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    all intellectual endowments superior to his own . He would be the master of his circle . He did not envy Mr . Fox his political superiority more than he did Mr . Porson his litemry attainments—and this humour was not of a character to

    be corrected by age * We fear it went with him to his death-bed . — Mr . Tooke was in the 7 Tth year of his age . He had been for several weeks in a declining state , and hail lost the use of his lower

    extremities . A few days ago , mortification appeared and rapidly ad . vanced . Dr . Pearson , Mr . Cline , Mr . Tooke ' s two daughters , and Sir Francis Burdett , attended on him , and he was informed that

    his dissolution was approaching * He signified , with a placid look , that he was fully prepared , and had reason to be grateful for having passed so long and so happy a life , which he would willingly have had extended if it had been

    possible . He expressed much satisfaction that he should be surrounded inv his last moments by those who were most dear to him . He professed his perfect confidence in the existence of a Supreme Being , whoscr final purpose was the happiness of his creatures . The eccentric facetiousness for

    which he was so remarkable , did hot forsake him till lie became speechless , ' and even then his looks wore an aspect of cheerful * resign nation . A short time before his

    death , When he was supposed to be in a state of entire insensibility , Sir Francis Bundett mixed up a dotdial for him , which his medical friends told the Baronet it would

    be r * to no purpose to ' administer , trot Sir Franeis persevered in offering it , ¦ and' raided M r . Tooke * hh that vieW .- ^ Theriatter opened ju

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    his eyes , and seeing who offered the draught , took the glass and drank tbe contents with eagerness He had previously observed , that he should not be like the man at

    Strasburgh , who , when doomed to death s requested time to pray , till the patiencfc of the- magistrates was exhausted , and then , as a last expedient , begged to be permitted to close his life with his favourite

    amusement of nine-pins ^ but who kept bowling on , with an evident determination never to finish the game . —He desired that no funeral ceremony should be said over bis

    remains , and that six of the poorest men in the parish should have a guinea each for bearing him to the vault which had been prepared in his garden M * * Chron . March 21 .

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    18152 . Jan . 16 . At Up minster , Essex , James Esdaile , Esq . — a man , endeared to his neighbourhood by that active

    benevolence , which rendered him at once an example and a blessing ; to his family , by the habitual extrcise of all the gentler affections , whu : h constitute the charm of domestic

    life ; to his personal friends , by the cordial interest , which he took in all their concerns ; and to the friends of rational Christianity , by the steadiness of bis religious principles , and the corresponding fruits

    of a good life .-trrFor the early impressions of that , piety , which constituted a prominent feature in his character , he was indebted to the care of his excellent mother , Lady

    Esdaile ; afrd the seed thus sown , with maternal solicitude , was cherished iu its growth , under the ministry of Dr . Jas . fFolrdyce , than whom no : preacher knew better the happy art 6 f applying th *

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    Obituary *—James Esdaile * Esq . 153

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1812, page 193, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1746/page/57/