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from his great respectability and well-known integrity , he was connected with several important trusts , and never was there one more conscientious in endeavouring to execute the wishes of the testator * '
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his tender regard for his wife and fa rnijy , relatives and friends , had such an effect upon him as to bring on mental derangement about two y ears before his death . In this melancholy situation he received every kind attention from a mourning family , of which their narrow circumstances
would admit . They have now to be thankful that the great Being w j 10 has made and who can restore the mind of man , has called him from a world in which he had ceased to be a moral agent 5 and they joyfully look forward to a re-union hereafter , when the dispensations of Providence will
be cleared from obscurity , and when the weary and distressed will find rest and peace . __ ^^ M ^^
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188 Obituary . ——Rev . J . Jones . —John Whiteheud , fyc .
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1814 , Dec . 1 . At Crosby , in Lancashire , aged 59 , the Rev . J . Jojves , where he had been curate thirty-two years . His stipend during that time
did not average more than 40 Z . per annum , upon a living worth 1000 / . a year . He was the modest and anoriyrnous ^ author of several pious and learned tracts : his character was
unblemished . He has left nine children , whom by the most rigid economy he was enabled to bring up in a way becoming the respectability of his profession , being ever anxious to avoid that appearance of poverty , which disgraces the Protestant Establishment . British Press ,
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WB 1815 , Jan . 3 John Whitehead , of Glodwick , near Oldham , aged 64 . He was an ornament to the humble
walks of life , in which he lived arid ¦ was respected by all who knew him . He never possessed much bodily strength , yet in the labours necessary for his support he "was singularly diligent . His industry aided by frugality enabled him to devote a portion
of his time to reading and study , of which lie was remarkably fond . By steady application he had acquired considerable knowledge in language , mathematics , logic , theology and physic . His skill in physic often enabled him to be useful to his neighbours . In religious sentiments he was
decidedly an Unitarian , and he exerted himself to introduce the knowledge of the one only true God into the populous district in which he lived . He was the author of a paper which was inserted in the Theological Repository , [ Vol . v . p . 1943 on the spuriousness of 1 John v . 7 . His
manners were simple and unaffected , his conversation was instructive , and plainly dictated by a mind susceptible of the best feelings . In the distress occasioned by the long- and
unexampled pressure of the times , which still threatens the lower orders of society with ruin , he sympathized most deeply ^—alas ! too deeply . His continual anxiety for the welfare of the poor
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___ Feb . 6 , at Broxbourne , Herts , where he was engaged in superintending au edition of the Syriac New Testament for the use of the Syrian Christians iu the East , the Rev . Claudius Buchanan , D . D .
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¦^»^^—— - Feb . loth , at his house in Somerset-street , at the advanced age of 81 , the Rev . James Sc 6 tt , D . D . of
Trinity College , Cambridge , and incumbent for upwards of forty-five years of the great living of Simonburne , in Northumberland , in the patronage of Greenwich Hospital—aliving which he obtained from the Earl of
Sandwich , for his letters in the daily newspapers , under the signature of Anti-Sejanus . As a poet , Dr . Scott was distinguished in early life , having gained the Seatorrian Prize on the three successive years of 176 O , 1701 , and 1762 , for his" Heaven , " a vision ;
his verses on Purity of Heart , and Ins Hymn on the subject of Repent ance To his elegant muse we are li kewise indebted for that beautiful Ode 011 Sculpture , which constitutes the 200 th Number of " The World . " Having completed his academical studies , M engaged in more public life , andun > lone' well known as an eminent
political writer . The livjog-of Sinjonburne , t » Northumberland , of which the lat ' Dr . Scott was incumbent , is suppose ' to be worth 5000 / . per
annumform erly belonged to the Dement- * ' ler family , but became for feited 1 the Crown , and is now in the patron age of Qreenwich Hospital , by a Act of Parliament passed soiue ) ' **
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1815, page 188, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1758/page/60/
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