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    RMJGIOIB, LITEEARY, AND POLITICORELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

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    In the workhouse of St . Oiave , at the advanced age of 91 , Mrs . MARY COCKBURN , a native of Fortaferry , iii the county of Down . She had been in the service of the celebrated Dean Swift . She retained the use of her

    faculties to the last ; and a few days prior to her death , -walked two miles , She was extremely regalar in her living . J OHN KtJSSEIL , Esq . R . A . of Newtnan-fstreet , PortraitrPainter in Crayons to his Majesty and the Prince of Wales *

    A pril 30 , at HiiH . i—This yery successful artist was the son of a shopkeeper at Guiidford * Discovering ^ an early inclination to the profession in which he afterwards became so eminent , he was placed under the tuition of the late Mr . Coates , then a celebrated portrait-painter

    in crayons . To crayon-painting Mr . R . chiefly confined himself , though he executed some portraits in oil , and a few landscapes ; His -Map of the Moon , a work of considerable ingenuity , and Which required uncommon perseverance ,

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    Mi / rGiow * . The Annual Meeting of the SOUTHERN UNITARIAN BOOK SOCIETY will be held on Wednesday , June aj , at X . ewes , Su sex . The Rev . Mr . Barbauld , of Newington Green , will preach the

    sermon to the Society in the morning . There will be a lecture also in the evening * The Edinburgh Missionary Society has received very encouraging accounts from their Missionaries , at Karass in Russia . The attention of Heathens and

    Mahometans in- that ; quarter is turned in a considerable degree , to the subject of religion . Three natives were baptized , on the * Qth of November last ; more are expected to undergo the same irite . The printing press which the Directors sent oot last summer has been

    « et to work ; and a tract against MaJaometanism begun . The Missionaries * re « ager to begin printing the Scriptures in the Turkish language . The Society are educating three young men for Missionaries at Edinburgh . The Baptist Mission held a meeting , March 1 a , at Oxford , whenMr ; Chater and Mr , Robinson were sex apart to

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    gained him great reputation among phi * losophers . , It would be doing injustice to the iiie * mory of this excellent artist not to men * tion , that in his private character he wag truly , respectable . An intimates friend of the late celebrated sculptor Mr . Bacon ,

    like him , he was a serious professor of Christianity , according to the forms and doctrines of the Church of England . Mr . R . carried into his theology much of the rapturous manner with which he was accustomed to express his attachment to his favourite art . Indeed he

    appeared to lay an undue stress upon the exercise of the passions in religion . The writer of t&s remembers to have heard liim speak with strong disapprobation of the ' < Treatise on the Exercise

    of Religious Affections , " < by Jonathan Edwards . That work appears to have been designed by the author , a well * known zealous Calvinist , to correct a dependence on frames of mind and occasional feelings , to which some orthodox professions have been peculiarly liable .

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    missionary labours m India . They , witk their wives , take their passage to Serampore , in an American vessel . They are accompanied by a young lady ( Miss Ross ) of Oosport , who is going to Vizagpatnam , under the patronage of the Soci « ty . .. .. ' The extraordinary events of the present times have excited considerable

    attention to the Prophecies in the lower classes of the people .. An obscure mechanic of London has raised himself into a degree of profitable celebrity by his prophetic pamphlets 4 long advertisements of which , in large fetters , are stuck up in every paxt of the town . He announces a speedy Jlevriution . The officers of police are * -we suppose , satisfied that he

    means oiUy a spiritual Revolution . He predicts that the Restoration of the y * iv jftill . be iully accomplished in the year 281 . 5 . So far is harmless ; and here we might dismiss this dreamer with a smiles l > ut he has at last taken advantage of the credulity of the populace , to Inculcate a sentiment , which , if it came from any but a lunatic , would be diabolical , ra » Xhat peace- witb f nuicc r aad CatbolJC

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    Rmjgioib, Liteeary, And Politicoreligious Intelligence.

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1806, page 275, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1724/page/51/