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tenal office mu § t be a matter rather g £ conjecture than absolute certainty . Mankind in general are influenced , I believe , by mixed motives . Conrscions of talents which qualified hi ki for almost any department in the State , it is not improbable that Mr . W ^ fcb was actuated at that time of his
youthful , ardour , in some degree at least , by the spirit of worldly ambition . Whether the change in his situation rendered him more useful to mankind , or really happier in himself , than he otherwise would . have been , is a point which the present writer will not nt ^ - tempt to decide . Many interesting circumstance of his life , 1 have heard
from his intimate friends and associates , and some of them from himself , though unable to state them in the precise chronological order in which , they took place . Recommended to the late Duke of Leeds , he was for some time , 1 believe , Secretary to his Grace ,
who greatly respected him for the powers of his mind and the qualities of his disposition . Sent by our government on a private embassy to Qj | f of the petty Courts of Germiwjy , * the recital of the scenes he then passed through has often fixed the attention
and interested the feelings of many a social circle . Oneof the circumstances 1 have ( heard him relate of his narrow escape from robbery and murder , which was prevented , under the Protection pf an overruling providence , by his courage and presence of mind , I shall ! en ?
? Tq the Prince of Hesse , respecting tht treaty for some pf Iris human subjects called Christian soldiers , whom we British Chjri * tians h ^ d hire d of him a ChrUfam Prlpce tp
kill or be killed irioyr service , figj ^ pg w ^ th our Christian brethren in America /^ al } tfye wofeased Followers of af leader " meek at ^ d lowly in hfeart / ' who has " declared , «* By thfs shall all men Khow that ye are my disciples , if jc love Qp * another . " ' '»
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ORIGINAL LETTER $ , &C . Sketch of the' Life , Character and Writings of the late Francis JVebh , £ sq f jSy the Reu . T . Howe . Bridport , March 23 , 1816 . Mr-Editor SINCERELY do I join with your correspondent in the Repository of February , Fp . 71 . ] in the regret he expresses ,, that no Memoir of the life
of the late Francis Webb , Esq . has yet been presented to the public . His pajjers , I am informed , he left to an intimate friend , the Rev . Mr . Racket , a clergyman of liberal principles , great scientific knowledge , various
literature , and what is still more to his hornour , of a pious and virtuous crmrace ter , than whom no one is better qualified to become his biographer . Whether he intends to engage in . this office or is restrained b y the wish expressed by his deceased friend , that / ' he may
pot be made the object of posthumous praise , " I cannot determine . An injunction or request of this nature , must In the view of the present writer , be greatly outweighed by the ! consideration of utility to the public , if a faithful memoir of departed worth t > S really calculated to be both instructive and
gratifying . Should Mr . Webb have Kept a journal of the circumstances of his varied lift , ( as I am told he did , written , in short-hand ) a large volume Hii ght be furnished , abounding no doubt wifch interesting information and rational entertainment . He was a
native of Tajunton ; but of his early days * can say nothing . Wh ^ ri he first c ^ m ^ , ovit irj ( t , o the wdrld , a dissenting nnnister , ^ phg the General Baptist ^ , | t coy \ d ^ npj ; J ^ ave bee n expected that j ? ^ ftUl 4 ; pffe $ iyp [ ds move in so ^ ifr to * R 2 IHfflBlffiHSK 8 ^^^^ ^?* cre ^ MIPP PWl [" T d * t » . * O ^ n ^^ i ^ ti ^ ej ^ a » 4 to xus ^ heart . f ^ mc | uc || m ^ nt& to resign the minis-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1816, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2451/page/1/
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