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"Russian navy , read the burial service over him . According to this writer , " Howard being at Cherson was informed that a young lady eighteen years old was dangerously ill with a fever ; and without being at all requested he immediately offered to go and visit her at the distance of seven miles from Cherson . —He
administered a dose of Dr . James ' s powders . On his return toCherson , late in the evening he fell off his horse , and remained a considerable time oh the snow , with which the
ground was covered , until some one happened to pass , and helped him upon his horse again , and thus he reached Cherson late at night . " The writer goes on to attribute Howard ' s death to 6 * the . fall from
his horse—cold caught by laying so long in the snow without even a freat coat /' and to a" dose of Dr . araes ' s powder ^ much larger than he ought to have taken , as be himself acknowledged /* In his P . S . he observes u that the
inscription on the monument erected to Howard in St . Paul ' s ^ stating that he died of the plague , is erroneous ; for there was nothing like thte plague ac Cherson \ Vhere he'diefd , nor could be in the diepth of winter , the ground covered with know , and hard frosty weather . *^
But the most extraordinary variati 6 n is yet to be mentioned . It seems that Dr . Clarke was led by misinformation to mistake a person fora plac <* y and that " the vrftage of Dauphi& Jr , " was no other than " M . Dsuphin 6 a French mefchunt established at Cherson /'
Mr . H . finding " that hfs end was fast approaching / 5 requested to be buried in this gentleman ' s garden , *< about two miles from the town , m these remarkable words ; I have
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always wished to be buHed in fret ground , and as the Wrench are fa . came free , I think that your pt 6 m perty must also be free . M » Dauphine promised him complu a nee with his wishes ^ and oh the fifth , clay from his visit to the young lady , he expired y with the con , solation however of knowings that the innocent cause of his death Was recovering . "
Mr . Reginald Heber wh < iih I quoted ( v . 576 . ) thought he had found the tomb of Howard ( in the desert about a mile from the town ) built by admiralMordvinoP , and took a view of the monument
and scenery which forms a vignetk to Dr . Clarke ' s woik . It seems however that he was mistaken ^ for u M . Dauphine effected a plain monument , with Howard ' s bust over his grav e ^ in . liis owh ( M . D ' s . ) garden . " ,
Such is this writer ' s account , cm which I can give no opinion . He attributes the incorrectness of Dr . Clarke ' s statement" to * ' the well known volubility of captain ( after , wards rear-admiral ) Priestraatfs tongue ' , ' certainly impeaching the discernment of the learned
travellers , and the integrity of their host . ThougK I might venture to conjecture respecting Howard , I should have been ashamed to have stated seeming facts without connecting them with my own nairii or still better authorities . What
will your readers say , when I inform them that this attack on the credit of Dr . darke n s and Mr .
Heber ' s work , for it is nothing l ess , is made by W . B . of Epping , the sole authority of a nameless cc naval officer who was on tht spot when Howard died , and who attended his burial . " I am per * suaded that through some ina < J-
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162 On an Article in Flower * s Review , concerning Mr * Howard *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1811, page 162, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2414/page/34/
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