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highly appreciated , was strikingly attested upon Ills premature and calamitous decease , known , as it was , to have been occasioned by his generous zeal to rescue his fellow-creatures from extreme danger , and to alleviate their misery . Not only those who had been his patients , many of whom speak in the
highest terms of his attention and skill in reciting the eminent cures they received from his judicious treatment , but all who knew him concurred in saying that society had lost a very valuable member , the medical profession a bright ornament , and the poor a kind friend and liberal benefactor . As he was greatly esteemed in life , so his death was generally and deeply deplored ; and it has
been the occasion of many instances being related which are highly honourable to his memory , as testimonies of tender sympathy for the distressed and kindness to the indigent , whom his pursuits continually brought under his observance . No person who was conversant with his disposition and character will deem this obituary record either an unmerited or an overrated eulogium ; it cannot then be wondered at that the
writer of it , who was most intimately acquainted with the excellence of both , and who peculiarly knew and felt his filial affection and duty , should be filled with grief on account of such a loss , and stand in need of all the consolation which Christian hope affords under such an afflictive and inscrutable dispensation of the allwise Providence .
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March 5 , aged 58 , Mr . John Edwards , of JVhitchurchy in the county of Salop . He had through life been blessed with a healthy state both of body and mind , but the sudden death of an only son , followed by another severe calamity , inflicted a blow upon his frame from which he never recovered ; his strength
and spirits gradually declined , and after two years' fruitless struggle , a dropsical affection put an end to his existence . Mr . Edwards was highly esteemed as a member of general society , and as a tradesmau he was respected by those to whom his character was well known , for his benevolent disposition and uniform and inflexible adherence to that which
he conceived to be upright and just . From his youth he was a zealous , consistent , and highly valuable supporter of the Presbyterian congregation at Whitchurch , which has sustained by his death a heavy , if not an irreparable , loss .
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April 18 , at Bridport , the Rev . G . B . Wawne . The intelligence of nis decease will be received with concern by all who were acquainted with his character and usefulness in the Christian ministry . There are some who have to mourn his loss with a sorrow
fliat will not soon or lightly pass away , aud to feel that his early death must be regarded as one of those dispensations of Providence which , in the imperfection of human knowledge , are confessedly mysterious . His lingering illness assumed towards its close all the usual
Symptoms of consumption . Indications of a constitutional tendency to this fatal complaint were not wanting , and the duties of the ministry , performed with a trembling solicitude , and connected in his case with much and constant mental excitement , may be regarded as having
called into action the latent principles of disease . He was a native of Hull , and , after the loss of his mother , who died when he was young , brought up under the pious and judicious care of his maternal relatives . The early religious sentiments which he imbibed were such
as are commonly called orthodox , but on arriving at the period of life when opinions are usually formed , he embraced , after careful examination , the views of the Christian revelation which he subsequently advocated , and with a zeal resulting from his lively convictions of their truth and value , hx consequence of a long-cherished desire to devote himself to the ministry , he became
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Mb . John Edwards .
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March 28 , at the age of 27 , at the Mines de Fen , near Moidins in France , Charles , the youngest son of George Skey , Esq ., late of Highgate , and for some years Treasurer of Essex-street Chapel . The circumstances that attended the decease of this amiable young
man were of the most afflicting and painful nature . After superintending some iron works at Wednesbury , in Staffordshire , he removed in the month of September last to overlook the Mines de Fers , near Moulins . Having occasion to give directions to a miner working in
the shaft , he proceeded to descend for the purpose . By some unaccountable accident the machinery became disarranged , and he was at once precipitated a considerable distauce to the bottom of the pit . He was completely stunned by the fall , and in less than half an hour ceased to live .
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Mr . Charles Skey .
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Rev . G . B . Wawne .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1827, page 447, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1797/page/55/
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