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Britishgtfveramenfc in t&at- island ; and tipon the ra £ hire of these returned to Bugland . His name frequently appears in BosweJTs life of Johnson , Feb . 7 , after a few hours illness , with which he was seized as he was stepping into hiscacriagcWU-UAMSTE VEN 3 ,
Esq . F . $ » A . and Treasurer of Qgeeti Ann ' s bounty . He . was a man of singular excellence of character , aad of die soundest learning ; particularly in divinity , which was . his favourite study , and in which he was as deeply if not more deeply read than any layman of his time . Possessed of a liberal income , he em ?
ployea the . greatest , part of it in acts of charity , which were regulated' with a degree of system truly admirable , and performed in an unostentatious . manner . As a friend be was kind and sincere . ; and as a companion he w as sought after 1 > y old and young on account of the ami * ableness of hia disposition , the engaging simplicity an £ cheerfulness of hi ? manners , and the amusement and
instructiveness of his conversation * He was bred to the business of a . wholesale hosier , which he parried on , till within a few y ears of his death » which tpok i place in the house , in which he served his ap ^ jprenttceship- and pursued his txade . Cem . Lit , Mr . Stevens appears , to have- been what is generally known by a high churchman , as such he very consistently employed his pen to controvert some very liberal doctrines maintained in Di \ ( now BJshop ) Watsqn ' aS ^ rmqiiis , preached during the American " War . He also wrote " the Life of' the Kev . William
Jones , of Nayland , and . was the Editor of the latter volumes of Bishop Home ' s SeiuKim . Mr . S . is described as . " an exCelleijt Hebraist and a considerable Grecian . -. , .
Feb . i& , at Hackney , in the ^ prlme of life , the Rjev . Mr RANCE , a popular and respectable Minister of a congregation of Calvinistic Baptists in that village . Mr . R . liad been lately indisposed , but was considered as hi' no hntxiediate
d * Dge *? He Trent to bed . ; not apparently worse than usual , and Was found dead the next morning * . Feb . ^ , in ^ ondonrf Mrs . DOUGLAS , of Ednam House , near Kelso , translator of Gdkrt ' s Vfiirks , widow 6 f the late Dr . Douglas . Cent . Lit . Mb %%% Matter HENRY WHITE , aged t $ j one of the unfortunate sufferers tn tJiclate mtlanchely catastrophe zt the
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Old Btileyv Impelled by a coHo » ty natural toyoun ^ people , and in man * -instattces ^ mh&l too powerfni to be oontroled , he went ta the eventful spot . And though on all occasions he tm ^ ess *
ed both spirit and conduct , Yet ixe waft overcome by'the prewttreofcthciimmeiise crowd , swooned and rose no more ! He was'just finishing his education ., through which he was passing with credit to himself and satisfaction to his tutor , who
loved him . as his own child . He was to have- been : placed in the countiBg ^ h ^ use of hi * father , an eminent wine m « w chant at Portsmouth ) who , together with his partner in life , has borne this severe dispensation of providence with a truly Christian fortitude and resignation . He
was beloved not only by his relaiiveft and friends , but by all who had the pleasure of knowing him . His sorro ? w ful tutor , . deeply affected by the early and premature death of an amiable pup * t » bears this sad tribute of respect to nib memory * £
Feb . a 6 . Died at Balharn Kill , nezr Clapham , Surry ^ in the 8 xst year of his age , the Rev . THOMAS-I £ RWIGK > many years pastor of a dissenting con ^* gragation at Clapham . He was bom neat Salop , ' Where he was under the pastoral care of the Rev , Job Orton , whose sentiments , and spirit he imbibed . Hii academical studies were under the direct
don of Dr . Doddridge , of whose pupils ; excepting only one not now in ttie ministry , he was the last survivor . After Ke had . finished his course at Northaipp * t ? bn , he spent some time in the uniVersitr of Glasgow . He first settled as a minis ter at Worcester , where he spent m&nf years , universally respected . But at length , he and Mre . Urwick , wishing for a mare retired situation , after a short
time spent in the neighbourhood of Lon * don , he removed tolfarborough , a village near Leicester , where a new and handsome house was erected for him , to the expense of which he himself contributed . But he and Mrs . Urwick not finding tftich a retirement to answer their expectations , he was prevailed upon by some intimate
friends near London , tp accept aa firmi * tat ion to Clapham , where he succeeded the learned Dr . Furneaux about the yc * r 1780 . There his sphere of usefulness was enlarged beyond the society over whiok he presided , particularly by being chosen one of Dr . Williams . ' * trustcet , andlike * wiee a trustee of William Cow « rd | R * q for the acadeipy in which he was cdu-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1807, page 161, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2378/page/49/
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