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 ¬unshaken from the recollection that I held it at. the very time, in common with a man whom to have known as I did would have repaid all the toils and perils you have undergone. — I look upon you, indeed, as a benighted traveller, to have been cast upon our shores after this great light was set. — Never was a being gifted with an understanding so perfect, nor aided by a perception which suffered nothing to escape from its dominion. — He was never known to omit any thing which in the slightest degree could affect the matter to be considered, nor to confound things at all distinguishable, however apparently the same, and his conclusions were always so luminous and convincing, that you might as firmly depend upon them as when sub- stances in nature lie before you in the palpable forms assigned to them from the foundation of the world. — Such were his qualifications for the office of a statesman : and his profound know- ledge always under the guidance of the sublime simplicity of his heart, softening without un- nerving the giant strength of his intellect, gave g 4 a cha- ¬