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make a similar offer to 'that most respectable , independent , and highly valued character , Sir Th o mas Miller , Bart , who has declared that nothing , but the truly honourable way in which the seat was offered to him , could have induced him to return again , to the fatigues of parliamentary duties . It was
his conciliating temper which led him during the late violence of £ arty , to propose as the other representative , some moderate member of the admini-trarion : in the first instance the late Lord Hugh Seymour , and afterwards Captain , now Admiral MSrkham , in compliment to their common friend the Earl of St .
Vincent . Some persons are apprehensive , but on what grounds is best known to themselves , that those who succeed to the leadingJnfluence in the corporation will not preserve the sams independence of mind , the same purity of
political principle , nor the same disinterested conduct . In the year 1796 , he was again elected mayor , as also in the year 1800 , and in 1804 , he filled the chair oT chief magistrate for the ninth and last time . Whether he
acted as mayor , or as a magistrate for the borough , or county , he was uniformly mild , impartial * and upright ; nor was he ever deterred by personal difficulties or inconveniences , from a faithful , active , and even minute attendance on the widely extended duties of his laborious office . The poor ever found in him , a friend ; and the unfortunate , a
protector . He was ever willing and ready to afford relief by his purse , or to render assistance by his advice . v The peace , comfort , and happiness of others , and not his own interest , were unwearied objects of his pursuit . To the widow and the fatherless , he was a father and a guardian . Many persons prevailed on him to undertake the _ direction of
$ heir concerns , by which he set their minds ak ease : to these affairs he was equally , or if possible , more attentive than to his own . Never was there a character , in which there was less of self , than in his . f It were superfluous to add , in what manner such a man filled the respective relations , of son and brother , husband
and father , friend and master ., He preserved through life , a guileless simplicity of manners , an unaffected , mo * desty , and an unassuming deportment . Those who knew him will long recol-
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lect his placid , frank , and benignant countenance—the true index of bis heart ami mind . His unceasing attention to the ditties he was called to perform , the great interest lie took in the concerns of his
friends , and those who entrusted their affairs to him , and the constant exertion of mind and body these varied duties required , contributed to wear out a constitution not naturally strong . For two or three years his friends have re * marked with grief , the . gradual decline
of his health . He quitted life with the same quietness and composnic he had passed through it . Hi * , lamp went gently out ; he drew his last breach during skep ; and died ajt twenty mieutes past three in the afternoon ,, oJF the 18 th of May ;
His servants ^ ud numerous tenantry , spontaneously- paid the same external tribute of affection and regard they pay to a near relative , b ^ shutting up the ir houses . The ^ incernal sen se of the loss they had sustained was manifested not merely by the tears shed a * his funeral , but by constant ejaculations of sorrow and lamentation .
A family vault was built for him m the burying ground of the Unitarian dissenters of this town ; - of which society he was nearly the oldest memfrex This society , in public testimony of the high estimation in which they held his character , of the love they bear to his numerous and amiable virtues , and
or the regard they feel for his memory , wear , for one month , the livery of grief aud sorrow . His funeral took place at seven o ' clock in the morning * of the , ajth of May , and was as unostentatious a » his life had been . The buryinjr ground being only a short distance from
his house , he was carried thither by eight of his servants , and followed by his son , his youngest and on ) y surviving * brother , and his oldest nephew . The hour and day were wishe 4 by the family to be kept as private as possible ; but so anxious were the people to pay their last tribute of affection 2 ku < L esteem to
him that , on the mornings of the 23 d and 2 , 4 th , great numbers were assembled before six o ' clock in the-morning ; and on thernorningof the interment , ¦ tiia-. ny hundreds were waking more than ;* n hour for admission into the chaptl * The Southern Unitarian society have in him fast a' valuable member . Indeed ,
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Sir * ' fohn Carter * JCnt .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1808, page 345, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2393/page/53/
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