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111 ¦ OBITUARY.
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1819 . June 23 , at Paris , aged 76 , M . Prosper-Gabriel Acpran , Professor of Hebrew of the French College . He was the son of the celebrated Audran , director of the Gobeiin-Tapistry , whose house was the resort of many distinguished artists .
The young * Audran , who had naturally a taste for the arts , wished to embrace the profession of one of them ; but his father , who destined him to the bar or the magistracy , made him pursue the requisite studies , and purchased for him in 1768 the
charge of Counsellor of Justice at Pans . He carried lo this dignity an inflexible integrity , which formed the foundation of his character . He displayed with his companions the firmness and the courage ¦ whi ch then distinguished the tribunals and
courts of justice , and he took his share of the disgraces aad tlie injuries put upon them by the government . He was banished with his brethren in 1771 , under the Chancellor Meaupou , and recalled in 1774 , at the accession of Louis XVI .
At this period , "he connected himself especially with the advocate M . Baudin , who died President of the Council of Ancients . This latter ,, who had drawn from the school of the Oratory more solid principles of religion than those that were
then taught in the majority of seminaries , made it his duty to communicate them to his friend $ and as M . Audran was naturally serious , he had no difficulty to understand and relish them : thenceforward he gave himself up more particularly to the study of Holy Scripture , without at all neglecting his duties as a magistrate . After some
years , being persuaded that it was , it not impossible , yet at least very difficult to reconcile the spirit of penitence with his magisterial functions , he sold his office to live in retirement , and to devote himself to the kind of life which appeared to him the most conformable to his divine model . He
went to lodge in a small apartment fltue des MagonsJ near his mother , of whom he took a particular care until her death . There he lived in his retreat . leading the life of a penitent , and meditating « Ja . y and night upon the eternal truths which wine all hia consolation . To improve himself in Hebrew , to which he had
applied principally since he had quitted I he magistracy , he made acquaintance with M . Riviere , professor of this language i « the College of France ; he , on his side , finding in M . Audran all the aptitude necessary for mastering it and
bccoininga proficient in it , made him a friend , and presently a rival in his favourite pursuit . M . Audran made such progress under such a master , that on the death of M . Riviere , which happened a few years after he was judged worthy to succeed him '
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His Dncdesty led hi / n to resist for some time , but he was at length constrained to yield to the intreaties of his friends , especially of ML Camus , then keeper of the national archives . In his new appointment he displayed his wonted conscientious zeal . Not
contented with public and stated lectures , he threw open his closet at all hours of the day to students . More than ' once he has been known to seek out those that were unavoidably absent from lecture , arid to give them instructions at their own lodgings .
Though his income was considerable , his style of living was that of a hermit . He nursed his fortune for the poor j sup . porting a great number of families , educating children and setting out youths in
the world . His last worldly act was to give the little money that he had in store to a friend for the benefit of the poor , wishing , as he expressed himself , to carry into the other world no wealth but what
was . current there . One of his friends has drawn up for him the following monumental inscription : —
Hie jacet Prosper-Gabriel Audran , Linguar . Ilebr . Chald . et Syr . in Ilegio Franciae
Collegio Professor . In viis justicioe ambulavit ^ Doctus , doctrinae sapientiam aiitetulit ; propriac laudis coritemptor , soli Deo , et verbis et factis , g-loriam dare voluitj firm a fide , spe certa ,
vitam aeternarn constanter tnihelavit ; caritatis-non ficta ^ , erga Demn et homines , mandaiuiii implevit ; pan per tatem et pace in amavit ; pauperes , quos dotavit , defunctuin , perpelno . lugebant ; obdonnivitin Dom . die 23 ineiis . Jtiniil 81 ° , an . actatis 76 .
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October 8 , at Hamburg von der tlche ^ near Frankfort on the Mayne , in the 22 d year of his age , Mr . John WFXLBErovi i > , second son of the Rev , Charles Wellbe-( oved , and lately a divinity student in the Manchester College , York . The disorder , which carried him off , was a nervous fever ; and probably , arose from an excess
of fktig-ue and excitement . The premature death of this amiable and promisingyounff man is one of those mysterious appointments , which , however firm our irust in the wisdom and goodness of the Creator , must powerfully impress us with a sense of our own ignorance and our utter inability to measure his unfathomable counsels . OifSed by nature with superior talent * *
111 ¦ Obituary.
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1819, page 704, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1778/page/52/
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