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    pitable manner , at their family mansion in the small village of Chavaniac , where he resided with them about ten months , when the unsettled state of France , and the continuance of the war , rendering the object of his journey impracticable , he returned to England . Mr . Dyson had ,

    hovv-Fsrer ^ been-abfe-no ^ ender some important services to this amiable family , and had remained long enough to secure to himself the warm and lasting esteem of every branch of it . During the forty years that elapsed after his return to England , he received several letters from "La

    Fayette , in which he was earnestly invited to his residence at La Grange , and strongly assured of the recollections entertained by its inmates of his generous sympathies in most trying circumstances . One of the letters was written on board the Cadmus while it was conveying the general to the United Sates in 1824 .

    In the year 1800 , Mr . Dyson married Mary , the widow of the late W . Wilkins , Esq ., of Costessy ; and although urged by his other friends to revisit France , he could not now overcome his love of a quiet home and domestic comforts . To the end

    of his life , however , he continued to be much attached to the family at La Grange , and to entertain the highest esteem for the head of it . From the time of his marriage until 1825 Mr . Dyson lived at Diss , Norfolk , whence he removed to his

    estate at Syleham , the cultivation of which was peculiarly congenial with his taste . For several years prior to his death he tiad been subject to a painful disease , which , though it did not often detain him from his usual employments ;*! nspired many of his friends with a fear that he would

    not long be spared to them . Their j pprehensions have been realized ; he retired to rest , not worse than he had been for some time , on the night of Saturday the 16 th inst , but a few hours afterwards his summons arrived , and he calmly quitted this

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    imperfect state ; His remains were interred in the burial ground at Palgrave , belonging to the Diss Unitarian congregation , of which he was a highly valuable member , and on the following Sunday a large number of his friends , relations , and servants heard a discourse in

    reference to his death , from the words of our Saviour , ' Blessed is that servant whom Ills Lord when he cometh shall find so doing . * It is scarcely possible for the widow and the other deeply attached relatives of the deceased to think upon these words , in connexion with his character , and not derive the most effectual consolations . The

    virtues by which tnat character was chiefly adorned , were those of a truly religious man , of one who was habitually , though unostentatiously , influenced by the precepts and promises of genuine Christianity . With him ( as ft was remarked in the discourse just alluded to ) Christian excellence was not like a convenient

    garment , to be put on or thrown aside , as the cares and pleasures of the world might dictate ; it was always about him ; it was conspicuous in the former , and cheerful as well in the latter and painful period of his life . To God , as his all-wise , ever-merciful Father , he paid his constant tribute of humble confidence

    and pious adoration ; and to Jesus , as his example , his instructor , his redeemer , he looked for comfort and direction , both while he was enjoying a full share of health and strength , and while he was suffering from the disease which brought him to the tomb , And while those who loved

    and respected him , are enabled to derive " "improvement arici satisfaction from reflecting upon his piety , benevolence , uprightness , and love of truth , they may cherish the delightful expectation of meeting him again , when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption , and this mortal shall have put on immortality . Piss , April 9 , 1833 , .. . ; .: * . ; , j

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    CORRESPONDENCE . 157

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 1, 1833, page 157, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2613/page/29/