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      your late respected pastor rathe * to teach you hy h * & example how to die , than hoyv to live—during so short a time has it pleased Divine Wisdom to proloug his abode among you . The kind , soothing , aod respectful attentions which you have coatinued to bestow with such unremitting assiduity , are a sufficient proof how much of your esteem he conciliated by

      hi 3 mild , pious and amiable demeanour , during the brief term of his residence among you ; and the patience and resignation , the humble , yet joyful confidence , the calm submission to the all-wise decrees of Providence , and the hope full of immortality , which you witnessed in him , as you watched beside the bed of languishing , have , 1 am persuaded , made an impression on your minds deep and

      saluy . "Of the habits of Mr . Manley ' s life during a much longer period , I can speak from my personal knowledge . It is about fifteen years since I first knew him . He

      was then commencing his studies at the University of Glasgow . * He was always distinguished by application to his proper business as a student , by deep , humble aud serious piety , aud by the mild , gentle and unassuming demeanour of a

      genuine Christian . " To you , my kind and good friends , let me suggest as a ground of joyful hope and consolation , that , while the ministers of the gospel die and return to dust , the gospel itself for ever lives . The Church of Christ is built upon a rock , and the gates of death shall not prevail against it . Continue then the stedfast friends of relK

      gious liberty , the promoters of free , candid , and unbiassed inquiry after Christian truth , and the zealous and consistent advocates of peace , virtue and humanity . Remember that the sacred and immortal cause of truth , virtue and genuine piety , depends not on the labours of Christian

      ministers alone , but is promoted by the examples and efforts of all who are sincerely and ardently attached to it ; and bear in your memories the gracious and splendid promise , that ' they who turn many to righteousness shall shine as the sun and as the star 3 , for ever and ever /"

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      May 20 , at Bourdeoux * Miss Hawbs , daughter of the late Dr . Hawes , of Spitfd Square .

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      June 2 , at Hackney ^ Mr . Joseph Spur-Rell , aged 79 . He was born at Plymouth , in Devonshire , 15 th November , 1742 , and having lost his father in his infancy , was educated at the Grammar School in Plymouth , under Mr . Bidlake . When his education was finished , he served his apprenticeship in the same

      town , and afterwards commenced business on his own account , but not finding sufficient scope for exertion , he removed to London about the year 1767 , and soon formed a connexion in a silk manufacture , which connexion lasted above 20 years . And from the termination of that connexion , until the last two years of

      his life , he was actively engaged in the pursuits of business . In 1770 he married a daughter of the Rev . Samuel Merefield , of South Poole , Devon , who was a respectable and officiating minister of the Church of England nearly 55 years . In

      this connexion he lived happily until her decease in April , 1794 . He had several children , four of whom lived to maturity , two sons and two daughters . Susan , his eldest daughter , died in March , 1815 . The rest survive .

      Mr . Spurrell possessed from nature a vigorous understanding , a mind of great activity , aud a certain ardour of feeling which went with him into every thing that he did , but which , being under the full controul of moral and religious principle , never led him astray from the line of virtuous conduct . His natural

      cheerfulness of temper and his love of conversation formed him for society ; and wherever he was , he contributed to the pleasures of social intercourse . He was fond of an argument , and as he never argued except in -behalf of that which he believed , he appeared somewhat tenacious of the propositions which he advanced , but in perfect good humour with those

      who disputed them . Nor did any warmth of opposition seem to excite in him any thing like an acrimonious feeling towards an opponent . Of the vigour of his understanding it may pass at least for a presumption , that after having been for about 40 years a member o $ the Chureh of England , and a cotoscieutlous attendant on her worship , he began to doubt the truth of her doctrines , and , in com-

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      ObUuary . —Samuel Athawes , £$ q . ~ -Mr . Joseph Spurrell . 375

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      — 26 , at her house in Hertford Street , May Fair , after a long illness , the Dowager Countess Gre y , in hex 78 th year .

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      May 20 , at his house , Kingsbridge Cot . tage , near Reading , in his 88 th year , Samuel Atiuwes , Esq ., formerly a Virginia merchant of London .

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      * Mr . Mauley afterwards studied theo-1 ( > gy as a student of Manchester College , ai York . He then settled at Hiiidtey , in Lancashire , as successor to his friend and tutor , Mr . Hodgkinson .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1822, page 375, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2513/page/55/