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INTELLIGENCE.
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Austis , the poor have lost a friend and counsellor . He died , resigned to the -will of the almighty , in charity to all mankind and with a firm persuasion of being re-united in another and a better world to those friends , whom he loved and valued in this .
Lately at his villa , the Nursery , West Felton , near Oswestry , in Salop , a » ed 68 , TOHN JDOVASTON , Esq . He was born of humble though respectable parents , who lived on their small estate at West Felton . He was taught to read by an old weman in the village , -which was the whole of his education ;
every other acquirement which he afterwards jjossessed , was entirely his own acquisition . He was the eldest of seven children , all of whom he brought up to respectable professions . From his father he receive ^ his little estat e , almost swallowed up by mortgages and incumbranccs , which he redeemed at a
very early period of life by two voyages to the West Indies , and afterwards considerably increased by prudence and in-
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VESTERK UNITARIAX SOCIETY .
On Wednesday , June aand , the annual meeting of the Western Unitarian Society , was held at Bristol . The Rev . John Rowe opened the service , by reading the scriptures ; the Rev . David Davis , of Neath , took the devotional part ; and the Rev . Dr . Carpenter , preached from John xviii . 37 , and concluded the service . At the de *
sire of the Society the sermon . will shortly be published . The objects of the preacher were , to consider the errors into which many have fallen respecting the religious tenets of
Unitarians ; and to state the motives which should lead those who adopt Unitarian tenets to steady and active exertions to disseminate them , and the means by which this important object is to be effected . After the business of the
Society was concluded , the members , accompanied by several who agree with them in religious sentiments , and several also who differ from them , dined
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dustry . His turn of mind was principally directed to antiquities , natural philosophy , music , mechanism and planting . Of the first he has left -a large collection of MSS . historical observations relating to Shropshire and the Welch borders * on Druidical relicks
and Stonehenge . In mechanism he has left a set of philosophical and musical instruments made by his own . hands ; and just before his death he projected an orrery to shew the Satellites on a new method . In planting he has clothed the country round him with forest and fruit trees . He was well
versed in the Hebrew , Anglo-Saxon , British and Latin tongues , and had some knowledge of the Greek . He" has never appeared as an author and ordered that none of his works should be published , but his library is always open for the inspection of the curious and any information from his MSS . at their
service . He has left one son just called to the bar from the University of Oxford . G . M .
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together to the number of about So , with the utmost cordiality and propriety . —The chairman of the day was Richard Hall Clarke , Esq . of Bridwell House , Devon , the treasurer of the Society ; and the whole of the proceedings were marked with perfect unanimity and consistency , and with a degree
of enthusiasm which was both highly interesting at the time , and gives pleasing hopes as to the future . Twenty-six names were added to the Society , principally from Bristol and its neighbourhood * : and there is every ground to believe that by the steady and zealous ,
but temperate exertions which have been made in that city by the friends of the cause , Unitarianism has gained a firm footing there , and that it will go on and prosper . Our cause we trust is the cause of Christian truth , and we arc thankful to the God of'truth for all the success with which he crowns our effort * to maintain it . ¦ - . ?
* "V Vc learn that several other members have since been added . £ » .
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Intelligence—Western ifnitarian Society , 447
Intelligence.
INTELLIGENCE .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1808, page 447, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2395/page/47/
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