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Rtv . 7 * . Muirfsvarinv—Mr . AT . Dunsford—J . Opic , Esq . — ATrs . / inJerson .
sky , that he was tempted to accommodate in a manner to which his circumstances rather than his will , appear to have consented . Such temptations there are in more churches than one , but surely they are in danger of incurring
a Ci by whom the temptation conieth . " The following , we doubt not , just character is given of Dr . M ' c Gill , in a respectable publication , " Possessed of * a strong and discerning mind , he carefully studied the sacred scriptures , he explained them with great clearness and accuracy , and his illustrations of religious truths were varied and
impressive . Severely tried in the cour e of Divine Providence , he drew consolation from the gospel of Christ , and in imitation of his great master , whom he loved , he was resigned to the will of God . His manners were plain and unaifected , and no man possessed more uprightness and integrity of heart . By his pad hioners and by all who had the pleasure of being intimate with him , he was very highly esteemed , and his death
is deeply regretted i At Cambridge at a very advanced age , the Rev . JOHN MAIN WARING , Lady Margaret ' s Professor of Divinity in that University . He was born in Warwickshire , and educated at St . John ' s College . In 1780 he published a volume
01 bermens preached before the University , prefixing an E . ^ say on the Composition of a Sermon . Some Strictmes , in this Essay , on the Sermons of Dr . Ogden , then just published , engaged him in a controversy with the late bi .-Jiop of Hallifax . the editor ofOgden ' s discourses . At Tiverton ., Mr . MARTIN DUNo-FOKD , for many years a respectable merchant there , and author of " Historical Memoirs of Tiverton . ( 1790 4 to . )
Apiil 9 , in Berner ' s Street , in his 46 th year , JOHN OPIE , Esq . R . A . and professor of painting . Mr . Opie was one of the many eminent persons , who , by the force of genius , have emer ged from obscurity . Born in a village of the county of Cornwall , his early youth was employed in the occupation of a country carpenter . Here sonic of his attempts at painting and drawing were seen by Dr . Walcott , ( the fictitious Peter Pindar , ) who then practised as a surgeon in the neighbourhood wheje young Opie resided . This gentleman patro-
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nised the se ' f-taught artist , and appearsto have had the merit of first opening to him the path of fame and fortune . After some stay at i ^ xeter , where h « supported himself by his pencil , he
removed to JLondon at die age of 19 . In 1786 he exhibited at the Roya ! Academy , of which he shortly after became a member . He had ju > t finished some works for the next exhibition . His anxious attention to them i > supposed to have hastened his dissolution . The
first of his large historical pictures was the murder of Rizzio , painted for the late alderman Boydel ! , for whom it was engraved by Mr . Isaac Taylor , new a dissenting minister at Colchester , [ n this piece the painter has taken occasion to pay a rather ambiguous compliment to his ear ' y patron , by giving , in . one of the as : a ^ sins of Rizzio , a portrait of Dr Walcott . Mr . Opie furnished several pieces to the different splendid publications of the Boydels , and to the Bible of Macklin .
It is said of this artist , as to his privaix character , that " although he had cultivated his mind by much reading there was a want of polish in his manner , which , upon a first acquaintance , gave not full indication of that urbanity and benevolence which , by those who knew him wA \ f he was found so eminently to possess . '* He married a few years ago , for his second wife , Miss Alder ^ ou of Norwich , who survives him , a lady well known by various "works of imagination , in prose and verse .
Mr . O , was buried in St . Paul ' s Cathedral , his funeral being attended b > y several of the nobility and gentry , and numbers ol artists and literary friends . April , 9 , after 15 days illness , in the . 43 year of her age , Mrs . ANDERSON , wife of Mr . Richard Anderson , of Lutton . Lincolnshire . This amiable woman was the only daughter of the late Rev . William Thompson , o £ Boston ( many years pastor of the
General Baptist Congregation in ihar town ) who for his piety , zeal , ,.. vd benevolence , together with Mrs . Thompson , was lon g and justly esteemed . Mrs . Anderson seemed to have imbibed those truly chri- 'tian virtues from her parents , for which tliey were long * eminent . Her piety was cheerful y-cc de-ejp ? y ro-oted iu ^
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1807, page 279, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2380/page/55/
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