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revered father has long been in his respected grave; and the elder
sister, after an early marriage with an officer of distinction in the
British army, breathed her last sigh in the island of Antigua,
leaving an only child, a daughter, Cordelia Duncombe Taylor, a
beautiful memorial of the surpassingly lovely mother and aunt from
whom she is descended.
During the Bristol sojourn, brief as it was, numerous were the
sincere votaries to simple-hearted public virtue who sought it to pay
their homage to the modest hero within its hospitable walls. Rufus
King, then diplomatic minister from the United States to Great
Britain, and the accomplished Turnbull, by pen, pencil, and sword the
celebrated compeer of General Washington in his fields of glory, was
here also.
On the Polish chief's approach to the city becoming known, the above
gentlemen, with its sheriffs, Penry and Edgar, and Colonel Sir George
Thomas, commanding a regiment of dragoons in the vicinity, went out
in procession to meet him, to give him honoring welcome to the
British shores. Crowds of the neighboring gentry, in carriages or on
horseback, thronged the cavalcade; and on each succeeding day, while
he remained at Bristol, similar throngs of enthusiastic visitants
congregated in the square to catch a moment's sight of him. The
military band of the cavalry regiment attended every evening in the
hall of Mr.
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