of Charles de Polier. £91 
ever led him into criminal indulgences. As a 
companion, he was convivial without intempe¬ 
rance, and gay without levity or licentioufnefs. 
His converfation was fprightly and unreferved j 
but, in the mod unguarded hours of mirth, 
exempt from all indecency and profanenefs. 
And the fallies of his wit and pleafantry were fo 
feafoned with good humour, that they gave de¬ 
light, unmixed with pain, even to thofe who 
were the obje&s of them. If the coarfer plea- 
fures of the bottle be banifhed from our tables; 
or if rational converfation, and delicacy of 
behaviour, with the fweet fociety of the fofter 
fex, be now fubftituted in their room, this happy 
revolution has been rendered more complete by 
the influence of Mr. de Polier. 
But though urbanity, according to the mod 
liberal interpretation of that term, was the 
charatterijlic of our excellent colleague, he pof- 
fefied other endowments, of more intrinfic value. 
And I could enlarge, with pleafure, on his nice 
fenfe of re&itude, his inviolable integrity, and 
facred regard to truth. Thefe moral virtues 
were, in him, founded on no fi&itious principle 
of honour , but refulted from the conftitution of 
his mind; and were ftrengthened by habit, regu¬ 
lated by reafon, and fandlioned by religion* 
For, notwithftanding the veil which he chofe 
to cad over his piety, it was manifeft to his inti¬ 
mate friends; and may be recolledted by others, 
U 2 who 
