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decline subscription . His fellowship thus cta ^ in ^ , in 1791 , herwas left destiii& 6 . . 4 ° P * ptitfate frienSs however st £ jit " m , ' jtfrifr sopn after he was unani-? iY 6 tl ' sf ^ electe 3 j&xeek Professor at Cambridge Thfs distinction was grateful id ^ mtrtThough tne salary is -but 40 I . a $ K £ ; 43 £ nowturned M \ s rhoughts to tiu % iicai : iqiri aiid continued to reside in
London , where in x 795 , he rhafrjed a ^ i ^ oVracly ; vho dried of d tfebtfrre in iHe <*< 5 tirs ^ of two years , rn 18 ^ 5 , soon Sfy&t "the establishment of th « JLt * ndon fiWi ^ Utuin ^ he was appointed principal fi !> raH « tti and occupied apartments in the froJafeiMhijs death . On Monday evenitij * the : t < jtftSeptember , he srofFered an hbo ^ lee tic strode whi , le In the street ^ from wjiicfe he recovered only to endure
£ second Attack the next day . He languished till the Sunday night and exjure 4 without a Struggle . His body after being opened for the satisfaction of IVis friends ; * Va& conveyed to Cambridge , where it was inteiTed ih , the Chapel of his College , in a grave at the foot of the Statue of Sir Isaac Newton * after a funeral procession according to the most
respectful forms of the University , the Bishop of Bristol , Master of the College officiating upon the occasion . Among other funeral honouYs , several epigraphs in Greek and English verse , were p laced upon his pall . Such is the account of this extraordi-, tiary scholar which to the extent of our limits , we have extracted almost verba-
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BAPTISM OF A JEW ; BY TUB ' REV , JOHN EV 4 ^ $
•« Mr . ISAAC JLITTLETKR , a Jew , was baptized by the Rev . John Evqms , at Wors * hip-street , October % , —his-mind was fenced in the acknowledgement of the Messiah ., by the perusal of Mr . Evan's Sermon on the Ftlilmss of lime ^ preached at the opening of- tfoe General
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tim from the Morning Chronicle ^ whereit is well known to have been inserted irpbn the best authority . We < ai * etfcfcte informed that Mr . Porson ' in &&rly i ^ e , suffered from disorders which ^ m ^ great inroeds on his constkuti ^ ft . Th ^ ft is alsb an attempt , ro doubt dictated bt affdetionbut certainl
, y a vain attecnj % to disgqise those lamentable habks of intemperance , into which the Professor had untappiiy fallen fair ma * iy y ^ ars , and which are too notorious to be dis ^ ptited while "; de mortuis nil nisi vera m " shall b ^ regarded as a just sentiment . These habits mu ^ t hav e prevented hi «
lectures at Cambridge , haia there bden no other impediment . Tl ^ y afPso rcktdered his connexion with' the JLoiidoit Jnstitution , otherwise so honourable to that establishment , a measure of doubtful precedence . Nor can the Kterary world sunlcien ^ y regret the noble objects which such a mind might havt ?
attained , had his self-command been such as nistny scholars have discovered . Th ^ rc 19 a portrait of the late Professor in the possession of his friend Dr » Raine . His library , enriched by nis notes , it Is expected will be purchased by ins College .
For an account pf his publications % q& his literary charat ^ er we refer a Memoir in the former part of the preset number , for which we are ipdebtechto k fViend whose own attainnient ^ lia ^ ' ^ etl qualified him to' appreciate those * of ' ttie learned Protestor . "••/ W . € J . / , ¦ . » . ¦ * _ ¦ . 1 ,. 1 .. ' .
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Baptist meeting-house , Cranbrook * in May last . The Address on bis Baptism , with an introductory account 0 $ his con * version ^ has been printed vapd '^ ublishv ed # He » a convert to Onitaria ^ ( not Trinitarian ) Christianity . ** v 1 ¦ *
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discovery in { his country , apd that < ft ^ also pursuing in . Fra ' wc ^ vender tnq p ^" tronage of the emperor , Neiv York , —Several notices have aje peared in the An | erican i ? ew $ papra $ the late discoveries , in . chenciUtry b ^ JP 5 ?" fessor X > avy , of thq . Royal Institutjpn ; a London , —Those who are fnker ^ eff tti such subjects ,, and wh , o ^ re ajixious J 0 learn the decision af philo » Qpher $ onW
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# 74 Intelligence—Mr . Davy ' s Kew Discoveiy in Chemistry .
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MR . DAVrV ^ EW DISCOVERY IN CHEMISTRY .
In a former number , p . i (* 7 z we g ^ ve att account oi Mr . Pavy ' s important discovery , and of a premi « ni * t ^ iwg adjudged to Jiim by the Rational Institute pf Pari& We have ? now th < 3 pleasure of ins&rting the foUowin ^ articles , —ope from a paper ciwc i ^ latcsd in . the Royat Institution , the other from the New Tork public Journals , from which it appears that it is proposed to pursue the
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1808, page 574, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2397/page/50/
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