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    «» Tmexion , nor did he ever drop the acquaintance of several individuals of that persuasion , nor lose the regard to ci < vii and religious liberty which he had imbibed from his early education . Mr , S . was one of the instances which a commercial metropolis frequently affords © f persons who , from very small beginnings , attain to opulence . Entering the world

    a shopkeeper of the lowest oraer , he rose by rapid advances to bfc the first auctioneer in the city , a large proportion of the property brought to public sale for t * he last thirty years having passed through his hands with great satisfaction to his employers ; so justly does the ludicrous P . Pinder describe him , as one—¦*

    -"Who with a hammer and a conscience clear , t 6 Gets glory , and some thousand pounds a year . " Mr . S . resigned to his partners all appearance in public as an auctioneer on being advanced to the magistracy , the duties of which he discharged so as to increase the esteem of his fellow-citizens .

    While his health enabled him to lead an active life he was known , especially in the city , as the opposer of imposts which he deemed oppressive , arid the patron of various improvements and useful regulations . In 1784 he served the office of sheriff with Sir B . Turner , whose premature death , before the expiration

    of the year , left a young family in d- situte circumstances , for whose benefit Mr . Skinner ' s interest with the public was very kindly exerted . He entered on the office of Lord Mayor during the state trials , in the memorable year 1794 . His predecessor , the late Alderman le Mesurier , either to encourage the alarm

    then excited by the administration , or from real timidity , had betrayed a disposition to strengthen his power by a military force ; Mr . S * on the contrary determined to depend entirely on his civil . officers , and happily succeeded in maintaining the order of the city without violating the rights of the citizens .

    REV . ABRAHAM BOOTH —This truly respectable Christian teacher departed this life in advanced age , on Monday , < 2 , jth January , leaving behind him a reputation rarely equalled for sincerity and integrity . He was originally of the Genenil Baptist persuasion , but his enquiries led him early in life from among them to the Particular Baptists . He was many years pastor of a re pectable

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    church of this latter denomination , meeting in Prescot-streetj . Goodman ' s-fields , by whom , as also by the denomination at large , his I 0 S 6 will be deeply regretted , because it will not be easily repaired . He was not a man of education , but this defect he in a measure made up by diligent study in middle life , of which his

    pieces on baptism bear ample testimony . lie was a high and rigid Calvinist . He translated Abbadio on the Divinity of Christ into English , and wrote on the subjects of grace and justification . He also wrote a pamphlet against Robert Robinson ^ s Tract on Free Communion , in which he asserts , against that liberal

    writer , that no Christian , whatever may be his pretensions in other respects , ought to be admitted to the JLord ' s table , unless he has been baptised , after haying arrived at adult years , by immersion . In maintaining this and other severe and narrow opinions , let it be remembered that he " was actuated—never by party

    zealalways by a conscientious regard to the scriptures . If he erred , it was through an eccessive adherence to the tetter , without perhaps a sufficient regard to the spirit of the New Testament . May his surviving brethren be emulous that whilst they exceed him in Catholicism , they may equal him in probity !

    MRS . ELIZABETH CARTER . — This distinguished lady closed her earthly career on Wednesday , 10 th February , in London , aged 88 years . Her literary attainments were first ' made knpwn to the public by her Translation of Epictetus , which came out in 1758 . She also published a small volume of poems , chiefly

    en moral and religious subjects , including the Ode to Wisdom , which originally appeared in Richardson ' s Clarissa . In the works of George Lord Lyttleton is a copy of verses on reading these poems in mannscript , which are highly

    panegyrical both of their poetical merit and virtuous tendency . Mrs . Carter contri - buted two papers to the Rambler , viz . No . 30 , " A Letter from Sunday , * * which inculcates a cheerful and improving rather than a rigorous observance of that day ; and No . 44 , Religion and

    Superstition , a Vision , * ' which abounds with lively description , andju t and liberal sentiment : these papers were added to the laterNeditions of her poems . To this lady iVlr . Haley dedicated his " Essay oh Old Maids , " in very handsome terms . The propriety may , however , be fairly questioned , uf prefixing a name so re *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1806, page 107, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1721/page/51/