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temperament that ftill preferves cordiality for prefent friends wTa^rEi^ 



and fpirit for prefent amnfements. He retained this ardovTr 



and adlivity to the clofe of Hfe ; and at fourfcore, was as ready 



as ever to join in the converfation, to participate the mirth, 



even to enter into the innocent convivial frolic of his young 



friends and relations. At his country-feat of Woodhoujeiee^ di- 



ftant about fix miles from Edinburgh, where he faw them with 



peculiar fatisfacftion, he had eredled in a private and fombre 



walk, an urn, with this infcription ; 



Hunc lucum 



Caris mortuis amiciS 



Sacrum dicat 



W. T. 



Yet from this walk, from the indulgence of the remembrance 

 and regrets which it infpired, he would return to the focial 

 circle within, with unbroken fpirits and unabated cheerfulnefsk 



Im domeftic life, Mr Tytler's characfler was particularly 

 amiable and praife-worthy. He was one of the kindeft hufbands 

 and moft affedlionate fathers. At the beginning of this account, 

 I mentioned his having loft, at an advanced period of life, an 

 excellent wife, and a fon and daughter both grown to maturity, 

 who merited and poiTefTed his warmeft affedlions. The temper 

 of mind with which he bore thofe lolTes, he has himfelf ex- 

 prefTed in a MS. note, written not long before his death ; with 

 which, as it conveys a fentiment equally important in the con- 

 fideration of this life, and in the contemplation of that which 

 is to come, I fhall conclude the prefent Memoir : " The lenient 

 hand of time, (fays Mr Tytler, after mentioning the death of 

 his wife and children), the lenient hand of time, the affec- 

 tionate care of my remaining children, and the duty which 

 calls on my exertions for them, have by degrees reftored me to 



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