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given more fully, as they constitute at this distance of 

 time one of the best means of estimating the man, and 

 this the more as it may be most truly said of those who 

 laid him to rest as well as of those who followed 

 after, 



We carved not a line and we raised not a stone, 

 But we left him . . . alone 



The entries in the Journal for 1823, amidst the desirable 

 information which they confer, serve a less pleasing 

 office, since they reveal that having sold his patrimonial 

 house and shop he dispenses with a composing-room in 

 order to save some 31. yearly rent, reduces his printer's 

 wages, disposes of surplus furniture, and unsuccess- 

 fully appeals for time to the tax-gatherer : all ominous 

 of the future troubles which, already impending, 

 began, like other "coming events," to '^past their 

 shadows before/' 



JOURNAL FOR 1823. 



" Thursday, January 2nd, 1823. Professor Henslow 

 of Cambridge called, when I gave him about thirty 

 plants in exchange for his. Heard that Mr. Beding- 

 field, the lawyer, was dead, and that another lawyer 

 had run away ! 



"Friday, 3rd. Bills stuck about for the sale of Town 

 Clerk Mr. John Mills Evans' goods ! Mr. Evans not 

 seen lately. Heard another young lawyer was not of 

 the best principle. Had Mrs. Thorpe's son from North- 

 fleet to work this day. 



"Monday, 6th. E/ev. Mr. Durham called and in- 

 formed me that Nicholas Gillbee, Esq., late of Denton, 

 was dead. So he died a poor gentleman, from being 



