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    U < j $ nal Assembly to e * eeu ie the Euglish part of a Polyglot Petition of their last Constitution which w # s to be printed in eight languages . In 1793 , Mr . Christie tad returned to England and published , in answer to IJurke , " Letters on the Revolution of France , and the New Constitution established by

    the National Assembly . ** Some time after j he took a voyage on commercial objects to Surinam , \ yhere he died in October 1796-Hb age is not ' mentioned , but I think he could scarcely have ex * ceeded , if he had reached , forty years .. N . N .

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    History ( if the Congregation of Protestant Dissenters ^ Hanover Square , Newcastle * ( Concluded from p * 517 . ) The congregation appear to have been spine time before they made

    choice of a pastor ; for the new chapel was not opened till March 26 , 1727 , when Dr . Ebenezcr Lawrence , from Newcastle tinder Line ( son of Mr . Samuel

    Lawr ^ nce , of Nannptwich *) , who probflfejy had previously preached in the old meetinghouse , and been accepted , addressed the congregation from the words ( 2 , Tim . iv . 22 ) ' " " The Lord Jesus Christ be

    with your spirit . * ' And it is earnestly hoped that the amiable spirit of the gospel of Jes \ is Christ will always continue tp animate

    the breasts a ? id direct the qpnducf pf its , roe « iber 3 , ix ^ tfr ^ i rintercourse with cacfe other , and writh spcicty , at . large ! f ) l * Lawrtu . ce did xtot £ pme to

    -K » . . - . , V - ' "" " . MentioaedTfrith great , respect in the l ive * of Philip 4 nd of Matthew Hjnry .

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    1728- Like his predecessor Dr . Gilpin , he practised medicine : but he did not long continue % resident in tbisT town ; for having received a call to succeed Mr , Daniel Wilcox , in Monkwell

    street , London , he removed thither in 1733 , and continued the mmis * ter of that place till within a few months of his death in 1760 , Th « celebrated Dr . James Fordyce had a few months before been chosen

    his colleague and successor , mi preached his Fuireral Sermonf ; a- composition , which exhibits more , perhaps , of the striking pe * culiarities of that eloquent , hut not always correct , preacher , than an \ ' of his other work * .

    On the * removal of Dr * Lawrence , the congregation , with great propriety , set apart a day to be religiously kept previous to their consultation on the choice

    of a minister ; on which oc . casion Mr , Wilson preached an excellent sermon ^ which was pub * lished , under the title of" Charity , as a Rule of conduct in the affairs of a Religious Society , explained and recommended . J ? The result

    of their deliberations 1 was the choice of the Rev . Richard Roger * son , then a minister at Alcester , in Warwickshire . Of the place of thi $ : g ^ nt 1 eman * s : Jbirth or education *

    1 have obtained no certain par * ticulars * He had a brother , the K ? y . Josiah Rogerson , a mini ^ of great abilities a ^ d character at Derby , who particularly

    distint ^ Hb was succeeded at Ncwc »» tlc «« wlcf lite by the Rcr . W . Willdts ; <* whom « cc Sovkoui ' * L ife of P * w » . iippcttdi £ « " ' *" ¦ ~ *< ¦^¦ ; ^ - - v ¦

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    SSoh Mist&ry of tic Hanover Square Congregation , forecastle .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1811, page 586, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2421/page/10/