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1823.] 
nature, whether these were to support 
the credit of the government, to pro- 
mote objects of humanity, local im- 
provement, the welfare of meritorious 
individuals in society, or a faithful com- 
mercial servant. The instances in which 
hhe shone on all these occasions were 
numerous. Some in reference to the 
three former particulars have been men- 
tioned, and many acts of disinterested 
gencrosity in respect to the last could 
easily be related. The prime of his life 
was engaged in discharging the most 
important civil trusts to his country, 
that could possibly fall to the lot of any 
man; and millions passed through his 
hands as a public officer, without the 
- ‘smallest breath of insinuation against 
his correctness, or of negligence, amidst 
* defaulters of unaccounted thousands,” 
or the losses sustained by the reprehen- 
‘sible carelessness of national agents. 
"Fyrom the fcregoing short account we 
have some idea of the nature and mag- 
nitude of the services rendered by 
Robert Morris to the United States. It 
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241 
may be truly said, that few men acted 
a more conspicuous or useful part; and, 
when we recollect that it was by his 
excrtions and talents that the United 
States were so often.relieved from their 
difficulties at times of great depression 
and pecuniary distress, an estimate may 
be fornied of the weight of obligations 
due to him from the people of the pre- 
sent day. Justly, therefore, may an 
elegant historian of the American war 
say, ‘‘Certainly the Americans owed, 
and still owe, as much acknowledgment 
to the financial operations of Robert 
Morris, as to the negotiations of Ben- 
jamin Franklin, or even the arms of 
George Washington.”* 
After the close of the American war, 
Mr. Morris was among the first in the 
States who extensively engaged in the 
East India and China trade. He died 
in Philadelphia, in the year 1806, in the 
73d year of his age. 
* Botta’s Hist. Am, War. vol. iii. p. 343. 
STEPHENSIANA. 
NO. XXII. 
The late ALEXANDER STEPHENS, Esq. of Park House, Chelsea, devoted an uctive and 
well-spent life in collecting Anecdotes of his contemporaries, and generally entered in a 
book the collections of the pussing day ;—these collections »e have purchased, and propose to 
esent u selection from them to our readers, As Editor of the Annual Obituary, and many 
other biographical works, the Author may probably have incorporated some of these scraps ; 
but the greater part are unpublished, and all stand alone as cabinet-pictures of men and 
manners, worthy of a place in a literary miscellany. 
——— 
JAMES I. _ 
a ‘ING James |. (says Claren- 
don,) was a prince of more 
learning and knowledge than any 
other of that age, and really delighted 
more in books, and the company of 
learned men; yet, of all wise men 
living, he was the most delighted and 
taken with handsome persons and fine 
clothes.” —Hist. of the Reb. 6.1. Sf 
FOK-HUNTERS. 
Though fox-hunters are absolutely 
void of understanding, yet we have 
found some of them, like Fielding’s 
Squire Western, who set up for wits. 
One of these gentlemen answered his 
sister, who invited him to London to 
hear Farinclli,—“ Sister, I wou’dn’t 
give a farthing to hear your Farinelli, 
and your whole Italian opera: I have 
here twenty voices, with which I join 
in chorus, and make them sing; one 
while in the woods, and another in the 
Montuty Maa, No, 387. 
plains; and ’tis the only music J am 
fond of.” 
ETON. ‘ 
Dr. Watson, after ridiculing too 
nice an attention to prosody, terms 
this institution ‘a noble mart of 
metre.” E 
FENELON. 
This modest prelate was the only 
Archbishop of Cambray that declined 
the pompous reception attendant on 
the solemn entries of great ecclesias- 
tical dignitaries into their instalments. 
On such occasions there had becn 
brilliant and expensive fétes at Cam- 
bray, from the twelfthcentury. Fene- 
lon’s successor, at his entrance, distri- 
buted among the people medals, with 
his portrait, and the legend, “ Seleriios 
et Princeps.” he history of particu- 
lar towns is occasionally of use to 
illustrate facts and dates of general 
history. . 
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