18G8.] K91 [Sharswood. 



disparagement of that very useful translation, the general accu- 

 racy of which is undoubted." 3 Kent's Com. 265, n. In another 

 place he admits the justice of the analogy, asserted by Mr. In- 

 gersoll, between the treatises of lloccus and Littleton. 3 Kent's 

 Com. 34G. 



I cannot pretend to give a full list of all Mr. Ingersoll's efforts, 

 professional and literary, which have been given to the public — 

 much less remark upon their respective characters. Many trials 

 of interest are extant in print, in which he bore part as. advocate. 

 An argument made before the General Assembly of New Jersey, 

 on the memorial of the Trenton and New Brunswick Turnpike 

 Company, for the amendment of their charter on February 19, 

 1 834, is a favorable specimen of his power on a question somewhat 

 broader than that usually presented to courts and juries. Of his 

 various discourses, addresses, and orations before different bodies, 

 I can only specif}" the principal. 



Oration before the Washington Benevolent Societ}", July 5, 

 1813. 



Discourse before the Philomathean Society of the University 

 of Pennsylvania, 1828. 



Oration before the American Whig Society of Princeton. 



Address before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Bowdoin Col- 

 lege, Maine, September *7, 1837. 



Address before the Franklin Institute at the close of their first 

 exhibition of American Manufactures. 



Eulogy on General Zachary Taylor, b}' request of the City 

 Councils, October 2, 1850. 



Oration before the Literary Societies of Lafayette College. 



Address at the opening of Wills' Hospital, March 3, 1834. 



Obituary notice of Henry I). Gilpin, read before this Society. 



Memoir of Samuel Breck, delivered before the Historical 

 Society of Penns3'lvania, of which he was the President, January 

 12, 18G3. 



Address before the National Convention of Young Men's 

 Societies for Moral and Intellectual Improvement, October 29, 

 1834. 



Address at the annual meeting of the Pennsjlvania Coloniza- 

 tion Society, October 25, 1838. 



Of Mr. Ingersoll personally and socially it may be said that he 

 was a gentleman in the truest sense of the word. His manners 



