1309.] 
for some time wisely considered that poli- 
tics afforded but an uncertain means of sup- 
port, and therefore directed his attention to 
the civil Jaw, and, by his practice in the 
Ecciesiastical und Admiralty Courts, gradu- 
ally acquired a considerable fortune. Mr. 
Burke had indeed derived great advantage 
from the doctor, during the prosecution of 
Mr. Hastings, as he was indefatigable in ex- 
ploring and arranging the documents necessa- 
ry in that arduous and complicated transac- 
tion. The public are indebted to the doctor 
for a complete edition of the works of Mr. 
Burke, which will for ever remaina monu- 
ment of the vast talents and varied acquisi- 
tiens of that extraordinary man. Dr. Lau- 
rence possessed extensive knowledge; and his 
abilities, if notshining, were solid. In par- 
‘a nent ne had no pretensions to the fame of 
ratory, but his speeches were characterized 
a good sense. His death was occasioned by 
a decline, in about the 60:h year of his age. 
The following eulogium was pronounced by 
Mr. Whitbread in the debate on the orders 
in Council, on the 6th of March. ‘* Now 
Dr, Laurence is dead, I am sure there is no 
One in this house but will Go justice to his 
memory. Now that party-animosity is silent, 
let justice, let giatitude, let a sense of our 
dignity, as a house, awaken, and. let’ us 
acknowledge -with one common voice, that 
we have lost a man whose like we sliaJ] not 
soon see again. Wouldto heaven that his skirt 
only had fallen amongst us, I should then 
no: have feared, under its influence and in- 
spiration, to have opposed myself to the 
learned advocates whom I see ranged against 
mess 
In Grovenor-square, the Duchess of Bolton, 
75. She was the youngest sister of the late 
Karl of Lonsdate, and was married to Lord 
Harry Powlett, then captain in the British 
navy, hut whose exploits, while in that 
service, did not entitle him to rank wita 
our naval herees. Lord Harry was at the 
siege of Carthagena, in South America, in 
1743, where Smollett has consigned his me- 
mory to posterity, though not in the most 
bril tant. or pa eenins colours He is the 
Captain Whidls, of Roderick Random. By 
the death of his elder brother be succeeded 
early in the present reign to the Dukedom 
of Bolton, which became extinct some years 
ago, in his person. 
ters, the eldest of whom, Lady Catherine 
Powlett, are the present Earl of Dar- 
lington. The Duchess of Bolton, her mo- 
ther, survived her, and has left the greater 
part of her fortune, which was considerable, 
to the Hon. Frederic Vane, Lord Darling- 
ten’s second son. 
[ Further Particulars of the /ate Mr. James 
Morison, whose death was announced in our last 
Number. —An eminent stationer, bookseller, 
author, and puolisher. He received his edu- 
cation at Perth, and was mucn under the 
care of Mr, J. Cant, the author of the «* His- 
Account of the late Mr. James Morison. 
He left only two daugh- 
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tory SF Perth,” and of ‘«* Notes on Gaul’s Ga 
bions, and who had married his grandmother. 
Mr. Morison’s father was a bookseller, and 
post-master of “Perth. Afier Mr. M. had 
been some time in his father’s slop, he re- 
moved, in 1776, to that of Mr. W. Cokes’s 
of Leith, binere he soon joined a religious 
society In connection with Mr. Cie, the 
founder of the Scotch independents. About 
179i, Mr. M. with about 190 triends, se- 
ceded from this sect, and became a distinct 
class of professors. After residing at Leith 
two years, he returned to Perth, and on the 
15th of December, 1778, (the very day on 
which he became sixteen vests of age), he 
marrled a daughter of Mr, T. Michell, wri- 
terin Perth, by whom he had several child- 
ren. Mrs. S, Turnbull of Glasgow, is the 
only one nowliving. Mrs. M. died in 1789, 
and on the 20th of December, 1790, he was 
married to his now disconsolate widen who 
has a vumerous family to lament their loss, 
His late illness attacked him the beginning 
of January, with a severe colic, and inflam- 
mation in his bowels. His sufferings were 
great indeed, yet he observed how’ much 
greater His ieee were, who died that sin- 
ners might five. He directed his attendants 
what portions of scripture to read, and made 
remarks with that promptitude nad readiness 
so peculiar to him; insomuch that his pour 
widow confesses he has left her one of the 
richest legacies, in the manner he had drawn 
her attention to the treasures of sovereign 
mercy. The comfortable parting she had 
with her beloved husband, in the hope of fue 
ture bliss, operates as an anchor to stay her 
afdicted mind. Mr. M. has been long admi- 
red as a most eloquent public speaker. His 
remarks upon scripture, were, in general, 
so newand instructive——his manner so ener- 
getic--and his Janguage so luminous, that 
event his enemies acknowledged his excellen- 
cies, O'ten has he astonished strangers by 
the peculiar way in which he enforced the 
authority of revelation, and opened out the 
mysteries of the Old Testament. Never, 
pethaps inthis age, were the types and cere- 
monies of the law more happily and consis- 
tently iNustrated.* He was also particularly 
great on the doctrine of sovereign grace; and 
sometimes the subject would so deeply im- 
_press his mind as to occasion an involuntary 
pause of a few moments. Even upon the 
most difficult subjects, he would not use a 
single note, and very often little or no pre- 
meditation. He generally preached, as well 
as wrote, from the impulse of the moment, 
and if he was requested to repeat any pareictr 
Jar discourse, he would branch out into a 
very different channel, yet to the same pur- 
port. Kis voice was powerful, and melodi- 
ous. Asa publisher, Mr. M. often ventured 
* His extensive knowledge of the Hebrew 
language, was very, useful to him for this 
purpose. 
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