302 Biographical Sketch of the late Dugald Stewart, Esq. 



of Man and those of the Lower Animals. To this last chap- 

 ter he has added as an appendix, his account of James Mit- 

 chell, with a supplement containing a recent account of the 

 manners and habits of this interesting individual. 



In 1827 and 1828, Mr^Stewart was occupied with the fourth 

 volume of his Philosophy of the Human Mind, containing his 

 Inquiries into the Active and Moral Powers of Man, and he 

 was fortunately able to complete it a few weeks before his death, 

 and thus to bring to a close that great work, on which he had 

 spent the flower of his youth, and the maturity of his more 

 advanced years. 



Mr Stewart's health had been for some time declining, but 

 when he was on a visit to Edinburgh in the month of April 

 1828, he experienced a fresh paralytic attack which carried 

 him off on the 11th of June, in the 75th year of his age. 

 His remains, which were accompanied to the grave by the Ma- 

 gistrates of the City, and the Professors in the University, were 

 interred in the family burying-ground in the Canongate 

 Church-Yard, already honoured as the burial place of Adam 

 Smith. Mr Stewart's personal friends and admirers have contri- 

 buted a large sum, with which a monument will be speedily 

 erected to hi^ memory on some conspicuous spot in our north- 

 ern metropolis. 



Mr Stewart left behind him a widow and two children, a 

 son and daughter, whom he loved with the tenderest affection. 

 To Mrs Stewart and his only daughter he owed that sunshine 

 of happiness, which, but with one cloud. Providence shed over 

 his domestic life. They had been the ornaments of his social 

 circle when his public station required him to mix largely with 

 the world ; and when they were called to higher duties by the 

 infirmities of his age, they discharged the obligations of conjugal 

 and filial love with that self-devotion and sustained tenderness 

 which have their residence only in the female heart. His only 

 son, Lieutenant-Colonel Matthew Stewart, already known by 

 an able pamphlet on Indian affairs, and who, we believe, is 

 now occupied in a larger work on the same subject, was for- 

 tunately in Scotland at the time of Mr Stewart's death, and was 

 able to pay the last duties of affection to his venerable parent. 

 Mr Stewart was about the middle size, and was particularly 

 distinguished by an expression of benevolence and intelligence. 



