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pofleffion of health and of his faculties, and fortunate in his Lo7d"preC°dent 

 family and all his domeftic concerns ; — he had little elfe to pray '^'""' 

 for, (fince Heaven had ordered that he fhould now be called 

 from the fociety of perfons fo dear to him) but an eafy diflb- 

 lution of his mortal ftate. And this Divine Providence thought 

 fit to grant him. 



He died upon the 27th of September 1789, after an illnefs 

 of two days, at his feat of Barfkimming in Ayrftiire, in the 

 72d year of his age, — leaving no good man his enemy, and at- 

 tended with that fincere and extenfive regret, which only thofe 

 can hope for, who have occupied the like important ftations, 

 and acquitted themfelves as well. 



We have fpoken of him in his public capacity, and noticed 

 his great temperance and folidity of judgment. Now, thefe 

 qualities were in him the more to be praifed, that they did not 

 proceed from any coldnefs or tardinefs of nature, but were, on 

 the contrary, united to a very warm and feeling heart ; which 

 was manifeft in his whole life and manners. 



No man was perhaps a better citizen, or more genuine pa- 

 triot, than the late Prefident ; if we are to efteem him fuch, 

 who not only takes an intereft in the internal welfare and pro- 

 fperity of his country, but feels an honeft pride and warm 

 concern in its glory and confequence as a ftate, and in the 

 fplendour of the peoples fame. Of all thefe, the Prefident had, 

 and continued to have, even in his lateft years, a moft lively 

 fenfe ; which was, at one period of his life, the fource of much 

 joy and fatisfaclion, and at a later period, of fincere mortifica- 

 tion and regret, and caufed him often to lament to the rifing ge- 

 neration, during the misfortunes of the late war, that they had 

 only feen a glimpfe of the glory of their country. That part 

 coo of the Britifti dominions which gave him birth, he was at- 

 tached to with all the partiality which a good man naturally 

 feels ; nor was there any fubjedl on which he dwelt more fre- 



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