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l > ut a faint idea of the loss sustained by the circle . in . whi p h her moved . We are aware that we might dwell much longer on his public and private virtues , that we might enlarge on the difficulties encountered in eaviy life , and on the noble manner in which he afterwards afforded pecuniary assistance to those who needed
it . But we trust that we have recorded enough to constitute a useful memorial of him , enough to stimulate our young readers , and particularly such of them as were nearly and dearly connected with him , to imitate his excellent example . His afflicted widow , and sons , and daughters , know where to seek for more effectual consolation than we can offer .
While they lament his departure from the circle he enlivened , and the temple in whicji he worshiped , they can reflect on his services to truth and virtue , and on his kindness to the , widow and the fatherjess , and they ca , n anticipate a blissful reunion with him in the general assembly of the just made perfect . May 21 , 1831 .
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Mr . Joseph Brookhouse . * Nee ilium vixisse pcenituit ; quoniam it a tiixit ut nonfrustra se natum existimet " : et ex vita it a di&jcedit , tanqiiam e » hospitio , non tanquam ex dorno . —Cicero .
He had no reason to regret living , since he had the conscious satisfaction of not having lived in vain : he had no reason to regret dying , since he retired from this world with all the cheering hopes of one removing from his inn , and returning to his home .
On Sunday last , at his house , in the Saltisford , Warwick , in the seventy-fourth year of his age , Mr . Joseph Brookhouse . He was a native of Leicester , and was brought up to the humble occupation of a wool-comber : but , early in life , he entered into the military service ; first as a private in the militia , and afterwards as a sergeant in the
regulars . He served abroad during the American war , and was much esteemed by his commanding officer , the late Lord Winchelsea , with whose friendly notice he was honoured through life . He particularly distinguished himself by his courageous and successful exertions in defence of the Isle of St . Lucia , when , in 1782 , it was attacked by the French fleet
of twenty-four sail , under the command of Count De Grasse . Though he might , perhaps , condemn the thoughtless precipitancy , common to youth , which led him in the first instance to exchange the sober pursuits of honest industry at home , for the toils , the privations , and the perils of military life abroad ; yet he ever afterwards loved to talk of his
adventures , aud his hair-breadth escapes ; and was always delighted with the recollection of the firmness with which he bore hardships ; the intrepidity with which he faced danger ; and the multiplied resources , discovered by the fertility of-his own invention , for himself and others , in the midst of the extraordinary difflculcies with which he and they were sometimes surrounded .
Returning to England , he re-settled at Leicester ; and here , by the happy application of his mechanical ingenuity aud skill , for' which he was always remarkable , he had the merit of being the first to invent and introduce machinery for the spinning of worsted for the hosiery
manufactory . This important discovery , which laid the foundation of his own better fortunes , exposed him , at first , to the mistaken enmity of the working classes , by whom his effigy wasignomitiiously burnt ,. and his personal safety seriously endangered . Leaving , in con-
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* 4 § 8 Obituary . —Jonathan Stokes , M . D . —Mr . Joseph Brookhouse .
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Jonathan Stokes , M . D . April 30 , at Chesterfield , in his seveutys eve nth year , Jonathan Stokes , JM . D ., who had for a long period exercised his profession in that town and neighbourhood with great skill aud eminent success . He was exemplary in all the relations of domestic and social life ; and in nis character as a man and a citizen , it may . with truth be said , that he never
violated the obligations of private friendship , or shrank from the fulfilment of a public duty . He was attached , both by education and by principle , to the Dissenting interest ; but had nothing of the sectarian in his character . A slave to no party , and a bigot to no creed , he was respected and beloved by persons of all . creeds , aud or" all parties . His literary and scientific attainments were equalled onjy by the urbanity of his
manners , and the amiable and endearing qualities of his heart . In his death society has lost a brigh t ornament , and the poor have been deprived of a beneficent friend . , His bereaved family will long dwell upon his memory with affectionate regret ; but may derive consolation from - $ he hope , that , through the-mercy of God in Christ Jesus , they will finally be re-united to him in the regions of the blest . / ...
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1831, page 498, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2599/page/66/
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