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print, much was published on both fides, and those who were prejudiced refpecting the body of Chriftians to whom Mr. H. belonged, exclaimed vehemently against him for his own conduct, as well as that of his colleague, Mr. Madan. Time, however, has deftroyed this prejudice, and we believe there is no perfon fo uncandid at prefent, as to admit a thought to his disadvantage, in confequence of this business.

About that period, he published a very ufeful and judicious commentary upon the fcriptures, entitled, "The Evangelical Expofitor," in 2 vols. folio.

Mr. H. had the chief management of Lady Huntingdon's extenfive concerns on her death, at which period he found himself nominated by her will one of the principal trustees of her various chapels in town and country. In 1795, the Miffionary Society commenced, formed upon a plan and scale certainly more adequate to the object, more promifing in its appearance, and, as far it has yet gone, more profperous in its operation, than any other that can be mentioned. This inftitution equally admits churchmen and diffenters. It is marked, indeed, only by what are called the evangelical fentiments: it pays no regard to differences of opinion on the inferior queftions of church government, or the manner of public worship; but it admits no miffionaries except fuch as are firmly grounded in the effential doctrines of christianity, particularly the divinity of Christ, and the atonement by his death.

* He had acted as her Chaplain, for several years, without accepting of any emolument whatever.

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"At the first public meeting of this Society, held at Spa-fields chapel, Mr. H. preached a very affecting and masterly fermon on the occafion; and, at a subfequent one, he read a memorial, in which he examined the fubject with the greateft precifion and accuracy, and recommended ftrongly that the first miffion fhould be to the Friendly Iflands, in the South-Sea, which measure was adopted. This fermon and memorial were printed in the collection of the Society's papers. :

In the course of the fame year he obtained from one of the Scotch Univerfities, the degree of Doctor of Phyfic; and, left his motives for fo doing should be misunderstood, it may be proper to fay, that he often gives his advice gratis, and vifits poor fick people at their own habitations. Now, as he was originally brought up to the practice of medicine, there was a propriety in his taking a doctor's degree in that faculty, to render him competent to give his advice, and to attend confultations, in the way of benevo. lence.

In 1797, he published the life of that eminent and popular divine, Mr. Romaine. This performance does great credit to his talents as a biographer.

The miffionary concerns feems to engross his principal attention; and, without doubt, that large and highly honourable Society could not have a more able, indefatigable, or faithful adherent. The accounts received from the miffionaries at the Marquefas, the Society, and Friendly Iflands, are very flattering to those who have formed ftrong expecta

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tions refpecting this new attempt to propagate chriftianity in heathen lands. We understand that the Society is not fo opulent, in respect to finances; as could be wifhed, elfe it would enlarge its sphere of operation, to carry civilization and religion into other dark and uncultivated regions.

Dr. Haweis is ftill an eloquent and powerful preacher. His ftyle is perfpicuous and elegant, He never defcends to that coarfe method of illuftration made ufe of by fome popular preachers, nor does he entertain his auditory with quaint witticifins and ridiculous anecdotes. He has a clear method of rea foning, and feldom launches into the wildnefs of declamation. As a writer, he poffeffes great merit, on account of an elegant ftyle, which is at once pious and fervid.

THE RIGHT HON. HENRY DUNDAS, SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE WAR DEPARTMENT, &c.

HENRY DUNDAS is a defcendant from a younger branch of a branch of a family the petty barons of Lothian.

long eminent among

During a great part

expired, bis imme

of the century which has juft diate ancestors were diftinguifhed as the ableft advocates at the Scottish bar: and they have there fucceffively attained to the highest honours and emoluments of the juridical profeffion. His father, even while a young lawyer, appeared to old President

*The Dundaffes of Dundas.

Dalrymple

Dalrymple to excel, in difeernment, eloquence, and erudition, all thofe admired advocates, the Fletchers, Gilmores, Nicholfons, and Lockharts, whom he himfelf had heard in his younger years. His elder bro ther, the late Lord Prefident Dundas, after advancing through a very fplendid and fuccefsful career of practice at the bar, was raifed to the first place in the fupreme Court of Juftice in his native country. And it is ftill remembered with what auguft dignity, what a clear comprehenfion and quick difpatch of business, what depth of legal erudition and cogency of argument, that eminent Judge, for a long feries of years directed the proceedings of the Court of Seffion.

Henry, a younger fon, and by a fecond marriage, was deftined to feek his fortune in fome profeffional parfait. He, very naturally, chofe that in which his family had been fa fucccfsful. Though very young when he was called to the Scottish bar, he quickly rofe to fome diftinction among the junior class of advocates. His advantages of birth, and his perfonal qualities introduced him, in a favourable manner, tỏ all the gay and fashionable fociety of the Scottish metropolis: and he was fufficiently difpofed to enter ardently into the ufual pleasures of the young. But this propenfity, inftead of unfitting him for bufinefs or ftudy, was believed to make his application to both the one and the other, only fo much the more lively and vigorous, during the time for which it was bestowed upon them. The General Affembly of the Church of Scotland, the only very numerous and popular Court in that part of the island, was re

garded

garded as an excellent íchool of deliberative cloquence; and the advocates, in general, were, there fore, unufually eager to obtain feats, and to try their powers of oratory, in it. No one, however, was ever more favourably liftened to, or more admired, in that affembly, than young Dundas; who exhibited, there, fome of the firft fplendid specimens of that eloquence, which he was afterwards to exercise in a more illuftrious scene of debate.

A marriage with the heirefs of the eftate of Melville, in the vicinity of Edinburgh, brought an useful addition to a younger-brother's-fortune, and, in the course of a few years, made him the father of an amiable family of children.

In the progress of his life and practice at the bar, his first habits and character were gradually matured. His found intelligence, and prompt difcernment, as a man of business, obtained for his pleadings the refpectful attention of the ableft Judges on the bench; and drew a continually increafing number of clients to folicit his affifiance, in litigations, as their counfellor and advocate.

It was not in his nature to be a mere plodding lawyer, admirable for nothing but juridical erudition. His inclination and ability to adorn the dryness of argument with the not unbecoming elegancies of literature, were fuch as to procure him, while he was ftill very young, the flattering esteem of the late Lord Kaimes, a man who was extremely ftudious to apply philofophy and literature to the improvement of jurifprudence. Nor can there be any thing

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