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pe |> f 13 , atJ ^ urdeaii * , Mrs . Fer--T wife of the proprietor of the tforaiV C *™** - The circam . stance * of her death , as related m that taper , are very , melancholy and affating . She had spent the severe winter of 181 S ~~ 14 at Lisbon * to wb # h place she had been recommended by her physicians , 01 : 1 account
of a complaint , in the chest which threatened consumption . In the sum * mfirof 1814 , she was so greatly improved in health that she had the flattering , prospect L of returning to the bospm of h « r famil y * Accompanied byome of her daughters ( a child ) and a fenaale friend who attended her
frock motives , of devoted affection , Aeembark ^ d fo ^ r Bottrdeaux on board a SiredJEih . galliot , towards the end of June . Scarcely had they crossed theB ^ r of Ljsfaoi * when they were takea by an Algerine frigate . The cargp a ^< J passengers were proved to be English , but the barbarians paid no-attention to this . Poor Mrs .
Perry , in her delicate state of health , had to sustain with , others the illusage of thesescoundrels . When any remoQstraii ^ e ; was made in behalf of property , they answered by shewing apistctfjOra dagger . They were
renweAfrqiriv the galliot to the frigate , ^ back , to , the galliot , in the rudest manner , and subjected to the most * ratjclu »< l hardships . When a sail a pproaqhed they were crammed bedecks . The . effects of this on a
consumptive patient may be imagined . when they reached -Algiers ,. tn « British Consul paid no , attention to their ^ The Swedish / Consul , however , exerted himself for their delivermrrJ" Of the qualities of Mrs . Perthe
jy > says writer in the Chronicle , we forbear to speak as our hearts would dictate . The best testimony 0 her character was . the influence Jtota the switness , of hqr temper , gjj reotitude , and purity of her sen-Jj ^ ts ,, atui the-elegant endowments * * er mind , had on , alL with whom J **! & > nicely acqtt $ uited f > and the ^^ n « te . interefl ) t whiqh they se ~ Tn « k ^ Htt « bp aow ofjber fr i « nd » . ^*^ Wwi ^^ fcer tan&an 4 * and ralo ? ^^^ ** - -h ejc lo ^ is irrepa ^ ^ ^ ie had jqsfr . turned'her thir ^
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ty-eighth . year . —Her death inay not unfairly be laid agxnnat that abominable system of plunder and outrage ^ which the nations of Europe shame * fully omit to exterminate .
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Chatham , April Uh , 1815 , March 24 * at Chatham , aged 60 , Mr . John Robinson . He was a native of Donnington ( near Spalding ) in Lincolnshire ^ His parents were Galvinists , but he had , always
an utter aversion to what the pious Geneva reformer himself has termed the tremendous decree of reprobation . At a period toa often marked by precipitate resolution , Mr , Robinson , in spite of parental remonirance , engaged m a maritime
life , and continued in his Majesty ' s Naval Service in the capacity of a gunner till he was superannuated a few years ago . While quite a boy on ship-board , he confessed to have frequent checks of conscience for what was amiss and from a sense
of religious duty ( probably the effect of a well-ordered education ) he would often be reading a manual of prayers , with which he had fqrnished . ; himself . At this time , arid when arrived at maturity , he used when on shore to attend the services
of the established church , tiil being one LordVday afternoon invited by a serious female in the town where he resided , to hear a Wesley an preacher , he joined hknself to that community and became for many years one of the
most strenuous defenders of the Methodist doctrine , and never relaxed as it respects their , discipline in . a partiality for , that people . In . JVIiv Robinsan * were united a desire to attain a knowledge of divine truth , and a detenminationto avow whatever
appeared from superior evidence , 00 examination , to answer that descri p ^ tiun ; an ^ here it is necessary to be observed , that he was far from hasty in forming his conclusions , they being in general the result . of a patient and presevering ; investigation . From a simile that he made use of with
reference to the writer of this article , it seems that his frequent conversations with hinn on theological topics , had operated as <* preparation to . his cm-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1815, page 311, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1760/page/47/
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