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    fe £ ^ etVi tieU ytfik t afterwards , pro . baWy Tn 1 * 785 , dom plied with a similar invitation from Nottingham , to become the colleague of his quondam fellow-student Mr . Walker . The religious senti .

    ments and literary pursuits of these two eminent men were , in many respects , congenial , but s carcely any thing could be more dissimilar ( to be both , in their respective ways , good ) , than their mode of conducting the public aervices , both as to prayer and

    preaching . During his residence at Nottingham , he was prevailed upon by his neighbouring brethren to print , but not to publish , an excellent discourse on prayer , preached at a meeting of ministers at Alfreton , in Derbyshire , in Aug . 1786 . From 1 Thess . v , 25 .

    ( Br&tnreh pray for us ) , he shews the gfreat ! itfnfp ^ rtance of a hearty tifiinji between ministers and peopte—^ fhat pta ^ et is a natural conflMJqtitiftlcre of affectionate good wishes , and a means of promoting tfteih- ^ -praVer , that the great ends

    of the Christian ministry be anstfered iti the real improvement of men ' s hearts in piety and charity , whatever becomes of th

    with the superior love of virtue : " t * The propriety of ministers praying for one another . They meet to enquire how they may best promote the good of men and of each other . 4 * Let others aim to

    make men think alike , let us endeavour to make them act virtuously . " " Generally speaking , th& greaie / st Candour , the greatest teftfleflfcesfc and the greatest geneiosk y } Ate to be found in men of tht ^ bm * rn < teWaiWing and th * * te 8 t vmm&s knowledge . "

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    It appears from the information of a gerjtleman who was a member oTthe congregation at Nottingham during Dr . Clayton ' s residence there , that he was very assiduous in discovering , and secretly relieving , io a great extent .

    considering his means , objects of peculiar distress among the poor of that town ; especially those , whose unobtrusive modesty particularly recommended them to his own congenial disposition . It was probable that this had also been his practice in former situations *

    While resident in Liverpool , he had married , in 1765 , Doroth y ^ the eldest daughter of Mr . James Nicholson , and sister to the present Mr . Matthew Nicholson of Liverpool ; an excellent and amiable woman , but of very delicate

    health . She died in the year 1785 , at the house of her brother-in . Jaw , Mr . Clayton of Old Park . — Dr . Clayton returned Liverpool in 1795 , and died after a long state of declining health in the spring of 1 797 *

    Having thus occupied so much of your valuable Miscellany with an account of the tutors at , Wfcrrington , perhaps your readers may be alarmed , Mr . Editor , at the prospect of a similar account , of

    the students . But of these , for various reasons , a very select list will be presented . In the mean time , I must beg a page or two , probably of your next Number , for a few observations on the

    causes of the decline and ultimate dissolution of the Warrington Academy . r ( I remain , Sir , » s Yaw ?? respectful ly ^

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    H $ & ^ V ea * Accduni the Warrington Academy . 629

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1813, page 629, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2433/page/5/