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INTELLIGENCE.
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settled to MaiKheSter and other parts , affif ^ iif ii ^ s ^ lin d id ^ re to obtain & knowledge of their 'business evince the goodness of the example he set before tfrem : the intimate friendship which has always existed between him and them
bear honourable testimony to the zeal With which he discharged his duties . He acquired in his business as machine maker a comfortable independence , soffi * cient for his simple and primitive habits , and had prepared for his two sons more
extensive operations ; but the great Disposer of events in his wisdom bereft him of that part of his family which he had hoped to succeed him—he in consequence retired from business in 1799 . His
activity and energy never deserted him ; he found employment in the discharge of his duty to his neighbour and his friend * In religion he was a decided Unitarian , from a firm conviction that the doctrine
he espoused was strictly scriptural , and , like the Puritans of old , he maintained it at all hazards . In politics he was a Whig , and with the same independent spirit he defended his opinions , and to his last moments was an inexorable foe
to ^ tyranny , , oppression , and intolerance . His protracted illness he bore with exemplary resignation , and departed this life in the perfect hope of a better and more exalted state of existence . This brief memoir is humbly submitted by one of his few surviving pupils .
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DOMESTIC . RELIGIOUS * Protestant Society for th £ Protection of Religious Liberty . ( Continued from p . 633 )
One , gentleman has applied for advice to this Society , from a place so distant as Malta . The case I am alluding to is that of L < ieuten ^ ut Dawson , a geutlemau of high character and connexions , of liberal education , who had been in the .. army fix > iu hh e-arliesl ; days > and who had fought tlie battles of his country iu many
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possess **! of remarkable clieerfulness of 0 * 11 * 4 , he had loog looked forward to hi » dissolution with steadfast and resigned tranquillity ; and finally closed , in devout peace , a long life diligently spent in doing Justly , loving mercy , and Walking humbly .
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a land * In the year 1823 , he was stationed at Malta . I have stated that he was a man of family and of character , but , above all , he was a man of principle , and he held the dictates of his conscience superior to any other mandate . He was directed on a particular day , a day of fefctivity , dedicated to the patron saint of
the island , ( for though Malta is under British dominion , it is a Catholic ¦ conn * try ; and there Catholics enjoy , as th&y oitght to enjoy , the free exerci&e of tjhteir * religious rights and ceremonies , ) to pay a salute to the procession of this saint , as it passed along . I , who seek for toleration , or rather I , who loathe toleration
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G 9 A InteUigence ^ Proiestant Society * Mr . Witts ' * Speech .
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Oct , 26 , in the 57 th year of his age , Waxtbr Fawkbs , Esq ., of Farnley ffaU , Yorkshire .
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* - * - 29 / in the 25 th year of her age , of pulmonary disease , MaHia Bbhi ^^ tt , second daughter of A . Bennett , minister of the Unitarian Meetiefg , "P&tfle , Dorset shire . It can be said with trufli , that the deceased was highly respected by all who knew her , and many tears of affection and lamentation flowed on account
of her death . In human judgment her character was virtuous , Christian , aud pious , which gives to her parents and friends an humble but confident hope , that the Almighty and merciful God who gave her life and who has taken it away , will approve her , and make her eternally happy in his glorious presence . She was
laid to rest in a vault in the burial-ground belonging to the abdve Meeting ^ oh Fri - day , the 4 th of Nov ., and on the Sunday evening following , to a numerous and sympathizing audience ; a very excellent and most impressive discourse Was delivered on the occasion by the Rev . jr . R * Bristotve , of Ringwood , from 2 Sam . xiv . 14 . A . B .
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— - 31 , at Edinburgh * Emily , wife of Archibald Mac bean , Esq ,, Royal liorse Artillery , and only daughter of William Johnston , Esq ., of Muswell Hill .
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Oct . 26 , at Bridgewater , in the 81 st year of his age , Mr . Thomas Osler , upward ? of sixty years an active and valuable member of the Unitarian congregation in that place- Though ' exempted to a very late period from the usual infirm ^ ties of advanced life , and constitutionally
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1825, page 694, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2542/page/54/
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