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sequence, drawn up tlie plan of a new law, 

 which was to have been laid before that session 

 in which he did not live to take his seat. The 

 feeling with which the ministers of his own re- 

 ligion generally viewed him will be proved by 

 the following extracts from the discourse de- 

 livered at his funeral by M. Boissard, minister 

 of the protestant church in the Rue des Billettes. 

 •' Let us not forget those long abandoned cha- 

 pels re-opened to our youth in the royal col- 

 leges ; let us not forget the abundant distribution 

 of religious and moral books under his super- 

 intendence. Now" that his voice is extinct, let 

 us fervently ask of our God, let us ask in the 

 name of our dearest moral interests, in the name 

 of our eternal welfare, to raise up other voices, 

 which may speak with the same eloquence, the 

 same wisdom, and the same authority. We have 

 lost him who, with inviolable attachment, ho- 

 noured the creed of our forefathers j whose 

 great name, whose immortal labours, shed so 4 

 much lustre over our churches ; who burdened 

 himself with our ecclesiastical rights in perfect 

 disinterestedness of spirit, and with the purest 

 and most extensive benevolence. What do we 

 not owe to that penetrating glance which re- 

 vealed to him all that was wanting in our insti- 



