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apology for an imperfect performance, fuch must be mine, for offering to the public the refult of a few ferious moments of reflection.

While the last of these papers were in the press, the melancholy Intelligence of Mr. Howard's death, arrived; a circumstance which muft excite, in all the admirers of his exalted virtues, the livelieft expreffions of forrow. To delineate a character which all the world beholds with veneration, would be presumption: not to acknowledge the Obligations of the present age to him, would be

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Column or the marble Buft may be juftly due from a people fenfible of his peculiar merits, but the beft record of his praise is infcribed in the BOOK OF LIFE, and in the hearts of the diftreffed captive, the folitary prisoner, or the forrowful lazar, whose Infirmities either of mind or body have been relieved by his benevolence. It may be faid of this excellent man as of the good Jofias, "The remembrance of him is like the compo fition of the perfume made by the art of the Apothecary: it is fweet as honey in all mouths, and as Mufic at a Banquet of wine.

STOCKTON UPON TÉES.
March 19, 1790.

J. B.

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