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and in criminal jurisprudence lie was considered a high authority. As a 

 judge he was impartial, just and patient; the tyro and the black let- 

 ter adept, alike received his attention and his courtesy; the young re- 

 ceived from him encouragement, whilst the experienced lawyer received 

 a becoming deference to his position and his standing in the profession. 

 As a private friend he was affable and sincere, and well stored with a 

 fund of ancedote and professional experience. Judge Morris was an ex- 

 cellent and entertaining companion. In his domestic relations he was 

 exemplary, and leaves a fond wife to lament his loss ; but to the mem- 

 bers of the bar, who will meet in the Supreme Court on Saturday morn- 

 ing at ten o'clock, we leave the melancholy task of speaking in more ex- 

 tended terms of the character of the deceased Judge, as he was known 

 to the profession and to the community." 



The youngest son of Robert, of Fordham, is the present Lewis G. 

 Morris, Esq., of the same place. 



Hon. Lewis Morris, fourth proprietor and second lord of the Manor of 

 Morrisania, by his second wife, Sarah Gouverneur, left one son — Gouver- 

 neur Morris — who was born at Morrisania, Jan. 3 1 st, 1752, and graduated 

 at King's College, now Columbia, in 1768. He was bred to the law, in 

 which he gained a great reputation. In 1775, he was a delegate to the 

 Provincial Congress in New York. The same year he was appointed a 

 member of the committee for Public Safety for Westchester County. In 

 December, 1776, he acted as one of the committee for draughting a 

 Constitution for the State of New York, which was reported in March, 

 1777, and adopted in April of that year, after repeated and able debates. 

 He resided at Paris, as American Minister, during the years in which 

 the French Revolution broke out and consummated. He went to France 

 in 1787, and remained until 1795 ; during that period it is stated that he 

 kept, at the suggestion of General Washington, a minute record of the 

 incidents of every day, and forwarded the whole to Washington." He 

 is said to have been the author of the memorable address of Louis XVI. 

 to the French people, and resembled the King so closely that he was 

 stopped at the barricades by the Revolutionary mob, in Paris, and only 

 allowed to proceed after exhibiting his cork leg at the carriage window. 

 In all his public capacities, he displayed great zeal and ability. After 

 the Revolution, he retired from public life and passed a number of years 

 in private pursuits — excepting that he was a very active member of the 

 Convention which framed the Constitution of the United States. " He 

 was chosen Senator of New York in 1800, and in 1808 appointed one 

 of their Commissioners to lay out the city of New York into streets and 

 avenues north of Bleecker street. In the summer of 1 810, he examined 



a N. Y. Evening Post. 



