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    Resolutions of Protestant Dissenting Ministers on the Death of the Duke of Kent . [ The following Resolutions were presented to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent , March 24 th , by a Deputation , consisting of the following Ministers arranged , as they were introduced , according to seniority , —Rev . Dr . Rees , Dr . Rippon ,

    Dr . Morgan , ( the Secretary , ) Dr . Winter , Dr . Lindsay , Dr . Waugh , Dr . Newman , and Dr . Collyer . Her Royal Highness , supported by her brother Prince Leopold , received the Deputation with the most condescending politeness and affability . While the Resolutions were reading she shewed much feeling , and shed tears . When the Chairman had concluded , Prince

    Leopold , after apologising for his sister ' s inability to answer in English , assured the Deputation , with polite and appropriate acknowledgments , of her deep sense of the attention shewn her by the Dissenting Ministers . They had then the honour of kissing the Duchess ' s hand . On their expressing a wish to see the

    infant Princess , Alexandrina , she was brought forward from an apartment , of which the folding-doors were thrown open , and they kissed her hand also . When this unformal ceremony , in which the Duchess and her brother mingled with the Deputation as amongst friends of long standing , was over , Dr . Rees seized the

    occasion , as they were about to retire , in his own name , that of his brethren present and absent , and of thousands and millions of his Majesty ' s subjects in different parts of the kingdom , to express the most earnest wish , that his Royal Highness and his beloved sister the Duchess of Kent , allied to our country , by

    several endearing and interesting connexions , might enjoy a long and prosperous life , for administering happiness to each other , and to all over whom their influence should extend , and for training up in principles , of piety , virtue and liberty , civil and religious , those who , according to tfce order of Providence , may possibly , at some future period , dignify the throne ,

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    and impart lustre to the crown of the British empire . —Before the Deputation waited on the Duchess , they were honoured with a most friendly and pleasing interview with the Duke of Sussex , who shewed them some of the choicest treasures in his extensive and valuable library , ] Z > r . JVilliants Library ¦ , Medcross-street , March 7 , 1820 .

    At an extraordinary meeting of the general body of Protestant Dissenting Ministers of the Three Denominations , the Rev . A . Rees , D . D ., F . R . S ., F . L . S ., Soc . Amer . Soc , in the Chair , Resolved , —1 . That this body , deeply affected by the irreparable loss which the

    cause of truth and humanity has suffered in the recent death of his Royal Highness the Duke of Kent , cannot deny themselves the melancholy satisfaction of thus publicly expressing their grief on an event which has taken fftbtn the Royal Family one of its brightest ornaments , and from

    the nation one of its best , hopes . 2 . That whilst the character of the illustrious deceased commanded the esteem of men in all ranks , and of all religious persuasions ^ his Royal Highness was endeared in an especial manner to Protestant Dissenters / by the enlarged opinions which he entertained and avowed

    on the subject of religious freedom , and by the cordial support which , in connexion with his illustrious brother the Duke of Sussex , he was ready to give to those charitable' establishments with which Dissenters were chiefly interested ; and that this body admired , above all , the ardour with which he espoused , and the

    diligence with which he promoted , that comprehensive plan for the education ot the poor which hte ~ Royal Father had sanctioned' with his * approbation , and which is not confined to dasses or sects , but adapted to the . general exigences ot im

    human nature , and to the general - provement of rational and immortal being * - 3 . That this body , partaking of tfte same Catholic spirit , and anxious form wider diffusion , loofcback ; with a « "ngie a sentiment of pleasure and regret , to tnose

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    Lately , at Palparrow , in Cornwall * Robert Jeffery , commonly known throughout the kingdom by the name of Jeffery > the seaman ; who , some years ago , was left on the desolate island of Sombrero , where he was eight days and nights without support , except a few

    small limpets : he was fortunately rescued from his perilous situation by an American ship , which took him to Connecticut , whence he got a passage to England , but has been in a declining state of health ever since .

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    246 Register of Public Documents .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1820, page 246, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2487/page/54/