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428 Obituary . —Joseph Coope , Esq — Right Hon . George Ponsonby .
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1817 , May 27 th , at Osborn Street , IVkitechapely in the 53 rd year of his age , Joseph Coope , Esq . Throughout life he was the steady friend of the poor , and at bis decease bequeathed some valuable legacies to his frien d * as well as to some excellent charitable institutions . Well done , good and faithful servant , enter thou into the Jou of thy Lord . J . E .
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Say not then " it were better not to be , " Life ' s "bitt e rest hours are full of bliss to me ; And if beyond the tomb thou , too , hadst seen Union with all thou lov ' dst , they so to thee had been . T . C . HOLLAND . ^ fci
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Hope whisper'd late , thy sun again should rise , And beam in splendour from unclouded skies y But ah ! ' tis vain , and hope once more deferr'd Makes the heart faint , and is no longer heard . Yet we rely on thee , all-ruling Power ! In each event tby providence adore ; Oh ! clear these clouds that dim our mortal sight , Dispel these thickening shadows of the night !
All is for good , some future happier age Shall turn with joy this sad historic page ; Shall view , with pleasing wonder and delight , The whole eventful plan brought forth to light ; Shall deeper scan th \ Almighty's wond ' rous ways , And find them worthy of their highest praise * And though not yet reveal'd to feeble sense , Still may we trust thy guidjng providence ; May we depend upon our Father ' s care , And , ' mid these shades , prefer our humble prayV ; —Father thy will be done , our bounded sight
Discerns not through these clouds the dawning light ; But it will come—another happy day Will chase these shades of doubt and fear away , Teach us upon tby goodness still to trust , Nor e ' er to doubt thee faithful , kind and just . Instruct us to rely upon tby love , And evermore thy providence approve . T . C . HOLLAND .
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On the Re-establishment of the Inquisition , How is departed , Spain , thy ancient praise ! Go , boast thy famous schools of former days , Where Europe studied wisdom . Boast thy plain , Where liberty once spread her golden reign ; Thy hills , where pure religion first appear'd , And whence her standard to the world was rear ' cf ; Thy bold reformers , who the mystic yoke , First from their necks , of papal tyrants broke . But boast in vain—oppression clouds thy day , And superstition all thy sons obey . No new Servetus * now adorns thy plain ; No new Waldenses -f now thy hills retain .
* Servetus was a physician of Arragon , who first discovered the circulation of the blood , and was burnt by Calvin , because he was a Unitarian . -f- One of the principal seats of the Waldenses , the heralds of the reformation , was among the mountains which separate Spain from France . Soon after the reformation they retired into Berne and other districts on the French side of the Pyrenees , where they were protected by Henry the Fourth .
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Right Hon- George Ponsonby . ( From the Morn . Chron . July 9 th , 1817 . ) We lament to say that the Right Hon . George Ponsonhy expired at six o ' clock yesterday morning " . His death was
tranquil—his pulse declined so gradually that he breathed his last without a perceptible struggle . His second son arrived express from Ireland , at his house in Curzon Street , only a few minutes after his death . He
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had been taught , as he passed through Oxford , to believe his honoured parent was in the fair way of recovery ; and therefore our sympathizing- readers may conceive the extent of the shock he had to suffer on the unexpected and melancholy tidings of his
1 9 almost instantaneous departure . — Every feeling heart , every friend of freedom , justice and humanity , will join with him and the rest of his afflicted family in deploring " the loss of this virtuous patriot and truly amiable man . Indeed , his death is universally felt as a national calamity , for his life was dedicated to the public service , and he lost it in the assiduous discharge of his duty as a faithful representative of the people .
He may be said to have fallen at his post as truly as an officer who falls in th « field or on the deck , since it was by the effect of his persevering * attendance on Committees ( which deprived him of the habitual strong
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1817, page 428, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2466/page/52/
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