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      Ifreat mental debility . -which particularly ita ^ airec ^ liar memory , * he could neverth * - lea * jpecoUe « t and ¦ repeat whole psalm * and dttiptpters , betfides & variety of detached Te ^ QQ of « criphire on which she dwelt w * th feligfct . One of the last expressions s $ e w * s heatd to utter was , that passage ¥ t&us i | . 13 , Looking for that blessed ? tapey and the glorious appearing of the gtibat God and our Saviour Jesus Christ *

      From these words her Funeral Sermon was preached to a full congregation on Sunday , March 25 th , at Worship Street , by the Rev . John Evans , who read the above character of the deceased from the pulpit —adding- his own expressions of regard for her memory . Her remains had , on the preceding Tuesday , been interred by the Rev . R . Aspland in the adjoining * cemetery .

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      15 th , at Reading * , aged 53 years , Mr . JiMES Drover , an intelligent and active member of the Unitarian congregation of that place . His death was very sudden , fie ' attended religious worship on Sunday the 10 th . ; went on Monday the llth to Oxford to exercise his musical profession , in one branch , of which he was very eminent , and in which he continued to practise from his attachment to it

      notwithstandinghis being * engaged in a considerable business of long- standing *; and returned lupine ou Wednesday noon , the 13 th , when he complained of a cold and took to his be *} . Hi » disorder rapidly increased and terminated in a mortification , of which he 4 ied on Friday evening * , the 15 th , to the

      Unspeakable grief of his family and the consternation of his neighbours . He was bifried on Friday , the 22 ud hist . : his remains being followed to the grave by a vast concourse of people . On the following-Sunday , the 24 th inst ., a funeral sermon

      was preached for him at the Unitarian . Chapel , Reading , by his friend , Mr . Aspland , o £ Hackney ; a crowd of his surviving townsmen , testified their respect for his character by attending this melancholy service . Great numbers returned from the

      cbapel , uuable to gain -admittance , at an early hour . Bj- desire of Mr . Drover * s surviving family and friends , the Sermon is put into the press ; some further particulars will be extracted from it in our next .

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      On Thursday , the 21 st , at her son ' s house , Crown 3 treet ,. Jpjnsbury Square , , uqp 4 \ fifty f Wrs , Ei ^ s ^ nETH Easley , wj $ q $ V :, ** ft « having * submitted to a WIM £ , WM « fyl a ? 4 % erin ^ illness ( with reitj ^ haWe ^ Cliiiatmn fortitude ) the foun-. dfttion , of whjcfe W *«> by f M ( » ev ? re j *< ttne « V < Q . affliction ? an < J bejeaveiuents . As •^ WBwfe .-tWWiit anp flftyw * , few have fuU jSJVt& . WiSx mf& ^ lif mftf * ^ . ith ' more 'flf ^ f < * * ' rH * twWw ™ w P *}**** h JMS , j : # ii ^ ioui pnactples weie ttfictly

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      Unitarian : she was convert of the late Mr . Lindse ^ e , aj \ d b $ long as she was atye a reg-ular attendant on t ^ e ministry of i& *

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      At his house in AWernoanbnry , early in the morning : of Thursday , the 22 nd of February , died Swan Downer , Esq . aged 81 year * . Thi * worthy gentleman by habits of economy and diligence , acquired a considerable fortune * in the use of which

      he avoided all expensive and ostentatious parade , seeming to regar 4 't as a talent , which he was bound to devote to purposes of usefulness and charity . His parents were Dissenters ; he followed them ia their dissent and conscientiously adhered

      to it , having * made himself acquainted with its grounds , and being convinced of their solidity . He was , through a long- series of years , a member of the Presbyterian church uow assembling in Jewin Street , under the pastoral care of trie Rev . Doctor Rees J ; on whose very able and interesting ministrations he attended with constancy , seriousness ^ and entire satisfaction . He

      was the firm and ardent friend of civil and religious liberty , of peace in opposition to war of freedom as opposed to slavery and the slave-trade , of men ' s emancipation from oppression and persecution in all

      parts of the globe , and of every practicable diminution of our national expenditure and burthens ; and always approved the legislative measures , or the attempts in Parliament , the object of which Wa 9 the attainment of these desirable ends . When

      he spake concerning- religion , it was wiA a gravity demanded by its * high and important nature ; but he placed a just regard to it less in talking about it than in acting agreeably to its rules .- The poor have lost in him a considerate and generous benefactor . He distributed his

      bounties among them not indiscriminately , but after a careful search ami investigation , and with a due preference of the cases , which he judged most suitable and deserving . Strict and inflexible probity was' always conspicuous in lain , accompanied with remarkable strength * nd clearness of intellect . He retained his powers of recoflection and discernment and of

      expressing * his thoughts with precisiont& the Isfet . He wus interred ofitWediff * " )*? the 28 th of February in the v * u 4 t oontainr ing the remains of liis parents and *»»» te « in the burying ground of tbo' parwb church at Brfghthelmitmt , his nativeftown > in which , by the provisions of his wiW ,

      there will be permanent memorial * of < hu benevolence and coin-patsioiftv * He hf £ also bequeathed liberal « um « to > oesitf * -well known and valuable'institution * 5 ^ are hit numerous though distal * *« latim forgotten J ; - 1 *• * ' ^ * ' !¦ . # . ¦ . « - < - * **¦ ' < > - ' s - ii ^ mijfi . aMn «* . \ m , ' fctinaV- ' t- * < .- *

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      ^ S 4 Obituary — Mf . J . LhH > mr + > -Mr E $ . . Ead € y < r-S . Downer , Esq

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1816, page 184, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2450/page/56/