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tianity in the presence of the Meccatnay , who is the Turkish judg"e and bishop . He continued in the service for about a year after , when be quitted it ; and havingexperienced severe reproofs of conscience for his apostacy , he made a pilgrimage to
Mount Achas , where there are many convents , from which he returned some months after . On his arrival at Smyrna , in the costume of a Greek monk , he proceeded instantly to the Meccamay , expressed his repentance at renouncing the Christian faith , and his resolution to abjure the tenets of the Mahometan . On which he
was confined in a dungeon , and endured the torture with the greatest fortitude , persisting in his resolution to die a Christian . A day was then appointed for bis execution in the most public part of Smyrna , and opposite one of the principal mosques ; and he was led to the scaffold bound .
attended by the Turkish guards . Here he was offered his life , nay , houses , money , in short , riches , if he would still continue in the Mahometan creed : but no temptation could induce Atbanasius again to apostatize . On this occasion a Turkish
blacksmith was employed to decapitate bim . As a last attempt , however , to effect , if practicable , a change of opinion , the executioner was directed to cut part of the skin of his neck that he might feel the edge of tbe sword . Even this , however , failed of success . He was then ordered to
kneel on the ground , when he declared , with a calm and resigned countenance , that ' he was born with Jesus , and would die with Jesus P At one blow tbe head was struck off . The guards then instantly
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J . Benedict Prkvost , born at Geneva , August 7 , 1755 , died at Montauban the 18 th of June , 1819 . From his earliest youth he evinced a decided taste for study . This taste was opposed by circumstances ,
and could not be developed but at the time when he settled at Montauban . Intrusted with the education of the son of M . Delmas , a merchant of that town , he resolved to complete his own . He gave himself to the sciences with ardour , and succeeded in
making * friends , or rather true brothers , of his pupils , insomuch that , having lived with them forty years , he died in their arms . He was Professor of Philosophy to tUe Protestant Theological Faculty of IVJontauban , member of several learned societies , and known by his numerous memoirs in Natural Philosophy and Natural History , on the Rot in Corn , on Dew . &c ,
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threw buckets of water on the neck and head of tbe corpse , to prevent the multitude of the surrounding Greek spectators
from dipping thdir handkerchiefs jn big blood , to keep as a memorial of an event so retnakable . The body was publicly exposed for three days , the bead placed between the legs , on the anus , and afterwards given to the Greeks , by whom it was decently interred , in the principal church-yard of Smyrna . This is the third instance of the kind which has occurred at Smyrna during the last twenty years /'
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Tower-Hilly Horsham . She was as well as usual on the Sunday , the preceding day , and attended the morning and after ? noon services at the chapel ; but on returning home in her chaise , between f ive and six o ' clock in the evening , she was
suddenly seized with apoplexy , of which she died , about a quarter past two o ' clock
on tbe following morning . —As a Christian , she had filled her situation in life with integrity and honour ; and we have abundant reason for believing that death was neither unexpected nor dreaded by
her . —Her loss was severely felt and bitterly lamented in her own family- and tbe surrounding neighbours evinced much sorrow , anci affectionately sympathized in their affliction . Her funeral on the
following Fmlay was numerousl y attended 5 and an excellent sermon was preached on the ^ solemn occasion , b y the Rev . Mr . Taylor , of Billinjg&huj rst , from PsaJm x %% ) % > 4 ; " Lord , vnnke me to know mine end ,
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July 1 ? , aged 00 , Mrs . Sarah OijWy , widow of the late Rev . John Denjdv , of
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South America , Rio Janeiro , Aug . 21 . —On the 12 th inst . being the anniversary of the
birthday of bis Royal Highness the Prince Regent , the Treasurer and Managers of the Contribution Fund of this city laid the foundation stone of the first Protestant Chapel in the Brazils , in tbe presence of a considerable number of the most
respectable merchants and other British subjects of this place . Previous to laying the stone , the Rev . Mr . Crane read the 24 th and 84 th Psalms , when a bottle , containing a few English newspapers , and
the coins of several nations of Europe , was deposited ; after which , the Rev . Mr . Crane pronounced the chapel to be dedicated to St . George and St . John , in
honour of his Hoyal Hig'hness tbe Prince Regent , and his most faithful Majesty , The stone was then set in its place , and the ceremony concluded by a very appropriate prayer for tbe Divine protection and blessing * on the work that day begun .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1819, page 650, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1777/page/62/
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