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    May 6 , after a few hours i'lness , aged 16 , JOHN PETER HANKEY , E q . Alderman of JLorjdon , Colonel of Volunteers , and a considerable Merchant . The circunr-tances of this gentleman ' s death , were peculiarly affecting . He had declared himself one of the Candidates for

    the representation of the City in the new parliament , anjd had been indefatigable in his canvass . The great mePtantile interests were in his favour , and besides his personal qualifications , he wag asMsted in the public opinion by tlae circumstance of being the great grandson of Sir John Barnard , a representativeofthe city for nearly

    40 year , who , by parliamentary talents , was so much di tinguished from those who have succeeded him , as to be both feared . and respected by the able ministe ; of his time , Sir R . Walpole . On the eve of the day of election , Mr . H . was adzed with an alarming indisposition , at-

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    divine mission of Christ by the prophets of the Jewish dispensation , ( 140 — 159 . ) Upon the reference made to them by our Lord in I nke xxiv . 1 3 , "it is-w . jII

    observed that , as binmaus was at the distance of only seven miles and a half from Jerusalem , and as Jesus and his two disciples could hardly be supposed to occupy more than two or three hours

    in walking to it , the predictions relating to himself , all which he explained in that shortspace of , time , are not so numerous as many persons believe , ( 143 . note 28 . )

    The prophecies cited and shortly illustrated by Mr . B . are Daiit . xviii . 17— -19- Isa . lii . ( at the con - clusion , ) and liii . and -Danish ix 24 * which is interpreted in the words of Dr . Blayney .

    ( To be concluded in our next . )

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    sufficient td ptove the divine legation of Moses and the inspiration of Isaiah . These points

    we admit , not , strictly speaking , upon the credit of the authors in question , but upon a conviction , which results from our

    own inquiries , that the Hebrew legislator performed works and delivered doctrines that bespeak a divine interposition ^ and that the predictions of the Evangelical prophet halve been verified in striking and appropriate events .

    These and other prophecies in the Jewish scriptures—prophecies relating to the Jews themselves , and those which apply to the surrounding nations , are briefly stated by Mr . B . ( 131—140 . ) Some remarks follow on the testimony which is borne to the

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    triteuted to some mismanagement during the excessive fatigue of hu ' canvass , anji while Mr . Lushington late M P . for the city , was ably describing to the Common . Hall Ins friend ' s qualifications for a Representative , he was at that moment de * claredby his physicians to be dying , and in two or three hours he expired , leaving a widow and four chiLdren .

    * « This is the state of tnan , to-day he put ^ y forth The tender leaves of hope , to-morro ^ r blossoms * And beats his bushing honours thick upon him ;

    The third day comers a frost , a lulling frost ; And , when he thinks , good . easy man , full surely His greatnes ^ is a rip ^ ning ^ r-nins hu » root . " ^ A similar uVent occurred , during the-

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1807, page 329, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2381/page/41/