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    : ated the oldest boy , and has continued tier kindness to this unfortunate family to the present hour . Mrs . Standevens and her children lived some time in a room in Copper-street , and afterwards about three months in Cross-field . Here they were supported by a small allowance From her husband ' s parish—by her

    needle— -b y her teaching a few scholars ' - —by the kindness of their relation —• and by the casual bounty of the charitable . Her disease had now nearly run its course ; its last stage was alleviated , and the passage to the grave rendered easier by medical assistance . A few days before her death , she was

    admitted a home-patient of the Halifax General Dispensary , and was relieved From the fund of the Benevolent Society fay the visitor of the district in which she lived . She was perfectly aware of her approaching dissolution . Oh the evening on which she died , she said to a poor , kind neighbour , tc Do not

    leave me , Martha ! " the poor woman knelt beside her ( the bed was on the floor ) , and supported the dying mother in her aims . After having in this situation been a short time engaged in prayer , she looked for her oldest

    daughter , who was kneeling at the foot of the bed ; and , fixing her eyes upon her , serenely breathed her last . Her dying words were , ' * 1 bequeath my children to God , and resign myself into his hands I *'—She thus commended her

    orphans to the protection of Him who is the Father cf the fatherles ; and , trusting to his merciful acceptance , gave back her spirit into the hands of the widow ' s God , This is a sorrowful tale , but there are some circumstances

    On which the feelings may dwell with pleasure . The acquirements of her youth she retained to the day of her death . In her accumulated di trusses they ministered to her support , and mitigated the sufferings which they could not remote . She was thus enabled to be the

    instructress of her children . — In the several town , ^ which the company visited she taught drawing and the u .- > e of the piano-forte , and made raffles of pictures and fancy-work for the support of henfamily . Her quickness in

    plainwork contributed to the same end ; and when' her work failed , or was finished , she spent her hours in reading . iShe more than once attempted to establish a sJiCx ;! , but the world ' s prejudice marred lier success ; " She had been , or

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    was a player ! aad it is no wonder thatf this laudable purpose failed . Unfoftu- * nate woman ! one single act of imprW dence altered entirely the complexion of her life . What a contrast do the two . portions of it present ! though in the first fifteen years she felt the irreparable Ios 9 of a mother , and though her fa * ther '' s death ulcimatclv deprived her of thers death ultimately deprived her of

    an adviser and of a home , her child- * hood and youth were spent happily and usefully , in the acquisition of knowledge , and in the society of valuable friends . The last fifteen years present a melancholy and different pictu / e ;—» but ' , in circumstances and in society T > y no means favourable to virtue , her ch aracter remained without blemish and

    without reproach . And surely it is , highly gratifying to . End , that the reli- * gious impressions of her infancy and youth , so far from being effaced by subsequent years spent in a dangerous profession , and . marked with a variety

    of suffering , were recognized during her illness and in her last moments j that / they did not forsake her amidst the most squalid wretchedness , or dur * ing the . most acute sufferings 1 ; but enabled her , in circumstances of ex *

    treme distress , to die in peace with humble resignation and hope .- —Five destitute orphans survive her — two daughters of the ages of twelve and ten , and three boys of the ages of thirteen , four , and two years ; the sixth child died five years ago .- It is particularly

    desirable to prevent the girls from being sent to the work-house of their parish , to save them from the dangers incident to their sex , to their youth , and to their unprotected situation . To effect this purpose , and to fit them out for service , the contributions of the

    charitable are solicited . Should any thing remain when this i * . attained , it will be expended as may seem best , for the , advantage of the boys . Donations , however small , will be re- *

    ceived by Dr . Thomson , King Cros :-Lane ; Mr . Christopher Raw son , at the New Bank , Halifax ; Messrs . Jones , L . loyd , and Co . Lothbury , Lqndon ; and the Editor , at the Printer ' s . Halifax * , J . T « Nov . 2 , 1809 . 1809 , Dec . 8 , In London , aged 45 years , Mr . BQWJLES , of Brompton , Kent . He was an honourable member of the -Society of General Baptists at

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1810, page 92, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2401/page/44/