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      Trie & * . Hon . CIlATULES JAMES FOX . —Sorry indeed are we to have to record the death of this eminent patriot and able statesman , whose loss is a national one , and irreparaMe . The disorder that deprived us of this great man was the dropsy , -brought on by the anxieties and labours of his ' office . His

      death > vas expected some days before it took place ; btit the shock which it gave the public-mind is not to be described . Kvery man looked wj > to Mr , Fox as his friend and father , and in him every one has sustained ,. so to speak , a personal loss , lie breathed his last at the Duke of J > e-Y € > nshire * s seat , Chiswicft , attended b y Mrs , Fox and I , ord Holland , at half

      past five o ' clock in the afternoon , of Saturday , September 13 . The task , and a painful one it is * of drawing the outline of his history and character , we reserve to our next number . JLokb THURLOW . — -This nobleman departed this life Sept . iz , in the 71 st year of his age . Hrs father , the Rev .

      Thomas Thurlow , was a respectable "clergyman of Ashfiteld , in Suffolk . His being descended from Secretary Thurlow has been -generally believed by the public ; but such a matter was a frequent subject of mirth to himself , and

      therefore we presume is not to be believed by us . After remaining some time .-at Gumbridge , which the vivacity of his conduct obliged him to leave , he came to London to pursue the profession of tlie J * w , with whoae studies he blended the

      gay and sensual amusements , of the metropolis . He was called to the bar in r , saxd rose into provisional xxettcr

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      by a circumstance which is not generally known . Sir Fletcher Norton * ( at that time , and perhaps at any time , the first nisi prius lawyer ) , who not only made the Bar but the Bench tremble , was , in a solemn argument , opposed , beat down , and overpowered by the manly resolution and intrepid spirit of

      the youfog lawyer . This circumstance made a great noise at the time ; and his provvess rendered him an object not only of applause but of wonder , Indeecl it was a principle of his early life , that to act with confidence was to' win regard , and to display courage was half the battle . He pursued this notion , as it

      might serve his purpose , ± 0 the end of his days . The able manner in which he pleaded the Douglas cause obtained him the silk gown . He v . £ s certainly one of the ablest lawyers of the' age in which he lived , and reached the highest honour

      of his profession . He -was , in Majf 1770 , appointed Solicitor Ceheral , / and in 17 71 Attorney G-eneraL In June 1778 he was created a Peer , and next day was constituted JLrOr « l High Chancellor of Great Britam .- - He resigned the Seals on the entrance of th ^ Coal iuoiY

      Ministry , but resumed theni when ; Mr > Pitt came into power ; for several yesti £ * he it ted most cordially with that g £ &-tleitiati f but at length he grew sulleft and reserved—^ is said to have been silsft £ in , council * yhen a »^ asure wa « agitated there , ^ nd its stforig oppon&it whm brought to Parliamentary coitgidera ^ iOd ^

      He gained considerable 'jofmlarlty' by : his opposition to the Regency bjitl ; anil ^ what to him * perhaps W rf m < n §

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      " First , the supposed fiiiracul 6 Ds conception of Maty , and cdhse ^ quent supernatural birth of Jesus , secondly arid thirdly , the Arian and Athanasian trinities , both of which unwarrantably ascribe divine wpf * ^ liip to Christ , the one as a pre-existent God , suoordinate to the Supreme Goti » and the other ' ' Supreme God conjointly with the Fatfer iind the Holy Spirit , whom they misrepresent as distinct from Uie

      Fathert tliough the Holy Spirit 9 when spoken of in Scripture ma cause ,, be bat a synonirmous term for the only God and Father of alt I fourthly and lastly , the disgusting impossibility- of the satisfaetioja oi divine justice , by the vicarious punishmeut of Clirist . The sermon is principally designecl , and we think well

      aaapled , to excite the attention of Jew £ atid deists , and to obviate some of their objections to Christianity . We heartily wish that the philanthropic author may find that his labours liave produced this desirable eSect * O .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1806, page 491, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1728/page/43/