of Charles de Poller. 295 
Granger : but his perfonal accompli foments, 
and the charms of his converfation, foon fuper- 
feded the ordinary claims of cuftom, and con¬ 
verted formal civility into efleem and friendfoip. 
He became our companion in pleafure j our 
affiftant in ftudy; our counfellor in difficulty ; and 
our folace in diftrefs. Amufement acquired a 
dignity and zefo, by his participation ; and he 
foftened the' aufterity of philofophy, whenever 
hejoined in the purfuit. The inftitution, which 
now celebrates his memory, owes to him much 
of its popularity and fuccefs j and, fo long as it 
fubfifts, his name will be revered, as one of its 
founders, and mod foining ornaments. 
About the middle of laft winter he was 
attacked by a complaint, which at firft gave no 
difturbance to the vital functions. But being 
aggravated by the fatigues of a long journey to 
Holyhead, and of a voyage from thence to 
Dublin, at a time when he laboured under the 
Influenza , his malady rapidly increafed after his 
arrival in Ireland ; and put a final period to his 
valuable life on the 18th of Odober 1782.* The 
vigour of his faculties, and the warmth of his 
affections, continued even to the hour of his 
diffolution. And the amiablenefs of his beha¬ 
viour, in the clofing fcene of trial and differing 
• At Curraghmore, near Waterford, the feat of 
the Earl of Tyrone. 
U 4 through. 
