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which he suggested ^ £ s nreeessafy to be d 3 k » pted in the legal department , 9 hd the consequent appointment of his brother to the office of Judge in the newly instituted Court o £ Equity , are standing testimonials of the opinion which was formed of his ability arid
-integrity ; arid the grief which vras occasioned by his death , appears bjr the account which is given in the Sydney Gazette of his funeral , which was attended by the governor , the officers civil and military , and indeed by the general population of th £ place .
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The following is extracted front aSe + rnon preached Ut Sydney , on Sunday , Nov . 19 , 1815 , occasioned by the Death of the late Ellis Bent , Esq . Judge Advocate in New South Waeesi '
. AS King David said of Abaer * ^ a we , must this day acknowledge tba , t in ( our ) . Israel ' * a £ reat man > i $ fallen /* This is an , afflictive stroK % and a severe public and individi $ § £ loss . For , I would seriousl y ^ a » j § i when or where sha 1 JL be found a m * m . $£ such approved wisdom and integ ? it §| $ ¦ We have sustained a loss incalculable
—I had almost said irreparable . Tfi ^ P decease of a personage so exalte 4 »** i so honourable , we ought most affectionately to remember and mo&l piously improve . He who fatel y , dwelt among us , distinguished Ijy rank arid learning , revered for pro *** dence and moderation , beloved . and
esteemed for sweetness of disposition ^ amiableness of mannevs and u . prightr ness of CQnduetj-r ^ -he is gone ! He is gone ! no more to return 1 and thfa p lace which knew him here , shaH , know him no more ! For the . loss ^
such a one it behoves us to takp u {> |^ lamentation and to mourn , because on a similar nccasion , even ** J ^ $ ua wept . " He alas ! who butajfolie while ago was in the prime aruj vl go ^ of bis days , ancj in the , ample , en je ^ r ment of health and wealth , ao ^ > v ^^ ever earth could afford to make h ^ m _ happy and respected , is now fh& prisoner of the gravel The ^ ayj ^ f r nis youth are shortened , h ; 5 life ia cut oft in the midst ! and oh ! how many
purposes * are broken I hour many cheering hopes are blasted I how many
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* Mtmirof m » Sent . Esy . M . Ax ' t ^ & ^ fi jjf ; . Esq . ' . M . A , ^ ied Jt ^^ Jfr ^ av th ' g JOltb pf November , 1 &M& Ajtvhi ? house $ i Svcjney , Judge ^ d yo ^ a ^ e ofijhe Cofony oXNew South ^^^ l es ^ . whjch pffipe he liad filled ibr
pearl y six jears / .. TJThe character of thiajust ] ylan > eated ipagji ^ raie ^ , wl > o w ^ s removed froni T \{ jc , a 11 . t | ie ^ 4 )* ly period . of thirty-two ^ eia rs ^ f age , ' j ^ y 4 ^ disorder occasioned wofi ^ ly by . trre , i ntensepess of his Spplication . to " tlje arduous duties of
jfiis , fgpte ^ i \ g p * wa § , a character of no £ 9 t mjll 4 n " ^ terest , ; " and which s , eems t ^ haye - "bei ^ rji forjcixed by a combina-^ iOjn ofi qiccuiris ^ apces peculiar to him-. | Sfv ^ jDi / Stipguiishecl during the course of the preparatory , studies , for his profe ^ ipn b y iiiifeniitte < i attention ^ and &gjpo ^ seq \ j ^ eht attainment of literary penr ^ n ^ and , at ' the same time by a tester rather oensive and abstracted ; he Ka ^ Tpot t ^ cn called to the bar four rj ^
fe ^ ^ wliea Be was appointed to a § tvvt ! ipn > W ^^ h , to auch a mind as hiB ^ mii ^ h ave be ^ n , probabl y ^ the niost iate . restihg in wh 1 ch he could haye ^ ' be ^ n placed . The great princi p le wbicH appears to have occupied nis mind and to have animated his
• xertiohs ^ was the contemplation of % p intellectual and moral process in V / hic ^ i he himself Was actively concernecf , in the con ^ p letion of which afl /" tTbe . beat interests of the human race were ultimately involved . JjHTr . Judge Advocate Bent has left bsfriful Tiim 3 widow and five small
children ^ ° 9 £ L born since his death . His father , Robert Bent , Esq .. his mothej :, £ ! iree sisters and his brother , Jeflg rey Bent ^ Esq . Judge of the Court of Equity , w ^ hq attended . his funeral as cfeief mourner , survive to lament his Joss . As in domestic and social
life pe djSp ^ a r ^ ec f every duty of the r ^ La | ion anS the friend with a glow of a % q | pn ] Winch kindled a return of afl ^ cttbil ; so in pu blic life he diactia | ged ttie ajol ^ es pf his elevated and » !» # * 8 % ? ? l ^ '&& ^ P ' ng ^ ine ^ pf r ^ ncjpler pud with t ^ iat j ostles ' ftebope ^^ a widi mercy ^ which T W fe \ m * mWiW ? ofyzcL of universal
i ^ bect . . ; - ^ Th pjrepprt of ^ h » coop fpittee of the H'ftlJ ^ fe tf $ , pomtnons ' ^ on the state of tlie tj ^ f ^| iy ; of' New South "Wales ; th ^ kMPJ ^ bation of the arra rifitMaents
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1817, page 73, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2461/page/9/
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