est and every prospect fairest, then suddenly shut in, a dark and dismal night, that night which no eye can see and live, the cold and comfortless night of death and the grave. Thus was extinguished the soft light of how much virtue! Thus was frozen forever the genial current of how much warm and generous sensibility! A more estimable man never fell before the dread destroyer. In his loss, the public at large have sustained no ordinary misfortune. Few who have been cut off so early from society have left the memory of as much usefulness behind them. His whole system glowed with a benevolence equally pure and expansive. The entire human family were his kindred. He could never for a moment view with indifference, the vicissitudes by which any of its members were either favoured or afflicted. This feeling of philanthropy thus a presiding principle of his bosom, was constantly observed influencing and distinguishing the actions of his life. Public spirited even to munificence, charitable almost to a fault, he may be said to have held only in trust for the benefit of others, the abundant means with which providence had blessed him. If in the bereavement of this excellent fellow citizen, the community in general have sustained an afflicting privation, how much more heavily has the calamity fallen upon the narrower circle of his more immediate associates. Real life has never known, imagination has scarcely ever bodied forth' a character more happily constituted to conciliate esteem and rivet affection. In all those soft, benign, winning amiabilities, which tend so much to cheer, decorate, and adorn the mild majesty of private life,' nature had exercised towards him unbounded liberality. these gentle and unobtrusive, but enviable qualities he united others of a higher order, with which they are not always associated. Whenever the occasion required it, he never failed to exhibit the utmost independence and firmness. Upon subjects of trivial consequence, the transient topics of the passing hour, no man was more ready to yield to even the prejudices and caprices of others. But when matters of deeper interest and higher moment engaged his atten

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tion, it belonged to the transparent frankness of his disposition to assert, and to the lofty manliness of his character, to maintain the unbiassed convictions of his own judgment. In all the variety of the ever-changing intercourse between man and man, his conduct was graduated by a most refined and hightoned standard. With those worldly maxims, which too commonly prevail abroad in society, the pure and exalted sentiments of his mind could hold no possible communion. From these interested and heartless sacrifices of moral sensibility and conscientious conviction, which we every day see too successfully made, every susceptibility within him uniformly and instantly revolted. Nor did this erect and dignified carriage alone distinguish the walk of his manhood. It is perfectly recollected, that even in the earliest periods of his youth, the habits of his mind and his life were formed and regulated in implicit obedience to the nicest chastity of principle and the finest chivalry of feeling. These ethereal attributes appear to have been given to him at his birth, and to have been breathed, as it were, into the very essence of his being. But that bosom which was the favourite seat of every social virtue, has been touched by the clay-cold hand of death. That heart which was the shrine where honour loved to worship, is mouldering in the dust. The countless ties by which this amiable and accomplished man had become connected and intertwined with the best affections of his friends, have been rudely torn asun⚫ der, and now bleed at every pore. Yet there is another circle, nearer and dearer, which this dreadful dispensation has plunged still deeper in affliction. Of the desolation and despair, which reigns there, and crushes the spirits of its members, we are not here to speak. Sacred be their sorrows! Hallowed their sufferings!--Oh! God of mercy, teach them to bow in unmurmuring obedience and kiss thy chastening hand.

Spirit of my departed Friend!--accept this unworthy tribute from a heart, that has been withered by thy early fate, and which can only cease to cherish thy memory, when it becomes as cold as thine. G.

Alike lamented, by the poor and great; The great lament his ripen'd glories fled,

The poor lament him, whom his bounty fed

Here widows mourn, and helpless orphans cry,

Here sages sadden; and here virgins sigh;

mourn,

And pour their incense, round his sacred Urn.

Ages to come, shall emulate his fame,
And ev'ry virtue, kindle at his name;
The muse too, seeks to dignify her lays,
And live immortal; for she sings his
praise.
E. B.
Reading, Penn.

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