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    to tbe honour of the town , none could be found to purchase a single article . He afterwards stood sentinel over Jefferies , when that atrocious judge was confined to the Tower . His great grandson inherited all that firm and ardent lore for religious liberty which characterized his aucestor . In the early part of his life the ? subject of this memoir obtained a situation in the Excise , in which department he held successively several places of considerable trust during forty years , and uniformly conducted himself with such strict integrity as gained him the esteem of his superiors and of many with whom he held intercourse in his official character .

    About the latter end of the year 1817 , iu consequence of his age and growing iufirinities , he became unable to fulfil the duties of his office , and was placed on the retired Jist with a small pension ; since which time , till the day of his death , he resided in this town .

    During the time of his residence in Yarmouth , a period of about twenty years , Mr . Delacourt was a member of the congregation of Unitarian Dissenters assembling for divine worship at the Old Meeting-house , in Goal Street , Yarmouth . Through the course of a long life our respected friend was always a warm and decided friend to the cause of

    civil and religious liberty ; and the writer of this article has frequently witnessed with What pleasure foe hailed the progress of that cause which he had so much at heart' , and what heartfelt satisfaction he displayed at the remarkable events which have occurred within the

    last eighteen months . Nearly the last time that hne was able to go abroad he went for the express purpose of signing the petition in favour of the claims of his Roman Catholic fellow-countrymen . He was sincere and firm in the religious principles which he had embraced and professed , and found them a support and comfort to his mind when nature

    was fast sinking under age and-infirmity . No person could meet the close of life with more cheerful calmness and resignation . A near relation of his , who held very different views of religious truth from those which he had embraced , was in his company a very few days before his death , and expressed an anxious desire to know where he had

    placed his hopes of salvation : with peculiar emphasis and . energy , he replied , " My hopes are pjacefl in Heaven , and upon the great God Who formed me and is now taking me to himself . " A short

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    Mr . Thomas Hardy , Jun . On Thursday , August 6 th , in the 26 th year of his age , Thomas Hardy , Jus ., eldest son of Thomas Hardy , Esq ., Surgeon , Wai worth . The subject of this brief notice was distinguished by qualities aud attainments of no ordinary kind . His man *

    ners were eminently adapted to conciliate respect and affection ; and his amiability of disposition , correct principle , solid moral worth , and rational piety , to secure their permanence . His literary and scientific acquirements were considerable ; they were harmoniously blended with that susceptibility to the beauties of

    nature , which is one of the purest ornaments of cultivated minds ; and . they were all made to bear upon the peculiar studies of the medical profession , for which he was educated , and in which he had already shewn that zeal , ability , and perseverance , which are the surest pledges of usefulness and eminence . His short

    career had given clear indications of his attaining , had life been spared , to the highest honours of his profession . It has , however , pleased the all-wise and good Disposer of events to order otherwise . In the course of his unremitting exertions , and apparently iu consequence of them , he became the victim of disease , the progress of which it was vainly hoped to arrest by his passing the last winter at Madeira . He returned with

    some symptoms of improvement , but they were only evanescent , and his family and friends had soon to deplore the final extinction , as to this world , of that bright promise of goodness and usefulness in which they had rejoiced . The writer hopes he shall be excused the introduction here of part of a letter from his deeply-afflicted father :

    *• In early life he embraced those views of religious truth , which we believe to be scriptural ; and a few hours before he departed he desired me to read a portion of scripture which should contain our Lord ' s * own words' —his ipsissima verb& 3 for he observed that he had read all tlie Epistles last winter at Madeira , and his mind was satisfied upon doctrinal points . —In looking back upon his con-

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    670 Obituary . —Mr . Thomas Hardy , Jun .

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    time before his death he caused the family to be assembled in his chamber , a prayer to be offered , and a portion of the Scripture read , and thus , in the act of worship , he went from earth into the preseuce of his heavenly Father . Yarmouth , June 26 th > 1829 .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1829, page 670, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2576/page/70/