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he was afterwards much ashamed-He was a good scholar , a correct and elegant composer , and his delivery was perhaps , as near perfection as any English preacher has ever attained . He died in
1779 , and was succeeded by Dr . Barnes . 142 . W . J . Glanville , C . London . Went to the West Indies : and
was many years agent for Barba - does . 143 . James Cappe , C Birmingham . Went- to the East Indies ,
became a colonel in the Companys service , and published " Travels by land from the East Indies into Jturope . " 1767 . 344 . Thomas Holland , Burton ? 145 . William Clapham ,
Skip-Qjfi ? 146 . John Lawrence , * Jamaica . 147 . James Lawrence , ditto . -148 . — - Paterson , Londonderry . > 149 . Rochemont Barbauld , D . London . Of this amiable person so
excellent a memoir has already graced the pages of the Monthly Repository , Vol . III . p . f OG , that it would be presumption to attempt a ay addition to , or correction of it . 150 . Henry Beaufoy , London .
This gentleman ' s father was a member of the society of friends , but he was desirous to obtain for his son the advantage of a good education , without regard to the religious .. profession of his
instructors . Accordingly , after the common school education , he sent bim in 1705 to the academy at Xloxtou , under the-tuition of Drs ,
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Savage , Kippis , and Rees ; and , after two years , removed him to Warrington , where he staid three years . During , or shortly after , his residence here , his father published an academical oration oi
his son ' s , with which he had been much pleased . Whether he joined his father in the superintendance of his extensive concerns , the
writer knows not ; but thinks it not unlikely , as he shewed great knowledge of the art of making wines , &c . in a speech in the house on the adulteration of
foreign wines . He became member for Minehead . about 178 O , and afterwards came in for Yarmouth , in two successive parliaments . He was chosen by the Dissenters to advocate the repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts , which he
did with great ability in 1787 * and again in 1789 * and though , probably a little mortified at having it taken out of his hands the next year , and committed to Mr , Fox , yet he , with a very good grace , seconded Mr . Fox ' s motion
in a way highly creditable k > himself . The writer has no mode of tracingmuch further the stepseitherof hispublic or private life . He was thought to suffer much chagrin from the sarcastic and . contemptuous way in which he was
croasexamined b y Mr . Home Tooke , at the trial of the latter for high treason ; which , nperating unfavourably on the very bad state of health in which he was at the time , was suspected to have
hastened his death , in May 1 79 ^ . But this might be only lancy . — Mr . Beaufoy was a man of general literature ; and a F , It . S « To be continued .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1814, page 268, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2440/page/12/
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