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    < rarcelV ant earttily desire ' utigr&tified ^ ap ' d ^ at almost his only fear was le ^ t prosKHty sliovM iiiake him forget ttiat tbia worlu was not His home . The

    consternation and grief of his fainijy may be imagined and not described . His talents and principles , his happy , cheerful disposition , and above all , his kind , affectionate , endearing manners , had won their unbounded esteem and love . Their

    loss is irreparable . But it was not only his own relatives who knew and appreciated his worth . In the concerns of life and the conduct ofTiis profession he was distiuguishecf for energy , independence and sterling integrity . The ease and rapidity with which he transacted business , and his peculiar correctness in

    all pecuniary arrangements , rendered it a pleasure to be engaged with him ; and many and unexpected and most gratifying are the testimonials which his mourning friends have received from the most

    respectable members of the profession , lamenting his untimely fate , and expressing their warm esteem and regard for him as an ornament to their society . He was a sincere and zealous supporter of the Lancasterian schools and other

    useful institutions at Southampton , charitable to his poor neighbours , and always ready to afford assistance to those in need , not merely with his purse , but with his advice and active exertion . The universal sympathy excited on this melancholy occasion was of no common character . All in speaking of him seemed as if by his death they were themselves involved in some domestic

    misfortune , and the numerous and earnest expressions of condolence from various quarters and all ranks of society , even t > OIll persons unknown to his family , are the strongest testimony of his worth , and , while they give poignancy to tfncf , at the same lime afford a source ot

    most soothing consolation . Every exertion was made for many days to find the body , but without success . Ou Tuesday , the 1 st of August , it was discovered by the crew of a Revenue tinier

    , noating near the Mother bank at Rjde ; and on Wednesday , an inquest was held , and the body consigned to the famil y vault at Newport . On the Sunday following , a funeral sermon was

    Poached on the occasion by the minister ot -the Unitarian Chapel at Newport , who has kindly permitted the insertion ° < Uie following extract : ft ' m some consolation to those who «* re in (} le preseiJt j nstance bereaved , iiat they can look back to the memory <> t their departed relative with feelings I pensive satisfaction , and that among at Potion of mankind whom death

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    precipitates into an untimely grav £ , few leave '" , " behind them a more tinblertiiihed reputation . It is not necessary in this place to enter at any length into tfte

    character of the deceased ; but a few words may be permitted as sacred to > the feelings of mourning friendship and due to departed worth . That important part of the character which consists in the culture and exercise of the devotional

    feehngs can only be known to that Being who is the object of them . But those nearly connected with our late friend are not without pleasing memorials which indicate that the Scriptures were not unfrequeiitly the subject of his meditations , and ( hat , without any affectation

    of it , there existed in his mind real seriousness of feeling . Of the exemplary manner in which he discharged the personal and social duties , we may be allowed to speak with more freedom , because here man could judge ; and if the concurrent testimony borne to it by his most intimate friends and a wide circle

    of general acquaintance , by those who were attached to him by the ties of kindred and affection , and those who knew him onlv in the concerns of business and the common intercourses of societv . can be relied on as any just criterion , few men'at his early period of life had attained to a higher degree of moral excellence in the estimation of mankind ,

    His suavity of manners and uniform attention to the little interests of those around him , his sympatliy with distress and readiness to alleviate it , have left a blank in the social enjoyments of his friends which time only can fill up , and which , indeed , to some of his immediate

    relatives can never be . supplied . Oh whilst you drop a tear to the memory oi early merit , thus cut oft' by the inscrutable appointment of an ali-wise but oft mysterious Providence , let it be mingled witJi a gleam of rejoicing-, borrowed from

    the consideration that you ' sorrow not as though without hope , * and let your grief be mitigated , though it cannot be removed , by an endeavour to imitate his example . " II . G . K .

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    O £ iitMrj / . ~ Rev . John If&liancL 4 v 5

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    Hcv . John FJot la ml ( see p . 430 ) . The hasty notice of Mr . Holland in the last number was drawn up ou the impulse of the . moment , and was by no means intended to supersede any further

    tribute of respect and affection , which the writer was well aware that many others besides himself might wish to offer . If more time had been allowed he would , of eonr . se , have noticed ( as he did to his own congregation , who had

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1826, page 495, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2551/page/51/