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istiiiiytiwiiiiiiimitfil tois ^ iircr ^ clinri , where < efe * cOTa& 9 nBi ^* aad otilcfer skies , will sweU * h * expanding &fe »* oawto a sweet , unfading itoOTeft . M « rw kmg&y fte «? 9 this impressive enaft cull upefft those who have hitherto neglected the practice of virtue , to enlbt xostaastly under -her protecting banners ; -rjwhiist it ought to stimulate those , who h&ve hitherto been tardy , to quicken their
pacer in the honourable course . What a powerful appeal does it make to those who are parentfc , to tram their children to the tore and culture of piety : —the present tear alone is theirs—the next may for ever darken their fondest , brightest visions . To the youngest aad most joyous , this sad event speaks with instructive force . A few short- weeks since , this child was the
sprightliest of the gay ; health and delight beamed ia his countenance ; his heart beat high with present and anticipated happiness ; aad bow where is he ? « ' Thou shttK seek him in the morning , bnt be shall
net-be ; " the eyes that surveyed him with rapt tire , seek for him in rain : ? ' as a dream the image has fted away , and cannot be found ; be has been chased away as a vision f the night /*
The amicted parents , who rear this frail moouioeat to the early charms and virtues of their only child , would fain impress with earnestness upon the minds of those , who , like them , may 4 se suddenly called to sustain the severest stroke a mysterious Providence can inflict , that no consolation is adequate to sustain the drooping spirits , bat a steady , unshaken conviction , that all the events of our lives are under the
direction of unerring wisdom and infinite goodness . —To this pleasing persuasion , they anxiously unite the hope of an inseparable ¥ e ~ t * nion in another and far better state of being : ' ' This tbe blest theme that cheers our
voice , Tbe grave is not our darling ' s prison ; The stone that cover'd all our joys , Im ro \ Yd away , and * he is risen ' . "
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Lately ,, at Berwick upon Tweed , after a lingering illness , Mr . James Graham , coroner of that town , aged 69 years . Though born in Orthodoxy , his active mind iooD ^ perce ived tbe value of free inquiry j and that , ta use bis own words , " mere pretension too often accompanied a state
religion . In the changes which unlimited inquiry seldom fails to produce , he had to incountar ( and who with , so fervent a love of truth ha « not "feafl to encounter ) those * ' I ^ ns and B * w 4 tu ? s / ' % which a dissent from ike ^ feed of our fathers generally is ^ compat » red / but which , for the sake of survivors , are sometimes Jbetter overlooked ** tf .. xii . " i
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tban , * &ateii « Tiie mmmvl&m of ' # xm * that m&iQ ^ i b # » to mic ^ t , ¦**» w * * gfe&r life , Unitarian principles , confirmed fed $ & also a votary of improvements in tbe > tqtw » jvherc he lived , aod in the country to whft 9 & as a subject be belonged . . In niiing up tive following slight $ lsp&c& of his labours , the reader may form sojqye
idea of his active mi ad . It is prmciplLUy owing to hi 9 exertions that a vei y e ^ t ^« ai ¥# pier was erected , t > y which the harbour was rendered beyoud comparison oxorcornniodio . us than it ever had been , ev «|> when benentted by the " old pier , ' * thougb built by Queen Elizabeth . * It was by hi $ means that the old guard-bouse was re ^
moved which stood in the north end of the High-street , and considerably obstructed the passage , presenting a dreary speciraeft of the taste of our forefathers in some of their buildings , particularly those destiny for the accommodation of the military . Tbe paving and lighting of Berwick , at > 4 decreasing the rise of Hyde Hill , at th « south entrance of that Uwn , were owi n ^
also to hts public spirit . It was by hie labour that an abundance of water w&s brought' into the town from the vine wells , about one mile south of Berwick , and that the Scotch gale , at the eorthera entrance , . was widened , and otherwise $ 0 altered as to admit the passage of loaded waggous , without the great inconvenience of unloading them , that they might p 4 ft $ »
* There was one clause in th $ bill which enabled the commissioners to purchase stone in every direction not exceeding four pailes from the intended pier , 8 » d the value of the stoues , breaking the ground , &c . was to be a&certaLued by a jury choset ^ for that purpose . Although Lord Walsinghajii made no objection to this clause
in the first bill , he offered it in the s ? cou 4 » when , to avoid every dispute as uiucji & £ possible , it was given up , and the coig ?~ zuissioncrs left to procure stones oo th ? be $% terms they could . The consequence b # 4 nearly proved fatal to the pie , r , for whoe y-e ^ was possessed of a quarry where , proDejr stones were JikoIy to be found , either
refused them altogether , or fixed suck » pn <^ as the comrnisgioperB could not give . This difficulty was coinpletely got over ^ by JVJr . Grahoiii applying to the govej-poxs $ f Greenwich Hospital , who are propriitQrji of some rocky banks abopt one mile from
the harbour , whore the quantity of stonpfa inexhaustible . Tiu » y in ) o » e 4 ^^ 1 y gr . a n |^ liberty Co quarry what . atones UM ^ t fyv wanted , and on terms so liberal , that &o % only the commissioners , but all int $ rart ** 4 in that public concern , will k » n ^ ivwmexj ^ with frraSttude .
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$ B £ ttNm ?^ JK ^ Jfones Gbakam . . . &T
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1817, page 57, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2460/page/57/
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