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a power of any kind, still less a power of Chancery, 

 of which, his very aflfectioii for the system seemed to 

 make him apprehensive. He has expressed the opin- 

 ion, that the Legislature would, at no distant day, 

 find it expedient to provide for Trusts, as well as for 

 other subjects of Chancery jurisdiction ; but, in the 

 mean time, he has taught us liow to clothe a large body 

 of equity principles in the drapery of the law. In 

 those cases, in which Equity consists in the very me- 

 thods of her administration, the Chief Justice looked 

 for final relief from the representatives of the people ; 

 and he waited patiently, and was content that they 

 should wait the instruction of time. Is the hope 

 vain, that the opinion of this pure and enlightened 

 Judge, may be received instead of that instruction? 



Let it not be supposed, however, because lie was 

 deeply imbued with the principles of Equity, that he 

 was therefore latitudinarian. His Equity was as 

 scientific as his Law. It was the Equity of the 

 Hardwickes, the Thurlows. and the Eldons of En- 

 gland, of the Marshalls, the Washingtous, the Kil- 

 tys, and the Kents of the United States ; — an equity 

 without discretion, fixed as the principles of the Com- 

 mon Law, and like it, worthy of the freemen of whose 

 fortunes it disposes. 



It is in the points already noticed, without referring 

 to a mass of invaluable adjudications on particular 

 questions of law, that the late Chief Justice has made 

 an impression upon the science in this commonwealth. 

 His influence upon it, cannot be forgotten. He will 



