Sacred / to the Memory of the Hon Sir WILLIAM GIBBONS Baronet / who departed this Life the 11th day of April / in the year of our Lord 1766 / in the 67th year of his Age: / After having successfully filled / some of the most considerable Offices in the Publick / civil and military, / with Honour to himself and with Advantage to his Country. / For the Space of thirty and three years before his Death / He was constantly elected a Representative for the Parish of St Peter / in the General Assembly / and for the last seventeen of those years / He was as constantly elected Speaker of the House / in that Assembly. / He disdained ever to make his Seat the Occasion to promote / his private emolument / and shew'd Himself superior to every Species of Reward / but the Applause of his Constituents. / In the year 1742 / He was by his Excellency Sir THOMAS ROBINSON Baronet / appointed Colonel of the Leeward Regiment of Foot / which Post however / from an honest dissatisfaction with the Prospect of Affairs / towards the Decline of that Gentleman's Administration / he resigned / But, on a brighter View which open'd to this Island / with the Arrival of his Excellency Mr GRENVILLE / He soon returned with new Honours to the same Command / And in the year 1753 / Having lately been created by his Majesty a Baronet / of the Kingdom of Great Britain / and by his many faithfull Services as well as by that Mark of Royall Favour / pointed out for greater Honours in this Community / He was by that discerning Governour | made Lieutenant General of his Majesty's Forces in this Island / and Master General of the Ordnance. / Yet under such Preferments / He never once was known to Stoop / to any mean Complyances; / He had a Soul too great to be employ'd / but for the Publick Good. / At length / Declining in his Health, tho not depressed in his Ardour / under another Administration, in an inauspicious Hour / He provok'd in high Displeasure / and / on the 28th day of March proceeding his Departure, / so close indeed upon the fatal Period / yet in one bright Moment of his patriot Flame / He was by the offended Arm of Power / suddenly dismissed from all his Military Services / Unfortunate / in having liv'd so long as to survive/ the Favour of his Chief / yet happy / in having liv'd possessed to the last / of the Affection of his Country


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