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riage , drawn By six HorsesrfcbWred with sc # r | et cloth / ' officei ^ of the garjri $ pn ii \ erc 1 * arit $ A & $ c ' i > hd " 2 or 3000 spectators ^ ' so impossible was it to comply with his desire of a private funeral * Nor could a monument be dispensed
witb though placed in a situation too rude for its long preservation . Mr . Reginald Heber , Dr . C ' s . companion , author of a poem entitled Palestm ^ iq your Repos * ( u 555 . ) dreyr& sketch ojf this mo .
nurnentaud the adjacent scenery . It forms a yigpette to the 2 ^ d chapter , m a ivote tq which he Has eiubjoinedthe / pHowing inforrn ^ tion : "TJdctomb of toward is in & * P Hcscrt , aboHt a mxU bom the towiu f Chersonl ;
k was buik by Admiral Mordvinof , and is a small brick fyraroid , white-washed , hat without any inscription . He had , built a small hut on this part of the stepfe , where he passed much of his time , as the most healthy « pot in the nciehbott * h < xxiv The £ nglifh burial him
. « erace ww r ^ ad oy ^ r by Admiral Frieetmanv- ^ Howardwaaapoken of with exceeding respect and affection , by aU who remembered or knew him ; and they were laray , "—Hebcr ' s MS . Jeurnal . Trav ^ p ^ J 99 , It appear ( p . 610 ) that a polish nobleman , Count Potocki , had a design of removing the body of Howard " to his cbuntty-seat , where a sumptuous monument
was prepared for ijts reception , upon a small island in the raidst o ^' ' ^^ . ;; " ^^' ; Qbuhtess 9 aroniatntic L 1 ^ 3 y ^ designed to havq there an nntmo \ Jrtey consecrated to Benevolencc ^ Agai ns t this scheme .
( th ^ huitpf ^ vh icli mighty I appreien 4 J 3 e taken frojp Kousseau ' s Aprtih eorix , by M * de GirttVdiny in his gardens * . at Err ^ n ^ qnviite j ^) &ur tr ^ vrllfrs Jeft a rc ^ nonsiraiicc to CotSl P 6 t 6 t ^ i , who was tlfen
absent . | l is probabtfe' that ^ Hj * noblemen , ami even his ro | ti i ) ritic CounXess wojuld attend to the
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i ^ presejitatidHs of Howard ^ cootr * tl ^ ^ nen , &nd lejave liis honest fame tier t ^^ pre ^ ffftfbft of fcistory . ft h ^ Sp ¥ ifed' that PiifiGe Po-^ ci ^ W ^^ if ^ utite if mt the tni&t&"& ¥ ^ &hMAei closed his
life near Cherson and was honoured \ vijh A ^ pompous funeral , though by command of Paul his bod y was afterwards thrown into a ditch ,., aHd ^ sey ^ i the mention of his n ^ ine forbidden . The cir . cumstatice of tMse contrasted
characters nearly meeting in death , has drawn fftttir \ he peri of Dr . Clafk thef fallowing * 6 # ections \ Vhich it wdtild do him great injustice to omit .
M Mysterious Prchridence 5 by events always remote item hum ^ n foresight , had woiiderfi ^ y < 4 e > tuiccU , that these two m « n , cej . ebrated in Uieir lives by the most contrasted deeds , should be interred nearly upon the same spot . It is W > t within thdreftthofpowifeiDtY to bring
together , £ id # by 4 det | wo individuals moye remarkably characterized by every opposite quaUfication , as if the Hand of destiny had directed two persons , in wkofn wer ^ « xemplific « l the extremes of vk « a | 3 d yiriue to pac common spot , h
or ^ er that ^ hc contrast nugh t remain a lessor * for mankiud ' : Potcfnklii , bloated and pampered by every vice , after a path through life stained with blood and " crimes , at last the victim of his own selfish excesses .- Howard , a voluntary
exile , endurine the severest pnvationi for the bcuent of his fellow-creatures , and labouring even to his latest breath in the exercise of every social virtue . "P . 6 os-The fiweral u * cs * to which bjec fav ^ r
Ho ^ flrt ^ d ^ o ted it * of the English Hturgy , are described in King ' s Mitts and . Ceremonies of the GrtvkCktrch ( p . p . -33 3—357 ) . Hbxvardy amid « t his benevolent phfs ^ i ^ rrtfd ' ^ per haps ^ never pushed reHgfous iuqtiirles beyond the As ^ tiibTyH te ^ tocKWA .,. ^ ptie § t dhd « ll the , * ur * # Aa d ( aug ht . . Slidlr an bHh ^ d 6 ^« Protestant , however he might adopt the p rayer
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876 Particulars of the Death and Burial of Mr . Howard .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1810, page 576, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2411/page/4/
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