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32 manners of a gentleman, and of a professional scholar; he was highly esteemed for his urbanity and benevolence. Sir Patrick Macgregor, Serjeant-Surgeon to the King, was cut off in the meridian of his career. He was zealous and assiduous in discharging the duties of the situation he filled in this College.

Allow me to encroach a moment upon your time, whilst I indulge the grateful feeling of speaking of one, who once dignified the seat he held in the Council of this College, and who spread the healthful vigor of his strong mind over its deliberations. William Long, Esq., by his urbanity, added grace to social order, ——by his taste, diffused around him the warmth of harmony, —by his refined notions of honor, promoted a high tone of moral feeling, —by his silent benevolence, soothed the pangs of misery.