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remark of Dr . Aikin ' s , that he never heard a sermon from Mr . Clayton , that was not fit to be immediately sent to the press * The same originality
characterized his conversation . The present writer has heard his uncle , Mr . Philip Holland , say , that he never was in Mr . Clayton ' s company without hearing either something entirely nwv , or something placed in an entirely new point of liaht .
Out of the line of his proper profession , he was particularly eminent in matht matics and natural philosophy . His services in this de parfment at second-hand have
already been noticed , p 430 ; but he was also , more directly , a great benefactor to the academy . He was not mprelv a theoretical * . but
a practical u > echanic ; he was an excellent workman , both with the
lathe , and in cabinet-work . Some of the most accurate and highly finished articles in the Warrington apparatus ( long since lost in the wreck of Hackney College ) were invented and finished by him , during his residence at Liverpool , for the use of his friend Dr . En .
jield . An apparatus for demonstrating the laws of the composition and resolution of forces , another for the phenomena of the collision of elastic and non-elastic
bodies , and a pair of whirling tables , the comparative velocities of each of which might be
accurately adjusted according to a variety of rates , are recollected as particularly curious . O » the manner in which he conducted his lectures , or of the subjects treated Of in them , dui ring ' the short period in which he heM the theological chair , the present writer ~ has no means ot
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conveying to the public any acqurate information . He thinks it probable , that , as there was- at that time only one student in
divinity , and he not in an advanced period of his-course , his * inductions to him might be conveyed chiefly in the way ol familiar conversation , on the books which he
might direct him to read , and in lectures on the scriptures , particularly on the New Testament . Whether anv other students en . joyrd the advantages ot his in . structions , he knows not .
In the spring of 1782 , probably at the suggestion of Dr . Percival , who had before procured this honorary distinction for others oi the tutors at VVarnngton * ( see the life of Dr . Priestlej ) he received tk diploma of Doctor in Divinity from the University ot Jvdmtuttgh .
The present writer happens ,. ^ know , that the sa * n £ CQiinpliwent was , at the same time , . preparing for Kim . by hi 3 proper Alma ^ Mater , ai the suggestion of his frie&d * Dr . Wright and JVJr . MiUw of Glasgow .
On the dissolution of the Academy , in 1783 , Dr . Clayton retired , with broken spirits and shattered health , among his former friends at Liverpool , from whose kind attentions he received such undoubted proofs of affection and strong attachment as greatly contributed to lessen the blowiof
an event by himself quite unforeseen ; and though its remembrance could scarcely fail to embitter , as he himself * ays ,. » letter now before the present
writer , the future happiness of his Ijfe ; yet these " $ f . tjgntioP 9 bad a great effect in flaring his tranquillity . In a 7 ft * .-Ae ^ c ^ ived art invitation . $ nt& # 9 JW * bj *** *
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62 S Historical Account of the Warringtot * Academy *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1813, page 628, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2433/page/4/
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