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    second of July , ult . and were met upon the road by sixty-four gentlemen , chiefly / members of his congregation , who walked before the corpse , with hat-bands and mourning provided at their own expense , and by twenty-five carriages , besides those which had before , formed the

    procession , occupied by friends who wished to shew their regard for the deceased by attending his last obsequies ; atld thus he was conducted to the house appointed for all living , with a degree of honour and respect which has not probably been paid to any one in Manchester before , within the memory of

    the oldest person living there . He has left a widow , to whom he was united early in life , in the year 1770 , with whom he has uniformly lived upon terms of the most perfect harmony and mutual affection ; and who , amidst the

    grief which she feels for the unspeakable loss she has sustained , may justly be consoled by the -thought of her having been so long the object of the tenderest regard of a man of such distinguished excellence and worth .

    At his house , in Stephen ' s Green , Dublin , JOHN LAW , D , D . bishop of Elphin , and brother to Lord Ellenborough . This truly venerable prelate was a man of profound erudition , and his whole life was devoted to the practice of those moral and religious duties , which he so forcibly inculcated in his

    excellent discourses from the pulpit . The following authentic anecdote deserves to be recorded , as furnishing a useful instance of the wise and genuine liberality of his character , when he took possession of the See of Killala , and learnt that almost the whole of the population were Roman Catholics , he used these

    expressions : " That it was a hopeless task to make them protestants ; it would answer every purpose to make them good catholics ; " andf , with this view , he got printed , at his own expense , and distributed gratis through the diocese , a new

    edition of the works of the Rev , John Gother , which breathe the piety , and , in plain and intelligible language , inculcate the morality of the oible . The same liberality distinguished every action of his life , and is particularly observable in his will . He has left to the

    Rev . James Wlutelaw , vica . r of St . Catherine ' s , Dublin , 500 A Of this gentleman his lordship knew nothing but his virtues and literary acquirements ; but , to- such a man a * Drf JLaw , they

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    were the best recommendation . He had previously bestowed upon him the living in the diocese of Elphin , held by the late Dr . Sand ford ; and in his last and tedious sickness , was often heard to

    express his satisfaction that he lived to have an opportunity oH shewing him this rriark of his friendship and esteem * To Dr . Wm , Magee , senior fellow of Trinity College , Dublin , he has bequeathed a like sum of 500 / , This gentleman had also no recommendation but

    his literary talents . To Dr . Brinkley , professor of astronomy , in Trinity Col ~ lege , Dublin , he has bequeathed 5 00 / . with all his books , valued at 3000 / . His lordship died worth 45 , 000 / . and his legacies , including 1000 / . to his brother ,

    Lord Ellenborough , amount in the whole to 16 , 000 / . The remaining 29 , 000 / is bequeathed , one half to his widow , Mrs . Law , and the other half distributively between his brothers and sisters , of whom four survive him .

    M + Mag . In the last number of the Monthlt Repository , the time admitted of no more than the bare mention of the death of Mrs . MARY JOHNSTON , wife of Ebenezer Johnston , Es <| . of Stoke-Xewingt on . This excellent

    woman , whose maiden name was Silver * drew her first breath at Langston , near Havant , in Hampshire , on the fourteenth of April , 1765 , and her last at Stoke-Newingt on , on the % 8 th of July , 1 # 10 . Her parents , who had indulged the natural and pleasing hope that her filial attentions would cheer the whole

    of their declining age , are among her mournful survivors , and bear her this heartfelt and honourable testimony , that her inclination and duty were always associated from her earliest days to the close of her valuable life . In the beginning of the year 1785 , she was married to the person , who is now the mo 9 t

    deeply lamenting her loss , Their uiwon proved the source of mutual happiness , having commenced with a cordial , reciprocal affection and esteem , which were , confirmed and heightened by an experienced congeniality of disposition , and by an agreement in their religious sentiments , and in their i ^ eas of the general conduct it was incumbent on them

    / to pursue , and particularly of their obligation to concur in strenuous efforts to train up their offspring in the knowledge and practice of religion ,. The stroke which hath dissolved the relation , i $ » e ~

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    $ 12 Obituary . — Dr . John Law — Mrs * M . Johnston .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1810, page 412, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2407/page/36/