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    spectabte proficiency in cl&ssicailiterature , he was ^ ent ta tjie Academy at Daveotry , then tinder the care of Dr . A&hwofth ; and having finished a course of four years , he was by Mr . € o \ vard ' s Trustees appointed the Classical Tutor r an office for which he was eminently qualified . la this situation he continued four years ,

    when , in consequence of some disagreement between him and the Principal , he foundU necessary to remove . Soon afterwards , he became Domestic Chaplain to Hans Busk , Esq ., of Bull-house , in York- * shire , N < the father of the late celebrated Mrs . Milnes , of Piccadilly , and of the present Mrs . Milnes , of Fryston , in

    Yorkshire , the relict of the late Richard Milnes , Esq ., M . P . for York—a lady of distinguished virtues and accomplish ~ ni € uts . Frpni Bull-house Mr . Haliiday soon rejnoved to Keighley , frota whence lie was shortly after invited to Norton Hall , as Chaplain to Samuel Shore , Esq ., m whose house he preached every Lord ' s-

    day to a crowded congregation ; for Mr , Haliiday ' 3 compositions and delivery were both original and eloquent . Here he married an excellent woman , who lived not many years . His residence at Norton was the happiest period of Mr . Halliday ' s life , and had he consulted his own reputation and comfort , he never would have

    dissolved that truly respectable connexion . But Mr . Haliiday was a man of a simulative and mechanical turn , and hot thmg would suit him but tie must enter into business . He left off preaching and became a cotton-spinner , and was soon

    involved iu troubles and losses , to the injury of his reputation . After Mr . Halliday had been thus reduced in his circumstances , many who had known him in his better days were disposed to subscribe to his subsistence . But he seems

    rather to have chosen to lead an unsettled life ; sometimes appearing in public , as at Diss , at Bury St . Edmunds , Kidderniin * ster and other places , for months together * in the character of a most able and elo- * quent preacher , to congregations who uld have bee tbeir utmost

    wo n happy by exertions to have secured his permanent services . At other times he disappeared , and nobody could tell what was become of him . At last , about thirty years ago , he was heard of in Cheshire and in Wales , and a rumour was current that he was

    gone over to Ireland , arid though many inquiries were made after him , nothing certain could be learned , and the opinion generally prevailed that he was dead , till the notice which appeared in the Monthly Repository of a letter received from Mr . Dewdney , of Cork , which gave an account of his uncomfortable situation in the family of the O'Learys . Means were immediately used by Mr . Halliday ' s friend ^

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    to render his situation more comfortable And the O'Learys having removed to F&nfcoy , took Mr . Haliiday with them ^ and Mr * Jones , the minister of Fermoy having been written to for that purpose by Mr . Halliday ' s friends , occasionally visited him , and was never obstructed in his visits by the O'Learvs . who . to sav

    the truth , appeared to treat Mr . Haliiday ^ very well ; nor was he at all disposed to make any complaint . It is said that he had nothing to live upon but an annuity derived from his wife > which expired at his death , and that he has left nothing behind him but some manuscript sermons in short-hand . B .

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    Obitu ^^^ Mr . IFilm ^ hurse . . ^ 55

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    Dec . 17 , at CMche $ ter > Mr . Tho&ia $ Wilmshurst , a member of the Unitarian Chapel in that city . Mr . W . was bora at Brighton , of pious parents , holding the sentiments of the Calvinistic Baptists , in

    which religious principles he was brought up . When arrived at man ' s estate , he saw reason , from a careful examination of the Scriptures , to alter his theological opinions . His mind then settled in the conviction of the truth of the Unitarian

    creed , which faith solaced and supported him through successive periods of ill health , some of which were of no short duration . Under the influence of the sublime hopes inspired by the gospel , he was enabled , with a composure greatly to

    be envied , to contemplate his own dissolution , which event , his emaciated and weakened frame warned him , though in the meridian of his days , not to be far distant . To a friend , who not long before his death hinted a desire to discuss

    religious topics , with a view of reclaiming him to the path of what are called more orthodox opinions , he expressed his perfect satisfaction with his own views ; and his medical attendant remarked , when his late patient had ceased to he conscious of the affairs of time , that in the course of an extensive practice , her had never witnessed a death-bed scene more

    tranquil and happy . With joy the righteous man expects his end , Angels around befriending virtue ' s friend : While all his prospects bright ' ning towards the last , His heaven commences , ere this world be past .

    Survivors may amidst their grief remember for their consolation , that € < Precious in the sight of tbe Lord is the death of his saints ; * and indulge the animating

    hope , through the Christian c covenant , of renewing their intercourse with their removed husband , parent and friend , in scenes of bliss , far surpassing any they enjoyed . on earth , . -

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1826, page 55, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2544/page/55/