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INTELLIGENCE.
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' 282 Intelligence .
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R ELIGIOUS . INDEPENDENT UNION—A proposal haying been made for forming a Union between the Independent ministers and churches through the kingdom , in order to the promo ion of their common cause , a meeting was lately held in I ^ ondon-for adjusting the plan ; ^ r which a considerable number of ministers both in town and from the
country were present , as also several gentlemen of the : laity , when a committee was appointed for carrying the de-SJgn into effect . The annual jVT ^ eti mj of Minister * of
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the counties of Nottingham , Derby , York , Lincoln , Leicester , and Stafford , will be holden at the Unitarian chapel , in Mansfield , on trie 24 th of June , — The morning- service , which is to commence at half past ten o ' clock , will be introduced by Dr . Warwick of Rotherham , or Mr . Whitelegcr *> f Fulwood ;
and the sermon will be delivered by Dr . Phillipps of Sheffield , or Mr . Piper of Norton . After which the ministers and their friends will dine together at the Swan Inn Mansfield . The cvernng service will begin at seven o ' clock .- — - Mr , i ) cott » ofCra'dley , near S tour bridge
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Jllrs . Pierre Miss M . Finch .
I y . a native of Lynvn ^ ton , Hants , and a silk-mercer in j . udgate Street , where she was born , November , 1720 . Her brother , Mr CharL \ s Bulkley , was well
known , ior a ereat number of years , as a dissenting minister of the Baptist denomination in London ; and as the author of various theological works , which display extensive l earning , an acute mind , and solid judgment , as vrell as a devout iC
and pnilanthropic spirit . His Notes on the Bible , " 3 voLs . 8 vo . an unique of its kind in the English language , were edited , after his death , by Dr . Toulmin . His will devolved the care of its publication on th ' s his only surviving sister . Their father dying : in 17 ^ 7 six children ,
, ¦ whom he ieft behind , were disposed into different connections and situations * The O » rly years of Mrs . Bulkley were marked by various removals , till she became the potegee of near relations in Cheshire and Stafford-hire ; particularly of an
aunt , Mrs . Brett , an excellent woman , at We t-Brornwich . Her mind , it appears , received a strong and lively tincture of piety in the tenth year of her age . Por , in a memorandum o £ the various places in which she had resided previously to that time , she writes , <* removed
to iLpsom , 1730 , where , she notes , " divine grace directed the wanderer to take the first feeble , and too often remining , steps towards Canaan . " Her intellect was strong , and her mind well cultivated . Her person was delicate , her eye piercing , her manners easy and . graceful . She spent much of her time in practical and devotional reading . She
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devoted the tenth of a ttrait income to charitable purposes . Her conversation was cheerful ; her deportment and car ,. ria ^ e were commanding and attractive .
To the la t « . he retained and shewed , in hsr conversation and in her letters , a singular vivacity of faculties and vigour of mind , united with a spirit of piety , worthy the descendant of a Matthew and Philip Henry . On the 23 d of April , about noon , she appeared attacked with symptoms of a paralytic kind , but not so violent as to prevent eating
her dinner . They grew soon more alarming , and it became necessary to conduct her to bed , when a drowsiness came on , followed with a sleep frorn which she never awoke ; but calmly breathed her last early on the next morning . The last words > hc spoie , before speech and sense were lost , were , " welcome the will of God .- "—" God is io < ue * T T .
April 29 , at Kingston , Surry , rnudt regretted . by her friends P , Mrs , PIERCE , relict of Capi ^ iri . in the East India service , who , in 1786 , was lost off Fortland , in his ship the Halsewell , together with two of his daughters , and two other young ladies , his relations .
Died , May 10 , at Dudley , where she was on a visit , Miss MARY FINCH , second daughter of Mr . William Finch of Birmingham , and grand-daughter of Dr . Priestley . It was the mysterious will of G « d to call her hence in the bloom of life . She was in the 14 th year of her age , and only a few days illness pre * ceded her dissolution .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1807, page 282, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2380/page/58/
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