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Died at Mount Vernon in Virginia, on the 14th I^ecember 

 laft, the great and good GEORGE WASHINGTON, 

 Commander in Chief of the Army of the United States of 

 America, late Prefident and Founder of the Federal Union 

 of that free and rifing nation. 



It is with pride we afTume the privilege of enrolling bis 

 name in the Obituary of eminent and flcllful farmers, and we 

 have reafon to believe he would not have difdained the profpeft 

 of this diftinftion, in the midft of all the eulogy he has juftly 

 received, and is hereafter to receive, with the trial ordeal of 

 difpaffionate pofherity, and the lapfe of ages. 



With his political and warlike life, wehave nothing to do ; 

 and it is a fubjeft only for the hiftorian. He was one of 

 thofe, whom the Almighty, in every age, has chofen and 

 raifcd up to promote the ulterior defigns of his mercy and 

 goodncfs in the melipralion of his crcatures« 



It may be fald of Wadiington, as was written by Tacitus 

 of Agrlcola, that though he was fnatched away whilft his age 

 •was not broken by infirmity, or injured by decay of reafon ; yet 

 that, if his life be meafured by his glory, he attained to a 

 mighty length of days 5 for every true felicity, namely, allfuch 

 r.s arife from virtue, he had already enjoyed to the full. As 

 he had likewlfe held the fupreme authority of the State, with 

 the confidence and applaufe of all wife and good men in every 

 part of the world, as wtll as among thofe he governed or 

 commanded, and had triumphal honours in a war under- 

 taken in defence of the liberties of his country, — what more 

 could fortune add to his luflre and renown ? After enorm- 

 ous wealth he fought not ; an honourable fhare he pofiefT- 

 ed. As the infirmity of nature requires, in our laft mo- 

 ments, the tender fympathy of relations and friends, and the 

 confoling views of futurity, — thefe alfo he had in his amiable 

 and worthy confort Mrs Wa(hington, — in his kindred, and 

 in that excellent man Tobias Lear, whofe worth is not un- 

 known in Scotland, and, where beil known, will be moft 

 valued. He died with the fortitude of a phllofopher, and, 

 what is much better, with the hopes of a Chriflian. He, 

 therefore, to contrnue the parallel, may be accounted happy ; 

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