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°F every part of the fcience which he treated, 
proved him to poilefs an underftanding of 
the moft vigorous charaéter. It was a dif= 
tinguifhing feature of the do€tor as a le€turer, 
that he-confidered every thing in {cience as 
of equal value ; he would treat ‘as of the 
fame moment is a demonitration, the moft 
obvious and eafy ftep, and the moft abftrufe 
and difficult ; and would take equal pains to 
dire a pupil how to ieee a lines or cony a 
diagram, <$ to guid¢é him’ tiroughy a proof 
the moft dificult idl prolix. It is now 
feveral years fince Dr. Murray compiled the 
epitome of logic which bears his name, and 
ee is the firft book put into the hands 
fthe ftudents in the is ey of Dublin. 
Tt bears the Rronge marks of being the 
production of ee a mind as his; # dif- : 
plays the clearet, mot abftra€ting, and 
firong underftanding, and at the fame time 
that it wears the appearance of being a col- 
le&tion of the moft fimple elements, fcarcely 
contains a propofition that is not pregnant 
with profound learning. Though Dr. Murray 
was for fo many years a fenior fellow of an 
Univerfity, which has been reckoned, per= 
haps not untruly, one of the moft w ealthy in 
Europe, and of which the fenior fellows 
are eftimated to poffefs above %ool. per 
annum, and thous h he lived during the 
whole of that time with great frugality, 
aving no family and keeping but two fer- 
vants, yet he faved no money. It is be- 
lieved, indeed it is oye that he has caf 
his bread upon the waters; his charity has 
been neither oftentatious 1 nor {plendid, but it 
has been extenfive and ufeful; much of it has 
had for its obje 2éts thofe who were conneéted 
with him by blcod; but much alfo has been 
difperfed among phek who had no claim to 
his bounty but that which misfortune and 
poverty had given them. It is among the 
merits of ard FitewiHiam’s adminiftration, 
2S Viceroy. of Ireland, that he appointed this 
iingularly learned and virtuous old man to the 
provotthhip . of the Univerfity- By doing fo, 
he has reftéred to that femi ainary the bleffings 
Of peace and concord to which it had-for fome 
wears been a ftranger. 
Hutchinfon, had been what the academicians 
call an extern; he had not been bred. in the 
college over which he was appointed te pre- 
fide. This had been confidered by the Fel- 
jows, as an injury as well as an infult to the 
body, out’of which they contended an head 
for the Univerfity fhould always be appointed. 
Hence the Fellows and the Provoft were al- 
mo aa et in a ftate of hoftility. Under 
Dr. Murray there exifted the mof perfeé 
concord geeces the head and the membe oe 
and all feemed to purfue fincerely that whic 
fhould Le the aim of all, the good govern- 
ment of the college, and the improvement 
of the ftudents in morals and Jearning.— 
if any ey arofe from the appoint- 
nent of D r. Murtay to the high office he 
held, it refulted from his being too little an 
vaCtive man of the world, by which he was the 
2 2 
Account of Provoft Murray. 
Thelate provot, Mr.’ 
lefs able to counteraé& and reftrain the agirat- 
-ing and domineering fpirit which will fome- 
times fhew itfelf in ecclefiaftical as- well as 
other corporations. On the Sunday preceding 
his death he had complained of a thivering, 
but in no alarming degree, and his phyfician 
only directed him not to go sbread according 
to his cuftem on that ur the next day. His 
fhivering- abated oa the Sunday, and he con- 
fdered Ra Patty during the following day, as 
in his ordinary ftate of health. On the morn 
ing of Tuefday, however, atabout twoo’clock, 
be doe violent fpafmodic af- 
feGtion in his fiomach; he was fearcely able 
to direét his fervant to go for Dr. Hall, one of 
the very few unmaizried fellows whotherefore 
refide in college. Dr, Hall immediately at. 
tended him, and found birs ina very alarme 
ing ftate-indeed. He fent for other ailiftance, 
but before any arrived the Provoft expired in 
his arms. No man was perhaps ever more 
fincerely regretted by thofe over whom he 
was placed than Dr. ‘Murray. In the Uni- 
werhay he was looked yp te with a degree of 
refpect and aftection, which it is not eafy to 
conceive; nor was there probably a fingle in- 
dividual within the walls, who did not feel 
forrow at his death, however likely it might 
be that his own intereft would be forwarded 
by the event *, Dr. Murray died at the age 
of 73. He had been forty-nine years a fel- 
low.of college, and four years. provot. Gn 
Saturday morning he was interred in the 
new College-chapel. The fellows and fcho- 
lars atended his funeral with icaris and hat- 
bands; the ftudents withowt any peculiar 
diefs. A Latin oration was delivered on 
the occafion ty Dr. Hall, one of the moft in- 
timate friends of the deceated, and the 
funeral fervice and anthem were perform- 
ed in a very folemn and affeCting manner. 
Dr. Murray, it is very remarkable, left ne 
will, nor did he indeed leave mueh pro- 
Bees Though he had been for four years 
provof, at an income of nearly 300cl. per 
annum; and for a great numbex of years a 
fenior fellow, at an income which muft have 
exceeded his expences by full sak. -perannum 5 
he yet was hot at -his death pofieffed of pro- 
perty of any kind to the amount of 4oool. ; 
the furplus of his income having -been annu - 
aily diftributed in private charity, or be- 
fied in donations toa number of depend- 
relatives. What property he did die pof- 
toh goes to his brother Dr. Murray, the 
nt of a confiderable church living 
in the orth of Ireland. His library is con- 
fidered as the moft valuable part of his aflets. 
It is a larce colleGtien of the bef authors in 
every igi and befides fcholattic boaks, 
contains a moft perfeét colle€tion of the 
beft vovages, travels, books of geography, 
charts, &c. &c. He is fucceded as provoit by 
Dr. Kearney, the late vice-provoft. 



* When one of the Fellows is raifed to 
a Provofifhip, the others are advanced one ftep 
in feniority, a vacancy of courfe there follows. 
PROVINCIAL 
