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      Saturday the 18 th kist . * the congregation and the other gentlemen who wished to pay the last tribute of respect to him , assembled at the Library in Red-Cross Street , and tkence proceeded to the chapel , where Dr . T . Rees delivered an Oration , in which he sketched , with an ahle hand , the mind and character of the

      deceased . The procession then moved to Bunhili fields , where the service was concluded . The pall was borne by six ministers of the Three Denominations , The next day , Sunday the 19 th instant , the funeral sermon was preached in Jewin Street , to a crowded auditory , by the Rev . R . Asplanp , on a subject which was ever near the heart of the deceased ,

      viz . The Reunion of Christian Friends in a Future State . The Rev . D . Da ^ ison , the Doctor's recently - appointed colleague , conducted the devotional services on this occasion . ( Dr . Rees had appointed , by his will , the two gentlemen before-named , that officiated in the

      funeral services . ) Both the Oration and the Sermon are , at the request of the family and congregation , to be published .

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      June 13 th , in the 71 st year of her age , at Beading , after eight days of painful suffering , Mrs . Champion , whose sound

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      DOMESTIC . RELIGIOUS . Manchester College , York . The 38-9 th Anuual Meeting of the Trustees of this Institution was held in the Cross-Street Chapel Rooms , Manchester , on Friday the 6 th of August , 1824 , when , it being determined in future

      to hold the Manchester Annual Meeting of Trustees on the Thursday nearest to the first full moon subsequent to the 22 nd of February , the anniversary of the foundation of the College , the meeting adjourned , at its close , to the 3 rd of March last , having first passed a vote requesting the officers of the College to continue in office until that day .

      On the ard of March , Samuel Kay , Ksq ., having been called to the Chair , the proceedings of the Committee since the former Annual Meeting v ^ ere read , approved of , and confirmed , and votes of

      thanks were passed to the several officers of the Institution , for their services during l *» past year . The following officers were then elected for the year ensuing , viz . Joseph Strutt , Esq ., President ; James ¦ ouchctt , Esq ., Peter Martineau , Esq .,

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      sense , sincere piety * dppie ^ t virtues , liberal spirit , active charity ^ ardent friendship , conjugal and maternal aifecjAoii , endeared her to ail her family aird friends , and rendered the time of her departure from this life a season of deep affliction . Her sorrowing family will long - cherish her memory , in the pleasing anticipation

      of a happy reunion m a state or conscious being , where death will have no more dominion over man , or power to rend the sacred bond of mutual affection . The deceased had in early life embraced the Calviiiistic system of religious belief ;

      but she gradually abandoned it ; and , after having adopted the doctrine of universal restoration , from the writings of Mr . Winchester , she became , for the last fourteen years of her life , a decided and zealous Unitarian .

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      Daniel Gaskell , Esq ., Abraham Crompton , Esq ., the Rev . John Yates , and the Rev . John Kentish , Vice-Presidents ; and George William Wood , Esq ., Treasurer . The office of Visitors continues to be rilled by the Rev . W . Turner and the Rev . Dr . Carpenter , and that of Public Examiners by the Rev . Dr . Button and the Rev * John Gooch Robberds . The Deputy Treasurers were re-elected with the

      addition of Mr . John Bell for York and the neighbourhood . At a second adjournment of that meeting held on the 7 th of April last , Ottivvell Wood , Esq ., in the Chair , Mr . S . D . Darbishire and the Rev . J . J . Tayler were appointed Secretaries , and Mr . Samuel Kay and Mr .

      Samuel Allcock Auditors , and the Committee was re-elected with the exception of the Rev . John Grundy , Mr . Edward Hanson and Mr . Robert Philips , Jan ., who are succeeded by Mr . Benjamin Hey wood , Mr . Samuel Allcock , and the Rev . Robert Smcthurst .

      The number of Students in the College during tfie last Session was twenty-nine , viz . ten Lay Students and nineteen Divinity Students , of whom twelve were on the foundation on full exhibitions , and

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      June 15 , at Leigh Rectory , near Reigate , Surrey , in the 58 th year of his age , Samuel Wilton , Esq , eldest sun of the late Dr . Wilton , formerly minister of the

      Weigh-House , East Cheap , who , though he has been long dead , and died at an early age , is remembered with esteem and respect as the friend and champion of religious liberty . ( See his Review of the Thirty-nine Articles . )

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      INTELLIGENCE .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1825, page 373, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2537/page/47/