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and in the worst of times he never 

 shrunk from the manifestation of his 

 sentiments, fearless, though not in- 

 sensible, of the obloquy which might 

 attend it. With singular judgment 

 he steered in difficult times a middle 

 course between the opposite ex- 

 tremes of party. But although he 

 felt it a duty to act decidedly, when 

 the times called for it, he held no 

 feelings of personal hostility against 

 his political opponents. Indeed he 

 was wholly without gall ; the occa- 

 sion which called forth the exer- 

 , tion, once past, he instantly tender- 

 ! ed the right hand of friendship to 

 thekeenest of his adversaries. We 

 have hitherto dwelt on the useful 

 [ part of Mr. Gurney's character, but 

 he largely contributed to the plea- 

 sures as well as the interest of those 

 around him, for he was of a singu- 

 larly cheerful nature, and of habits 

 in a high degree social. These he 

 indulged by a constant hospitality, 

 impossible to be exceeded, and by 

 no means confined to the respecta- 

 ble religious sect of which he was 

 a member, but extended very gene- 

 rally to his friends and neighbours, 

 and to those who occasionally visit- 



ed Norwich. After ahfe well spent 

 in the discharge of the duties of a 

 Christian, Mr. Gurney died in truly 

 Christian sentiments, distinctly ex- 

 pressed a short time before his 

 death, in the last moments of his 

 unclouded reason, with a perfect 

 consciousness that his disease was 

 mortal, and with a resignation the 

 most entire to the will of Almighty 

 God. Mr. Gurney was a member 

 of the Society of Friends ; he was 

 once married, and eighteen years 

 ago was left a widower with eleven 

 children. All of these survive him, 

 and would be inconsolable under 

 the loss of him who was the most 

 tender and affectionate of parents, 

 but for the hope that is in them. 



At Ottery St. Mary, Mrs. Cole- 

 ridge, relict of the Rev. John C. 

 vicar of that place, 88. 



In the public hospital, at King- 

 ston, Jamaica, and buried at the 

 expense of the parish, Robert Hep- 

 burn Ker, formerly a baker in that 

 city, and who, by a late decision in 

 th& House of Peers, was found en- 

 titled to the dukedom of Roxburgh, 

 unincumbered, and 100,000/. ster- 

 ling in the funds. 



CELEBRATION OF THE JUBILEE 



By the Government op Bombay. 



Bombay y June 9th, 1810. 

 On Monday last, being the 4th 

 of June, the hon. the governor gave 

 a splendid ball and supper at Parell 

 to the ladies and gentlemen of this 

 settlement, surpassing even the 

 many former elegant entertainments 

 which we have had the pleasure of 

 witnessing at the same mansion. 



The arrangements for this fete were 

 conducted with a degree of libera- 

 lity and magnificence, worthy of 

 the occasion for which the party 

 was assembled : to celebrate not 

 only the birth-day of our beloved 

 sovereign, but the fiftieth year of 

 his arduous and eventful reign. 

 The avenue leading to Parell was 

 illuminated 



