The graphic and historical illustrator; an original miscellany of literary, antiquarian, and topographical information, embellished with one hundred and fifty woodcuts . arer home. The procu-rator, Decianus, was very differently situated, forbeing on the spot, and, from his official employment,likely to be intimately acquainted with the circum-stances of the principal British landowners, he wasperfectly able to judge of the nature of the securityproffered by those who wished to borrow, and as hemust continually have had large sums of publicmoney resting for a while in his hands, he mightnatura
The graphic and historical illustrator; an original miscellany of literary, antiquarian, and topographical information, embellished with one hundred and fifty woodcuts . arer home. The procu-rator, Decianus, was very differently situated, forbeing on the spot, and, from his official employment,likely to be intimately acquainted with the circum-stances of the principal British landowners, he wasperfectly able to judge of the nature of the securityproffered by those who wished to borrow, and as hemust continually have had large sums of publicmoney resting for a while in his hands, he mightnaturally, if not endowed with the most scrupulousintegrity, have been induced to employ them for hisown advantage. This very circumstance likewiseindicates a motive for hastily calling in the sums hehad in this manner advanced, and for exacting pay-ment with the most rigorous and unsparing harsh-ness ; for if the funds which he had thus appliedwere those of the public, it is plain that he might beso circumstanced as to leave him no alternative butthat of ruining his unhappy debtors, to save himselffrom exposure and disgrace as a public defaulter. CHURCH MEDALS. No. The foundations were begun July 19th, 1821,the coronation day of his Majesty, George IV. Thefirst stone was laid the 28th day of August, in thesame year, by the Venerable R. F. Onslow, ,Archdeacon of the Diocess, and Vicar of Kidder-minster. The chapel and burial-ground were con-secrated the 13th day of September, 1824, by theRight Reverend F. H. W. Cornewall, Lord THE GRAPHIC AND HISTORICAL ILLUSTRATOR. 361 Bishop of Worcester. The expense of erectingthis chapel was defrayed partly by a grant fromParliament under acts passed in the 58 and 59 yearsof George III., and partly by a voluntary subscrip-tion of £2000 from the inhabitants of the town andneighbourhood of Kidderminster. It contains twothousand sittings, of which one thousand two hun-dred are appropriated to the accommodation of thepoor; and it i
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