regular account of his observations in that country. After an_ abode 
of two years, his nephew,* the celebrated Jeffrey, editor of the Ed-" 
inburgh Review, induced him to publish a collection of bis letters, 
and this gave rise to his Travels in England, two editions of which, 
are ample evidence of ‘its success, and served to place the author, 
almost without his knowledge, in the career of literature. In 1816, 
he returned to the continent, and left Paris on a journey to Switzer- 
land and Italy. He remained for some time among us, and bestowed 
a@ particular notice on our Canton in his Travels in Switzerland, the 
success of which is also-demonstrated by two editions : be afterwards 
published his account of Italy. In 1820, on his return to Paris, he 
wrote for the Edinburgh Review, and for the Journal des Debats, 
several articles on political economy, which indicated an original and 
independent mind. He had there the misfortune to lose his wife, a 
lady of rare merit, a circumstance which severed his attachments to 
the United States. He then decided upon retiring to Geneva, which 
he stated to be a country the most worthy of liberty, and the hap- 
piest that he had seen. He here married one of our countrywomen, 
and became: a a citizen-of our Canton. A short time after he eoats 
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he was appointed: Mayor of the Cea of Versoix : his efforts in 
favor of primary education in this commune, not less than his nu- 
merous benefactions, justly claimed for him the gratitude of the in- 
habitants, and have had a happy influence in ameliorating the condi- 
tion of the schools of the Canton. He was engaged in a work upon 
the penitentiary system, when a sudden death removed him from a 
family which adored him, and from his newly adopted fellow citizens, 
whose esteem:and affection he had thoroughly secured. Under a 
taciturn and morose exterior, he bore a serene mind, and a warm 
heart. He always disdained the mere show of sentiment as a sub- 
stitute for sense and intelligence. Naturally inclined to look upon 
the dark rather than the bright side of things, and an enemy of all 
enthusiasm, he rectified, by his enlightened love of justice and hu- 
manity, the austerity which such a temperament might otherwise have 
produced. Having been his own instructor, he acquired the habit 
of judging for himself, without being controlled by the opinion of 
ethers ; but the moderation of his sentiments softened the authorita~ 
ive influence of this a His opinions could not always: 
“ toca a ad te. ie 
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