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was the president of the American Academy of Fine Arts in 
the city of New-York. That society is indebted to him for 
some ancient and modern statues of the best masters, which 
he procured in France and presented to the institution. The 
Society of the Fine Arts, feeling very sensibly the loss of their 
late president and founder, have appointed a gentleman* to 
deliver an address on the subject. To the acknowledged tal¬ 
ents of that gentleman we commit the duty of speaking of 
his services to promote the interests of that valuable institu¬ 
tion. 
I shall detain my audience but a few moments longer* 
while I speak of the personal and religious character of the 
late Chancellor Livingston. 
It is here, I most feel how inadequate I am to the task I 
have undertaken. I had not the happiness of such a person¬ 
al acquaintance with Chancellor Livingston, as to enable 
me to speak with any propriety on this subject. I have 
heard indeed of such instances of his benevolence, and to so 
great an extent, as to leave little doubt that benevolence 
was the habit of his soul. Five thousand acres of land to 
the inhabitants of Kingston, to repair in some measure the 
loss of their town burnt by the British ; several hundred 
acres given not long since for the support of a church in 
his neighborhood ; a share in one of his steam boats, valued 
at five hundred dollars, to the Ladies Society of this city > 
these instances of extensive benevolence, accidentally heard 
of, prove conclusively, that he was kind and benevolent to 
the needy and distressed among his fellow creatures. 
But my inability to speak on this subject as I ought, gives 
me the liberty of introducing a communication with which I 
have been honored from one who intimately knew the worth 
of the late Chancellor Livingston.f I shall not only have the 
excuse but the thanks of my audience for the introduction, 
of so much eloquence and pious feeling as is here displayed* 
“ His excellencies in the domestic circle were most con- 
* The Hon. De Witt Clinton, 
f Mrs. Margaret TiUotson. 
