opportunity to continue his ministerial labours in a neighbouring congregation , where his exertions might have been very u ? eful , had he lived . The disorder which deprived the
World of so valuable a member of society was said to be a nervous fever , or rather jxerhaps a putrid fever . He left a young widow , who was exceedingly fond of h m , and had been long passionately attached to him , with a numerous train of friends , to lament his loss , of whom no one s regret is more Unfeigned © r heartfelt than that of the writer of this
additional account , who knew him well , and had long held him in high and deserved estimation . His solid understanding , mild disposition , gentle manners , unaffected piety , and many virtues , could not fail of endearing him to every truly
good man that knew him ; by whom his memory will be long held dear , and his character far more highly thought ® f , than that of many whose parts may have appeared mdre showy , and their talents and endowments much more brilliant
and dazzling . The qualities by which he was distinguished were those which constitute real worthiness , or true goodness of character . If all the General Baptist ministers were more like him , their cause would not fail of being very materially benefited . Their hearers would more readily believe their profession sincere , and their faith unfeigned . 4
" From these words , * He was a good man , ' Mr . Wright preached two funeral sermons for him at Wisbech and Lutton , in three chapels where the decea ed had for some time officiated . ' * Mr W . WOODFALL , Chief Justice of Cape Breton , son to the late Mr . "Woodfall , whose death was recently announced . He obtained considerable
professional celebrity by-Ins Treatise on the Law concerning landlord and Tenant . He fell a prey to the climate . His assiduity in fulfilling the duties of h i * office was so great , that he was at
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last carried into court , where he some times fainted . - Mrs . AIjN YEARSLEY * commonly known in % he poetical world as the Milkwoman of Bristol , at Melkshan * * Wilts , on Thursday , May 8 . ~ She wa * one of those extraordinary geniuses whose talents lift them above every disadvantage of birth and fortune . She was a
native of Clifton , near Lristol , and till she was aS actually carried mi k from door to door . She was married early , Bore a large family 9 and experienced from poverty much affliction and distress , which she endeavoured to assuage by putting her complaints into verse * Some of her verses were shewn
accidentally to Mrs . Hannah More , wjia was immediately interested in the poor woman ' s case , and finding her , upon inquiry , as meritorious in her character as she was poetical in her genius * patronized her , and procured * a * large and respectable list of subscribers to her Poems , which were first published in 1784 , an
4 to , She enjoyed the patronage also of the celebrated Mrs . Montague , called in her day " the Great Arch-priestsss of the Nine / ' Mr . Horace Walpole , the Bishop of Sail-bury , and the Primate of Ireland . The liberality of her patrons enabled her to rise to a situation congenial with her t emper , and suited to her
talents ; and she kept , for many years , an elegant bookseller ' s shop at the > Hot Wells , which was resorted to by all the visitors of that much frequented watering place . A similar instance of native genius to that which we have here recorded has lately been presented to the
public , in the poems of Charlotte Richardson , of York , brought out under the generous patronage of Mr § . Cappe . SCRABJER IVIUNCHERJ ^ E , an opulent and most respectable merchant at Bombay , October 7 , 1805 . —He was a descendant of the antient Persians
( common ty called Par-ees ) , Professors of the religion of the Magi , and disciples of Zoroaster . The benevolence of this man ' s disposition has bjeen manifested on many occasions , in works of public utility , constructed at his expence ; and
dunng a time of scarcity , he daily distributed provisions to upwards of two thousand poor people .- —Times . At Southampton lately , aged 85 , Mr . JAMES X . 1 NDEN , schoolmaster . He was the first who published a newspaper in that county . -
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1806, page 274, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1724/page/50/
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