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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1805. 



gard and most friendly confidcncr ; 

 at the same time that the known 

 firmness of his rectitude, and his 

 indignant abhorrence of every de- 

 liberate deviation from principle, 

 inspired them with an awe, which, 

 ■while it impressed uj)on tlieir hearts 

 the strongest fear of offending, serv- 

 ed to heighten yet more the feelitigs 

 of virtuous attachment and re- 

 verential love; for to his mind 

 truth and right were dearer even 

 than his child. And, though mild- 

 ness and suavity were his character- 

 istic features, though they may be 

 said to have beamed in every look, 

 and sounded in every word, yet his 

 determinations once formed, they 

 vere as unalterable as the principles 

 of probity and justice, on which 

 they were invariably founded. 



With such a rare combination of 

 franscendant qualities, with a cha- 

 racter in which the most placid vir- 

 tues were associated with tlie high- 

 est intellectual endowments, and the 

 most inilexible integrity softened 

 and embellished by the most con- 

 ciliating accomplisliments ; with the 

 fairest reputation, derived from a 

 long and uninterrupted course of 

 honourable and meritorious cou- 

 'duct; with the esteem, the love, 

 and the I'eneration, not only of 

 those immediately connected with 

 him in the bauds of amity and 

 kindred, but of all who were the 

 witnesses of his actions, and ca- 

 pable of appreciating his deserts ; 

 with the complacency of mind 

 which accompanies the conscious- 

 ness of well-doing ; and the pecu- 

 liar self-gratulation arising from the 

 contemplation of the rich fruits 

 returned to his paternal culture, in 

 the enlarged understandings, the 

 regulated affections, the confirmed 

 principles^ and the amiable manners 

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of those whom it had been hij 

 great business to form to know- 

 ledge and to goodness ; it seems 

 as if such a state were too prosperous 

 for man ; and it was his lot to 

 experience some severely afflict- 

 ing providences in that quarter 

 where his tenderest affections were 

 engaged. But here the consolations 

 of christian hope, and the unshaken 

 assurances of divine goodness, were 

 his refuge and support; and, whilst he 

 bowed in resigned submission to that 

 searching discipline with which it was 

 the good pleiisure of his God to ex- 

 ercise his faith, and with pious Job 

 was enabled to praise and glorify 

 that Great Being, who had both 

 given and taken away ; he turned 

 with grateful contentment to those 

 numerous domestic blessings, which 

 were yet permitted him to enjoy, 

 and which he continued, with hum- 

 ble thankfulness and quickened 

 sensibility, to cherish and to im- 

 prove to the last moment of his 

 existence. Thus the severity of his 

 trials but proved the stability of his "* 

 virtue; and his probationary sor- 

 rows, by softening his devotion, 

 and refining all his best dispositions, 

 served only to render him a fitter 

 recipient for the felicities of another 

 world, and a brighter example for 

 the edification of this. 



We could gladly indulge in the 

 melancholy satisfaction arising 

 from the detailed contemplation of 

 excellence so diversified ; but the 

 matter is too abundant, the pro- 

 posed limits too contracted, and, 

 we may add, the pencil of the pain- 

 ter too feeble, for an adequate 

 delineation. We must, therefore, 

 take our leave of this exemplary 

 character with this short and imper- 

 fect summary. 



He was an author without vanity, 

 a philosopher 



