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      your nuanei'ous readers , Mr . I £ dit « &r whose creed may bannonize with hers , be equally eminent for the genuine piety , nine unassuming- temper , the devoted ness of their lives to the faithful fulfilment of every personal , relative , and social duty which so singularly adorned her character . CATHARINE CAFPE-. York , Dec . 17 , 1817-

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      NoVo 8 9 1817 , at Stourport ^ after an illness of twelve days , Mr . William Roberts , aged 75 . fie was a native of High Ercal , near Shre $ v « bury ? but spent thefchief part of his life in Kidderminster . He has left a daughter ) to lament his death . He was a very worthy man , a sincere friend , and ever ready to serve his fellow-men to

      the utmost of his ahility . In all his transactions and engagements he was very exact , so that the utmost dependence might he placed on his word . No man was more fre ^ from malevolence , envy , covetousness and the selfish passions by which many are actuated . His mind was particularly formed for encountering the vicissitudes oJMiiim ' an life . With the lot which

      Provideuce assigned liim he was always content . Be was a member of the New Meetings * Kidderminster , from its commencement to ] bis death 3 but in consequence of sometimes living at a distance , and his great liberality of sentiment * he oftem attended at other places of worship ^ of a very

      different persuasion from that to which he was more particularly attached . He thought much practical good was to be learnt from all denominations , and lie used to say , when he went to hear the more orthodox , that what he found agreeable to truth tie would take and omit fille rest . As he

      claimed the liberty of forminghis own opinions , so he allowed the same to others in its fullest latitude . His spirit was truly Christian , and worthy of an enlightened

      Dissenter . In his religious duties , from which he derived the greatest pleasure , he was most punctual and exact . He never neglected public worship when his health and circumstances would permit , and he often attended other occasional services .

      He was a sincere lover of the Scriptures , a portion of which he read daily , usually with Orton ^ s or Doddridge's commentary . In tlie course of his life lie had perused the Old and New Testament many times .

      Havijag" laved free from vice in all good conscience before Crod and nifan , and in habitual preparation for death and eternity , his latter end , as might be expected ^ was tuan' V quil and happy and full of immortality . V . V .

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      theological tutor of Ho ^ ton Academy * Me was a native of Kinrosshire , in Scotland ! * , and came to England to perfect tils knowledge of a trade to which he had served a © apprenticeship . Soon after his coming southwards- he became a student in the

      Dissenting Academy all Heckmopdwike 9 int Yorkshire 5 on leaving * which he settled-as a minister , first at Barnsley in the same county 9 from whence lie removed to Hastingden , Lancashire , and then to Bolto © ^

      where he resided till he came to Hoxton to fill tlic office of theological tutor which he occupied from the yeair 1791 to nearly the period of his dissolution * He was less distinguished for his knowledge and attainments than for his consistent and systematic

      theology , which was in every particular Calvinistic . Amongst his connexions , his students and his family he was respected and esteemed for his vigorous understand ^ ing , his plainness and faithfulness his di $ *» regard of self and the integrity and purity of his life and manners , « , nd his habitual

      piety , which appeared in his private , no less than his public language and conduct . Funeral seru > ons were preached for him i& various places * , and particularly by Messrs * G . Clayton , JLeifchihS and Cloutt ; from which last we have taken these few par-

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      66 Obituary *—Mr . W . RobeHs ^^^ Dr . Simpsono—Dro Murney *

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      l > ec@mber 21 st , in the 72 nd year of his age the -Rev . Robert Simpson , D-D . * At first Arian , snow Unitarian .

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      December 28 th , Charles Btjrney , D . J > . He was seized on Christmas-day with an apoplectic fk just as he was preparing for the service of the day , in his parish church of St . PauPs , Deptford , Kent . He had just completed his sixtieth year , being born on the 23 rd of Becember , 1757 . His

      remains were deposited in his family vault in his own church , on the Saturday following his death . The principal inhabitants of the parish attended his funeral and having met afterwards in the Vestry-room , agreed to erect in the church , sit their own expense , amonutneni to his memory * He was one of the best Greek scholars of the

      age , and his classical school was for many years , as it still continues to be , under the superintendance of his son and successor , one of the most distinguished in the kingdom . The loss of so eminent and useful a rsian

      cannot fail to be sincerely deplored , for baring created a noble income by his industry and learning , he disbursed it with the most princely liberality , in giving largely to most of the public subscriptions , but chiefly in contributing to whatever tended to promote literature and science . Amongst a multitude of instances may be

      mentioned , that his veneration for Dr . Bentley induced him to print a splendid edition of his letters ,, under-the title of Bentleii \ Epistol < v which he . ? enriched by his own erudite annotations , and distributed every copy of the work gratuitou $ ly . Me purchased the famous Townley Homerf

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1818, page 66, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2472/page/66/