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      Ad&ttofitv tMfi QMmryof Mr , GrMan , p . 365 . ikr . ChftATTAN came into Parliament , we are informed , about the ^ ear 1773 . Towards the close of the American war he carried against both the English and Irish Gpv ^ nmqn > & $ ' repeat of those sj ^ tntes , wWch hs& given Ae British Parliament , and in some respects the * Privy Council of England , an absolute controul over the legislature of his native country . He Ms been sines the year 1790 , the strenuous , persevering and powerful advocate for an entire abolition of the penal

      laws against the Catholics . This mes ^ sure , in the separate Parliament of ireland , he repeatedly declared to be essential to the complete deliverance of that country from the yoke of the British minister , as , since the Union , he has , in the language of Mr . Pitt , described Catholic emancipation to be a necessary step

      towards giving both countries the full benefit of that important measure . Mr . QrattflT ? had ^ long laboured under dropsy of the chest ; the closing period of his life ' wa ^ s attended by circumstances of uncommon and melancholy interest . It is well known that he was conscious

      © f his approaching dissolution ; and that , when he devoted " his last breath to his country / ' he was sensible that his appearance m Parliament , for the pious purpose of recommending to the House of Commons the cause so near his heart , must tend to accelerate that mournful

      sacrifice . His enfeebled frame did not second the aspirings of his bold and fervent spirit ; he was doomed to bequeath emancipation as a legacy—not to bestow it as a . gift *

      Mr . Grattan ' s eloquence was peculiar and ^ original . It resembled that of no speaker that we have ever heard . His voice was naturally feeble , but practice made it audible ; and laborious effort , combined with a care&il and studied arti-

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      DOMESTJC . Reugioijs . New Unitarian Chapel , Rqptey , J&epty /* ftire > '¦*' ' ni 0 eld 9

      October l $ 9 1820 . To 4 jm * # Ife ^ yterian © aitariaifc Cha * ppl at Ripley , in Derbyshire , was opened on . Hie 30 th of last July , when an excellent and appropriate discourse was d $ liveredjjy the Ren « $ fr * rdHigginson , of

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      cation , rendered his h ^ b tones jbo piecing that none of them were Jop $ . Mr . Grattan had no wit , or rather , in ParHa ment , he did not exhibit any . He seldom discussed the details of any question , but fastened on a few of the lea 4 ! Bg principles , which he developed and illustrated

      with singular strength of language , and copious felicity of imagination . His sentences were full of antithesis ; and , rather than ^ pse that farourjLt ^ structure of ex * - pression , he would build it up occasionally of common-place or even puerile matter . His diction was often rich , and raised with metaphor . Some characteristics of his style were inseparable from it .

      whether m the most abrupt reply , or in compositions the most critically prepared and meditated . His arguments were frequently a string of epigrams . His retorts and personal invectives were distinguished by a keen and pithy sarcasm , which told upon every nerve of his ill-starred opponent . There was , nevertheless , an earnestness and solemnity , an innate and manifest consciousness of his own

      rectitude , about the man , which taught his hearers to respect and admire him when he most failed to convert them to the opinions of which he was the advocate . Mr . Grattan ,, in society , was playful and simple as a child : irritable , perhaps , in a public assembly , he was elsewhere the

      very soul of courtesy , complacency and cheerfulness . Of hisj early contemporaries Mr . Foster ( almost alone ) survives him—the first who , by a systematic policy , laid the foundation of extensive agriculture in Ireland , and the chief encourager , in modern times , of the Irish linen manufacture .

      Mr . Grattan ' s property consisted for the most part of the sum of £ 50 , 000 , which had been tendered to him by his country , and it was honourably earned . —( Times , )

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      Derby , to a very respectable and crowded congregation . In the course of his sermon , th , e preacher set tfotth , with peculiar clearness , the principles of Dissent in general , and the . opinions by whi < Sh we , as Unitarians , are distinguished 4 tota the

      rest of our Dissenting brethren in particular , and concluded with an ipf ) lication of it , highly impressive , which could not fall of having the feappieet effect ^ on hi » headers . During th

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      Intelligence.

      INTELLIGENCE .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1820, page 620, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2493/page/56/