ao 
oat his coun 
in their fervice 
fore him, he declared he fhould die conterited and happy if 
he could but previoufly ebtain peace, an a peace 
for Britain’; remove all legal difabilities arifing of reli- 
ion in order to unite more clofely the oe oF Treland 
with thofe of wey and a spelen a — ete abo- 
lition of the flave Eve ireéted to- 
wards him, and ae mind anticipated ‘Ne. good ea ied 
the anes ~ aoe = ndly hoped would, by. his 
fluence, be adop Tt Cie. a moft Oe eared 
circumitance, that his colleague e, lord Gre 
ompatible 
to prom rable in he aie 
a their vaonpailine but lot eh credit for his 
3 Nor was his fecond a& better 
and by means a Lean refolution 
yt sath rae carried up t e fovercign, 
othe wultice a policy, the dut 
abolitin of this abo eT traffic. 
of the debates on this bufinefs, on behalf of ‘himfelf ad 
fuch of his colleagues as had voted with him on the fab: 
je& when out of office, that they felt the total wey of 
the flave trade asa ftep involving the deareft interefts of hu- 
manity, and as one which; however unfortunate they might 
be in other refpedts, fhould they be “ ccefsful in effe€ting 
it, wo entail more true glory upon their + adits 
tion, and more honour uyon their may, t any other 
flitution which had previoufly indicated fymptoms of decay, 
and in a few months deprived his country of the moft en- 
lightened and ree {tatefman which this, or any other 
ation co ould boat, before. the mighty eae ea 
n his breaft could be matured and dev d, ‘and almoit 
be fore any one of his ie and falutary oe could be car- 
ried into -effeét, Had ived buta year, or even.a few 
months longer, he might “probably have reftored peace toa 
diltraéted worlds che might, had he not been thwarted and 
oppofed by his colleagues pide of whom could not poflibly 
enter into his feclings, nor rehend the gra As a 
of his a€tions, have reftored cae omit ution of Brit 
ancient fplendour, by an annihilation . the ditjacetil 
traffic in the: reprefentation, and by expunging from the 
ftatute book thofé modern as which Gall gure and difgrace 
it. He died Sept. 13, 1806, without pain and ,almoft 
a a fraggle, in the 58th hal of - see _At hap- 
pene if to any, to v fo oo 
Mrends ;: an ae was tlie fubjed of nee 1 lame 
the general: regret which took place whe the 
pane was announced, and which followed him to 
“S 
by the myriads who aflembled to teftify their relpe®. to. ne 
ty and necelity, of ie pec 
He 
the pulpit. 
den ominations, and by per re 
fite iti - heat to illuftrate his virtues and eeente 
i ame. Many of the characters drawn of 
Ya din a volume by one of the 
e age, ia affumes the title of 
le we havé already’ 
ee regoing article, and 
rears al parts of it we fhall’ be ftill more:indebted for ‘the 
owing ‘elineation of Mr. Pox’s character 
‘To an extraordinary natural pees " jmproved and. 
entbellithad by aliberal education, ou to a of 
apprehenfion -which inttantly feized every cae was 
prefented to it, aad which with Memele facility ae dliped 
che na eel problems mor 
richly ftored w the @ 
and well pee with hiftorical and political Knowledge. 
He was profoundly verfed in the hiftory and the conftitution 
of his country. He perfeGtly underftood its external_rela- 
tions, its connection with forelg on ale . aetna . 
com isi he interefts, its finan ial refourc military a 
engt was eal pe ‘with the 3 Sem 
ie ‘lrength, the policy, the feparate and relative interefts 
and ‘views of thofe ftates which once conftituted what has 
ae been improperly called the great republic of Europe 3; Z: 
and upon the-jutt equipoife of the political power and: in- 
fluence of which the liberty, fafety, and profperity of doe 
whole was fuppofed to depend. And, in a word, he 
ignorant of nothing ~, was neceflary to coutitute he 
confummate  ftatefman. this was‘added an extent of 
views, a CO mprehenfion of: Pee an d anigllergy of character 
peculiarly his own. ll thefe were combined with a phis 
sua} et which a in a natural oa ie heart, 
ane and extended by hiftorical knowledge per 
Leta eerie of the ineftimable ble aru ‘which relat: 
from civil liberty, and from a wife adminiftrat govern- 
ent, and o e ena which accrue to mankind from 
upjatt wars, from tyranny and perfecutior 
by generous exertions in defence of the cuca, infulted, 
and opprefled: fo that what was originally not ing more 
than’a natural bias of = os became by. degrees a mora . 
principle, and grew u a fx ed habit of univerfa I, 
tive, aad difneerefied pene penis His eloquence, ao 
divine eloquence, which aftonifhed and captivated the world; 
confitted, not in pomp of dition nor in melody o 
fele@tion of expreffions, tho 
and t appropriate which the language could 
potanoly offered .themfelves to his ufe; not in. 
eae 
with brilliant i nagery not in béwilder: ; 
cane the fanc 
fervient to party 
aie {pirit cifdtned to ee op. is claquence was of a 
kind. nervous, energetic, wok ‘ment: it 
fimplified ane was ale ate; it uuravelled. what was ens. 
tangled, it caft: light upon what, was obfcure, and thror gh 
the underftanding i it forced its way to the heart... It-cam 
home to the fenfe and feelings of the hearer s and ice 
ir ie ya Hoe it’ extonte | the. ae of. .thofe. who werg 
moft unw o ‘be convince ‘to crown all; this 
ioatisag ee uence-was. uiifor aly exerted it the caufe of -: 
liberty a a“ juice, in defence of the’ o: éd.ard-perfes - 
cuted, and in vindicating the rights,. the fiedom, and: the. . 
bapa of. mankind.-, 
Nevery 
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