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BY the death of Win . Price , Esq . at Gloucester , on the 26 th of April , 1815 , the cause of civil and relig ious liberty and of rational Christianity have lost a staunch and zealous friend . Mr . Price , without great advantages of education , had acquired
considerable information on most important subjects , and particularly had made himself well acquainted with the history and principles of the Dissenters . He had adopted those views of Christianity , which are entertained by Unitarians . He was at all times most
liberal m giving pecuniary support to the measures that were used for promoting what he deemed to be the truth . He was peculiarly open , frank and fearless in avowing the convictions of his mind . His conduct was ever man ly and consistent with his principles . And during his whole life , he served
the interests of rational religion , in that way which some enlightened and liberal-minded men are too apt to neglect , by an attendance , exemplarily regular and constant , upon public worship . In the affairs of the world Mr . Price was also an intelligent and useful man , a man of business , whose
countenance , -whose counsels , and whose labours were always looked for , and always ready , in schemes of public charity or usefulness . By spirit and enterprise , by liberality ,
punctuality , integrity and honour iu commerce , he attained to considerable affluence , and provided handsomely for his family , in his family , before disease had shattered his bodily frame and enfeebled his mind , he was , in an
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Abolition of the Slave Trade . —The question of the abolition of the Slave ^ rade , in respect of profit , is set at rest by the following returns : —The whole annual importation of African commodities before the abolition did
v much exceed 7 O , 0 OOZ . In 1808 , the first year of the abolition , it rose to , 806 / . ; and in 1810 , to 535 , 5771 . delusive in both years , of gold dust , which pays no duty at the Customhouse . The increase in the exports to Africa is stili more astonishing . Dur-J ^ g the existen ce of the Slave trade , hese do not appear to have exceeded 50 , 000 / . whereas in the year
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eminent degree , an affectionate husband to a beloved wife who died nearly three years before him , and a tender and indulgent father to three sorrowing children , who survive him . And in the circle of his acquaintance , he was a most sociable and cheerful
companion , and a judicious and active friend . He , who pays this imperfect tribute to his memory , has had much to be thankful for in the enjoyment of his intimate society and friendship ,
during a considerable portion of his life ; and though at length separated from him , and deprived of the melancholy satisfaction of paying the last respect to him at his death , has never ceased to feel for him all the affection
that is due to a faithful and cordial friend , and , during many years , a fellow-worshiper of congenial sentiments and views . And may he never lose the consoling hope of being joined with him again , in the nobler worship of heaven 1 A- Y .
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June 10 , at his house , Lisson Grove , Paddingtou , the Rev . Dr . Caldeb , aged 82 .
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J 8 O 8 , they were 820 , 194 ? . and in 1810 , 693 , 911 / - Joanna Southcott . —A neat stone has been placed over the remains of the prophetess , in the new burial gronjul , adjoining the Regent ' s Park , with the following mystic inscription : —
In memory of Joanna Southcott , who departed this lite , December 27 , 1814 , aged 65 years . While through all thy wondrous days ^ ft-eaven and earth enraptur ed gaze While vain sages tJ > iuk they know Secrets thon alone canst shew , Time alone will tell what hour TliotfU * jn > ottr in grt " after power .
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Died on Saturday , June 3 d , at his house at Braw Bridge , near Halifax , Joseph Cartledge , M . D- aged 67 .
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Lately , at Charlestown , America , in advanced age , Du , David Ramsay , the biographer of Washington , and author of various literary works . He died in consequence of a wound from a gun , fired at him by a lunatic as he was passing along the streets .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1815, page 381, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1761/page/53/
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