MEMOIR OF * 



< and to visit the fatherless and widows in their 

 affliction," seems to have been his habitual practice 

 throughout his long protracted existence. We 

 nave seen him born with a natural delicacy of 

 constitution, which nothing, it is probable, but 

 rigid temperance and self-denial could have sus- 

 tained, yet cheerfully submitting to these restraints, 

 while cultivating the abilities his Maker had bes- 

 towed upon him ; we have seen him carry with 

 him the good wishes and recommendations of his 

 instructors, while pursuing his education in foreign 

 countries ; and, finally, brought into active life 

 at home, under the auspices of men of high talent 

 and reputation, whose kindness and judgment 

 the result fully justified. His middle age was 

 passed in active benevolence, alleviating " the 

 evils that flesh is heir to, " among all classes, from 

 the sovereign on the throne, to the casual and 

 dependant inmate of an hospital, receiving honours 

 from the one, and blessings from the other; a 

 generous promoter of every institution calculated 

 to enlarge the mental powers of man or relieve 

 his bodily infirmities ; and, at length resigning 

 his soul into the hands of the God who gave it 

 with humility and resignation, and with admirable 

 consistency so rarely practised, leaving directions 

 that no sycophantic eulogy should be pronounced 

 over his remains ; but that the occasion should be 

 improved by those salutary reflections which such 



