Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1834-10-22
DIED,


In Washington on the goth instant, after a
| short illness, Mr.. WILLIAM LAMBERT, an old and
respectable inhabitant of that city, and formerly
Chief Clerk in the Clerks Office of the House o.
Representatives of the United States
In Baltimore, on the 10Th inst, at a quarter ar
ter ii O'Clock, A M. the most Rev. JAMES WHIT
FIELD, Arch Bishop Of Baltimore He was
born at Liverpool in England, on the Sd of No.
vember, 1770. His father, James Whitfield, q
respectable merchant of that city, gave him the
advantages of a liberal education. At the age
OF seventeen, he was bereaved of his father
and became the protector of his mother. To
assuage her grief and to restore her sinking
health, he accompanied her to Italy. On his
return from that country, where he had been for
some time engaged in mercantile pursuits, he
found himselfin France at the time when Napo-
leon had decreed that every Englishman in
France was prisoner. He spent the greatest
part of his exile in Lyons, where he became
acquainted with Ambrose Marechal, the late
Arch Bishop of Baltimore, who was then pro-
lessor of Theology in the Seminary in that city.
The piety of his youth inclined his mind to the
sacerdotal state, and he commenced the study
Of divinity under the direction Of his learned
and pious friend He distinguished himself by
his solid judgment and persevering industry,
and his illustrious professor has often been heard
to relate the anecdote, that his fellow students
would frequently request him to cause the young
Englshmen TO recite, so much were they taken
with the elegance of his diction, and the perspi-
Guilty Of his arguments. In the year 1909 he
was ordained priest in the city oil Lyons. After
the death Of his mother he returned to England,
and was employed in the discharge Of paro-
chial duties in the town Of Crosby
When DR.. Marechal was elevated to the Arch
episcopal see Of Baltimore, he wrote to M. Whit
field, earnestly soliciting him to give his assist
ance to the flock which Providence had placed
under his charge. He complied with the re-
quest Of his former friend, and landed on our
shores on the 9Th Sept. 1917. He was immed-
ately appointed one Of the pastors of st. Peters,
and performed the duties annexed to that office
with zeal and pety. In 1925, by SPECIAL indult
he received the degree of Doctor of Divinity
from the Court of Rome. AT the death OF the
most Rev. Arch Bishop Marechal, his name was
first on the list which was sent to Rome to re-
ceive the sanction of his holiness, and he was
soon after consecrated Arch Bishop of Balti.
more in the Cathedral in this city. His career
i'm this elevated station was marked with pru-
dence and zeal. 1t was through his solicitude
that was held the first provincial council, which
spread universal satisfaction through the catho-
lie congregations of this country. His fortune
was considerable, and il was generously conse-
Grated to the purposes ofreligion. The Catbedra
experienced his liberality, and the beautiful edi-
flee Of st. James's in our city is lasting monu-
ment of his munficence. Of him may be said,
what can be said Of few, he entered the career
of honors in wealth, and left it poor. Such was
Arch Bishop Whitfield: he has fought the good
fight, he has finished his course, he has kept the
faith;n for the rest is left to him crown OF JUS
tice, which the just Judge will render to him.
Bait. Amer.
1t is with feelings Of deep regret We announce
the death Of THOMAS s. GRIMKE, Esq of South
Carolina. Travelling on last Saturday 9th
inst) from Cincinnati to this city, he was seized
with sudden illness in the stage-coach, (his at
tack being, it is supposed, OF cholera,) and una
BILE to proceed further, he was left at Anderson's
tavern twenty four miles west of Columbus, UNI
der the care of its inmates, where he expired on
the following day.
1t is consolng to remark, that his eyes were
not closed solely amidst strangers. His brother,
the Hon Judge GRIMKE, of this State, being in
Columbus, to meet him on his arrival, was early
enough apprized of the melancholy occurrence
to reach the bedside of the deceased on the eve
ming of his attack, and thus to alleviate his SUI
ferines till his last moments. His remains were
brought to this city on Monday evening, &C
companied by several of our most respectable
citizens, and consigned to the silent tomb In
the decea.s of T. S. Grimke, Learning has lost
her brightest gem and Eloquence her chasest
ornamental Columbus Ohio) Sentinel