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Gentlemen of the Phllosojjhical Society ^ 

 Fellow- Citizens f Friends — 



IF your wishes or mine had availed, we should 

 not have been assembled on this solemn occasion. 

 For, surely, never was life more earnestly desired, 

 never death more sincerely regretted, than that of the 

 excellent person, whose character 1 am called upon to 

 delineate. Witness the alarm which pervaded the 

 city, on the first intelligence of his illness — the friends 

 who thronged his house, with anxious inquiries while 

 hope remained, and departed in silent sorrow when 

 the despairing bulletin announced the approaching 

 crisis — Witness the long procession, which, through 

 crowded stfccts, followed his mortal remains to their 



