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degree of his friendship , enough , indeed , to make me regret that separation in the world -which prevented its ripening into confidential intimacy ; and though the distance at which we were afterwards
placed froin each other afforded us few opportunities of social intercourse , we maintained an occasional correspondence , and , I believe , mutually rejoiced when chance brought us into nearer contact . Though I have , therefore , had less
advantages than many of you , in this his native county , to profit by his familiar friendship , you may easily conceive that I can be no stranger to his learning and his virtues , to those eminent talents which commanded the respect , that temperate judgment which engaged the attention , that liberal candour which conciliated
the esteem , and that expansive benevolence which secured the love , not only of those to whom he was best known , and with whom he had the most frequent intercourse , but even of those who , in a great and populous town , where there cannot but be great diversity of opinions
on political and religious matters , and where that diversity must sometimes beget considerable warmth and animosity , were naturally opposed to him . Of him it may be said , in the words of the philosophic historian , when speaking of his excellent father-in-law , finis vit < s ejus ****** amicis tristis , extranels etiam
tgnotisque non sine cura fuit . Nee quisquam audita niorte Agricolce aut Icetatus est , aut statim oblitus est . We cannot , indeed , but consider the voluntary homage paid to his merits at his funeral , by his parishioners and townsmen of every sect and every party , as highly honourable both to him and to themselves , and as
affording us a bright example of the benefits which result from tempering our own firmness and perseverance in what we believe to be right , with moderation and charity towards those who differ from us . These are facts to which your own
conviction bears testimony , and honourable , 1 may add , rare , as they are , you iimst be sensible , that in adverting to ihcm , I speak the language , not of empty and unmeaning compliment , but of significant and substantial truth . "
We have made this quotation , not merely for the sake of attesting the correctness of the statement which it contains , but with the further view of
expressing our cordial assent to the remarks that the Archdeacon of Derby has interspersed . Dr . Outram did not compromise any of the principles which he deemed to be true and important and it was his undeviating jii'mness in the profession and defence of them
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which bestowed so great a value on his moderation and charity , on the courtesy of his manners and the kindness of his deportment . To speak , to act , as though we imagined that fortitude in the cause of truth and duty , cannot exist apart from harshness of language and arrogance of behaviour towards those who " follow not with
us , " denotes a wretched state of the understanding or of the feelings , or of both . When the late Rector of St . Philip ' s in Birmingham , came to reside among his parishioners , it was intimated to him that he must , of
necessity , be a party man : his reply was such as became the independence of his mind and the soundness of his judgment ; and he ampjy fulfilled his assurances—thus conciliating the cordial regard of his townsmen and neighbours at large , and chiefly the regard of those whose good opinion is substantial
p . Dr . Outram , like a learned divine of that name , * whom , in Catholicism of spirit , and in othe ^ features of character , he much resembled , was a native of Derbyshire . From 1798 to
1809 , he was public orator of the University of Cambridge . As a scholar , he had made great attainments : but his noblest distinction was the charity which shall endure when tongues have ceased and knoicledge has vanished away . N .
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Art . IX . —A Funeral Sermon for Caroline Queen of England , delivered at Parliament-Court Chapel , on Sunday , August 19 , 1821 . By W . J . Fox . 8 vo . pp . 28 . Hunter and Eaton .
Art . X . —A Discourse on the Death of Her late Majesty the Qaeen , delivered on Sunday Morning , Aug . 12 , 1821 . By John Clayton , Jun ., Minister of the Poultry Chapel , Loadon . 8 vo . pp . 26 . Westley . Art . XI . —A Sermon on the Death of
Her late Majesty Queen Caroline , Consort of Geo . IV . Delivered in Albion Chapel , Moor gate , on Sunday Evening , August 19 , 1821 . By the Rev . Alexander Fletcher . 8 vo . pp . 30 . Tew . * William Outram , D . D , who died in 1671 ) . Granger ' s Biog . Hist . &e . [ 3 d * d . J 111 . 280 .
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550 Review . —Funeral Sermons for the Queen ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1821, page 550, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2504/page/46/
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