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though not to obtrude his , advice , it was serviceable to my youug friend . , The publication of a uew edition of thfe Norwich Hy inn-Book was resolved upon this year , as well as the addition of a
Supplement . My father ' s much-esteemed friend and brother deacon , Sir James E . Saiith , again assisted him in this work , &ud contributed six admirable hyuins to it . My father added nine to his former uumber .
He entered upon the last year of his life with a measure of health arid strength far exceeding what he enjoyed during a considerable portion of the preceding twenty years . The ties which bound him to his native city were weakened by the removal thence of all his children except one , but they were too strong to he
broken except by death . He had retired from business , but time never hung heavily upon his hands for a moment . Though he alone was left to preserve his family name in Norwich , he had some relatives who were very dear to him , and he had many friends . Death had indeed contracted the circle of the associates of
his early years , but his cheerful temper equally fitted him for the company of the young , as did his mature and enlightened judgment for the society of his contemporaries . To children he was uniformly a welcome visitor . He delighted to collect them around him , and his ever ready muse would often versifv some
occurrence in which they had taken a part , which , with equal readiness , he woiHd adapt to some easy melody . With his bodily powers so far restored * and his mental faculties active and unimpaired , it will not be thought surprising that he shoold have contemplated the realizing one of the fondest wishes of his heart , ouee more to visit his brother at Dublin .
His intention was to have first rested at the residence of his son Philip at Corngreaves , near Birmingham , thence to have proceeded tu that of his eldest son at Coed Ddu , in Flintshire , and
from Hulyhead to have crossed the channel to Dublin Just before the period of his departure , he had interested himself as much as ever , perhaps more , in securing the return of his respected friend Mr . Wiiliani Smith for Norwich . .
It was on the first of Juue that he left his home , intending to return at the latter end of the sumiuer . But He who ordereth the length of our days had ordained ** He shall return no more to his house , neither shall his place know him
any more , " He reached Birmingham ou the Saturday , and attended divine service at the New Meeting . My brother Philip lact him there , intending to convey him if ! , his house at Corjigreavcs in a car , wJftteh he was iu the habit of uatpg as a
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safe omvfwmx &KJm & ** & $ * , A-W and very steep UUl . fornis ^ pa » rtv oZ tKe road , leading tUrpijigh ftfle 'i ^ v ^^ . ^^ it was in goiftg doyro fj $ s ® l ^ directly opposite to the Leasowes * that from , soine cause , not very accurately ascertamed ' the horse becjuue restive , and , the servant who was driving , in endeavouring to prevent his running a way , "broke the reins , and was thrown from his seat . My bro ' ther , in trying to escape from the . vehicle in order to reach the horse ' s head , vvaa also violently thrown to the ground , and
my father was found . by him , as soon as he was sufficiently " recovered to beable to rise , lying senseless and bleedtug oii the road . Providentially they were very near the hoiise of Mr . Thomas Breivm , a name I cannot write without every sentiment of gratitude and respect . I will not do violence to the feelings of this excellent man by saying all that he
was to the stranger then within his waits , as well as to his family . He seeks not the applause of the world , but that which is far above and beyond it he can never lose . Through his kindness the best medical skill was quickly procured , while every possible attention was paid to my father ' s comfort . On Monday consciousness was in gome degree restored , and
on Thursday , though not able to speak , he was able to write . His first inquiry was respecting his valued friend and relative Mr . Thomas Martineau , whose end , like his own , was speedily approaching ; his second was as to the success of Mr . W . Smith ' s election . Gradually-bU speech returned , and in some degree his '
strength . This gave us hope ; for at a former period of his life we had seen him so much reduced , that those symptoms which to others appeared alarming , were not so in the same degree to us . But on the 20 th his appetite failed , and his strength in consequence rapidly declined : he sunk into almost an
unconscious state on the following day * and ou the morning of the 23 rd he expired . He was buried on the following Friday , in the ground belongiug to the Uuitarian congregations at Birmingham . lu addition to his sons , and two of his grandsons , the funeral was attended by
the ministers of those congregations , by some of its members to whom he wa » known , by Mr . Brewiu and Mr . Joseph Priestley , and by the Unitarian minister 4 * of Dudley , Stourbridge and Cradley-The service was performed by the R *?*'*
John Kentish , who most kindly proposed to abandon his intended journey to York , for this purpose . The death of oiy kther' « much-esteemed friend , Mr . Thomas Marti ueau ^ happened about Ihe * &w tiaie , and the devout which tbiw def > we « the Society at Norwich of its two awe *
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492 Obituary . —Mr * John Tn $ tw .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1826, page 492, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2551/page/48/
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