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1824 . May 26 , at MotiteaZIier ' , near Turin , Capel Lofft , Esq . Mr . Lofft was twice married . His first wife was a daughter of the late Mr . Emlyn , of Windsor . The surviving children of that marriage are , a so-a in the military service of
the India Company , and a daughter . His second wife was a daughter of the late Mr . Joseph Finch , merchant , of Cambridge . By this marriage Mr . L . had offspring , two daughters , who , with his widow , are in Italy , and a son , now at Eton College . ;
Mr , Lofft , though a lawyer , was most liberal and consistent in his politics ; and though an author , a poet , and a critic , most generous in his strictures and benerotent in his conduct towards men of genius and letters . If his feelings erred , the failing was always on the side of charity . Few have distinguished
themselves for such a length of time in so mauy various branches of our literary history . Mathematics , classics , law , poetry , music , criticism , all by turns , occupied his pen , from aa early period to the latest hour , as his separate works , as
well as numerous contributions to periodical publications , will amply testify . The great Painter ' s advice was strictly followed by him—no day without a line As a lawyer he was indefatigable , till he , in a great measure , abandoned this rugged road , to devote himself to the Muses '
primrose path , " at his seat , Trostan Hall , in Suffolk . Here he had , in his second wife , a lady of considerable literary talent , " u meet helpmate . ' He was a sound scholar ; and to the office of critic , he brought great judgment , excellent taste , and a mind stored with an
amazing share and variety of human knowledge . —As a Poet , particularly in the Sonnet , as witness his Laura in several volumes , and various criticisms on that subject , he was an enthusiast , and perhaps too fastidious and refined , but certainly not without genius and powers of versification . Unwearied in his own literary pursuits , he was not less so in
assisting and fostering those of others The encouragement he gave to Bloomfield , and the labour he bestowed on the Farmer ' s Boy , may serve as one instance of many which might be adduced to prove the
amiable disposition of his nature When to this laudable trait , we add , that m private life , he was the very soul of sympathy and urbanity , while in his pubhe , he was a steady , undeviating Patriot on the soundest constitutional principles ; vol
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July 22 , at Creaton , in Northamptonshire , Mr . John Holxick , aged 68 V As this excellent man , though connected through life with Dissenters of the
orthodox description , was for many years a constant reader of The Monthly Kepository , it is conceived that a notice of his death will not be out of place iu the Obituary of that work . Religion , as the
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we need advance no more-to shew how much his loss is to be lamented , or how ill such a character can be spared in these shifting , trimming and degenerate times . Were it more abundant , we should not so often hare to exclaim , ** Custodia fir ma sit ne hmdice intrent in Urbem . "
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July 8 , at Birmingham * Mrs / Jane Toulmin , relict of Joshua Toulmiu , D . D . She had long experienced the bodily infirmities which more or less attend advanced life ; but till within a few weeks
of her death , her mind in a great degree retained its energy . In her life were exemplified the importance arid the beauty of Christian principles . Under various afflictive bereavements , the heaviest of
which Was a separation from Mm she was accustomed to designate as her * ¦* ' saint-like husband , " and to whom she was united more than half a century , she evinced the power of those principles which lead the mind to view God in all
things ; and though possessing a warmly affectionate heart , her feelings were so much under the coutroul of religion , her acquiescence in the will of her heavenly Father so entire , that to those most near and dear , her serenity and cheerfulness appeared but seldom clouded . Gratitude
for the blessings of heaven and the kindness of friends was a prominent feature in her character . She faithfully discharged the duties of a mother to a large family , as the writer of this can gratefully testify ; and so long as her memory retains its recollection , she will , with a
surviving brother and sister , think , with delight and with devout acknowledgments of the Divine goodness , that she is descended from parents , illustrious ,, not for rank or any of its adventitious
circumstances , but for their habitual , cheerful , active piety , which was a light to their feet aud a lamp to their path here , and prepared the way for an immortality of glory and felicity hereafter * August , 1824 . L . B .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1824, page 481, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2527/page/33/
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