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Obituary.
was remarkable for great energy , firmness , nobleness of mind , freedom from envy , penetration , docility ajrproaching to almost an infantine simplicity , and unvarying adherence to truth . These characteristics were united with a credulity which exceeded , if possible , that which marked his uncle , the celebrated Jolm AVesley . The musical profession has lost its brightest ornament . Since the days of Henry Parcelno British composer has evinced so much genius
, and learning , combined with such variety and sensibility , or has displayed so much energy and industry in the composition of memorials as lasting as they are extraordinary . Flourishing at a period when composers met with less encouragement than at any epoch in the history of the art , he pursued his course ivithout reference to the applause of the day , resting on the certainty that the time must come when his works would receive that justice which his contemporaries denied him . He
cared nothing for the public opinion respecting his compositions . AVith him the art was all in all ; and , like Sebastian Bach , Handel , and Mozart , he affords another instance of the remark , that it is the high prerogative of genius to look forward with a calm but assured expectation that posterity will award that meed of approval which must , sooner or later , attend its bright and beautiful creations . Brother AVesley , many years since , was Grand Organist to the Grand Lodge of England , in which official situation he was , after a long period of useful service , succeeded by his talented friend Sir George Smart .
NATCHEZ , U . S . Oct . 14 . —Brother HENRY C . ASHE . —After a very brief illness , on Saturday night , the 14 th inst ., of the j > revailing epidemic , . Bro . Henry C . Ashe , son of Mr . AVm . Ashe , 34 , Denmark-street , Dublin , aged about twenty-five years . A large circle of acquaintances , to whom Mr . Ashe was much endeared for his many excellent traits of character , sincerely deplore his jiremature loss . His funeral was numerously attended yesterday by the Natchez Fencibles ( of which corps he was a
member ) and the Natchez Guards ; also by his Brethren of the Masonic Fraternity , and the Mechanical Society , Brother CHARLES MACDOUGAL . —How many Brethren has the passing year seen consigned to the last Lodge of Earth ! Among the many , Brother Charles Macdougal , Advocate , late Dejiute-Master of the Lodge Canongate Kilwinning , departed this life a few months since at Demararauniversallregretted by an extensive circle of friends ; and in
, y sjiring last , Brother ALEXANDER MACKIE , Past Secretary of the same Lodge , expired at Singapore , whither he had gone from Bengal for health . He was a most active and zealous Mason , and was presented by his Brethren with a tribute of their regard on his leaving Scotland for India . Two of the Grand Stewards for 1837 , and who officiated at the great Centenary Festival , have also paid the debt of nature in the jirime of life , namely , Brothers ADAM AVILSON , and GEORGE TRUSTED . Both ,
we believe , died of typhus fever—the latter whfle following out his professional pursuits in attending the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh . Yet how true is that striking line of Young as apjdied to the living" All men think all men mortal , but themselves ! "
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Obituary.
was remarkable for great energy , firmness , nobleness of mind , freedom from envy , penetration , docility ajrproaching to almost an infantine simplicity , and unvarying adherence to truth . These characteristics were united with a credulity which exceeded , if possible , that which marked his uncle , the celebrated Jolm AVesley . The musical profession has lost its brightest ornament . Since the days of Henry Parcelno British composer has evinced so much genius
, and learning , combined with such variety and sensibility , or has displayed so much energy and industry in the composition of memorials as lasting as they are extraordinary . Flourishing at a period when composers met with less encouragement than at any epoch in the history of the art , he pursued his course ivithout reference to the applause of the day , resting on the certainty that the time must come when his works would receive that justice which his contemporaries denied him . He
cared nothing for the public opinion respecting his compositions . AVith him the art was all in all ; and , like Sebastian Bach , Handel , and Mozart , he affords another instance of the remark , that it is the high prerogative of genius to look forward with a calm but assured expectation that posterity will award that meed of approval which must , sooner or later , attend its bright and beautiful creations . Brother AVesley , many years since , was Grand Organist to the Grand Lodge of England , in which official situation he was , after a long period of useful service , succeeded by his talented friend Sir George Smart .
NATCHEZ , U . S . Oct . 14 . —Brother HENRY C . ASHE . —After a very brief illness , on Saturday night , the 14 th inst ., of the j > revailing epidemic , . Bro . Henry C . Ashe , son of Mr . AVm . Ashe , 34 , Denmark-street , Dublin , aged about twenty-five years . A large circle of acquaintances , to whom Mr . Ashe was much endeared for his many excellent traits of character , sincerely deplore his jiremature loss . His funeral was numerously attended yesterday by the Natchez Fencibles ( of which corps he was a
member ) and the Natchez Guards ; also by his Brethren of the Masonic Fraternity , and the Mechanical Society , Brother CHARLES MACDOUGAL . —How many Brethren has the passing year seen consigned to the last Lodge of Earth ! Among the many , Brother Charles Macdougal , Advocate , late Dejiute-Master of the Lodge Canongate Kilwinning , departed this life a few months since at Demararauniversallregretted by an extensive circle of friends ; and in
, y sjiring last , Brother ALEXANDER MACKIE , Past Secretary of the same Lodge , expired at Singapore , whither he had gone from Bengal for health . He was a most active and zealous Mason , and was presented by his Brethren with a tribute of their regard on his leaving Scotland for India . Two of the Grand Stewards for 1837 , and who officiated at the great Centenary Festival , have also paid the debt of nature in the jirime of life , namely , Brothers ADAM AVILSON , and GEORGE TRUSTED . Both ,
we believe , died of typhus fever—the latter whfle following out his professional pursuits in attending the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh . Yet how true is that striking line of Young as apjdied to the living" All men think all men mortal , but themselves ! "