arrangement of the lines, &c.—I am, Sir, &e., Joss: Thrrrox.
Ember Gate, Northallerton.
"Here In a Tempest of Fatague, Anxiety, and Imprecation Selfraised and prolonged thro' half an Age Foundered at Length H . . . y L Who Without Strength of Head, Suavity of Tongue, Of Readiness of Hand Natural or Acquired Without private Patrimony or Publick Esteem Accumulated During Ten Years Collection of the Crown Revenues At Barbadoea, Ten times Ten thousand Pounds ? And Studious that his Labours should not be Confined to that narrow Spot, wearied the succeeding Twenty Years In amassing from the Orphan, the Mariner, the Planter, & the Publick, Through various Provinces of the British Empire Thrice that enormous Sum Divine Vengeance Raving wrought its purpose on a dissolute Generation By his Agony Deprived him of Sight But Impatient of looking only Where none could look more hopeless of Comfort or Entertainment Within Re rashly incurred, for once, the Charge of Inconsistency, and by a miserable Suicide Oct. the 6th, 1753 Did Justice to himself, to his Country, to Mankind. Reader When the Lust of Riches Shall hereafter Prompt thee to wish their Illicit Attainment Remember This Record of Providence
And suffer not H. . . y L To have lived Unbeloved, Died Unlamented And Perish• Irretrievably In Vain."
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