The Sun.
London, England, 1819-05-12 00:00:00

MR. JOHN GIFFARD.

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valued Friend, but private sorrow shottld not Os'
pond public duty, if the loss were private 011;
In the midst of the severest affliction that call
visited on man, so severe indeed 4/3i all lel
griefs fall blunted upon me, I have pell'un'eni
and do perform, my vowed service to the caose -
our Establishment, rj
That Cause has lost one of its most cativo,
diligent servants. Jottu GIFFABD, after S 1')I•g
and honourable life,- occupied with In Ileb 1)""1:-
labour, and mingled with much domestic Calaolith;
is called, I trust, to a better tvoild. de'cri'..'
his services, and to dtlinewe his character. "
console surviving friendship ; but the 'effort
accomplish a better purpose,' it it teaches his st-IT;
virors to emulate the one, and to

other.
My friend was an Irishman *, a citizen of 911?; i
lin, and had held the office of High She'al:''ef
that city. Ile was also, until lately, the t4lll:afr
of " Faulkner's Journal.;"a paper, -which,
his management, was not less active in the 1 filo
testant cause than is the paper that contains t
tribute to his memory.
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Commencing with—or very shortly preceizo.
the extorting' of the Elective Franchise to the "ith
manists, Ireland was systethatically
agitated 10
their plans, their assemblies,. and their 10111" foi
From 1792 until the present year—a periods °he,
prehending in its incessant turbulence ftv° kers
bellions—the Irish Protestants were atts"„igje;
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alike to peace and to safety. Abroad, at 11°1-es
on the highway, in their own fields; in the opin
day, in the dark midnight ; their lives tvecetbe
never-ceasing jeopardy : and many were ts,
Protestants whose energy, or whose tall
brought 'diem within the ordinances of the bi(lre.
Roman Church. E:w Protestant families in
laud were exempted from the wide assassinati°,o
or the general mourning. In this, Mr. GlFr'4o,..os
bore his share. His young and gallant 601- of
taken out of the Mali-coach by the nebe.,sh's
1798, d murdered upon the toad. The yo?.
hereditary loyalty, combined with his fa
obnoxious and conspicuous Protestantism, bronel,
flown upon hint the vengeance of Popish IteAtifor
lion. Trudy, it may be said, that he suffereu

his Father's principle 9. Aar
Mr. GlETAan's pubiie duty was never OW" ho
ed. In the Common Council of Dublin erf
watched, and exposed, and happily defeated/ ecsor
attempt-against the Protestant Ascendancy.
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was this a light task, nor could it have been Pof
formed with less than his zeal, or, his vigilance,

his integrity, or his firmness. trer;
He was a prompt and a powerful spesp
possessing much natural eloquence, which, in
moment of need, was poured fourth rapidly/ l'of
dignantly, and fearlessly,, he saw the enemies ir
our State quail before him ; not more onab'
perhaps, to confute his arguments than unvvillitii
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to encounter his displeasure. He spoke •91`4.°;;1i
from the heart, regardless of consequences, °
disdaining to compromise his opinions. there
Yet, in the social and domestic circle, —„fr
breathed not a creature more gentle. fie ‘v3:l;t•
tectionate, tender, and benignant. Notre
than the open rebel or the covert anal-conteot
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from him an unkind office ; and to these his
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position was too fearless to have one shade °' ;le
lignity. As an husband and as a father, his
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ties were exemplarily fulfilled, and well I 1",:r a
that, as a friend, no human being had e/ii-ote
warmer heart. As a citizen, his services "1,0
proved his, value. The loyal will deplorecoi
death, and their sorrow will not exceed timer'
the disaffected.

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He was the Deputy Grand Master of the wo-
Orange Lodge of Ireland. His brethern
cherish his memory. He deserves their tribiltise
In a very short space, then Protestant lice
has lost in Ireland three of its strodgelt 8:401).
cater, DUIGENAN, and MUSGRAVE, and GO: 0,0,
Our Church's enemies will triumph, and her d°olf
fall will be anticipated. They will blasphetOtho
tell as, as they did once before, that Providelicenci.
interposed to smooth the path of Popish g4for•
pation. A Protestant Barrister, who tv's 001
merly a Papist, publicly used the phrase kvso
said that our ascendancy must go down, $a ?r;6
MR. PERCEVAL WAS ASSASSINATED, AN°I, olr
KING WAS INSANE. .Doubtlessly, he 0
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confirm this decorous encouragement by •
moval of JOHN GIFFARD. c
I know not the exact Bite of my triet,./
death. His age, I believe, exceeded seveniiioht
But I will not delay this offering at his ti)q;Ltst
for the correctness of an obituary article. v.,0%
I have said, I know to be the truth ; and, 11800-
told the world, that JOHN (iII:TARA Wag a Pl6OO
Christian, a loyal subject, a fond relation, the
friend, and a benevolent man, I shall reg4r,"'e
filth which disaffection will throw upon his
mory, us an added testimony of his wool
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* We beliere that our respectable Correspondent 1,,,„-clalv"
resptet only mistaken, as Mr. GIFFARD positively "
that he was born at Wellington, as we, stated vesterdaP

FlRE.—This. morning, about two o'cl°q('.Al-0,
alarming Fire broke out in the house ( pear,
_Lewis, carver and gilder, Charterhouse-lane,i tuts
Smithfield, which in a short time consort)" oeci.
interior of the house, and considerably d'"ll°lbe,
some premises adjoining backwards. 131 01,
timely arrived of engines the further progre°"
the fire was prevented—natives lost,

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Ago- a
At Copenhagen, on the 26th ult., the Lady oi or .
John Faster, Esq. his Majysty's Envoy Extraordin,! a 90.
Minister Plenipotenti.ay at the Court a Denmark, °/

MARRIED.
Yesterday, at St. Mary-le-iiiiite Church, Mr. Joh% °'"
of Queen-street, Bloomsbury; to Mary, eldest dat)lo ‘
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Mr. Bentley, of Wigthore-street.
DIED.
Ott the Cith inst., at Edgeworth Town, where She WAejliitote°o
iass some days, of a malignant typhus fever, eottoti
,reond daughter of Rich:lid Fox, Esti 11 41" i-r ta.
igforfi, and the Lnly Anne Maxwell., gratici-(13".g.i.
• .iry, Earl of Farnham, and niece to the present PA
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