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created a feeling of intense sorrow, amidst a very large circle of friends and 

 acquaintances. " It is, however, in a public light that we must view the 

 deprivation society has sustained in the loss of this worthy and intelligent 

 man. His example and his taste as a botanist had spread a spirit of im- 

 provement over the whole province of Ulster; and the beautiful grounds 

 of Nurseryville were the resort of almost every scientific person who visited 

 this part of Ireland. Nor did his active and enquiring mind rest contented 

 with bringing to a state of the highest perfection the more mechanical 

 parts of those interesting pursuits in which he had been engaged for the 

 major part of his life ; he examined, with the study and the investigation of 

 a man of science, into the most abstruse parts of botanical pursuits. His 

 acquaintance with this branch of knowledge was allowed to be very con- 

 siderable. He also corresponded with the first naturalists of the present 

 time ; and considered no expense too costly in storing his mind with every 

 useful information, or in enriching his gardens with the rarest and most 

 valuable plants. His taste and skill were the boast of his country; his 

 hospitality was proverbial, both among friends and strangers; and his 

 melancholy death will be a great public loss, and will long leave behind it 

 feelings of deep sorrow, in the bosom of every man who enjoyed his society 

 or his friendship," Mr. Harvey occasionally corresponded with both our 

 Magazines, and none of his friends more sincerely regret his loss than we 

 do. Every accident of this sort ought to teach us to make the most of life, 

 by employing or enjoying every moment ; and to be always ready, in respect 

 to worldly afliiirs, to leave it, by ordinary or extraordinary disease, at the 

 shortest notice. " The remains of Mr. Hervey were removed from Nur- 

 seryville to the family burying-ground at Annahilt. The multitude of per- 

 sons who filled up the long train of the funeral pageant, — persons of the 

 first respectability, and of different religious and political opinions, — best 

 bespoke the universal esteem in which he was held. It was an esteem that 

 sprung from a firm conviction of his worth ; and this, like wealth honestly 

 earned, will wear long and well." It may afford a useful lesson to our 

 readers, to mark the steady fortitude and vigilant exercise of duty with 

 which Mr. Hervey met his approaching end ; knowing it to be an inevitable 

 result, and knowing also that it would be attended by dreadful previous 

 suffering. He received a scratch on the check, and was bit in the arm by a 

 dog in June, and as soon as possible afterwards had a portion of the flesh of 

 the arm cut out, and a course of medicine prescribed. It is uncertain whe- 

 ther or not he attended to the medical prescription with suflicient rigidity; 

 but on the 2d of Sept. he first discovered himself to be labouring under the 

 influence of hydrophobia, by experiencing a spasmodic affection, when he 

 attempted to put some water into his mouth. *' He was in Belfast on 

 business on the 1st inst., and dined with one of his friends, without any 

 thing remarkable being observed in his manner, except, it is now said, a 

 restlessness and a dulness of spirits. Soon after liis arrival at home, 

 however, he found himself unwell, and continued so until morning, when 

 he rose to take a glass of water, and found that he could not bear to look 

 at it. From that moment he knew all was over, and that not a hope re- 

 mained; notwithstanding which, such was his nerve, that he retired to bed, 

 without alarming the family, until his aunt came to call him to breakfast, 

 and even then he did not communicate to her the awful certainty of his 

 approaching end, but sent into Comber for two of his particular friends, 

 under pretext of business, to whom he communicated his fatal discovery 

 and situation. Dr. Purdon was immediately sent for, and did his utmost to 

 alleviate his distress ; but all was in vain, no human aid could then avert 

 the sad fate which awaited him. Although perfectly aware of his own 

 situation, he remained firm and collected, frequently expressing his hope 

 that the Almighty would endue him with firmness to meet his fate as a man 

 and a Christian, and giving occasional instructions for his friends' govern- 



