The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1834-11-12

and the community at large we take this occasion
TO pne ours, and while with reverence we bow Il
the dispensation of all wise Providence who ha,
seen iit tn him down in the m'ds, of hls useful
ness we feel consolation from the reflection, tina
his memory will long very long, live in the affection.
ate remembrances of hundreds who knew and val
ued his worth too well to suffer it sink into obv-
I ION.
! Since the above was in type, the following COM
munication has been handed in, which subion
without comment
! On Sunday last, all that remained of Dr. Benja-
min Waite Case followed to the tomb, by a
multitude of sincere mourners. | know not the
man who has here, in the vicinity departed with
in the last twenty years, whose death has been more
generally lamented or seriously regretted. He has
had in this town and on the Island for more than
thirty years very extensive practice and the best
evidence of his success, and the very high estima-
ton in which he was held will be found in the as
sertion, the truth of which no can question,
those who employed him would upon no con-
sideraton dispense with his services OF employ any
other man of his profession. BY night and by day,
for the period mentioned he has been the slave of
his profession. His was not the mere practice of
callmg'upon his patients, prescribing and admins
tering medicine unto them His time, his whole at
enron, and personal aid uniting in his conduct the
anxious physician with the faithful nurse, were
yielded TO those he had i'll charge 1t is within the
knowledge of him who furnishes for publication this
notice. that with a constitution greatly impaired by
the discharge of the long and arduous duties of his
profession after the commencement of his last sick
ness, his own situation neglected, that he might
follow the prompting of his zeal and benevolence,
alleviate the dstresses assuage the PAIN and heal
the disorders of his fellow beings. II is doubted
the loss of his life was the consequence.
Not professional man alone was Doctor Case
distinguished His patriotism of the highest
order TO the liberties of his country, the perpetuity
of her free constitutions and I" the supremacy of the
laws" he religousy devoted-they were the
subjects of his anxious thoughts and occasion
did he lose sight of what nearest to his heart
these thoughts manifested to his friends around
him. in his dying hours.
There undoubtedly many who did not appro-
bate the political of Dr. Case; this may well
be said of any man who has mingled in the party
stris of the day. and divided into political parties
but know not the man, or the individual who ought
to be called one, who has questioned, or with pro-
prety can question, the purity of his motives, the
honesty of his sintentions-had his life been spared
but,a single day, if his had not been assailed,
with the sh6ts Of victory he would have learnt the
character Of one, which has sealed the fate and scat
tered the fofees of of the great political parties
in this esouitifty.' - ..........-... ......
These lines have been hastily sketched by, one
who has, on more than one. occasion experienced
the friendship ofthe deceased who has always found
him warm, Kind hearted, benevolent & sincere man,
who bemoans his departure the world of spirits,
with more than ordinary grief, and who, in conclu
sion cannot in his own language so well manifest his
feelings as well as the feelings acts, and dispost-
ions of others, they portrayed and forth in
the words of one of the best ofour American
Tears fell when thou dying
From eyes unused to weep,
And long where thou art lying
VIII tears the cold turf steep.
While memory bids weep thee,
Nor thoughts, words are free,
The grief is fixed too deeply
That mourns a like thee"
At Mddleown Wednesday last Elizabeth Dyer, aged a
bout IS years
In New Bedford on Friday last Mrs Matilda Ptman wife
of VIM Ptman and daughter of the late John Thurston-er
remains were brought to this and Inferred
SHIP NEWS-PoRT OF NEWPORT.