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fpeded, and mourned by all who knew 

 him. He never married ; had purchafed a 

 pretty eftate near Derby, which, with all 

 his other effecls, he left to his father. The 

 accounts, whofe apprehended embarraff- 

 ment had proved fatal to him, were fettled 

 after his death to the fatisfa&ion of all 

 parties. 



Though this unfortunate victim of caufe- 

 lefs defpondency had a gentle, ingenuous, 

 and affeclionate heart, he attained middle 

 life without any known or luipecled attach- 

 ment of the impaffioned kind. There feem- 

 ed a want of energy in his character, and too 

 extreme a delicacy of feeling on the occur- 

 rence of every thing which was in the 

 flighteft degree repulfive. He had never 

 loved bufmefs, and his attention to it appear- 

 ed a force upon his inclinations. While his 

 profeffion was undetermined, he exprefled 

 a wiih to go into the Church rather than 

 the Law. That preference was repulfed 

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