Volume 1
Hints designed to promote beneficence, temperance, and medical science / by John Coakley Lettsom ... originally published in 1801; and now re-published with memoirs of the author; brief notices of many of his friends; and X new plates.
- John Coakley Lettsom
- Date:
- 1816
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Hints designed to promote beneficence, temperance, and medical science / by John Coakley Lettsom ... originally published in 1801; and now re-published with memoirs of the author; brief notices of many of his friends; and X new plates. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.
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![liave formed, and makes one exclaim, “ Conrem- plate the atiedfing pi6lure, ye advocates for this inhuman practice, and learn the luxury of feeling for the miferies of others!” In Common Council, in the Chamber of the Gulldli;',!! of the City of Loj'.don, on Tuefday, the 25ih day of No- vember, iSoo. Refolvcd, nnanlmoujb], “ That tlie thanks of this Court be given to Harvey Chrif- tian Combe, Ef([. Late Lord Mayor, for the fplcndid hofpita- lity with which he fupported the dignity, and for the firm- nefs and fideUty with which he difeharged the duties, of the important office which he was appointed to till by the impar- tial fuffrages of his eleSors; for the eafy accefs which he af- forded to every man who fought affiftance from his counlel or protection from his authority; forhis fteadlnefs in alfert ing the rights, and his aClivity in promoting the interells, of this great metropolis ; for his temperate, manly, and upright conduCl in Parliament; his attachment to the pure and ge- nuine principles of the Engllih conrtitution; and, above all, for that rare, but falutary and noble inftance of wifdom with courage, and of juftice with clemency, which he difjdayed during the late difturbances from the fcarcity of corn, and for which his name deferves to be recorded in the annals of our hidory, as the friend of the poor, the guardian of the ignorant, the bioodlefs rebutter of the ralh and tumultuous, the guardian of the peace, property, and lives of his fellow citizens, the preferver of the general, tranquillity of the kingdom, as a magiftrate who confeerated the legal exercife of power by the mod amiable feelings of humanity. ‘‘ Rix.” “ I have X 2](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21525146_0001_0393.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
