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• March 13 , in the yr > th year of his age , Dr . SAMUEL SI IIX MAN , of Boston . He was born at Philadelphia , Feb . 27 , 1737 ; educated at Charleston , South Carolina , and ordained there in Feb . 1759 . He fir&t settled in the ministry near Charleston , but soon left it on
account of his health ; and in Jan . 1765 , vras fixed over the first Baptist Church in Boston , of which he confirmed pastor to the day of his death . His character was excellent , his talents respectable , his services popular . He was in senti-
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ment , what the particular Baptists of this country are—Calvinistic . Hi § funeral sermon was preached to an immense auditory by Dr . Baldwyn , pastor of the second Baptist Church in Boston . "
t € March 18 , at his lodging-s in London , aged 54 , Sir JEDW . HARRINGTON , onl y son of the venerable Dr . FL of Bath , and a member of the corpora * tion of that city . He was the author of - * Travels through parts of France . * 'Askezzio on the Genius of -Man ?
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ip popular opinion and great authorities—Mr . Maltbus . He denies both u the necessity of poverty fQrinirig any pait of our political system , and the necessity of checking our population / ' Me says that " the whole amount of Mr .. Malt . hus ' s argument is , that the -world toill bejilled with misery a thousand years hence ; and thereibrewe ought to begin to he miserable in good time . " The pamphlet , liowever , is principally designed to point out the impolicy of Mr , Whit-bread ' s projected Poor Bill ; and it certainly deserves the serious attention of > 11 such as feel interested in that great and important measure . One consequence of the BiH * should it pass into a Law , is here exposed , which has ., we confess , from the first alarmed us r ' though there is reason to apprehend it will be little regarded in the House of Commons : we mean the tendency of the proposed plan of parish education to aggravate ^ the power , already oppressive ^ of the established church . 44 Beside these objections ( says the author , ) I think a wry strong
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one arises out of the Impossibility of Government interfering with , this plan , without throwing all its advantages into the hands of the established church in a short time . I am satisfied that Mr . Whitbread can have no such desi gn and there can be little rea - son to doubt ^ but that , in the outset , every care will be taken to give ^ the children of dissenters th ^ same advantages as the children of churchmen . It is not , h <^ R ^ br 5 in the nature of the thing , that whilst all the appointments must necessarily be made by churchmen , the feelings of dissenters will continue long to be consulted . The consequence will be , that dissenters will be obliged to withdraw their children from those schools , and bear the expense of educating them themselves ; but the system will then be formed , the taxes will be settled for its maintenance , and the whole nation will be obliged to pay for a large and unnecessary Institution , that will be supported as the estab * lished church now is—for one PARTICULAR SECT ALONE . * ' p . 102 .
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Dr . S . Stillm&n — Sir E . Harrington * .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1807, page 388, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2382/page/48/
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