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    lie gently closed his eyes on this life , with a look of affection and tenderness to those of his famil y who were then surrounding Y \ t rv *

    lie was buried at Islington , on Tuesday , Dec . 13 . Three mourning coaches filled with hfs relatives and a few of his most intimate friends , attended him to the grave . To these were unex-

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    pectedly added in the square , seven other mourning coach es , filled with those friends who were desirous of thus publicly manifesting their esteem for him , and accompanying him to his last abode in this world . The church was filled , and the sorrow for the loss of such a man was abundantly visible .

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    MEMOIR OF THE REV . R . BARBAULD .

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    Died , on the 11 th of November last , in his sixtieth year , the Rev . Rochemont Barbauld , late Pastor of the Dissenting Congregation , at Newinstton Green ;

    deeply regretted by the circle of his connections , as a friend of virtue , liberality and true religion . His ancestors were of that ho *

    nourable stock of French emigrants , who left their country and their all , after the repeal of the Edict of Nantz , for conscience sake ; and his progenitors on both lather and mother ' s side , for five or six generations , had been ministers of the reformed Church . His father , the Rev . Theophilus Lewis

    Barbauld ^ took orders in the Church of England , and was appointed chaplain to the Princess

    of Hesse , daughter to George the Second , on her marriage . He resided , jn consequence , at Cassel , where he married Mile , de Rochemont , also of a French Protestant

    family , some of whose members , before the French Revolution , filled respectable situations in the

    republic , of Geneva , and one , a proraising youth , fell a victim to po-

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    pular fury at that period . Air . Barbauld passed several years , at the little court of Hesse , and all his children were born in that principality . On the death of the Princess , he returned to England , with his young family , after a stay of some months at Paris ,

    Rochemont , the eldest son , being then twelve years old , and was presented with the living of St . Foster ' s Vedast . He also preached at the French Chapel , at St . James ' s . Mr . BarBauld , the fa ~ ther , was a man of taste and'

    literature , an elegant preacher both in French and English , which languages he spoke and wrote with exjual purity and fluency . Fondly attached to his children , he took pleasure in forming the mind , and cultivating the promising talents of his son , who was educated chiefly at home , till an academic

    age . A domestic education has

    some disadvantages which the subject of this memoir often regretted ; 3 * et to it he was in a great measure indebted for the early expansion of the principles of taste , and the powers of reasoning , for a lively

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    706 Memoir of the Rev . R . Barbauld .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1808, page 706, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1706/page/14/