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Sir William Staines . —Edward MUUr , Mtis . D . JMarquis of Yownsbend .
tStchen was set up that excellent admonition , ' * 'waste not , want not ; ' * which Miss Edigeworth has taken as a motto to aii interesting story in her * Parent * s Assistant . *'
Sept . ii , at Clapham , Surty , aged 76 , SIR WILLIAM STAINES , knight and alderman . He was born in 173 r , in the Borough of Southwark , where his father was a stone-mason . At an curly age he made a voyage as a common sailor to Portugal ; was taken prisoner on his return and carried into
France , remained there six months , and was * o altered by the hardships he endured that , on his return , his mother did not know him . He next put himself apprentice ^ and at length became a journeyman stone-mason , at the same time keeping a chandler ' s shop in Philip Lane , near London Wall , when after working Hours ^ he w oul d carry out coals to his customers . He soon became a little
master in stone-masonry , and at length £ bout the year 1760 , was recommended to the appointment of repairing Bow Steeple . He also raised a scaffold round St . Bride ' s then considered a very difficult undertaking . , He afterwards became stone-mason to the city and contracted for paving several streets with the frlien newly introduced Scotch pavement .
In 1793 , Mr . Staines became Aidernian of London * Sheriff in 179 6 , and Lord Mayor in 1801 . To the , first of tTiese honours he attained by the impression which his charitable and truly
excellent character had made in his immediate neighbourhood . He fulfilled his public duties with so much punctuality as to make amends for his want of early education , and to secure him great respect . As he advanced from the condition of
me poor , he did not , as is too often the case , endeavour to forget them . Besides numerous private charities , he founded during his life alms-houses in his parish of Cripplegate , and at his quarries in
Yorkshire . Nor did he fail peculiarly to regard those who hnd befriended him in his low estate . We knew a gentleman who u < cd to bestow upon him his cast-offclothes when a poor journeyman , and whom he had the satisfaction to
entertain with great courtesy at the IVXaniion-House , during his mayoralty . As the source -whence this excellence ^ owedj the Rev . Dr . Gregory attributes
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to his friend Sir W . Stainesthe characterof a truly religious man ; we take pleasure in quoting the following from the funeral sermon preached on occasion of his death . " He "was a sincere , I may say a devout christian ; and I believe , never
neglected the duty of worship , public or private . He seems early to have im- » Bibsd serious opinions . He thought much upon religion and thought for himself * . The goodness of Providence Was with him a favourite topic , an < J he entertained the most enlarged notions
upon the subject . Hence he attributed every success in life to the Divine Providence , and his expressions of gratitude to that good Being * who gave him all things richly to enjoy , ' were both fervent and frequent . Yet his religion was not of a morose and austere character *
His temper was social , and he entered with ease and pleasantry into scenes of innocent and temperate conviviality . Hi * cheerfulness rendered him an agreeable companion , and conciliated a numerous circle of private friends . But if there was a feature particularly conspicuous in his character , it was his charity and
active beneficence . " Sept . 1 % > atDoncaster , aged 76 , EDWARD MILLER , Mcs . D . His first ; attempt as an author was a pamphlet-entitled , ' « The Tears of Yorkshire , on the Death of the most noble , the
Marquis of Roclvinsharn / Vbo was his patron . " As a proof , * ' says Dr . M . how much this great and good man was beloved , 600 copies of this literary trifle were sold in the course of a few hours , on the day of his interment in Yoik Minster . ' * Dr . M / s Psalms of David for
the Church of England and other works composed expressly for the Dissenters and Methodi ts were very popular . He had been 50 years organist of Doiicaster ; of which town and its vicinityhepublished in I # 0 5 the " History and Antiquities , " 4 to . Dr . M . was one of the very few survivers who performed in the Oratorios of Handel under his personal direction .
September 14 . At his seat at Rainham , Norfolk , aged 83 , tho MARQUIS OF TOWNSHEND , He was bom in 1724 , had George I . for feis godfather , and early embracing a military life , he : served under George II , in the battle of Dcttingen , in 1743 . tic Y'as ait > o in the
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1807, page 555, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2385/page/47/
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