1801.] 
fician.—C. Bradling, efq. formerly M.P. for 
ewcaftle.——Mrs. A. Birlifon, aged go years, 
during the laft 14 of which, fhe had been to- 
tally deprived of fight. —-Mrs. H. Smith, mo- 
ther of Mrs. Robinfon, of the Bird-in-Buth 
inn.—Aged 77, Mrs. A. Rodatz, widow of 
the late Mr. C. M. Rodatz, Hamburgh mer- 
chant.—Aced 17, Mr. J. Green, -engraver. 
m—Mifs Scaife, fifter of Mr, Scaife, painter. 
Aged 64, R. Surtees, efq. of Mensforth, 
in Durham, 
_ J. Thornhill, efq. of Thornhill, juttice of 
peace for the county of Durham, and one of 
the commiffioners for the river Wear. He 
was the founder of St. John’s chapel about 
49° years ago, and was interred at his par- 
ticular requeft, in a vault therein of his 
own confruétion, being the firft perfon depo. 
fited within the walls of that chapel. 
At Bithop Wearmouth, Mis. Burn, widow 
of the late Mr. W. Burn, farmer.—W. Rob- 
fon, efg. many years an eminent coal fitter 
and fhip- builder there. 
At Hexham, Mr. A. Bell, fon of Mr. C. 
Bell, glover, 
Mr.T. Hunter, timber merchant, of Win- 
Jaton. 
Mrs. Jopling, of Walfingham, late of 
Gatefhead. 
Ac Darlington, aged 97,.Mrs. L. Richard- 
fon, of the fociety of Quakers —In his 7oth 
year, Mr. C. Hird, of the Old Fleece inn. 
—Aged $8, M. Bowes, efq. formerly of Spit- 
tle, Yorkshire. 
At Berwick-upon-Tweed, Mrs. Steadman, 
late of York.—Suddenly, Mr. H. Glover, of 
the Turk’s-head inn. ; , 
At Hartlepool, aged 31, Mrs. Harrifon. 
At Sunserland, Mrs. Douglas, wife of Mr. 
T. Douglas, inn-keeper —In the prime of 
life, Mifs Orton, fifter to Mr. Orton, draper. 
At South Shields, Mr.T. Wade, of Redcar. 
At Morpeth, aged 64, Mrs. Wilkinfon, 
- widow, formerly of Cowper near Blyth — 
Suddenly, Mrs. Craike, wife of Mr. G. 
Craike, matter of the itage coaches between 
that place and Newceafile. 
At Eryhoim, near Durham, aged tog, 
Mary Pearfon. 
At Briftol, J. Shaftoe, efq. of Whitworth, 
near Durham, 
In London, aged 21, Mr. T. Pick, of Dar- 
lington.—Mr. G. Paterfon, of the Buck 
public houfe. 
Mifs Rawling, of Sherburn, near Durham. 
Mr. J. Muicafter, inn-keeper. In going to 
bed he complained that he felt himfelf ex- 
tremely cold, and, in confequence, ordered a 
glafs of liquor, but before it was brought, he 
expired, = = 
At New Whitley, near North Shields, 
aged 54, Captain W. Jemfon. 
At Catterick Bridge, in Yorkfhire, aged 
42, the Rev, Edward Prowitt, of Newcattle- 
upon-Tyne. His» parents were members of 
the Particular Baptift church at Leiceiter, 
* whence, at, or rather after, the ufual age, he 
*Montury Mac. No, go. 
Northumberland and Durham. St 
was fent to. the Baptifts’ College, at Briftol. 
Having there completed his education under 
the late eminent Dr. Caleb Evans, he was 
ordained minifter of the Baptift Church at 
Oxford, and continued for feveral years to of 
ficiate in that capacity with mutual fatisfac- 
tion and advantage. After fome time, how- 
ever, the courfe of his ftudies (for he wasan 
attentive and patient, and defirous to be an 
impartial, ftudent of the Scriptures) led him 
to doubt of many, deemed fundamental artis 
cles, of the fyftem in which he had been 
educated, and gradually to talze, on thefe fub- 
jeets, the Unitarian fide. Few but thofe who | 
have been aétually involved in them, can be 
proper judges of the merit of that rare com- 
bination of integrity and fortitude, which is 
neceflary to overcome the difficulties that 
furround the man, who has led by confciens 
tious and ferious enquiry, in the face of every 
worldly intereft, to change the fyftem of his 
religious creed. None elfe can adequately 
conceive the ftate of mind, which one who 
has felt it* has fo well defcribed, ‘* when 
perplexed concerning the proper object of 
worfhip, and doubtful how to regulate its 
addrefles; when the feelings have di€tated 
fufpicions concerning the providence and mo- 
ral government of God, which the mind 
dared not avow, or even think that it had 
felt: and when, by the blefiing of God upon 
further inguiry, a firm conviétion has been 
eftablifhed of his abfolute unity, his confum- 
mate wifdom, his boundlefs goodnef3, the 
equity of his government, the reaf nablenefs 
of his laws, and his indulgent regards to the 
children of men; he has been convinced: of 
the tendency of thefe fentiments to animate, 
to cheer, and to purify the heart, to infpire 
confidence in God and benevoleive to man,’* 
he has been confcious, at the fame time, of 
the hazard, and even danger, of the open 
profeffion of them, Scruple, hefitation, fear 
of general cenfure, the odious charges of | 
herefy, and apoftacy, the lofs of ‘riends, the 
breach of conneétions, the feparation. of near- 
eft and deareft relatives, foas to realize, cven 
in thefe enlightened and liberal times, our 
Lord’s defcription of his primitive followers, 
are experienced by all; but thefe are greatly 
enhanced to the man, on the profeilion of 
whofe former creed depends his bread; and 
who, on the renunciation of them, givcs up 
the maintenance not only of himfelf, but of 
thofe who are moft dear to him, and throws 
himielf upon the wide world an outcaft whom 
he knows not that any one will own, itill 
lefs that any one will own as a friend, and 
ftretch forth to him the. right hand of fel- 
lowfhip. Who can wonder that, in the 
contempJation of fuch diftreffes many excel 
lentand worthy men have been deterred from 
following the diétates of their confciences ? 
And that few have been enabled to aét with 
the fpirit of cle deceafed, who thought thefe 
* Beltham’s Importance of Truth, p, 33- 
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