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Cecrge Atwood—Miss Elizabeth Robinion ^ -Re < v . Jo £ n Carr . ££ •¦!> . —> 2 vW ' Desenfans—George Saviite Carey . *— * Jobn WMcr *
were all composed with the ardent desire pf promoting ihe influence of Christian morality . ' * < ' Ju ly 4 , Aged 61 , GEORGE AT WOOD , Esq . M . A . and F . R . S . highly distinguished by mathematical science . He was educated at Westminster School , was for some time a tutor and for many years a fellow of Trinity College Cambridge . He read to the University , Lectures on several branches of Experimental Philosophy , which were much
attended and justly admired . Mr . Pitt having been one of his auditors ^ was induced to form a ruore intimate acquaintance with him , and bestowed upon him in 1784 , a sinecure office , that he might be enabled to devote a large portion of his time to financial calculations . The high opinion that minister entertained of him , and the confidence he reposed in him , were strengthened by experience , and Mr . A / s labours "were continued with
the most zealous perseverance'tall his desclining health rendered him incapable of severe application . Mr . A . was honoured with the Copleian medal fry the Royal Society , and communicated several papers to different volumes of their transactions .
He published in 1784 , ' A Treatise on the Rectilinear Motion , Rotation of Bodies , with a description of Original Experiments relative to the subject , * also 'An Analysis of a Course of Lectures , op the Principles of Natural Philosophy read in the University of Cambridge .
July 4 , in the 17 th year of her age , ^ fter a long and painful illness ,. JVfiss iXIZABE FH ROBINSON , of Lutton , Lincolnshire . This young lady had been long in the expectation of death , having been assured by the gentlemen of the faculty she was 111 a deep decline , and being unable | k > take medicine from a natural antipathy , to it , could receive
scaicely any possible assistance . During the last six weeks of her life her sufferings % ere great , but they were borne with a degree of patience seldom evinced by $ 0 youn g a person . She often expressed her readiness to resign the present life and its evanescent pleasures for an eternal state of being and uninterrupted felicity . Frequently during trie violence of her pains , * he exclaimed , I fear my sufferings . will be too great for my patience . How long the kcrd ddUye . Uis coming \ Pray fox me tliat 1 may be released / ' Her
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steady piety , and lively hope in a resurrection to immortal life by Jesus Christ , were a source of consolation to her indulgent mother and affectionate sister , who now lament her loss / Her remain ^ were interred in the burying ground belonging to the Unitarian Baptist Chapel , at Lutton * . ; G S . July 6 , at Hertford , aged 76 , the Rev . JOHN CARR , JLI ,. IX who published a few years since ' « a translation of . Lu * ciari ' s Dialogues , in 3 vols . 8 vo "
" J uly 9 > a ged 6 l > NOEL DESENFANS , Esq . a well-known amateur of the fine arts . He was born and educated in France , where he was a fellow-student with the celebrated Minister the late Mf de Calonnts between -whom and himself a friendship began very early in life . Mr . J >; passed between 30 and 40
years in this country . His publications are * A Plan for advancing tjie British Arts by the establishment of a National Gallery , ' 1 799 : andin 1802 , « A Descriptive Catalogue' of a collection pf Pic- * tures -which he was commissioned to purchase for the late king of Poland , who had appointed him Consul General of Poland in Great Britain . He was also
author of a well-written novel entitled * JLes Deux Hermites . * Mr . D . \? as profoundly acquainted with mankind , ye * free from a misanthropic spirit . On the contrary he was active in the cause of humanity ; ready to patronise unfriended genius and mitigate distress . In private life he was distinguished for hospitality , friendship , and affable and courteous ¦ »»
.. manners * July 14 , of a paralytic attack [ ^ GEORGE SAVILJMi : CAREY , the well-known lecturer . He was announced for an exhibition op the same evening . Mr . C . was by profession a printer , and one of those imprisoned on account of No 45 , pf the Nor ^ h Briton . He
was author of the Balnea , ( a description of-. the . watering places in England , ) several songs , &c . His father vyas the assorted author of the popular a | ir of " God save the King . ' * " Avi £ . \ , at his apartments in Totten- * hatn Court Road , in the 76 th year of his agd , Mr . JO HN WALKER , author of
* A short address was delivered at the grave , and a sermon preached from Mark aciii- 34—36 , to an audience , whicl * . seemed deeply affected wkh this renewed and early proof of human fragility .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1807, page 439, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2383/page/43/
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