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€ > er assailed . No man who had a claim on the virtuous for protection , ever applied to him in vain . He was the earnest and indefatigable friend of the oppressed ; and in the prosecution m' Justice was dismayed by no
combination of power , clamour or calumny J-vvearied out by no difficulties and exhausted by no fatigue . In all his exertions , the only creature whose interests he did not consult , were his own ; for of all public characters we
should point out Mr * Whit bread as the individual who had the least consideration for himself , and who was the least actuated by personal motives . His heart and mind were wholly devoted to the amelioration of the state
of society , to the maintenance of the rights which our forefathers acquired , and to the communication of those blessings to others which we ourselves enjoy . His views were all public . He could not T > e diverted from the right path by any species of influence , for he was inflexible
alike to flattery and corruption . * He invariably objected to that system by which the burthens of Great Britain have been so dreadfully accumulated , because he believed that the object of the league of sovereigns was more to restrain the rising spirit of a just
liberty , than to withstand the insatiate ambition of a single individual ; and his justification in this sentiment was the proof , that they never adhered in success to the professions with which they set out in adversity . He was the warm , liberal and
enthusiastic encourager of universal education , from the pure feeling of benevolence that actuated all his life . He was convinced , that to enlighten the rational mind and to make a people familiar with the holy scriptures , was to make them strong , moral and ^ PPy « He was no bigot to forms of
* he following : Sums for the Rosseudale Unitarians : viz . John Mackintosh , Esq . of Exeter * 5 O 0 Collection at Tavistock , at the Meeting of the Devon and Cor ^ w ^ j i Unitarian Association ........ 446
¦¦* Do . at the Rev . Mr . Evans ' s Meeting on the folding LonTs day , ~ ~ - 4 0 6 He earnestly hoped , that our Rossendale brethre n will keep up their discipline as Methodists , as far as their peculiar circ uttisiai > ces and tfte principles of Unitenaiiitm wiH ftrmu
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worship , and therefore he was friendly to those institutions , the object of which is to instruct the young mind in the precepts of Christianity , according to the tenets which the mature judgment or predelection of
the parent might wish to imprint on the child . In his friendships , no man went greater lengths , or was more ready to sacrifice time , ease and comfort , than himself . This was conspicuously shewn in the undertaking of the re-establishment of Drurv-JLane
Theatre , which will ever remain a monument of his disinterested labour and perseverance , as well as of the high confidence which was reposed in his power and integrity by the public ; for to his e ' xertioBs , to his character , and to his invincible constancy alone ,
are the public indebted for the restoration of that edifice ; and it is a memorable trait in his character , that having the whole patronage in his hand , not one person , male , or female , employed in the establishment , owed their appointment to any
personal dependence on himself , or connexion with his family , but iii every instance he selected the fittest objects that presented themselves for the situation that they gained . We fear
that to the daily and hourly fatigues , iiay , we may say to the persecution that he endured in this great work , through the petulance , the cabals , and the torrent of contrary interests , we must attribute the decline of his
health , and the sudden termination of a life so dear to the public . The incessant annoyance preyed on his mind , and strengthened the attacks of a plethoric habit of body which threatened apoplexy . For some weeks past he had been afflicted ^ with incessant head-ache , and his physicians had advised him to abstain from all exertion ,
even that of speaking in parliament . No man was more temperate in his mode of living . He was happy in his domestic society ; surrounded by an amiable aiid accomplished family , and in the possession of all that fortune , with the consciousness of the honest
discharge of every duty , public and private , cpuld bestow . No man will be more sensibly missed by the people as one of their representatives , for no man was more vigilant , more undaunted , more faithful in watching over their interests , nor more ardent in asserting their rights . He Iiad the good old English character of open-
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Ohituary . —Samuel Wiiitbread , Esq . 461
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1815, page 461, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1762/page/61/
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