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ford-square , with Mr . John and Mr . Joseph Hare , whose attentions and services were besought for him by their brother , Mr . Hare , of Calcutta * his intimate friend . One of these gentlemen also accompanied him to Paris . While there ,, he more than once was at the table of Louis Philip . In London he frequently attended the worship of Unitarians , it
and ~ t ~ w-iee-art-te ^ but was his system to avoid so far identifying himself with any religious body as to make himself answerable for their acts and opinions ; and he also wished to hear preachers of other denominations who had acquired a just celebrity . He appears to have most frequented the church of the Rev . Dr . Kenney * ( St . Olave ' s , Southwark , ) who peculiarly "interested him by the Christian spirit and influence of his discourses . ,
In the early part of September he arrived at Stapleton Grove , near Bristol , where his son had been passing his vacation , intending to proceed thence to winter in Devonshire . In Bristol he attended worship at the Unitarian chapel in Xewin ' s Mead ; and there he had directed his son statedly to attend . If he had lived , however , he would have visited other places of worship at their second services ; , and he went . once to the church in the Hot well road with the expectation of hearing the Rev . Mr . Hensman .
- Ten days after hisarrival at the house of Miss Castles his disorder beganjits-attacks . He at first thought medical assistance unnecessary ; but on Thursday / the 19 th September , Mr . Estlin , who had enjoyed much intercourse with him during the preceding week , called accidentally at Stapleton Grove , and found him so ill with feverish symptoms as to Occasion him considerable alarm . Medicines were prescribed and followed by some relief ; but still there were indications of serious disorder . On the following Saturday Dr . Pritchard visited him , and Dr . Carrick attended in consultation on Monday the 23 d . . .
His indisposition experienced but a temporary check from the remedies : severe spasms , with paralysis of the le / t arm aqd leg , came on during'Thursday , and he fell into a state of stupor during the afternoon of that day , from which he never revived , but breathed his last at twenty-five minutes after two on Friday morning , the 27 th September . His son ., and two Hindu servants , with several attached friends , who had watched over him from the first day of his illness , were with him when he expired .
fylr . Hare was also with bin ? ... during : , the greater part of his illness 5 and Mr . Hare ' s niece , who was well acquainted with his habits , and possessed his full confidence and strong regard , attended upon him day and night with a degree of earnest and affectionate ' solicitude , well deserving the epithet of filial . He repeatedly acknowledged during his illness his sense of the kindness of all around him , and in strong language expressed the confidence he felt in his medical advisers . He did not converse
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RAJAH RAMMOHUN ROY . 329
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 1, 1833, page 329, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2625/page/9/
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