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      right in their own eyes ; -but it is evident , one principle having united Russia , Denmark , and trance , there was no al-Yernative for Sweden , but to unite with £ hem , and renounce " its connection with Great Britain , or to fight for its independence . The &tng of Sweden has

      imitated France in its conscription . He Bas ordered a vast Jevy of troops , from all between the ages of eighteen and tMrty-five : and , if he possesses the hearts of his subjects , it cannot be doubted , that such a force is capable of re&btrjigevery effort of the invaders . But it cannot be forgotten , that he has beea the

      rashest t > f all the sovereigns , who have endeavoured to resist the progress of French principles , and the very resistance has introduced the knowledge of them amongst his subjects . He lost Pomerania without any regret on the part of the people ; and the contest , in which he is now engaged , will , it is to

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      March 12 . Aged 53 . At West-Ham , of which he was vicar , GEORGE GREGORY , D . D . F . S . A . Domestic Chaplain to the Bishop of LlandafF , Prebendary of St , Paul's , Lecturer of St . Giles , Crif > p lega , te , and for some time Preacher at the Foundling Hospital . Dr . Gregory was born in I 754 > of a . family which had been formeily settled in North Britain . His father •* an

      elegant scholar /* and a clergyman of the church of Ireland , died when his son was only 1 % years of aee . His mother , a native of Lancashire , now removed to JLiverpool , and placed her ton under a schoolmaster , of the name of Holden , "who was reputed an excellent

      mathematician , and by whom his scholar " touch distirfguished for his proficiency in learning . ** He is said , at this period , to have w dedicated to study two-thirds of bis time ; " an attention to improveinert which probably vciy few schoolboys have displayed , even of tho e who have afterwards attained to eminence .

      I Jh > mother , however , designed him for trade , till- " convinced , at length , of his invincible repugnance to her plan , she cheerfully acquiesced in his choice of the clerical profession , which appeared tu km most congenial to his literary pur-

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      be feared , shake his throne to its very foundations . It is not to be omitted , in our reflections on the grand events * which have passed , an ( J are now passing * before our eyes , that the Protestant have been equal sufferers with the Popish powers .

      We cannot conclude our report f this months without lamenting the suicides that have tak-ea place in it . Our country is supposed to be more notorious for this species of cowardice than any other . The unfortunate persons who labour under such a degree of fear are to be pitied , and the jury kindly treats them

      as insane : but a true regard for the precepts of the -gospel , and the bearing in mind of the sufferings of Christ aijd his apostles , will be a great preservative against the danger of falling into the melancholy despondency , which ttxakes a man his own assassin .

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      suits . Besides his classical studies , he passed two years in the University of Edinburgh , where he made the mathematical and physical sciences his great object of attainment . " In 1778 , he was ordained to " the curacy of . Liverpool , the laborious duties of which he

      continued to perform as long as he resided in that place . " Here he had the advantage of an acquaintance with the learned Gilbert Wakefield , who , for abdut nine months , served a curacy in that town , before he became the classical tutor in the academy at Warrington . He mentions his friend Dr . Gregory"" ( Mem . 1 , 17 & ) as one of t « vvo honourable exceptions among * ' the Church of England

      clergy in Liverpool , " who were then in a very ** low condition , with respect to dignity of character , bpth in manners and in learning . " On Mr . Wakefield ' s

      removal to W&rrington , their intimacy was strengthened by a correspondence which extended through nearly the seven following years ,. Dr . Gregory kindly communicatecj the letters of his friend to the J . ditors of Wakefield ' s Memoiis >

      in the first volume of which . they have been published . It may be added , upon good authority , that he was the writer of the Character of Mr . Wal * dfreld , by %

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1808, page 218, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2391/page/46/