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    In the year 1786 , Mr . Joyce was admitted oh the foundation of the New College , Hackney , under the tuition of the Rev . Dr . Kippis , Dr . Ilees , and Mr . Worthington . Here

    he remained four years , supported by the liberality of friends and a small patrimony of about two hundred pounds , which he owed to the integrity and generosity of his brother ,

    Mr . Joshua Joyce . * His improvement was answerable to the singular advantages which he enjoyed under his eminent tutors ; besides whose lectures , he , with two other pupils , received the instructions of the

    celebrated Dr . Richard Price , in the higher branches of the mathematics . So pleased was Dr . Price with his application and behaviour , that at the termination- of his academical studies he recommended him to the late JEarl

    Stanhope , as tutor to his eldefet son , Lord Mahon , the present Earl . He entered into this noble family in the year 1790 , and was connected with it for ten years , being actively and usefully employed in his favourite

    pursuits of the education of youth and of self-improvement , and rendering himself by his manly integrity , simplicity and modesty , a general favourite . During life he enjoyed , we believe , a remuneration of his services in this

    flattering connexion . Whatever prospects were opened to him by Karl Stanhope ' patronage , he maintained his purpose of devoting himself to the Dissenting ministry , and before and after his engagements at Chevening , he gladly embraced every opportunity of performing- the of

    duties of the pulpit . ^ ome the Dissenters in Kent stili remember with gratitude the regularity and zeal with which he officiated amongst them , evidently feeling it to be an honour to retire on the sabbath from the mansion of his noble patron to join in the humble worship of a small society of his Christian brethren . At the time when Mr . Joyce became connected with Karl Stanhope , there was much agitation in the public mind , respecting the great political questions which were forced into

    controversy by the trench Revolution . He had been brought up in the

    * See Mr . Joyce ' s obituary of his Uro ther , XI . 244 .

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    love of liberty , and his earliest attachments strengthened his patriotic sentiments . In Lord Stanhope ' s family he was of necessity associated with the leading reformers of the day , of whom no one was more zealous , and it may be added , more enlightened and more consistent than that

    nobleman himself . Thus educated and connected , he became ail active politician . Fie had none of the intrigue , much less of the simulation and dissimulation , that are usually thought to belong to that character : he saw

    great and growing corruption in the system of government , and loving his country with a Christian ' s purity , he was desirous of contributing his talents and exertions to the great and glorious work of reform . He joined in this sentiment with some of the wisest

    and best men of his day , and particularly of his religious circle : Price and Priestley were ardent political reformists , and their names are amply sufficient to shield the party which they at once supported and adorned from the suspicion of any design which is not honourable to a man and

    a Christian . Urged by a sense of duty rather than an inclination for the turbulence of political life , Mr . Jovce entered into the Society for Constitutional Information , the only society of the kind to which he ever belonged . An association more respectable , whether its object or the rank and character and talents of its members be

    considered , never was formed . The following extract from its first report will explain its design : — " In the venerable Constitution handed down to us through a long succession of ages , this is the basis and vital principle , Laws to bind all ,

    MUST BE ASSENTED TO BY ALL . ' * As every Englishman has an equal inheritance in those Laws , and that Constitution which has been provided for their defence , it is , therefore , necessary that every Englishman should know what that Constitution is ; when it is safe ; and when it is endangered .

    " To diffuse this knowledge universally through the realm , to circulate it through every village and hamlet , and even to introduce it into the humble dwelling of the cottager , is the wish and the hope of this Society . They trust it is a wish that will be approved by all good men ,

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    698 Memoir of the late Rev . Jeremiah Joyce

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1817, page 689, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2471/page/2/