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she successfully laboured to let « patience have its perfect ' work ;" and that fortitude , hope and resignation shed a tranquil and steady light over the latest ipoments of her existence .
Her death itself was remarkably easy . For many hours before it took place , all pain had ceased ; and , notwithstanding her sight had become dim through the
whole of the preceding day , she continued to converse , at longer intervals indeed , but with her accustomed calmness and precision , till within less than half an hour of her removal and finally , sunk
mio her ' last sleep without the presence of a single symptom indicative of , a single pang either of mind or body . In looking back on
observations already extended to a greater length than was at first designed , and in which the writer feels him * self almost trespassing upon that privacy and simplicity which was so especially the choice of their
lamented subject , he cannot refrain from suggesting , and to the younger part of bis female readers in particular , one additional , remark : That it is impossible to reflect pnithe large share of
happiness and usefulness * of respect ftttd love , which accompanied the distinguished excellences of this unpretending , yet lovely cha * racter , without feeling the comparative insignificance of extraor dinary talents or rare acquireto
ems ; and how admiral vi& ^ ay fulfil every importanQ \ mr . pose pf our being here , by ^ Uhoeviating adherence to the 4 \ &et ^ "gations of moral and rtligiom Sidm ohtk . B .
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Oct . SO , at his house in Mount Street , Grosvenor Square * in jfche 80 th year of his age , Martiit Van Butch £ i . l , well known for Iiis numerous eccentricities , particularly for wearing a beard of
twenty years' growth . He was a quack doctor and his peculiarities were in the way of his professitin , —a sort of advertisements * It would have been well if he htujl been content with this mode of
advertizing himself , and had ^ spared the public his barbarousl y-wor 4 ed , indecent and profane newspa * per paragraphs . —Amongst bis other oddities , he kept ~ the bpdy of his first wife embalmed in a glass case . He is said to have
been originally an excellent surgeons * instrument maker . He was a ^ great frequenter of Hyde Park , on his little white horse . The following epitaph upon him has appeared in the
newspapers : Here , aged ctghty , sleeps Van But-CHEIjfi , Of wftom . no mortal can say much ill : He looked as ^ ueer as Machelh ' s witches , And wore a beard and leather breeches .
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Nov . 14 * Died at his house at Clapham , in the 69 th year of his age , Thomas Mvi * lett , £ sq « merchant of London , well known in the mercantile and political world ; his character and talent , as applicable to either ,
need not be here dwelt on—his social virtues and parental kind * n ^ frs can alo ne be appreciated by his friends and afflicted familyby the former his loss will be long knd deeply regretted—to the latter it is irreparable . Morn Chron . Nov . 16
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Obituary . —Martin Van BuUhtlh—Thomas Mullett , Esq . 717
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1814, page 717, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2446/page/57/
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