66 LIFE OF 



iuipaiietlj hut 1 cannot sufficiently thank God, that 

 my intellects are sounds that I am afflicted with no 

 painful disease, and that sufficient health remains to 

 make life comfortable. I pray for the grace of the 

 Almighty, to enable me to walk during the short rem- 

 nant of life in his ways. Without his aid I am sen- 

 sible that my eiTorts are unavailing. May I submit 

 with gratitude to all his dispensations, never forget 

 that ho is the witness of my actions and even of my 

 thoughts, and endeavour to honour, love, and obey 

 him, with all my heart, soul, and strength.'' 



It is no longer wonderful that this venerated man 

 performed his duties to universal acceptance, when we 

 discern the spirit, better far than the genius of So- 

 crates, from which he asked counsel. The ancients 

 would have said of him, that he lived in the presence 

 of all the Deities, since prudence was never absent 

 from him. The holders of a better faith must say, 

 that it was to no poetical deity, nor to the counsels of 

 his own mind, but to that " grace'' which his suppli- 

 cations invoked, that he owed his protection "from 

 most of the lapses to which fallible man is subject. 



That " remnant of life" to which his last memorial 

 refers, unfortunately for us, was short as he had pre- 

 dicted ; but he walked it as he had done all that went 

 before, according to his devout aspiration. He con- 

 tinued to preside in the Supreme Court with liis 

 accustomed dignity and effect, until the succeeding 

 winter, when his constitution finally gave way, and 

 after a short confinement, on Monday, the 30tli of 



