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1826 . April 3 , at "TricMnopoly ; in the Bast Indiesy the Right Rev . BfcGiNALD Heber , D . D ., Bishop of Calcutta . , He had reached that place on Saturday morning ,, and on the folio wing day had preached , and held a confirmation in the evening ; after which , he delivered atrother
discourse , concluding with a solemn and affecting farewell to the congregation . — - On Monday , at an early hour , he visited a congregation of Native Christians , and , on his return , went into a bath ^ &s he had done on the two preceding da ^ fr . He was there seized with an apoplectic fit ; and when his servant , alarmed at the
length of his stay , entered the . bathingroom , he found that life was extinct . Medical aid was immediately procured , but wholly unavailing . —Dr . Heber was second bishop of Calcutta , and succeeded Dr . Middleton in the see , in 1823 . He
bore a high character and is deeply r egretted . He published Bampton Lectures on the Holy Ghost , but is rrione likely to he remembered by his beautiful prize poem entitled Palestine , ' * inserted in our 1 st volume , pp . 555 aad 612 .
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" ^—6 , at his house In the New Road , opposite the Regent ' s Park , London , aged 73 , John Farquhar , Esq ., the late owner of Fonthill Abbey . He was a native of Aberdeen , hud went out early in life to India , as a cadet on the Bombay Establishment . H < ere by a series of good fortune he amassed immense wealth , said at the time of his death to amount
to a million and a half of pounds sterling . He was eccentric ; penurious in Ihs personal foabta , bus generous in his charities . He was deeply read in ancient and modern literature . " His sentiments were liberal /* ( we here quote from the pobllc journals ' , ) " and strangely contrasted with his habits . Hjs religious
opinions were said to he peculiar , and to be influenced by an admiration of the purity of the livefe and moral principles of the Brahmins . It is said that he offered to appropriate 100 , 000 / . to fauna a college hi Aberdeen , ou the most enlarged plan of education , with a reservation on points of religion ; to which , however , the sanction of the legislature coui «
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June 3 , Mr . William Hamilton Reid , who was a remarkable instance of the force of a naturally strong' tnind in breaking through difficulties lying in the road to knowledge . He published a pamphlet about the year 1 S 00 , entitled , " The Rise and Dissolution of the Infidel
Societies /* " This work , " says his widow , in a sketch of liitn hi the Gentleman ' s Magazine , " procured him the notice of Mr . Canning and of the then Bishops of London and Durham . Prom the former gentleman he received a pre- » sent of five pounds , all that , in the font *
of patronage , he ever received . The Bishop of London made him an offer of OrdinatioQ in the Church , which his objection to subscribe to the Articles of faith , and a strong inherent love of independence , induced him contrary to his interest to refuse . "—His application to
literature led to his connexion with various newspapers and magazines * Some works of his , chiefly compilations , were published without his name . He was an early and gratuitous contributor to this
Magazine , chiefly in the department of Intelligence . The writer referred to , who best knew him , pronounces him to have been a happy man , since bis piea ~ Huves were intellectual , and therefore dependent on himself . e *^ ^^^^ B ^ H ^ B ^^*** " ^
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Jtine 30 , aged 5 & , Joseph Butterwofttfi , Esq ., tfce Lftw Stationer in Fleet Street . He was Member of Parliament for Dover during the last Parliament , but was unsuccessful in his late contest for the representation of % hat town , a
candidafe of more popular principles being preferred , -Mr . { tauterworth was the most active and influential layman amongst the Wesleyan Methodists , in whose chapel ki the ^ City Road he was buried , July 7 th ,
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July 5 , at Higftivood , Middlesex , of apoplexy , hrougkt ® a by a long Residence in India , Sir Stam * qM > Raffi . es , in the service of the Honourable the East India Compauy , late Lieutenant Governor of Beiicoolen and Singapore . He
published the History of Java , and other worlss which are highly esteemed . He was devoted to scientific pursuits , and in this and in many other respects was a great benefactor tQ the Eastern part of the British Dominions .
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——•¦ 6 * near Durham , Jane , the wife o € Captain Watts . She was the youngest daughter of the late George Waldic , of Henderside , on the banks of the Tweed * She was the writer of
Lett 6 to on Holland—* kome ki the Nineteenth Cmiwtf * s > nd a Novel ki thiee volumes , called Continental Adventures , published only afeW weeks before her death .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1826, page 564, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2552/page/56/
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