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INTELLIGENCE.
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necessity for the supplemental labours ef this society is most firmly laid . And it is in promoting the enlargement of tbe building ; , and the increase of accommodation ia existing churches—a departmental together
out of the contemplation of the parliamentary vote , and in which moderate aids may be productive of the largest returns , that the peculiar usefulness of the society will be most strongly felt .
It is manifest , therefore , tbitt a wide field is open for the exertions of the society ; and most gladly do they enter upon
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Foreign . ST . DOMINGO . —DEATH OF PETION . Pwt au Prince , April 1 . —Yesterday the remains of the president Petion received a sumptuous and splendid funeral . The corpse was laid in state two days ; and , to
the moment of being consigned to the vault , the features did not exhibit any visible change . Every one who chose went to see it * nd the scenes which occurred were such as are seldom witnessed on the demise of
men in power ! la the different quarters of the galleries of the palace , were men , women and children , some on their knees , others standing , who , after taking * a last sight of the body , were imploring- heaven for his soul . They were all bedewed in tears , and , on retiring from the palace , filled the air with their cries and
lamentations ; not , perhaps , one dry eye quitted that place out of the myriads which visited it 5 but at tbe funeral the stoutest heart must have melted—the procession had nearly a mile to go to church , and to return to the place of interment , which was in a
vault under the Tree of Liberty , opposite the palace ; the troops , of which there were a great many in town , were formed in two lines from the palace to the clmrch . The body was on an open bier , dressed in stateclothes , and laid on a car made in imitation of that used for our late Lord Nelson :
it was drawn by six horses , covered with black silk velvet , ornamented with white tassels > feathers , &c . It is a curious circumstance that he died voluntarily , which , indeed , was suspected by some about him from the beginning * of bis sickness , ( which only lasted eight days )
from his constantly refusing all kinds of Medicine and nourishment , and even water ; or if he did take any thing , it was at the pressing solicitations of those who surrounded him , but he spat it out again 5 and lie preserved to the last that c&lmnesB end serenity of mind for which be was so m < - markabta through life « - ^ xpjrrog without a groan or a $ trug {? tet f * te fwdV has fraen
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it , with the grateful deciaratfoa & ** &ey are now ready to receive applications , and appropriate their funds agwtthjy to the regulations of their constitution , already before the public , in the firm confidence .
that as the society has been happily instituted with the patronage of ffee wise and good of all orders in church and state , so it will be supported with a zeal and liberality proportioned to the importance of its object , anil commensurate with tfee numerous calls whfch will be made upon its funds . —June .
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opened , and found as Bound as that of any man 3 no indications of any disorder whatever j and the physicians do not hesitate m declaring * that be died of inanition 1 What may have been the cause is yet a mystery . He bad frequently been beard to say that be
wished himself dead ; f or that , tvitli all his study to render the people happy and prosperous , some were still dissatisfied , and made his life a torment . Time will , perhaps , reveal the cause $ in the meanwhile , bis loss is to "be lamented ; for , I repeat it , tbere are few such men as be was , ufoore particularly in acts of charity and benevolence .
His death threw all the mercbaiits into the greatest consternation , as there is computed to be in the Republic 6 000 , 000 worth of British property alone , including the shipping-. The judicious measures which were immediately adapted , tended , in some degree , to calm our fears : all the military were turned out , and have been
kept at their posts to this day . An embargo was placed on the shipping * , and no one suffered to leave the town till pretty late on Sunday ; and the appointment of the new president ( Boyer ) has been unanimous ; nor to this moment have I heard of aiiy chief having expressed a wish for tiie situation . ^ The president will be proclaimed this cay , and ; in two or three be will
proceed to examine the frontiers , lest Christbphe , on hearing of the death of Petion , might advance , in the hopes of profiting by the event . Some of the troops which attended yesterday , were marched off after the solemnity , for the frontiers ; in ftict , every precaution that prudence can dictate for private tranquillity , and external security , appears to have been adopted .
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Nottingham ami fotrb y Association * Thb third quarterly meeting of tbe associated Unitarian ministers of the counties of Nottingham , Derby , and the Soutfi <* f Y « W * wh 1 rO ; wife lltfd a ? St&kning-fori , near
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1818, page 400, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2477/page/56/
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