OF THE

PUBLIC AND PRIVATE LIFE

OF

JOHN HOWARD, THE PHILANTHROPIST;

COMPILED FROM

HIS OWN DIARY, IN THE POSSESSION OF HIS FAMILY; HIS CONFIDENTIAL
LETTERS; THE COMMUNICATIONS OF HIS SURVIVING RELATIVES

AND FRIENDS; AND OTHER AUTHENTIC SOURCES
OF INFORMATION.

BY

JAMES BALDWIN BROWN, Esq. LL.D.

OF THE INNER TEMPLE, BARRISTER AT LAW.

SECOND EDITION.

When the ear heard him, then it blessed him; and when the eye saw him it gave witness to
him. Because he delivered the poor that cried, and the fatherless, and him that had none to
help him. The blessings of him that was ready to perish came upon him: and he caused the
widow's heart to sing for joy. - Job, xxix. 11—13.

Sine dubio magnus omnium judicio hic vir extitit. Cornelius Nepos in Timol.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR THOMAS AND GEORGE UNDERWOOD,
32, FLEET STREET; THOMAS TEGG, CHEAPSIDE; AND

F. WESTLEY, STATIONERS' COURT.

1823.

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His Imperial Majesty

ALEXANDER,

EMPEROR AND AUTOCRAT OF ALL THE RUSSIAS,

THE FOLLOWING PAGES

Are most respectfully Inscribed:

RECORDING, AS THEY DO, THE EXERTIONS, AND DELINEATING THE

CHARACTER,

OF

THE CHRISTIAN PHILANTHROPIST,

WHOSE CAReer of extRAORDINARY BENEVOLENCE WAS Suddenly TERMINATED, BY THE EXCESS OF ITS OWN EXERTIONS,

IN A REMOTE PART OF HIS MAJESTY'S DOMINIONS;

WHERE STILL HIS ASHES REST, BUT NOT IN OBLIVION,-ANIMATING, AS HIS BRIGHT EXAMPLE HAS DONE,

TO AN ACTIVE PURSUIT OF THOSE OBJECTS OF UNIVERSAL

PHILANTHROPY,

TO WHICH A HOWARD DEVOTED TIME, FORTUNE, TALENTS,

STRENGTH, AND LIFE ITSELF,

THAT BENIGNANT MONARCH OF ONE OF THE LARGEST AND MOST

POWERFUL EMPIRES OF THE EARTH,

TO WHOSE PROTECTION THIS MEMORIAL OF HIS DEEDS

IS SUBMISSIVELY COMMENDED.