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mitted with fome degree of qualification ; 
for there are certainly feveral inftances on 
record wherein his vote was decidedly given 
In oppofition to the exifting Miniftry, and 
particularly on the queftion as to the repeal 
of the cyder tax, in 1763, although his vote 
on that occafion, was either not ‘fufficiently 
known in his native county, or at leaft too 
foon wilfully forgotten. And that his vote 
was ftill in fo comparatively few inftances 
thus given, may be fully and honourably 
accounted for from thofe principles of loy- 
alty which had been early and deeply im- 
preffed on his mind ; which had been, in the 
future progrefs of his life, ftrengthened by 
frequent and judicious reflection ; and which 
had, in his latter days, received full further 
confirmation from a view of thofe awful 
events which had recently taken place on the 
Continent, and which, in the mtervals of bodi- 
ly pain, he often reviewed with filent but deep- 
rooted anxiety. It feems to lave been his 
firm perfuation, and if he erred, the error 
was furely a venial one, that, in. the trying 
and critical times he witneffed, to ftrengthen 
the arm of Government was a duty para- 
mount to all others; that, from a prepon- 
derance of democratic influence, to which 
the temper of the times feemed often to 
have too itrong a tendency, infinitely greater 
danger was to be apprehended to the confii- 
tution, than from almoft any addition to the 
proportionate weight of its other branches; 
and that to refift the increafing prevalence 
of party-fpirit and factious difcontent was 
the fureft method of preferving our invalua- 
ble conftitution, both iv church and ftate. 
To his conduct in general, in public life, 
may be applied thefe well-known lines of 
the Latin poet, 
Faftum G tenacem propofiti virum, &c. 
Nor thal! we find him lefs worthy of admira- 
tion when removed from thefe fcenes of 
active and public exertion in the metropolis 
to the lefs confpicuous, but no lefs amiable, 
waiks of private life in the country. If we 
confider him in the feveral refations of 
father, mafter, landlord, or neighbour, we 
fhall fill meet with the fame characteriftic 
qualities in every part of his condu¢t. To 
an excellent underfanding, with which he 
was naturally endowed, and which had been 
greatly ftrengthened by habitual reflection 
and judicious obfervation, he was indebted 
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for an accurate and difcriminating know- 
ledge of mankind; and, together with thele, 
he was endued with an unfhaken firmnefs and 
intrepidity of mind, equal (with the further 
aid of a hale and vigorous conftitution) to 
the yreateft exertions, and to the moft trying 
emergencies, and with a peculiar calmnels 
and evennefs of temper, of which thofe only 
can form an adequate idea who were ecca- 
fional eye-witneffes to its trials. In the ad- 
minifiration of jufice as a magiftrate for the 
county, he was confequently 1 no lefs tempe- 
rate, upright, and impartial, than he was re- 
folute, well-informed, and ever attentive to 
his duty. In mixed, and particularly in 
numerous companies, he was often, it must 
be allowed, filent and referved; an habit 
which, by ftrangers (and to ‘frangers only 
it could happen) has been frequently mif= 
taken for pride. But in the lefs reftricted 
hours of focial intercourfe, to which he was 
always friendly, and at all times among his 
friends, he was eafy, familiar, and cominuni- 
cative; and, as he was bleffed with a clear 
and retentive memory, as well as a difcern- 
ing and reflecting mind, bis converfation 
was on thefe occafions (as the author of this 
humble tribute of gratitude and refpect re- 
members with a mournfal fatisfaction) cheer- 
ful, interefting, and intelligent. And that 
he was altogether free Goa pride, might 
confidently be interred (were other proof 
wanting) from his kind and unaffuming de- 
portment, on all occafions, to his domeftics 
of every defcription, as well as from his per- 
fonal attention to his numerous tenants and 
inferior neighbours, who not only found him 
on all matters of bufineis, eafy and acceili- 
ble, but were even invited to his table: on 
the moft friendly and familiar terms. Mr. 
Harley was married, in 1752, to Anne, 
daughter of Edward Bangham, efq. formerly 
a deputy-auditor of the imprefs, and mem- 
ber of parliament for the borough of Leo- 
minfter; by whom, who died in 1798, he 
had feveral children; of thefe, four daugh- 
ters only furvive him, viz. Anne, relict of 
the late, and mother ‘of the prefent, Lord 
Rodney, and by whom he is fucceeded in 
his eftate; 2. Sarah, who became a widow 
a few months fince, on the death of Robert 
Earl of Kinnoul; by whom fhe has four chil- 
dren; 3. Elizabeth, widow of David Murray, 
efq: brother of Lord Elibank ; and, 4. Sarah, 
matried to Sir John Boyd, bart. 
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