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dowment, few have better fuftained the com- 
prehenfive chara€ter of an accomplished 
phyfician. Dr. Haliday’s talents and attain- 
ments were far from being confined within 
the circle of his profeffion, though they were 
never allowed to interfere with ite duties. 
His powers in converfation, fo generally ad- 
mired, were the produét of a great fociability 
‘of nature, anda quick difcernment, rendered 
more acute by native wit, lively without 
libertinifm, fportive without farcafm. His wit 
was a falt that highly feafoned tne pleafures of 
the table, without having any corrofive ma- 
lignity. He loved to play with words, as Scipio 
and the good Leelius are faid to have diverted 
themfelveswith pebbles. In fa€t,he poffeffed all 
thofe various and verfatile qualities, which can 
render coaverfation interefting or delightful— 
gooa-fenfe, facility of thought, tafte, fancy, 
knowledge of the world, a turn for agreeable 
anecdote, a happy frivolity, an eafy and 
graceful vivacity. A manof fuch a mind 
and fuch manners naturally became the real 
relident reprefentative of his native town, 
while the nominal one was fcarcely known 
even by name Qa every public occafion, 
when Beltuit withed to place itielf in the moft 
reipectable point of view to vifitors diftin- 
guithed by rank, ftation, or talent, Dr. Ha- 
tiday, at the head of the table, was in his appro- 
Priate place 5 and his guefts, however emi- 
nent, never failed to find in the phyfician of 
a country town, an urbanity of manner, a 
variety of information, a happy and opportune 
wit, a juft rome and timeig in whatever he 
faid, which fet him, at leaft, upon a level 
with thofe who poffeffed patents’of dignity, 
or high official fituation. ‘Thomas Hollis 
purchafed the bed on which Milton died, and 
fent it as a prefent to Dr. Akenfide, with a 
hope that it aight prompt «him to write an 
ode tothe memory of the fublime afferter of 
Britith liberty. Dr. Haliday. feems to have 
occupied the bed of Akenfide. He wrote 
feveral poems with the fame vigour of fenti- 
ment, the fame fire of public fpirit: but 
politics and poetry are feldom in hap- 
py conjunction, and he feems to have ar- 
gued in verfe and reafoned inrhyme, rather 
more than is fuited to poetry and particular- 
ly to the poetry of the lyre. In his political 
principles, he was a genuine Whig, not un- 
derftanding by that denomination the mere 
factionary of a powerful party, but the hearty 
hater of arbitrary power, whether exercifed 
by individuals or by parties, the zealous 
yet judicious advocate of civil and reli- 
gious freedom, the ftrong upholder of 
thofe popular principles, which form the 
living fpirit of the Britith conftitution, 
and which, at different periods, have called 
forth all the heroifm of Britith ftory. It 
was at the civic commemoration of thofe 
illuftrious epochs, in which Haliday gave his 
head and heart to the focial celebration, 
(quale coronati Thrafea He'vidiusque bibebant— 
Sruicrum et Caffii natalibus); while he fup- 
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ported, at the fame time, the juft preroga- 
tives of the crown, as perfectly compatible 
with the original and ultimate fovereignty of 
the people. Nurtured under the philofophy 
of Hutchinfon, and early enraptured with the 
poetry of Akenfide, the ftudy of the former 
gave him that chaftity, the moral fenfe of 
which blends political and perfonal duty in the 
fame ftriét tie of honefty and honour 5 and 
the Mufe of the latcer threw that facred 
flame of liberty into his breaft, which con- 
tinued to burn while he continued to exift. 
In the principles of civil and religious liberty 
he lived, and in thefe he died. They were 
the bond of his youthful friendfhips, and they 
confolidated the attachments of his maturer 
years. Thefe were the aflociating principles of 
Maclaine, Bruce, Wight, Plunket, and M‘Tier, 
the principles of the venerable Camden and 
the amiable Charlemont, of the untitled 
Stewart, and the unpenfioned Burke. Thefe 
were the principles which gained him the 
confidence and correfpondence of that great 
and good man, Henry Grattan ; and the fame 
principles led him to regard Charles Fox in 
the light of a tutelary genius to the Britith 
con{titution. Dr. Haliday’s charaéter wae 
completed by what is perhaps to be deemed 
the beft man’s bet praife—the grace and good- 
nefs of domeftic life—its uniform cheerful- 
nefs—its ineftimable equanimity. To a. 
moft amiable woman he was a hutband at 
once polite and tender, affeCtionate and re- 
foeétful-—to his dependents a kind proteétor, 
and to all -his relatives a guide and guardian— 
an ever-ready friend, andan adopted father 
Farewell, venerable and virtuous man !—Ad- 
mired, beloved, and honoured, for wit, and 
worth, and wifdom—You have clofed your 
reverend length of days: but your name will 
long live in hallowed remembrance—by one, 
ever to be regarded with filial reverence and 
gratitude for kind condef{cenfion, for paternal 
admonition, for friendly recommendation, and 
for life repeatedly, reftored. 
. 4 DEATHS ABROAD, 
Lately, at Bellife, on the Bay of Hondu- 
ras, aged 37, Mr. Aaron Young, many years 
arefident merchant in that fettlement. He 
fell a viétim to the heat and infalubrity of a 
climate, which few conftitutions are capable 
of ftanding the fhock : and with Ch iitiaa 
fortitude he calmly refigned himfelf to his 
fate, at that period of life, when men, in 
more temperate climes, feel themfelves ar- 
rived ‘at their full vigour of mind and body, 
and look forward in expeGation of enjoying 
many years of - happinefs. He left this 
country at an early age, and for fome time 
previous to his death, had intentions of re- 
turning and fettling here, chiefly to gratify 
the ardent and repeated defires of a brother 
by whom he was held moft dear--but the 
iron-hand of death arrefted him in his pro 
grefs. Lhe amiable manners of this gen» 
tleman, his upright intentions, and his bee 
nevolent dilpofijion, procured him gakry 
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