A TRUE AND BEAUTIFUL PORTRAIT 



or THE 



CHARACTER OF GENERAL WASHINGTON, 



BY THE 



LATE HONORABLE GEORGE CANNING, 



PRIME MINISTER OP ENGLAND. 



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GENERAL WASHINGTON was, we believe, in his sixty-eighth year. The height ot 

 his person was about five-feet eleven; his chest full, and his limbs, though rather 

 slender, well shaped and muscular. His head was small, in which respect he 

 resembled the make of a great number of his countrymen. His eyes were of a 

 very light grey colour; and, in proportion to the length of his face, his nose was 

 long. Mr. STEWART, the eminent portrait painter, used to say, there were features 

 in his face totally different from what he had ever observed in that of any other 

 human being; the sockets of his eyes, for instance, were larger than he had ever 

 met with before, and the upper part of the nose broader. All his features, he 

 observed, were indicative of the strongest passions, yet, like SOCRATES, his 

 judgment, and great self-command, have always made him appear a man of different 

 character in the eyes of the world. He always spoke with great diffidence, and 

 sometimes hesitated for a word, but it was always to find one particularly well 

 calculated to express his meaning. His language was manly and expressive. At 



