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Providence, by events always remote from chap. 
human foresight, had wonderfully destined that v. — v — - 
these two men, celebrated in their lives by the 
most opposite qualifications, should be interred 
nearly upon the same spot. It is not within the 
reach of possibility to bring together, side by 
side, two individuals more remarkably distin- 
guished in their deeds ; as if the hand of Destiny 
had directed two persons, in whom were exem- 
plified the extremes of Vice and Virtue, to one 
common spot, in order that the contrast might 
remain as a lesson for mankind: Potemkin, 
bloated and pampered by every vice, after a 
path through life stained with blood and crimes, 
at last the victim of his own selfish excesses : 
Howard, a voluntary exile, enduring the severest 
privations for the benefit of his fellow-creatures, 
and labouring, even to his latest breath, in the 
exercise of every social virtue. 
The particulars of Mr. Howard s death were ^? t ™ u,Ul 
communicated to us by his two friends, Admiral 
Mordvinof, then Chief-Admiral of the Black-Sea 
fleet, and Admiral Priest man, an English officer 
in the Russian service ; both of whom had borne 
testimony to his last moments. He had been 
entreated to visit a lady about twenty-four miles 
from Cherson', who was dangerously ill. Mr. 
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