TWO KARr.Y AUSTRALIAN OKXITIIOLOOISTS — NORTH. 123 



is a List of Civil Establishnioiits and Pu])lic Institutions in the 

 Territory of New South Wales and its J)ependencies. Among 

 the Comniittee of the Police Fund of the Police Establishment at 

 Sydney, the name of Mr. Lewin api:)ears as Coroner. 



Lewin died in 1819, and was buried in the Devonshire Street 

 Cemetery, his remains, with others buried there, being transferred 

 a few years ago to the northern shore of Botany Bay, to make 

 r(jom h>r the new metropolitan railway station at Hedfern. The 

 inscrijjtion on Lewin's tomb in this cemetery, wjiicli is mid-way 

 Ijetween Botany and La Perouse, is as follows : — 



" Here Rests 



the Body of J. W. LEAVIN, Esq. 



Coroner 



who departed this Life 



the 27th of August, 1819 



Aged 49 Years 



After a severe Illness 



which he bore 



With Christian Fortitude 



Leaving a disconsolate 



Widow and Son 



to Lament his Loss 



a Loss 



also felt l)y his few Friends 



who knew him. 



In him the Community has been 



Deprived of an honest Man 



and this country of an 



Eminent Artist 



in his Line of 



Natural History Painting 



In which he excelled. 



He is gone 



Depending upon the Mercies 



of liis God 

 through an atoning Saviour 



Who Writes 



'Our Virtues on Adamant 



Our Vices on a Wave.' 



A Friend 



has given this Tril)ute 



To his Memory." 



