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Ohituury Miss Jane Manning . —Madame de StaeL 429
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exercise necessary to his health ) , that he fell a sacrifice at so early a period of life . Mr . Ponsonby was the second son of the Right Hon . John Ponsonby , Speaker of the Irish House of Commons , and consequently brother of William , the first Lord Ponsonby . He was born on the 15 th March , 1755 , and was called to the bar , at which he practised with eminent success . He was
married on the 18 th May , 1781 , to Lady Mary Butler , daughter of the Earl of Lanesborough , who , with two sons and a daughter , survive him . His daughter is married to the Hon . F . Prittie , brother to Lord Dunally . In 1806 he was appointed Lord Chancellor of Ireland , which situation he resigned when his nnlitioal friends ceased .
in 1807 , to hoJd the reins of government , and he has ever since been what is termed the leader of the Opposition in the House of Commons , in which he conducted himself with an integrity , independence , candour , and suavity which secured him the respect ,
confidence and affection of all parties . Good sense , the foundation of every excellence , he possessed in a superior degree , improved by study and intercourse with the world in public and private life ; his
understanding was vigorous ; his conception clear ^ his language chaste , natural , and unaffected ; his manner impressive , and his voice well modulated . He addressed himself to the head , laying- aside that species of eloquence which seeks through the passions to mislead the judgment . A sound discretion , and an ardent love of justice and humanity governed all his actions .
As the leader of a great political party , no man was ever more free from party spirit . He was in feeling and principle the very man contemplated by those who consider a systematic opposition a necessary safeguard to the constitutional rights and liberties of England . The ingenuousness of his mind ,
the kindness of his heart , and the placability of his manners , conciliated his opponents , and assuaged all those feelings which defeat excites ; and if his triumphs were not more numerous , it is because the candour and generosity of his mind disdained to take advantage of his adversaries whenever he thought them right . Where that was the case , all party feeling vanished before his political integrity , and on many critical occasions he gave his adversaries the
support of his learning and talents . Nobly disdaining all selfish views , he was here no longer the leader of a party . He shewed himself the resolute , tixed , and unalterable friend of constitutional freedom . His complaint , of only a week ' s duration , was that species of paralytic affection called Hamipklegia He received every aid that medical skill and attention could afford . On his first attack , he was bled by Mr . Lynn , and he was attended by Dn BaiUie , Dr . Warren , and Mr . Tegart . The two last gentlemen remained in the house dur-
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ing the last three days of his illness , and were in his chamber when he breathed his last . He was connected by blood with the Noble Houses of Devonshire , Portland , Bessborough , Shannon , Fitzwiiliam , Grey , 6 lc . but the whole nation will deplore with them the premature death of a patriot so honest , so able , and so disinterested in their service , as he always proved himself to be .
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Lately , at Paris , the celebrated Madams de Staei ,, the wife of the Baron de Stael Holstein , and the daughter of the unfortunate M . Neckar , French Minister of Finance * at the time of the Revolution , by Susan Curchod , the object of tlie early , perhaps
the only , passion of Gibbon , the Historian of the Roman Empire . . The genius of this conspicuous and celebrated woman was splendid . Her writings , which are voluminous , may be considered as indicating more knowledge than they impart : her reasonings are ingenious and sometimes
profound : her thoughts frequently original : her imagination active , brilliant and profuse , n © w and then perplexes the subject , which it is the province of imagination to illustrate . Her power of luminous and eloquent expression must give the works of Madame de Stael a passport to every cultivated circle : but they belong much more to the class of luxuries than of sound and healthful diet
for the mind . Her moral system must be searched for among the folds of rich and voluptuous sensibility , with which she has invested it j and we are not sure that it will always bear the light . Few people , we are persuaded , have risen from her compositions with their taste purified , or their principles strengthened . The debt which the present generation owes to the alluring- author of
u Delphine" and " Corinne , be ars some resemblance in character , though not in amount , to that which was imposed upon the age preceding-, by the sentiment of Rousseau . Where she counsels the reader to virtue , he does not feel more virtuously disposed ; as , where she professes to treat of literature , she adds little to the common stock of learning . Madame de Stael was well known in England , where she mingled
in the best and highest classes of society , and where her tone of conversation , though somewhat restless apd authoritative , was admired for its elegance , vivacity and power . The remains of Madame de Stael are to be conveyed for interment to her estate at Coper , near Geneva .
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July 20 lh , at Dorkingy Surry , affer a painful and lingering illness , which she bere with the greatest fortitude and resignation , Jane , the eldest daughter of the late Rev . Owen Manning , Rector of Poper Hara , and Vicar of Godalming , in the same county . — - ^ M toN-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1817, page 429, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2466/page/53/
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