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I have hitherto principally confined my discourse 

 to the pursuits of our late President, in oriental lite- 

 rature, which, from their extent, might appear to 

 have occupied all his time neither preclud- 



ed his attention to professional studies, nor to science 

 in general. Amongst his publications in Europe, 

 in polite literature, exclusive of various composition^ 

 in prose and verse, I find a translation of the Speeches 

 ofTs^rs, with a learned comment; and inlaw, an 

 Essay on the Lew of Bailments. Upon the subject of 

 this last work, I cannot deny myself the gratification 

 of quoting the sentiment of a celebrated historian : — 

 c< Sir William Jones has given an ingenious and 

 u rational Essay on the Law of Bailments. He is per- 

 <c haps the only lawyer equally conversant with the 

 " year-books of Westminster •, the Commentaries of 

 <c Ulpian, the Attic Pleadings of Xsjeus, and the 

 *• Sentences of Arabian and Persian Cadhis" 



His professional studies did not commence before 

 his tw r enty-second year; and 1 have his own authority 

 for asserting, that the first book of English jurispru- 

 dence which he ever studied, was Fortescue's Es- 

 say, in Praise of the Laws of England. 



Of the ability and conscientious integrity with which 

 he discharged the functions of a Magistrate, and the 

 duties of a Judge of the Supreme Court of Judicature, 

 in this settlement, the public voice and public regret 

 bear ample and merited testimony. The same pene- 

 tration which marked his scientific researches, distin- 

 guished his legal investigations and decisions ; and he 

 deemed no enquiries bunhensome which had for their 

 object substantial justice under the rules of law. 



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