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duous enterprize involved . His labours were unremitted—his prudence was not inferior to his zeal ,
and his success in promoting civilization and Christianity , in a place where he found both literally and morally a wretched wilderness , was such as to afford to his benevolent
mind , no mean recompence for his disinterested and persevering exertions . M . Chron .
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1812 , Feb . 17 , at Trowbridge , Wilts , the Rev . William Jones , minister of the General Baptist church in that town . He was a native of Wales and educated for the ministry , under the Rev . J #
Evans , of Islington . He was very recently settled at Trowbridge , — having commenced his labours at Chichester , where he continued only a few months— -preferring the situation in which he died , as
being nearer to his native Principality . He was ill fora considerable time , but bore his affliction with exemplary resignation . Cut off in the prime of life , he affords an additional proof of the precarious tenure on which we hold every earthly blessing . We are born , — we live a longer or shorter period ,
and are buried ! Melancholy would be this history of the human race , were it not for the hope of a blessed immortality „ E . Islington *
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1812 , March 5 , the day on which he compleated his 54 th year , Mr-John Burton , of Birmingham . Descended from highly respectable parents , he did not disgrace his lineage , for though deprived in youth of his father , ( Mr , € r . Burton , of Mancetter , War-
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ji wickshire , ) and early placed i « the world , he never suffered temptation to lead him astray from the path of conscious rectitude * Though only in the middle walk of life , the public and private acts
of charity and beneficence , in which he was either a principal or participator , would not have disgraced persons in a much more elevated situation . One leading feature of his character , was the pleasure he took in training up
young men to habits of industry and virtue ; but his concern for their welfare , ceased not when they quitted his house , for he continued as long as he lived , a kind and considerate adviser to them in all their troubles , and a true and wise
friend to them in their prosperity . In a word , his life might , be taken as a pattern for imitation by young tradesmen . The magnanimity which he ( fisplayed , and the danger to which his person was exposed in
the disgraceful riots at Birmingham , of 1791 , will long be remembered by many persons still living . Educated in the principles of religious dissent , he never deserted them , and at the time of
his death , had been thirty-nine years a member of the Old Meeting congregation : his remains were interred in the burial ground adjoining , on the 14 th instant , attended to the grave by his eight nephews , and several young men , who deeply felt their loss ,
considering him as possessing all the feelings of a wise and affectionate parent . He has also left five sisters and two nieces , who feel all that human nature can 6 n so mournful an occasion ; yet , blessed be God , they mourn not as tjiose who have noliope , trusting in the revelation of their Lord and Savi-
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190 Obituary . —The Rev . W . Jones . —Mr * J . Burton *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1812, page 190, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1746/page/54/
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