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from under us ; " and maintains , after I ^ ord ¦ Baco n , that every human fabric , or establishment , Was subject to that decay arid corruption , which lapse of time would necessarily produce , ' '
In the following sbk-frm and aWocling manner , the Duke closed his ' parliamentary life , Tor ' he does Jiot appear afterwards-to have attended the House of Peers : —
u to myself , 1 solemnly protest , that no consideration that the * fcfofi& can offer wouJd stand in competition with the comfort L feel , that , so far from having abetted the pernicious counsels 'tvhich have brought on the downfall of the einpirc , I haye , to the Best of my little ability , endeavoured by every cob-3 titutl © nal mean ^ to prevent them .
• ' Thus , hate I discharged my duty to the king , to my country , aud to myself ; for I Was early persuaded * that a perseverance in these pernicious
measures would endanger the crown itielf , injure or-overthrow the constitution , I would leave every man without excuse , who , foreseeing the gathering storm , did not exert himself to avert toe dreadful consequences * iv
Before 1 retire , to fortify niy mind against the calamities which are iast * p $ rc > aching , and tojsrepare my family for that 'Which they Vill p r 6 b £¥ ry have to undergo , I shall think it to be a duty incumbent 6 n me to lay ,-before my
sovereign , the reasons of my conduct ; flattening myself that t shall be ailo ' werf that gracibu ' s hearing , vfrhieh his majesty has so often / given , fortnerly , to one , from whose tongue , he never hearxl but the dictates of the heart , as sincerely as
they are now delivered to your lordships , " ThvTJiike survived this address nearly fdtirU'eh years . Dining the Wb ' last yt-atajj Xi his health had been dec lifting , '' and iie diedj after &n illrYess of some weeks .
This hobteftian does hot appear to ^ dveptiblished any thing vvifh his iianie , but a pamphllet has been geher ^ lly ascribed to him , etttltteil u 'Mints , Submitted to the SeHous Attention of the Cler-| y / &c . ' byatayniaii . 1780 /'
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Since receiving from » friend the above Obituary of * he Duse of Gr . afton , ^ e have / been favoured with the following letter , from a gentleman , in his Grace ' s confidence , to another gentleman , who had the happiness of
enjoying the friendship of this ill ustrious man * "After expressing h * s satisfaction on hearing that so « ie puolic notice would be taken of the unjustifiable ascription of a pamphlet of a deiStical tendency , ( Apeleutherus ) by an anonymous pen , in the Monthly Magazine , t *> the Diikr , the writer proceeds ^ — -
u I wish that my pen were able to do justice tc the "worth and excellence of the Duke of Grafton ' s character . The point of \ iew in % hich I think it is to be seen to the most advantage is .
when he exercised his manly resolution in shaking o& those habits of life , which , in his intercourse with thegreaf and fashionable world , he hail earlj contracted , and too much indulged in . He was a rare instance of a person in
high life , who had entered into the dissipated scenes of it , and shared in inanj of those follies and vices , which are too common in that ^ station , and at that period ; who Had nothing to reclaim him from this bourse , Bfit hfe 6 % n good schae and serious -reflections ; Which
brought him to the exercise of h » reason , a sense of duty , and the direction * of his better judgrrient / Wkh these helps he apjplied himself to the study bf the scriptures , 'withodt any bias upon
his mind , which might lead him to put a forced construction upon their meaning ; but . takirig the plain' sense which the words 'Would bear / he became convinced of the truth , importance , "and reasonableness bf the doctrines which
they taught , and of the divine authority ^ hich urged tli e hi upon 'the attention of manMhd . ^ he fruU W'tbfc conviction prodii « eda new era in ' his life . He had acted the . part of a tru « protestant , by interpreting the scrip ' rures according to his o ^ h bes t judgment ; he mtnecfoimtod tietfernitdihtt
of a good Ghmtian , by ^ comrnuiiic ^ tioig ; to his children and family , those " JJ ^ TibuVteeEectiibhs whicKhadled to this * tinchAiion , Md ft&d ' jirciduced such * change in hia life'and C 6 nduet . " Hop-«? rc
ing , as he § ays , that these ir >^ y * mind them of the true -and honcft 'seniilncn ' ts of their fatliei , at dit ferem iimes , in * Ms tetter days . ; and that . tb # niay ^ ccustoixi th « naselves thereby ^ jrnproyc their five 9 more and v *> 4 if 4 > y day ^ y a iWdy of tkc Scriptuic
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$ 6 t Qbituary . — Duke 4 > f Graftoti .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1811, page 250, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2415/page/58/
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