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    mmMm ^ m 4 M % »! < # 1 *^ 4 ; fhg li * e ^ portion being dropped , his engagement dropped witfr if / a © d Richard Ay ton then tried his hand at writing for the stage . Probably , jtbi f species of composition was not his forte " : it is equally projj&ble that he ^ as not fairly dealt by ; fotf while some of these pieces were damned , and some very successful , it so happened that he got nothing worth mentioning fbr his labour , time , and anxiety . The art of writing well , is o ^ e thing ; the art of getting paid , is quite a different matter . || e yvas the uncle of Fanny Ayton , who once made a great fuss find a great deal of money as ati Italian cantatrice . But * ' music hath charms . " So Richard Ayton went a sea voyage to stimulate his health and spirits . The vessel was nearly lost , but was saved , as a brief memoir informs us , " by his strength arid

    activity in cutting away the wreck of the foretop-mast . " , No mere helpless , common-place man of " letters " was this Richard Ayton . Amidst the fall or jamming of the spars , Jioweyer , | ie received an injury which prevented him from leaving bis room for a twelve-month . But after he had thrown away his crutches , he found himself unable to recover the shock his constitution had received , and a painful illness soon put an end to Richard

    Ayton . " He sank into the grave , apparently an old man at the age of thirtysix or thirty-seven . He lamented his approaching death only as- it prevented him from fulfilling the many plans he had formed of benefiting the world , as far as he could , by his writings . His worldly prospects had certainly nothing in tjiem to make him in love with lifje , and ^ is views of death were cheerful and serene . But still , for the abo . ye purpose , and for that alone , he wished to live . All his plans , however , dj p d with him , for not a leaf of manuscript was found at his lodgings after his death . How much he might have done , we have the best mean ? of judging from what he did . And from a review of the essays in tliw volume , it wiil appear evident , that Jus power to instruct and delight tiie world by his writings fell nothing short of his mcUnatibn . " — ^ P ^ moir / p . ll .

    The few , yet well-condensed , pages of memoir from whi $ h the foregoing extract is taken , were written , we belief e , fcy Stothard the painter , and are the manifestation of a humane heart , and a fine intellectual sympathy . The Essays contained in this volume were produced by the author during the painful period of his last illness—an illness from which he neyer expected to recover . Yet , how fv \\ of the freshpeis of ijnflfci * nUiQn m of r ^ spa—how instinct with the best ; eri £ rgi $ f of philanthropy ! Not from wdojence , misconduct , weakpeifa , Or misapplied strength , did Richard Ayto *> }\ p $ and die , unknown ; but froiQ evil circumstaiice , and frqin ^ w ^ fl ^ s ' ignorance and neglect . It was owing to no wan t of fortitude mit Hk dUd in hmxry and bbicutity ; and that felon | 6 ui time ¦¦ 1 ¦ ¦ ¦

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 1, 1837, page 323, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1832/page/5/