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    2 &rs . 2 H . Aifstin More—Mrs . A . yerningbam—Reir ; £ . O * uen ~ - * Rev . S . Thorn **—I . Dili y ^ Esq . —Mrs , S JPorter .

    and a snvall volume of the ludicrous kind dedicated to the iate . Lord Thurlow when Chancellor . " " Mar h ? 3 at Bruges , in Flanders , dese vedly honoured by her whole community , and ^ reat ' y respected by all who knew her , Mrs MARY AUSTIN MORE , Superioress of the Convent of Endi h Muns there , and many years resident at Hengrave , near Bury She was the last lineal descendant of the celebrated Sir Thomas More .

    Likewsein the same Convent , in her Soth year , M r * A . JERNINGHAM , a « ear relation of Sir Wm . J . Bart * well known by his poetical productions . ' April , at Warrin ^ ton , the Rev . E . OW £ N , rector of that place , and master of the Free Grammar-SchooL The

    Rev . Gilbert Wakefield , who for some time was classical tutor to the Wai rington Academy , became acquainted with Mr O . whom lie describes a * ' a man of most elegant learning , unimpeachable vetacity , * nd peculiar benevolence of

    2 aeart ; " known by several sermons and tracts ; and more distinguished by a translation of Juvenal and Per . ills , with a preface and disputations relative to his author highly meritorious and instructive' - .

    April—at Hambrook , near Bristol , after a short illness , the Rev . SAM . THOMAS , many years minister of the Dissenting congregation at Frenchay . " May 4 . . at Rarnsgajte , aged 68 , CHA . DiL . LrY , Esq . of Brun ^ wkk Row , formerly an eminent Bookseller m the Poultry . Mr . D . was born in 1739 ,

    at SouthhM , Bedfordshi : e , of a respectable family who were Protestant Dissenters , His elder brother , Edward , having established a considerable trade in Books , by exportation to America , and especially by the publication of the Works of the Dissenting Divines , took Mr . C . D . into partnership on his return ironi a hort tour in America . Mr .

    £ . D dying in 1779 , *^ wn ° te that lucrative concern came into his b other ' s hands . Mr . C . D . was , like his brother , a iperal pwrcha er of copy-right , and kept an hospitable table for the entertainment *> l authors and-literary friend * . He has honourable mention on thift $ core , in Boswell ' s JLire of Johnson . •• After 40 y « tars application , having AtqiiJicd a

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    handsome property , he suddenly rc £ in % quished business ,, but does not appear to have thus added * to his enjoyments . ** Having no famiiy , and probably having never derived from his intercourse with books , that easy and agreeable use of them , which might j ufficieBtly occupy * his solitude , he was in danger of becoming one of the numerous class of men . of leisure , such as the celebrated Lord Fa'kland u ed to pity , especially in

    rainy weather He is indeed described as having " acquired an alarming dejection of spirits . " He was now ifc per * suaded to adopt in Brunswick Row , the sociability if not the employment of the

    Poultry . ' * Thus - ' - he was in a great mea ure . roused from his melancholy ; and continued to enjoy a few yeaisof real comfort ; distributing , not unfrequently , a portion of his large property , in act of the most disinterested

    benevolence ; " thus adopting the poet s remedy against ennui , ** to do some gen ' rous good . " " Mr . D . arrived at Ramsgate , on Saturday the ad of May on a visit to Mr . Cumberland , in whose Memoirs he

    is noticed with great regard . On ounday evening he was attacked by an oppression of breath , which took him off on the following morning" In the dispo . al of his ample fortune , leaving the bulk of it to relations , he has not been unmindful of some usefu public charities , and several of his literary friends .

    May 9 , at Portsmouth , Mrs . SARAH PORTER , aged 71 year ; 56 of which she was member of the General Baptist Church at that place , of which her husband , the late Mr , Matthew Porter was many years deacon . She was sister to John Brent Esq . of Blackheath , and pos essed all tho c virtues

    which render possessors objects of love and esteem . A generous warmth of friendship towards those he e teemed worthy objects ; a forgiving -Christian di « - position * a faithful discharge of the conjugal , relative , and social dutit-6 , -a most , scrupulous attendance on public

    worship , a ibsrality of sentiment worthy the greatest character , and a constant practice of benevolence , in which had her circumstances permitted her a ful er indulgence , few would have een her superios , form the mot prominent features of her amiable character , E } i *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1807, page 389, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2382/page/49/