served to fructify the soil upon which they grew. Democritus declared, that he would prefer the discovery of the cause of one of the works of Nature to the diadem of Persia: and Henry might have averred with equal truth, that he would prefer the removal of a single human misery, to the possession of all the dignities and distinctions upon earth. In accordance with this philanthropical sentiment, he went about continually doing good, living for others, rather than for himself, acting as the steward, more than as the proprietor of his fine fortune; banishing want, misery, and sickness, and, in many instances, reforming vice itself, wherever he came. If the code of fashion will not allow him to have been a perfect gentleman, it cannot deny him the more exalted merit of having been a good Christian; not the nominal Christian, however, who, forgetting the spirit in the letter of the Gospel, limits his narrow view to forms, tenets, or modes of faith, for upon this latter point he held with Pope, that "His can't be wrong, whose life is in the right" nor was he one who embittered his own mind, and learnt to hate his fellow-creatures, much more certainly than to love God,

by indulging in theological disputes, for he fully agreed upon this subject with Sir William Temple, that all such controversies as can never end, had much better never begin. Christianity appeared to him the most sublime, when it elevated its possessor into the character of an allembracing humanist: he seldom talked religion, but never failed to practise it; and if, in his active benevolence, he had not time to pray so often as others, he had the consolation of knowing that thousands were perpetually praying for him. Inflexible in his adherence to veracity, invariably returning good for evil, pure in his life, unsubdued by the most trying temptations, liable to few infirmities of temper or of passion, undaunted and indomitable amidst wrongs, reverses, and oppression, uncorrupted by prosperity and wealth, possessing in his sense of religious duty that high moral courage which enabled him to despise the savage sophistries of the duellist, and a zealous friend to the liberties, enlightenment, and happiness of the whole human race, all of whom he contemplated as his brethern, we offer Henry Welbeck to the world

in all the essential points of his character, as a specimen of a gentleman and a Christian, fully aware that his claim to these titles may be disputed by some, and only presuming to add, that he embodies forth the humble, and, perhaps, the mistaken conceptions of the writer.

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