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fymptoms of fever, which continued for 
fome days; and as they produced very ferious 
effeéts, recourfe was had to the affiftance of 
Dr. Hulme, and foon afterwards to the addi-~ 
tional afliftance of Dr. Babington. At frit 
the appearances of his diforder were rather 
equivocal; but in a fhort time an affection 
of his cheft became too manifeft, which in 
{pite of the juftly acknowledged fkili, and 
the moft afeétionate attention of his medical 
friends, produced a pulmonary confumption, 
which terminated in his death, on the 17th 
of November. He hag left feven fons anda 
daughter to the care of an amiable and difcon- 
folate widow, whofe folicitude and affeGion 
for her children will lead her abundantly to 
’ fulfil the duties of a mother, but what foli- 
citude, what afteétion can fupply the lofs of 
fucha father? It is hoped that fome of his 
conneétions (and one near conneétion is emi- 
mently qualified for fuch a tafk) will favour 
the public with a minute account of his life 
and labours, From the few faéts which we 
have been able to colleét, and fome know- 
ledge of Mr. Morgan, fomething may per- 
haps be learned concerning his moft interett- 
ing charaéter. It will be readily perceived 
that he was a man of inceflant application, 
but that that application was neither wholly 
nor principally confined to one fcience. He 
rofe at four in the morning, and often pur- 
{ued his ftudies until alate hour. Some may, 
perhaps, confider it as his infirmity, to have 
attempted to cultivate every fcience. Lan- 
guages, belles lettres, natural hiftory, na- 
tural philofophy, medicine, theology, poli- 
tics, even the polite arts, and all the mathe- 
matical fciences, had much engaged his at- 
tention. And in order to invigorate the 
mind, he infifed on the neceffity of invi- 
gorating the body by laborious and frequent 
exercife. With this view he often had re- 
courfe to athletic diverfions, particularly to 
fencing, in which he is faid to have been no 
inconfiderable proficient. In fhort, fo many 
and various were the fciences in which he 
excelled, that nothing is wanting but an age 
lefs enlightened, to afcribe. to him the uni- 
verfal genius of Crichton. Itis indeed to be 
lamented that his attention was fo much di- 
vided, for froma mind of fach refources and 
energy fteadily dire€ted to one point, what 
might not have been expeéted? His know~ 
ledge had, however, one good effect upon 
him, arifing from its being of fo general a 
nature. It is well known that nothing is 
more common than perfons who have at- 
tained to eminence in one branch of know- 
ledge, to the negleé of ail others, to deipife 
all men who have not cultivated their minds 
precifely in the fame direétion. Nothing of 
this kind attached to the chara&ter of Mr. 
Morgan. He had exercifed his mind upon all 
fubjeéts, and he was able juftly to appreciate: 
that ability which can make a progrefs in 
any. His. friends were not exclufively men 
ef letters, he could ditcover the merit or un- 
_dinary knowledge. 
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cultivated genius, and was well pleafed with 
fuch fociety. 
It belongs to the mof fuccefsful cultiva~ 
tors of fcience to pronounce upon the attain- 
ments of Mr. Morgan, in that in which they 
themfzlves excel; but few will deny him 
the praife of any various ‘and more than or- 
Dr, Beddoes has obferved 
(and the obfervations of this indefatigable 
icholar are always worthy of attention) of 
Dr. Brown, ‘‘ that he wasa man of great fuf- 
ceptibility of impreflions, whatever touched 
the {prings of his nature they bent deeply 
inwards, and they rebounded with at leaft 
equal energy; ‘this is the foundation of al? 
moral and intellectual fuperiority.”” This ob- 
feryation applies with as much propriety te 
Mr., Morgan as to Dr. Brown, for the former 
wasa man as fufceptible of impreflions as the’ 
latter. It appears that Helvetivs conceived 
of the difference of men’s capacities in a 
manner fimilar ta this; for he fays that all: 
the difference of capacity amongft men, de- 
pends on their power of feeling pleafure and 
pain, and the attention confequent upon fucia 
power. 
If thefe philofophers be right concerning 
the caufes of the moral and intellectual cha- 
raéters of men, Mr. Morgan was eminently 
endowed with that power on which all fupe- 
riority of mind depends. He was a man of 
the mott powerful feelings, every thing which 
he contemplated deeply affected him, and he 
delivered himfelf not only with animation 
but with vehemence upon all important fub- 
jeéts. He was yet infinitely removed from 
the character of an irritable man; for al- 
though he poffeifed immenfe e:fergy, and was 
often vehement in debate, his difpofitions 
were as gentle as thofe of achild. Let not 
thefe qualities be thought incompatable ; they 
exift in no common degree ina great public 
chara&ter, who is at once his country’s glory 
and its shame, CHARLES JAMES Fox! 
Perhaps, however, Mr. Morgan’s ready 
_fufceptibility of impreflion, was the caufe of 
the variety of his purfuits, and we think this 
quality is unfriendly to a fteady application 
to any one purfuit to the exciufion of ail others. 
The man of great fufceptibility applies with 
ardour to whatever he feizes, but he is apt to 
be ftruck too powerfully with freth objects 
not to follow them. Mr, Morgan's zeal ia> 
the caufe of humanity knew no bounds; but 
if his fpeculations concerning the future 
happy deftination of man, are thought by 
fome to have been extended by the ardour 
of his benevolence, beyond the limits which 
experience and reafon warrant, who will 
not forgive the error from the excellence of its 
caufe ? 
As a writer, Mr. Morgan was forcible ank 
energetic. He feldom polifhed his periods, 
they are fometimes unharmonioys, but they 
are never without ftrength. If any difpute 
his claim to the tithe of a fine writer, none 
who have read his works will deny that he 
was 
