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October 1 , at Plymoutft , G . H . Strutt , Esq ., of Milford , Derbyshire , eldest son of < x . \ B . Strutt , Esq ., of Helper , in the same county . The death of this amiable man , in the very prime of life , and amidst every promise of extensive usefulness , may be regarded as a loss to society at
large , as well as to the family circle of which he was the delight and the ornament . Gentle and modest in hjs deportment , affable and courteous in his manners , kind and benevolent in his dispositions , he won the regard of all who enioyed his acquaintance . Possessing a mind alive to the beauties of nature and
to the attractions of the fine arts , his conversation was easy , interesting and improving . His scientific acquirements , particularly on subjects connected with mechanical philosophy , were highly respectable ; and his improvements in the
arrangements of the extensive works at Milford and Helper bear testimony to his skill and genius . In agricultural employments he took a lively interest , and con ^ - ducted an establishment of this nature , on a plan which rendered his fs ^ rm a just object of admiration , and a model for his
neighbourhood . His acquaintance with subjects of political economy was correct and practical , and the benevolence of his character led him so to apply his information , as to promote the interests of the numerous work-people under his influence . His plans for their welfare were not of a visionary &tid impracticable nature , but
tended at once to inculcate a spirit of industiy , order , cleanliness , sobriety , and thus to secure the real independence of the poor . Institutions for the diffusion of knowledge among them , had his zealous support and active services ; and , indeed , nothing which concerned this important portion of his fellow-creatures was
regarded with indifference by him . Judicious as were the arrangements already carried into practice under his superintendence , he entertained yet more enlarged views for the amelioration of their condition . But his early death has broken off these virtuous purposes of his mind , and bequeathed to his survivors the duty of giving full effect to his benevolent intentions . He bore an anxious and protracted illness with" manly and Christian fortitude . For months before his decease , he wished for li fe only as it might be the means of lengthened usefulness , and even when he deemed his recovery hopeless , and was perfectly resigned to the dispensations of Providence , he stiii thought it an act of
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duty to liis family to neglect no means of restoration which the tenderness of friendship suggested might be effectual , IJoder the full assurance that he could not survive the ensuing winter in England , he prepared to avail himself of the milder climate in the South of Europe , and had reached Plymouth , on his way to Falniouth , with the view of embarking from that port . Soon after his arrival there the symptoms of his disorder increased , and he resigned his spirit to Him who gave it .
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At Constantinople , on the 26 th of August , J , DouotAs Strvtt , Esq ., aged 27 , only son of Joseph Strutt , Esq ., of Derby . This amiable young man left his native country , fourteen months ago , on
his travels for the gratification of his taste , and in pursuit of intellectual improvement . He traversed France , Switzerland and Italy , visited Sicily and Malta , and from thence , such of the Greek Islands , as the lately troubled state of the times and the prevalence of the plague rendered accessible .. In the course of his
interesting tour , he collected many excellent specimens , of natural productions , and was successful in obtaining some valuable relics of classical antiquity . Several packages * containing beautiful works in sculpture and painting , had been already sent by him to England , and he is understood to have had in his possession , at the time of his lamented decease , other proofs of the delighted attention which he was paying
to the study of the fine arts . He was at Naples immediately before . * and at the time of the Austrians entering that city ; and there , and subsequently at Messina , he narrowly escaped with life from the violence of an ungoverned soldiery . In his course from Malta- to Corfu , the vessel in which he sailed was in imminent hazard
of shipwreck from the violence or a storm . His ultimate project was to reach even Egypt , that land of early science and remote antiquity . But on his voyage from Smyrna to Constantinople he was seized with a malignant fever incidental to the climate . He was considered dangerously ill on his landing at Constantinople , and
was conveyed to the apartments which had been previously prepared for him at Pera , in the environs of that celebrated metropolis . But notwithstanding the judicious and unceasing attentions of Dr . Mac Ouffog , the Physician to the British Embassy and Factory , and the skill of two other eminent physicians , aided by the
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1821, page 622, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2505/page/54/
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