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 LATE PRIVATE SECRETARY TO SIR ROBERT PEEL 
 
 Who so unfortunately met his Death by the hand of an 
 Assassin, January 20, 1843. 
 
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 |^_Bqiiirlng Stranger,— when you learn whose ashes here repose, 
 
 Q — iinin’d, sure, will be your eyes with what blest Sympathy bestows. 
 
 — hat consternation— what regret prevail’d throughout the land 
 — 8 spread the news when Drummond fell by an assassin’s hand! 
 |^_egard the deed as quite a stain on England’s fame did all; 
 
 Q — eep curses, too, were heap’d on him who fired the fatal balU«« 
 
 Q— eparted shade! such was his worth whilst a sojourner here, 
 
 R-« gretted still he’s not alone by relatives so dear : 
 y — uyielding probity his guide, he ne’er from duty swerved, 
 lyi — aintained so, he long had won the heart of him he served !— 
 
 — uch as his kindred must lament his most untimely end, 
 
 0 — h, ever may Religion’s balm its blessed healing lend! 
 
 1^ or doubt may they such spirits pure — this scene of strife once o*er«-» 
 
 Q— epart to reign in realms above with Christ for evermore ! 
 
 CHARLES CLARK. 
 
 GREAT TOTHAM, ESSEX, March, 1843. 
 
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