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ktoBW hirti . On this event , the letters of the sorrowing parent were filled with the deepest expressions of feeling , tempered by those consolations to which the Chris * tian philosopher knows so well how to have recourse . During the last three of his
^ ears life , Mr . Toulmin ' s health iad visibly declined , and he was a decided arid suffering invalid , for six months previous to his dissolution . His brother , Mr * John Butler Toulmin , hearing of his increasing in fir mi ties , hastened to see him ,
and arrived at his residence on the 10 th K > f November last ; the day before his death * He witnessed the closing scene , and in a letter written on the following day , thus sketches the public character of his brother : * ' His usefulness and
benevolence-was exemplary . He was always endeavouring to benefit his fellow-creatures . He had v by a long course of study , acquired au extensive medical knowledge , which was devoted gratuitously to the benefit of his friends and neighbours .
As a political character he was firm and independent ; his talents too , were of a high order , and commanded the respect of all . He had lately been elected to the General Assembly of this ( the Alabama ) State . It is to meet next week . He had
set his heart upon attending it , for he thought he could do much good in the revision of bad laws , and in simplifying the mode of proceeding hitherto adopted
in courts of justice . Had he been well , he would have done good , for he would have been the leading member in the House of Representatives . But all is now over , and his reward will be hereafter . " His
private character was distinguished by mildness and benevolence , by primitive simplicity , cheerful pleasantry and extensive hospitality . His attachment to his English connexions was unabated by time
or distance . Though he relinquished the exercise of the pastoral function , as the consequence of his emigration to a new country , he was never backward in the practice of the iwost valuable Christian
virtues . To these were joined inflexible firmness and integrity , which never suffered him to be blind to public delinquency , however speciously disguised . He was an accurate and attentive observer of passing events , and an indefatigable inquirer , when any curious facts presented themselves . Residing in that part of the
United States which is still disgraced by the permission of slavery , he , like all others , * had a property in human beings , bat he had too high a regard for them as fellow-creatures , to allow them to fevl their bondage oppressive , and was consoled by the reflection , that his Negroes were better off than persons of the labouring classes in England .
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Mr . Toulmin had . a . largefamily o ^ children , several of whom ' aye > married and settled in difi % eiitpart * of ^ eli |> itedl States * all of them , as might be
anticipated , respectably filling the si tnation allot te& to them by Providence * His death leaves a void in his family which will long be painfully felt ; nor , as a public calamity ,, is it lightly appreciated by the population , of an extensive and improving district * W , H S .
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1824 . Feb . 2 nd , in Air Street , Piccadilly , in his 75 th year , Mr . John Simco ,, bookseller , a worthy , honest map , long ^ known and respected for his love of antiquities , and his curious , catalogues of
topography and biography ( from . l 7 S 8 to * the present time ) . Mr . Sinaco particularly devoted his attention to the sale of books and prints relating tp topography and biography . He was patronized . by Fir
Barnard , Esq ., his Majesty ' s Librarian ; Sir R . C . Hoare , Bart ; the late Mr * Johu Townley ; Mr . Nassau ; and many other eminent collectors ; for all of whom honest Simco collected many a curious article . Mr . Simco carried his love of
collecting antiquities beyond the grave ; . by bequeathing to Dr . Wiliiams ' s Library , in Red Cross Street , an inlaid copy of Wilson ' s History of the Dfissenting Churches , in eight volumes , folio , illustrated with an immense number of
portraits of ministers and other persons connected therewith : to the Society of Antiquaries , a Port-Folio of Views of Churches and Palaces in Holland , Germany , &c .: and he offers to the Trustees of the British Museum his interleaved
copy of Bridges' Northamptonshire , in 4 vols . folio , full of Engravings , with three port-folios of Drawings of Churches and Monuments in Northamptonshire , beautifullv executed . Also , his Lysons ' s
Environs of London , illustrated in 11 vols ., and 4 vols . of Drawings , and his History of St . Albans , and History of Derbyshire , 3 vols , folio , illustrated with Prints and Drawings , upon condition of their paying his executors a certain sum of not half
what they cost him . The remainder of his Books he orders to be sold by Mr . Evans , and his Prints and Books of Prints by Mr . Sotheby . —Gent Mag . We can confirm the fact of Mr . Simco having bequeathed his Illustrated copy of Wilson ' s Dissenting Churches to Dr .
Williams's Library ; and we can add , from our own knowledge , that during his lifetime , he was a liberal benefactor to the same institution . The Library pwes to him some valuable manuscripts , and a large collection of rare Funeral Sermons , The Trustees , we know , feel grateful to his memory , and hope that his example
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1824, page 181, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2522/page/53/
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