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Tribute of Respect to the Rev . H . R . JSowles . On Thursday , the 18 th of June , at halfpast 12 , a Public Breakfast was given to the Rev . H . R . Bowles , at the Black
Lion Tavern , Yarmouth , by his former pupils , for the purpose of presenting to him , as a token of their esteem aud affection , a Salver of splendid workmanship , value Fifty Guineas—Mr . J . B . Palmer in the chair ; Vice-president , Mr . W . N . Borroughs . After the company had partaken of the repast prepared for them , the Salver was placed upon the table , bearing , the following inscription :
Reverendo Henrico Roberto Bowles , Mouunientnm hoc Erga se beneficiorum Pie memores dederunt Sub auspiciis ejus olim educati . xiv Kal . Jul . MDCCCXXIX .
The Chairman then rose and spoke nearly in the following words : " Dear Sir—The pleasing task devolves upon me of presenting to you , in the name of the present company and many others * who are unavoidably , though unwillingly , absent , this small token of our respect and esteem . There are many around you better qualified to express the sentiments which animate us , but no
one , I will say , who can feel more deeply than myself . We all wish that this token of oiir gratitude had been more worthy ' , of your acceptance ; but you will , we are assured , receive it in the same spirit in which it is given , and attach value to . it , not for its intrinsic worth , ( for it is after all mere trumpery silver , ) but for those kindly feelings which have dictated its presentation . Those that you now see present have assembled around you before under different circumstances and with different faces . Time , which changes all things , has also changed us—it has changed our situations arid our appearance . When in your schdol-rooin , Sir , we were boys - , now we are arrived at
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the age of manhood . Then we . often wore faces of grief , thinking you a hard task-inaster ; but now our countenance s glow only with smiles , or if perchance any among us shed tears this day , thry will be tears , not of sorrow , but of joy . None of us who can think , but have occasiou deeply to regret the causeless trouble , we have often given you , and
those precious hours we obstinately wasted , in spite of your prudent correction and kind advice . Whatever knowledge we have retained amidst the hurry and bustle of the world , we gratefully own to have been imparted by you ; and whatever new things in science or virtue we have acquired , we in a great measure owe to your care , since it was by you that the foundation was first laid on
which the fabric has been reared . Accept , then , dear Sir > this small pledge of our lasting affection , with all the kind wishes that grateful hearts can feel . You yourself will , I douht not , often look upon it and behold engraven thereon ( not more deeply thau on our hearts ) the expression of our esteem . Your descendants will also gather arouud it
when you shall be removed , not so much for the sake of the givers or the gift , as of him to whom it is inscribed . And , in resuming my seat , I cannot , I am sure , express a better wish for them aud all of us , than that both they and we may pass through life as you have done , with the same respect and honour from all who know us , and the same satisfaction to ourselves . "
The health of the Rev . H . R . Bowles was then drank amidst loud cheers , who in returning thanks said— " Sir , it would be difficult , if not impossible , to find suitable words to express the feelings which are working in my heart . The generous and splendid gift conferred on me by my old pupils as a memorial of
their affection , as well as the kind and highly gratifying manner in which you have presented it , demand my warmest acknowledgments . Such a testimony of esteem and affection is indeed a flattering , a proud distinction , and I trust you will believe that I receive it with heart-felt , glowing satisfaction , and that I shall never cease to think of this inotueut with
gratitude and delight as long as the powers of memory shall be continued to me . It is now nearly twenty years since I first devoted myself to the duties of a schoolmaster . I came to my task inexperience d , indeed , ( for , as you all know , different pursuits had occupied my early years , ) but , I trust , not unprepared . 1 had reflected long and seriously upon the duties
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586 Intelligence . — Tribute of Respect to the Rev . H . R > Bowles .
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brethren from the civil disabilities under which they have so long laboured , and in which this body of Protestant Dissenters has so deeply sympathized . " At half-past three , about thirty ministers and forty laymen sat down to dinner at the King ' s Head Inn , after which the company were gratified by hearing many interesting speeches .
The next Provincial Meeting will be held at Bury . EDWARD HAWKE 8 , Secretary .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1829, page 586, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2575/page/68/
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