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office during that commotion, and unites the 

 frankness of a soldier and the refinement of a 

 gentleman with the erudition of a scholar. 



During their residence in this country, they 

 have been attentive to its interests. As far back 

 as 1795, the elder gentleman proposed an Agri- 

 cultural Society for this district, and addressed it 

 in a luminous speech. 



I was penetrated with the most profound re- 

 spect, when I witnessed the various and extensive 

 acquirements of this man. He is a perfect master 

 of all the Greek and Roman authors — skilled in 

 Hebrew, the Syriac, and the other oriental langua- 

 ges — with the German and French he is perfectly 

 acquainted — His mind is a great and inexhausti- 

 ble store-house of knowledge ; and I could per- 

 ceive no deficiency, except in his not being per- 

 fectly acquainted with the modern discoveries in 

 natural science, which arises in a great degree 

 from his sequestered lite. He manages an exten- 

 sive correspondence with many learned men in 

 Europe, as well as America. And although I 

 had never heard of him before, yet I am happy to 

 understand that his merits are justly appreciated 

 by some of the first men in this country. 



He has lately been complimented with a degree 

 of Doctor of Laws, by a celebrated university of 

 New-England. He is now employed by the state 



