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public meetings at which it was so beautifully exhibited in the benevolent / countenance , and so powerfully recommended by the appropriate and winning eloquence , of a King ' s son ; that , under this impression , they cannot but feelingly lament
that a Prince so greatly honoured and so deservedly beloved by the wise and good , and who , in thinking for himself , had risen superior to all partial interests , and become the enlightened advocate of all liberal views and all useful institutions , has been withdrawn so soon , by the inscrutable decree of Providence , from the
labours of love , as pleasing to himself as they were to the best interests of mankind . 4 . That , painful as this deprivation is , the body of Protestant Dissenting
Ministers bow in humble acquiescence before Him who giveth and who taketh away ; and their resignation is rendered the more cheerful by the assurance , that such an example as that which has been left by the Duke of Kent cannot be lost to the
world ; that it will continue to be remembered , admired , and imitated , especially among the great ; and that not this age only , but a grateful posterity , will have reason to say of him , " though dead , he yet speaketh . "
5 . That , in testifying their own grief , the members of this body are desirous at the same time of expressing their heartfelt sympathy and unfeigned , . condolence with the illustrious and , amiable Princess , so unexpectedly bereaved of a husband , who was as remarkable for tenderness
and affection in hi 3 private relations as he was distinguished in his public capacity for every princely quality and every social virtue ; and it is their fervent prayer to Almighty God that he would preserve to her Royal Highness that pledge of love
which her honoured consort has left her , and continue with her all those consolations of religion , and all those attentions of fraternal kindness , which are so needful and so precious to the widowed heart .
6 . That a deputation of eight members of this body be appointed to wait upon Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent with a copy of these resolutions . ( Signed ) ABRAHAM REES , Chairman .
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Address of British and Foreign School Society to the Duchess of Kent . [ This address was presented March 16 , by a Deputation consisting of Sir Thomas Bell , Mr . Wilberforce , Dr . Schwabe and Mr . Millar . With it the Deputation presented the Resolutions of the Committee
and also of the Committee of Ladies , on the melancholy event to which it refers . Her Royal Highness received them very graciously , and expressed her gratification in particular on meeting Mr . Wilberforce , of whom she had heard so much . The Deputation had also the honour of seeing the infant Princess on that occasion . ] May it please your Royal Highness ,
The General Committee of the British and Foreign School Society venture to present to your Royal Highness the
accompanying resolutions , unanimously adopted at a special meeting . And they respectfully entreat that your Royal Highness will graciously receive these feeble expressions of the sincerest gratitude and veneration with which the Committee must ever cherish the memory of his Royal Highness the late Duke of Kent , the warm and generous patron of their Institution .
The high place which the British and Foreign School Society occupied in his Royal Highness ' s esteem and favour was one of its most valuable distinctions , and has been peculiarly evinced by the zeal with which he was pleased so early to
recommend it to the gracious attention and patronage of your Royal Highness . The continuance of this patronage , so valuable and dear to the Society for its own sake , will ever possess in the estimation of its sincere friends an additional
importance as a sacred bequest of its late illustrious and revered protector . It is some consolation , under the deep sense of the irreparable loss which the cause of universal education has sustained , to know that the noble sentiments which actuated his Royal Highness in so warmly espousing it , are and will be perpetuated in the breasts of those who were the
nearest to his heart , and then descend to posterity in the members of a family which is become so dear to the friends of religion and virtue . That it may please God long to preserve and richly to bless your Royal Highness is the ardent wish and prayer of the Committee .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1820, page 247, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2487/page/55/
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