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    • RELIGIOUS * LITERARY, AND POLtTICO RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.
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      value , the personal regard of the Kins :. Since his retirement , a period of several years , he has only been an occasional attendant on Parliament , without belonging to any party . He was never

      married . In private life he was governed by capricious habits . He was pleasant and instructive , or rude and brutal , as his fancy led him . It is difficult upon the whole to decide upon his character , and to pronounce whether accident or merit raised him to eminence and greatness .

      MICHAEL PEARSON , ESC ^ of Spital Square , I ^ ondon . —This gentleman , whose death We announced in our number for July , was born at &noc £ , near Applet > y , on Michaelmas day , 1730 . He came up to . London in 1748 , and having chosen the practice of physic as his profession , spent some years with an eminent surgeon and apothecary in Hatton Garden . He went into busines&on

      liis own account in 175 % in Norton Falgate , and shortly afterwards married Miss Williams , the daughter of a re * spectable tradesman in the Misiories . *—Having resided in Norton ifaigate twenty-three years ,, fie removed to Spital Square . The house which he then

      occupied had formerly belonged to the ce » kbrated Lord Boli ' nghroke . Mr . Pear * son s skill in his profession was well known , because often experienced .- To his virtues in pdvatc life Mr . H . Tooke has borne witness in the second part of the " Inversions of for ley , and no man knew him better than Mr ^ Tooke . Thik extraordinary man was brought to ac-

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      t .. i RELIGIOUS . WELSH tenSHTARIAN SOCIETY . —The annual znfcttipg of the We&rr , or South Wales Vhir # rian Societ / , was held on Thurs ^ ijr ^ dfe 26 th of JunHast , at the Meeting House of Hwy-n y Groes , in * Cardiganshire , of whicfr Mr . Jo hn James , formerly a pupil of Messrs . Keitirick and Bret land , at Exeter , is

      minister . The service of the day was begun by Mr . Peter Charjesy of Haverford West , who read a ; pOT * iiM * of * sCri ! j > ture And prayed the general ; pfa-yer ; after Vfhich Mr . Thomas DSTYies , minister of Goad y Cvrturtair , in "the county of Brecoil , * n < 5 IVIrv ^ Phomas Rees , of Gelligroj * , in Glambr ^ Kftilli're , preached . The former jentleim ^ ft delivered a very suitable and energetic discourse on Prtju-

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      < juaintance with Mr , Pearson * hy ihc cause of Mr . Wilkes , which in the otit ~» set they both espoused and Air . P . has been a steady friend to him in all his difficulties and dangers . Kir . Pijs political principles were ill all ca > es sound ancf constitutional ?; we xle ' cd' riot say , there *

      fore , tnat he was zealbiis in protnotifig tfie cause of f eedom . He Bfecame , in the year 1780 , a member of the Society for'Constittitibnar Inforrniation , and was afterwards a member of the Revolution Society , a society whicR met annually to commetnorate the glorious Revolution of 1688 . He was a Jealous advocate

      for the abolition of the Slave Trade , at indeed every good man rriust be- In his * religious opinions he was by no means a zealot ; towards the latter end of his lifl ^ however , we believe he avowed his attachment' to the Unitarian Doctrine — He was accustomed" to hear tHe Rev .

      Mr . Vidler , at Parliament Court , ancf has been heard to say , as tSe Writer of this has been informed , that he never before heard any doctrine which war equally satisfactory , or any preaching whkh was equally pleasing to him with ' Mr . V . ' s He was a warm friend to the

      interest of Sit Francis Burdett , and exerted himself as mttch as any private individual could do to bring him in / at the two last elections . His loss * will be felt in the county of Middlesex as much as in his own family , and the various charities which he patronised will mourn over his ashes , while they pronounce 2 t blessing on his memory ; P .

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      ike ^ fiom John i . 46 : in which-he point * cd out with great ability , the unbecom ^ ing methods which had been used hy thef Calvinists of the Principality , to oppose the . progress of free" inquiry , afnd to as- ; perse and cakimniate the characters of the advocates of Uhitarianism . He then

      pointed out the . different line of conduct which the friend <> f Scriptural truth ought to purs *^ fcrfj $ urged them "with much force a ^ d animation , to deport themselves charitably toward all their ' own brethren , of whatever denomination

      they might be ; but , at the same time * , to sfdhexe firmly to tneir principles , and tier spafe no exertions to promote that causey which , after due examination , should appear to tliuenl to be die cause-of Christian tr& ' th *^ JThc inter gentlcniaa

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      492 Religious and Literary Intelligence .

      Religious * Literary, And Polttico Religious Intelligence.

      RELIGIOUS * LITERARY , AND POLtTICO RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1806, page 492, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1728/page/44/