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Gazette Of The United States
New York, New York County, New York
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Memorial notice on the unbounded charities and benevolent character of the late Countess Dowager of Huntingdon, including an anecdote from 1787 where she turned insult into aid for the poor, emphasizing her religious devotion to good deeds.
Merged-components note: Continuation of the same foreign news article from London about the Countess of Huntingdon's charities; the second component was mislabeled as obituary but is not a death notice.
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The charities of the late countess dowager of Huntingdon were so unbounded, that, though possessed of a very large fortune, and her domestic expenses never exceeded 100l. a year, she was always in arrears one quarter of her annual income.
The late countess of Huntingdon, in the winter of 1787, received a cover directed to her, enclosing two masquerade tickets. She paid no regard to the insult, but giving them to one of her Deacons, bid him send them to some Coffee-House at the west end of the town, and get what money he could for them, and give it to any object of distress he thought proper. He accordingly disposed of them for a guinea, and with it, and some small addition to it, liberated a poor man from the Poultry Compter. Presence and tranquility of mind, benevolence, penetration, and acute observation, are said to have been the science of the countess of Huntingdon. She delighted in meditation, that spring of unceasing pleasures, and true school of wisdom. It is but justice to her memory to say, that she strictly adhered to the maxim of the primitive Christians, viz. "that religion consisted not in talking, but in doing good things."
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London
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June 24
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disposed of masquerade tickets for a guinea to liberate a poor man from poultry compter; adhered to maxim of doing good deeds.
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The late Countess Dowager of Huntingdon's charities were unbounded despite modest expenses, leaving her in arrears. In winter 1787, she received and sold two masquerade tickets as an insult, using proceeds plus addition to free a prisoner. She was noted for tranquility, benevolence, observation, meditation, and strict adherence to primitive Christian maxim of doing good over talking.