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£ . ev . John P . F . I . Plurquctie . — Rev . Mr . Braitk * tvdiU . —&ir Brook Watson . —* Rev . WilliAm Gordon * D . D .
r Sept . at Wappenbury , Warwickshire , aged 41 , the PUv . John P . R I . PLUNQTJE 1 TE , fifteen years officiating priest to the Catholic congregation of that place . He was born at Caen in l ^ ormandy , educated in one of the universities of his native country , aod after leading- a military life for a short time was ordained a priest in 1792 . He had a prospect of enjoying an ample fortune till the Revolution in 1793 , when he took refuge in England , and was appointed to the charge of the catholic congregation at Wappenbury . Mr . P . possessed a benevolent heart , an amiable temper and agreeable manners . Though attached to the doctrines and ceremonies
of his ehurch , he indulged none of those principles -which have been so unjustly imputed to the modern Catholics because they ' were professed by their ancestors in former ages . Sept . 30 , the Rev . Mr . BRAITHWA 1 TE , minister of Hatton Chapel , X ^ ondon , in the 33 d year of his age . On
Tuesday , Oct . 13 , his remains were conveyed from the chapel ( where they * ! iad lain during the preceding sabbath , ) in a hearse drawn by four horses and attended by his friends in twenty-four mourning coaches to Blackfriars Church , where they wore deposited in a vauJt , adjoining to that of the late Rev . Mr . Romaine . Mr B . who was a Calvinist
of the Supra-lapsanan or Antinomian &ind , -was one of the most popular preachers in London , crowds attending his ministry . He was distinguished by a bold manner , by a turn for typifying and allegorizing , and by eccentricity and oddity . He might , if his life had been prolonged , have been as important a man , in the religious world , as the wellknown " W . Huntington .
Oct . a , at East bheen , Surry , aged 71 , SIR BROOK WATSON , Bart . Alderman of London , and Deputy Governor of the Bank . He was descended from a family in Yorkshire , and born at Plymouth in 1 735 . His first destination was for the sea-service , but
having his right leg bitten off by a shark while bathing at the Havannah , he devoted himself at the age of fourteen to mercantile pursuits , in which he was eminent and much respected . He was also employed by the government during many years as a commissary . In
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this office he has gained a hi g h character for integrity r and is said to nave attended so little to his personal emolument as to have left a very small property besides his paternal inheritance . As a magistrate and a member of parliament he generaly appeared rather the dutiful servant of the crown than the 2 eaious guardian of the people . This might be expected from his long and intimate con * nexion with the government . His character has been thus drawn in one ofthepublie prints : " He was , through life * to hi * king and county a constitutional , loyal subject ; a diligent , zealou , and faithful servant ; a firm , upright , and merciful magistrate ; to his wife a mot affectionate and tender husband : to his
relations a kind and substantial friend ; in his friendships constant ; in faith a firm Christian ; in deeds a benevolent , honest man . " October } 9 th , at Ipswich , the Rev . WILLIAM GORDON , D . D . He was a native of Hitchin , in Hertfordshire , and had his academical education
in London , under Dr . Marryatt . He was early settled as pastor of a large independent church at Ipswich , where he continued in good esteem many years , but removed in consequence of some uneasiness , at first occasioned by hu dissatisfaction with one of his principal
liearers > who employed his work-men on government business , on the Lord ' s day . On the death of Dr . Daifid Jennings , he was chosen to be his successor , in the C hurch at Old-Gravel-Lane , Wapping . Here he might have continued much respeGted , but in 1771 , his partiality to America induced him to force himself
away in order to settle in that country , where he became pastor of a church aft Ja maica-plain , near Boston . There he took a very active part in public measures during the war with Great
Britain , and was chosen chaplain to the provincial Congress . Whic in that office he preached and published a fast sermon whii h strongly expressed his political sentiments , on Isaiah i . a 6 .
He received his di p loma frem tht college of New Jersey , from whence he procured one also for his friend Mr . Samuel Wilton , then minister at Tooting , whose father was a deacon of th < church iu Old Gravel-Lane , and who maintained a correspondence with hit **
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1807, page 610, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2386/page/46/
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