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    JjJay » He -wr ^ te , not long before his death , a letter to Mr . Wjiitbread , on the pensions voted by . Parliament to to r ^ . Lake ' s family . But his mind was Evidently broken up- He was capricious arid irascible . He at length ended &s life , and "his remorse and vexation together , by opening veins in his arms and cutting his throat .

    Mr . Roherf Norton . Mrs * Hannah Norton . Rev . William Woof .

    If is not certainly known , that he died in poverty . It is even asserted that he was still wealthy . The newspapers , which delight in a wonder , state , that the day after his death a packet arrived , directed to him , from India , containing j pearls of immense value , Mr . Paull ' s talents were moderate :

    his person and , speech mean and uninteresting : never was man Jess fitted by nature to be . a popular leader . Resentinent an $ t | ainhition were the ruling passions In . nts bosom . He chanced , however , to have a good cause , and this injured to him , for some time , the favour of the p eople . But if his character does tiot please , his horrible end affrights us . Such is the issue of an ambition of greatness ! ILet it teach us moderation and contentment .

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    Rev . W . Wqod , concluded from p . 221 , In 1 794 , Sept . 3 7 > on lhe death of his venerable friencl , the Rev . Mr . Tur « ner , of \ # akefield , he paid an affectionate tribute of respect to his memory , in a funeral sermon , to which were

    annexed , memoirs of Mr . Turner ' s life and writings , by his son . The same painful office he was soon after , April 17 , 1795 , tailed to perform for his intimate friend through life , the I&ev * Mr . Ralph , of Halifax ; and at the close of the year 1800 , for the Rev . Newcotne C ^ ppe , of York , with memoirs of his life

    annexed , which w ^ re afterwards superseded by the excellent life of Mr . Cappe , prefixed to his posthumous Critical / Dissertations , vmd also to his . most admirable Discourses , chidly on devotional subjects , by the able and . spirited editor of both publications , Mrs . C . Cappe :, the widow of the deceased . The day after this sermon wfcs > preached ,

    he introduced the new century with a discourse containing many suitable reflections and striking remarks . With a hear ^ always alive to the sentiments of humanity , and animated with the amiable spirit of the gospel , he rejoiced in the ( alas ? fallacious ) return of . peace , and in his sermon on the day of thanksgiving pathetically described ^ % hey miseries of war , arid enforced ( the duties of

    a season of peace ., These genuine principles of the Gospel of peace < cantmued with him to the last . Not two months before his . death he took the opportunity of the interesting occasion of the meeting fpr peace in the Cloth-Hall , co bear his testimony © f continued attachment

    tp them . His last -professional eppearance before the public was on the interesting occasion < tff % \ # e death of t > r . Vricstley ^ which c < ^ he older members of the congregation re < JM ^? il } c < i M t 0 inxprpye by a suitable dis . cqu £ s £ pn t " character an < J labours of the mU ? istfir jfrom whom : they had received , > wW t * 9 ti \ y rpligious impressions . " In thijA < h mirivble comjpoMtion , to which we A ^

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    280 Obituary .

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    Died in the month of -March last , at Kailsworth , Gloocestershire , Mr . ROBfcirr NORTON , Clothier , in the 64 th year of his age ,-r—he expired after a tedious and lingering ipdispbsitjon , during ¦ which little or no -hopes were entertained of his recovery . He was an intelligent man , of a pious , cheerful ajid benevolent disposition . He had thought much upon religious subjects , and nis sentiments accorded with our most

    benevolent notions of the Deity . His was no dar ^ c ajn d gloomy system , for whilst it was honpurabile to the divine perfections , it bore a friendly aspect on the present enjoyments , and the ultimate

    felicity of mankind . And on the 14 th Instant * at the same pUce , died Mrs . ftfANNAH NdRTON , widow of the aboye Mr . Robert Norton , having f survived her husband only seven weeks . She was sister of the

    Ijyte Dr . Caleb Evans ^ of Bristol . In all the relations oif life she was most exenir f » lary , her conduct as a sisttr , a wjje 7 a fno $ her andean atmt wjll be long remem-IS

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    and cheered her with the consolations of Christianity . These worthy characters so harmoniously united through their lives , and scarcely divided In their deaths have left behind them tivo sons a * ad three daughters , whose greatest pleasure will be to imitate their virtues , arid to embalm their memory . Islington . E .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1808, page 280, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2392/page/52/