180 MEMOIRS OF 



Many of his places remained un filled, as if those, who 

 would otherwise be candidates, were afraid of the contest. 

 This one man held them all ; rigidly performed all their 

 duties ; carried his benevolent and enlightened principles 

 with him into all his employments; scorned no detail 

 which could bear upon their improvement ; saw, in one 

 glance, the influence which their progress would have over 

 society at large; and yet, while his mind was filled with 

 these great and general views, never, for one instant forgot, 

 that which belonged to his character as a father, a husband, 

 a brother, and a friend ; or that he had fellow-creatures who 

 needed his assistance. His public employments are now 

 separated ; and the occupiers may think themselves happy, 

 if they can, in their sohtary succession, in some degree at- 

 tain the perfection which stamped his combined career. 

 The death of such a man, at such a period of his labours, 

 and at such a moment, scarcely seems to come within the 

 common routine of mortality, but to have been the result of 

 a special and chastening mandate from Heaven, 



