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    anxious care of his personal friends and those of his family , he died , to the unspeakable grief of all around him , on the day stated above , and was interred on the following day with those demonstrations of respect , esteem and regret , which his amiable dispositions and manners , and his untimely fate so justly excited : —

    « By foreign hands his dying eyes were closed , By foreign hands his decent limbs composed , By foreign hands his peaceful grave adorn'd , By strangers honour ed , and by strangers mourn 'd . " [ The preceding melancholy intelligence , though relating to an earlier event , was received subsequently to the account of the death of Mr . Henry Strutt , inserted in the foregoing page . Ed . ]

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    Oct ; 8 , Anne , the wife of Charles R . Aikin , surgeon , of Broad-street Buildings , London . This lady was the eldest daughter of the late Rev , Gilbert Wakefield . Her docility and excellent natural talents

    encouraged her father to bestow unusual pains in cultivating her understanding and literary taste . Under the paternal instructions of so distinguished a scholar , the classical productions of Greece and Rome in their original languages were , by degrees , communicated to her , not for

    the purpose of ostentation , but for the acquisition of habits of steady application , of refined taste and of those high principles of moral duty which the great ethical writers of the ancient world so impressively inculcate . She possessed also the inestimable advantage of having daily

    before her , in the person of her father , a living and revered example of the most scrupulous veracity and conscientious inflexibility in the performance of his duty , qualities which , while they exposed him to many privations , obtained for him the warm attachment and active service of

    those who were worthy to be his friends . In these circumstances her childhood and early youth were passed , and by these a character might have beea expected to be formed high-toned and highly cultivated indeed , though not necessarily possessed of that amenity Which forms the joy and delight of domestic life . Nature ,

    nowever , had kindly endowed her with a timidity of temper which rendered her wholly averse to all kinds of display , while the attacks of severe headache to which she was constitutionally subject , habituated her to uncomplaining endurance of bodily pain , and of frequent disa PPointment of those gay anticipations

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    of pleasure so fascinating to the mind of youth , i At length arrived the evil days when the exasperation of political party , aggravated by the relative situations of this country and France attained ltd height . A pamphlet was published by Mr . Wakefield which , although at any other time it

    would have provoked no animadversion , and even at that time might have been safely and magnanimously overlooked , was pursued with a vindictive activity on the part of the agents of government , which soon consigned its author to two years' imprisonment in the county goal of Dorchester . The domestic establishment

    of Mr , W # at Hackney , Was necessarily broken up by this event , and Mrs . Wakefield with her two daughters removed to Dorchester . Here , among strangers , and in circumstances rendered doubly hazardous by their unprotected situation , and by

    the obloquy with which the imputed disloyalty of Mr . W . was visited , the subject of this memoir was inured to the practice of those maxims of moral prudence , of self-controul , of Christian forbearance , so ^ difficult of attainment , so inestimable when attained . A visit of some months

    at Liverpool now succeeded , where , in the cheerful and cultivated society of friends , whom her noble and amiable disposition most fondly attached , she regained the natural elasticity of her spirits ; and joining her father , on his liberation from confinement , became again the grace and delight of the now re-united family .

    While the future plans of JMr . Wakefield remained still undetermined , while the congratulations of his friends were still flowing in , the disease had commenced which , in a few days , separated him for ever from all earthly concerns . The effect of this fatal reverse , of this

    sudden and irretrievable calamity on a heart , like his daughter ' s , overflowing with filial attachment , is too sacred a subject for words to describe . She sought and found consolation where alone it is to be found , in the performance of her duty , in the sure promises of religion .

    In about two years after the death of her father , she became the wife of Mr . C . R . Aikin , and tbus was associated to , a family which had for many years beea connected with her own by the ties of mutual friendship . In entering into this new and momentous engagement , she might truly adopt the words of the poet :

    Non ego illam mihi dotem duco qui dps dicitur , Sed Pudicitiara et Pudorem , et sedatum Cupidineih , Deum metum , Parentum amorem , cognatum concordiam .

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    Obituary . ~* Mr $ . Charles Aikin . 623

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1821, page 623, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2505/page/55/