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Shakespoar Walk and Bartfiolemdw Close ; ofsocietiesfor the reformation of nfiaritiers * arid the distribution of books ; af Lectures , e . ' g . Lyme Street , Pinners' Hall ,
Eastcheap , Monkweii Street Morning Lecture Sailers' Hall Sunday Evening ; and in the church , Mr . Hutchinson ' s , Lady MoyerV and Fairchild ' s ; and concerning
individual characters , viz * Dr . Abraham Taylor , Dr , Ridgeley , Mr . Eames , Mr . Densham , &c . &c . I have specified these articles to show the nature of my enquiries , and as some , on which I particularly want information .
Ifc is proper to add that ; while the General Post is open to all epistolary correspondence , any communications , which go beyoud a letter , will safely reach me , if directed to tie care of Mr . Bel .
cher , Printer in this town , through Messrs . Wilfciex and Robinson ^ Paternoster Row . If this notification be favoured with a place in your interesting
miscellany , it may prove serviceable to an undertaking , which , it is hoped will be regarded as of general utility and importance ; and it will confer an obligation oft , Sir / Your Friend and Correspondent , JOSHUA TOULMIN .
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Mrs . Cappe ' s Account of' * Colonel .. ¦ -.: Martin *" SiRj York , Sep . IStJ . If the following information will give any satisfaction to your corespondent Verax , ( p . 453 ) it is much at his knd ybur service .-
—The Unitarian planter in Antigua after whom teihiquii-es , ' wasj I be ,, lieve , the luteS ^ MiraL Martin , E % iiwhi > Bad ther command of a regrmeM tot ? ftnllit * ann that island , anjt t was th ^ A c ^ mual ly denotriinated Colonel Martin , He was a
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man of a very liberal , enlightened mind , remarkable for the kind treatment of his ; slaves ahd of great general benevolence . His eldest son , Samuel Martin , / who resided
in England , arid I believe was secretary to the late Princess Dbw . ager of Wales , was mubh talfced of many years ago , on account of
a duel . which he faught with the late John Wilkes , Esq . of famous political meiiiory . Colonel Martin died at . a very advanced &ge about the year 1778 . I do not know whether he became an Unitarian
inconsequence of his acquaintance with Mr . Uiidsey , which did not take place till late in life , but , f 6 r whose character he had the highest admiration ; and I know that latterly he paid veTy great atten . tion to the iDstructien of his Ml
groes in Unitarian pirinci |) tes , which heiirmly believed were thie principles of the g ^^ pel . Hiar ' knowledge of Mr , Lindsay m& from his generous patronage of a former parishioner of Mr . LhidwyV when at Catterick , then resident
at Aptigua ; atld who had lost his whole property on board a sliip , which was captured by the French and carried iato MartinrcO . This worthy person whom Gol . M ^ -sb kindly patronized , and wbottt he afterwards admitted to his
friendship , was continually talkingof Mr . Lindscy— -of his learning , hi * piety , his disinterestedness ; arfdirtg , that in imitation of his great master he was continually occupied in doing good . This character , less uncommon than true , excited
a great desire in the old gentleman , to commence a correspondence with Mr . tandsey , which took place accordingly , and conti nued I believe , at intervals , till near the time of € ol . Martin ' s death . ¦ ¦ . CATH . CAPPE-
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DOG Mrs . Cappe ' s Account of" Colonel Martin :
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1811, page 606, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2421/page/30/
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