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Gentleman's Magazine 1747 p.326
notwithstanding, conscious, under a strong Perception of an inward Decay, that his Stamina were just worn out, he saw, with an Heart still cheerful, his approaching Dissolution. Having set his House in Order, and deliberately adjusted both his Secular and Spritiual Concerns, he neither express'd a Desire of Continuance, nor of Departure, but, attentive to the glorious Prospect before him, waited, with a Religious Indifference and Resignation, till his Change came. Tho' that could not be so sudden as to surprize him unprepar'd, yet was it so remarkably so, that, without being confined to his Bed, he had but just risen from off his Knees, in joining with his Family, which he punctually did Four Times a Day, in the publick Devotions of the Church, - when he most signally verified the Psalmist's Reflection, that 'tho' Men be so strong, yt they come to Fourscore Years, yet so soon then does their Strength pass away, and they are gone!' Death, tho' it could not have been terrible to him in any Form, arrested him, as it pleas'd God, in the kindliest, - unpreceded by Sickness, - unaccompanied by Agony:- He expir'd, without a Groan, calm and serene, and his Soul, exulting on the Wing to its Happiness in view, left, when it took its Flight, his Countenance in a Smile.
-- In the justest Application of that beautiful Allusion, has this admirable Prelate 'gone to his Grave in a full Age, like as a Shock of Corn cometh in, in its Season.'
-- Drawing the Curtains about him in that Bed of Dust, I leave him to repose, till the general Resurrection, without adding more to this brief and imperfect Eulogium, but that, as, in him, human Society has lost one of its most valuable Members, - the Church of England one of its chiefest Ornaments, - his present Majesty one of his most firm and faithful Subjects, - so have his Clergy lost the best Diocesan, his Children the best Father, his Servants the best Master, the Poor their best Benefactor,- and Numbers of Men their best Friend, - who regret his Death, and revere his Memory.

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Fire Damp

Extract of a Letter from Whitehaven, May 16.
A False account having been put into the news papers about several of our coal pits near this town being on fire, and burning in the most dreadful
manner,
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