feeble fupreme authority, 
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ivjury aganft the United States. Guided 
by this juft and fimple principle, unin- 
fluenced by the abhorrence of crimes which 
he felt and which others affe&ted, he re- 
ceived Mr. Genet, the minifter of thie 
French Republic. The hiftory of the 
outrages which that minifter committed, 
or-inftigated, or countenanced againft the 
American government, muft be frefh in the 
memory of all our readers. The conduct 
ef Wathington was a model of firm and 
dignified: moderation. Infults were of- 
fered to his authority in, official papers, 
in anonymous libels, by incendiary de- 
claimers, and by tumultuous meetings. 
The law of nations was trampled under 
foot. His confidential minifters were fe- 
‘duced to betray him, and the deluded po- 
pulace were fo inflamed by the arts of 
their enemies that they broke out into in- 
furre€tion. No vexation, however gal- 
ling, could difturb the tranquillity of his 
mind, or make him deviate from the 
policy which his fituation preferibed. 
With a more confirmed authority, and at 
the head of a louger eftablifhed govern-~ 
ment, he might perhaps have thought 
greater vigour juftifiable. But in his 
circufiances be was fenfible that the 
nerves of authority were not {trong enough 
to bear being ftrained.’ Perfuafion, always 
the mo defirable infrument of Govern- 
ment, was in his cafe the fafeft. Yet he 
never over pafled the line which feparates 
eoncefiion from meannefs. He reached the 
utmo: limits of moderation, without 
being betrayed into pufillanimity. He 
preferved external and internal peace 
by a fyftem of mildnefs, without any 
of thofe virtual confefions of weak- 
nefs, which fo much difhonour and en- 
During the 
whole of that arduous ftruggle, his per- 
fonal charaéter gave that flrength to a zew 
mogifiracy, which in other countries arifes 
from ancient habits ef obedience and re- 
fpect. The authority of his. virtue was 
more efficacious for the prefervation of 
America than the legal powers of his 
office. . 
[Zo be coucluded in the Magazine to be 
publifbed on the firft of April.) 
; La y 
MEMOIRS OF THE LATE DR. WARNERS 
OHN WARNER, D.D. lately de- 
ceafed, was the fon of Dr. Ferdinando 
Warner (many years rector of Barnes in 
Surry, reputed author of the Letters of 
an Uncle to his Nephew, and author of 
the Hiftory of Ireland, of the Church, &c. 
&c.) After the ufual claffical education 
at {chool, tie was fent to Lifbon,.to be ini- 
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[March 1, 
tiated into the principles of commercial 
life ; but his genius was not fuited to the 
defk, and he was fcon tran{planted to a 
foil more favourable to his literary merit, 
and was admitted a member of Trinity 
College, Cambridge. His firft, or ba- 
chelor’s degree he tock in the year +758, 
and embracing foon after a clerical life, 
proceeded to his mafter’s degree in 1761, 
and was created doétor of divinity in 1773, 
His refidence from the time. of taking or- 
ders was chiefly in or near London; and 
for.a confiderable time. his talents in the 
pulpit gave him a due degree of celebrity. 
His chapel in Long-Acre (for it was his, 
own private property) was frequented 
not only by thole whofe piety was grati-, 
fied by the evangelical fentiments which 
were uttered with heartfelt eloquence, but, 
many were his conftant attendants, to de- 
rive improvement from his command of 
language and power of perfuafion, ‘or to 
qualify themfelves, by the ftudy of his dig- 
nified and. impreffive manner, to appear 
with greater advantage in public life. 
Dr. Warner’s juftly acquired popularity 
was not threwn away, as is too often the 
cafe, on an unfeeling mind: he was an 
exemplary fon, and affeétionate brother ; 
and, having accuftomed himfelf for the 
fake of thofe who were neareft and deareft 
to him to many privations, when his in- 
come was very fcanty, he derived, as it 
increafed, the greater pleafure from the 
opportunity it afforded him of adding to 
their comforts. In 1771, he was pre- 
fented to the united reétories of Hockliffe 
and Chalton, in Bedfordfhire, and after- 
wards, by his much efteemed friend Sir 
Richard Colt Hoare, Bart. to the rectory 
of Stourton, in Wiltfhire. At the be- 
ginning of the French revolution, he ac- 
companied Lord Gower as chaplain to 
Paris; was witnefs to the principal oc- 
currences of that awful period, previous 
to the execution of the king; and being 
prevented, by the embargo laid on juft as 
he arrived at Boulogne, from quitting 
France, and warned in time of the danger 
of ftaying in that town, or attempting (o 
make his way out of France, he fixed his 
refidence in a village about two leagues 
from Boulogne; and during the tyranny 
of Robefpierre {pent his time in a very 
agreeable retirement. With his ufual 
humour he received the congratulations of 
his friends on his efcape at lait, and ar- 
rival into Old England*; for he arrived at 
the time when France was fuppofed to be 
fuffering tnder all the Horrors of famine. 
«« Bread,” fays he, ‘* now. cofts me-fif- 
teen-pence the quartern loaf; a heat fieale 
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