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dec # ed > pTefer $ nce for a searing life * and the Editor seems ta > toMhat the causes of this disappointment lay deeper thaa the toerei desire , of nbvelty and change , so natural to ardent dispositions . How ^^ -tfti- ' nii ^ 'oti ^ flN ally fee , it does not appear that anf diffepehbe lori ^ ^ bsi | t ^^ t ^ n Xhe father and son . Mr . Richmond a ^ fopj anfed tiihf to ' - ^ bl&tA ^^ kd ^ tit formly expresses towards him the : &ffeptio ' rir tif a \ |^ r ^^ | mjle ' '^ iJ ^! iii 8 letters bespeak the respect and attachment of a son . Sixteen months after
the departure of this young man , Mr . Richmond read an account of the shipwreck of the vessel in which he believed his son to be , and a later account confirmed the intelligence that every individual on board had perished , with the exception of six persons , whose names were specified , that of Nugent Richmond not being among them . The family went into mourning , and Mr . Richmond sorrowed for his child deeply ; when , three months afterwards , he received a letter from him whom he had mourned as
dead . Circumstances had prevented his setting sail in the Armiston , of whose fate he appeared to be wholly unconscious . For about four years longer his life was spared , in the course of which time his letters manifested much affection and regret for the past , together with a strong desire for a meeting with his parents . This was not destined to be fulfilled ; for , after a series of trials and disasters , poor Nugent fell a victim to one of the fevers of India . Meantime , his brother Wilberforce , who appears to have been in every respect of like mind with his father , began to exhibit alarming
consumptive symptoms . The touching account of this amiable boy , which is given in a letter we have before quoted , addressed by Mr . Richmond ' s daughter to the Editor , we shall give in her own words : " Though my dear father , " she says , " was naturally playful and lively , his spirits were easily depressed ; and they appeared to undergo a considerable change subsequent to the summer of 1824 , the period at which Wilberforce ' s health began to decline . Wilberforce was most tenderly endeared to him ; and there was a strong affinity between their characters . He was just 1
beginning to unfold a very fine understanding ; and his intellectual attainments were certainly superior for his age . His mind had : been cultivated with much care ; and th $ same elegance of taste and delicacy of feeling , so prominent in my father's character , seemed , likewise to mark that of his cherished boy . He manifested the same inclination to the studies of natural philosophy ; and when the school lessons were finished , they were constantly
engaged together in these pursuits . While the other fypys were af play , Wilberforce generally occupied himself in reading in the study , trying experiments , &c . Mineralogy , in particular , was a favourite science witu both $ and in each instance it beguiled the hours of declining health . * •*¦? - ? ' # * In the summer of 1824 , my brother ruptured a blood-vessel , and ' begun to spit blood . My dear father discovered great anxiety and alarm , though we
did not , for a long time , know how much he was . affected . He afterwards tolcl M * vmnMhat on that morning , ^» he looked on Wilberforce , he received a shoefc which SQemM to Bjtott # * T 4 w to , tjis soul , antf froni ^ WcU k $ never afterwards recovereq , . , * » j j " In June , 1 S 24 , he took a / journey to Scotjan ^ . jjj fltyc e vyilber ^ rpe under the care of Dr , Stewart . 1 wag their companion in the journey , which I have a mournful pleasure in retracing . It ' Was' Vfeiy' tiltasahi to travel with my father ; hfc haa such tiri exquisite j ferceptiott of the beauties of nature ; and every object of interest was pointed out to lift with 'his own
elegant and devotional associations . Ofteiv has he wandered on thrdti gh the fine scenes of Scotland both by dayrliffht and mootUight ; with poor Willy ajv <| inyeelf at feis « i < fo | w 4 we hava ^ t tfoww together on the searflhore , or by the hedge-side , while hq shewed ua the ; ji * wge , Qf th ^ Deity m ' tbfaimMj
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1828, page 755, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2566/page/27/
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