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Italy, and Sicily, he was obliged to 

 return home without visiting Ger- 

 many, on account of the continen- 

 tal war, in which England was at 

 that time engaged. Whilst abroad 

 he pained a perfect knowledge of 

 the French and Italian language?, 

 which he spoke and wrote with the 

 fluency andcorrectnessof a native, 

 acquired a great taste for the fine 

 arts, and brought home with him 

 a valuable collection of pictures 

 and prints, &c. which he conti- 

 nued to augment for many years 

 after his return to this country, in 

 the year 1761, he married Eliza- 

 beth, the only daughter and heir- 

 ess of Peter Delamare, Esq. of 

 Greatness, whose ancestors were 

 likewise refugees from France, in 

 1686. He first introduced the 

 manufacture of crapes into Eng- 

 land, which, before his time, were 

 imported from Bologna ; by his 

 own ingenuity he discovered the 

 process of their manufacture, and 

 soon rivalled them in his manner 

 of preparing them. In the year 

 1778, partly through the impru- 

 dent speculations of a near rela- 

 tion, in whom he placed implicit 

 confidence, and partly by heavy 

 losses, occasioned by the failure 

 of a house with which he trans- 

 acted business, he became a bank- 

 rupt. The unkindness and op- 

 pression which he experienced 

 from some of his relatives upon 

 this occasion considerably assra- 

 vated, and certainly tended to 

 confirm this misfortune, which 

 might have been averted, had 

 proper time been given him to 

 settle his affairs. He was, how- 

 ever, amply compensated by the 

 countenance and friendly offers of 

 assistance which he received from 

 many of the most eminent mer- 

 chants in the city, among the fore- 

 most of whom was his ever valued 



friend Peter Gaussen, Esq. then 

 Governor of the Bank. After the 

 sale of his effects and collections, 

 he prosecuted his business with 

 unceasing energy. In 1800, hav- 

 ing realised an independent for- 

 tune, which was then considera- 

 bly increased by the death of a 

 near relation, he withdrew from 

 business, giving up the manufac- 

 tory and property connected with 

 it to his son, and retired to Seven- 

 oaks, where he resided till the 

 death of his wife, which took place 

 in 1805. He then returned to 

 pass the remainder of his days with 

 his son at Greatness. About this 

 time his memory began to fail 

 him ; it was the only symptom he 

 exhibited of old age, and was pro- 

 bably occasioned by his intense 

 application to studies of an ab- 

 struse nature, at an earlier period 

 of life. In the year 1792, when 

 the mania of the French revolu- 

 tion had nearly obtained a footing 

 in this country, and it became ne- 

 cessary for every one to testify 

 their attachment to the constitu- 

 tion, his name appeared almost the 

 first upon the list of those public- 

 spirited men, who at that critical 

 juncture established the associa- 

 tion at the Crown and Anchor. 

 He attained to an advanced age 

 without suffering from any of the 

 infirmities which usually accom- 

 pany that period of life, being able 

 to read the smallest print without 

 the assistance of glasses. He pos- 

 sessed a highly cultivated under- 

 standing, and a considerable por- 

 tion of general knowledge, refined 

 by an exquisite taste; the upright 

 independence of his character and 

 his high sense of honour, were 

 manifested in every occurrence of 

 his life. He had a strong sense 

 of religion and piety, and a sensi- 

 bility and tenderness of feeling 



