X ADVERTISEMENT. 



friend to our excellent conftitution, he ever labored to 

 preferve it entire; this induced him to petition for the 

 reform of fome abufes during the adminiftration of Lord 

 Norths at a period when the influence of the crown 

 was fuppofed to have exceeded its due bounds ; this 

 brought him forward in later times, with additional energy, 

 to reflft the democratic fpirit, which menaced tenfold evils. 

 The duties of a magiftrate he exercifed with candor, with 

 a temperate yet zealous warmth to prote(ft the opprefled. 

 His benevolence to the poor was unbounded, his repeated 

 exertions to relieve the wants of a populous neighbourhood, 

 by the importation of corn, in times of fcarcity, were truly 

 munificent. Temperate in diet, he enjoyed the fruits of 

 abftinence, and, until a few years previous to his deceafe, 

 poflefled an unufual fliare of health and vigor. Plis conver- 

 fation was lively, replete with inftrudion, and brilliant 

 with fallics of true humour; yet too great fenfiblity at 

 times lowered his natural flow of fpirits, and occafioned 

 fevere dejedion. 



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