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On Sunday , July % 7 , at her brother ' s house , at Cranbrook , in Kent , in the 68 th year of her age , Mrs . PAINE , wife of the celebrated Thomas Haine , author of the " Rights of Man , " " Asje of Reason , " Sec . &c . She was the daughter of Mr . Ollive , a resp ectable
tradesman , in JLewes , Sussex , in whose house Mr- Paine lived before his marriage , as well as some time after . The marriage took place at Lewes , in the year 1771 ; but brought the parties little satisfaction or comfort . After living together three years Mr . and Mrs . Paine ,
convinced it should seem th ^ t they were unsuitt'd to each other , agreed mutually to separate , and accordingly a legal deed of separation was executed . Mrs . Paine ^ s family were Dissenters of the Calvinist persuasion . It may be considered unfortunate for the world that
Mr . Paine knew little of Christians , in England but as Calvinists , or in France but as Papists . His attack on Christianity was indeed directed against the gross corruptions of it , as exhibited by these two great Christian parties . Few , or none of his arguments or sneers affect the religion of the New Testament . After her separation from her husband , '
Mrs . Paine lived amongst her friends , maintaining a respectable and Christian character . Some of her time was passed in . London , where she communicated with the Calvinist Baptist church , under Dr . Rippon , meeting in Carter Lane , Tooley Street , Southwark : the rest of it at Cranbrook , where she attended on the ministry of Mr . Stonehouse , of the same denomination .
The death of Mrs . Pame has given occasion for much abuse of her husband . This was needless , ungenerous , and we believe in a great measure unjustifiable . Husbands and wives may live uncomfortably together -where there is no deism or republicanism to favour dissension . E . D .
Warcbamy Sept . 15 , 1808 . An awful and alarming dispensation cf Providence has lately been presented to us in the sudden death of the Rev . JOHN EDWARDS , well known as the successor of Dr . Priestley in Birmingham , and late , lecturer at the Old Jewry . —He has for the last twelve » ionth « resided at Crediton , in Devon *
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shire , where he laboured with great success . He left his home about a week before his arrival here , apparently v / cll ; but alas ! he was then labouring under a disease of the mind , more awful than any malady with which our bodies can be afflicted .
It is supposed that from the fevered state of his head , he found a momentary benefit from the Water , as he wag seen more than once in the act of bathing ; this led to his death . On the morning of Monday the 5 th inst . his clothes were discovered on the river ' s
brink about three miles from this place , ( near where he was seen bathing the day before , ) and on searching ; the following day , his body was found in the river , near half a mile from the place where his clothes were laid . A coroner ' s inquest sat on the body , who brought in "a verdict found drowned . ' * He wa 3
buried here on Wednesday last . It appeared by memorandums which were found in his pocket book , that he had pTeached at Exeter , so late as Sunday the aist . of August- and it has been
stated on good authority that he preached the following Sunday ( only one week before his meianchoiy death ) to his own congregation at Crediton , from these remarkable words «* Take no thought for the morrow !"
On-Sunday evening" last , Mr Thomas of this place , improved the event in > a sermon preached at the Old Meeting * house here , from 32 nd Job , 8 th . verse ; " There is a spirit in mart ; and the in ** spiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding . ' The writer of this forbears attempting to give an outline of this discourse from a conviction that ic
would be doing'Mr . Thomas an injustice . It was one of the most eloquent and impressive he ever heard , and it is hoped that Mr . T . will yield to the wishes of his congregation in presenting it to the world . M . [ We hope to be able to give a further account of this unfortunate gentleman in our next . l JEb .
-September 2 ? , at the house of the London Institution , PROFESSOR PORSON , principal librarian . Of this distinguished scholar , we hope t « give some account also in our next .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1808, page 517, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2396/page/61/
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