A discourse on the life and character of Thomas Addis Emmet : pronounced, by request, in the New-York city-hall on the first day of March, 1828 / by Samuel L. Mitchill.

  • Mitchill, Samuel L. (Samuel Latham), 1764-1831.
Date:
1828
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Credit: A discourse on the life and character of Thomas Addis Emmet : pronounced, by request, in the New-York city-hall on the first day of March, 1828 / by Samuel L. Mitchill. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Argonautic party, with whom in 1809, you circumnavigated Long Island, terminated their days? Daniel D. Tompkins, John Broome, Jonathan Williams, John Bullus, Peter Cur- tenius and Caleb Brewster, have left us. Where are the citizens with whom you were associated in the duties of the New-York Hospital? Jotham Post, Matthew Clarkson, Robert Bowne, Thomas Eddy, Archibald Bruce, Jacob Sherred, Jonathan Little, James S. Stringham, Valentine Seaman and John C. Osborn, no longer frequent the place. How many of the literary club, which formerly assembled at your house, have gone to the grave? Elihu H. Smith, Ed- ward Miller, Charles B. Brown, John Wells and Anthony Bleecker. How fares it with the gentlemen, who labored with you in the service of Columbia College, when you was a professor there? William S. Johnson, Samuel Provoost, John H. Livingston, Gershom Seixas, Alexander Hamilton, John Kemp, Peter Wilson and Elijah D. Rattoone, besides others, have been taken away by that executive agent; who, however he may be eluded for a while, never fails eventually to arrest the body; who is so inexorable, as in no case to ad- mit to bail; and who is so vigilant, that he was never charged with suffering an escape. Cease, said I, and ask me no more such questions ; I will give you a piece of mournful intelligence, without a further query. An eminent citizen generally respected and even be- loved, has recently closed his eyes in death. The members of the profession, to which he belonged, have put on badges of mourning, in consequence of Thomas Addis Emmet's de- mise, on the 14th day of November, 1827, in the sixty-fourth year of his age. That event, said he, excited strong sensation ; there was a very numerous and respectable attendance at the funeral: 1 wish I knew something more about him; as you were ac- quainted with him, perhaps you can inform me. If you will I shall listen with attention. T replied, that I did possess a few scraps and fragments, which, for his gratification, I