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county of Galway , who died on the 23 rd of October , 1784 , at the age of 54 . Mr . Coneys received his collegiate education at the University of Cambridge . Being destined for the legal profession , he afterwards entered a student at Lincoln ' s-Inn , where he finished his terras in 1789 . He now re t urned to Ireland , and for a short time practised as a Solicitor at Dublin ; but this brauch of the
profession not being congenial with his taste , he quitted it , and was called to the Irish Bar . Though he here acquired considerable reputation as a lawyer , yet his attendance upon the courts was not sufficiently constant to command for him very general practice . Subsequently to the Union , he was frequently employed in appeal causes before the House of Lords , and in Parliamentary business before Committees of the House of
Commons . In 1819 $ he took up his permanent residence in the neighbourhood of London , but still occasionally engagiug in professional business before Parliament . In ' 1824 , he was honoured with the appointment of being one of His Majesty ' s Commissioners of Legal Inquiry into the Administration of Civil and
Commercial Justice in the West Indies , an office for which he was singularly well qualified , no less by his learning and talents than by the high independence of his spirit and his inflexible integrity . In consequence of this appointment , he spent almost two years in the West Indies , and his last months were principally devoted to the preparation ,
in conjunction with his only surviving colleague , Jabez Henry , Esq ., of the important report of the result of their inquiries , to be submitted to the Government and to Parliament . During the time Mr . Coneys was a student at Cainbridge , a spirit of religious inquiry was at work among the members of that
University , which had then led to the secession of some eminent individuals , and subsequently caused the secession of others , from the doctrine and communion of the Church of England . Among this honourable band may be named Mr . Lfnd&ey , Dr . Disney , Dr . Jebb , Mr . Wakefield , ami others , not to mention some individuals of high character still living .
Mr . Coneys felt the influence of this spirit , and whilst he did not neglect a proper attention to the ordinary pursuits of the University , he applied himself with diligence and earnestness to the study of the Jewish and Christian Scriptures , and rose from the consideration of them " with the entire conviction , " so he has himself recorded , " of the strict
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unity and unrivalled supremacy of the One God the Father , and of the mere and proper humanity , as regards the nature , and the divine mission , as respects the authority , of his Son and servant , our Lord Jesus Christ : " and in this persuasion he remained unshaken to his death . His convictions on these
important points were to him sources of great satisfaction on his dying bed , and he caused them to be distinctly recorded in his will , which was made a short time before his death . It is to be mentioned to his honour , that he was . never solicitous to conceal his religious sentiments , however they might , by their unpopularity in the circles in which he
generally moved , operate to his disadvantage as a professional man . Whilst he resided at Dublin , he was an attendant on Unitarian worship at the chapel of the excellent Dr . Drummond , and on his settlement in London he became a worshiper at Essex Street , and occasionally , as suited his convenience , at other Unitarian chapels . A desire to do good
was his ruling passion . Under the influence of this feeling , and considering that his example and instruction might , in consequence of his early and hereditary connexion with Ireland , and also because of the peculiar circumstances of that country , be more effective there than elsewhere , he had projected the formation of an establishment in his native
neighbourhood , where he intended to pass some months in every year , with the view of promoting by every means in his power the intellectual , moral and physical improvement of the surrounding country . Death , however , rendered this scheme abortive , and terminated all his philanthropic plans and benevolent anticipations .
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Hf . lrn Maria Williams , Whose death we announced in our last number , ( p . 60 , ) began her literary career under the friendly patronage of Dr . Kippis . Her first publication was a legendary tale , entitled Edwin and Elfrida , to which Dr . Kippis wrote a preface . She afterwards printed , in 1783 , an Ode on the Peace , which was
followed , in 1784 , by Pern , a Poem . In j 786 , she published by subscription a Collection of Miscellaneous Poems , in 2 Vols ., 12 mo , including the two poems just named . Her next work was a poem on the Slave Trade , which appeared in 1788 . And , in 1790 , she published a novel in two volumes , under the title of Julia . In 1788 , Miss Williams , having
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136 Obituary . — Miss Helen Maria Williams .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1828, page 136, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2557/page/64/
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