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<h1>THE EULOGIES OF HOWARD.</h1>
<h2>A VISION.</h2>
<div class="poem">
<p>——to tell of deeds</p>
<p>Above heroic. MILTON.</p>
</div>
<h4>M.DCC.XCI.</h4>
<hr class="full" />
<h2>THE EULOGIES OF HOWARD</h2>
<p>It was my chance to be conversing with a Friend of the benevolent and
indefatigable HOWARD, when our country was first afflicted with the public
intelligence of his death. After our first expression of surprize and
sorrow, we naturally fell into serious and affectionate reflections on the
gentle character and sublime pursuits of the deceased. On these articles we
had no difference of opinion; but in the course of our conversation a point
arose, on which our sentiments were directly opposite, though we were
equally sincere and ardent in our regret and veneration for the departed
Worthy, to whom it related. I happened to speak of the public honours that,
I hoped, a grateful, a generous, a magnificent Nation would render to his
memory. My companion immediately exclaimed, "that every ostentatious
memorial, to commemorate the virtues of his friend, would be inconsistent
with the meekness and simplicity of the man; that all, who had the happiness
of knowing HOWARD, must recollect with what genuine modesty he had ever
retired from the enthusiastic admiration of those, who had hoped to gratify
his ambition by undeserved applause; that he had really sought no reward but
in the approbation of his conscience and his GOD; that the British Nation,
however eminent for genius and munificence, could not devise any posthumous
honours, or raise any monument, truly worthy of HOWARD, except in adopting
and accomplishing those benevolent projects which his philanthropy and
experience had recommended to public attention for the benefit of
mankind."</p>
<p>I readily admitted the singular and unquestionable modesty of the
deceased.—I allowed that the noblest tribute of respect, which the
world could render to so pure a spirit, would be to realize his ideas; but I
contended, that other honours are still due to his name; that it is the duty
and the interest of mankind to commemorate his character with the fondest
veneration. I reminded my companion, that although we were sincerely
convinced that no human mind, engaged in great designs, could be more truly
modest than that of HOWARD; yet we had particular reason to recollect, that
he was not insensible to praise. He had once imparted to us his feelings on
that subject with a frank and tender simplicity, highly graceful in an
upright and magnanimous being, conscious of no sentiment that he could wish
to conceal. Indeed, a sincere and ardent passion for virtue could hardly
subsist with a disdain of true glory, which is nothing more than the proper
testimony of intelligent and honed admiration to the existence of merit: nor
is it reasonable to suppose that the fondest expressions of remembrance from
a world, which he has served and enlightened, can be displeasing to the
spirit of "a just man made perfect;" since we are taught by Religion, that
the gratitude of mankind is acceptable even to GOD. I endeavoured to
convince my companion, that, as the Publick had seen in HOWARD a person who
reflected more genuine honour on our country than any of her Philosophers,
her Poets, her Orators, her Heroes, or Divines, it is incumbent on the
Nation to consult her own glory by commemorating, in the fullest manner, his
beneficent exertions, and by establishing the dignity of his unrivaled
virtue.</p>
<p>My arguments, and my zeal, made some impression on the mind of my
antagonist; and sunk so deeply into my own, that on my retiring to rest they
gave rise to the following vision.</p>
<p>I was suddenly transported to the confines of a region, which astonished
me by its loveliness and extent; it was called, The Paradise of true Glory.
As I approached the entrance, my eyes were delightfully fascinated by two
beings of human form, who presided over the portal. Their names were Genius
and Sensibility:—it was their office to gratify with a view of this
Paradise every mortal that revered them sincerely; and to reject only such
intruders as presumed to treat either the one or the other with the
insolence of disdain, or the coldness of contempt: an incident that I should
have thought impossible, from the transcendent beauty which is visible in
each; but, to my surprize, they informed me it very frequently happened.</p>
<p>As I readily paid them the unsuspected homage of my soul, I was
graciously permitted to pass the gate.—Immediately as I entered, I was
saluted with a seraphic smile, by two benignant and inseparable Spirits:
these were Gratitude and Admiration, the joint rulers of the
dominion—"You are welcome," said the first, in a tone of angelic
tenderness—"You are welcome to a scene utterly new to your senses, and
in harmony with your heart: you delight in the praises of the deserving: and
you are now wafted to a spot, where those who have merited highly of mankind
are praised in proportion to their desert, and where the praise of exalted
merit is fondly listened to by an extensive human audience, here purified by
our supernatural agency from all the low and little jealousies of the
earth."</p>
<p>I had hardly answered this pleasing information by a grateful obeisance
to my radiant informer, when I perceived, in a gorgeous prospect that now
opened before us, three structures of stupendous size and superior
magnificence. The first was situated in a grove of olives, and appeared to
me like an ancient temple of Attica, remarkable for massive strength, and a
sober dignity—the second was less solid, but richer in decoration; and
seemed to be almost surrounded by every tree and plant on which Nature has
bestowed any salutary virtue: the third was shaded only by palms; the form
of it was so wonderfully grand and aweful, that it struck me as a sanctuary
for every pure and devout spirit from all the nations of the globe.</p>
<p>"These structures, that you survey with astonishment," said one of my
benevolent conductors, "are devoted to what you mortals denominate the three
liberal professions, Law, Medicine, and Theology. Whoever has a claim to
distiguished honour from any one of the three, has a just encomium
pronounced upon his services by the temporary President of that particular
fabrick, in which he is entitled to such grateful remembrance." "Alas!" I
replied, with a murmur that I could not suppress, "the Man whose
well-deserved praises I most anxiously expected to hear in this region,
belonged not to any one of these eminent classes in human life—he had
no profession but that of Humanity."</p>
<p>"Be patient," said the sweetest of my aetherial guides, with a rebuke
that was softened by a smile of indulgence! "Let not your zeal for the
honour of an individual, however meritorious, make you unjust, or
insensible, to the merit of others! Assume the temper of this region, where
praise is distributed by equity and affection, but where prejudice and
partiality are not allowed to intrude!—Let us advance," continued my
monitor, with an encouraging movement of her hand; "it is time that I should
lead you to the nearest assembly."</p>
<p>I obeyed with reverential silence; and as I passed the vestibule of the
majestic edifice, my heart panted with an aweful expectation of beholding
the shades of Solon, Lycurgus, and other departed Legislators, from the
various nations of the world. I was chearfully surprized by a very different
spectacle.</p>
<p>The capacious structure was filled with a concourse of living mortals,
lively, yet respectable in their appearance, evidently belonging to many
countries; but all, as I perceived by their habits, connected with the Law.
Throughout all the multitude I heard no sound of dissention or debate: but
over all there reigned an air of intelligence and sympathy, while all were
hushed in silent expectance, and eager attention, with their eyes directed
to an elevated tribunal:—On this a personage was sitting, whose
majestic figure I immediately recollected. His countenance is marked with
that austerity and grandeur, which are the external characteristicks of Law
herself. His heart, as those who know it ultimately declare, expresses the
tender and beneficent influence of that Power, who is the acknowledged
parent of security and comfort. With a voice that pervaded the most distant
recesses of the extensive dome, and in tones that sunk deep into the bosom
of every auditor, he pronounced the following oration:</p>
<p>"After passing many years of life in the painful investigation of human
offences, it is with peculiar satisfaction that I find myself commissioned
to commemorate, in this Assembly, a character of virtue without
example—a character, at once so meek and so sublime, that, if a
feeling spirit had been poisoned with misanthropy from too close a
contemplation of mortal crimes, this character alone might serve as an
antidote to the word of mental distempers, and awaken the most callous and
sarcastic mind to confess the dignity of our Nature, and the beneficence of
our God. In stating to you the merits of HOWARD, I might expatiate with
delight on the various qualities of this incomparable man; I might trace his
progress through the different periods of a life always singular and always
instructive. I could not be checked by any fear of overstepping the modesty
of Truth in the celebration of Virtue, so solid and so extensive, that the
malevolence of Envy could not diminish its weight, the fondness of
Enthusiasm could not amplify its effects. But I must not forget that there
are professional limits to my discourse. It is incumbent on me to confine
myself to a single object, and to dwell only on those public services, that
peculiarly endear the name of Howard to the liberal and enlightened
community in which I have the honour to preside.</p>
<p>"It was in the capacity of a Minister to Justice, that the pure spirit,
whom it is my glory to praise, first conceived the idea of those unrivaled
labours that have rendered his memory a treasure to mankind. In discharging
a temporary office, that exposed to him the condition of criminals, he was
led to meditate on the evils which had grievously contaminated the
operations of Justice. He perceived that Law herself, like one of her most
illustrious Delegates (I mean the immortal Bacon), was grossly injured by
the secret and sordid enormities of her menial servants: that Captivity and
Coercion, those necessary supporters of her power, instead of producing
good, often gave birth to mischiefs more flagrant, and more fatal, than
those which they were employed to correct. He found, even in the prisons of
his own humane and enlightened country, an accumulation of the most hideous
abuses: he found them not nurseries of penitence and amendment, but schools
of vice and impiety; or dens of filth, famine, and disease: not the seats of
just and salutary correction and punishment, but the strong holds of cruelty
and extortion. The irons of the prisoner, which he only beheld, entered into
his soul, and awakened unextinguishable energy in a spirit, of which
companion and fortitude were the divine characteristicks. In the noble
emotions of pity for the oppressed, and of zeal for the honour and interest
of civilized society, he conceived perhaps the sublimest design that ever
occupied and exalted the mind of man, the design to search and to purify the
polluted stream of Penal Justice, not only throughout his own country, but
through the various nations of the world. How low, how little, are the
grandest enterprizes of Heroic Ambition, when compared with this magnanimous
pursuit! How frivolous and vain are the highest aims of Fancy and Science,
when contrasted with a purpose so beneficently great! But, marvellous as the
magnitude of HOWARD'S enterprise appears, on the slightest view that
magnitude becomes doubly striking, when we contemplate at the same time the
many circumstances that might either allure or deter him from the
prosecution of his idea. Consider him as a private gentleman, possessed of
ease and independence, accustomed to employ and amuse his mind in retired
study and philosophical speculation; arrived at that period of life, when
the springs of activity and enterprize in the human frame have begun to lose
their force! consider that his health, even in youth, had appeared unequal
to common fatigue! his stature low! his deportment humble! his voice almost
effeminate! Such was the wonderful being, who relinquished the retirement,
the tranquillity, the comforts, that he loved and enjoyed, to embark in
labours at which the most hardy might tremble; to plunge in perils from
which the most resolute might recede without a diminution of honour. Under
all these apparent disadvantages, unsummoned, unauthorized by any Prince,
unexcited by any popular invitation, he resolved to investigate all the
abuses of imprisonment; to visit the abodes of wretchedness and infection;
and to prove himself the friend of the friendless, in every country that the
limits of his advanced life would allow him to examine. Against such an
enterprize, projected by such an individual, what forcible arguments might
be urged, not only by every selfish passion, but even by that prudence, and
that reason, which are allowed to regulate an elevated mind! How plausibly
did Friendship exclaim to Howard, 'Your projects are unquestionably noble;
but they are above the execution of any individual: you are unarmed with
authority; you have the wish to do great good, but the power of doing
little! Consider the probable issue of the undertaking!—You will see a
few hapless wretches, and tell their condition to the inattentive world;
perhaps perish yourself from contagion, before you have time to tell it; and
leave your afflicted friends to lament your untimely fate, and the
ungrateful Publick to deride your temerity!' What force of intellect, what
dignity of soul were required to prevent a mortal from yielding to
remonstrances so engaging! The divine energy of Genius and of Virtue enabled
HOWARD to foresee, that the sanctity of his pursuit would supply him with
strength and powers far superior to all human authority:—His piercing
mind comprehended that there are enormities of such a nature, that to survey
and to reveal them is to effect their correction.—He felt that his
sincere compassion for the oppressed, and his ardent desire to promote
perfect justice, would serve him as a perpetual antidote against the poison
of fear.—He felt that in the darkness of dungeons he should want no
associates, no guards to defend him against the outrages of detected
extortion, or suspicious brutality.—He felt, that as his purpose was
heavenly, the powers of Heaven would be displayed in his support; that
iniquity and oppression would not dare to lift a hand against him, though
they knew it was the business of his life to annihilate their sway in their
most secret dominion. How admirably did the progress of his travels evince
and justify the pure and enlightened confidence of his spirit! All dangers,
all difficulties, vanish before his gentleness, his regularity, his
perseverance. Insolence and ferocity seem to turn, at his approach, into
docility and respect. Every hardship he endures, every step he advances, in
his wide and laborious career of Beneficence, instead of impairing his
strength, invigorates his frame; instead of diminishing his influence,
increases the utility of his conduct, by making the world acquainted with
the sanctity of his character. Witness, ye various regions of the earth!
with what surprize, delight, and veneration, ye beheld an unarmed, and
unassuming traveller instructing you in the sublime science of mitigating
human misery, and giving you a matchless example of tenderness and
magnanimity! O, England! thou generous country! ever enamoured of glory,
contemplate in this, the most perfect of thy illustrious sons; contemplate
those virtues, and that honour, in which thy parental spirit may most
happily exult!—What spectacle can be more flattering to thy native,
thy honest pride, than to behold the proudest potentates of distant nations
listening with pleasure to a private Englishman; and learning, from his
researches, how to relieve the most injured of their subjects! how to
abolish the enormities of perverted Justice! To form a complete account of
the good arising to the world from the life and labours of Howard, would be
a task beyond the limits of any human mind: an exact statement of the
benefits he has conferred upon society, could be rendered only by the
attendant Spirit whom Providence commissioned to watch over him, and who
might discern, by the powers of supernatural vision, what pregnant sources
of public calamity he crushed in the seed, and what future virtues, in
various individuals, he may draw into the service of mankind by the
attraction of his example.</p>
<p>"Of good, more immediately visible, which his exertions produced, there
is abundant evidence in his own country. In the wide circle of his foreign
excursion, what nation, what city, does not bear some conspicuous traces of
his intrepid and indefatigable beneficence! Of the astonishing length to
which his zeal and perseverance extended, we have the most ingenuous and
satisfactory narration in those singularly meritorious volumes which he has
given to the world. In these we behold the minute detail of labours to which
there is nothing similar, or second, in the history of public virtue; and
for which there could be no adequate reward but in the beatitude of Heaven.
An eloquent Enthusiast, whose genius was nearly allied to frenzy, has
expressed a desire to present himself before the tribunal of the Almighty
Judge, with a volume in his hand, in which he had recorded his own thoughts
and actions: if such an idea could be suitable to the littleness of man, if
it could become any mortal of faculties so limited to make such an offering
to the great Fountain of all intelligence, that mortal must assuredly be
Howard: for where could we find another individual, not professedly
inspired, who might present to his Maker a record of labours so eminently
directed by Piety and Virtue! a book, addressed to mankind, without
insulting their weakness, or flattering their passions! a book, whose great
object was to benefit the world, without seeking from it any kind of reward!
a book, in which the genuine modesty of the Writer is equal to his
unexampled beneficence! The mind of Howard was singularly and sublimely free
from the common and dangerous passion for applause: that passion which,
though taken altogether, it is certainly beneficial to the interests of
mankind, yet frequently communicates inquietude and unsteadiness to the
pursuits of Genius and Virtue. As human praise was never the object of his
ambition, so he has nobly soared above it. There appear, in different ages
upon the Earth, certain elevated spirits, who, by the sublimity of their
conceptions, and the magnanimity of their conduct, attain a degree of glory
which can never be reached by the keenest followers of Fame—They seek
not panegyricks; and panegyricks can add nothing to their honour. The
Eulogies have perished which were devoted by the luxuriant genius of Tully,
and by the laconic spirit of Brutus, to the public virtue of Cato; yet the
name of that illustrious Roman is still powerful in the world, and excites
in every cultivated mind, an animating idea of independent integrity. The
name of Howard has superior force, and a happier effect. It is a sound, at
which the strings of humanity will vibrate with exultation in many millions
of hearts. Through the various nations that he visited, the mere echo of his
name will be sufficient to awaken that noblest sensibility, which at once
softens and elevates the soul. Every warm hearted and worthy individual who
mentions Howard will glow with an honest, a generous satisfaction, in
feeling himself the fellow-creature of such a man. Wherever the elegant arts
are established, they will contend in raising memorials to his honour.
Indeed, the globe itself may be considered as his Mausoleum; and the
inhabitants of every prison it contains, as groups of living statues that
commemorate his virtue. There is no class of mankind by whom his memory
ought not to be cherished, because all are interested in those evils (so
pernicious to society! so dangerous to life!) which he was ever labouring to
lessen or exterminate. It might be wished, that different communities should
separately devise some different tribute of respect to him whose character
and conduct is so interesting to all: not for the sake of multiplying vain
and useless offerings to the dead, but to impress with more energy and
extent his ennobling remembrance on the heart and soul of the living. It is
hardly possible to present too frequently to the human mind the image of a
man who lived only to do good. I mean not merely such a resemblance of his
form as Art may execute with materials almost as perishable as the image of
human clay, but such an impression of his soul as may have a more lasting
influence on the life and conduct of his admirers, such as, diffusing among
them a portion of his spirit, may in some measure perpetuate his
existence.</p>
<p>"By this community, I am confident, such public honours will be paid to
HOWARD, as may be most suitable to the peculiar interest which it becomes us
to take in his glory. What these honours shall be is a point to be settled
by this liberal and enlightened Assembly, which assuredly will not fail to
remember that he suggested to Legal Authority her omissions and defects with
the modest and endearing tenderness of a Friend; that he laboured in the
service of Justice with that intelligence, fortitude, and zeal, which her
votaries cannot too warmly admire, or too gratefully acknowledge."</p>
<p>The President arose as he thus ended his speech; and the members of the
Assembly seemed beginning to confer among themselves; but what debates
ensued, or what measure was adopted, I am unable to tell, as my visionary
Guides immediately hurried me to the adjoining Temple.</p>
<p>This second structure, though less extensive and less solid than the
first, was more attractive to the eye, as it abounded with scientifical and
diversified decorations. The Assembly consisted of men, who appeared to me
equally remarkable for keenness of intellect and elegance of manners. The
seat of pre eminence among them was filled by a person who possessed in a
very uncommon degree these two valuable qualities, so happily conducive to
medical utility and medical distinction. Though left a young orphan, without
patrimony, and obliged to struggle with early disadvantages, he raised
himself by meritorious exertion to the head of a profession in which
opulence is generally the just attendant on knowledge and reputation. But
neither opulence, nor his long intercourse with sickness and death, have
hardened the native tenderness of his heart; and I had lately known him shed
tears of regret on the untimely fate of an amiable patient, whom his
consummate skill and attention were unable to save.</p>
<p>Thus strongly prepossessed in his favour, I was delighted to observe that
he was preparing to address the Assembly in the moment we entered. My
celestial Guides smiled on each other in perceiving my satisfaction; and
being placed by them instantaneously in a commodious situation, I heard the
following discourse; which the character I have described delivered with an
ease and refined acuteness peculiar to himself, never raising his voice
above the pitch of polite and spirited conversation:</p>
<p>"I am persuaded, that every individual to whom I have now the happiness
of speaking, will readily agree with me in this sentiment, that we cannot
possibly do ourselves more honour as a Fraternity than by considering HOWARD
as an Associate: assuredly, there is no class of men who may more justly
presume to cherish his name and character with a fraternal affection. In
proportion as we are accustomed to contemplate, to pity, and to counteract,
the sufferings of Nature, the more are we enabled and inclined to estimate,
to love, and to revere, a being so compassionate and beneficent. If
Physicians are, what I once heard them called by a lively friend, the
Soldiers of Humanity, engaged in a perpetual, and too often, alas!
unsuccessful conflict against the enemies of life; HOWARD is not only
entitled to high rank in our corps, but he is the very Caesar of this hard,
this perilous, and, let me add, this most honourable warfare. Perhaps the
ambition of the great Roman Commander, insatiate and sanguinary as it was,
did not contribute more to the torment and destruction of the human race,
than the charity of the English Philanthropist has contributed to its relief
and preservation. Of this we are very certain, the splendid and
indefatigable Hero of Slaughter and Vain-glory did not traverse a more
extensive field, nor expose himself more courageously to personal danger,
than our meek and unostentatious Hero of Medical Benevolence. In point of
true magnanimity, I apprehend the spirit of Caesar would very willingly
confess, that his own celebrated attempts to reduce Gaul and Britain were
low and little achievements, when compared to the unexampled efforts by
which Howard endeavoured to exterminate or subdue (those enemies more
terrific) the Gaol Fever, and the Plague.</p>
<p>"But leaving it to more able and eloquent panegyrists to celebrate the
originality, the boldness, and all the various merit of his philanthropic
exertions, I shall confine myself to a few remarks, and chiefly professional
ones, on his invaluable character. It appears to me highly worthy of
observation, that Howard, before he entered on his grand projects of Public
Benevolence, was subject to those little, but depressive variations of
health which have betrayed many a valetudinarian into habits of inaction and
inutility. Happily for himself, and for mankind, this excellent person
surmounted a constitutional bias to indolence and retirement. The
consequence sequence was, he became a singular example of activity and
vigour. His powers, and enjoyments of bodily and mental health, augmented in
proportion to the extensive utility of his pursuits.</p>
<p>"Beneficial as his life has been to the world, his memory may be still
more so. It may prove a perpetual blessing to mankind, if it dissipates, as
it ought to do, a weak and common prejudice, which often operates as a palsy
upon the first idea of a great and generous undertaking. The prejudice I
mean is a hasty persuasion, frequently found in the most amiable minds, that
some peculiar strength of nerve, some rare mechanism of frame, and
extraordinary assemblage of mental powers, are absolutely requisite for the
execution of any noble design. How greatly does it redound to the true glory
of Howard to have given in his successful labours the fullest refutation of
a prejudice, so inimical to the interest and the honour of human-nature! a
prejudice, by whose influence, to use the words of our great Poet,</p>
<div class="poem">
<p>"—The native hue of Resolution</p>
<p>Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of Fear,</p>
<p>And enterprizes of great pith and moment,</p>
<p>With this regard, their currents turn awry</p>
<p>And lose the name of action."</p>
</div>
<p>"The life and character of Howard, if they are justly considered, may not
only annihilate this pernicious prejudice, but tend to establish an opposite
and consolatory truth. His example may shew us, that some degrees of bodily
weakness and mental depression may be most happily cured by active exertion
in the service of mankind. Perhaps there never existed a more striking proof
how far a noble impulse, communicated to the mind by a project of extensive
Benevolence, may invigorate a frame not equal in health, strength, and
stature, to the common standard of men. It is a prudential maxim of the
celebrated Raleigh, that 'Whosoever will live altogether out of himself, and
study other men's humours, shall never be unfortunate;' a maxim, which the
example of Howard might almost teach us to convert into a medical aphorism
by saying, 'Whosoever will live altogether out of himself, and consult other
men's wants, and calamities, shall never be unhealthy.' It is delightful to
those, who detest the debasing tenets of a selfish philosophy, to see the
happy influence of opposite ideas; to observe (what Physicians have frequent
opportunities of observing), that as a selfish turn of mind often attracts
and encreases the malignity of sickness, so an unselfish, a compassionate
spirit has a natural tendency to escape or subdue it. What can be more
pleasing to those, who assert and esteem the dignity of human-nature, than
to see, that the having lost all thoughts of self, and having acted in
direct opposition to selfish principles, has promoted even the personal
advantage of a generous individual? From such a series of philanthropic
labour and peril, as a selfish and timid mind might esteem it frenzy to
encounter, Howard derived not only his unrivalled and immortal reputation,
but the perfect restoration of enfeebled health; not to mention those high
gratifications of the heart and conscience, which are superior to all the
enjoyments both of health and glory. With such temperance in diet, that his
daily food would appear to most people not sufficient to support the common
functions of life, he chearfully sustained the hardships of long travel,
through regions where travelling is most difficult and dangerous. With a
figure, voice, and deportment, that seemed to preclude him from all personal
influence and authority; and with no mental acquisitions, except those which
are common to every cultivated mind, he secured to himself not only
universal admiration, but, I may venture to say, the just and moral idolatry
of the world. So invigorating are projects of extensive Beneficence! so
powerful is the energy of Public Virtue!</p>
<p>"Never, indeed, was the astonishing influence of plain and simple
goodness more strikingly displayed, than in the deference and respect which
this private and meek individual received, not only from foreign and
imperious Rulers of the Earth, but from hardened and atrocious wretches, on
whom Justice herself could hardly make any mental impression, though armed
with all the splendour, and all the violence of power. Two particular
examples of the influence I am speaking of, I shall mention here, not only
as honourable to the prime object of our regard, but as they may suggest to
contemplative minds some useful ideas, by shewing how far the mere weight of
an upright and benevolent character alone may give to the most callous
nerves a trembling sensibility, and awaken the most ferocious spirit to
self-correction.</p>
<p>"When our indefatigable Visitor of prisons was in Russia, he beheld, in
public, the punishment of the knoot severely administered by a strong and
stern executioner.</p>
<p>"On the following day he waited on this man, to request from him various
information. The executioner attended him obsequiously; but this athletic
savage, though trained to acts of cruelty, and conscious he had a legal
sanction for the barbarous violence he had exerted, could not behold without
shuddering the meek and gentle Missionary of Compassion.</p>
<p>"The second and more memorable example of his singular influence occurred
in a prison of his own country, and relates to an outrageous female
delinquent. A corrupt and ferocious woman is, perhaps, the most intractable
fiend that human benevolence can attempt to reform; but even this difficulty
the mild and and powerful character of HOWARD accomplished.</p>
<p>"In one of our Western gaols, he found an unhappy female loaded with
heavy irons: on his appearance she entreated him to obtain for her the
removal of these galling fetters. Upon enquiry, he found that many
endeavours had been made to keep this turbulent offender in proper
subjection without the severity of chains; but, after repeated promises of
amendment on milder treatment, she had obliged the keeper to have recourse
to this extreme by relapsing into the most flagrant and insufferable
contempt of decency and order. Upon this information, HOWARD said mildly to
the unhappy criminal, 'I wish to relieve you, but you put it out of my
power; for I should lose all the little credit I have, if I exerted it for
offenders so hardened and so turbulent.' 'I know,' replied the intractable
delinquent, 'I know that I have a proud and rebellious spirit; but if I give
a promise to so good a man as you are, I can and I will command it.' On this
firm assurance of reformation, the benevolent HOWARD became a kind of surety
for her future peaceable conduct on the removal of her irons; and he had the
inexpressible delight to find, on his next visit to the prisoners of this
gaol, that the outrageous and ungovernable culprit, for whom he had ventured
to answer, was become the most orderly among them.</p>
<p>"I could wish, for the moral interest of mankind, that it were possible
to obtain a minute account of the services rendered to the calamitous spirit
of many a forsaken individual by the singular charity of HOWARD. What could
be more instructive than to observe how his Beneficence encreased by its
exertion and success; while his desire of befriending the wretched became,
as it were, the vital spirit that gave strength and duration to his own
existence!</p>
<p>"If we contemplate with pleasure the singular re-establishment of bodily
health, which HOWARD derived from his active philanthropy; it may be still
more pleasing to recollect, that it also afforded him an efficacious
medicine for an afflicted mind. Perhaps it was to shew the full efficacy of
this virtue in all its lustre, that Heaven allotted to this excellent
personage a domestic calamity, which appears (to borrow an expression from a
great writer) 'of an unconscionable size to human strength.'</p>
<p>"That capricious and detestable spirit of Detraction, which on Earth
never fails to persecute superior Virtue, has not scrupled to assert that
the affliction, to which I allude, was the mere consequence of paternal
austerity. The Earth itself, though frequently accused of being eager to
receive ideas that may abase the eminent, could hardly admit a calumny so
groundless and irrational. In this purer spot it is utterly needless to
prove the innocence of an exalted being, to whom we are only solicitous to
pay that sincere tribute of praise and veneration which we are conscious he
deserves. In truth, this admirable Character seemed to illustrate the
philosophical maxim, that mildness is the proper companion of true
magnanimity. He had a gentleness of manners, that was peculiar to himself;
and, instead of possessing such imperious severity of spirit as might
produce the calamity I allude to, he was really endued with such native
tenderness of heart as must have sunk under it, had he not found in the
unexampled services that he rendered to the world, an antidote to the poison
of domestic infelicity. It is among the most gracious ordinances of
Providence, that man is sure to find the most powerful relief for his own
particular afflictions, in his endeavours to alleviate the sufferings of
others. And permit me to add, it is this beneficent law of our nature, that
gives a peculiar charm and dignity to the Medical Profession; a profession
singularly endeared to the affectionate HOWARD! not only as its
compassionate and active spirit was the guide of his pursuits, but as one of
its prime ornaments was his favourite associate and his bosom-friend. If
different classes of men are to vie with each other, as it may certainly
become them to do, in rendering various honours to this their matchless
Benefactor; I hope we shall display, with the most affectionate spirit, the
deep interest that we ought to take in his glory. I think it very desirable
that every Physician should possess a Medal of HOWARD, not only to shew his
veneration for the great Philanthropist, but to derive personal advantage
from such a mental Amulet, if I may hazard the expression. Most of us, in
the exercise of Medicine, feel at particular moments that our spirits are
too sensibly affected by the objects we survey; that scenes of misery and
infection depress and alarm: at such a time how might it rekindle the energy
of our minds to contemplate a little effigy of HOWARD! to recollect, that
all the trouble and danger that we encounter, in the practice of a lucrative
profession, are trifling in the extreme, when compared to the labour and the
peril, which this wonderful man most willingly took upon himself, without
looking forward to any reward but the approbation of Heaven!</p>
<p>"I mention not a Medal as a new idea—it has been already in
contemplation; and a motto for it suggested, which applies with such
singular force and propriety to the person whom it is designed to
commemorate, that perhaps the wide range of classical literature could not
afford another passage so strikingly apposite to a character so
extraordinary—</p>
<div class="poem">
<p>"Stupuere patres tentamina tanta,</p>
<p>Conatusque tuos: pro te Reus ipse timebat."—</p>
</div>
<p>"I must confess, however, that I wish for another, which may seem to bind
him more closely to us in a medical point of view. But it is time to leave
the different members of our Fraternity at full liberty to propose any marks
of distinction that they wish to suggest.—It is sufficient for me to
have reminded you of a truth, which I am confident we all equally feel,
that, while we justly consider ourselves as students in the extensive school
of Humanity, it becomes us to look up to HOWARD, with a laudable veneration,
as the Prince and Patron of our Order."</p>
<p>On the conclusion of this discourse, my Guides immediately conducted me,
with their former celerity and kindness, to the only remaining Structure. It
was the most extensive, and, from the hallowed majesty of its appearance,
the most admirable of the three. In approaching it, I paused a moment in
aweful surprise at the solemnity of the fabrick: the most lovely and
communicative of my two aetherial conductors smiled upon me, and said, "You
will find here Ministers of GOD from every Christian country; but only those
who consider Evangelical Charity as the essence of true Religion, and who
are disposed to honour, in the favourite object of your veneration, the most
signal example of that virtue, which the present age has beheld." "I hope
then," I eagerly replied, "I shall have the delight of hearing, on this
occasion, the most eloquent of our English Bishops." On this exclamation, my
kind informer regarded me with that lively and soothing air with which
intelligent Benevolence corrects mistaken simplicity, and thus continued to
instruct me with united vivacity and tenderness.</p>
<p>"Earthly distinctions, you know, are of little moment in the sight of
Heaven. You will hear no Prelate; and perhaps you may feel surprised and
indignant, when you observe how very few of your Mitred Countrymen are to be
seen in this Assembly; but you will not retain in this hallowed spot that
most common of human infirmities, a tendency to censure or to suspicion. You
will recollect that this Convocation contains only those charitable men, who
are peculiarly disposed to honour your recent model of this Christian
virtue. Other good men may exist, who, from motives of innocent mistake, or
of mere inadvertency, may fail to exhibit that animated regard to his
exemplary character, which assuredly it has merited from all men, and which
the Ministers of Religion may most properly display.</p>
<p>"One of these," continued my Director, "you are now going to hear; not,
indeed, a Dignitary of your Church, yet a Divine of Talents, Learning, and
Charity. He was led, by a laudable warmth of heart, to suggest to your
Country the first idea of paying a public tribute of veneration to the
signal virtue of Howard; and has acquired from this circumstance a title to
commemorate here the merit, to which he was eager to render such early
justice on earth. But it is time for us to attend him."</p>
<p>We immediately entered the temple; and I beheld an Ecclesiastic rising at
that moment to address a very numerous Assembly of his order, that seemed to
contain Christians of every sect, and Ministers of every degree. The person
preparing to speak was distinguished by a majestic comeliness of person,
though he appeared to have passed the middle age of life; and with a
powerful elocution he delivered the following discourse.</p>
<p>"The Righteous are bold as a Lion."</p>
<p>Proverbs, chap, xxviii, ver. i.</p>
<p>"In these few words, my brethren, we have a passage of Scripture, that
served as a favourite maxim, or leading truth, to the admirable personage
whose glorious qualities it is now both my duty and my delight to recall to
your remembrance. The words, indeed, are so consonant to that exalted spirit
which his life displayed, that they almost appear to me an epitome of his
character. Let us consider Courage as one of his principal endowments! To
contemplate so pure and resolute a being in this point of view, may lead us
to form just ideas on the true nature of this primary virtue, on the sacred
source from whence it should proceed, and the sublime end to which it should
aspire. How large a portion of folly, vice, and wickedness, have arisen from
mere mistakes concerning this most important of human qualities! so
important, that the real dignity of man can only rise in proportion as this
virtue is perfectly understood, and properly cherished! In the same
proportion, let me add, our courageous Philanthropist will be found entitled
to the praise of every upright mind, to the homage of every feeling
heart.</p>
<p>"If we take the word Courage" in the most common and simple sense of that
term, as a generous and noble contempt of personal hardship and danger; who
has given more numerous or more striking examples of such brave contempt! Or
if we follow the definition of Courage given us by a profound, an eloquent,
and philanthropic Writer, namely, that it is a just estimate of our own
powers; who is there among the most signal Benefactors of mankind, not
professedly inspired, that ever formed an estimate of what he might achieve
in the most glorious field of enterprize, at once so difficult, and so true,
so humble, and so grand.</p>
<p>"With every apparent disadvantage, Howard conceived it possible that his
endeavours might correct the abuses, and mitigate the sufferings of men, in
various nations of the world. Whence happened it, that a mortal, so visibly
weak and gentle, shrunk not from an idea so pregnant with difficulty and
peril! It was because, 'The Righteous are bold as a Lion.' It was because he
felt the strongest internal conviction of this animating truth, that, while
Heaven blesses a man with health sufficient to pursue a benevolent and
magnanimous design, the vigour of his mind, and most probably his powers of
doing good, will be proportioned to the firmness of his faith, and the
sincerity of his virtue.</p>
<p>"Many achievements of beneficent Courage have undoubtedly been
accomplished by men influenced by no motive but that generous love of glory
which is so frequently the predominant passion of an active and ardent mind:
but the virtues that arise from this source are as unsteady, and as
precarious, as the reward they pursue. He who acts only as a candidate for
the applause of mankind, will find his spirit vary with all the variations
in the ever-changing atmosphere of popular opinion. He will be subject to
hot and cold fits of action and inactivity, of confidence and distrust, in
proportion as the illusive vapour, that he follows, may either sparkle or
fade before him. Hence proceeded much of that inconsistency and weakness,
which appear in some of the most enlightened, and exalted characters of the
Pagan world.—Wanting a purer light from Heaven, the most radiant
spirits of antiquity were bewildered; one in particular, the mildest and
most undaunted of antient Worthies, who had a sufficient portion of heroic
philanthropy to prefer the benefit of mankind to every selfish
consideration, had yet his hours of diffidence and despondency. On a final
review of his own generous labours, he is supposed to have questioned the
very existence of Virtue, though he had made it the idol of his life; a
striking proof, that the temperate and invariable energy of soul, which
alone perhaps deserves the name of true Courage, can only proceed from a
fuller knowledge and love of GOD; from the animating assurance, that,
however we may prosper or fail in the earthly success of our endeavours to
do good, the merit of the attempt is registered in Heaven; and we secure to
ourselves the everlasting approbation of our Almighty Parent, in proportion
as we approach towards that blessed model of Perfect Benevolence, who has
taught us, by his divine example, to compassionate and to relieve the
sufferings of the wretched. From this source flowed the courageous
beneficence of HOWARD: and how delightful it is to observe that the force,
the extent, the utility, and the lustre of the stream, has gloriously
corresponded to the height and purity of the fountain!</p>
<p>"The Sensualist and the Sceptic may, indeed, deride the conduct of a man,
who sacrificed all the common pleasures of life, and sought for no
recompence but in the favour of Heaven. It may be said that an illusive
fervor of mind has hurried men, in all periods of the world, into singular
and wild exertions, which excite the wonder of the passing hour, and are
afterwards either deservedly forgotten, or only recalled to notice by Reason
and Philosophy, to caution the restless and impetuous spirit of man against
all similar excesses.</p>
<p>"But the pursuits of Howard, though they had all that sublime energy
which so often distinguished the projects of Superstition, were so far from
being influenced by any superstitious propensity, that perhaps they cannot
appear to more advantage than by being brought into comparison, or contrast,
not with the sluggish piety of sequestered Monks, but with the bold and
splendid feats of the most active and enterprising Fanaticism. Allow me,
therefore, to recall to your thoughts those distant ages, when every ardent
spirit in Christendom was inflamed with a passionate desire to deliver the
Christian pilgrims of Palestine from the oppression of Infidels! Figure to
yourselves the whole force of Europe collecting its violence, like a
troubled sea, and preparing to pour a terrific and destructive inundation
over the Holy Land! Behold the strong and the weak, the ambitious and the
humble, pursuing the same object! Behold assembled Kings and their People,
Soldiers and Priests, the servants of Earth and Heaven rushing, with equal
ardour, to rescue the Sepulchre of Christ, and to drown all the innumerable
enemies of their Faith in an universal deluge of blood! In this scene we
have the sublimest spectacle, perhaps, that was ever exhibited by mistaken
piety and misguided valour. The love of God, by which this heroic multitude
was professedly impelled, was probably in many minds as sincere as it was
ardent. The religious spirit of their enterprize can still animate and
transport us in the song of the Poet: and in the more rational page of
History, while we justly lament the errors of their devotion, we admire the
force and perseverance of their courage.</p>
<p>"To the sublime fortitude of these collected warriors, let us compare the
mild magnanimity of HOWARD. Let us survey him setting forth for an
expedition as perilous as theirs; not as the Soldier of Fanaticism, but as
the Pilgrim of Humanity! Attachment to GOD, and resolution which no
hardship, no danger, no difficulty can daunt, are equally conspicuous in the
sanguinary Fanatic and the compassionate Philanthropist: but how widely
different are the prime earthly objects of their pursuits! The fierce
Crusaders invaded Asia with a desire to exterminate the Infidels. The
benevolent HOWARD was led into the same quarter of the globe, and into
perils more deadly than those of war, by a wish to exterminate, or rather to
restrain, the ravages of that terrific enemy to human life, the Plague.</p>
<p>"He had conceived an idea, that, as this most alarming of mortal maladies
has been often strangely neglected by the sluggish and superstitious
inhabitants of the East, it might be possible by a calm and courageous
examination of its nature and its progress, to set limits to its rage; and
particularly to secure his own country from a future visitation of a
calamity, against which the fearless and eager spirit of Commerce appears
not to have established a sufficient precaution. For the prospect of
accomplishing public good, so devoutly to be wished, he nobly thought it a
trifling sacrifice to hazard the little remnant of his advanced life; and,
however men or nations may differ in policy or religion, whereever there is
a human spirit sufficiently pure and enlightened to estimate public virtue,
the sentiments and the conduct of HOWARD must secure to his memory the
fondest veneration. There is a perfection and felicity in his character that
appears supremely laudable in every point of view. If, abstracted from all
religious considerations, we regard him only as a citizen who devoted
himself to the service of his country, the brightest records of Antiquity
afford us no parallel to his merit. Had he lived in those early times, the
generous enthusiasm of the antient world would have idolized his name.
Philosophy and Genius would have found, in his benevolent labours, the most
ample theme for instruction, and the purest subject for universal
panegyrick. They would have celebrated him as a benefactor to mankind, who
had built a new portico to the Temple of Glory superior to the dome itself.
They would have preferred the beneficent Philanthropist to the dazzling
Conqueror, to the fascinating Demagogue, to the attractive Sophist; and all
the various idols of public praise. But as Antiquity exhibits no character
of such unclouded lustre, we have great reason to conclude, that such a
character could owe its existence only to the pure and sublime spirit of our
Christian Faith. Let us, therefore, contemplate HOWARD as a Christian! it is
by considering him in this light, that we shall feel ourselves most happily
related to his virtues, and most delightfully interested in the honours they
receive.</p>
<p>"In the poor and calamitous objects of his regard, in the gentleness and
purity of his manners, in his modest and magnanimous refusal of earthly
honours, in the wide extent and courageous perseverance of his charity, we
cannot fail to discern how richly he was endowed with the genuine spirit of
that pure and sublime Religion which has the divine prerogative of
converting weakness into strength, and of giving to Humility the influence
of Power. There is not a feature in the character, there is hardly an action
in the life of this exemplary personage, that does not mark him as a true
servant of CHRIST. And may we not presume the blessed Author of our faith,
in supplying us in these dissolute times with a recent example of such
astonishing and unlimited beneficence, is graciously pleased to afford us a
new motive to prize and to cherish that animating faith, which could form,
in an age like the present, a character so wonderfully entitled to the
veneration of the world? The spirit of Christianity is so visible in the
conduct of HOWARD, that the prime objects of his attention might be thought
to have been suggested to him by the very words in which our blessed Lord
announces to the heirs of eternal glory the source of their
beatitude—'Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared
for you from the foundation of the world; for I was an hungry, and ye gave
me meat; I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink; I was a stranger, and ye took
me in; naked, and ye cloathed me; I was sick, and ye visited me; I was in
prison, and ye came unto me.'</p>
<p>"Is it possible for us, my Brethren, to recall to our memory these holy
words without feeling at the same time, in the most forcible degree, all the
Christian merits of HOWARD? Can we fail to admire and to venerate the
unexampled ardour, purity, and perseverance, with which he exercised the
peculiar virtue so distinguished by our Lord?—While we behold him
sublimely pre-eminent in this Christian perfection, shall we not cherish the
delightful idea, that his heavenly rewards will be finally adequate to his
unrivaled labours on earth? Shall not those who have loved him exult in the
persuasion, that in that great and aweful day, when the living and the dead
are to receive their everlasting doom; when the princes and the great ones
of the earth may be confronted with those whom they have persecuted and
oppressed, or whom they have failed to relieve; when the proudest Sons of
Learning, Genius, or Wit, may shrink at the superior lustre of those whom
they have ridiculed and reviled; HOWARD will shine encircled by thousands,
who will gratefully plead for his beatitude in those blessed words of our
Redeemer, 'I was in prison, and he came unto me!'</p>
<p>"Yes, my Brethren, the day will assuredly come, when the servant so
signally faithful will be called to a reward, surpassing the utmost reach of
our conception, by the voice of his Righteous Master—then, and then
only, will praise be fully proportioned to his transcendant merit; when this
consummate Christian is raised to glory by the glorified Messiah, when his
pure spirit exults in the commendation of his GOD.</p>
<p>"The imperfect efforts, that mankind may make to do honour to such a
Being, cannot, indeed, so much promote his glory, as they may conduce to the
interest of human nature. Subject as it has been to the wildest excesses,
human panegyric, in all its shapes, may be safely devoted to a personage,
whom it is hardly possible to praise with sincerity, without feeling our
disposition improved. In a beneficent, a sublime, and truly religious
character, there is a sort of magnetic virtue, which to those who are
affectionately drawn towards it, though only in idea, communicates a portion
of itself. Hence arises, what we cannot too fondly cherish, the delight and
the utility of commemorating departed worth. If its title to commemoration
be justly proportioned to its magnitude, its singularity, and extent; not
only various individuals, but different Nations, will become rivals in
promoting the fame of HOWARD. As the glorious qualities, which his life
displayed, are equally open to the emulation of the great and the humble;
every class of human creatures is peculiarly interested in his praise. If to
honour his memory may be thought to belong to any one community more than to
another; surely, my Brethren, we shall not fail to assume to ourselves so
pleasing a duty, so honourable a distinction. Well, indeed, might the
insulting enemies of our Faith reproach us with a supine and disgraceful
inattention to the real interest of Virtue, and the true glory of Religion,
could we suffer any other order of men to surpass the Ministers of CHRIST in
a meritorious zeal to honour this faithful servant of Heaven, whose life
exhibits a lesson more instructive and sublime than all the eloquence of the
Pulpit! a Christian, who has shewn us, in the most signal manner, how
practicable it is to follow, in succouring the distrest, not only the
precepts, but the example of our GOD."</p>
<p>In the moment that this benevolent Divine concluded his address to his
attentive brethren, my kind and vigilant Guides removed me from the
temple.—I was now led into a scene entirely different from those we
left. It was an open and verdant plain, with a few elevations in the ground,
that afforded advantageous views of the whole extensive spot. Here, instead
of beholding the Ministers of Peace, I found myself encircled by the
multitudinous votaries of War. It appeared to me that all the military and
all the naval servants of our country were collected together, and each
different division of these well-appointed and well-looking men, that formed
a pleasing spectacle alone, was attended by a crowd of miscellaneous
spectators, more numerous than itself: yet in all this immense multitude
there was no sign of tumult or confusion. They were ranged in such a manner
as to form a wide circular area in the midst of them. I was stationed on a
little eminence within this area; and in the same vacant space I beheld a
party of veteran Commanders, both Military and Naval, who seemed to have
been conferring together, but separated by the direction of my aetherial
Conductors, to address, in different parts of this extensive field, the
different companies assigned to their care. What they respectively said in
their separate departments I was unable to discover, as I only heard
distinctly one gallant Veteran, whose character was particularly dear to me.
This consummate officer has raised himself by merit alone from the humblest
rank of military life to a station of the highest honour and trust. His
modesty is as singular as his fortune: passing close to me, with a gracious
salutation, he approached a very fine orderly corps of foot, who looked up
to him with a sort of filial respect, while he spoke to them the few
following words:</p>
<p>"As bravery and compassion are the characteristics of good Soldiers, you
cannot want, my friends, any long exhortation from me to honour the memory
of HOWARD; the most resolute and the most compassionate man that has lived
in our time. Though he was not of our profession, as his life was devoted to
mitigate the united horrors of captivity and sickness, those worst of
enemies to the spirit of a soldier, you will undoubtedly feel that he has a
peculiar claim to our most grateful and generous regard."</p>
<p>This speech was followed by a burst of acclamation from those to whom it
was particularly addressed. Similar shouts of applause resounded from
different quarters of the spacious field, while our aetherial attendants,
Gratitude and Admiration, who followed each speaker at the close of each
address to different divisions of this innumerable assembly, displayed, to
each division in its turn, an extensive sketch of a simple but magnificent
mausoleum to the memory of Howard, in the form of an English lazaretto. On
the first display of this striking and worthy monument, the applauding
multitude seemed to exult in the prospect of its completion. But I soon
observed, to my inexpressible concern, that while Gratitude and Admiration
were busy in exciting the various ranks of the vast assembly, to accomplish
this favourite design, they were followed by two earthy fiends of a dark and
malignant influence: these were Detraction and Indifference, who shed such a
chill and depressive mist around them, that all the ardour of the Assembly
seemed to sink. Among the miscellaneous crowds that were visible between the
divisions of the martial host, there ran a murmur of obloquy and derision
against the pure object of public veneration. He was reviled as a whimsical
Reformer, and a rash Enthusiast, who had absurdly sacrificed his life in a
vain and fantastic pursuit. This base spirit of calumnious malignity was not
communicated to any one division of the martial multitude; but the universal
zeal for the glory of HOWARD seemed to be almost annihilated; even Gratitude
and Admiration appeared to grow faint in their darling purpose. During their
languor, they suffered their sketch of the Mausoleum to be gradually stolen
from their hands, and to drop upon the ground. At this moment a sudden and
violent earthquake was felt through all the extensive scene. The centre of
the vacant area opened—it threw forth a phantom terrific and
enormous—its magnitude seemed to grow upon the sight; its lineaments
were shrouded from our view by an immense mantle, on which were represented
a thousand different and hideous images of Death. Its name was
Contagion—it rushed forward with an indescribable movement. Dismay and
confusion overwhelmed all that quarter of the crowded scene, that was
particularly threatened by its first advance. The affrighted multitude
rolled back like a tumultuous sea. The horrid spectre stopt; and left a wide
interval between itself and the retiring host. A ray of heavenly light
illumined the vacant space. I fixed my eye on the brilliant spot, and soon
beheld the meek and gentle form of HOWARD advancing, without fear or
arrogance, towards the terrific Phantom. With an untrembling hand he seized
the dark folds of its extensive mantle, and seemed animated with the hope of
annihilating the Monster. In the instant, a burst of celestial splendor was
spread over the gloomy plain. The Angel of Retribution descended; and
snatching the consummate Philanthropist to his bosom, he rose again; while
all the astonished multitude, now reviving from their terror, gazed only on
the celestial apparition; and heard the reascending Seraph thus address the
beneficent spirit now committed to his care:</p>
<p>"Thou faithful servant of Heaven! thy hour of recompence is come. Justly
hast thou cautioned mankind not to impute thy conduct to rashness or
enthusiasm. Weak and wavering in their own pursuits of felicity, thou wilt
not wonder to see them so in their sense of thy merit, and their zeal for
thy honour: but I am commissioned to bear thee to that All-seeing Power, who
can alone truly estimate, and perfectly reward thy desert. I know that the
praise of beings, inferior to thy GOD, never influenced thy life; but the
homage of good minds is grateful to the purest inhabitants of Heaven; and in
departing from a world so much indebted to thy virtue, let it gratify thy
perfect spirit to foresee, that as long as the earth endures, the most
enlightened of her sons will remember and revere thee as one of her
sublimest benefactors."</p>
<p>As soon as the divine messenger had ceased to speak, every voice in the
reanimated multitude, that heard him, raised a shout of benediction on the
name of HOWARD. I started in transport at the sound; and the effort that I
made to join the universal acclamation terminated my vision.</p>
<p>Pardon me, thou gentlest and most indulgent of Friends! that, conscious
as I am of the sincerity with which thy pure mind ever wished to avoid all
exuberance of praise, I yet presume to send into the world such a tribute to
thy virtues as thy humility might reject. Let the motives of the publication
atone for all its defects!</p>
<p>This little work is made public, not from a vain expectation, or desire,
in the Writer to obtain any degree of literary distinction; for, if his
wishes and endeavours are successful, the world will not know from what hand
it proceeds.</p>
<p>Thou most revered object of my regard, who art looking down, perhaps,
with compassion on the petty labours of various mortals, now trying to
commemorate thy merit, thou seest that I am influenced by no arrogant
conceit of having praised with peculiar felicity the perfections that I so
ardently admire. No! I am perfectly sensible, that the most worthy memorial
of thy virtues will be found in those pure records of thy public services
which thy own hand has given to the world with all the amiable and affecting
simplicity that distinguished thy character, and in the more comprehensive
composition of some accomplished Biographer, who may have opportunities and
ability to do justice to thy life.</p>
<p>The chief aim of these few and hasty pages is to recall, at this
particular time, to the liberal spirits of our countrymen that generous
ardour with which they embraced the first idea of a public monument to
HOWARD. While the expence and dignity of that monument are yet unsettled, a
Writer may consider himself as a friend to national honour, who endeavours
to animate his country to the most extensive display of her munificence, and
her gratitude towards the purest public virtue. May she justly remember,
that, to testify a fond maternal pride in such a departed son, to manifest
and perpetuate esteem for such a character, is, in truth, to promote the
interest of genuine Patriotism, of sublime Morality, and of perfect
Religion!</p>
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<h4>FINIS.</h4>
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