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The Hev . £ > r . James Lintoav . To none of our readers scarcely will 4 he melancholy intelligence be new , that the world has been deptired , by an awfully sudden death , of this distinguished friend of truth and liberty . Hereafter , we shall endeavour to do Justice to his manly and generous character : at present , we ratret co » fine ourselves to the eirettmstances of his death and
interment . On Wed » esday , the 14 th instant , the Dissenting Ministers of the Three Denominations had assembled to receive the Report of a Committee previously appointed to consider and watch the
prom-ess ef Mr . Brougham ' s Education Bill . There were probably fifty in number . Eh * . Rippon was in the chair . The business was opewed by Ehr . Rees , the eh air man of the Committee , who related the substance of a conversation with which Mr .
Brougham had favoured the Committee , we think the preceding day . He was foltowed by Mr . Innes , another member of the Committee , who corroborated Dr . ReeVs statements , and added other particulars . It being known that Dr . Lindsay differed in some degree from most of his brethren with regard to the magnitude of
the evil iwvolred in the Bill , there was * h > w a geweral , btrt friendly carl , upon the Doctor , who was aha on the Committee , te explain his sentiments . This wish expressed by the Body , proceeded from that cordial respect which they universally entertained for him , and which
his uniformly frank and courteous manners never for a moment permitted any difference of opinion to lessen . He rose a « d spoke with great ability , and with some animation , though not in otrr judgment wkh quke his ustral energy , for about ten mimites . He did not defend
Mr . Brougham ' s BiH , as has been reported , bat maintained that some of its elaases were highly objectionable , and pledged himself to unite with his brethren In an honourable and candid opposition to them .: he stated most clearly , however , that such , in his opinion , was
the power of education over error and injustice , and even over whatever might be faulty in the plfem of education itself , tfhat he wouM rather ha \ re the Bill as it was than risk tftoe postponement of a sdheinte of national education to an rodfeftiMfte period .- At the same time , bo one could have gone farther than he went in
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tftsclaiming aH approbation of national religious establishments , and in asserting the principles of Nonconformity . He expressed a more than ordinary warmth of esteem for his brethren around him , and especially for the renerable Dr . Bees , who , he said , would have swayed his mind somewhat differently on the
question , if he could have allowed himself to be determined by atiy authority whatever . He sate down , declaring that he would go with the meeting as far as he could , and that when he could go no further he would make no opposition , but cheerfully yield ta the decision of the majority . Mr . (? layton then spoke for two or three
minutes , and Dr . Waugh for about the same time . Something dropped by this last gentleman , led Dr . Rees to rise again to explain the principle of the Bill , which was not education simply , but education under ecclesiastical patronage . At this
moment , the eye of the writer met Dr . Lindsay ' s , and he assented by a decisive motion of the head to Dr . Bees ' s explanation , saying , without rising from his seat , " Certainly , I admit it : that is the principle of the Bill . " These were his last words . After Dr . Rees had made one or
two remarks , and Mr . Innes had thrown in an explanatory sentence , the Secretary , Dr . Morgan , was proceeding to read a series of resolutions proposed by the Committee to the adoption of the meeting , and had advanced to the fourth or fifth , when the
attention of the persons around Dr . Lindsay was attracted by a sort of groan , three times repeated . They found him reclining forward on his walking-stick , and on lifting him up , perceived that he had been seized with a fit . A slight convulsive motion of the head and face vvas
observed by the gentleman nearest to him . He was instantly carried into the inner library , and within five or six minutes medical aid was procured ; but in vain : pulsation had ceased , and the spirft had fled .
Till long after hrs death was matter of certainty he conthmed to be surrounded by his sorrowing brethren , one of whom , Dr . Waugh , offered up on the occasion a solemn and deeply impressive prayer to the Almighty .
The shock of this cafeimty put an end to the business of the meeting ; and as soon as the persons -present could compose themselves sufficiently to recollect what had passed before their lam ented brother ' s seiirtfre , they congratulated each
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1821, page 122, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2497/page/58/
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