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tianity, never failed to arrest the attention of his hearers; as 
his duty required he visited the sick, and administered ad¬ 
vice and consolation to the afflicted ; and he was, at the same 
time, free from that pride and superciliousness which are 
never so contemptible as in the person of a clergyman. He 
was, in fact, rather the father than the rector of his parish. 
To be poor, or unfortunate, were sufficient recommendations, 
for the one to experience his charity, and for the other to ex¬ 
cite his sympathy. A man possessed of such exalted prin¬ 
ciples cannot be supposed to have been deficient in any of the 
domestic duties; He was a kind husband, an affectionate 
father, and an indulgent master; he was meek and humble* 
but, at the Same time, the friend of independence, not indeed 
of that sullen spirit which, while it tries to trample on supe¬ 
riors, calls itself by that name, but of that which disdains ser¬ 
vility, and secures to every member of the community an 
equal protection of the laws. In the minor duty of social in¬ 
tercourse, he was not less eminent; he was affable and con¬ 
descending without meanness, and he could adapt himself td 
all persons and circumstances. Among his friends, his con¬ 
versation was cheerful without levity, and he possessed the 
happy art of being communicative without appearing pedan¬ 
tic. He was removed from all worldly mindedness, and looked 
down with contempt on those petty objects which engage so 
large a portion of mankind ; even ambition, the last foible of 
a great mind, never influenced his conduct. Alter his ser¬ 
vices, in 1781, which he might have urged on government as 
a claim for preferment, he remained unrewarded; he asked 
for no recompence, and he received none. At a subsequent 
period, when his virtues and talents pointed him out as the 
properest person to fill the deanery of the island, which must 
be bestowed on a native, he saw it without repining conferred 
on a person confessedly his inferior in those essential qualifi¬ 
cations. In his limited sphere as a public man, he never suf¬ 
fered considerations of personal interest to come in competi¬ 
tion with the public good. This was his rule of conduct for 
more than thirty years, that he was a valuable member of the 
states of Jersey; this was also his primary object for writing 
the following treatise. 
The natural conseqnence of a life spent in such pious, dis¬ 
interested, and patriotic pursuits, was the love and venera* 
tion of his countrymen. His relatives, and those who had 
the happiness of enjoying his intimacy, felt all the poignancy 
of grief at the melancholy event; but if any thing can soften 
the°regrets of his surviving friends, it is the homage which 
has been paid to his virtues. His countrymen deplored his 
death as a public loss, and his name will not fail of being 
always recorded with the worthies of his native island. 
If there is anything that we have to regret, it is that his 
virtues were confined to such a narrow sphere of action.- 
This sketch may be supposed to be written in a strain oi 
panegyric, dictated by the fond partiality of friendship ; all 
r 0 praises 
