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      mer place . Mr . W . was formerly Fellow of St . John ' s College , Cambridge , B . A . 1800 , M . A . 1803 . The circumstances which occasioned the death of this respected gentleman are so impressive that we must be allowed to detail them in

      this place . Having intimation that a neighbouring Preserve would be visited by some poachers on the evening of November 27 , it was determined that a party should be formed to oppose then ) , and among them was the late Rector , who also filled the office of one of his

      Majesty ' s Justices of the Peace . It appears that a separation of the party , all of whom were armed , took place , but signals were agreed on , which were to be given on meeting . One of the gentlemen , a youth , after taking a different road , suddenly met the rest of the party , three in number , and from some mistake iu the signal , conceiving them to be poachers , fired and lodged part of the contents of his gun in the body of

      Mr . Whitear , Who , With one of his companions , almost at the same moment , returned the fire , and so much shattered the youth's hand as to render amputation necessary . The mistake was not immediately discovered , and the young man returned home believing he had shot a poacher . After languishing for a fortnight , the Rev . Gentleman expired in consequence of a mortification of the wound he had received .

      Thus a wife is deprived of her husband , children of their father , the church of an ornament , society of a most useful member : and why was this loss incurred ? Because bad and unnecessary laws must be supported , no matter at what cost ; because , unhappily , the ministers of the Gospel of Peace are allowed to exercise the office of magistrates ;

      because other arms than those of persuasion are put into their hands ; because they have the liberty of inflicting temporal pains and penalties ; because thereby a spirit of domination over the bodies as well as souls of men is encouraged , and the peaceful principles of their original profession are overwhelmed in the contest with feelings of hostility to their fellow-men . Regret for the individual ,

      respected and valued as , on many accounts , he was , is almost lost in the feeling of abhorrence for a system which can lead to such things as this , and in pity for the delusion which can so far blind men , not otherwise unkind or unfeeling , as to make them think they are doing their duty in putting human life , with all its vast responsibilities , to hazard for the sake of preserving so unim-

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      portant a species of property . We know not how it may appear to our readers , but for ourselves we must confess we hardly knpw . a more affecting instance of human inconsistency than that afforded by a minister of the Gospel , who is accustomed , week after week , to reiterate the prayer— " From battle , and murder , and from sudden deafh , good Lord !

      deliver us , " going out armed at midnight to capture , or , if need be , to send into eternity , some hapless wretch , as unfit , perhaps , ' as possible to die . What , supposing that minister to be really the agent by whose means death is brought upon such a person , his feelings must thenceforth be , we can hardly imagine ;

      but either they must render him a miserable man for the rest of his life , or they must be rendered callous by the influence of some most wretched system . Could we but hope that an instance like this we are contemplating would lead , not merely to the exercise of a temporary and

      cowardly kind of caution , bat to the admission of some salutary reflections and correspondent practice , the sacrifice would not be too great ; but the public must , probably , yet have precept upon precept , line upon line , example upon example , before convictiQn will enter where it is most wanted .

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      Obituary . — -Joseph Cradock , Esti \*— Marquis of Hastings . 73

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      December 15 , at his apartments in the Strand > in the 85 th year of his age , Joseph Cradock , Esq ., Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries . He served the office of High Sheriff of Leicestershire , in 1767 , and he was not less distinguish , ed in the fashionable circles than in the

      ranks of literature , where he was the friend and associate of Johnson , Warburton , Hurd , Halifax , Parr , Reynolds , Burke , Percy , Goldsmith , Garrick , Stevens , Nichols , and the whole of the Literary Club . This gentleman ' s Literary aud Miscellaneous Memoirs , in two small octavo volumes , has recently excited considerable interest . —Times .

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      Nov . 28 , at Naples , Francis haw don Hastings , Marquis of Hastings .

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      Joseph Cradock , Esq .

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      John Flaxman , R . A .

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      Marquis ov Hastings .

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      Dec . 7 , John Flaxman , Esq ., R . A ., Professor of Sculpture in the Royal Academy . [ A further account of the Marquis of Hastings and of Mr . Professor Flaxman will be given in our next Number . ]

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1827, page 73, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1792/page/73/