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nounced on Sir Joseph before the French Academy, 

 Mart that whenever a worthy dieoiple, or man of 

 Utter*, fell in kit way, he opened to them hie treaewree 

 of nature with the greatest liberality." Henehel ex- 

 perienced from him the full benefit of this 

 ungrudging nature. 



owing the example of his predecessor in 

 Pro* the Royal Soci po Messed 



of an ample fortune which enable- 1 Inn. i- . indulge the 



^n.T-.sily "t" 111- h.MI'l. gttft mSptfOOl t ' 1- IM...J 111- -II 



and travellers on Sunday evenings. The stranger thus 



describes what he then saw. 1 lie veteran in 



. lull .in ss, \\itli the broad ribbon 



.o order of the Bath over his shoulder and breast ; ' 

 just as he used to appear when presiding at the meet- 

 ings Being infirm in the feet, 



' oseph sat in an arm-chair on rollers, his left arm 

 resting on a table near him. 1 He was, it is 

 scarcely more than the outward shell of a mind 

 formerly so animated; both his apprehension and 

 recollection being weak ; but his features bore a most 

 engaging expression. Every stranger was at least 

 announced to hit. he had anything to shew or 



communicat*. h immediately laid it before him." 

 s generous, noble-hearted man did much to 

 th horrors <-. n the long and bloody strife be- 



tween this country an 1 France. "Dunn- t ho voyage 

 of La Perouse, the French > navigator, he induced 



At be u repreeentod in the portrait of him painted by Phillip*, in 



l fourteen or Afteea yean prerioos to his death, be lost the OM 

 of hU lower limbe to completely from gout at to oblige him to be 

 carried or wheeled by hU aerranta in a chair : in thU way be waa 

 oonreyed to the mot* dignified chair of the Royal Society. 

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