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Gabriel Feopiee, died on Sunday loth November, and was 

 buried on the 14th. In deploring his demise, in recordiug his 

 talents and his virtues, we but echo the unanimous sentiment 

 and anticipate the desire of the whole community. Of others 

 it has been said, speak no ill of the dead ; of Sir Gabeiel we 

 may assert, no one in our midst can speak aught but good. 



" The illness w'hich resulted in the lamented death of Sir 

 Gabeiel was short, and he has passed away far from the arena 

 where, for so long a time, with so much ability, and with so 

 much independence, he defended the rights and tardily-grant- 

 ed privileges of the colony ; where, foremost, always clear- 

 sighted, eloquent and couvincing, he energetically aided in the 

 enactment of legislative measures which have proved useful 

 and beneficial to public interests. It is with pain we have to 

 enregister the undeniable fact, that the eminent services cf 

 Sir Gabeiel to the country, and his remarkable abilities, were 

 insufficiently appreciated by the Government ; with pain we 

 have to record, that when a reverse of fortune induced him to 

 resign his seat at the Legislative Council, instead of his nomi- 

 nation to the Bench which he would have adorned, the no less 

 honorable but much less honored post of District Magistrate 

 was all with which he was rewarded. 



" It is impossible to speak of the late Sir Gabeiel without 

 recalling his consistent and laudable attitude in the Council 

 Chamber. He evidently disdained an ephemeral popularity, 

 and satisfied with the uprightness of his intentions, he disre- 

 garded unreasoned criticism of his public acta. "While he ne- 

 ver hesitated to strongly oppose any governmental measure 

 which failed to obtain his approval, he none the less gave an 

 earnest and cordial support to all legislation suggested by the 

 Authorities, when this, in his opinion, was adapted to the real 

 Wants and would further the real progress of his native coun- 

 try. It was the pi-esenco of men like Sir Gabeiel at the Le- 

 gislature, it was the knowledge that others like him would 

 bring to tha discharge ' of their public duties equal industry, 

 equal intelligoncK, equal probity, that justified Her Majesty's 

 ministers in enlarging the basis of our Legislative Council, 

 thus bringing to tl^e aid of the Local Government the most 

 capable and the most esteemed of the community at large. In 



