March 1,] 
ter was ftriétly irreproachable and highly me- 
vitorious. His reétitude, fteadinefs, and 
liberality of principlé, his perfect command of © 
temper and felf-government, the firmnefs 
ef his attachments, and placability of his 
refentments, the fincevity and opennefs of his 
manners, and, above all, the ententivenefs, 
impartiality, and economy of his oenévo-~ 
tence, are qualities which, itis hoped, have 
not vainly thed their luftre, though amidft 
a licentious and a fattidious age. ~Unambiti- 
eus of celebrity, and incapable of affectation, 
he made it his chief aim to be w/efel 5 and in 
that aim perfectly fucceeded. ‘Though pof- 
feffed of a very competent thare both of pro- 
feflional and general knowledge, he thought 
it no degradation to his mental powers to direct 
them principaily to thofe lefs fhining but 
mott important offices of the clerical functions 
which are too frequently configned to the care 
ef deputies, or elfe perfermed in a fpiritlefs, 
petfun€tory manner. |The curacies of two 
very extenfiwe and populous parifhes, St. 
Mary, Whitechapel, and Chrift-church, 
Spitalfields, in which he was fucceilively en- 
gaged for nearly 29 years, afforied him full 
{cope for thefe exertions during the prime and 
vigour of life, and excellently qualified him 
for that preferment, which he accepted from 
his college, in preference to the re€tory of 
“Middleton-Cheney, in Northamptonfhire, 
which, in many re{pe&ts, appeared more eli- 
gible. With what prepriety and ability he 
difcharged his miniftry im thefe three. feveral 
-parifhes, the furviving inhabitants can bear 
the moft convinging teftimony; among whom 
She decorous gravity of his appearance and 
deportment, the willingnefs and punctuality 
ef his attendance upon every call of duty, 
the plain, but earneft.and imprefiive manner 
in which he performed the facred offices, are 
even yet the topics of refpeét and admiration, 
As nofubftitute ever more faithfully confulted 
! the intereft of his employer, fo never was 
benéficiary more ‘kindly attentive to the eafe, 
the comfort, and credit, of his atiftants, on 
whom he devolved no farther employment 
than what was neceffary to render himfelf 
more extenfively ferviceable. For, though 
the paltoral duties were the primary and con- 
ftant objects of his ufewulnefs, they by no 
means circumf{cribed the bounds of it. In 
earlier life, when college-offices occafionally 
required his attendance, he had proved: his © 
zeal for the welfare of the fociety to which 
he belonged, by a liberal enforcement of its. 
difcipline, anda judicivus arrangement of the 
eompilcated, and at that time confufed, ftate 
.of its accounts. With the fame afliduity and 
-goodnels of mtention be afterwards applied 
_kimfelf to every department of parochial bu- 
fineis, with which, as re@tor, it was his pro- 
vince to interfere; and, to do this with the 
_ greater effect, he acted as a magiftrate for 
the county.—-In fhort the diftinguifhing trait 
of his character was the defire to be ufeful. The 
- yarious public charities with which he was 
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fecount of the late Dr. Mayor. Leekeye 
conneéted, received more benefit from his 
vigilant management, and attention to their 
finances, than from the aggregate fum of his 
long-continued contributions. -The many 
and important trufts in which he was engaged, 
were no lefs cheerfully undertaken By him 
than confcientioufly and ably executed ; andy 
ft may be confidently faid, that there are few 
among his numerous acquaintance, but have 
experienced that, to employ Dr. Mayo in 
their fervice was to oblige him. Hence it 
has happened that, while-his acknowledged 
merits failed to procure the fmalleft profef- 
fional remuneration for himfelf, never pere 
haps was individual in his ftation more 
fignally inftrumeftal in obtaining provifion for 
the deftitate and the deferving. Let not a 
life like this be haftily depreciated as a dull 
round of drudgery and confinement; it waS, 
on the contrary, aJife of perpetual amufement, 
of perpetual gratification. That rule of prue 
dence, ‘* to make a pleafure of bufinefs,” 
which is in moft men the flow refult of 
habit and felf denial, appeared in him rather 
a natural principle of a¢tion. Hence arofe 
that alacrity which he difplayed in conducting 
public bufinefs, and that even flow of cheer- 
fulnefs and good humour which prevailed in 
his colloquial intercourfe. After a conftant 
refidence upon his living, andan unremitting 
application to the duties of if, the increafing 
infirmities of old age warned him at length 
to retire from bufy life; and, theugh he felt 
no {mall relu@tance in quitting the fcene of 
his activity, and contraéting the circleof his 
beneficence, yet this was foon abforbed in the 
delicious expeCtation of ferenely wearing out 
the fhort remainder of his days in **.the gay” 
confcience of a life well fpent,’ under the 
triumphant kopes of that religion which he 
had cultivated and adorned, and amidit the at- 
tentions of an amiable family, who ftrove, 
with pious emulation, to exprefs their fenfe 
of that debt of gratitude and duty which his 
uniform affection and indulgence had rendered 
it impoihtble for them adequately to difcharge. 
Thus gradually prepared tor the‘momentous 
change, furrounded with every object of con- 
folation, undiiturbed by agony of mind or 
body, and expiring, without a groan, in the 
arms of thoie whom he beft loved, the ¢§ good 
and faithful fervant’’ was {ungmoned to ‘* ente - 
into the joy of his Lord.’?] — 
{The late Gabriel Leekey, efq, announced 
inour laft, was upwards of 53 years an inha- 
bitant, and for 37 years one of the common 
council, of the ward of Baflithaw. For feve- 
ral years the Deputy prefided as Chairman of 
the Honorable Court of Sewers in the City of 
London, to which fituation he beftowed much 
time and attention, at the fame time fupport- 
ing with firmnels and fpirit the honour and 
dignity of the Court. He was a member of 
the Honorable Court of Lieuténancy ; a Goe 
-vernor of the royal foundations of Chrift’s- 
Hofpital, and of Bridewell and Bethlem, 
and alfo of the London Workhoufe 5 ane, for_ 
Aa nearly 
