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relative imterefts of the feveral courts of Eu- 
rope, though-it may be doubted whether the 
atrenuous fupport he gave to the prefeut war, be 
a proof of his applying that knowledge to the 
bett purpofes. In converfation he was attable, 
polite, and entertaining. He {poke moft’ mo- 
dern languages with great fluency, and to the 
Jateft period of his life, feemed defirous of 
knowledge, often attending courfes of Je¢tures 
en the different branches: of philofophy, with 
all the affiduity of a tyro. 
During the !aft four years his health began 
to decline. Several times, when fpeaking in 
the Houfe of Lords, he was attacked with a 
kind of apopletic fits, and fell down apparently 
dead. Of late, therefore, he feldem’ attempted 
to debate, or, at leaft, at no great length. He 
was, however, a firm fupporter of the m-a- 
fures adopted during this war. His death was 
fuppofed to haye been occafioned by a gouty 
f{pafm in his ftomach. He had been fo well for 
fome days, as to be preparing to depart from 
Brighthelmitone, where he died, to afiitt at the 
Privy Council at Weymouth, On diffection, 
Water was found in the head. 
On the Friday following, his remains were 
brought in funeral ftate, and interred with the 
ufual folemnity next the corpfe of his uncle, in 
the noth aifle of Weftminiter-Abbey. 
On the arrival of the cavalcade at the church, 
two of the bearers having got the coffin on their 
_thoulders, the horfes of the hearfe took fright 
by the preffure of the multitude ; by which 
means, the other men not being prepared, the 
Weight becarae too preponderant for thofe in 
front, and the coffin fell with great violence on 
the ground ; the foot part of which bulged, 
part fell out with a number of the nails and 
embellithments ; the concuffion was’ fo great 
that the leaden receptacle was much ‘Shattered, 
and a quantity of water proceeded from it. 
[The late Dr. Furnbull, of Wellclofe-(quare, 
{whofe death we lately noticed) died, after an 
illnefs of- thirty-fix hours, May the 2gth, 
1796. He was born in the year 1729, at 
Hawrick, in Roxburghthire, and was the re- 
prefentative of the ancient family of Bodie, 
who were bereaved of confiderable domains and 
haraffed by the perfecuting pivit of the hie- 
rarchy of Scotland. Dr. Turnbull received the 
rudiments of his” education ut the grammar- 
{chool at Harwick, and afterwards removed to 
Edinburgh, where he purfued his itudies, and 
graduated at Glafgowin 1759. He practited 
medicine at Wooler, in Northumberland, for 
many years with confiderable fuccefs; re- 
moving to London, ne was chofen phyfician to 
the Baftern Difpenfary, (a ftation, which, 
fince his deceafe has been fapplied by Dr. 
Haighton, a gentleman juftly celebrated tor his 
anatomical and phyfiological fkill) where the 
philanthropy and the knowledge of Thera- 
pcutics, which Dr. T. difplayed, will be long 
held in grateful remembrance. His probity 
and piety had been {0 confpicious in the North 
of England, that the Ditlenters in Noxthum- 
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berland, appointed him their delegate, to act 
with other gentlemen, nominated by- their. 
general b.dy, to pet tion Parliament to put an 
end to the proftitution of the Lard’s fupper, 
which is countenanced by the Teft and Cor- 
poration Adts. Dr. T. who had been fome 
years a widower, had by his lady four fons and 
two daughters, the latter, aus one fon (Mr, 
William Turnbull, who has been feveral years 
furgeon to the Eaftern Difpenfary) only fur- 
vive him. Dr. 'T. fuffered a lofs that touched 
his he rt with the moft poignant grief, by the 
ilJneis and premature death of ‘his fon, Dr John 
Turnbull, an accomplifhed {cholar and an ele- 
gant poet, who was born January 21ft, 1754, 
and after ftudying8 years at Glalgow, and 3 at 
Edinburgh, graduated as a phyfician; but having 
been put into a damp bed at Tunbridge, was 
feized with a paralytic dforder, of which he 
languifhed 3 years, dying the 4th of Auguft, 
789. The fubject of this memoir, was a 
gentieman fo eminently zealous for the beft in- 
terefts of mankind, that, be&des the funeral 
{ermon, preached, and fince publifhed by the 
Rey. Mr Knight, at the Meeting-houfe, in 
Nightingale-lane, where the Dr. conducted 
himielf honourably for feveral years, in the - 
charaéter of a deacon, his dvath was alfo an. 
nounced from the pulpit, as a public lofs, by 
the Rev. Mr, Rutledge, at Old Gravel-lane, 
and by Dr. Hunter, at the Scots’ church, Lon- 
don -wall. Dr. T.’s fineere belief of the great 
truths of Chriftianicy, was evinced not only in 
the general tenor of his life, but during the 
fhort and fevere Wlnefs which occafioned his 
death. To bate the rapid approaches of the 
king of terrors, Mr. Cline, Dr. Saunders, Dr, 
Lettiome and teveral other fkilful praétitioners,’ 
exerted their utmoft efforts in vain, while their 
p'tient, ferenely refigned to his deftiny, declared 
his confidence in the merits of his divine Re- 
devimer., © Religion,’’ faid he, * is now. 
more amiable to me than ever—it is my only 
fupport——it is my only glory.’ Since his 
dest a voluntcer muie has penned the fol« 
lowing deferved tribute to his memory ; 
What heart can fympathetic tears refufe 
To the fad forrow ot the penfive Mute ? 
The Mute, who mourns the worth the could 
not fave, 
And tho’ unknown, weeps over TuRNBULL’S 
grave 5 
Turnbull, the good, the generous, and the jut, 
Too fuon expires, and mingles with the duit s 
The die is eait,—and nature mourns his end, 
The poor their patron, and the rich their friend ! 
Tho’ Genius ftamp'd his fcientific mind, 
His foul, impartial, view'd alike mankind ; 
No oftentatious zeal, difplay’d his pow’rs, 
But modeft merit, mark’d his blifstul hours ; 
In confcious rectitude fupremely blest, 
He hiv’d :§ The nobleft work of God,’ confett ;- 
He died lamented !—Copy, if youcan; 
And be the model ofan honeft man | 
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