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    Our long-and intimate connexion with the deceased would induce us to observe a total si fence on his virtues ; hut something , far the sake of the living , is due to departed worth , and friendship and affection will be pardoned for the memorial of simple and unexag-gerated truth .

    " Shortly after nine o ' clock , on Saturday last , Mr . Ramsey expired at his house , Ames's Place , in the 73 d year of his age , after an illness of considerable duration . That iliness long * and visibly pointed to its issue , and he who suffered under it was fully sensible of . his approaching dissolution . He was in the entire possession of his faculties to the last moment of his

    existence , and conversed on the close of thai existence with placid serenity and pious resignation . He had inflicted no injuries on bis brethren of mankind—he had defrauded uo man- —* he had done justice to all in the whole of his intercourse with the world—and his conscience i had therewith

    nothing * to reproach him . Perhaps , no man was more ardently desirous for the happiness of every human being- ; and this generous feeling manifested itself in unostentatious activity , wherever opportunities presented themselves . To relieve indigence by giving it occupation , was one of his

    first principles $ where the claimant for benefactions Was incapable of labour , pecuniary aid was . ever liberally administered 5 hut the severity of eensure , and the indignant refusal of assistance , were the uniform treatment which idleness and vice expert * enced at his hands . As a trader , no reproaches were ever passed upon his name :

    his integrity was so rigid and so well ascertained , that his word was deemed equal to the strictest legal bond . To the young and deserving adventurer in business , he was a kind and protecting benefactor , and those who failed in their obligations to him never experienced that harshness of usage with which unmerciful creditors are so

    frequently charged . In the progress of a long- and industrious life , he accumulated an ample fortune , and his prosperity was the reward of patient toil , of contentment with small profits , and of that purity of mind and conduct which no temptations of gain could eradicate , or even enfeeble . Possessed of a strong natural understanding ,

    he penetrated deeply into the characters of men ; but he was far more inclined to dwell upon favourable views of his brethren , than to pass upon them the sentence of condemnation . He had no enemies , and th « offences he may have encountered , for

    offences will come to e ^ ery man , were with him but of brief and momentary consideration . He had numerous friends , and his attachments ) Which were stedf&st and atehoftt immovable , were varied only by the degree * of merit which attracted his regards .

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    or by the closer intimacies of relationship or domestic bonds . Oo evei' 5 subject , political , civil and religious , he thought for himself , and he was tenacious of those opinions which he deemed to be founded in truth ; but the liberty which he demanded

    for himself , he left every *> ther inan freejy to enjoy 5 and , while be often delighted to indulge in the collision of argument , no opposition to his peculiar opinions could , in the slightest degree , affect his sentiments of previous esteem . Over the death of friends whom he loved he had sometimes

    to shed the tear of genuine affliction , but his life was not otherwise exposed to adversity , and good fortune never created in him that superciliousness and pride , of which it is too often the fertile source . Hospitable in his disposition , it was his

    happiness to see those around him in the full enjoyment of happiness . la discharging the duties of mayor and sheriff of this city , he was just and equitable on every occasion , and exhibited an example of impartiality and firmness highly worthy of imitation He built the house in which he

    expired , and his name was given to that quarter of the city , and the improvements which he there commenced will long * remain an honourable testimonial to his public spirit . Sir John Newport was the early friend of Alderman Ramsey , and it was one of his favourite topics of conversation to expatiate on the private excellence and the illustrious public merit of the Right Hon . Baronet . Their connexion lasted

    long , and their mutual esteem is not to be extinguished by death . Friendship and affection will survive the grave , and kindred spirits will meet in the land of ererlastingfelicity . " In addition to the above account , extracted from the Waterford Chronicle , we may add , from unquestionable authority ,

    that Mr . Ramsey had long been one of the elders of the Presbyterian congregation al Waterford , and that , in his religious opinions , he was a decided Unitarian . The loss of such a character is severely felt by the society . So highly was he esteemed

    by his fellow-citizens , that on the day of his funeral , the shops in Waterford were shut . Mrs . Hone , whose death is recorded above , was his niece , and a congeniality of disposition and character , had greatly endeared them to each other .

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    Obituary . —Mis * Mary Ann PriowitL &Q . 7

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    July 26 , at Newcastle-upon- Tyney ttged 34 yMARir Ann , eldest daughter of the Ifctfe Rev . Edward Frowitt . She had " been subject to sickness and suffering- for years , but appeared to « njoy the suitttiuer , and had even been able to attend two or * three times at the chapel in Hanover Square , 00 the mmistrj of her pastor and friend , Mr . Turner . A sudden attack , however , reduced

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1818, page 527, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2479/page/55/