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      Mr . Brookes , Sheffield - . 110 Mr . Morton , ditto - - ¦ - - O 5 0 Mr . Nanfson , ditto - - - - 0 10 6 The Unitarians at Thorne , have very great pleasure in being able to state , that the expense incurred in

      enlarging the burial-ground attached to their chapel , is now entirely defrayed . Nor can they omit this opportunity of returning their sincere thanks for the prompt and liberal assistimce which they have received from their kind and numerous friends .

      For the information and satisfaction of these individuals , to whom they will ever be proud to ascribe no iricon-

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      wt ^ mmmm A GLOOM has overspread the nation since our last , such as is unexampled in the annals of our country , and perhaps in the history of any other people . The marriage of the Princess Charlotte had been hailed as an auspicious event , and the manner in which she had lived with the

      husband of her choice , seldom to be paralleled in the union of persons in the hig-her ranks of society , afforded the strongest grounds of assurance , that she would be as good a queen and a parent as she was a wife . The time approached for the nation to be blest with the fruits of this union , when all the hopes and expectations were

      suddenly blasted by the loss of the child and the death of the parent . The melancholy intelligence spread rapidly through tlie country , and every where occasioned the same grief and sincere affliction . Spontaneously the streets of every city , town and villag-e exhibited the outward signs of inward distress . The shops were half shut in the same manner as if death had

      entered the house , and universally the saoie garbs of mourning were worn . It required no order from the court , the people from themselves manifested their g""ef on this extinction of their hopes , ° n this premature destruction of two generations .

      Before the day of the interment of the remains of this beloved Princess , a cessation of all business on that day was announced ltK almost every district , and the exceptions from this almost universal feeling were so few , that they served only to

      manifest more strongly the general sentiment . The > day was ushered in by the t olling of bella . The places of worship •• all persuasions were- opened . They ^ ere attended with * crowded audiences , and / every wherty sermons adapted * 4 o « the occasion were preached . All manner of

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      siderable portion of their present comparative prosperity , they think it may not be improper to addj that notwithstanding the redoubled exertions of the reputed orthodox , whether in the dissemination of tracts , in

      industriously circulating the most pernicious and groundless calumnies , or in other equally disgraceful measures ; the cause of Unitarian Christianity is , to say the least , steadily and gradually gaining ground in Thome and the neighbourhood : and that no exertions shall be wanting to diffuse still more extensively a knowledge of its doctrines and benevolent influence . -

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      work-was at a stand , and the minds of every one were filled with tne loss they had sustained .

      The last act of piety was paid at Windsor , to which place the two bodies were carried with the usual funereal pomp , and they were deposited in the silent tomb in the presence of all that is great and noble in the kingdom . The disconsolate husband was on this occasion the chief

      mourner-He had not , as is too much the case in the hig-her ranks , quitted the spot where his beloved consort breathed her last : but he daily shed his tears over her remains , and did not quit them till they were consigned to their last abode . Equally eNemplary was his conduct during the short time that she enjoyed with him that degree of

      happiness of which both were worthy 5 and when by the dispensation of Providence she was separated from him , his grief manifested that sincere affliction which arose not from any sensation of lost greatness , but from the dissolution of the ties of mutual

      affection . The memory of such an union will long- live in the hearts of Englishmen : and when royal marriages are formed , the best wish that can be framed will be , may this couple live as happily and shevfr as good an example , as Charlotte and Leopold .

      The thoughts of death have thus been forcibly brought home to every bosom in the kingdom , and we will hope that more than a mere transitory emotion has been excited . As Christians , we view this fancied king * of terrors in a very different

      light from the mere men of this world , an a dispensation wisely designed by the great Author of all good for our more permanent good . Jt is the destined passage from this life to a better . If it puts off the plans of man , it teaches him that all his plans should be formed on the conviction ,

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1817, page 693, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2470/page/53/